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Florida has lost another incumbent Republican in Representative Mark Foley.  He resigned abruptly when emails he sent to a sixteen year old came to light.  This guy is a pervert, pure and simple.

Because of his problems, the Democrats stand a very good chance of picking up a seat in the House.

The Hedgehog Report has more details on the cost to Republicans and Florida.

Democrats are understandably all over this story.  Apparently they smell blood in the water.  What I do not understand is some of the vitriol coming out of their camp.  There is even one blog, whose post I will not reveal due to its malevolence and nastiness, who is calling Foley a child molester even though only emails were sent.  He then goes on to suggest that Bush would not have won the 2000 election without the help of child molester and says anyone who votes Republican is covering up for this ‘child molester.’

There sick people out there who need help.  Mark Foley is obviously one.  Bill Clinton is another, only we never hear the left discuss their hero’s proclivities.  Foley had enough concern for his constituents to resign.  Clinton decided to stick it out and drag the country through years of investigations and cover-up.  This is not to say Foley has done nothing wrong.  He is a pervert and did the right thing by resigning.  Lost in this debate is the American people who may not have a choice of who to vote for in November.

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So far Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have brought their anti-US bias before the United Nations.  Everyone knows these men hate the US, both keep their power by trampling on the rights of their own citizens and both keep their jobs by portraying this country as their enemy.

“The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said, referring to Bush, who addressed the world body during its annual meeting Tuesday. “And it smells of sulfur still today.”

Chavez accused Bush of having spoken “as if he owned the world” and said a psychiatrist could be called to analyze the statement.

“As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: ‘The Devil’s Recipe.’ “

It is interesting that Chavez would call President Bush a dictator considering he had his cronies re-write the country’s constitution, giving him almost dictatorial powers.  At the UN the Venezuelan President then calls the UN Security Council an undemocratic institution because of the veto powers of the permanent five: the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, and China.

Chavez called the veto power shared by the five permanent members of the Security Council “anti-democratic,” and cited the U.S. veto of a resolution that would have demanded the Israelis halt their bombing of Lebanon this summer.

That is like the pot calling the kettle, black.  I would not be surprised if Chavez never leaves office after his term is over.  So much for the rise of democracy in Latin America.

Everyone knows Hugo Chavez hates America and President Bush in particular.  What is disturbing is the reaction of the rest of the UN body which gave the Venezuelan President a sustained applause.  The UN has shown its face to the world and none of us should be shocked by what we have seen.  A good portion of the UN is made up of anti-democratic and human rights violators who occupy leadership positions.  This antiquated world body has served its purpose and should be relegated to the annals of history like the failed League of Nations.

Polimom has an interesting and hilarious take on the Chavez rant.

Personally, I think an entire staff of psychiatrists could be kept occupied by remarks from the latest U.N. General Assembly… but Chavez has been hopping up and down like a hyperactive chicken for so long, it’s hardly worth the excitement he generates.

I should have talked about Hugo Chavez’s speech yesterday, but I wanted to see what the left had to say about his ‘The Devil’ speech.  After all, Hugo Chavez was holding a book written by one of the left’s heroes, Noam Chomsky.  All they can talk about is how the President is the devil and how much they agree with this moron.  How the President stole the election in 2000 and how they do smell sulfur.  I would not be surprised to see Howard Dean along side Hugo Chavez in a television commercial denigrating President Bush and the Republican Party in general.  Everything the Venezuelan President said was out of the Democratic playbook.  In fact with the exception of President Bush being the devil, these same rantings could be heard from Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or any of the other left wing liberals.

Hugo Chavez is a joke.  Like a spoiled brat, he craves attention.  Now that I think of it, he acts much like Cindy Sheehan.

I have one message for Hugo Chavez, “Go home!”

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I’ve stated before that the UN is an outdated dinosaur whose time has come and gone. UN officials are so interested in political correctness; they can not even call terror organizations what they are, terrorists. Sharon Kehnemui Liss writing for Fox News nails the issue.

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown may want to stick to reforming his own office and stop criticizing member states, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.

Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.

“It’s not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda,” he said, according to a transcript of an interview.

What does al-Qaeda have to do with Hezbollah? They are two different organizations united only by their religious affiliation with Islam. Both employ terror to achieve their goals, but just because Hezbollah is not al-Qaeda does not mean Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization.

Brown is the same UN official who criticized the US, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News for misleading Middle America over all the good the UN does in the world. What good? It looks to me like its not middle America who needs an education on the benefits of this world body. As a very vocal critic of the UN, it was not Fox News or Rush Limbaugh who convinced me of the unreliability of this decrepit organization, but their own feeble actions in the wake of worldwide problems. What have they been able to accomplish for world peace other than standing in the way of countries wanting to defend themselves?

Like so many liberals, Brown, instead of focusing on the issues, he attacks the messengers. The UN has problems, major problems. Like its failed predecessor, the League of Nations, the UN is a weak organization who will fall short of their goals of achieving world peace if they do not change. One of the first things this organization needs to do is to quit trying to placate the terrorists and call a spade, a spade. Any organization who engages in terror is a terrorist organization. This is a group the US will eventually have to deal with, even if the UN does not.

The UN at this point has a decision to make, either get on board against terrorism, or get out of the way and let those who are willing to make the tough choices like the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and Israel make the world safer. But sitting back safely behind their ivory towers and playing niceties with terrorists does nothing about the dangers of terrorism. Then these same UN leaders wonder why we do not like the United Nations.

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Leave it a recruiter in the Army to put so succinctly what it takes to be a liberal.  Go to websites like Kos or the Huffington Post or any other liberal sites with the tin hats and you will see this kind of behavior.

I figured out how to be a liberal by reading this stuff. Here’s the trick.
1. Make outrageous claims.
2. Don’t attempt to back up said claims with any kind of evidence.
3. Don’t offer any type of specific solutions to anything, only speak in generalities (again without evidence).
4. Label any criticism of your ideas (or lack thereof) as bigoted, racist, fascist, hateful, out of bounds, no fairsies, or do-over.
5. Blame failure to get elected on the things in #4.
Therefore I’ve decided that being a conservative is tiring so I’m going to become a liberal. I figure it requires less thought, less energy, and I’ll get more sleep. Plus I’ll never again have to actually have to evaluate a moral/political/ethical position again.

So true, so true.  Personally I would have liked to see this from a Air Force recruiter, but, oh well.  Sorry, Commander, I’ve got AF blood in my veins.

Hat tip: UrbanGrounds

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Happy Birthday America!  When I think of Independence Day two of our nation’s founding documents come to mind, John Winthrop’s City Upon a Hill and the Declaration of Independence.  I did not include all of both texts since they were so long, but the main parts are provided.

In the former, John Winthrop was both a preacher and the first governor of Massachusetts.  In 1630, he gave a speech how if we as a new land kept God at the forefront of our lives, He would bless us and protect us from all dangers.  Winthrop’s message also had a warning, if we fail to keep the Lord our God first, then we would fail and we would become a curse word among the nations of the earth.  It is a bit hard to read since it is written in Old English, but well worth it in my opinion.

…soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome power goodnes and truthe then formerly wee have beene acquainted with, wee shall finde that the God of Israell is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the wayes of god and all professours for Gods sake…

The second document is as important since it created the greatest nation the earth has ever seen.  Sometimes we are the great benefactor and other times the stumbling colossus.  This document along with the US Constitution started the US on the path of greatness.

When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of

the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.  Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and

accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.  But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their

Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.  Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.  The

History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.  To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World. (snip)

We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in
General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.  And for the support of this declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

The Declaration of Independence is still a good read.  Terry Hull from Terra Extraneus says of this great document:

Second only to the inspired words of the Holy Bible, the Declaration of Independence is the most important document ever written. (snip)

The world changed on that day. New ideas about equality and freedom and individual civil rights had been bravely proclaimed. New ideas about the relationship beeen a government and its citizens, and how God figures into that formula, had been laid out in clear, bold, brilliant statements.

On Independence Day, we celebrate the most important document ever written and the courageous decision of our founding fathers to stake their very lives on the ideas it professed. It would do us well, today and everyday, to remember what those ideas are. That all men are created equal. That men and women have rights given to them by God that no person and no government has the right to take away. That government exists to serve its citizens, and not the other way around.

Amen to than.  Again, Happy Birthday America!

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Finally the Bush administration is responding to the New York Times for recklessly disclosing a very effective secret tool in combating terrorists.

Published reports revealing a secret government program that tracks money moving in and out of the United States have endangered Americans and undermines the War on Terror, President Bush said Monday.

“The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,” Bush said during a question and answer session with reporters at the White House. “For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America.”

Disclosure “makes it harder to win this War on Terror,” the president said. (snip)

Bush on Monday lashed out at The New York Times report and the leaks that produced it. He said the bank transaction searches are legal, do not violate privacy rights and Congress had been briefed on the program.

“What we were doing was the right thing. Congress was aware of it and we were within the law to do so. The American people expect this government to protect our constitutional liberties and at the same time make sure we understand what the terrorists are trying to do,” Bush said.

The President is right, it is a disgrace when a newspaper with the fading reputation of the New York Times would intentionally hurt the capibility of the US to hunt down terrorists. You can be sure the NYT would be first in line to call for someone’s head in the Bush administration if the US were attacked again. If the US is ever attacked again these arrogant jerks would never realize it was their own treachery which brought down this country. It was their compromising of intelligence which helped our enemies.

Thankfully some in Congress are calling for an investigation into whether the Times violated any laws when they published the secret program. Hopefully, this investigation will not stop until someone in is in jail. Make no mistake about it, America’s ability to protect itself from future attacks has been hampered by this disclosure by the Times Editor. Likewise, Scott Kirwin at the Razor also takes the NYT to task for its decision to publish the secret program:

Bill Keller was not elected by anyone, but he decided it was in your best interest to publish this story. He believes he has the power to make such decisions, yet is accountable to only one man: Arthur Sulzberger, owner of the New York Times. Arthur supports Bill’s new position as de facto leader of the Free World.

Remember that the next time an American dies at the hands of terrorists.

Thanks Bill

Penraker has a response from President Bush’s Press Secretary Tony Snow as he responds to the letter from New York Times editor Bill Keller. It is worth reading.

Update:

John Hawkins at Right Wing News says we should not be going after the ones who published the news that our government is searching the financial world for evidence of the terrorists.  Instead, he says we should go after the people who leaked this classified information to the press to begin with.

If the government is allowed to start holding jail time over the heads of members of the press for reporting classified info, we’ll risk tumbling down the slippery slope in a hurry. Government officials hate it when any classified or secret data is revealed, whether it’s related to national security or not, and if they can get away with forbidding the press from printing it, they’ll do so. That would not be in keeping with the First Amendment or in the best interests of the country.

John very well may be right.  It is the press as the fourth rail who is supposed to keep the government honest.  At one time the press performed admirably.  Who can forget the Watergate disclosure?  But what is happening now is wrong, totally wrong.  Instead of acting responsibly, the New York Times has endangered this country in order to hurt a sitting president.  That is totally irresponsible behavior for a body charged with ensuring our liberty.  For that matter, it is tremendously irresponsible behavior for any American.

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It seems the people of Arizona learned the hard lessons the people of Louisiana learned during Hurricane Katrina. During the Hurricane and afterwards, the police confiscated the weapons of law abiding citizens who only crime was wanting to protect themselves. Now it seems Arizona wants to avoid what occurred in New Orleans, even though Governor Napolitano does not think such a vote is necessary.

Arizona voters may get a chance to do something that Gov. Janet Napolitano would not: limit her power to take away their guns or limit their rights to carry guns during an emergency.

On a 4-2 party-line vote, the Republican-controlled Senate Government Committee approved a measure Tuesday that would legally bar any governor from using a state of emergency to place new restrictions on the possession, transfer, sales, carrying, storage, display or use of firearms or ammunition. The bill also would remove any ability to commandeer and use weapons or ammunition during any state of war.

It now goes to the full Senate. If it passes there, and also gains House approval, it goes on the November ballot, bypassing Napolitano.

The proposal is a carbon copy of legislation approved earlier this year but vetoed, with the governor calling it both unnecessary and overly restrictive.

This is where the governor of Arizona starts talking out of both sides of her mouth.

On one hand, Napolitano said she has no intent of ever taking away someone’s firearms, even during an emergency. But the governor said she fears new restrictions might be overly broad, potentially preventing her from ordering live ammunition removed from the path of a fire.

If she has no plans on taking people’s weapons, then why is she against the bill. At least now, providing the state Senate approves the measure, the people of Arizona will have the chance to take matters into their own hands. Something that was denied the good people of New Orleans.

Hat tip:  Newsalert

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Have we created a nobility class in this country called the United States Congress?  People like Cynthia McKinney and Rep. Patrick Kennedy think they are above the law.  And why not, even when they commit crimes, they are treated like royalty.  I wrote extensively on the issue of McKinney here, and here.  And now Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is getting a free pass on hitting a Capitol Hill Police officer from a grand jury.  Where ever she goes, the outspoken critic of anything ‘white’ gets a free pass because she is so apt at playing the race card.

A grand jury declined to indict Representative Cynthia McKinney yesterday in connection with a confrontation in which she admitted that she hit a Capitol Police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House office building. The incident occurred March 29 when McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, tried to enter a building without walking through a metal detector or wearing the lapel pin that identifies members of Congress. The guard did not recognize her as a member of Congress and asked her three times to stop. When she ignored him, he tried to stop her. McKinney then hit him. The next morning, she appeared on the House floor to apologize.

Anybody else would be prosecuted for striking a police officer, but not McKinney.  She just pulls out her well worn race card, which doubles as her get out of jail free card, and gets away with her outrageous behavior and her outrageous comments.

After being no billed by the grand jury McKinney is glad the whole mess is over.

“I am relieved that this unfortunate incident is behind me,” McKinney said Friday.

I am sure you are.  Why the people of Georgia put up with you antics is beyond me.  We are constantly told, ‘no one is above the law.”  This is true to everyone except for certain members of Congress.  You can be sure if this had been a Republican member of Congress, not only would the Democrats been up in arms, but Republicans would have demanded action as well.  As a member of John Q. Public, I would have been arrested on the spot.  So why is McKinney treated any different.

Capitol Hill Police are not very happy the way this whole thing has been handled.

“Right from the start this U.S. attorney has handled this case differently from every other case,” said Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. “And it’s because she is a sitting congresswoman.”

Unconfirmed reports say Capitol Hill Police left their posts in response to a grand jury’s decision not to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney.  And who could blame them.  They are in a high stress job, they get little if any respect, and now not even a grand jury with eye witness testimony will protect them from assaults by a racist Congresswoman.

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I support free speech at America’s colleges and universities even when many of the views of the professors do not mirror my own.  A difference of opinion is good, since it challenges students to think, to see views other than their own.  Of course that does not mean I didn’t wish the professors I had in college were a little more middle of the road.  There is no question our universities need to be more political diverse in their classrooms.  As it is, the atmosphere on campus has become so politically correct that no one questions some of the more outrageous comments of many professors because of their ‘ethnicity’ or pedigree as a liberal.  For example take one Ward Churchill.

A University of Colorado committee recommended on Tuesday firing a professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns,” citing repeated research misconduct. (snip)

The school’s investigation focused on allegations that Churchill committed research misconduct and plagiarism.

Churchill is threatening to sue claiming the investigation into his writings were an attempt to silence him.

The panel did not address his essay relating the 2001 terrorist attacks to U.S. abuses abroad. The essay referred to some World Trade Center victims as “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who carried out Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jews during World War II.

Churchill’s case has been cited by conservatives as an example of how universities have overstocked their faculties with leftists. Others raised concerns about academic freedom.

A report a year ago by the American Enterprise Institute showed that most professors on college campuses today are more than 85% liberal.  This only promotes leftward thinking.  In this case there are no dissenting views, only liberal ones.  This is the mold Ward Churchill fit into, an America hating liberal and a fraud.

Dr. Louis Talman, at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at
Metropolitan State College of Denver, boiled the entire episode down to an over abundance of political correctness at college campuses along with college administrators not doing their jobs.

The university faculty take the first hit; they (and in particular the Communications Department) supinely allowed adminstrators to railroad, with no review, a tenured appointment for a scholar of unproven merit. Those administrators, from department chair up the chain to the Univeristy CEO, take the same hit. They and the faculty were in hot pursuit of that well-known chimera, diversity. Of course, the hit damages faculty more; they are still here where we can see how their shame tarnishes their tenured glory. No one will fire the administrators either; they’re safe in cozy jobs elsewhere.

Dr. Talman goes on to state that while what Churchill said was repulsive, but he should not be fired for saying it because what he said falls under free speech.  And Talman is right, the hateful, idiotic statements by Churchill falls under free speech.  Talman made one other rather remarkable point, if Ward Churchill had not made the accusation against the 9/11 victims, others would not have found he was a fraud and a plagiarist.   Again, Talman is right on target.  Even hear of the old story whose punch line says, “Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”  The moniker fits this big mouth liberal.

The ones who should be fired are the ones who did not check into his background.  The ones who should be fired are those who continued to accept Churchill’s less than acceptable work without questioning his authenticity.

In spite of political correctness run amuck, the University of Colorado Committee on Research Misconduct has recommended the firing of Ward Churchill for repeated and deliberate misconduct.  And now it time for this fake Indian to pay the piper for his misdeeds.  As Marathon Pundits says:

Well, Ward’s chickens are finally coming home to roost. After three decades as a Native American poseur, America-hater, and academic fraud, the end of Churchill’s undeserved career is in sight.

Amen to that.

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The Duke rape case is becoming even more bizarre.  This stripper came to the party of the Duke Lacrosse team and had to be carried to her car.  Later she accused three members of the team of taking her to the bathroom and raping her.  But then we learn that the woman changed her story several times as noted here.  And now, this.  It is beginning to look really bad for the Prosecutor.

Police investigating the Duke University lacrosse team on rape allegations “omitted” notes from a second dancer at the party, who told authorities the alleged victim had been drinking, was acting “crazy” and that her colleague’s accusation was a “crock,” a defense attorney said Thursday. (snip)

“Precious [the accuser] became ‘crazy’ and eventually passed out and had to be carried to Pittman’s car by some of the Duke athletes,” the statement says.

The Duke rape case is falling apart before our eyes.  And its looking more and more like the Durham, North Carolina prosecutor was using this case for re-election purposes.  It is incredible someone would purposefully destroy the lives of some young men purely for political reasons.  If it turns out the DA knew this woman was lying before he brought changes against the players, he should be disbarred.

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