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Colin Powell's Disgrace

August 31, 2011

In former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, titled 'In My Time', Cheney accurately stated that Richard Armitage of the State Deparment was the person who originally leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to reporter Bob Novak. Novak subsequently published that information, outing Plame's identity. Armitage's boss at the time was Secretary Of State, [...]

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Justice Dept. Running Guns To Drug Cartels

July 6, 2011

One of the duties of the Bureau Of Alcohol Tobacco And Firearms (BATF, or ATF) is to stop the use of illegal firearms. The ATF's own mission statesment states the following: We are ATF. A unique law enforcement agency in the United States Department of Justice that protects our communities from violent criminals, criminal organizations, [...]

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Views Askew

October 26, 2010

View Clueless – During a discussion of the Juan Williams firing by NPR, one of the ladies on The View, Joy Behar, defended NPR by saying NPR has been "vetted by objective Media Matters types." I kid you not. Behar's statement is equivalent to saying "liberals agree that liberals are objective." Media Matters is lots [...]

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Vandalism, Threats, And Exploitation

March 26, 2010

I don't really want to write about this subject, but the media has been obsessed with it for days, so I guess I should. If you have been near a tv news program, you already know there has been some ugly language directed toward members of Congress, there have been a few instances of vandalism [...]

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A Few Things That Just Aren't True

August 31, 2009

1. Japanese officials were executed for waterboarding prisoners during World War II. Wrong. Japanese officials were executed primarily for mass murder and for waging war against other countries. Torture was among the charges, and among the numerous torture charges was Japanese water torture (aka, water cure), not waterboarding. The two are not the same thing. [...]

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Terrorists, Vigilantes, Extremists

June 4, 2009

Osama Bin Laden, the world's leading terrorist (or "freedom fighter," as Michael Moore would call him), has released a new tape, saying President Obama is sowing "new seeds of hatred and revenge against America." Apparently, Bin Laden's Dish Network package doesn't include MSNBC, or Bin Laden would know that everything changed the day Obama took [...]

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Obama Admin Admits Entitlement Crisis

May 14, 2009

In my last post, I touched on the problem of our huge unfunded entitlement liabilities, primarily Social Security and Medicare. Yesterday, the Obama administration admitted the problem exists. Yippee ! This may not seem like such a big step forward, but it is. Remember, for years the Democrats in Congress denied there was any problem [...]

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Hating Hate Crime Legislation

May 8, 2009

"Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid." – P. J. O'Rourke I don't know about the last sentence in the above quote, but the first sentence sounds right. To illustrate [...]

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Leahy's Truth Squad

February 11, 2009

Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) wants to launch an investigation into all the Bush administration's unseemly activities, such as – firing 8 U.S. attorneys, wiretapping without warrants, and misleading the public about those weapons of mass destruction. Leahy would call his investigation a "Truth Commission." Leahy said "a person or group" of "fair-minded" individuals could be [...]

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Bugging Blagojevich

December 11, 2008

"All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure" – Mark Twain Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has over 300 hours of tape of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, obtained by bugging the Governor's campaign offices and home phone. Fitzgerald refers to Blago's actions as a "political corruption crime spree", and arrested him. Blago is [...]

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Obama On The Right To Bear Arms

April 4, 2008

Barack Obama supports a citizen's right to bear arms, as stated in the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Sort of. Sometimes. Except when he doesn't, which is usually. Got it ? Me neither. I'll try to sort it out. On the campaign trail in rural Iowa in 2007, Obama said the following: (link) "I respect [...]

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The Emperor's Club

March 12, 2008

The Emperor's Club…is that the 796 Democratic superdelegates who are poised to trump the will of the people at their whim during the Democratic primaries ? Or is that the Democratic National Committee, who disenfranchised voters in two entire states during the Democratic primaries ? Naw, it isn't a group of politicians at all. It's [...]

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