"Global Warming: An Official Pseudo Science"

But we already knew that, didn't we?

Noteworthy:

"By now you should have figured this one out. Recent years have witnessed a series of fear-mongering alarmist fads in pseudo-scientific meteorology and climatology, each promoted in succession by news media and mainstream science publications. Perhaps the most expensive example of these mass-hysterias is the pseudoscientific fad of 'global warming'. The present article is an examination of the science behind the ideology of 'global warming', as well as the social and political forces driving its promotion."

"Present-day climatology is vulnerable to these kinds of faddist dogmas - pushed forward as part of a political and media-driven agenda - because it lacks a functional, comprehensive, systematic and interconnected understanding of the nonlinear system formed by the atmosphere, the oceans, the land mass and the biosphere, and their interaction with solar radiation."

"There is perhaps no clearer example of the arbitrary vagaries of mainstream peer-review and its promotion of non-scientific fads, driven by political and economic interests, than the recent promotion of the pseudoscientific myth of 'global warming', systematically accompanied by the recurrent fits of public hysteria it engenders amongst scientists, politicians, environmentalists (another type of politico), mainstream science journals and mass-media."

"But since these fads are supposed to be 'scientific', they are compelled to search for pseudo-evidence which may serve as the excuse (the 'scientific reason') for their promotion in mainstream journals and the media. Typically there is a little truth in this pseudo-evidence, but its generalization or interpretation falsifies the facts and the data, undermining both the value and the quality of the latter."

And those are just from page one......

Take the time to read the whole thing.

A blast from the past regarding climate change

How's this for "scientific consensus"?

Change a few words around, and you have the same thing the "Global Warming" crowd is saying today.

Edwards' base of support marginal

He will need to find a LOT more support and money to be competitive in the race. And Big Labor's support alone won't cut it.

Even if he gains momentum, he needs to understand the message voters sent in the last election, and to rethink his positions to appeal to a much wider range of support if he expects to be the presidential nominee of the Democrat Party.


Larry Kudlow breaks it down in simple terms.

Let's see if Edwards learns that class warfare pandering won't get the job done.

Saddam Hussein is dead

And this is the sort of thing we get from the BDS sufferers in both post and comments.

Unbelievable....but entirely predictable.

(hat tip: Wizbang)

Gerald R. Ford, 1913-2006

He was not one of our greatest Presidents, but he most certainly was one of our greatest Americans.

He set the tone for bi-partisan political cooperation, now a sad memory after almost six years of non-existence by the current minority/soon to be majority congressional group. He served his nation, his family, and his God well.

I thought this little story at NRO, by Peter Robinson said it all about President Ford.


"I met Gerald Ford only once. As a speechwriter for then Vice President George H. W. Bush, I had drafted remarks for the vice president to use in dedicating the Betty Ford Center, and, when we reached Rancho Mirage, the vice president asked me to show the remarks to the former president.

When I knocked on his door, Gerald Ford said simply, “Come in!” Then greeted me with a smile and a handshake and had me take a chair next to his. Ford read my draft in silence, then nodded, smiled once again, and said he liked it. When I asked for his autograph, the former president spent a few moments looking around for a piece of paper — we were in conference room — then simply signed the draft itself. “Well done. Gerald R. Ford.”

An inconsequential meeting, but it provided a glimpse of Ford’s simplicity, modesty, and businesslike, genial decency.

In the bitterest moment since the Civil War, Ford applied those plain traits to the nation, on which they acted like a balm.

Occupying the White House for less than three years, he displayed neither FDR’s ability to enchant nor Reagan’s to inspire; he was, as himself once put it, “a Ford, not a Lincoln.” Yet all the same he proved a great American, and, as chief executive, providential: exactly the man we needed, exactly when we needed him.

Well done, Gerald R. Ford."


Indeed.

"Climate of Fear"

Jeff Jacoby nails it.

Excerpts:

"Over the years, the alarmists have veered from an obsession with lethal global cooling around the turn of the 20th century to lethal global warming a generation later, back to cooling in the 1970s and now to warming once again. You don't have to be a scientist to realize that all these competing narratives of doom can't be true. Or to wonder whether any of them are.
Perhaps that is why most Americans discount the climate-change fear-mongering that is so fashionable among journalists and politicians.

Last spring, as Time magazine was hyperventilating about global warming ('The debate is over. Global warming is upon us -- with a vengeance. From floods to fires, droughts to storms, the climate is crashing'), a Gallup poll was finding that only 36 percent of the public say they worry 'a great deal' about it."

"'The whole aim of practical politics,' wrote H.L. Mencken, 'is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Mencken was writing in 1920, but some things never change.'"


Meanwhile, Bob Novack alerts us to the potentially ruinous legislation being proposed in the new Democrat-controlled Congress.

Noteworthy:

"The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates this measure would reduce gross domestic product by $776 billion, raise gasoline prices 40 cents a gallon, raise natural gas prices 46 percent and cut coal production by nearly 60 percent."

"Ultimate salvation from U.S. self-destructive behavior may come from the real world. Most European Union countries, suffering higher energy costs and constraints on growth imposed by the Kyoto pact, cannot meet that treaty's emission level requirements. Furthermore, China is on pace to exceed U.S. emissions by 2010, meaning that unilateral U.S. carbon controls will have little impact on global emissions while driving American jobs to China."


We need to STOP this proposed insanity in its tracks.

A Christmas Poem

I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And mild and sweet the words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

I thought how as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had roll'd along th' unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

And in despair I bow'd my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men."

'Til ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,
Of peace on earth, good will to men!

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Racism-- Fact or Faith?"

Shelby Steele ponders that question, and comes up with some answers that won't please certain people.

Excerpts:

"While racism continues to exist, it no longer stunts the lives of blacks."

"It is heresy for any white or black to say openly that, today, underdevelopment and broken families are vastly greater problems for blacks than racism, even though this is obviously true."

"The great mistake Americans made after the civil rights victories of the '60s was to allow race to become a government-approved means to power. Here was the incentive to make racism into a faith. And its subsequent life as a faith has destroyed our ability to know the reality of racism in America. Today we live in a terrible ignorance that will no doubt last until we take race out of every aspect of public life — until we learn, as we did with religion, to separate it from the state."

A Military Christmas

Good stuff.


Contrast the Ranger's story with the phony "Christmas in Cambodia" lie we heard a few years ago from someone who continues to disrespect our military people.

A "Four Day Extravaganza"?

They're serious, folks!

Noteworthy (from the author):

"I find it interesting that the liberal trolls think I've gone over the line by using the word hubris to describe Queen Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi's four day celebration of her. Now that I think about it, the word hubris doesn't go far enough to describe what Nancy's doing."

From the comments:

"Nobody voted for Nancy Pelosi as speaker; they voted for a change in Washington. For her to grab the spotlight seems like a cult of personality. I have a feeling that Steny Hoyer is probably having a quiet lunch with his family."

"Too Little, Too Late"

.....about the Duke "Rape" Case, Nifong, and Brodhead.

So say many of us, including Jon Ham.

Noteworthy:

"The rats are now deserting the sinking pro-accuser ship. I know it’s Christmas and a time for forgiveness, but I, for one, am not willing to throw them a lifeline. Let them sink along with the DA."

Agreed.

The lacrosse players are certainly no angels, but they certainly didn't deserve what has happened to them so far.

New Strategy for the Cut and Run Crowd

They're going to be positively ecstatic over this!

Noteworthy:

"'We order you to withdrew your troops immediately, using troop carriers and aircraft, and taking only your personal weapons. Don't withdraw any heavy weapons. Instead you should hand that and your military bases over to the holy warriors of the Islamic State,' he said on the tape."

It's a good thing the Administration is still calling the shots. The Dems just might be dumb enough to do what's being asked.

Jimmy Carter's Betrayal

Carter's supposed legacy is in shambles.


Excerpts:

"I don't recognize Carter any more. I am afraid of him now, for myself and for my children. He has not just turned his back on the balance and fairness that all peacemaking depends on. He has become a spokesman for the enemies of my people. He has become an apologist for terrorists."

"Carter's bizarre book is a poisoned holiday gift for Jews and Christians, and a danger to Jews throughout the world."

Even Carter's former friends see the folly.

Results of James Baker and the Iraq Study Group's Negotiations with Iran Revealed!

(hat tip: jaycee)



A Noteworthy Exclusive!

"Mo' Money, pt 2"

Starring Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and a cast of hundreds of Democrat members of congress.

Pete DuPont gives us a preview.

Meet the New Boss. Worse than the Old Boss.

And YOU and I get to pay the bill!

Regarding CNN's "Skin Deep: Racism in America" series

Blunt words from Star Parker.

Excerpts:

"It ignored the most destructive and widely prevailing racist attitude in our society today, one of which both blacks and whites are guilty. This is the attitude that blacks cannot be held to the same standards as whites."

"These problems will not get solved if the hand of the state remains on the bicycle seat of this community. And the attitude that we can't let go defines today's most virulent strain of racism."

"It's a racism of diminished expectations. A racism that says blacks still need special treatment in education and job placement, that we can't give black parents freedom to choose where to send their kids to school, that we can't let low-income black workers build wealth through a personal retirement account, instead of paying Social Security taxes, because they won't know what to do."

And yet we continue to have various truth and reconciliation processes that call for "reparations" and entitlements, and continued "dialog".

Fusion Politics

Virginia Postrel is on the story.

Excerpt:

"If it's going to happen, such an alliance can only start among honest intellectuals who are not interested in scoring partisan points. How many of those are left, I'm not sure."

I wonder also, Virginia.

How many classic liberals still exist in positions of influence?

The New Afghanistan?

Somalia.

Excerpt:

"The stakes are high. A war between Muslim Somalia and Christian-ruled Ethiopia could rapidly engulf the entire Horn of Africa, sucking in neighbouring Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan and even Yemen. It would give Islamic jihadists the chance to establish a new front in Africa after Iraq and Afghanistan, and to wage another proxy war between East and West."

And yet there are some folks who do not think that "Islamic extremism" is a major world problem.

Constitutional Violations

....are taking place on several levels in Massachusetts.

Noteworthy:

"The response to all this from many supporters of same-sex marriage has been a tortured explanation of why defying the Massachusetts Constitution is actually a good thing. 'It's not a matter of following the constitution,' the legal director of the Massachusetts chapter of the ACLU told my Boston Globe colleague Sam Allis. 'It's following the constitution down the drain.' In other words, nothing must be allowed to jeopardize same-sex marriage -- not even democracy and due process of law."

Of course, the pro gay marriage side was quick to applaud the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling in 2003 that barring gay marriage was unconstitutional in that state.

Yet another in the long line of incidents showing that situational constitutionality, judicial actions in support of social policy and agendized politics are what it's all about on the "progressive" side.

Jim Webb Keeps Self Destructing

And he hasn't even taken office yet!

First, there was his Boy Behaving Badly episode at the White House.

Now it's stiffing his fellow vets, and sending a comment that flat out disses the people who supported him.


Jim Webb: The new John Kerry.

Virginian vets won't get fooled again.

Political Correctness and Academic Arrogance

....as practiced at the University of Michigan.

Noteworthy:

"University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman apparently believes that the democratic process is valid only when the voters agree with her."

Cherished liberal social policies certainly die hard, don't they?

Hannuka among the Hellenists

Regarding the Israeli Left, and Jewish self hatred".

Noteworthy in its pertinence today:

"If the barbarians murder the Jews, it is because the Jews are evil, selfish people and because they have been too reluctant to abandon their primitive survivalism."

"Enviro-extremists? What Enviro-extremists?"

"Oh, you mean THESE enviro-extremists!"

Excerpts:

“We’re no better than bacteria!” University of Texas biologist Eric Pianka announced last spring. “Things are gonna get better after the collapse because we won’t be able to decimate the Earth so much,”

"Pianka dreamed that disease “will control the scourge of humanity.” He celebrated the potential of Ebola Reston, an airborne strain of the killer virus, to make Earth nearly human-free."

"“There is no denying the natural world would be a better place without people. ALL people!”

"Surely, the Black Death was one of the best things that ever happened to Europe: elevating the worth of human labor, reducing environmental degradation, and, rather promptly, producing the Renaissance. From where I sit, Planet Earth could use another major human pandemic, and pronto!”

Proposed Dem Legislation Will Targt Grassroots Freedom of Speech

Under this, Uncle Sugar gets to find out all about the little people in the political process.

Excerpts:

“Right now, grassroots groups don’t have to report at all if they are communicating with the public,” said Dick Dingman of the Free Speech Coalition, Inc. “This is an effort that would become a major attack on the 1st Amendment.”

“This bill would apply to those who have no Washington-based lobbyists, who provide no money or gifts to members of Congress, and who merely seek to speak, associate and petition the government,” it said. “Regulating the speech, publishing, association and petitioning rights of citizens is not targeted at corruption in Washington, as Public Citizen and its supporters would believe. Instead, it is targeted directly at the 1st-Amendment rights of citizens and their voluntary associations.”

Nice work, Public Citizen and Speaker to be Pelosi......this is one way you can put the screws to these groups, most of whom espouse political and social conservative viewpoints, and many of whom would be forced to shut down as a result.

Next, look for a return of the old FTC "Fairness Doctrine" in an attempt to kill off conservative talk radio.

Count on it......

"Global Warming" Update: The Cows Missed the Movie

More about the recent "global warming"/cow connection we talked about earlier.

Noteworthy:

"If there's one thing that irritates Singer, it is Gore's belief that there is a scientific 'consensus' about human-induced global warming, even as Gore incessantly complains about scientists who deny global warming.

'Well, which is it?' Singer asked. If there is a consensus, there should be no deniers. Singer has co-written a book, 'Unstoppable Global Warming -- Every 1,500 Years'..."

"Hillary Care" is not the answer

(from the Patriot Post US)



"We are well on the way, step by step, to being saddled with the same high-cost, low-yield healthcare system that plagues our Canadian and European friends. A cursory look at the numbers is indeed quite alarming. The U.S. population has reached 300 million, more than 35 million of whom are senior citizens on Medicare. The working-age population is nearly 258 million, and Medicare, Medicaid and military health programs cover 45 million of them, while another 18 million are public-sector employees, with health care covered by taxpayers. That means one third of Americans are taxpayer covered in one form or another, not including dependents. Add in mandated free hospital care for the uninsured, tax subsidies for companies that provide health insurance for employees, and our marvelous new Republican-authored prescription-drug benefit, and the burden on government is roughly two thirds of total healthcare spending! Government spending on healthcare is fast approaching 10 percent of the GDP.

As we’ve said in these pages before, getting the government entirely out of the healthcare business is the direction in which we need to go. Subsidizing in any way can only increase the cost. Of course, when politicians’ power depends on demagoguery, little can really be done to stop the slide into the socialist ditch."

The Real Cause of "Global Warming"

....is finally discovered!

Yet another Incovenient Truth for the True Believers to absorb, which really shouldn't be too difficult, seeing as how they already are full of bovine scatology, but there's always room for a little more on top.

Why do you think most of them have brown eyes in the first place?

(hat tip: Fred Gregory)

Will Wonders Never Cease?

The True Believers are starting to backpeddle (somewhat) on one their cherished talking points in their "Global Warming" agenda!

(Original link: The American Thinker.)

Excerpt from the Thinker:

"The organization still insists on little doubt that mankind is warming the planet, though there is still no explanation for all the huge variations in climate which occurred prior to man having the ability to operate on a sufficient scale to hypothesize such doomsday outcomes. Clearly mechanisms for variation in the global climate exist outside of our control. So how is the UN so certain (subject to substantial revision, of course, but still with little doubt) that mankind is driving change today?"


But we already knew that, didn't we?

Incoming Dem House Intelligence Committee chair

....strikes what is sure to be the standard the Democrats will set when congress reconvenes.

(hat tip: Wizbang.)

Rosie O'Donnell: Bigot

"Ching Chong" indeed.

Where's the outcry over this?

Oh wait, she didn't use the "N" word.

That explains it......

Deconstructing the agenda of those who would encourage class warfare.

Rich Lowry reviews Alan Reynold's new book that reveals the truth about some of the economic nonsense we're bound to hear when the Dems take control of Congress.

Lowry's lede describes what we should soon expect to hear:

"If you don’t yet believe that we live in a de facto caste system, just wait until the new Democratic economic populists take over Congress. They will rely on the usual myths to portray the American economy as an engine of inequity and dispossession, benefiting only the very rich."

The summation:

"It is America — not just the rich — that is getting richer, even if Washington’s newly empowered populists don’t want to hear it. "

Open Letter to the President

Why we need to turn around the repugnant notion of an America that is harmless as an enemy, and treacherous as a friend.

Quote of the Day

"When the history of our times is written, this week will be remembered as the week that Washington decided to let the Islamic Republic of Iran go nuclear. Hopefully it will also be remembered as the moment the Jews arose and refused to allow Iran to go nuclear."

Read the whole story.

(hat tip: Glenn Reynolds.)

The Vast Democrat Culture of Corruption continues

It's just business as usual.

Right on the money quote:

"City Councilman Oliver Thomas said Jefferson's victory would make the recovery more difficult.

'People are watching this election all around the country and I can only imagine what they are thinking,' Thomas said. 'It will be very difficult to go back to them and ask them to trust us with the money we need here.'"

The Dems KNEW about the Foley emails

.... as evidenced here, and it's clear they sat on the info until they could use it in last month's election.

Excerpt from the second link:

"Of course, many of us knew this already.
We also figured the media would not report this until after the midterm election.
We were right."

Imagine that!

A Revisionist's Review of Scrooge

Old Ebenezer 's "before" personality in Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" has always gotten a bum rap.

I LOVE this passage:

"Moreover, there is also a left-wing environmentalist case for Scrooge, in so far as he minimizes his use of nonrenewable resources and energy sources (e.g. - coal) that create pollution. Thanks to Scrooge, nineteenth century London had more resources and less air pollution!"

Early poll numbers for Hillary

.....don't look too hot.

Noteworthy:

"When asked 'whether you personally would, or would not like to see this person run for president in the next election,' 55 percent of respondents said they would not like to see Clinton atop the Democratic ticket. Former Vice President Al Gore got the thumbs down by an even larger margin - 67 percent - while 74 percent rejected another run by Sen. John Kerry, who lost the 2004 election to President Bush."

This news will probably encourage the forces within the Democrat party who really REALLY don't want to see her as the nominee in 08.

It may be false encouragement. Their are a good number of pundits and pollsters who say that the nomination is hers to loose. And that's probably NOT good news for Democrats who have their sights set on retaking the White House.

You have GOT to be kidding!

So now the folks behind the TRC want the taxpayers to subsidize the agenda contained in the report?

Read the article....does THIS sound like something constructive and useful will come from the project?

"The commission's Ad Hoc Committee on Improving Race Relations wants to organize a community dialogue, following a format used by the U.S. Department of Justice, to try to improve race relations, beginning with a half-day forum in which 150 community leaders would gather to discuss issues in various small groups.

Participants would then organize meetings between their own communities or groups and other, similar groups that differ in race, wealth, side of town or some other way.

Then, after six months to a year, the original 150 participants would reconvene and share what they have learned.

The proposal would cost $40,000, mostly to pay a full-time staff person to coordinate meetings and ensure that participating groups met with other groups regularly throughout the period."

"Dialogue"......"community leaders"......and more money down the same rathole that contains the Project Homestead bucks, and God knows how many other projects' resources to satisfy a political/social agenda?

(hat tip: Sam at Piedmont Publius.)

The ISG Report: No Big Surprise

We knew what they were going to say before they said it, didn't we?

Ralph Peters takes it apart.

Excerpts:

"Former Secretary of State James Baker and his panelists are trying to shore up the failing regional system that their generation designed. Released yesterday, their report doesn't offer 'a new way forward.' Its recommendations echo past failures. And it shows no sense of how gravely the world has changed."

" Baker resembles Pontius Pilate in wanting those bedeviling local problems to go away and in imagining that, by caving in to unjust local powerbrokers, he can safeguard the empire's interests.

The difference is that Pilate just wanted to wash his hands of an annoyance, while Baker would wash his hands in the blood of our troops."

Baker and his fellow "Realists" screwed up royally in the first Iraq war, and bear a huge burden for the situation we find ourselves in currently.

Why would we even think about trusting their judgment now?

Political Shock of the Year!

This guy will not seek the Democrat nomination for President in 08.

Bring back Dennis Kucinich!

The anti-War Ends Justify the Means

....if your the AP, as evidenced here.

Noteworthy:

"The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field. It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesn’t even recognize it has a problem. "

That could describe a lot of folks in the media and in the blogosphere, couldn't it?

The New Clark Clifford

.....is James Baker, says Geraghty.

Excerpt:

"...it will be hailed far and wide - well, from the editorial page of the New York Times to both parties' congressional leadership to the all-important David Gergen (hey, how did that guy get passed over? He's the Michael Jordan of empty blather from a Washington suit with a distinguished resume) as “just the right call that the President ought to heed.”"


Meanwhile, here's the Podhoretz article.

Noteworthy:

"What do Syria and Iran want more than anything else in the world? To see an American defeat in Iraq. To see an America so crippled that they can work their will in the Middle East without fear of retribution. Syria could swallow up Lebanon whole once again. Iran could do whatever it chooses inside and outside its borders (develop and peddle nuclear weaponry, sponsor terrorism against Israeli and Western targets) with impunity."

Baker bears much of the responsibility for the current situation in which we find ourselves. He and his "Realists" have screwed it up once; WHY are we even considering giving them a chance to let them screw it up again?

A poem in honor of certain Local Greensboro Blogger Buddy Club members

I'm sure you know who they are....

Enjoy!

The Iraq Study Group "Realists"

.... are the new No Nothings.

Excellent expose by Thomas Joscelyn of two major myths.

Key statement:

"Unfortunately, their advice is grounded in a dangerous ignorance of our terrorist enemies."

Britt Whitmire's gonna LOVE this!

Here's some new material for his routine.

Wonder why Dan doesn't get some testimony from HDNet viewers to back him up?

After all, how hard can it be to contact the five or six folks who actually watch them?

I would think they're all on a first name basis anyway.

More on "Loose Cannon" Webb

from Tyrrell at AmSpec. (hat tip Fred Gregory)

Excerpt:


"Webb claims that one of his heroes is President Andrew Jackson. I too admire Old Hickory, but I at least recognize the rough ways of the early 19th century are not to be reprised in the 21st century. What next, will the junior senator from Virginia being challenging those who arouse him to a duel? What century does Webb think he is living in? Believe me Senator Webb is going to be a vast source of amusement, and he will fit in nicely with the unpleasant pols whose political base is the Angry Left."

Making college more"affordable"?

David Frum argues that the Democrat plan won't.

Conclusion:

"Most industries deliver constantly-improving products at steadily declining real prices. Healthcare and higher education, the two great exceptions to this rule, are also the two most government-subsidized sectors in the U.S. economy.

More subsidy is not the solution to the problem. The subsidy is the problem."

To re-use P.J. O'Rourke's quip on health care: If you think higher education is expensive now, just wait until it's free.

More Dem election voting nonsense

They just don't give up, do they?

Noteworthy:

"They want a court to declare Ms. Jennings the winner by--get this--using statistical models to extrapolate that she would have received most of the undervotes."

Unbelievable!

What's next?

Do away with voting altogether, and determine the election winners by polling results?

They'd NEVER lose a race under those conditions, would they?

So the Dems want to "reform" Congress?

They're not off to a very good start, are they?

Key point:

"Yet even before the new session of Congress begins, the Democrats have repeatedly demonstrated that reform takes a back seat to the acquisition of power."

Meet the new Boss....Worse than the old Boss.

The implications of the "Living Wage" concept

Read this excellent post by Jay Reding.

Excerpt:

"At any given moment, any given employer can only spend so much for wages. That figure may vary over time, but a “living wage” means that employer has to make do with the same amount of money, but much higher costs. That means fewer jobs, and that means that employers are going to want to take as few risks as possible with the people that they do hire.

The “living wage” sounds good in principle, but the reality of the situation is that it would be devastating to the least fortunate among us"

John Edwards screws himself up AGAIN!

JLF's Jon Sanders has the details.

Noteworthy:

"The Barnes & Noble where Edwards will hawk his book pays $7 an hour to start. The Wal-Mart that sits just yards away pays $7.50 an hour. … Asked back in January what he thought would be an appropriate minimum wage, Edwards told The New York Times, 'My view is it should be $7.50 an hour, and I can make a great argument for it being a lot higher than that.'"


Keep it up, John Boy. You're doing just fine......

It's not enough that "progressives" use revisionist history

...to fulfill their insidious agenda, now they're using textbook material to promote revisionist constitutional law to get the job done.

The "Religon of Peace" at work

This is what happens to moderate Muslims who speak out in America.

Can you imagine what happens to moderate Muslims who speak out in the Muslim world?

Yet the Kissinger/Baker/Sowcroft "Realists" and the Lefties think we should engage in "dialog" with the Puppetmasters.

Will Muslims Turn Europe into Eurabia?

Ralph Peters says "No way!".

Excerpts:

"THE historical patterns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened - even when the threat's concocted nonsense - they don't just react, they over-react with stunning ferocity. One of their more-humane (and frequently employed) techniques has been ethnic cleansing."

"All the copy-cat predictions of a Muslim takeover of Europe not only ignore history and Europe's ineradicable viciousness, but do a serious disservice by exacerbating fear and hatred. And when it comes to hatred, trust me: The Europeans don't need our help."

Interesting.

The Tin Foil Hat nutcases are still convinced that "the Truth is out there"

.....and most of the nonsense comes from the Loony Toon Left brigade.

Here's an analysis.

Further debunking the "scientific consensus" on "global warming"

... nonsense that the True Believers are so desperate to defend.

From AEI's New American magazine.

Noteworthy:

"Of the 12 phenomena the UN Climate Panel identified, as of 2001, that could either warm or cool the climate, only one is considered well understood: that is the heat–trapping effect of the greenhouse gases (see chart, page 94). Two other climate influences are given a “medium” level of understanding by the panel, and the other nine factors are understood “poorly.” In fact, some of the potential cooling forces and climate feedback mechanisms that are poorly understood may be large enough to offset the warming influence of the greenhouse gases. For example, research published in the August 4, 2006, issue of Science found that human-caused emissions of aerosol particles may increase cloud cover by up to 5 percent and that clouds have a cooling effect that may neutralize the warming that is caused by human-induced greenhouse gases. If that is true, then natural variation could be the best explanation for surface warming.[iii]"


"Achieving major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the near term is more a fantasy than a meaningful climate policy."

We also know that anthropogenic carbon dioxide greenhouse gas contributions are infinitesimally small.

The reasons we hear all the babble, dribble, drool and spew about "scientific consensus" on "global warming" are several.

Among them are the facts that:

-- It fulfills a Sacred Cow "progressive" agenda item, which must be protected at ALL cost, and.....

-- It provides a lucrative living for many folks who could not survive it it were not for this particular agenda, and....

-- It has potential to help fulfill redistribution of wealth advocates' fantasies, and.....

-- It's a useful tool to be used politically by "progressives" to portray the "evils" of free market capitalism.

More insightful analysis on the Wray railroad

...over at Joe Guarino's blog.

Good point made by Wendell Sawyer:

"Obviously, Mitch Johnson and Linda Miles had a different opinion about David Wray. Why? What was the real motive that fueled Johnson in his quest to undermine the Chief of Police? Was it for the purported reasons that were published in the News & Record? Or, was there another motivation that was lurking beneath the surface?"

Our pals on the other side of this issue have fallen strangely silent on this issue. I wonder why?

What do you think?

Milton Friedman was right

"Corporate social responsibility" is bunk.

Eternal Political Truth:


"The origins of this transformation lie in the minds of people who do not like or appreciate the genius of capitalist success stories, including always politicians, who will generally make any argument in order to control more private wealth. Of course, the social responsibility of corporations is always tied to the proponents' own views of compassion or justice or avoidance of a cataclysm. But the logic of their own arguments requires that essentially private corporations be viewed as somehow "public" in nature."

"Our laws against extortion do not function effectively when it comes to corporations. And so to some extent these private entities have indeed, via the social responsibility notion, been converted into crypto-public enterprises that are the essence of socialism. Milton Friedman was right again."

Meanwhile, back in Iraq

Here is but one of the stories you will NOT read or see in the Lame Stream Media, or on "progressive" blogs.

Noteworthy:

"I had expected them to be sick of Iraq but I was wrong. The American people may want their troops home, but these and most other troops I meet want to stay to finish their mission. Pull out now and 'everything we’ve accomplished would be pointless', says Eric Miller, 33, a Baltimore engineer whose first child was born three months before he was deployed to Iraq. 'Everybody wants to be here. Everybody wants to complete this mission.'"

Except for the media, BDS sufferers, history revisionists, most Democrats, and the smart-ass ever arrogant know-it-all blog pundits on the internet nationally and locally.

The "Realists" want us out of Iraq

So does Iran.

What lesson can we learn from that?

The Dems' Election Strategy: Bait and Switch

The programs they campaigned on will NOT be the ones they try to implement in the next session of Congress.

Noteworthy:

"Much like this advertising scam, the 1992 and 2006 political campaigns had three things in common:

* They were hugely successful in garnering enough votes to assure victory
* They offered promises that weren't remotely meant to be kept
* Their pledges would be rescinded before those newly elected would take office.

Surprisingly, the Democrats of 2006 were faster in retracting their campaign promises than Clinton. He at least waited a few weeks to tell the seemingly stunned populace that 'suddenly' exploding budget deficits made tax cuts unfeasible, setting up the perfect ruse to raise them. By contrast, in 2006, the Democrats only waited nine days to betray their supporters."

Things that bloggers and journalists should be thankful for this Thanksgiving

....especially if you think the Bush Administration stifles free speech.

Noteworthy:

"Give thanks we live in America, land of the free, home of the brave, where the media's elite journalists can leak top-secret information with impunity, win Pulitzer Prizes, cash in on lucrative book deals, routinely insult their readership and viewership, broadcast enemy propaganda, turn a blind eye to the victims of jihad, and cast themselves as oppressed victims on six-figure salaries.

God bless the U.S.A."

From the "Free Speech for Me, But Not For Thee" Department

Here's yet another example of the Libthink double standard at its finest.

Excerpt:

"Instead of being a marketplace of ideas, some professors try to silence or even punish students whose beliefs do not conform to their personal worldview......"







Background info on the original complaint.

Noteworthy:

"When Kauffman reportedly 'engaged in leftist diatribes denigrating President Bush,' Brooker and several other students objected. She received an atypically bad grade which, after a year of effort, was successfully appealed."

Isn't it interesting how quickly the university caved when the lawsuit was filed?

Humans Cause "Global Warming"?

Not very likely, according to a new NCPA study.

Noteworthy:

"Are human activities, including the burning of fossil fuel, the primary or even significant cause of the current warming trend? The scientifically appropriate answer - cautious and conforming to the facts - is probably not......"



Cue the True Believer knee jerk responses.

Today's Media Moment

Today's N&R, pg C2, top right hand corner.

Emmitt Smith is pictured with his dance partner Cheryl Burke, and the trophies for their recent win on "Dancing with the Stars."

The caption starts with "Former NFL great Emmitt Smith....."

My question is this:

Did he stop being great because his NFL playing career is over?

Next question:

Who wrote the caption?

AP? Or a N&R staffer?

Picture of the Day

(link updated 7:45M PM)

Don't try this at home, folks.

I get a kick out of the self-appointed "experts" who never served a day, but claim to know "all about" the military experience, when the closest they ever come to combat is shaving every morning.

How many of them have done something like this for real, let alone for practice?

The Democrat Agenda Takes Shape

(from the Patriot Post U.S.)

" When Charles Schumer starts bragging about a permanent Democrat majority, you know trouble is brewing. Leaders of the Democrat caucus are setting up shop for investigations into pretty much everything the Bush administration has championed, including tax cuts, the Iraq war and a rational energy policy. We can also expect early bills to include a minimum-wage increase and an end to tax incentives for oil companies.

Sen. Hillary Clinton told reporters, “Health care is coming back.” If her plans for health-care reform include implementation of the draconian system of socialized medicine that she tried to enact when she was co-president in 1993, then she would be more accurate to say that health care is going away.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, who will chair the Environment and Public Works Committee, plans to hold hearings on global warming. She is calling for stricter controls on carbon emissions, using California’s recent restrictions as a model for national regulation. Sen. Schumer vowed that there would not be another Samuel Alito, indicating that President Bush’s remaking of the courts with constitutional constructionists is over.

Democrats are expected to proceed cautiously on immigration reform, if at all. This issue, which does not break neatly along partisan lines, hurt the electoral prospects of Republicans on both sides of the fence (as it were). However, if Democrats support a softer program that includes temporary worker status for illegals, they would be tacitly endorsing President Bush’s stand on the issue. That could translate into a political victory for the president, which is surely not on the liberal agenda."

The Lefty Economic Game Plan

Extortion of Corporate America.

Noteworthy:

"Manheim goes through painstaking detail to illustrate the Progressive-Left’s plan of capturing the money, power and influence of corporations. The plan involves painting Big Business and capitalism as an enemy of the public. Once vilified, the next stage is for the CSR advocates to offer corporations the one and only redemption: buy credibility through the implementation of CSR programs that redeem the corporate evil-doers by promoting the CSR advocates’ preferred social goals."

" For the CSR advocates, they now have a Congress with a friendly ear toward implementing regulations with the stated purpose of controlling capitalism to ensure that it “works for the benefit of all people”. The legislators are consequently all too happy to codify the behaviors and activities the CSR advocates have been “persuading” companies to implement for years. For the Democratic Congress, the CSR advocates, and especially the corporations that have been brow-beaten into advocating the CSR policies, provide important political cover for increasing the regulatory burdens on industry."

Far fetched? Hardly.

If you don't believe this could take place, watch and learn.

The rest of us will be active to ensure this insidious outrage never comes to fruition for the "progressives".

Regarding the ongoing attempt to re-establish the Caliphate

....which you never seem to read much about or hear much about from those who profess a certain brand of political/social/economic world view, it's time we started paying better attention to the seriousness of the problem.

The bottom line:

"For if the West decides to fight this war, rather than accept Islamic domination as the price of peace (an open question), the bombing and killing are going to be on a scale that makes the current war on terror look like a preliminary skirmish."

Despite what the "progressives" would have you believe...

.....most of us knew that this was true.

On Propagating the Global Warming agenda

Sometimes it's not what they say, it's what they don't say.

Excerpt:

"Not once does Reuters acknowledge the dire predictions made last year by global-warming advocates about the radical effect of incremental fluctuations in temperature on weather, even though that hypothesis got wide dissemination after the hurricanes last year.

There's a lot of hot air, to be sure ... but it isn't coming from the Atlantic, and it disappears conveniently."

Edwards probably figured he could get away with this

Unfortunately for him, Wal Mart got wind of it.

Does anyone really believe the unnamed staffer took it upon his/herself to do this, unaware of the senator's class warfare nonsense about Wal Mart?

Joke of the Day

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place."

So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is admitted.

Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and, as is the wont for engineers, starts designing and building improvements.

After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and asks, "So how's it going down there in hell?"

Satan replies, "Hey things are going great. We've got air conditioning, flushing toilets and working escalators, and there's no telling what an engineer is going to come up with next."

God replies, "You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."

Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."

God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah right. And where are you going to get a lawyer?"

Rest well, Professor Friedman

You will indeed be missed.

Noteworthy:

"There are still plenty of devotees of the old, top-down, socialist-state model (Hillary Clinton, eg), but they no longer even pretend that what they do is economics - they couch all their prescriptions these days in terms of pure morality...a weird attempt by socialists to conscript Judeo-Christian ethics in support of socialized medicine and welfare. In the end, we can also thank Mr. Friedman for this: for forcing the socialists to fight on our battlefield, and thus in a place where we are bound to win."

Rudy's the man!

Along with McCain, he's got to be considered a frontrunner.

Excerpt:

"But when selecting a President, Americans tend to vote on the basis of who they think will be the most effective leader. This tendency will be amplified in the next presidential election, when the nation will choose President Bush's successor as commander-in-chief in the War on Terror. That's why, even though a Giuliani victory may be difficult, it's far from impossible."

And THAT is the reason ANY of the potential Democrat nominees would face an uphill battle. (Hillary's triangulation skills don't qualify her as a "leader".)



Not to completely rule out Romney, Huckabee, or several other folks, but McCain vs Giuliani is going to be the contest for the GOP nomination.

All this is subject to change however, if the "Draft Condi Rice" movement gets its wish.

Election aftermath joke

A woman married three times walked into a bridal shop one day and told the sales clerk that she was looking for a wedding gown for her fourth wedding. Of course, madam," replied the sales clerk, "exactly what type and color dress are you looking for?"


The bride to be said: "A long frilly white dress with a veil." The sales clerk hesitated a bit, then said, "Please don't take this the wrong way, but gowns of that nature are considered more appropriate for brides who are being married the first time - for those who are a bit more innocent, if you know what I mean? Perhaps ivory or sky blue would be nice?"


"Well," replied the customer, a little peeved at the clerk's directness, "I can assure you that a white gown would be quite appropriate. Believe it or not, despite all my marriages, I remain as innocent as any first-time bride. You see, my first husband was so excited about our wedding, he died as we were checking into our hotel.


My second husband and I got into such a terrible fight in the Limo on our way to our honeymoon that we had that wedding annulled immediately and never spoke to each other again."


"What about your third husband?" asked the sales clerk.


"That one was a Democrat," said the woman, "and every night for four years, he just sat on the edge of the bed and told me how good it was going to be."

TheLaw of Unintended Consequences: Foreign policy department

The "progessives" and the "realists" play both sides against the middle.

Noteworthy:

"Why then do so many progressives then celebrate the return of realism? The reasons are multifold. First, having allowed personal animosities to dominate their ideology, they embrace change, regardless of how it impacts stated principles. Hatred of Mr. Rumsfeld became a principle in itself. Likewise, the same progressives who disparage John Bolton seldom explain why they feel forcing the U.N. to account for its inefficiencies or stick to its founding principles is bad. They complain not of his performance, but rather of his pedigree."

It's time to keep a close watch on this. Any further nonsense along these lines must be nipped in the bud.

Cartoon of the Day

It's starting already

These folks obviously didn't get the memo, did they?

Excerpt:

"Some of the very activists who helped propel the Democrats to a majority in the House and Senate last week are claiming credit for the victories and demanding what they consider their due: a set of ambitious — and politically provocative — actions on gun control, abortion, national security and other issues that party leaders fear could alienate moderate voters and leave Democrats vulnerable to GOP attacks as big spenders or soft on terrorism."

Here's a hint, Loony Tooners: NONE of those issues were things that resonated as important agenda items among those who voted the Democrats back into control of Congress.

But what the heck-- go for it!

It's will only hasten the quick return of the voting public to there senses for the 08 election.

Hey Stew!

How would this strike you as an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences at work?

Excerpt:

"If he switches parties, he delivers control of the Senate to the GOP for the next two years, and makes Dick Cheney a very busy man. It forces the Democrats to carefully consider Lieberman when determining policy, especially on the war. It might force the Democrats to escalate efforts to get a Republican to cross the aisle, which would neutralize Lieberman."

Joe Lieberman is going to be a VERY important man when the new senate reconvenes in January.

The Dems' Alternate Reality is starting to kick in

Here's a hint for them: There was no mandate in the Senate vote totals.

Excerpt:

"What Edkow is doing, and I don't know if its intentional or not on his part, is mythmaking for the Democrat's Alternate Universe. This is a Universe in which Bill Clinton balanced the budget, Bill Clinton was impeached over oral sex, North Korea's nuclear program was halted by Jimmy Carter, Al Gore won Florida, terrorism was under control, there was about to be peace between Israel and Palestine, Saddam wasn't working on WMD's or sponsoring terrorism, bin Laden was allowed to escape, Blackwell and Diebold stole Ohio in 2004... "

It's gonna be a FUN two years......

A tale of two oaths: A story for Veterans Day

......from The Patriot Post (PatriotPost.US)

"It is no small irony that Election Day and Veterans Day fall in the same week.

Veterans and elected officials all have one thing in common: Upon entering service, both took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”

On 1 June 1789, the first law enacted by Congress was statute 1, chapter 1: an act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths. It established the oath that all civilian and military officials take before entering into the service of our nation. Our Founders understood that the security of the Republic depended on leaders who would honor and uphold constitutional rule of law, lest the Republic would dissolve into a democratic state ruled by men.

Notably, the oath mandates the support and defense of our Constitution, a document revered not only for its timeless precepts, but for its crisp and clear language. The oath refers to our Constitution precisely as it was ratified, not the so called “living constitution” rewritten by judicial activists, who populate what Thomas Jefferson predicted would become “the despotic branch”.

Veterans support and defend our Constitution with their lives, while most elected officials debase it with all manner of extra-constitutional empowerment of the central government, and forced income redistribution to benefit the constituency groups which re-elect them. That is to say, while veterans have nobly honored their oath, most elected officials have disgracefully violated the same.

In recent months, we have been swamped with ugly politics. This week, we saw the whirlwind that an ostensibly conservative political party reaps when it abandons its oath of office and platform. If Republicans thought they could retain majorities in the legislative branch by offering themselves as the lesser of two evils, they were sorely, grossly, terribly mistaken. They overestimated conservative tolerance for those who desert their oaths.



By contrast this Veterans Day, consider the story of one American who never violated his oath. That American is my friend and Patriot mentor, Col. Roger Ingvalson.

Roger was born in Austin, Minnesota, in the era between the World Wars. He was an all-American kid, attending local schools and then the University of Minnesota. He joined the Air Force in 1950 and earned his wings in 1953. He married Jacqueline in 1959, and they had one son. He spent the next nine years as an operations officer for fighter squadrons around the world.

In 1968, Roger was flying the F-105D with the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron out of Korat Royal Air Force Base, Thailand. The air war over Vietnam was in its third year, and the pilot casualty list included Roger’s wingman and best friend, Wayne Fullam, who was shot down in late 1967.

On 28 May, Roger took off on his 87th combat sortie, leading a mission to destroy a bridge in North Vietnam. (Roger notes lightheartedly today that it is very important to keep the number of mission takeoffs and landings equal.) With 1600 hours in the F-105, he was confident that this mission would be a success. As he pulled off the target, an air controller requested that he hit an enemy truck convoy nearby.

Roger’s tactical preference was for high speed and low altitude engagement in order to assure accuracy. At about 0900, he located the convoy of Soviet-built trucks near Dong Hoi and rolled in at more than 500 knots. At 50 feet above the hard deck, he fired a long 20mm burst into the convoy.

Moments later, Roger recalls, “I heard and felt an explosion and my cockpit immediately filled with smoke. I hit the afterburner to gain valuable altitude, then pulled the canopy ejection handle to get rid of the smoke. I rocketed up to about 600 feet before my aircraft went into an uncontrollable roll. I pulled the ejection seat handle and squeezed the trigger. As I was catapulted out of the burning aircraft, the wind blast knocked me out, and I didn’t regain consciousness until just prior to landing on a dried out rice paddy.”

Give John Kerry the brilliant rebuttal he deserves with this bumper sticker memo from ’Irak!’

As he hit the ground, Roger’s first reaction was to feel for broken bones. “With 15 years of fighter-aircraft experience, I was fully aware of the fact that there is very little chance of survival during an emergency ejection at high speed and low altitude, without a multitude of injuries. To my amazement, I had no broken bones or other injuries.”

Roger had regularly attended church for 40 years, but he says his relationship with his Savior really began when he realized he had survived the ejection. He prayed and gave thanks as his would-be Communist captors were running toward him.

For the next 1,742 days, Roger endured torture, starvation, desolation, disease and one stretch of 20 months in strict solitary confinement.

Three years into his horrendous internment, Jane Fonda showed up in Hanoi to collaborate with Roger’s captors. She starred in a propaganda film purporting that American POWs were being treated humanely. Roger and other POWs were shown that film repeatedly in an effort to further break their spirit. Hanoi Jane even posed for photographs on an NVA anti-aircraft gun near his prison. She boasted of the civil unrest being fomented back home by leftists like her friend John Kerry who “aided and abetted the enemy” by accusing American service personnel in Vietnam of all manner of atrocities.

Roger received devastating news in late 1971, when he was told by his captors that his wife, Jackie, had died months earlier from complications related to multiple sclerosis. Roger recalls, “During the three years since capture, I had continually dreamed of her in a crippled condition. Then the night after receiving the tragic news, I had another dream of my dear wife—this time she was in perfect health, just like the day we were married. She had gained the victory from suffering and sin; whereas, I gained the peace of knowing that she was in heaven.” (His 13-year old son was taken in by Jackie’s parents.)

On 14 March 1973, after nearly five years of brutal incarceration, Roger and his fellow POWs, including future Senator John McCain, departed for Clark Air Base in the Philippines. There, for the first time in half a decade, he was given medical aid, wholesome food and clean clothes. “The Lord sustained me through 1,742 days of tragedy; nevertheless, I count my blessings. I was set free by the North Vietnamese Communists but had already been fully liberated by Jesus Christ.”

Col. Roger Ingvalson retired from the Air Force a couple of years after his release. His decorations included the Silver Star, a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit, the DFC with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters, and the POW Medal.

However, the most remarkable chapter in this Vietnam Vet’s story was yet to be written.

Upon his return to the United States, Roger married the widow of Wayne Fullam, his wingman and best friend, and they raised their combined family of four sons together. After returning to his wife’s hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Roger spent the rest of his career in prison ministry.

To Roger, and all our fellow Patriots who have served their nation with courage and great sacrifice, we offer our heartfelt gratitude. You have honored your oath to “support and defend,” as do those on the frontline in Iraq today. You have kept the flame of liberty, lit by our Founders, burning bright for future generations.

In 1918, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marked the cessation of World War I hostilities. That date is now designated in honor of our veterans, and a focal point for national observance is the placing of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

Let us never, ever forget."

Indeed, we shall not.

Image of the Day

Don't be like John Kerry.


HONOR my American brothers and sisters in arms, our veterans, by THANKING us for our service every chance you get

What's missing in the aftermath of the election?

The over wrought wailing and moaning of "Stolen Election!" by the folks who were on the short end of the results.

Excerpt:


"I don’t hear those liberals who complained so much about the evil Bush-manipulated machines prior to the election questioning the integrity of the vote now that so many of those machines recorded Democrat wins, so I guess Democrats are having to change their 'to do' lists as well."


"Other items on (Bob) Owens’ list of things he would not be doing were 'staying in bed with massive depression,' 'creating a new election-based psychological malady,' and 'checking out immigration laws to other countries.'

Don't worry.....the complaints and the psychoses are sure to resurface in two years among those who suffered it previously.

Who posted the most recent leak of the RMA report to the internet?

We know that the copy that was used for this most recent leak, published at Greensboro 101, came from Diane Bellamy-Small, but we do not know who actually posted it.

Could the copy have come from the original leak to the N&R, and have been posted by someone associated with the N&R?

I think the investigation into BOTH leaks is FAR from over.

Newt Gingrich talks about today's election

"Campaign '06 is down to its final hours. And already there are signs that we may not know the results of some of the most hotly contested races until Wednesday or even later.

In some cases, the races are just that close. But in any case, liberal activist groups are planning on challenging in court the election results they don't like.

Liberal Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is seemingly already laying the groundwork for challenging an outcome she does not favor. She told the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday that "the only variable in this" is "will we have an honest count?"

Yet at the same time, in states such as Indiana, Missouri, Georgia and Ohio that have passed laws requiring photo identification to vote, liberal interest groups have challenged these laws in the courts. In some places such as Missouri, they've been successful in getting the courts to reverse the expressed desire of citizens to require photo identification, even while newspapers are full of stories of voter fraud on the part of other liberal activist groups. Does that sound honest to you?

Liberal groups are also setting the stage to discredit elections that conservatives win by challenging the accuracy of voting equipment itself.

This cannot be allowed to happen. We've seen how liberals have succeeded in short-circuiting our democracy by turning to the courts to overturn laws they don't like. We cannot allow the same thing to happen to our elections. Win or lose on Tuesday, Americans should keep in mind that the integrity of the process itself is more important than the outcome of any individual race.

I know you take voting seriously, but I want you to convince your friends to take it seriously, too. Make sure they get to the polls tomorrow. Our country depends upon it."

No question about the last sentence.

The only question left to ask is "Have the Dems fooled enough people to win?"

Quote of the Day

"America has the best-trained, most professional, most
well-educated military in the world. But the moonbats want
only to hear the myths of the soldier-as-victim or the
soldier-as-brutalizer or soldier-as-indentured servant. This
is no isolated case of Democrat incompetence and insensitivity
toward the military.

Kerry's party is the party of Dick Durbin,
who likened American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to
Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot. Kerry's
party is the party of Patty Murray, who praised Osama bin Laden's
charity work with nary a nod to our men and women in uniform who
have sailed and flown to the most far-flung regions of the world
on reconstruction and humanitarian missions. Kerry's party is the
party that approved of him tarring American troops as terrorizers
in Iraq last year. And Kerry's party is the party whose national
party website couldn't even find an American soldier to illustrate
a page dedicated to 'Veterans and Military Families.'

Until a military reader of my blog called attention to it, the DNC site
erroneously featured a photo of a Canadian soldier named 'Abdul'
in its attempt to show support for American troops. Can you trust
a party with such entrenched disdain and contempt for the military
to use that power well and wisely at a time of war? America made a
choice in 2004. Two years later, the Democrats have said and done
nothing to earn the nation's endorsement now."

 ---Michelle Malkin

Remember that as you go to your voting place tomorrow.

(from the Patriot Post USA)

Vanity Fair is sooooo busted!

Their press release last Friday regarding their article describing how some important conservative backers of the Administration have regrets about the Iraqi War is absolutely bogus.

Excerpt:

"Rose has earned a reputation as a truth teller. The same unfortunately cannot be said for the editors and publicists at Vanity Fair. They have repackaged truths that a war-fighting country needs to hear into lies intended to achieve a shabby partisan purpose."

It's just another Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair editor) hit job on George Bush and his administration. The press release was published just days before the election to have maximum damage on Republican chances in Tuesday's election.

It's not the first time, and I doubt it will be the last time, assuming his ass doesn't get canned over this sham he passed off as non-fiction.

It's a shameless slimeball attempt to influence the election.

Make your plans to celebrate this holiday now!

I have not seen this elsewhere in the local blogosphere

......... so it deserves to be published here on Noteworthy.

According to some people, I'm just like Dick Cheney

Here's what Charming Charlie Rangel said about the Vice President, because he told the truth.

"He's such a real son of a b****, he just enjoys a confrontation.""

Just like me! (according to some people)

I need to work on my Darth Vader impression if I hope to truly emulate the VP.

Hmm.....would that mean Ed Cone gets to be Luke Skywalker?

Nah, that role clearly needs to go to Joe Killian.

Only problem from them is that they show no signs of having anything but the Lefty Force with them, something that's actually much closer to the Dark Side of the Force than anything I could come up with.

NYT pulls a November surprise. This one has backfired on them.

Saddam had a nuke program which was getting close to going operational.

(hat tip: Fred Gregory, motivation: Lex Alexander. Thanks, guys!)

Excerpt:

" The anti-war crowd is going to have to argue that the information wasn't dangerous in the hands of Saddam but was dangerous on the internet. It doesn't work. It can't be both no threat to America and yet also a threat to America once it's in the hands of Iran. Game, set and match. "

Glenn at Instapundit says:

"Judging from some of the delighted emails I'm getting, I need to warn people not to get too carried away -- this doesn't say that Saddam would have had a bomb in 2004. But it does say that he had all the knowledge needed to have a bomb in short order. And as we know he was looking to reconstitute his program once sanctions were ended -- and that sanctions were breaking down in 2003 -- that's pretty significant. However, perhaps even more significant, given that we knew most of the above already, is that the NYT apparently regards the documents that bloggers have been translating for months as reliable, which means that reports of Iraqi intelligence's relations with Osama bin Laden, and "friendly" Western press agencies, are presumably also reliable."

VDH re Iraq: "The assumptions of a forgetful chattering class are badly off the mark."

The revisionsits are wrong.

The truth:


"No, nothing has changed about Iraq other than its tragic tab. Changes of view are fine, as long as those who now criticize the effort at least acknowledge the climate in which fighting in Iraq was born, and the real conditions under which they themselves once supported the war — and lost heart."

Elections have consequences, pt 2

Are you one of the conservatives who want to "send a message" to Republicans by not voting for them next Tuesday, or even worse, voting for a democrat in your house district race?

Think hard. Think VERY hard about the reality of a Demmy takeover of the Congress.

Excerpt:

Make no mistake, the liberal Democrats whose ascendancy seems imminent, led by Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, have plans for you. Oh, they’re not plans proclaimed loudly from mountaintops because this might give the peons second thoughts. Nor are they plans whose design will serve us. But here are some other things to expect if liberals take the helm.

1. The border fence will never be built. Remember that it still has to be funded (there’s some question as to whether it will be funded anyway), and San Francisco Pelosi and her ilk will never let that happen.

2. Expect an effort to repeal the partial-birth abortion ban, the law that prohibits what is nothing less than infanticide.

3. There will be efforts to raise taxes and institute wasteful, inane programs and politically correct policies.

4. We will be subjected to an endless barrage of witch hunts, investigations of the Bush administration animated by vindictiveness and designed to cripple traditionalist initiatives.

5. There will probably be an effort to resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine,” a mislabeled piece of regulation that would force talk radio to give liberals equal time. However, it would target only conservative dominated talk radio, while ignoring the left’s hegemony in the more influential mainstream media.

This is just a sampling of the socialist agenda elements that will be pushed by the liberal Democrats, should they seize control of the houses."

The implications are far worse than you think.

It will literally take MANY YEARS to undo the damage caused by just two years of a Democrat congress.

Slandering the troops: Business as usual

And this clown wants to run for President again?

Direct quote:

"You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq."

Unbelievable!

(hat tip:Blogs for Bush)

Update:

Here's the video.

And if the Dems' "Get Out the Vote" campaign isn't enough

.....they have a fall-back plan that involves Hugo Chavez, one of their heroes.

However, rest assured that the Republicans will get the blame if both plans fail.

Regarding the Dems' "Get Out The Vote" campaign

The strategy used in this story is sure to be used by Dems across the entire country in two weeks.

Webb's in trouble in his VA Senate race

This type of indicator is usually right.

The money is going to the GOP position.

When will this outrage stop?

The latest in the farcial Duke Rape Case.

Maybe Nifong ought to get the N&R's crack investigative staff involved so that he can label the three lacrosse players racists.

A lively discussion is then bound to occur at Ed Cone's blog about what the players' punishment should be if they're guilty as charged. And I'll be accused of coming to the discussion with my mind already made up.

The Lefty Bloggers were all up in arms

....over the supposed censorship of the Ditzy Tricks' new movie, "Shut Up and Sing", telling the tale of their awful oppression they went through in violation of their Right to Be Obnoxious (disguised as a free speech issue).

Now it turns out the Lefty blogger buddies were played like a fiddle.

(hat tip: Sister Toldjah)

Look at the nonsense Lex's favorite Sock Puppet spewed:

Glenn Greenwald: "The networks are still a very powerful public opinion instrument, and allowing them to become political propaganda venues — where messages that 'disparage' the Leader are prohibited while all sorts of pro-Leader messages are allowed — has the potential to be quite harmful. We seem to be well on our way to that result."


Gaius concludes:

Every single one of you just got played. You got suckered by what you wanted to hear coming from somebody you thought was a hero (or from the corporation representing them). They took you in and used you to give them free publicity.

Why are some people trying to keep the "Blame Wray" meme alive?

......when the focus on the case has clearly shifted AWAY from that, to the actual internal politics at GPD?

Why are there no comments on "progressive" blogs regarding the information in the latest chapter of the Bledsoe serialization whiich indicates the possibility of conspiracy and obstruction of justice at city hall and among elected officials?

Why is there no discussion at these "progressive" blogs about the "press conference" by those who would wish to portry Hinson as a "victim", and to keep the race card nonsense stoked to a fever pitch?

Why?