NPR Still Lamenting 'American Concentration Camp' in Hollywood

Mass murder in real concentration camps in the Soviet Union are ancient history to National Public Radio, but the cause of poor, blacklisted communists in Hollywood charging America was a concentration camp is still a fresh and poignant soundbite. On the June 17 edition of All Things Considered, anchor Melissa Block championed a forthcoming new documentary about communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, made by Peter Askin and Trumbo’s son Christopher and featuring big celebrities like Michael Douglas. It amazes me that 50 years after the fact, the leftist media is still denying that there were communists in this country during the cold war who were trying to use our guaranteed freedoms to destroy our country from within.

Youth Voters are backing The Wrong Candidate

This boomer generation is easily frightened. Whether it's global warming, the economic crisis, the war, the Chicken Little boomers are a far cry from the Americans who built this country on fortitude and faith and had a can-do attitude.

It may be too late for this crowd but the young have a shot if they only learn to wake up and think for themselves. They're Internet savvy and can do their own research to discover that global warming is a natural phenomenon; that the term carbon footprints was invented to line the pockets of pseudo climatologists; that the foreclosure hysteria only involves two percent of houses and these can be attributed to credit fraud and stupidity; and that tax breaks benefit everybody. As for the issue of Iraq, read Michael Yon's, " Moment of Truth In Iraq" for the real story of the war and the phenomenal heroism of your generation.


The young voter seems to be enthralled with the idea of change. How about the electorate changing to one that will finally use common sense to select our leaders? The next president should be one who believes this is a great country that he or she would be willing to die for. Nuff said.

Why Did These Liberals Lie About Weapons of Mass Destruction?

As the war in Iraq becomes more unpopular with an increasing number of Americans, Democrats in collusion with the liberal mainstream media, continue to politicize the war by blatantly distorting the facts.

For example, a popular refrain is that President Bush lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in order to implement a grand strategy fashioned by neo-conservatives well before Bush actually took office. Said strategy was supposedly aimed at using military force to install democratic regimes friendly to the U.S. throughout the Middle East.

However, the left has never adequately answered the following question. If Bush knew there was no WMD, why would he send 150,000 troops into Iraq since his “lie” would be immediately exposed by invading coalition forces and reported by a large contingent of media embedded within those forces?

Liberals also choose to ignore United Nations Resolution 144I, which clearly established that Iraq had WMD. That resolution was approved unanimously by the UN member nations.

Besides the illogic in claiming that President Bush lied about WMD, the liberal argument is discredited by comments by Democrats themselves in the years and months leading up to the 2003 invasion.

Herewith a substantial collection of quotes from responsible professionals about Saddam Hussein and WMD in Iraq.

Obama criticizes absent McCain on Senate floor, McCain hits back hard

Jim Webb's GI Bill passed the Senate today with a bipartisan majority, 75-22. Clinton and Obama were both there, but McCain is in California today on the fund-raising trail.

Obama used the opportunity to once again tie his rival to the president.

"I respect Sen. John McCain's service to our country," Obama said on the Senate floor this morning. "He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can't understand why he would line up behind the president in opposition to this GI Bill. I can't believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue."

The McCain campaign responded by issuing a sharply worded and lengthy statement in the senator's name. McCain notes his support for an alternative to the Webb measure, but points out his own military service and points out Obama's lack thereof.


Thwapp!

Barack Gaffes

The Obama machine.

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine.

U.N. Suspends Aid to Myanmar After Government Seizes Shipments

The U.N. World food Program has suspended aid shipments to Myanmar after the country's military government seized all the food and equipment that had been flown into the country for cyclone victims.

WFP spokesman Paul Risley said Friday that all "the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated." The shipment included 38 tons of high-energy biscuits. He said the WFP "has no choice" but to suspend further aid shipments until the matter is resolved.

The man-made disaster in Myanmar

By Michelle Malkin • May 9, 2008 08:26 AM
A monstrous cyclone in Myanmar has been followed by monstrous inhumanity by the country’s military dictatorship. The UN announced this morning that it was suspending food aid after the junta seized humanitarian shipments. This comes after the regime refused to issue visas to international aid workers.

"Myanmar’s generals now join the ranks of history’s great tyrants – despots like Stalin, Mao, North Korea’s Kim dynasty – who were willing to allow the masses die of hunger and disease rather than yield the least bit of control."


One of the commentors in this article asks a pertinent question: "If Myanmar is not accepting money and aid then WHY is Google trying to collect money for the victims and where is that Google money being held?" Inquiring minds indeed.

Once-secret Memos Question Clinton's Honesty

Here is a rather involved article that outlines the dishonesty that runs though the bones of Hillary Clinton. It describes her attempts to cover up the Whitewater investigation. In fairness, prosecutors too eight years and spent millions of taxpayer dollars without coming up with an indictment. It has always been questioned whether Mrs. Clinton pulled the strings. In fairness also, no one reaches the White House without having the entire world second guess every move.

Success Is Built On Work Ethic, Not Grievances

Sometimes unrelated events nevertheless tell a coherent story.

One newspaper story that caught my eye recently was about two high-powered schools in South Korea where Korean girls study 15 hours a day, preparing themselves for tests to get into elite colleges in the United States. Harvard, Yale and Princeton already have 34 students from those schools.

This article is actually about Obama. Interesting subject for discussion. I love stories of immigrants who take the opportunity afforded everyone in America and make it work. Actually, I love stories of anyone making the American Dream come true.

Says it all

I guess this makes me a cynic.

Iraq WMD Mystery solved

Here is an interview with a geopolitical analyst who outlines just what happened to those missing Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Interesting stuff here. Interesting also that don't hear about this on the nightly news.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21489.

Seeds of the Left

Here is an article that follows the growth of the leftist movement in America, from its insuspiscous beginnings at the University of Wisconsin, right on throught to the American Hating left of today. It's a bit long and deep, but it is worth reading.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/seeds_intellectual_destruction.html

Liberalism in the Media Incenses Me

I just froth when I see liberal attitudes pervading everyday life, portrayed by snobbish elites as the truth. They parade their vanity and their false wisdom to the unsuspecting among us, especially to those of us who are the least educated and the least able to see through their guile. Here is the latest example. Although it is liberals (Charles Rangle D - NY and John Kerry D - Mass.) that are touting the idea that only the poor and disadvantaged would volunteer in service to America, a liberal cartoonist can make it appear that this is a widespread belief among the educated, and that disagreeing with that idea is just, well, unthinkable. I notice that he also uses the word "retarded" to mean stupid. This thinking from people who would be the first to claim that they are sympathetic to the "differently abled" and would quake if they heard a conservative use such a term.

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20061122

That's just my tuppence for the day.

Tossing Kerry Overboard

And now, a political note. As the new democratic party leadership took control of the senate this week a strange thing happened. It happened in the glare of TV lights. It was surreal, like something from a political thriller. The new democratic bigwigs got together for a meeting and strode through the halls of the capitol. John Kerry was apparently not told of the meeting. Strange, as this man was the latest bright light to run for the highest office. But for a narrow margin he would have been the most powerful man on the planet. Now he is left looking for a meeting he wasn't invited to. When he caught up with the team, Chuck Shumer took him aside and said something brief. The team continued on ahead. john Kerry stepped back, out of the limelight, and between two columns, disappearing from the crowd. Here is a take on the incident from Canada. It says a lot about Kerry, the Democrats, and his future.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/burtis111706.htm

Would RFK have won in '68?

In keeping with the release of the new movie about Robert Kennedy, I found an interesting article discussing whether he had the votes necessary to have won in 1968 if he hadn't been killed. The short answer(from the article at least) is that he probably wouldn't have won, and that if he did, he probably wouldn't have been successful. Find out why and whether you agree.

http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/blog/200611_13_694.shtml

Discover the Network

This site is a guide to the political left. This is either a map to your side, or a description of the bad guys, depending on your political slant. I hope it helps aid in your understanding regardless of your affiliation. Oh, and Happy Election Day!

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/

Electoral-Vote.com

EV is an electionb tracking site. It is run by a self-avowed democrat, but the measurements used are very objective. He occasionally lets his guard down when discussing races, but his statistics are very accurate.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/