An Unfortunate Outburst of Intense Patriotism

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Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Reid Bemoans Failure to Implement 9/11 Commission Recommendations

Read this transcript of remarks by House Minority Leader Ringside Harry Reid, purloined from http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090506/content/stop_the_tape.guest.html: “ Every day I am so thankful that we have not had a terrorist attack of significance in the United States since 9/11. But... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 2, 2006

If, as the liberals claim, dissent is the essence of patriotism . . .

Then are not we conservatives embodying the purest form of patriotism by our intense dissent with liberals? Or, as they do in so many other areas, do they reserve the honor of being a patriot for themselves and themselves alone? One can undoubtedly be a liberal and a patriot. But if such stunts as... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Bush Assassination Movie to Debut in Toronto

News came out today of a new TV “documentary” about the hypothetical assassination of President Bush. Scheduled to debut in Toronto in September, the movie uses a digitization of the President’s face superimposed on an actor in the scene in which the President is shot. The idea of this, claims the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

If Bush Was Responsible for Huuricane Katrina's severity . . .

... as some liberals, notably Robert F. "Flash" Kennedy Junior have claimed, then who gets the credit for Ernesto's colossal fizzle? Read about Flash Kennedy's blaming President Bush and Mississippi's Republican governor Haley Barbour for Katrina at... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Plame Name Scandal a Fraud? Rove Not Indicted Because He Didn’t Do It!

For months and months, the lamestream news media has done its best to brainwash us into thinking that the leaking of Valerie Plame’s identity to the news media was some sort of sinister plot by Scooter Libby, Karl Rove and the rest of the evil Bush administration. After all the hoopla, after all the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

“Democracy is Under Attack,” Gore Claims

Failed Democrat presidential candidate Al Gore – who I say did an acting stint as the guy in the trench coat in the Sprint cell phone ads a couple of years ago – is at it again. Says the Sprint Guy at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, “Democracy is under attack... Democracy as a... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Is Eroding Housing Market Evidence of Failure of Bush Economic Policies?

Lots of stories in the news about the slump in sales of existing homes. Here's one such story: http://www.newsmax.com/money/archives/articles/2006/8/23/112040.cfm?s=lh I can just see where this is heading. Just like everything else, the inability of suffering homeowners to sell their property will... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

“Cold Cash” Jefferson to Lead Democrat Tour of New Orleans

Does it get any more ridiculous than this? The Democrat Congressional Caucus has selected Misrepresentative William “Cold Cash” Jefferson (D-Louisiana) to lead a congressional delegation on a tour of New Orleans next week to commemorate the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The tour will... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Conservative Media is Too Pro-Freedom?

So says purported news media expert Marvin Kalb. These remarks by Kalb are purloined from http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082206/content/stop_the_tape.guest.html I don’t have the full context of this to work from, but get a load of these excerpts. “ Fox had a rather simple but direct... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 21, 2006

Baptist Church in N.Y.: Women Can't Teach Men

Some stories lend themselves to satire by their very nature. My first reaction to the above headline, about a Baptist church in New York that wrongly thinks the Bible prohibits women from teaching men, was along the lines of, "Well, gawlee and shazayam! A whole bunch of women would say the same... Sign in to see full entry.

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