Saturday, June 05, 2004
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." -- Alexis De Tocqueville
"Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual." -- Walter Williams
posted by Mark Saturday, June 05, 2004
Friday, June 04, 2004
The Democratic Party has come unhinged.
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
Good news for the American Worker. Bad news for Kerry & the rest of the democrats...
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
John Ross explains why we fight wars
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of "no war at any cost" are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.
It would be nice if there were a way around this. History, not merely my opinion, shows us that there is not. If all you are willing to do is think happy thoughts, then those are the consequences. If you want justice, and freedom, and safety, and prosperity, then sometimes you have to fight for them.
posted by Leslie Friday, June 04, 2004
Another example of Michael Moore actively avoiding the whole truth.
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
Coffee shop chatter, June 3
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
Croooow Blog points out the true depths that the left have fallen to.
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
Andrew Sullivan says: The Bush-haters are beginning to make Clinton-haters look subtle.
Hmmm...perhaps we have a violation of federal hate speech here...
If this bit of hatred can get that idiotic bit of federal law removed, it might serve some useful purpose.
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
Ok, maybe not so humble:
Enter the humble blogger. True, the percentage of Internet users who report they view blogs regularly is still low. But even then, we're talking some 31 million regular blog viewers. Admittedly, some blogs are about knitting, snow-boarding, or origami. Others are authored by navel-gazing college students, polyamorists, vegan anarchists, or self-declared alcoholics detailing each wretched night's debauch. But watch out for many of the rest. Their reach grows.
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
posted by Mark Friday, June 04, 2004
Thursday, June 03, 2004
This is what Women To Arms! Has to say about my RKBA pages:
Contains a large selection of links, and the largest selection of RKBA related quotes that WTA has found on the Internet. Mark Urbin, will amaze you with all of the tidbits that he has published at this site for our information.
posted by Mark Thursday, June 03, 2004
What They Really Think...
posted by Mark Thursday, June 03, 2004
Ray Bradbury: "Michael Moore is an asshole"
posted by Mark Thursday, June 03, 2004
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
KERRYOPOLY!
posted by Mark Wednesday, June 02, 2004
The Old Man And The Marine.
posted by Mark Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Canada and air emissions.
posted by Mark Wednesday, June 02, 2004
"EVERY WAR WITH FASCISM IS OUR BUSINESS:" An interesting interview with the sole survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. "Those who say that you don't have to fight for freedom, don't understand what fascism is. I do."
posted by Mark Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
One year ago today, I was discussing Senator Schumer (far left liberal democrat NY).
The points are still valid.
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
I remember seeing the video clip showing an Apache attacking Iraqis.
It seems that it was edited, in Michael Moore style, by a far left radical to cast the crew in the worst possible light.
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
One can even find a negative trend in a 48% reduction in the fatality rate, as long as one is sufficiently determined to do so.
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Can anybody on the left give a valid explaination why Sudan is on the U.N. Human Rights Commission?
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
More on Rolling Thunder.
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
New evidence of a link between Iraq and al Qaeda.
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
The OpinionJournal Electoral College Calculator.
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
- Henry V, IV.3
posted by Mark Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Monday, May 31, 2004
Hitler is not President Bush
posted by Leslie Monday, May 31, 2004
Senator Kerry rolls over for special interest groups.
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
It's pretty clear who Al Gore has been using as a model for his new speaking style.
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
Why Tiananmen is not forgotten
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
Kerry Says Global Democracy Is Not His Top Issue. What is you have to wonder?
Appeasing the French or finding an even richer woman to marry probably top the list.
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
A few things not allowed at Ted Kennedy's Memorial Day Cookout
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
Good stuff over at Right Voices.
posted by Mark Monday, May 31, 2004
Text of President Bush's speech Saturday at the dedication of the World War II Memorial:
posted by Leslie Monday, May 31, 2004
Sunday, May 30, 2004
The Dead Senator Sketch
posted by Mark Sunday, May 30, 2004
Joseph Kellard Has A Question:
While growing up during the Cold War era, I'd seen many movies and documentaries and read books, both in and outside of Oceanside schools, about Hitler's atrocities. Why then did it take me until my late-20s to finally discover the collective horrors committed by Communist dictators?
I've become so fascinated with this question that I plan to write a book answering why communism's legacy -- marked by widespread poverty and unprecedented mass death (an estimated 100 million people were killed under Marxist regimes) -- is far less known and taught compared with Nazism's history.
posted by Leslie Sunday, May 30, 2004
Rolling Thunder to visit the White House.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 30, 2004
Astinthe & Cookies asks if Senator Kerry has no shame.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 30, 2004
Imagine if President Bush made this gaff. Since it was Senator Kerry, you read about in blogs, and not as the lead story on CBS, NBC, ABC & CNN.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 30, 2004
“How Dare Al Gore Disgrace this Nation”
posted by Mark Sunday, May 30, 2004
Clinton to rescue Kerry? Warning to the Senator from the PRM, Beware of Clintons bearing gifts...
posted by Mark Sunday, May 30, 2004
posted by Mark Sunday, May 30, 2004
Saturday, May 29, 2004
Robert Alt lists the Liberals' Creed:
We believe that the Iraq war was unilateral. We believe that the participation of Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, and Ukraine does not change the fact that the war was unilateral; We believe that multilateralism can only be achieved with the participation of France and Germany; We believe in multilateralism.
We believe that this war was motivated by greed and oil;
We believe that when France, Germany, and Russia opposed the war, they were motivated by principle, and not by sweetheart oil deals or Oil-For-Food kickbacks;
We believe that US oil prices are too high, and that the administration failed in its responsibility to do something about it.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 29, 2004
More Algore hypocrisy. Set to Video pointing out just how he's just sooo wrong.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 29, 2004
President Bush proves once again that he does more real good for Africa than the so-called "Black" President Billy Jeff Clinton ever did.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 29, 2004
Friday, May 28, 2004
Another example of liberals just making shit up.
posted by Mark Friday, May 28, 2004
Jane Galt coins a good term: Kerrystan
posted by Mark Friday, May 28, 2004
The Memorial Day Project
posted by Mark Friday, May 28, 2004
DNC sticks the citizens of the Boston area with a $50 Million tab.
If Senator Kerry had any concept of fairness, he would reimburse the city out of campaign funds.
posted by Mark Friday, May 28, 2004
Flip, flop, flip...for a liberal, this is "consistency."
posted by Mark Friday, May 28, 2004
Al Gore or Al Jazeera?
posted by Mark Friday, May 28, 2004
Abstinthe & Cookies points out that the Clinton Attack Dog Sidney Blumenthal is still a lying sack of shit.
posted by Mark Friday, May 28, 2004
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Just how damn desperate are the democrats? Is there nobody in their entire bloody party worthy of being John Kerry's VP?
It appears not. Kerry needs a Republican pull ahead in the polls. Perhaps being the most liberal member of the Senate is catching up with him.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
Hypocrisy from the left. It's as natural to them as breathing. They complain non-stop if a Republican President mentions God, but had no problem with Bill Clinton's church front photo ops, with the Bible he was carrying getting bigger and bigger as he got into more trouble. Having the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson over to provide "counseling" was OK in their book too.
They didn't have any problems with the religious beliefs of these democrat Presidents either:
"And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God." -- President John Kennedy's inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1961.
"No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion — a revival that would sweep through the homes of the nation and stir the hearts of men and women of all faiths to a reassertion of their belief in God and their dedication to His will for themselves and for their world." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If we ignore the spiritual foundations of our birth as a nation, we do so at our peril. It took a faith in God to win our freedoms." -- Harry S Truman
"Democracies rest on faith," -- Lyndon B. Johnson
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
There's no way that someone who didn't have a plan would say the word plan that many times. Unless that was the plan.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
HARD ROCK VS. CHOMSKY: via Andrew Sullivan:
Here's a delightful interview with rock star, John Schaffer, of the heavy metal group, Iced Earth, by a young Chomsky-reading Canadian leftist for the online magazine, Brave Words and Brass Knuckles. Money quote:
BW&BK;: "This next question is controversial so I'm letting you know before we proceed. Some political analysts have articulated the view that what happened on September 11 was justified due to America's presence in the Middle East, specifically Saudi Arabia. Some political analysts view it as retaliation for what the US has done in the Middle East in the past. As a Canadian, I'm interested in hearing what you have to say about this view that's been put forth by analysts."
JS: "No, it wasn't justified. Not at all. And anybody who says so needs to have their fuckin' head examined."
BW&BK;: "Do you think 9/11 will be viewed as the first event in the US empire's decline and fall?"
JS: "No. This is not an empire, first of all. If the United States was an empire, your country would be our 51st state."
BW&BK;: "I understand."
No he doesn't understand. Read the whole thing. Parts of it are marvelous.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
Ann Coulter raises some good points:
The terrorist "stronghold" of Karbala was abandoned last week by Islamic crazies loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who slunk away when it became clear that no one supported them. Iraqis living in Karbala had recently distributed fliers asking the rebels to please leave, further underscoring one of the principal remaining problems in Iraq – the desperate need for more Kinko's outlets. Last weekend, our troops patrolled this rebel "stronghold" without a shot being fired.
The entire Kurdish region – one-third of the country – is patrolled by about 300 American troops, which is fewer than it takes to patrol the Kennedy compound in Palm Beach on Easter weekends.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
Good news for America, which, true to form, is bad news for democrats.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
The U.N. isn't all bad, they sponser a bunch of "booze soaked Orgies." Too bad it's on your dime...
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
"Gore did not used to be like this. He was a sane, sober, well-bought politician. Now he is a spittle-flecked lunatic, a raving psychotic, who 3.5 years ago was 600-odd votes away from the nukular football." -- Velociworld
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
Jim Dyke nails it:
"Al Gore served as Vice President of this country for eight years. During that time, Osama Bin Laden declared war on the United States five times and terrorists killed US citizens on at least four different occasions including the first bombing of the World Trade Center, the attacks on Khobar Towers, our embassies in East Africa, and the USS Cole."
"Al Gore’s attacks on the President today demonstrate that he either does not understand the threat of global terror, or he has amnesia."
posted by Mark Thursday, May 27, 2004
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
A Super Partisan Nursery Rhyme, and accurate to boot...
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 26, 2004
It seems that the liberal democrat John Kerry who needs a history lesson.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
From the Best of the Web:
The Democratic Party is in a morally hazardous position: Its interests coincide with the interests of America's enemies. We get e-mails from Bush-haters who are positively giddy at every setback in Iraq, which they see as setbacks for President Bush--never mind that they're also, and more importantly, setbacks for America and for the Iraqi people.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 25, 2004
How Chinagate Led to 9/11
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 25, 2004
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Near space on the cheap!
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Monday, May 24, 2004
CD Harris on goofy leftie conspiracies.
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
Liberal multi-millionaire Barbra Streisand ignores the rule of law and refuses to pay legal fees as instructed by the Court.
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
Guess what lefties, Islamic terrorists hate you too!
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
Yet another example of how Michael Moore lies continously.
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
Just when did the buck stop where?
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
Here is a New Yorker screaming at the [liberal] radio.
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
"Roosevelt did not have to deal with one problem Bush faces today. And that is that today's press works to put the worst possible face on the war." -- Michael Barone
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
It seems that some democrats are fuzzy on that "Seperation of Church & State" thing, when they start telling Religious leaders what they can and can not do. As RadioBS puts it:
My problem with this, is the apparent hypocrisy that is taking place here. Nancy and 47 of her like-minded friends pressuring the Bishop not to withhold the sacraments... Isn't this the "State" butting into the "Church's" affairs? It is completely within the Church's right to withhold the sacraments to anyone the Church leaders deem unworthy.
It is the Pope's responsibility to hold the Church to God's standards, laid out in the Bible, not to society's standards. And definitely not those of the 48 liberals who pressured the Bishop.
posted by Mark Monday, May 24, 2004
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Somebody who hasn't been paying attention to how the far left operates says the following about hardcore Anti-Semitism at Berkely:
Weinberg graduates this month as a student whose days at Cal were marked by what he calls "pinnacles of horror," in the pinched tone of a man betrayed. He remembers pro-Palestinian protesters insisting that Israeli border crossings are as bad as Nazi death camps. He remembers the glass front door of Berkeley's Hillel building -- where he attends Friday night services -- shattered by a cinderblock, with the message FUCK JEWS scrawled nearby. He remembers the spray-painted swastikas discovered one Monday morning last September on the walls of four lecture rooms in LeConte Hall accompanied by the chilling bilingual message, "Die, Juden. " . . .
Such anti-Semitism has always seemed the sinister province of fascists and neo-Nazis, Spanish Inquisitors and tattooed skinheads. How topsy-turvy, then, to discover that some of the most virulent anti-Semitism in America today seethes amid the multicultural ferment of American college campuses. And at UC Berkeley, which owes as much of its allure to radical rhetoric as to academic excellence, it thrives.
Berkely, the poster child for far left liberal democrat activism still mirrors the heart and soul of that movement.
Why American Jews support democrats (including their token Klansman in the Senate) is being coming harder and harder to understand.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 23, 2004
A proper education is important!
posted by Mark Sunday, May 23, 2004
Strength, an essay. Long, but worth reading.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 23, 2004
Saturday, May 22, 2004
Bad news for the Victim disarmament crowd.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 22, 2004
Women of the IDF
posted by Mark Saturday, May 22, 2004
A trailer for the new Michael Moore movie.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 22, 2004
It's time for some apologies.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 22, 2004
The rise and Fall of Err America.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 22, 2004
What did the editors at the Boston Globe know and when did they know it?
posted by Mark Saturday, May 22, 2004
My friend Leslie Bates sent me this interesting link
It seams that 4 out 5 people over at filmthreat.com would not give propagandist Michael Moore a 15-minute standing ovation.
The interesting question, that wasn't asked, is just what would they give him?
Keep in mind that Moore continues the tradition of Goebbels in fine fashion.
Of course the French love his work. Remember that it was the French "art" community who rolled over and spread for the Germans.
Hell, they set a new land speed record for rolling over and spreading.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 22, 2004
Friday, May 21, 2004
Some more on Sarin.
posted by Mark Friday, May 21, 2004
DNC screws over the people of Boston for their convention.
posted by Mark Friday, May 21, 2004
Thursday, May 20, 2004
"But speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well, it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities." - Christopher Hitchens on "Scarborough Country," last night. Tip of the hat to Andrew Sullivan for the quote.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 20, 2004
Finally, a good picture of Michael Moore. Thanks Rachel!
posted by Mark Thursday, May 20, 2004
Our enemy is not each other, but the terrorists who attacked us....
The blame should be put on one source alone, the terrorists who killed our loved ones.
- Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani to the 9/11 Commission
posted by Mark Thursday, May 20, 2004
What did Koffi know and when did he know it?
posted by Mark Thursday, May 20, 2004
Another example of why it just doesn't make sense for American Jews to support democrats.
From the Washington Times:
Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, South Carolina Democrat, is defending statements he made in a newspaper opinion article that President Bush went to war with Iraq to protect Israel and appease American Jews.
Mr. Hollings refused to talk with the State newspaper in Columbia about the article on Tuesday, but his office released a letter the retiring senator sent a constituent as a statement, the Associated Press reports.
Mr. Hollings wrote that he could provide quotes from Jewish leaders in the United States and Israel to support his position. Mr. Hollings says characterizations of his comments as "anti-Jewish" are ridiculous.
Mr. Hollings' column appeared in three South Carolina newspapers earlier this month.
Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, asked Mr. Hollings to retract his comments
posted by Mark Thursday, May 20, 2004
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Four down, two to go...
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Let's have a cheer for our British allies!
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
A Selective Outrage
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Sarin? What Sarin?
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
AT THE WASHINGTON POST, IT'S THE LOGIC THAT'S TORTURED
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
A Blog list
Doug Berry
The "Average American"
Cheng Tseng
Moxie's wireless blog
Pejmanesque
The Bitch Girls
Rachel Lucas
Brothers Judd
The Wrong Side of History
The Oriental Redneck
Living In The Surreal World, a blog by Lesile Bates
James Hom's Blog
Ipse Dixit
Crow Blog
Protein Wisdom
Little Green Footballs
The Smallest Minority
Jane Galt
The Spoon Experience
Boots and Sabers
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
What, you haven't heard about the fact that a former governor admitted having sex with a 14-year-old girl while in office, and later paid her hush money? Get in line...)
I'm sure the lack of coverage has nothing to do with his political affiliation...[for the clue challenged, He is a democrat.]
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Hmmm...it seems that Iraq never declared any 155mm artillery shells loaded with binary nerve agents.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
More grandstanding by a democrat member of the 9/11 Commission. No surprise here.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
According to Gazi George, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist, the Sarin loaded shell will be the first in a series of discoveries of such weapons.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Mr Reynolds points out an "extremely fortunate accident."
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Our Australian cousins have a HUGE AND LINK-RICH ROUNDUP OF GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
It's 22:30 Eastern Time. The Fox News website leads with the Sarin Gas story.
The CNN website makes no mention of the story.
Seems the old "Clinton News Network" is still deciding it's stories based on input from the DNC...
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Bowling for 9/11, another collection of lies and shit he just makes up.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
'9/11' FLICK HAS FAR 'MOORE' FIZZLE THAN SIZZLE
Some quotes:
"virulent feature-length attack on Bush"
"You will see things you haven't seen before and learn things you have not learned before," [Moore] vowed on Sunday.
Well, maybe if you spent the last three years hiding in a cave in Afghanistan.
Mostly Moore dusts off a litany of old accusations against the president - whom he portrays as both a buffoon and a world-class conspirator
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Amateur rocket fired into space
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
True words from the folks over at Boots and Sabers:
The source of prosperity is well-known and proven: liberty. If the U.N. would do more to spread liberty throughout the world, they would reach all of their stated goals.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Oil-for-Food scandal: The French Connection
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Exactly how inept is the Kerry campaign? It's a question worth pondering after Kerry's pronouncement last week that "When Bill Clinton left office, not one young American in uniform was dying in a war anywhere in this world." That remark is as meaningless as it is stupid.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Jane Galt is declaring the downturn officially over.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
A Decades-Long Slow-Motion Hate Crime
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
A collection of political books I recommend and Political ficion, Libertarian style
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Bitter Bitch makes a damn good observation about Zoning Laws in Taxachusetts.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
David Kay said the following a year and a half ago:
When it comes to the U.N. weapons inspection in Iraq, looking for a smoking gun is a fool's mission. That was true 11 years ago when I led the inspections there. It is no less true today -- even after the seemingly important discovery on Thursday of a dozen empty short-range missile warheads left over from the 1980s.
The only job the inspectors can expect to accomplish is confirming whether Iraq has voluntarily disarmed. That is not a task that need take months more. And last week's cache is irrelevant in answering that question, regardless of the U.N.'s final determination. That's because the answer is already clear: Iraqi is in breach of U.N. demands that it dismantle its weapons of mass destruction.
Glenn Reynolds goes on a bit more on the subject and how it relates to the artillery shell filled with Sarin gas today.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Monday, May 17, 2004
More on the coverage of the Sarin Nerve Agent found in Iraq.
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
Images of the Iraq War...not the ones Peter Jennings/Dan Rather/other talking head shows...
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
An artillery round loaded with Sarin gas exploded in Iraq.
This WMD delivery device (with the WMD agent still in it) was "of an old style that Saddam Hussein's regime had declared it no longer possessed after the Persian Gulf War."
To quote The Bride, "I guess that makes him a liar as well."
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
Boots and Sabers points out that if people would clean up their own damn mess, the US wouldn't be paying in blood to do it for them.
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
Jerry Springer. democrat delegate. Good to see they are keeping to the high road...
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
Cox & Forkum give us some insight into that poll data the Boston Globe won't run either...
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
Poll data that won't get covered by Dan Rather.
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
While we're on the subject of worrying way too much about dangerous Iraqi's trying to join American College fraternities:
More Human Rights Abuses on a horrific scale in Africa that nobody at the NY Times/Boston Globe/NPR could care less about...
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
The latest issue of Newsweek has on it's cover a picture of an alleged Iraqi prisoner stripped, tied to a bed frame, and the worst of all, has a pair of pink panties on his head. Is this a dangerous Iraqi who longs for the days of Saddam or a pledge trying to enter the Delta Iota Kappa fraternity?
Moderate democrat Senator Zell Miller, sums up the problem with American media coverage nicely:
"Those who are wringing their hands and shouting so loudly for 'heads to roll' over [the abuse] seem to have conveniently overlooked the fact that someone's head has rolled - that of another innocent American brutally murdered by terrorists. Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?"
posted by Mark Monday, May 17, 2004
Sunday, May 16, 2004
If you have read enough about Abu Ghraib, try this story:
Saddam had their hands cut off. America gave them new ones.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 16, 2004
Spanish troops returning from Iraq say, "We let our allies down."
Quotes from the troops:
"We left our coalition colleagues behind and abandoned the local people, who are living in wretched conditions."
"We felt used and let down by the politicians. Zapatero made the move purely for his own popularity."
"He did not address us and the king did not come. No thanks were given. There was no encouragement for the job we did," said Sgt García. "It was a celebration for Mr Zapatero."
"I would not want to exaggerate but it is a little like the American troops returning from Vietnam. There were no thanks. You came back and you could feel the indifference."
posted by Mark Sunday, May 16, 2004
Precisely the opposite of what left wing liberal pundits predicted. Hardly a surprise
posted by Mark Sunday, May 16, 2004
Senator Zell Miller, a thinking man's democrat, speaks out on the ultra-left wing, liberal John Kerry.
The learned Senator Miller sums up the Brahmin Kerry quite well:
"Look, John Kerry couldn't find Main Street with both hands, You can't make a chicken swim and you can't make John Kerry anything but an out-of-touch ultraliberal from Taxachusetts."
"With John Kerry on national security, it's vacillate, retreat and turn over to the U.N.
With John Kerry on domestic policy, it's tax, spend and redistribute income."
posted by Mark Sunday, May 16, 2004
Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the Arab Response to Berg Insufficient.
To say the least...
posted by Mark Sunday, May 16, 2004
posted by Mark Sunday, May 16, 2004
Yes, Virginia, there really is a gaping media double standard
posted by Mark Sunday, May 16, 2004
Saturday, May 15, 2004
Some of my stray pictures
posted by Mark Saturday, May 15, 2004
A Liberal's Sad Resignation
Welcome to the real world...
posted by Mark Saturday, May 15, 2004
Don't forget that today is Armed Forces Day!
posted by Mark Saturday, May 15, 2004
Words from Mr. Reynolds:
DONALD SENSING HAS A ROUNDUP OF SCANDALS INVOLVING UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FORCES and it's pretty damning stuff.
posted by Mark Saturday, May 15, 2004
Friday, May 14, 2004
Moral High Ground?
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
Glenn Reynolds asks: " If you make a death threat on a radio network no one listens to, does it make a sound?"
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
Dan Kenney, writting in the left wing Boston Phoenix, goes off on criminally sloppy reporting at the Boston Globe.
Heads should roll at the Globe, but probably won't.
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
A CALL FOR CARL LEVIN TO RESIGN OVER PRISONER ABUSE!
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
Here are more details.
Perhaps the liberal Senator Kerry should take a high road page from former Senator Dole and resign.
The Wall Street Journal sums up the argument well:
There's an easy solution: Kerry should quit the Senate, as Bob Dole did in June 1996. This not only would allow the appointment of a full-time replacement but also would demonstrate Kerry's own confidence in his presidential campaign, possibly giving a boost to his party's morale.
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
Private spaceship sets altitude record
Way Cool!
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
Err American having problems (no surprise there). From the Inside Politics column of the Washington Times:
Air America has shut its sales offices in Los Angeles and Chicago and is recasting its business plan, the network's president said Wednesday as troubles beset the liberal talk-show network.
With Air America not broadcasting in those two cities after a financial dispute in April, network President Jon Sinton said, "There's not much sense in having sales offices in cities where you don't control a station."
About 15 to 20 people were laid off in the closing of the sales offices, the latest sign of problems for Air America, launched on March 31 as a liberal alternative to the country's predominantly conservative talk-show culture led by Rush Limbaugh.
Since it started, Chairman Evan Cohen, Vice Chairman Rex Sorensen and head of programing David Logan have left while co-founder Mark Walsh has stepped down as chief executive to take a smaller role in the organization, Reuters news agency reports.
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
Friends and neighbors of hometown businessman Nicholas Berg said yesterday his beheading by Islamists in Iraq has been underplayed by journalists, who are devoting more attention to the Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal.
Read the whole article.
posted by Mark Friday, May 14, 2004
In Answer To Certain Paranoid Rantings Of Liberals:
If Conservatives dealt with the adherents of Lib�ralisme Moderne the way the Left has dealt with humans in general whenever the Left has obtained unrestrained power, there wouldn't be any Liberals left standing. Of the universities and the urban centers of Liberalism there would be nothing left but smoking ruins, and there would mass graves from coast to coast.
For the left to admit that there is a better, morally superior, way to deal with political disagreement would in effect be an act of self-condemnation.
I would expect Hell to freeze over before that happens.
-- Les
posted by Leslie Friday, May 14, 2004
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Democrat Legislators Sexually Exploit Interns
Gosh! What a surprise!
posted by Leslie Thursday, May 13, 2004
A Glimspe of True Islam
posted by Leslie Thursday, May 13, 2004
KERRY ONLY ONE POINT AHEAD OF BUSH IN CALIFORNIA?
If California is in play, Kerry's in big trouble.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 13, 2004
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
A review of Err America. Here are some of the highlights:
I tuned in, expecting to hear sober policy analysis mixed with glee over President Bush's political pickle.
Instead, I got 10 hours of rancid venom directed at the President, Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, the Catholic Church and anyone else the hosts felt like slamming. If you're a card-carrying lib who likes crude sex jokes and a cartoonish echo chamber, Air America is for you.
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During a day of torture by radio, I heard ads for Hewlett-Packard, Greyhound and, especially, General Motors. I asked GM why it appeared in such shows.
Ryndee Carney, GM's manager of marketing communications, said the ads were wrongly picked up from an earlier deal with WLIB. She said the station was ordered to "cease and desist" yesterday, and added: "GM will not advertise on any Air America affiliates."
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 12, 2004
At least he has the good sense not to appoint any democrats to the job...
Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry said on Wednesday Republican Sen. John McCain topped his list for defense secretary
This may just be wishful thinking on my part, as Kerry tries to pull his campaign out of it's current quagmire, which has a lot of democrats saying that he is unelectable.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Did the fact that Nick Berg was Jewish have anything to do with his murder by Arab Terrorists?
Did the major news organization you heard this from bother to mention this fact?
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Leslie Bate's blog has a new look. Same attitude. Check it out.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 12, 2004
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 12, 2004
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
The Torricelling of Kerry
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
8 Palestinians hurt in Hamas-Fatah gunfight
Personally, I'm not losing any sleep over this.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
A Dozen Questions for the Anti-War crowd.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
A Marine you won't hear about on CNN, ABC, CBS or NBC...
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
More Prisoner Abuse in Iraq!
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Another example of liberal Hate Speech.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
An update on the "so-called" Mehdi Army
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
The weekly roundup of media bias relating to guns
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Mr. Reynolds has still more on UNSCAM:
We have every confidence Mr. Volcker will lead a thorough investigation, but the public should not be asked to take it on faith that he will be given access to all information and rely on his interpretation alone. As the above-quoted contract makes clear, the Secretary-General has the authority to waive all these confidentiality agreements. The fact that Kofi Annan has chosen instead to pursue a campaign of legal intimidation is a pretty good indication that he intends as much of a whitewash as he can get away with. . . .
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
More hypocrisy from the Left!
Liberal democrat Senator John Kerry lets his wife play the attack dog, but "warns Warns Opponents Not to Attack His Wife."
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Another kind, understanding, friend of the common man, liberal democrat in action.
posted by Mark Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Monday, May 10, 2004
Big Media failed the country before 9/11.
posted by Mark Monday, May 10, 2004
Chicks & Guns. No, it's not that, but a very interesting argument about different types of women's rights.
posted by Mark Monday, May 10, 2004
Boots and Sabers has a great Patton speech online. You should read it.
posted by Mark Monday, May 10, 2004
Protein Wisdom strikes again!
posted by Mark Monday, May 10, 2004
posted by Mark Monday, May 10, 2004
Sunday, May 09, 2004
My Amazon wish list.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 09, 2004
A post from one year ago, that is still topical.
posted by Mark Sunday, May 09, 2004
posted by Mark Sunday, May 09, 2004
Hillary's Secret War
It's starting to look like a part of Leslie's story Homecoming my be starting to unfold...
posted by Mark Sunday, May 09, 2004
Richard Poe, Author and Journalist
posted by Mark Sunday, May 09, 2004
Friday, May 07, 2004
Boots and Sabers makes some rather on target comments about Err America and it's primary host.
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
Larry Miller, making damn good sense. Here is a sample, but read the whole thing:
Ah, but you see, half measures are, in fact, exactly what Mr. Annan and the United Nations want, because that's the way they work. Remember, this is the organization that literally and figuratively pulled its trucks over to the side of the road in Rwanda and let the jeeps full of machete-wielding murderers roll from town to town until they had hacked up all the screaming people they could find. Apparently, the U.N. follows some goofy Star Trek Prime Directive of "Never get involved."
Hey, bonehead, the only reason there ought to be a United Nations in the first place is so that you do get involved, so that every so often you put your baby blue helmets in between the bad guys and the screaming people before they get chopped up. That's the reason you have such a big, tall, pretty building in Manhattan, you know, not to go to cocktail parties on the Upper East Side and chat up the local, needy blondes.
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
According to Joseph C. Wilson IV, remember him, Iraq really was trying to buy Yellow Cake Uranium.
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
ABU GHRAIB AND FEMINISM: It seems that Sheila Brownmiller and Andrea Dworkin really didn't know what they were talking about...
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
What did Koffi know and when did he know it?
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
Cool...North Korea & Syria please take note.
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
Communist China Shuts More Than 8,600 Internet Cafes
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
It's pretty much official now. When ever Michael Moore's lips are moving, he's lying.
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
WMDs found in Jordan, brought over from Syria.
Jordan recently seized 20 tons of chemicals trucked in by confessed al Qaeda members who brought the stuff in from Syria. The chemicals included VX, Sarin and 70 others. But the media seems curiously incurious about whether one could reasonably trace this stuff back to Iraq. Had the terrorists released a "toxic cloud," Jordanian officials say 80,000 would have died!
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
More bad news for liberal democrats!
Payrolls have risen now for eight straight months, with 867,000 new jobs created so far this year
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
Dick Morris has a few words on the timing of Bill Clinton's book.
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
Err America misses payroll. Whoops!
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
Hey! Rachel Lucas is back!
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
It's a legally protected parody. Support the 1st amendment!
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
It looks like Boston is going to be stuck with bill for the democrat convention.
posted by Mark Friday, May 07, 2004
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Speaking of Propaganda...
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
From a conservative LJ group:
The difference between Republicans and Dems in foreign policy...
Republicans want to see a victory.
Democrats want an exit strategy.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
CD Harris goes off on Terry McAuliffe.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
It's worth repeating, Smell the Coverup!
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
Maidenjedi says the following about Michael Moore's latest hit peice (Another film that I'm sure Goebbels would be proud of):
Film companies and other Hollywood entities are under no obligation to promote, pay for, or otherwise endorse politically motivated films/television shows/etc. Why? Because "freedom of speech" is about being able to say what you wish without fearing *imprisonment* or *execution* or some lesser form of *legal* punishment. Freedom of speech isn't about being able to make money off what you say, or being able to rely on corporate America to spread your message for you.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
I've been trying to block out a lot of the Carter years, and Leslie Bates reminds me why.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
Further proof that far left liberals are anti-Israel.
Why so many American Jews are democrats is getting harder to understand.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
With President Bush, this is a genuine emotional moment.
If this was former President Clinton, we would be wondering if he was copping a feel.
At least he could pull it off. I just can't imagine John Kerry even attempting such a thing.
It is one of the reasons he is probably unelectable.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
Or as my friend John wrote as satire a few months back:
By this point, the coffee was working on me, and the other Koffi was following close on my heels. I went to the men's room, and opened the door to one of the stalls. These stalls, incidentally, are not like regular bathroom stalls: they are more like closets with a toilet. My eyes grew wide.
"I can't believe it!" I said. "It's the several billion dollars unaccounted for from the United Nations Food for Oil program!"
"But I thought that was in Switzer -- I mean, are you sure?" Anan asked me, surprised
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
It seems the UN is stonewalling on the Oil For Food Scandal.
This smells of a coverup!
What did Koffi know and when did he know it?
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
More about the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
David Horowitz points out that only half the political community in American is fighting the war on Terrorism.
The other half actively supports terrorists.
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
CNN gives more coverage of prisoner abuse in a week than they gave Saddam's torture and mass murder in a decade.
Slightly over a year ago, I asked WHAT DID CNN KNOW, AND WHEN DID IT KNOW IT?
posted by Mark Thursday, May 06, 2004
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Cool! I see Andrew Sullivan is using a term I've been using for a while, "the Black Helicopter crowd on the far left"
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Another one for the "If Bush Did This, We'd Never Hear The End Of It" Files.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 05, 2004
"If National Review could can Coulter, the mainstream left can certainly can Rall. My bet is: they won't. Nothing should be allowed to detract from the war against Bush. Not even elemental decency and taste." -- More good sense talk from Andrew Sullivan. Read the whole thing.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Andrew Sullivan explains Why Liberal Talk Radio Fails
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Dick Morris' new book, Rewriting History.
Chapter One: Deconstructing Hillary.
posted by Mark Wednesday, May 05, 2004
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