tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38899832011-04-21T14:05:02.279-07:00Ronald Reagan left office, the Berlin wall fell.<br> <br> Bill Clinton left office, the WTC fell.<br> <br> Our duty is to hold our leaders accountable, history surely will. Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916470445968179556noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889983.post-1099451536895555762004-11-02T19:08:00.000-08:002004-11-02T19:12:16.896-08:00

No Frost this Session Martin Frost is about to concede his campaign against Pete Sessions. Oh happy day, oh happy day. I am sure he could move to New England and have a fruitful career in politics....but no more in Texas.

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Live Blog Bush's Dallas Campaign Stop Listening on WBAP radio who is carrying it live, 9000 tickets which were given away before the event was publicly announced. Loud crowd, chanting 4 more years... Laura doing intro after having been intro'ed by unknown male voice. Laura, just listening to her Texas drawl is refreshing. Short intro, about 2 minutes. Bush mentions 2000, his

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Winning Hearts and Minds Again more good news from Iraq. Again this is from J. Robbins article at National Review Online, I could have Just linked his article and highlighted these two links, but I want these news items to be as prominent as possible, even though Robbins column is well worth reading.

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Marines and Iraqis Rebuild Iraq Good news from Iraq, this contractor finished his project $10k under budget, and he returned the overage. Hattip J. Robbins of NRO.COM

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A Plague of Lawyers Oh for the days of locusts. Here is a site tracking the sun blocking cloud of Lawyers hovering over polling stations across our land.

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Gen. Tommy Franks I have had a high level of admiration for Tommy Franks since I have become aware of him. He has been on the radio a lot as of late, serving two roles. One being the promotion of his book "American Soldier". The other being his promotion of George W. Bush for a second term in office. Today he appeared for two segments on "The Tony Snow Show", and was his usually persuasive

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Tim Cavanaugh Spanks Liberal Hawks Tim Cavanaugh writes about the ephemeral nature of liberal Hawkishness and possible causes. While I disagree with his position on the war, I totally agree with his assessment of this lot, and he has described something that I have been trying to put half as cogently in drafts for over a week.

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Redskins Predict Election As diligent blog readers may now know, a trend has emerged which shows that if the Redskins lose, the party in the oval office lose it. The the Redskins lost. It is how they lost that strikes me as very telling. It is my belief that this election will be decided by Democrat perfidy. They know they cant win honestly, they are going to steal this election thru illegal

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1 reason to vote Bush One photo that says it all regarding why Bush deserves another term in office.

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Photo Blog of 50 Reasons to Vote Bush Photos showing why we need Bush to finish the job. Link via Instapundit.

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Osama Tape The Osama Bin Laden tape is a little different than the edited version shown on Al Jazeera. apparently, Osama is a little miffed that our troops are hunting him and his cronies down so persistently. Also a reference to the CIA/FBI having raised thier threat level. So at least someone is perking up, even if it isn't Tom Ridge of at the Homeland Security offices.

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Terror Threat Level Unchanged The Drudge Report indicates that the threat level is unchanged. This seems odd to me. There has been talk since the Spain train bombings anticipating a pre-election day attack in America. Should not the threat level change just because the election is almost here? Tack on the hour long video release of Azzam the American, and OBL himself, looking tanned rested and

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Hello Fallujah Interesting story about a Marine Artillery group, our high tech weapons and the anti-Iraq forces counter-tactics. ( I love the phrase anti-Iraq force instead of Insurgents.)

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A letter to Andrew M. Sullivan I rarely read your site anymore, as I find it either gravely ignorant, or purposely disingenuous, I cannot read your mind so I cannot make a definitive judgment. Either way, you are not someone I care to read. I have however read your criticism replying to Lileks criticism and then the later post asking Bush supporters to tell you why Kerry would not fight

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email schmeemail format change (review early archive versions) deleted the email access.... email me at jkmack at comcast.net

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Blah Ever feel particularly sarcastic, in general, with a nice helping of self-loathing on top, due to participating in an activity so cliched that you considered anyone who actively engaged in such an activity to be a dweeb, geek, or otherwise negative stereotype, and now have to admit that you are a full fledged citizen of dweebville or geekdom? Yea, I hate when that happens.

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I see dead Iraqis The display of Saddam's dead offspring seems to be garnering some negative press, shocking as that might sound. Arabs seem to find it beneath the U.S. of A. to display the corpses. I will take these reports a bit more seriously when the film of the muslim Somalis playing soccor with US soldier's heads stops running thru my mind. Or maybe after the clips

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Tom Delay aka The Hammer I have been a fan of Tom Delay since the early 90's when I first became aware of him as a Congressman from Texas. This speech only reinforces my feelings about him. via little green footballs

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Hi blogger, you suck. I think it says something for one's brand that in the few short years your brand has been in existence, it has become synonomous with suck. Beyond that it has become cliche, bourgoisie, it is like joining AOL in '98, Like buying tech stocks in April of 2000, like downloading netscape in 1999... Bah, that is not really how it is, its more like going to

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Dell Well, I spent the weekend helping a buddy install some machines into a Dell facility in Round Rock. I have been to Dell facilities before, installing machines, but it never ceases to fascinate me. I have been to manufacturing/assembly plants in Mexico and they just dont compare. What Dell is, as a company, is beautiful to behold. It is a company that is fanatical about

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The Passion Mel Gibson's picture The Passion has a trailer up on www.aintitcool.com, it is even linked from a Rod Dreher post on The Corner on www.nationalreviewonline.com. the problem being that this is a low overhead operation, and the philipino slave boys have exited the premises for the weekend, so hunt it up yourselves. But hear me well, this movie will be a hit on the level of The

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The Fourth Estate The Press in America is often referred to as the Fourth Estate; I have always assumed that this was in reference to the three branches of government which make up the U.S. Constitutional Government with all of its checks and balances, a free press being a crucial 4th branch. I think this concept is quite interesting because it implies the ability to set the parameters from a

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Happy Birthday America Two Hundred Twenty Seven years young! Here is to another Two Hundred and Twenty Seven years more. I love America, as only someone who has been to other countries can. What we have in America is very very special, and very very precious. I hope and pray and work toward preserving what we have, and leaving it intact for future generations to treasure and pass along.

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Defining Reality A bit of 'stream of conciousness' here, so bear with me. I was reading Glenn Reynolds TCS column and got hoodwinked into checking out Permutation City. Which led me to cogitating about subjective and objective reality. Which in and of itself is pretty interesting, as I believe that subjective reality and objective reality are pretty diverse realms. The point

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Why is James Lileks better than Andrew Sullivan? The short answer is here. The long answer would fill volumes and bore you to sleep. But suffice it to say, certain choices we make in life, contribute to the advancement and sustenance of ourselves and our race. Other choices do not. Some negative choices deserve to be outlawed due to the negative effects those choices have on

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Gravitas Big daddy G vs jackass inc.

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Lileks All David Spade schtick aside, the guy is gold, go read him.

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Reloaded Went to see the latest edition of the Matrix. Its well worth it, as long as your not seeking ultimate enlightenment. Its a fricken movie. And its a pretty darn fricken good movie. But it is a sequel, and it is a lead in to another sequel, so while the story moves, you dont get catharsis, not even like you got from the first one. But hell, anticipation is at least half the fun, no

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Democrats.... The Texas legislators, holed up in their Ardmore, Oklahoma hideout have garnered quite the media blitz, how special. Now the leftists are crying because duly authorized law enforcement agencies are tracking them down. God forbid that we try to enforce laws against Democrats.... that is fascist, Democracy is dead! Oh the humanity! This tiresome charade the

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mullah amir al-non-sequiter I like Lileks better as Stein. Sue me.

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Woot! Clinton Bashing I am convinced that unless the Democrats sieze power and maintain a dictatorship for several hundred years, history will record Clinton as the worst president of the 20th century. Not because I disagree with his policies, but because his administration of the country and his execution were so inept and mis-guided. In 2000, his policies and the execution of

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Containment Policy Eason Jordans op ed piece in the NYT describes CNN's containment policy, bottling up stories that would reveal the depravity and cruelty of the Hussien regime, for the stated purpose of protecting the Iraqi CNN employees. He follows that op ed up with a nifty little letter explaining why all the critics of his policy are so wrong. He even garners some understanding

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For the Children We daily see the destruction in Iraq. We are sure to see the images of civilians injured and killed. And we are guaranteed to be shown the images of children, maimed, burned or killed. The point is driven into our hearts and twisted with questions, is this what America is about? This is exactly what America is about. We are freeing a nation from a sick and

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Format Changes This blog has been more of a journal and/or vanity page than anything else. I have had musings, ideas, and revelations that I felt were prescient (no bias of course) and cursed myself for not documenting them. All pretty standard fare. But most of my commenting and, for lack of a better term, copy production happens in comment threads or emails to other sites. So I

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Please Ignore that little man behind the curtain. Please ignore that large army on the outskirts of town. I was daydreaming a Saturday Night Live sketch today. It involved having an actor playing the Iraqi Information Minister and giving his daily statement about the war, in which he would declare that the Iraqi army was defeating the infidels, blah blah blah. Then he would go

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Americans and Canadians As an American, Texan, and conservative I was disappointed by Canada's stance regarding America's removal of Saddam. But being a resident of the Dallas area, I am friends with a number of Canadians who have moved down here due to being Canadian educated nurses recruited to work in American hospitals. I can honestly say, I have never met a Canadian I didn't

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Eloquence The great thing about blogging is that you dont have to be eloquent, you just have to be able to recognize elquent people and know how to link to them.

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Another Mogadishu... We are hearing this term repeatedly. I personally am a bit confused. I dont know what "another Mogadishu" is code for in academia and diplomatic circles, but personally I see it refering to a political action gone awry. My recollection of the whole Somalia affair was that Clinton wanted to feed some starving Somali's due to media coverage of the situation and

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Hollywood supporters

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True Heros

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A Great Man A Marine of course.

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Bah Politicians! Volokh Has this peice on Congress considering a day of prayer and fasting. While I am in no way a supporter of the separation of Church and state argument, I do believe there is a role for religion in government, as long as government isnt making law in regards to religion, this is absolutely silly. It is more symbolic do nothing legislation that is intended to give some

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Weapons of Mass Media The information age merely means that information is used as a front during combat. It is much easier to get a man to do what you want, if you make him believe its in his best interest, than it is to point a gun at him and tell him to do it. If Saddam could provide credible evidence that thousands of innocents were dying each hour and that our troops were

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Bush War Criminal? Chris Maxwell and Hilary Charlesworth of Australia write that the Iraq war may be a crime. My response: "...a war that undermines the system of collective security established by the UN Charter..." Which Collective Security are you concerned about? Certainly not US security, or British security, or even Australian security, all of which have had Al qaida

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Heartbreaking This is probably the most heartbreaking report I have read in a while. It reports the American betrayal, or dismissal of the Iraqi revolution that we encouraged at the close of Gulf War I. It shows Bush 41, Colin Powell, and Swartzkoph for th heartless bastards they are. Its about time we made it up to these people. Its about time to set things right.

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Surreal I was minding my own business, being the news/blog junkie that I am and came across a set of links that are perhaps the most surrealistic circumstance I have had in a long time. First I am reading Instapundit which links to jeff jarvis' blog which led me to this curiousity, a base newspaper for a military base in Afghanistan. Weee i was in high cotton, getting news from an

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War Analysis I have spent all morning catching up on the war and the various analysis and commentary related to the war. I have begun several posts, only to delete them, I am churning with opinions and assumptions and anxieties, like most everyone else. One thing that I think is becoming clear, is that our first strike against Saddams summit meeting Wednesday night was successful

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Interesting This report from a UPI roving editor is very interesting, not only in the revelations from Iraqi citizens, but the Falling Domino Principle on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

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Nukes? Has Saddam set the mother of all booby traps in Baghdad? Down toward this article is a little quote that makes my neck hair rise. "Baghdad will remain defiant and its walls will be an incinerator for the invaders," said Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. Standard Iraqi braggidocio, or foreshadowing the endgame?

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Where? I dont know about you guys, but I need a map to reference all the place names I see in reports and give me a solid idea of the spatial locations of all the fighting and troop movements.

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The War is Upon us I think the Stock Exchanges expressed everyone's feeling of relief to finally be moving in the direction that we all new was going to happen since at least January, and most knew for the past 12 to 18 months. Finally we can move thru the crucial battles, take the worst that Saddam is going to give and hopefully that wont be nuclear (more on that in a moment). The feeling

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Nothing new under the Sun Context. Outrage is the symptom of lack of context. Lets give ourselves some context to political election campaigns by reading this historical analysis http://mywebpages.comcast.net/wlee1433/emergency.html

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America and the World in the 21st Century The Paradigm has shifted. Used to be the world was fairly stable, like a city run by a number of Crime Bosses, everything was accounted for. Each boss had his sphere of influence and they kept it stable. Sometimes the spheres would bump into each other or one boss would try to expand his sphere at the expense of another and there would be war

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Need French or German jokes? My favorite "The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know." --- P.J O'Rourke (1989) But I am biased toward P. J.

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I dont know baby, nights like this I just want to let the words flow. read them tomorrow and see if they were all i thought they were... They never are, they are never how i thought they were, sometimes they are pathetic caricatures of what i thought they were, and sometimes, very rare, but sometimes they are so much more. sometimes they are better than i thought they were....

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Challenger, Nasa, and the American Spirit Another shuttle, scattered across earth along with its cargo, heroic pioneers who were examples of the best and brightest pioneers the human race had to offer. No amount of money can replace what was lost February 1. I mourn with the families of the Astronauts for thier loss, as well as Americas loss. America

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Times Online reports another victory of environmentalists over common sense.

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No Controlling Legal Authority will protect us from Al Gore, who must feel very liberated by the fact that he can blame the results of 8 years of Clinton, with no small amount of assistance from himself, on the President. It certainly is encouraging to see the the Democrat/media establishment already positioning to make Gore the opposition candidate to President Bush and the Republicans, it

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Post 911 Politics I have been waiting for the pundits to mention 9-11's effect on the national politics, but I have not seen anyone address the fundamental changes that the 9-11 attacks rendered on the American political scene. This is the first national election since 9-11-2001 and the Republicans won in a decisive fashion. The attacks of 9-11 did change America, they did make a majority

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Nordlinger's follyJay Nordlinger is up to his old tricks, promising crap in his column, then convienently not delivering.

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Fight to the Death Independent News reports: Iraq's parliament gathered in a bellicose mood yesterday and dismissed the resolution as a document "packed with lies". To applause from the 250 deputies, the head of the assembly's foreign relations committee urged parliament to reject the UN resolution. The parliament's recommendation – which is to be endorsed by the Revolutionary Command Council

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David Frum's Diary Is excellent as 99% of his stuff seems to be. He includes a poem that all canadians know, as it is taught in thier schools, I can see why: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw

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Missle Defense? ThisNews Story is pretty encouraging. With China developing more advanced missles and distributing them to our enemies in the world, it would be nice to mark missle attack off the list of things to worry about, not that man transportable nukes arent still out there just waiting to come traipsing across our borders...

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isntapundit : A Spherical Redneck in Simple Harmonic Motion Has a hilarious post up from some threads in Salon's tabletalk, whatever that is. This is a fascinating look at the creatures in an environment in which they feel comfortable to talk freely. A few of them seem to have the right idea about moving out of the country. In my experience, nothing cures anti-American feelings faster than

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Leadership I really must comment on what a great week this has been for President Bush, this is a kind of week that puts you into the history books. Not only has he led this country through a very difficult period, he has led his party to dominance in the national and state governments, and even more amazing is that he is also leading the world to eliminating Saddam Hussien. These are

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Arrogant? A little flame war in a comments section, mainly posted so i quick link to the commentary instead of going the three link path that i originally found the site with to begin with, since i apparantly am too lazy or stubborn to add the blogs to my favorites list

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FOXNews.com Is reporting that the GOP has recaptured the Senate. I know some Supreme Court Justices are Thanking God, because now they can retire. And we can finally start filling other benches with the nominees that Bush wants, if nothing else, those judgeships are worth it, now if we can get some good tax relief, get our national defense and intelligence community back on track, and curb the

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In reading Jay Nordlingers Impromptu's, in which he is displaying Canadian reaction to his slamming the Canadian Government's issuing a travel advisory to Arab in Canada about the USA, I was reminded of the great Canadian journalist and broadcaster Gordon Sinclair's editorial >"The Americans". Scroll to the bottom to hear the original audio.

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Alternate Reality The internet is rife with conspiracy theories on how the Republicans killed Paul Wellstone. Undoubtedly the story will make it into mainstream papers a day or two before the election, probably on the basis of commenting on the stories popularity themselves but no doubt being very non-judgemental as to the likelyhood of truth and most definitely conveying the nonsense in its

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Are you biased? Who do you think is more likely to go on a cold blooded killing spree? him or him?

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Let everyone have a gun, is an article discussing the merits of gun laws in Australia. It is funny, liberals want to point to other countries to bolster their points on various liberal issues they have on thier agenda here in the US such as socialization of healthcare, welfare, and they used to point to foreign gun laws, proclaiming that stricter gun control was responsible for the lower murder

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Nordlinger Persists Jay Nordlinger's latest Impromptus on National Review Online is up and its a pretty good one, even if he is still withholding a promised quote. I particularly like this excerpt Regular Impromptus-ites are familiar with my cry against the Germans: Sometime in the 1980s, the Germans — the West Germans — refused to extradite to us two Jordanian terrorists who had hijacked a

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Doh! Dont you hate it when you get busted while checking out a girls ass?

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Democrat/liberal machine at work 101 For those who suspect a liberal bias or Democrat bias in the media "How I Was Smeared" by Harry Stein is a textbook example of the machine at work. It is a long article but well worth the read. Basically it shows how a small liberal rag of a newspaper can publish something of questionable truth and have the story picked up by successively more "

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Goldberg delivers just got done reading Jonah Goldberg's column and he nails it. His commentary on the Democrat party is absolutely correct. And like him, it is the Democrats hypocrisy that makes me so detest them as a party, they claim to care for the individual, want whats best for the nation, when what they want is to use any instance to gain more power for the sake of power itself

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I was watching "A Bug's Life" on ABC last night and one of the characters tells the joke, "how many cockroaches does it take to screw in a light bulb? I dont know, they all hide when the light comes on" Of course when i hear "cockroaches" I immediately get visions of Clinton and his various cabinet appointees and how they screwed up our ability to defend ourselves from international terrorism

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I noted a blog entry by Glenn Reynolds over at InstaPundit.Com regarding Americans becoming less comfortable with Islam. This is of high interest to me because Americans are nothing if not defensive of thier first amendment rights, but there is a thermal layer of ideology that certain belief systems can cross that will make them taboo in America, and Islam is diving toward it at a high rate of

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Ahhh the luxuries of Freedom This weekend saw the gathering of thousands of honest, fearful, and cynical people to protest "Bush's War" (not sure if they have trademarked that yet). How they must enjoy their freedoms, to openly criticize the government, to defame the members of the administration, and yet not even fear arrest. I mean, even if they are arrested, they will mark it as a

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Jay Nordlinger Exposed! Jay Nordlinger had an "Impromptus" column published by NRO on September 25 and wrote "In a future Impromptus, I’m going to reprint a statement by an Australian politician — in support of America and its current efforts — that’ll knock your socks off." To date, this statement has never been published. Repeated attempts to chide Mr.Nordlinger into publishing

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Inaugural post This report described the snipers flashing cash and taking plane trips to undetermined locations while living in homeless shelters, this reeks of a terrorist cell, which was waiting to be activated. Even the sniper's call for cash to be transferred to an account could be just a ploy to disguise the terrorists true motives thereby deflecting retaliation on the instigators.... and

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Random thought of the day. Should a party (Democrat) who appoints judges who outlaw the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in our public schools, be allowed to have any say as to what judges the President can or cannot appoint?

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