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Pelosi's Treasonous Actions Must Be Halted
2007-11-02 21:57:00
For all of the guff that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has levied against President George W. Bush for his alleged mismanagement of foreign affairs, maybe it is in fact Nancy Pelosi who needs to take a serious look in the mirror.Over the past ten months, world leader pretend Pelosi has engaged in a mammoth grandstanding effort to thwart U.S. interests abroad. First, disregarding a State Department request, she visited Syria where her actions could be construed as nothing short of legitimizing the rule of Syrian leader and renowned terror sponsor, Bashar al-Assad, who continues to engage in the systematic murder of pro-Western Lebanese members of parliament while he simultaneously increases his support for Hezbollah.Next, Pelosi joined forces with the blathering imbecile Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and sent an open letter to the Costa Rican Ambassador to the U.S., F. Tomás Dueñas, just nine days prior to a national referendum, in an effort to quash a free tra...

Bollinger's Columbia: An Absurd Double Standard
2007-10-04 06:00:00
Citing the need to promote free speech and the unfettered exchange of conflicting ideas, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger hosted Iranian presidential figurehead Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week. Though the appearance of the most glorified press secretary in modern history brought much ballyhooed fanfare to the University’s Morningside campus, the event itself underscored the hypocrisy of Bollinger’s leadership at Columbia since he took the reigns in 2002.As president of a private institution of higher education, Bollinger should be seeking to encourage free speech and the exchange of differing ideas, even those of an offensive and odious nature like Ahmadinejad’s. But as the head of Columbia, “PrezBo” must also remember that what is good for the goose is good for the gander.Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard and Dinesh D’Souza of the Hoover Institute note that Columbia, under Bollinger’s stewardship, has not always been true to these stated mores.In 2003, a ...
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GOP Looking to Split California Electoral Baby
2007-09-19 04:23:00
With GOP frontrunners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney floundering in the debates and with the new queen of mean greatly outdistancing her liberal competition, the likelihood of a Republican capturing the White House in 2008 seems about as great as that of the Notre Dame football team making a bowl game.But before we, as Republicans, gouge out our eyeballs and slit our wrists in anticipation of the longest four years of our lives, might I suggest that we turn our attention to California for a moment.In late July, the law firm of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, acting under the direction of its managing partner Thomas W. Hiltachk, filed California ballot Initiative No. 07-0032—the Presidential Election Reform Act—which is aimed at ending the practice of granting all fifty-five of California’s electoral votes to the statewide winner.Under the initiative, should it pass, California would apportion two electoral votes to the statewide winner and the rest, one by one, to the winner of...
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Sen. Larry Craig: A Lesson In Stupidity
2007-08-29 21:32:00
By now we have all heard the news of Sen. Larry Craig ’s (R-ID) questionable actions in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom, and regardless of whether Sen. Craig was actually trying to show his Mr. Potato Head to the officer, the man should be removed from office because he just doesn’t get it.As a veteran member of Congress, you would think that Sen. Craig would have been capable of demonstrating a certain level of competency as the situation unfolded. But if anything, Sen. Craig’s actions following his arrest have risen to nothing short of painfully stupid.Let’s rehash the situation. According to the police report, following his arrest, Mr. Craig was taken to the police operations center at the airport. Because he didn’t have his driver’s license on his person, he showed the officer his business card and pompously stated, “‘What do you think about that?’” This was not a very wise move but it was certainly one that he could have recovere...
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Rove Hatred Could Cost Dems In '08
2007-08-22 20:41:00
Karl Rove is at it again, and I love it. Taking a page right from his 2004 championship playbook, the “Boy Genius” began spinning a web of treachery during his recent Hillary bashing tour, a web of treachery that if left unchecked could cost the Democrats the White House in 2008.As I watch the beginning stages of Rove’s plan for 2008 unfold, I have to wonder: are Democrats really this stupid? With exactly one year until the Democratic National Convention, I will gleefully say that the answer appears to be yes. To understand the present state of Democratic idiocy, it is important to revisit 2004. For four years, I have been arguing that if Democrats had selected Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina on “Super Tuesday” instead of Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, they would have won the presidency. Democrats in 2004 were shortsighted because they picked who they wanted to win, rather than who could actually win. Of course as a conservative, Democrats have been informing me...
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Karl Rove: Doing It His Way
2007-08-14 23:09:00
At the end of August, Karl Rove will be stepping down as White House deputy chief of staff, and whether you view him as the antichrist or a loyal Republican soldier, his mark on contemporary presidential politics is undeniable.So, how did a man who lacks a college degree become one of the most influential White House aides and successful political strategists of modern times? By utilizing unconventional and often polarizing tactics, he made the system work for him.Decades from now, pundits may dispute the pivotal moment that permitted Rove to burst onto the political scene. Some may argue this occurred when he overcame controversy to become chairman of the College Republicans because this allowed him to form a close personal friendship with George H.W. Bush and in turn George W. Bush. Others may argue that it occurred when he formed Rove and Co. and he became one of the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of direct mail as a campaign tool, thereby cementing his name as one of the...
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Why Pelosi And Reid Should Be Impeached
2007-08-09 18:35:00
For the past several months, there has been a quiet but steady whisper on the Hill about the possible impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Much of this nonsensical drivel centers on the war in Iraq and has been spearheaded by the usual cast of nitwits: Namely, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, and the media chameleon Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. Now, fast forward to July 30, 2007, when Michael E. O’Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack of the Brookings Institute authored an OP-ED piece in The New York Times entitled “A War We Just Might Win.”When I first read their piece, I had to hit refresh on my computer a couple of hundred times. In fact, I could not believe my eyes. Was this some kind of sick April Fools joke in July that the Grey Lady was disseminating to amuse me as I battled the torrid D.C. summer heat?No, it was not a joke. Two Brookings analysts who have been highly critical of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq were now off...
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Harry Reid: The "Other" Mormon
2007-07-19 19:56:00
Dear Democrats: Back in January, when former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney officially announced he was going to run for president, you, the liberal left, huddled together in the backrooms of your Marxist coffeehouses and vowed to make sure he would never ascend to the oval office.With 15 months until the 2008 presidential election, you should all pat yourselves on the back, because it appears as though your wish is going to come true – Romney will not only not become the nation’s next president, but it is more than likely that he won’t receive the Republican nomination either. Frankly by the time you are done putting the final touches on Romney’s demise, he will be lucky to win election as dog catcher in Mormon -friendly Belmont, Mass.So how did you do it? Simple…By strictly adhering to the doctrine of liberal close-mindedness, you painted Mormonism and the Latter Day Saints as being a cult which fuses elements of HBO’s Big Love with the radical fanaticism displayed...
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A Plea For Sanity In Minnesotta
2007-07-18 21:18:00
Dear Minnesota Voters: Before a full push is made by you to displace Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) in favor of clownish, narrow-minded comedian Al Franken, I beg you, the inhabitants of the “Gopher State,” to come to your senses before it is too late. In the past, you have shown an alarming propensity to elect political “nut-jobs” to represent you (e.g., Paul Wellstone, Jesse “The Body” Ventura and Keith Ellison: “The Ayatollah of Minnesota”). Before you make yet another tragic blunder, I most humbly suggest that you take a quick look at Al Franken and at those who presently back his candidacy. Born in New York City and an alumnus of Harvard, Franken started his comedy career as a writer on Saturday Night Live…that is where the good in Al Franken candidacy ceases, and the bad begins… Franken has never worked in or around government, other than as a personality on the now bankrupt and all too liberal “Air America” radio network. To be fair to Al – he ha...

The "Ayatollah of Minnesota"
2007-07-17 15:57:00
As I was combing the Internet for the latest installments of filthy liberal garbage, I came across the recent musings of the “Ayat ollah of Minnesota .” For those of you who don’t know or in case you have been under a rock since that dirty wench Nancy Pelosi took over as Speaker of the House, you might have missed the fact that our wonderful friends from Minnesota have been so kind as to elect the first-known Muslim to the U.S. Congress. Frankly the actions of the Minnesota voting electorate should not come as a shock when you take into account that this is the same state that brought us the ever-so-forgettable Walter Mondale. That being said, folks meet Representative Keith Maurice Ellison (D-Minn.).Having received his Bachelor of Arts from Wayne State University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota, it is believed that Representative Ellison, 43, converted to Islam during his youth. Now here is the kicker…Representative Ellison is not just any Muslim but a ...