The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball."
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Tuesday, August 19
WSJ: As U.S. Economic Problems Loom, House, Senate Sweat the Small Stuff
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 19 Aug 2008 03:06 PM EDT
The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball." More>>>
The End of the Post-Soviet Era
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:21 PM EDT
The United States must proceed with enormous caution...The Kremlin has successfully used divide-and-conquer strategies numerous times on numerous issues, including at the United Nations, where it (together with China) successfully delayed international responses to Darfur, Burma and Zimbabwe. The Kremlin is sending a clear message to the world: Countries can commit horrendous human rights abuses with impunity. At a minimum, this lack of response has had an enabling quality. While violating another state's sovereignty, Russia advances a 19th-century approach to international affairs. It views democracy as a rather weak system and unsuitable for Russia. It also considers the elastic sovereignty of the European Union soft and ineffective. The Kremlin has betted on international ambivalence toward Russia's crackdown on the opposition and its monopolization of power, and I fear that it made a good bet." More>>> Monday, August 18
Anderson Cooper: Is the tide turning?
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Riley Jones
on Mon 18 Aug 2008 11:48 PM EDT
McCain is now on a sustained roll in his campaign. Since the time he shook up his organization a few weeks ago, he has been much more focused and has started to get through to voters. Democrats — and the press — didn’t like the quality of those ads, but they seem to have worked politically. His stand on drilling and on Russia have also strengthened his aura of command. And now Saddleback. More>>>
Feder: Georgia and George Bush on the Left's mind
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 18 Aug 2008 07:34 PM EDT
Last week, the left had Georgia on its mind, or what's left of it -- Georgia and its mind. Its bizarre but wholly predictable reaction to the worst Russian aggression since the end of the Cold War was to blame President George W. Bush for something Moscow has been doing since the days of the Romanovs -- invading and dominating neighboring states. But in the left's fevered imagination, Bush created the precedent for a move Putin has probably been planning (or at least contemplating) since he became president of Russia in 1999 -- 4 years before Operation Iraqi Freedom. More>>> Sunday, August 17
Lapham and the Debate Over Tim Russert
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 17 Aug 2008 01:58 PM EDT
When journalist Tim Russert died in June, the media expressed buckets of emotion about and reverence toward one of its own. Inevitably, coverage of the coverage emerged, as a few people were willing to voice their distaste for what they saw as unduly hagiographic treatment. Lewis Lapham (above), former Harper's editor and founder of the newish Lapham's Quarterly, was one of the naysayers. "There was a time in America when the press and the government were on opposite sides of the field," he said in July. "The press was supposed to speak on behalf of the people. The new tradition is that the press speaks on behalf of the government. ... Tim Russert was a spokesman for power, wealth, and privilege. More>>>
Elitist, America-hating Canadian snob asks: Can a slender, smart black man win the White House?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 17 Aug 2008 01:29 PM EDT
MILLIONS OF working-class Americans are fat, sweaty and white. They are addicted to beer and junk food, and have never wanted to read a book, go to university or visit Europe. Can they bring themselves to vote for a presidential candidate who is thin, trim and black, and who is addicted to exercise, turns down desserts, drinks Black Forest Berry Honest Tea and eats organically grown health food? (Roland answers: He certainly can. We just haven't had one run yet.) More>>> Friday, August 15
Dems launch campaign to go after author of Obama expose
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 15 Aug 2008 10:20 PM EDT
 
Today a full-blown Democratic campaign emerged to undermine one of the authors who helped destroy Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in 2004.The New York Times referred this week to author Jerome Corsi – author of a screed against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality" More>>> Thursday, August 14
The stench of 'Black Theology'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 14 Aug 2008 05:29 PM EDT
That which many Obama supporters do not even know is what this columnist and a few others have attempted to bring to bring to their awareness (and for which we have been viciously excoriated): the depth of this candidate's aforementioned Marxist roots. One cannot be a "patriotic American" and embrace the foul creed espoused by Cone or anyone else – period. Those who do so and claim that their "religion" is Christianity are simply deluded, or they're engaging in deceit.
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Fred Thompson: Dangerous Times In Georgia Demand Serious Leadership
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 14 Aug 2008 01:18 PM EDT
As Iraq stabilizes and our role there is reduced, there will continue to be a major debate within the United States as to how we deal with this increasingly dangerous world of new threats as well as old ones. Our military is stretched thin and worn down and it is clear to anyone who takes the time to study the matter that we cannot get by with the expenditure of 4% of our GDP on our military. The threats to our country are going to require a much more dedicated response. To what extent should we fill the role that we have filled pretty much since the end of World War II as the No. 1 friend of democracy and provider of stability in the world? How much in the way of resources are we going to be willing to devote to this endeavor? More>>>
Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 14 Aug 2008 01:35 AM EDT
I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity. The media took little notice...''Palestinian'' brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign More>>>
'Where You From?'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 14 Aug 2008 01:28 AM EDT
''Where you from?'' An illegal alien from Mexico, Pedro Espinoza, allegedly asked that of Jamiel Shaw Jr., 17 -- before Espinoza shot and killed him...The common factor in these killings, as with so many others: The alleged killers came to the country illegally. Federal officials estimate that 40,000 of the 170,000 inmates held in Los Angeles County jails each year are illegal immigrants. More>>>
NYT's Brooks: Harmony and the Dream
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 14 Aug 2008 01:09 AM EDT
You can create a global continuum with the most individualistic societies — like the United States or Britain — on one end, and the most collectivist societies — like China or Japan — on the other....The individualistic countries tend to put rights and privacy first. People in these societies tend to overvalue their own skills and overestimate their own importance to any group effort. People in collective societies tend to value harmony and duty. They tend to underestimate their own skills and are more self-effacing when describing their contributions to group efforts. Either way, individualistic societies have tended to do better economically...But what happens if collectivist societies snap out of their economic stagnation? What happens if collectivist societies, especially those in Asia, rise economically and come to rival the West? A new sort of global conversation develops...The opening ceremony in Beijing was a statement in that conversation. It was part of China’s assertion that development doesn’t come only through Western, liberal means, but also through Eastern and collective ones. If Asia’s success reopens the debate between individualism and collectivism (which seemed closed after the cold war), then it’s unlikely that the forces of individualism will sweep the field or even gain an edge. The rise of China isn’t only an economic event. It’s a cultural one. The ideal of a harmonious collective may turn out to be as attractive as the ideal of the American Dream. (This is what passes for a conservative at the New York Times? -Roland) More>>> Wednesday, August 13
Nan and the Big Wind Boone-doggle
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Riley Jones
on Wed 13 Aug 2008 08:47 AM EDT
Michelle Malkin: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes “hand maidens of the oil companies.” Let’s call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers. Though she seemingly backtracked on labeling drilling a “hoax” this week, Pelosi refuses to consider GOP energy proposals that don’t include massive government subsidies for eco-fantastical alternatives that have never panned out. More>>>
Yes, She Can
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 13 Aug 2008 05:13 AM EDT
While Obama was spending three hours watching “The Dark Knight” five time zones away, and going to a fund-raiser featuring “Aloha attire” and Hawaiian pupus, Hillary was busy planning her convention. You can almost hear her mind whirring: She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps. Like taking candy from a baby, except Beanpole Guy doesn’t eat candy. More>>> Tuesday, August 12
The Loft: GOP Senators Killing Energy Issue for Republicans and America
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 12 Aug 2008 08:54 PM EDT
Last week, I wrote on efforts by House GOP members to draw attention to the fact that Nancy Pelosi sent House members home for the summer without a vote on domestic oil drilling. The American people want it, and the GOP House members are fighting for it. I also wrote on how big the energy issue is. It could be THE issue of the upcoming elections... an issue upon which Republicans could run AND win. However, this is a new week, and whenever too much time passes, there is bound to be a new effort by the GOP to stall momentum and stab conservatives right in the heart. Who needs Democrats when so many GOP "leaders" act just like them? Now, we have the "Gang of 10." This group of senators (5 Republicans and 5 Democrats) claims to have forged a "bi-partisan energy compromise." In reality, we have a group of five GOP senators who are set on taking the winning issues of drilling and energy off the table and selling out to the liberals. A report in Investor's Business Daily (IBD) sums up the situation perfectly: "If you thought Republicans were no longer 'The Stupid Party,' then you haven't met the senators who may have just destroyed the GOP's biggest hope this election year: the drilling issue." More>>>
Commentary: Burning a path in Georgia
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 12 Aug 2008 08:34 PM EDT
His critics ought to give George W. a little credit. He famously looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and saw a soul. That's more than anybody else has ever found there. We all learn lessons. Harry S. Truman, everybody's favorite no-nonsense president, met Stalin for the first time and thought he could "do business" with him. The Cold War followed soon afterward. Tyrants charm the unwary More>>>
Obama's little RED Schoolhouse
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Riley Jones
on Tue 12 Aug 2008 10:41 AM EDT
While Obama's children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education. More>>>
Nan on drilling: No longer the hoax I knew
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Riley Jones
on Tue 12 Aug 2008 10:23 AM EDT
Michelle Malkin: Maybe Do-Nothing Nancy should enter the Olympic diving competition. She gets a 10 for her flip-flop-flop yesterday on drilling. It is now no longer the “hoax” she knew. What a hoot. Did she think she could sell 2 more books trying to pander and straddle like this? Nan, you’re slaying us. My sides hurt. More>>> Monday, August 11
CFP: See The Future Of Multi-Culti Idiocy
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 11 Aug 2008 10:58 PM EDT
There is an important lesson that we, Americans, can learn from this tragic experience of Georgian people. Minorities of neighbor nations, concentrated in ethnic enclaves (so-called “immigrant communities” or “Latino communities"), are like matchboxes in a barrel of powder - they are notorious of sparking explosions of violent conflicts. Allowing Mexican minority grow stronger and infiltrate American structures of political and military power is plain stupid if not outright suicidal. More>>>
Dick Morris: Russia's Invasion Same as Hitler's
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 11 Aug 2008 10:38 PM EDT
On Oct. 3, 1938, Adolf Hitler's armies marched into Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia. Germany said it was responding to separatist demands from the large German population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Germany. Hitler's tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him. On Aug. 7, 2008, Vladimir Putin's armies marched into South Ossetia, a part of Georgia. Russia said it was responding to separatist demands from the large Russian population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Russia. Putin's tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him. More>>>
Meet John Edwards
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 11 Aug 2008 09:15 PM EDT
John Edwards hasn't stopped lying. After many angry denials that he had sex with that woman, Rielle Hunter, Edwards went on Nightline Friday to confess that yes, he did have an affair with Hunter, and yes, he was caught by National Enquirer reporters while visiting Hunter last month at the Beverly Hilton. But he was quick to add several caveats: More>>>
Madam Speaker, Where Are You?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 11 Aug 2008 02:56 AM EDT
This morning, Republicans will return to the dimmed floor of the House of Representatives to continue to fight on behalf of American families hurting from high gas prices. It has now been ten days since House Democrats turned off the lights and breezed out of Washington for a paid vacation without any meaningful action to bring down energy costs...Americans struggling with fuel costs now recognize that though Speaker Pelosi seeks to muzzle them More>>> Sunday, August 10
The 5 Most Ridiculously Unjust Religious Afterlives
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Riley Jones
on Sun 10 Aug 2008 10:07 PM EDT
NYT's Hoyt defends the Gray Lady's lack of coverage of the Edwards Love Baby scandal
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 10 Aug 2008 03:32 PM EDT
Some readers, like Bert A. Getz Jr. of Winnetka, Ill., were sure they already knew the answer: liberal bias. I do not think liberal bias had anything to do with it. But I think The Times...was far too squeamish about tackling the story. The Times did not want to regurgitate the Enquirer’s reporting without verifying it...The Times did not try to verify it, beyond a few perfunctory efforts, which I think was wrong. Until the ABC report, only one mainstream news organization, McClatchy newspapers, seemed to be making headway with the story. Not that it would have been easy. David Perel, the editor of the Enquirer, said, “This is a very hard story to prove, and I think that has frozen people in place.” (Ah, would that such circumspect consideration been given similar scandals involving GOP politicians of late...Roland) More>>> Democrats Shrug Off Edwards' Affair, Paternity Questions More>>> Friday, August 8
Only His Hair Dresser Knows for Sure!
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 08:22 PM EDT
The mainstream media's reaction to the National Enquirer's reports on John Edwards' "love child" scandal has been reminiscent of the Soviet press. Edwards' name has simply been completely whitewashed out of the news. Say, why isn't anyone talking about John Edwards for vice president anymore? No, seriously -- hey! Why are we going to a commercial break? I suspect that if I tried to look up coverage of the Democratic primaries in Nexis news archives, Edwards' name will have disappeared from the debates. By next week, Edwards won't have been John Kerry's running mate in 2004. More>>>
Guardian UK's Kennedy: Obama's votes on abortion legislation as an Illinois state senator are being twisted into the right's latest smear
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 04:18 PM EDT
Buckle your seatbelt. Make sure your nausea bag is at the ready. Because the slimiest accusation yet aimed at Barack Obama is on the verge of having its moment in the mainstream media. Within certain fringe elements of the anti-abortion right, it's been an article of faith for some time that Obama's support of abortion rights is so extreme that it encompasses infanticide. As in the deliberate murder of babies after they are born. (Sorry there, Dan old boy, but partial-birth abortion is infanticide - Roland) More>>>
Opinion: The great oil bubble has burst
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 03:38 PM EDT
If the trend continues into September at anything like the same rate of descent, most of the inflationary spike of the past 12 months will miraculously have been sliced away. This is a dramatic reversal, and it is worth trying to work out why it is happening and what it means. Just possibly, it means that what investors refer to in shorthand as the great "oil up" story has finally revealed itself not as the fundamental reflection of scarce supply that its adherents liked to claim, but as a simple, speculative bubble that was always going to burst More>>>
VP Cheney's Own Words Debunk LAT's Rutten, Suskind Book
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:06 PM EDT
Rutten's claim is an easy one to debunk. Here's Vice President Cheney in a Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert a mere five days after the September 11 attacks: RUSSERT: Do we have any evidence linking Saddam Hussein or Iraqis to this operation? [Sept. 11 attacks] VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. Does it get any simpler than "No"? More>>>
Lowry: The Audacity of Haughty
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:50 AM EDT
''It's almost as if they take pride in being ignorant,'' Barack Obama mused the other day, blasting Republicans for ridiculing his exhortation to the nation to make sure its tires are properly inflated. Ah, behold the open-mindedness and cross-partisan understanding. Remember two years ago when Obama was only a media darling and not yet The Anointed One? More>>>
Shiver: McCain's Country-First Life Is a Winner
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:47 AM EDT
If Barack Obama presents a target-rich environment in his inflated balloon of media hype over one non-accomplishment after another, John McCain presents the opposite. No hype. No hot air. No blathering, bloated claims about ethereal change and meaningless hope in government to save us. None of this Hollywood stuff for McCain...McCain has been a Country-First guy yesterday, today and always. More>>>
Does O Understand Anything About Ballistic Missile Defense?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:38 AM EDT
If the Middle East -- and the rest of the world -- survives the aggressive rise of Iranian nukes and missiles, it will be thanks to Ballistic Missile Defense -- a completely new technology that is just being put into place. The next ten years will tell the story. More>>>
Justice, American-Style
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:03 AM EDT
Over international objections, a foreign-born killer of American citizens is executed in Texas. Would this be allowed to happen in the administration of "citizen of the world" Barack Obama? More>>> Wednesday, August 6
Kudlow: Obama's Gloomy Big-Government Vision
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 06 Aug 2008 11:44 PM EDT
The Obama spend-o-meter is now up around $800 billion. And tax hikes on the rich won't pay for it. It's the middle class that will ultimately shoulder this fiscal burden in terms of higher taxes (to the tune of about a $6800 increase per family - ed.) and lower growth. Obama wants you to believe that America is in trouble, and that it can only be cured with a big lurch to the left. Take from the rich and give to the non-rich. Redistribute income and wealth. It's an age-old recipe for economic disaster. It completely ignores incentives for entrepreneurs, small family-owned businesses, and investors. You can't have capitalism without capital. But Obama would penalize capital, be it capital from corporations or investors. This will only harm, and not advance, opportunities for middle-class workers. More>>>
Richard Dawkins, the naive professor
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 06 Aug 2008 10:53 PM EDT
Darwin shines; evolution is as marvellous as Dawkins says. But it is not fair to use Darwin's beautifully evolved brain to bang the drum for your private conviction that there is nothing out there. Nobody knows. Not really. Teaching children real science is one thing, making them choose God or evolution is another More>>> |
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