McCain, Again! Phony As a Three-Dollar Bill!

McCain, Again! Phony As a Three-Dollar Bill!

This Senator McPain fellow is really getting to be too much.  According to Newsmax.com, today McPain had the chutzpah to get on the Don Imus (radio) show and say the following:  


"I voted for Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer because I think elections have consequences. I didn't share their judicial philosophy."


However, asked directly if he would support Alito, McCain told Imus: "Well, I'm favorably disposed but I'd like to see what happens in the hearings."


Obviously, McPain does NOT get it: If he could bring himself to vote for the radical leftists Breyer and Ginsburg, then he should not even have to reflect for a nanosecond as to whether or not to vote to confirm the President’s latest SCOTUS nominee, Judge Alito.

For anyone with a brain to see, McPain’s votes for Breyer and Ginsburg have done obvious harm to this country.  He SHOULD feel guilty.  He SHOULD be looking for a way to REDEEM himself in the eyes of the Republican base by EAGERLY going out on a limb and promoting Alioto.

But, no!  McPain has to posture as though he is undecided: McPain somehow thinks that he is appealing to Democrats.  (Little does he realize that he is ALIENATING the HELL out of the Republican grassroots by his idiocies.)

It is no secret that McPain wants to run as a Republican in the next Presidential election.  At the current rate, he is “cruising for a bruising” – with his hide the one that is going to be bruised.

McPain has a slight problem: He seems to be unable to distinguish between what is good for the country and what is good for his enormously oversized ego.  

McPain thinks the following: My ego – right or wrong!  MY EGO!

We shall see Mr. McPain.  We shall see.

A salute to Mudville Gazette Open Post.

For God’s Sake, Mr. President: VETO This McCain Monstrosity!

For God’s Sake, Mr. President: VETO This McCain Monstrosity!

The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal has a great piece on the URGENT need for President Bush to veto the McCain Amendment to a spending bill.  (Hat tip: realclearpolitics.)

As the editorial points out, the McCain Amendment – although on the surface it sounds “innocuous” – would in reality seriously cripple the military’s ability to interrogate enemy prisoners effectively and meaningfully.

Here is an excerpt from the column:

The danger is that the McCain Amendment would only solidify what's already been a military overreaction to the Abu Ghraib scandal. In Iraq, that overreaction has meant that terror suspects cannot be aggressively interrogated at all. They cannot be held for more than several weeks after capture without charge. The insurgents know this, and thus know that they have little to fear if they fall into U.S. hands.

Much has been made of the support of Colin Powell and some other retired officers for the McCain Amendment. We've read Mr. Powell's open letter on the subject, and it is substance-free. It contains only an exhortation that Mr. McCain's gesture will somehow "help deal with the terrible public diplomacy crisis created by Abu Ghraib." In short, it's PR.

Far more impressive is the near-unanimous opposition to the McCain effort from commanders currently fighting the war on terror. They understand that the amendment will be interpreted as an unnecessary rebuke, and as a huge disincentive to push detainees hard when seeking information on "ticking bombs."

It is plain to see that this ill-conceived, ill-considered, and ill-timed amendment would go far toward locking into place a continuation of many of the politically-correct, ineffective, and unproductive military policies (e.g., the “catch-and-release” policy towards suspected terrorists so often followed in Iraq today) that this blog has raged against repeatedly.  

Once, again, Mr. President: Time to FIGHT LIKE WE MEAN IT!

Veto this monstrosity!

Malkin Gives SCOTUS Rundown

Malkin Gives SCOTUS Rundown

The ever-diligent Michelle Malkin gives the latest rundown, rumors, and general poop on the impending SCOTUS announcement.

Stop the ACLU has more on the subject here.

A Salute to Tel-Chai Nation Blog

A Salute to Tel-Chai Nation Blog

I have in recent weeks become acquainted with an excellent, hard-hitting blog that is the product of an American ex-pat living in Israel, named Avi Green.  The name of the blog is:  Tel-Chai Nation.

I recommend it to you for your blogging attention.

Here are links to two recent – and very interesting – posts on Avi’s blog:

Will Prof. Sami Al-Arian be released?

Black girl in Britain may have been raped by Pakistani storekeepers; crime triggers riots

This Is NO Way to Win a War, Mr. Dumbsfeld!

This Is NO Way to Win a War, Mr. Dumbsfeld!

The ever-ready-to-lend-moral-support-to-the-Jihadists AP has once again eagerly stepped forward with yet ANOTHER military-bashing story about how two soldiers in Afghanistan have been charged with . . .  (horror-film music please). . . . charged with (I can hardly bear to type this atrocity) “allegedly punching two detainees in the chest, shoulders and stomach at a military base in Afghanistan.”  My God!  What an unspeakable horror! (Not!)

Reading further down the article, one learns that one of the two alleged war crimes “victims” has already been released from custody (and is presumably still working under his own power) and that the other war crimes victim is still in custody – and, apparently, not on life support, either.

I am sure that you – as I am – are deeply “shocked, SHOCKED!” to hear that two EEEEEEEEEEVIL US soldiers actually used their (gasp!) fists(!) to bring a couple of recalcitrant Taliban detainees into line.  I mean – as EVERYONE knows – the Taliban are fine, upstanding people, who have their quaint little ways of putting bullets in the back of the heads of women whom they accuse of being naughty.  I am sure our upstanding AP reporter would love to open a room in his own home to a couple of Taliban boarders.

Note for the record:  The Taliban are NOT members of any organized army and they do NOT enjoy standing under the Geneva Conventions.  (Try telling that to our ACLU-friendly military lawyers – that’s right: MILITARY LAWYERS IN UNIFORM who extend our Jihadist enemies rights our enemies would never DREAM of extending to US troops under their control!)

How quickly we forget that the reason we went to Afghanistan is to kill and bomb Taliban in the first place.  

Somebody help me . . .  Why is it okay to drop a bomb on these unorganized, rag-tag ruffians in a mountain redoubt, but somehow magically WRONG to punch them for being uncooperative in custody.  This is – in my book – insanity.

And, yet, we have it straight from a member of the “Perfumed Princedom,” Brig. Gen. Jack Sterling, a deputy coalition commander,” – apparently in connection with this “punching atrocity” issue, that “The command remains committed to investigate all allegations of misconduct and will hold individuals responsible for their actions consistent with U.S. military law . . . blah, blah, blah.”  (Actually, I added the “blah, blah, blah” part.)

Investigate?  INVESTIGATE?  No wonder this war is dragging out longer than necessary.  We are diverting too many resources – in the form of press conferences, ass-covering (by the higher-ups), investigations, and court-martials – from the task at hand of crushing the freaking enemy.

How do I suggest that the well-scented BG Sterling should have answered the reporter’s question regarding this “Taliban-detainee-punching-atrocity” incident?  “Next question?” would have been a good start.

If the reporter had persisted, the general should have leveled him/her/it with an icy stare and said, “If you are so concerned with the Taliban, go live on THEIR base and go to THEIR press conferences, you seditionist asshat.  We are here to fight a war and kick some serious Taliban ass.  If punching a few of their thugs in the mug gets them to cooperate, then our soldiers will punch them in the mug.  If burning a few of their bodies gets their attention, then our soldiers will burn their bodies.  Hell, in the early 1900s General “Blackjack” Pershing executed Islamic Filipino Moros rebels with bullets dipped in pig fat.  If that is what it takes here, we will do that, as well.”

But, of course, everyone knows I am engaging in a political wet dream.  No one in the hand-wringing, jihadist-pleasing, politically-correct Bush/Rice State Department or in the Bush/Dumbsfeld Pentagon would ever even IMAGINE uttering – let alone condoning – such words at a press conference.  I mean, their first line of attack with an openly hostile media is “Try appeasement, appeasement, appeasement.  And if at first you do not succeed, try appeasement yet once again.”

I wonder if anyone in Washington EVER goes to the movies and watches how the stars of spy thrillers are treated in captivity – or how they in turn treat the bad guys under their power.

Even when watching fiction, people INTUITIVELY understand that the likes of the Taliban do not QUALIFY FOR, nor DESERVE the special “red-carpet” Geneva-Conventions treatment that they are receiving in Guantanamo (will that be chicken curry or stuffed grape leaves, Mr. Muhammad, Sir?) – and now, apparently, in Afghanistan itself, where – as even the pro-Taliban AP author of this piece acknowledges: “[The] Taliban, [is] a rebel group accused of committing widespread abuses itself.”

Moreover, our American military prison guards in Afghanistan are being pilloried for treating Afghan prisoners FAR BETTER than even Afghan national prison-guard counterparts do.  Once again, even our AP shill must concede, “Mistreatment of detainees by Afghan police and Afghan prison guards is not unusual, according to human rights advocates.”  Question, Dear Reader:  Do you think that Afghan prison guards always stop at mere “punching?”

This is NO freaking WAY to fight a war!  We have SECDEF Dumbsfeld and his Perfumed Princes (and Princesses – lest we forget the ever-growing number of women wearing stars on their shoulders – women who (Thank God!) have never served in ground combat, and who, therefore, are NOT FIT to lead our soldiers in harm’s way).

Once again: It is later than we think.  Dumbsfeld needs to be canned immediately.  This war (the worldwide struggle against Islamofascists) must begin to be prosecuted in earnest.  Time to STOP taking (falsely AP-accused US Soldiers’) names and to START kicking Taliban, al-Qaeda, and other Jihadist ass IN EARNEST!

And, as Michael Savage says on his radio show, it is time for the Bush/Dumbsfeld Pentagon to grow a pair and to remove all hostile embedded reporters from living, working, and traveling with our troops, from which vantage point they act as ideological “snipers” for the enemy.

Harriet Graciously and Wisely Withdraws Her Name from Consideration

Harriet Graciously and Wisely Withdraws Her Name from Consideration

Conservatives and respecters of the Constitution collectively emitted a sigh of relief today at the news that Harriet Miers had graciously and wisely withdrawn her name from consideration for elevation to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Outside of some hopeless Republican whores and lackeys, such as Hugh Hewitt, as well as some clueless Evangelical leaders, such and Jerry Falwell, Miers nomination had been opposed by all manner of Conservatives ranging from Michael Savage to Pat Buchanan to Robert Bork to Ann Coulter to Rush Limbaugh to the Concerned Women for America and on and on and on.

In proposing Miers as his choice for the Supreme Court pick to replace the retiring “moderate” (read: Liberal-leaning) Sandra Day O’Connor, Bush erred egregiously.  He erred in picking a long-time friend and associate (e.g., crony), as well as someone who is woefully under-qualified to sit on the highest court of the land – not to mention someone who is virtually unknown to most Americans, to say nothing of the fact that Miers is not exactly a true Conservative or “originalist.”

Almost universally, the same individuals (read Ann Coulter here) I named above were today expressing both relief and joy that Miers had seen fit to withdraw her name, but also HOPE that President Bush would this time around choose a true, known, and proven Constitutionalist.

Here’s praying and hoping that President Bush chooses Michael Luttig.  


Updates:

Little Green Footballs has a good discussion on this issue.

Stop the ACLU has a good entry and many links on this issue, as well.

A salute to: Mudville Gazette Open Post.

Texas Votes on Marriage

Texas Votes on Marriage

I have heard – although I have (to my shame) not yet read it for myself – that the Texas State Constitution is long and rambling affair, more akin to a college catalogue than our Federal Constitution.

At any rate, every other year or so (our state legislature only meets every OTHER year), we have the “opportunity” to vote on any number of proposed amendments to our State Constitution.

Keep in mind that the proposed Constitutional changes are invariably the brainchildren of our legislators (or those that influence them).  Thus, most of them are about things many Texans care little about.

I generally vote against ALL proposed amendments to the State Constitution.

However, this year, I DID vote FOR only ONE of the proposed amendments, known as Proposition 2 which reads as follows:

“The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.”

In other words, if Proposition 2 passes, “gay marriage” will have been prohibited by the State Constitution – as decided by the people of Texas in a statewide vote.

It would seem like a slam-dunk.  However, the homosexual activists (or, as Michael Savage would say: “The Purple Mafia”) have been working extremely hard to confuse people on what this issue is all about.  (It is informative that they are less than candid: They are NOT going about Texas saying that they support homosexual marriage – even though they do.)

If you are a Texan, PLEASE vote FOR Proposition 2.  (Early voting is going on NOW!)

Iran’s Leader Follows Hitler Other Failed Leaders in Predicting Israel’s Demise

Iran’s Leader Follows Hitler, Other Failed Leaders, in Predicting Israel’s Demise

Well, well, well . . . .  What a surprise (not!) to hear that Iran’s terrorist-sympathizing, nuke-building “leader” is calling for and/or predicting and/or hoping for Israel’s demise.  That is demise as in “the end.”

Now, there was a time in our nation when such remarks might be assailed by the leading media outlets as blatant anti-Semitism, but, alas, we live in an age when all the sympathy, pity, and support in the Mainstream Media is given by default to the Islamists.  

To the guiding lights at places like the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, etc, Islam is good, Christianity and Judaism are not; Muslims are admirable, Christians and Jews barely tolerable, etc.

However, out in fly-over country in the US today, there are millions of evangelical Christians who read their Bibles and who know that God has staked HIS REPUTATION on guaranteeing that Israel (read: THE JEWISH PEOPLE) survives as an identifiable entity until the end of time and into eternity.

Therefore, as a believer in the Bible and as an Israelophile, I eagerly await to see how God will stick His finger in Mr. Ahmadinejad’s eye – although I am not looking forward to the harm that I have no doubt he is going to unleash on Israel, if he is given the chance.

However, when all the dust settles, there will still be Jews on the face of this earth – for a lot more years than Mr. Ahmadinejad will be walking around.

Don’t take my word for it . . . .  Take the written word of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for it.

By the way, ever hear of another world leader that hated the Jews named Adolph Hitler?  He is Exhibit A:  He hated the Jews.  He acted on that hatred.  He killed MILLIONS of Jews.  Hitler is dead.  The Third Reich is gone.  The Jews are still alive and kicking – including those millions of Jews currently inhabiting the Holy Land and living under a political entity known as Israel.

A salute to: Mudville Gazette Open Post.

Dumbsfeld Fails to Defend HIS Troops

Dumbsfeld Fails to Defend HIS Troops

SECDEF Dumbsfeld – on foreign soil – failed to stick up for his troops in the two-soldiers-burned-the-dead-bodies-of-two-throat-slitters non-story.

Typical.  This man should be forced to resign immediately.  

Dumbsfeld is letting troops be killed because he is forcing them to fight hand-to-hand when we could be dropping Napalm on known terrorist hideouts.  He is making our men play by “Marquis de Queensbury” Rules of Engagement against unprincipled throat-slitters.

Yet, he seems never to miss a chance to have his troops investigated for “accusations” of alleged “wrongdoing”.  

Just once . . . .  JUST ONCE, Mr. Dumbsfeld, how about having the cojones to stand up and say: “Ladies and gentlemen, we are at war!  War is hell!  Our enemies play by NO rules.  Please don’t bother me with these silly accusations until you have contacted the terrorists regarding their latest atrocities.

“These folks are terrorists: They will not be treated as anything better.”

Air Force Too PC for Prayers in Jesus’ Name

Air Force Too PC for Prayers in Jesus’ Name

The Air Force has been the focus of controversy in recent months regarding the role of Evangelical chaplains at the Air Force Academy and other issues.  The spineless AF leadership, every time it is pushed, seems to cave to the demands of its anti-Christian critics.

One of the latest acts of appeasement by AF leaders is to ban “sectarian” prayers by its chaplains.

Hey, if a chaplain can’t give a sectarian prayer, why is he even needed?  

This is an offensive poke in the eye to every evangelical airman who flies or fixes aircraft or who guards the flightline or who does any other of a number of jobs in the Air Force – some of them dangerous.

Translation from the PC AF bureaucratic asshats: All you Evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians: We WANT you to serve – and maybe even die in – the Air Force, but can you PLEASE stop those OFFENSIVE prayers in You-Know-Who’s Name?”

Stop the ACLU has more on this vital topic.

Link to Mudville Gazette Open Post.

ACLU Defends Porn Industry -- Again

ACLU Defends Porn Industry -- Again

You think the ACLU is a friend of the poor and down trodden?  Think again.

As this WND piece shows, the ACLU is in the business of defending representatives of the multi-billion-dollar pornography business.

In fact, the ACLU is pretty much in the business of defending evil and oppressing good.

For a good site dedicated to stopping this organization, please visist: Stop the ACLU.

Republicrats Stonewalling on Able Danger Cover-Up

Republicrats Stonewalling on Able Danger Cover-Up

On his radio show, Michael Savage often refers to the “Republicrats” or the “Demicans”, when referring to those entrenched in power inside the Washington, DC, Beltway.  By saying that, he is implying that there really isn’t much difference between the parties once they achieve power.  Moreover, members of both parties collaborate in order to snooker the American people.

A perfect example of this Republicrat conniving against the American people is the current Able Danger cover-up in progress in Washington.

It is a fairly complex story, but suffice it to say that the Able Danger task force existed under the Clinton Administration.  Its findings on terrorism were first suppressed by the Pentagon under the Clinton Administration, but were also subsequently suppressed by the “bipartisan” 9/11 Commission, which was convened under the current Bush (II) Administration.  

Moreover, Able Danger participants are CURRENTLY being BLOCKED from testifying publicly before Congress by the Bush/Dumbsfeld Pentagon.

Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA), who is trying to get to the bottom of the Able Danger mess, is FURIOUS at the Bush/Dumbsfeld Pentagon for stonewalling him.  Weldon was on the Michael Savage show this past week and he was ON FIRE!

I agree with Weldon: The Pentagon is stonewalling the American people on this.

Question for Bush: Why is your Administration carrying water for corruption that originally occurred under the Clinton Administration?  

My answer (for Bush):  Because I am a Republicrat.

Here We Go AGAIN: The Seditionist Media and the PC Military Brass Collaborate Against Our Troops on the Front Line

Here We Go AGAIN: The Seditionist Media and the PC Military Brass Collaborate Against Our Troops on the Front Line

I am just SICK of all the reports by seditionist, America-hating, terrorist-sympathizing MSM news outlets – such as AP, BBC, the New York Times, Time, ABC, NBC, etc – trumpeting to the world ALLEGED atrocities committed by American troops in combat against a cutthroat enemy.  (Keep in mind that these SAME reporters seem to be able to manage to GLOSS OVER the atrocities REGULARLY committed by the terrorists against Americans and Muslims alike.  Hell, most often, they cannot even bring their delicate tongues to say either the “T” word (terrorists) or the “I” word (Islamofascists).)

However, what is even WORSE than the seditionist media is the apparent predominance in the US military brass and Pentagon bureaucracy of spineless, politically correct quislings, who go the extra mile to hammer our own troops on the ground – troops who actually act as though they are engaged in a war against the kind of people who fly airplanes into buildings or who blow up Iraqi school children – in order to score points with the terrorist-sympathizers in the media and the Democratic Party.

Instead of defending their own troops who put their lives on the line fighting this war, these gutless Pentagon Perfumed Princes hold their hands to their mouths in horror and put fresh brown stains on their panties every time AP or Time comes out with another military-bashing story.





Bottom line, while I am not advocating what these soldiers did as model battlefield behavior, who am I to second-guess them?  The corpse-burning was most likely an act of psychological warfare.  Now, if our present crop of “perfumed” generals doesn’t have the stomach for war, they need to retire early and let some younger, battle-hardened troops take their place.  In fact, the Pentagon – and the entire US Military – is overrun with excess Generals.

Moreover, the Australian Islamic spokesman quoting Geneva Conventions is a total loser:  First, the Taliban are not soldiers in a regular Army and, thus, they do not have ANY standing under the Geneva Conventions; Second, do you want to bet “Al-Spokesman” has failed to rail against a single jihadist throat-slitting of innocent non-Muslims; and, Third, I’ll be DAMNED if I am going to let some enemy-sympathizing, jihadist-loving, America-hating Australian Muslim dictate US military doctrine – let alone stand in judgment over our soldiers – men whose feet he is not worthy to lick.  When will SOMEBODY in the Bush/Dumbsfeld Pentagon bureaucracy have the cojones to stand up and say that?  (Crickets.)

If these two soldiers are sent to prison, then it can clearly be said that our war effort is not only being undermined from within by the Academy, the media, the ACLU, and the Democratic Party – but, tragically, it is ALSO being sabotaged from within the bowels of the Pentagon itself – where the words of an Australian Islamist will obviously have counted for more than the collective pain of all the relatives of the 9-11 victims combined.

Bush Admin Talks Tough on Immigration

Bush Admin Talks Tough on Immigration

Since initially assuming office, the Bush Administration has been signally somnolent regarding the number one domestic concern of a large percentage of its loyal base – illegal immigration.  Indeed, the Bush Administration has, in effect, turned a blind eye to the country’s “broken borders.”  President Bush has even – ham-handedly – distanced himself from the wildly popular “Minutemen” movement, whereby ordinary citizens do for us what our Federal behemoth simply refuses to do: Namely, watch our borders.

Well, yesterday, the heretofore remarkably unnoteworthy Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff – under whose purview immigration control falls – came out of nowhere and said, “Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions.”

Hmmm.  Wonder where THAT came from?  Couldn’t be that the President has finally woken up from his Midnight Summer’s Dream of riding bikes and cutting brush in Crawford to find out that he has virtually lost his base – after some five years of sticking them in the eye on everything from Government spending, campaign finance “reform,” and – yes – illegal immigration.  Now, with the Harriett Miers nomination blowing up in his face, Bush has – in two weeks’ time – NAMED OUR ENEMY (Islamofascists) in the War on Terror for the first time; and permitted his Homeland Czar Chertoff to speak of deportation.

As Michael Savage said on his radio program yesterday: “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Islamofascists: Equal Opportunity Throat Slitters

Islamofascists:  Equal Opportunity Throat Slitters

I feel rather badly – as though I have perhaps misrepresented the radical adherents of Islam, by having presented their atrocities in a somewhat distorted manner.

Most of us know that the Islamofascists hate Israel, Zionists, and Jews – and that they are waging a virtually non-stop terrorist intifada-jihad against Israel.  (Hat tip: aaron’s cc:)

Of course, we are also aware that the Islamokazis also hate Christians – and have been particularly keen to kill and/or rape Lebanese, Russians, Americans, British, Filipinos and Australia in places as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Moscow, New York City, Baghdad, Ramadi, London, the Philippines and Bali.  (Hat tips: lgf and aaron’s cc:.)

Furthermore, we know that the Allahu-Akbar-gang is not averse to killing other Muslims – whether Muslims with black skin (as in Darfur), or Muslims with Shi’ite leanings (as in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq), or even other Sunni Muslims who don’t follow their agenda and cooperate with the Americans (Iraq again).

Additionally, Islamic fanatics are busy in Indonesia, killing their Christian and Hindu countrymen.

Qur’an-carrying butchers are also hard at work against the Hindus of Kashmir.

Additionally, the throat-slitters are working overtime against the Buddhists of southern Thailand, spontaneous decapitation and throat-slitting being one of their favorite terrorizing routines.  (Hat tip:  lgf.)

Therefore, perhaps I owe an apology to Muslim terrorists everywhere:  They don’t just kill Jews, Christians, and non-jihadist Muslims, but – to be fair – they also kill Hindus and Buddhists, as well.  They truly are equal-opportunity cutthroats – which is likely why members of the mainstream media and gutless politicians treat them with kid-gloves.  (Tragicomically, such quislings think that by appeasing the terrorists, they somehow will save their own skins.)

Religion of Peace indeed.  If President Bush is ever impeached, one of the charges against him should be the popularization of that ludicrous moniker to describe Islam.  

Not that all Muslims are terrorists (by any means), mind you, but sadly and undeniably – in case someone hadn’t noticed – almost all terrorists these days are Muslims.

To deny the relationship between Islam and its terrorists is to deny the reality of 9/11, which, indeed, is what some quislings in the media and political leadership would prefer we do.

What’s Wrong With a Little Gang Rape, Murder, and Genocide (in Darfur)?

What’s Wrong With a Little Gang Rape, Murder, and Genocide (in Darfur)?

Nat Hentoff, in a scathing and well-sourced Washington Times opinion piece, severely scores both the Government of Sudan (for both tolerating and supporting continued Janjaweed militia depredations against the black inhabitants of Sudan’s huge Darfur region), as well as the UN (for its unwillingness to lift a finger to stop Sudan) and that United States and other democratic countries (for giving only passive lip-service to stopping the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region).

The only “good guy” cited by Hentoff in the article is the African Union, which is fed up with Sudan’s arrogance and truly wishes to stop the bloodshed and violence in the Darfur region.

Why Are These Men Going to Prison?

Why Are These Men Going to Prison?

It was reported Saturday that seven members of the California National Guard have been sentenced to prison for using a stun gun to abuse Iraqi detainees.

I am going to take a very unpopular and very politically incorrect position on this matter and say that that these men should NOT be going to prison, as no one was killed or – as far as I can gather – permanently injured.

While I am not suggesting that what these men did represents model behavior, I am suggesting that – again, since no one was killed or permanently injured – there exist appropriate tools (such as Article 15 punishment, which can include reduction in rank and fines) in the UCMJ for handling this kind of thing short of sending otherwise good men to prison.  

Newsflash to our civilian leadership (i.e., President Bush and SECDEF Dumbsfeld) as well as our Generals/Admirals: We are at WAR!  

So, let’s quit treating our soldiers like Peoria, Illinois, policemen.  Remember, these Guardsmen have watched their buddies  being killed and wounded in combat during their stay in Iraq.  They are not on a Peace Corps mission, for God’s Sake!

What are we trying to prove by following these Marquis de Queensbury Rules of Engagement with an enemy that does not even have standing under the Geneva Conventions?  

This trying to go above and beyond in our treatment of detainees is getting nauseating.  It cannot possibly help the morale of our troops to know that if they are not blown up by the enemy they still stand a very good chance of being punished by their own superiors if they do not handle all detainees with kid gloves.

What a waste!  And the Army wonders why recruitment is down!

When the enemy starts playing nice, we can start playing nice.  Until then, let us stop sending good men to prison because they make Senator McPain and the seditious AP reporters angry.

(Note:  In this case, the abused detainees turned out not to be terrorists, but this does mean that they were model citizens, either.  In fact, the news release says that at least some of them were thieves.)

Women in Combat: Just How Deeply into Their Posteriors Have Our Generals Inserted Their Crania?

Women in Combat: Just How Deeply into Their Posteriors Have Our Generals Inserted Their Crania?

The Washington Times has a great piece by Rowan Scarborough on the “confusion” that currently reigns in the Pentagon regarding the role of women in the military in general – and their role in combat (properly, NONE!), specifically!

Reading the article will reveal just how clueless our “Perfumed Princes” (and I include President Bush and SECDEF Rumsfeld in that group) are about the role of women in combat.  (In case you haven’t noticed, neither of the Bush twins has signed up to serve during the four years since 9-11.)

I left active duty in 1994, and by then I had been hearing for over 10 years from AF leadership just how great it was that women were doing all kinds of stuff in the military – to include sharing barracks (in the AF, the daintier term “dormitories” is preferred) with the men.

In this battle, the White Hat is worn by Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), who has for YEARS been fighting the good fight to keep women out of combat.  

For some reason, Americans tend to regard the military as “conservative.”  Unfortunately, folks do not realize just what liberal educational establishments the military academies are.  The current military leadership is all about putting women in combat.  

Translation:  Our Generals (and Admirals) have their heads deeply inserted in their posteriors regarding this issue.

Chavez Plans to Boot Missionaries – Catches Flak

Chavez Plans to Boot Missionaries – Catches Flak

Leftest Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez, this past week suddenly announced that he was issuing and order to evict some very dangerous, subversive, and CIA-connected foreign workers from Venezuela.

The dangerous agents to be evicted?  The 130-plus foreign missionaries working under the aegis of New Tribes Missions among the indigenous peoples (Note to old-timers: indigenous peoples = Indians) in Amazonas State – an area traditionally neglected by the central government in Caracas.

Chavez – who adores his friend and mentor, Marxist icon Fidel Castro – has asserted (without proof) that the New Tribes workers have ties with the CIA.  Moreover, Chavez asserts that members of the New Tribes Mission – which he hast termed an “imperialist infiltration” – have been circumventing Venezuelan customs via their use of private airplanes and private airstrips.

Unfortunately, Chavez forgot to check in with the indigenous folks being served by New Tribes missionaries.  Jose Kayupare of the Puinare tribe boldly spoke out against Chavez’ decision to oust the New Tribes-affiliated missionaries, noting, "For those of us who live in the jungle, this really is a decision that the majority of indigenous people in Amazonas (state) don't support and that we are not going to accept under any circumstances."

Moreover, Kayupare pointed out that the very missionaries targeted by Chavez had helped indigenous people get medical help – sometimes even airlifting them to sources of medical care when the Central Government showed no concern.

One of the indigenous workers with New Tribes asked, "Why don't they ask (the Indian communities) ... if they've really been abused?"

The Evangelical Council of Venezuela also spoke out in defense of the missionaries’ work.

Fortunately, representatives of New Tribes Mission were able to meet with members of the media.  They were able to make their case on the air both via radio and television.

One of the “subversive” activities of the New Tribes workers is to teach the indigenous peoples Spanish while at the same time helping them to preserve their own indigenous languages.  It seems that Chavez ought to appreciate such efforts, rather than oppose them.

Lessons to be drawn:  Marxists hate Christianity and Christians.  Marxists also dislike having anyone around who is more efficient than they are (and who, therefore, has a tendency to make Marxists look bad in comparison).

If you would like to express your opinion on this matter, here are some possible contact points:

The White House

The US State Department

The US State Department Venezuela Desk: (202) 647-3338

The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC Web site; email address

Venezuelan Consular offices in the US

Sunday: A Portion from God’s Word

Sunday:  A Portion from God’s Word

Psalm 1 (King James Version)
Psalm 1
   1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
   2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
   3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
   4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
   5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
   6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

'Help! Mom!'

'Help! Mom!'

If you are sick of hearing about the drivel contained in such Liberal-agenda-pushing children’s books as Heather Has Two Mommies being shoved down our/your children’s throats, you will be thrilled to hear from Cheryl Wetzstein of the Washington Times about an encouraging new development – an enterprising South Carolina wife-and-mother has begun creating a new series of ‘Help! Mom!’ books for children.

The author’s name is Katharine DeBrecht.  Her first title, Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! is already a bestseller – currently in its second printing.  

The book is available on both the Amazon.com and the Barnes & Noble Web sites.  

While many conservative voices – notably Rush Limbaugh’s – are touting the book, histrionic Liberals – predictably – have been shrilly decrying this DeBrecht’s book as “brainwashing”, among other pejorative terms.

Undeterred by the flack being sent her way by Liberal critics, Mrs. DeBrecht is already at work on her next release: "Help! Mom! Hollywood Is in My Hamper."

AP Shills for Throat-Slitters

AP Shills for Throat-Slitters

As most of us know, a devastating earthquake recently hit parts of Iran, Pakistan, and India – including the disputed (by India and Pakistan) Kashmir region.

Kashmir is officially owned by India, but (once-again) Muslim terrorists are actively fighting to change that.  Apparently the main group of terrorists is called the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front.

Anyway, this past weekend, Muslim terrorists were busy in Kashmir – simultaneously handing out earthquake aid in some quarters and slaughtering helpless victims in others.

In any case, an AP reporter was on the scene – not of the murders, of course, but – of the aid distribution by the terrorists, shilling for these butchers, making them sound like decent folk.

As Michael Savage might put it, such AP (AFP, BBC, etc.) reporters are “vermin”.

Note: The term “throat-slitters” is one that I learned listening to Michael Savage, as well.

(Hat tip: lgf.)

Melt-Down Time for Bush Admin, RNC

Melt-Down Time for Bush Admin, RNC

In case you haven’t noticed, things are not going very well for the Republicans (on a national level) or for the Bush Administration in recent weeks.

In fact, things have been going VERY badly.  The Democrats can only sit back in disbelief at their good fortune if things continue in the present direction.

The funny thing about it is that the Repubs and the Bush Administration – in large measure – have done it to themselves.

Former Congressman John LeBoutiller (R-NY) gives a good rundown and post-mortem on the present disaster.  Must read – even if I DON’T agree with (in my view) LeBoutillier’s clearly flawed and overly-gloomy assessment of the progress of the Iraq War.

So, War Is NOT the Answer, Huh?

So, War Is NOT the Answer, Huh?

Do you ever grow weary of the mindless slogans of the enemies of America?  You know, the ones they foist upon the college youth of America, who affix them to their care bumpers?

One of the more ludicrous is: “War Is NOT the Answer!”  To me, that is like saying “Surgery Is NOT the Answer.”  

To be objective, in some situations, surgery – like war – is very advisable.  In other situations, neither is.  To spout such a line as some sort of unalterable, universal truth is to expose a serious lack of maturity in one’s personal philosophy.

Of course, the “War Is NOT the Answer!” bumper stickers are being sported in opposition to President Bush’s current expedition in Iraq.  

(Note: The Left, for some reason, did NOT post similar bumper stickers when Lover-Boy Bill Clinton led a war against Serbia – or, was it Bosnia?)

Well, here is an EXCELLENT opinion piece by William Shawcross appearing in – of all places – the Los Angeles Times, defending the current war effort in Iraq and decrying the short-sighted calls for our premature withdrawal from that conflict.  (Hat tip: realclearpolitcs.)

PLEASE read Shawcross’ piece!  It’s title?  “Peace is not the answer”.

The Miers Mess

The Miers Mess

I have been reading and reading various opinions on President Bush’s recent nomination of Ms. Harriett Miers to replace the outgoing Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Overall, it seems for NOW that this is not one of Bush’s finer moments.  

Two – of the many – pieces I have looked at that deserve a reading are:

One by conservative talk show host (and retired Army officer) Geoff Metcalf.  (Hat tip: NewsMax.com.)

The other is by British-born, gay activist writer Andrew Sullivan.  (Hat tip:  realclearpolitics.)

Of these two writers, I obviously am in agreement with Metcalf 90%-plus of the time, whereas I am probably in agreement with Sullivan about 10% of the time.

Nonetheless, they both analyze the Miers nomination and why it was made.  Neither of them gives Bush high marks for this move.

This is not to say that Miers should not be confirmed.  Nor is this to say that she is not competent.  Nor is this to say that she will not be confirmed.

This is to say that Bush has managed to poke a good portion of his base in the eye for no reason at a time when he could use their support.  

People were expecting an established, known, solid Conservative jurist – such as Michael Luttig or Janice Rogers Brown – to be picked.  And they were expecting that kind of pick because of the kind of campaign promises Bush had made on the subject of Supreme Court nominations.

On the positive side, however, three key Evangelical leaders – James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, and – now – Pat Roberston have all endorsed Miers for the Supreme Court job for which she has been nominated.

Moreover, two of Bush’s most outspoken (and prominent) Conservative critics over the Miers selection – Pat Buchanan and Paul Weyrich – have both stated that they are willing to keep an open mind on the subject, pending Miers’ performance in Senate hearings.

The funny thing is – when all is said and done – history JUST MAY the Harriett Miers nomination as one of Bush’s most politically astute moves.

Stay tuned: The fun has only just begun.

Gotta Love That Tom Tancredo

Gotta Love That Tom Tancredo

George Will, who tends to be a bit “hoity-toity” and East Coast in his orientation nonetheless does a fairly good job of showing how Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is shaping to be the spoiler in the next round of Republican Presidential primaries.

Tom’s thing?  Time actually to DO something about illegal immigration.

That’s a radical thought: DO SOMETHING about the greatest threat to our country’s well-being and security?

(Shhhhh.  Don’t bother trying to tell that to President Bush/Karl Rove.  They are too busy plotting new ways to fool us into thinking that our open borders are just great for American business-owners.  Besides, we can’t afford to “offend” all those “Hispanic” voters who just “hate” the thought of controlling our borders now, can we?)

Note to Bush/Rove: Ever notice how many Hispanics support the Minutemen?

Syria Skates

Syria Skates

Apparently, American officials were recently discussing whether or not to bomb sites in Syria being used by what AFP euphemizes as “insurgents”, but whom we ALL know are in actuality brutal, Islamofascist terrorists operation in Iraq.

In other words, the thugs killing US troops in Iraq are being permitted by Syria to set up camps, supply lines, etc, on Syrian soil.

This makes Syria a party to the war in Iraq – and NOT on our side, either.

The obvious, common sense, logical approach?  Bomb the camps.

Whom can we ALWAYS count on to advocate the ridiculous, idiotic, and illogical approach?  Right:  The State Department.

That’s right, Syria’s bacon was saved THIS time (they must have nine lives) by the ever-less-impressive Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, who (unfortunately) successfully argued that “diplomatic isolation” was a more effective approach to Syria than bombing terrorist camps on Syrian soil.

Let’s get this straight, Secretary Rice:  You are willing to PERMIT terrorists to CONTINUE to enjoy SAFE HAVEN in Syria while YOU and your fellow Foggy Bottom appeasers pussyfoot around with the Devils of Damascus?

And, if your policy costs American fighting men’s lives?  What of that, Secretary Rice?

Once again, it cannot be said too often to the Inside-the-Beltway types: If we are going to fight a war, we need to FIGHT LIKE WE MEAN IT!  

(Are we doing that now?  The snide laughter I am hearing all the way from Damascus tells me otherwise.)

(Hat tip: Drudge.)

Sunday -- Giving Glory to God

Sunday – Giving Glory to God

Psalm 103 (King James Version)
   1Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
   2Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
   3Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
   4Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
   5Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
   6The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
   7He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
   8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
   9He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
   10He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
   11For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
   12As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
   13Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
   14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
   15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
   16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
   17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
   18To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
   19The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
   20Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
   21Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
   22Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

Lets Stop Bringing Knives to the Gunfight!

Let’s Stop Bringing Knives to the Gunfight!

Bill Roggio, over at The Fourth Rail, has a great post on how the Jihadis routinely violate any semblance of the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) and/or the Geneva Conventions.

The terrorists routinely operate out of mosques – as they did throughout the two battles for Fallujah.

Why we don’t target mosques so used for IMMEDIATE shelling is beyond me.

While Mr. Roggio rightly decries the media’s (seditiously) one-sided treatment of this treacherous behavior, I would rather upbraid the Pentagon brass for continuing to force our fighting men to observe some absurd set of “Marquis de Queensbury Rules” of engagement while fighting terrorist thugs who do not enjoy combatant status under the Geneva Conventions, anyway.

(Hat tip: Greyhawk.)

Jay Says Rage Against the (ACLU) Machine

Jay Says Rage Against the Machine

I blog for fun(?).  Jay – over at Stop the ACLU – blogs for a cause.  He lives and bleeds for the cause.

Jay’s cause?  STOP the ACLU!  

Jay has a great post up there today.  Go ahead: Click on this link – take a look at his site.

And, now – help Jay STOP the ACLU.

Note:  Michael Savage rages frequently against the ACLU on his radio show.  He calls for their prosecution under RICO laws.  He calls them the enemy within.

Meanwhile, the MSM portray these legal devil’s-advocates as “do-gooders”.

Look But Dont Laugh

Look, But Don’t Laugh – PLEASE!

This is VERY, VERRRRRRRRY serious, okay?  A Danish newspaper ran a series of 12 cartoons (shamelessly!) digging fun at Islam and Muhammad, its founder.

Of course, as EVERYONE knows – NO ONE is permitted to poke fun at Muhammad or Islam!

So, BEFORE you click on this link, you MUST FIRST PROMISE not to laugh, snicker – nay, not even to SMILE.

Do you understand?

Otherwise, Imam Raed Hlayhel will be VERY upset with you!

(Hat tip: lgf.)

fjordman has something on this, as well.

‘Don’t Shoot! I’m Che!’

‘Don’t Shoot!  I’m Che!’

Do you ever want to just tear into some of the asshats you see wearing “Che” t-shirts?  Funny, but as this excellent NewsMax.com piece by Humberto Fontova points out, Che was VERY big on the death penalty, while most campus “liberals” sporting his visage on their t-shirts would no doubt likely profess to be “anti-death penalty”.

Che was a murdering Marxist.  His reception by the elite American left?  Hero worship.

Che was a bum.

Fortunately, they shot his ass anyway – despite his cowardly pleas.

Latest Office Slang

Latest Office Slang

A blogger by the name of “peabody” has a great post on the “latest” in office slang.  (It tends toward the IT side of the house.)

I enjoyed it.

Hope you do, too.

Bush Cronyism Again: Julie Myers Revisited

Bush Cronyism Again: More on the (Laughable, If It Were Not So Serious) Julie Myers ICE Nomination

I have blogged before regarding President Bush’s absurd nomination for the next Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – the young, lovely (but egregiously underqualified) Ms. Julie Myers.

Well, Bryanna Bevins administers the coup de grace to this laughable move by our (arrogant? out-of-touch? Rove-advised? You fill in the blank) President.

Ms. Myers has what my late father called “relative ability”.

(Hat tip: tviper, a commenter on Vox Popoli.)


Update: Michelle Malkin updates us on the progress of this nomination: It is going forward in the Senate.  (Not good.)

Point Five Open Track Back

Point Five Open Track Back

Point Five has a Weekend Open Trackback event, featuring Mindstation’s Eleven Edition.

Our Manchurian Candidate Obsesses

Our Manchurian Candidate Obsesses

Senator John McCain (R-AZ), often touted as the likeliest candidate to succeed GWB in the White House, was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton for a number of years.  God only know what lasting effects that experience had on him.

However, it seems clear to me that McCain – at present – is a lot more concerned about how we treat enemy prisoners/detainees, than about how many of our boys are getting shot and/or blown up weekly in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

McCain has introduced legislation addressing the matter of how our troops are to treat enemy detainees, which I suspect will do our troops much harm and no good.

Two excellent links:  Here.  And here.

Question:  Are there ANY national leaders in this country who are IMPASSIONED by the idea that TAKING the FIGHT to the enemy with ALL IT TAKES to DEFEAT HIM QUICKLY?  

Or, is the frittering away of American soldiers’/Marines’ lives weekly in a “dumbed-down”, “hand-cuffed”, “politically-correct”, half-hearted, indecisive campaign against the terrorists in Iraq an acceptable approach to all in power in Washington?

Give Them Ex Lax!

Give Them Ex Lax

I am currently working on a theory, hatched while composing my previous post: Islamofascists never smile (unless they are about to blow someone up) because they are CONSTIPATED!

Instead of seeking medical relief, they seek to end their lives of misery (as well as the lives of any unfortunate enough to be around them at the time) by “going out with a bang”.

Therefore, I am (tongue-in-cheek) appealing to all my (few) readers to write their Senators to support the Ex-Lax for Muhammad program!

Perhaps, we should also support a Porta-Potties for Abdul program, as well, if the Ex-Lax program ever gets off the ground.

(Don’t need to start a Toilet-Paper for Ismail program, because . . . , well, because they just use their . . . , their LEFT HANDS to take care of that chore!)

Great Blog for a Laugh! (Point Five)

Great Blog for a Laugh! (Point Five)

We all (I mean all of us except constipated Islamofascists) can use a good laugh now and then.

For a blog that will make you laugh while still presenting a message, try visiting Point Five.

You will not likely be disappointed.

I Say Let Our Troops Kill Them

I Say Let Our Troops Kill Them

As many of us have suspected, the “correspondents” and “stringers” for the likes of AP, Reuters, BBC, etc., have been shilling for – and cooperating with – the enemy in Iraq.  Here is a link to a blog that confirms this.  (Hat tip: lgf.)

I say: Let our troops kill these enemy assets when they confront them in the field.

Honor Killing Watch

Honor Killing Watch

I have blogged of “honor killings” previously.  Once upon a time relegated to the dark back-waters of the benighted Muslim world, honor killings are now frequent occurrences thoughout Europe.

Here is the account of a particularly brutal and bloody slaying of a (Muslim) boyfriend of a girl whom he had made pregnant out of wedlock.  (Clearly a capital crime, right?)  The killer?  The girl’s brother, who acted on his father’s behest.  (Hat tip: lgf.)

The “Dhimmi-ized” European Governments are apparently paralyzed by their own “tolerance” and “Political Correctness” to act decisively against this kind of thing – which is happening throughout MUCH of Europe.

Funny, but our MSM is apparently pretty “Dhimmi-ized”, too, as they are not reporting these killings to us.

*What is Dhimmi?  Click here for more information.

Suzanne Fields Gets It!

Suzanne Fields Gets It!

For the second day in a row, I shall cite a Suzanne Fields piece: Today’s actually predates yesterday’s.

In this piece, sardonically titled “Making the Muslims Love Us” was written PRIOR to Ms. Karen Hughes’ departure on her current “listening tour” of the Middle East.

Oh, and by the way: President Bush, Condoleeza Rice, and Karen Hughes, most definitely DO NOT get it!

The Miers Hubbub

The Miers Hubbub

Well, to hear it, the Republican/Conservative world is divided against itself over President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers for associate justice on the Supreme Court.

As Tony Blankley points out, there is not much to be heard on the Democratic/Liberal side of the equation.

There are many Republicans/Conservatives who have weighed in with varying degrees of passion against Miers as underqualified, unknown, etc., to include:

George Will.  (Hat tip: Drudge.)

Michael Savage (via on-air comments).

Pat Buchanan.  (Hat tip: WND.)

Michelle Malkin

Ann Coulter


As well, there are many Republicans/Conservatives who have come out supporting (again with varying degrees of passion) Bush’s nomination, to include:

Rush Limbaugh.  

Thomas Lifson.  (Hat tip: realclearpolitics.)

Tony Blankley.  

James Dobson (Hat tip: NewsMax.com.

Washington Times Editors.

I will play it mellow: I wish Bush had demonstrated the courage, courtesy, and chutzpah to have nominated a Michael Luttig or a Janice Rogers Brown, but Bush has none of those qualities in overabundant supply.  However, I am cautiously optimistic that Miers will at least be Pro-Life.  (Of course, I could be wrong, too!)  

However, I also think that John LeBoutellier (Hat tip: NewsMax.com) is very possibly correct when he says this nomination signals that the remainder of Bush’s second term will be “an aimless, agenda-less failure”.

Descent into Dhimmitude

Descent into Dhimmitude

It is becoming increasingly clear that the West is losing its vitality – its will to live.  We are selling our birthright for a mess of pottage – Western faith and freedom for a false and temporary “peace” with the determined forces of Jihad.  

Let us not kid ourselves: Jihad is not waged only by the “few” in Islam.  Sure, perhaps only the few blow themselves up – but the “many” clearly at least passively tolerate the activists, if not secretly root for them.

Two recent examples in the news of the capitulation of the Christian West (with no guns pointed at heads):

I have already blogged of the ridiculous tour of Muslim countries by White House crony Karen Hughes in her latest incarnation as some sort of “Secretary” for the US State Department.  

Now, Diana West, writes in the Washington Post in even more scathing terms than I did of this ridiculous “listening tour”.  Must read.  Clearly the Bush White House has lost its taste for a “war” against an enemy it could never bring itself to name.

Second, in an example of the ludicrous taken to extreme, please read Mark Steyn on the ridiculous banning of all things porcine at an English Council office.  (This includes “Winnie the Pooh” tissues, mind you!)  (Hat tip: lgf.)

Don’t know what is meant by “Dhimmitude?  Click here for some ideas.

Your Freedoms Are in DIRE Jeopardy

Your Freedoms Are in DIRE Jeopardy

Vox Day’s latest WND piece should be a wake-up call to any who care more about their Constitutional liberties (per the Bill of Rights) MORE than they care about Monday Night Football on the big-screen, Bud-Lite 12-Packs, Oprah Winfrey, and lap-dances at the local “gentlemen’s clubs”.

The recent “push” by President Bush to do weaken or do away with the Posse Comitatus Act and to allow the military to play a key role in all disaster relief may sound efficient, but is it wise?

After all, as they said about Mussolini: He made the trains run on time.  (He didn’t do much for liberty in Italy, however.)

This is a test of the American people’s mettle.  Do we have left even a small RESIDUE of the tenacious love for Liberty that drove our forefathers to brave oceans, prairies, and Indians to be able to claim a piece of liberty and opportunity for themselves?  

Or, are we all about personal comfort (Monday Night Football on the big-screen, etc.) and letting the “Government” do the driving for us (to borrow from an old Greyhound Bus commercial).

President Bush is simply not a de facto friend of liberty if he keeps singing this tune, no matter how good his INTENTIONS may be.  After all, he has already given us the PATRIOT Act.  The problem with Government is that it tries to “help us” by taking away our rightful prerogatives – including our prerogative to make dumb decisions and elect ineffective local leaders like NO Mayor Nagin and LA Governor Blanco.

Funny, he still seems very Unworried about our uncontrolled, hemorrhaging, broken borders.

Ever get the impression that the Government is more concerned about controlling YOU than it is about the illegals swarming over the land?

Think about it . . . .   Then, get on the horn and let your voice be heard by your representatives in Washington.

Comparative Religion 101 by Jay D. Dyson

"Comparative Religion 101" by Jay D. Dyson

As others have said: Something is only funny if it contains a degree of truth.

I think this Jay D. Dyson cartoon is both humorous and true – although, upon closer examination, it conveys a message of utmost seriousness.

Dyson’s commentary on the cartoon can be read by clicking here.

Try Moving to Pakistan

Try Moving to Pakistan

A Christian Pakistani girl BRAVELY endures brutal kidnapping, beatings, and sexual assaults by (you guessed it!  Her Muslim “neighbors”) – retains her Christian faith.  Don’t expect this story to be put forth by the MSM!  Also, don’t expect CAIR to issue any denunciations of this atrocity.

As we read almost daily of the campaign by the ACLU against public displays of the Ten Commandments or public prayer in Jesus’ Name, it is well that we consider what it is like for non-Muslims to live in the Paradise known as Pakistan.

Now, it occurs to me that most of the leaders and attorneys for the ACLU are NOT Muslims.  And I am sure that many of them have lovely daughters.

I would like to ask them, if they so hate a country where Christianity is honored, then why don’t they take their families to Pakistan for extended vacations, or send their daughters to Pakistan for summer camp – or, better yet, retire to Pakistan?

Well, that will call their bluff EVERY time, as I have NEVER heard of any ACLU types, or Liberal Democrat types, or Leftist Hollywood types, or Cindy Sheehan types CHOOSING Pakistan as their vacation destination.

There is nothing like the America-hating Left.  They enjoy all the benefits of this great country while ACTIVELY working towards its demise.

As for the apologists for the adherents to the “Religion of Peace”, well you are certainly getting some “good” publicity from this episode.  (Not!)

The Genius Karl Rove

The “Genius” Karl Rove

Wow!  Got to read this WND editorial by Ann Coulter!

In it, she articulates something that I have been thinking for a long time: Namely, that the allegedly “genius” GWB-political-advisor, Karl Rove, in point of fact, nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in 2004 for the very un-conservative and very “insider” Republican, George W. Bush.  

The article is devastating in the way that Coulter limns out the President’s almost dogged insistence over the past six years to support (VERY) liberal Republicans over conservative ones.

Some people actually still believe that Bush is a conservative and that he is carrying on his Administration in the tradition of the late-great Reagan Revolution.  (People who think that way apparently do not want to be confused by the facts.)

The current Republican Party leadership at the national level is sick, sick, sick.

(Hat tip: Soup, a commenter on Vox Day’s blog.)

TheSheehanThat I Care About

The Sheehan That I Care About

Lost in the bustle of ridiculous MSM fawning over a not-so-bright Cindy Sheehan is the story of the young man who made Cindy famous in the first place – her son, Casey, killed in action in Iraq in 2004.

Blackfive has Casey’s moving story on his site.  Read it.  (It will bring tears to your eyes.)

Below is the text of my comment posted on BlackFive:

May these brave men rest in peace. But, why the HELL has the Bush Administration allowed this accursed Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al'Sadr not only to live, but to prosper. I remember General Sanchez(sp?) who was booted over the Abu Ghraib (non-)scandal, saying that American forces would kill or capture al-Sadr. Well, the US forces (under the Bush/Rummy team's lead) have -- since the Abu Ghraib (non-)scandal and Sanchez' rotation out of Baghdad -- obviously opted for a "kinder, gentler" kind of war that does not avenge the blood of our fallen troops as it should -- and continues to have our men fight hand-to-hand while F-16s go largely unused.

A Wink and a Nod from the Bush Administration

A Wink and a Nod from the Bush Administration . . .

. . . To the unutterably corrupt ruling Saudi elite by waiving sanctions for their theocratic rule by Islamic Shari’a Law, which – shall we say – does “little” to encourage what the Liberals are fond of calling “diversity” on the religious front.

Here is a hint: The Saudi flag has the Islamic creed spelled out on it.  The CONSTITUTION of KSA (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) is none other than the Qur’an.  By the way, KSA is home to the holiest site in Islam (Mecca).  

The law is so strict in KSA that foreigners who live and work there have been known to have been arrested for meeting in homes for Bible study and worship.

But, hey, the Saudis have OIL, baby – and that is good enough for even the politically correct Bush Administration suddenly to “see no evil” in the Islamic Paradise of Saudi Arabia when it comes to the suppression of religious rights.  (Hey, what’s a little incarceration and torture among “friends” after all, right?)

(Hat tip: Michael Savage.)

You Da Man, Governator! -- Part 3

You Da Man, Governator! -- Part 3

We have posted here favorably regarding Arnold Schwarzenegger before: See here.  And here.

Well, once again, it seems that President Bush could be taking a few “leadership” pointers from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This time, “The Governator” actually followed through on his earlier promise to veto AB 849 legalizing homosexual marriage.

It is great: The Liberal-Democrat controlled Cali State Legislature keeps throwing Schwarzenegger these slow-pitch softballs.  And the Gov obliges by hitting them out of the park every time!

As Michael Savage said on his show recently, if Schwarzenegger vetoes AB 849 (which he just did), Savage predicted a jump in his sagging poll numbers for the Governor – as well as a successful re-election bid.

Lesson for Bush: A well-placed veto shows cojones.  (Hint: Bush has YET to veto a SINGLE piece of legislation coming out of the US Congress during his 1-1/2 terms in office!)

(Hat tip: realclearpolitics.)