I’m Ready to Vote on Chavez’ U.N. Idea (VIDEO)

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | 3 Comments

How about you? You know, the one where he said he thought the U.N. ought to get out of the U.S.A.? I say, let’s do it and do it now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next month, not net year - let’s start TONIGHT. Pink slips, one-way plane tickets back home, impound all their [...]

Hugo Goes to Harlem (VIDEO)

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under Communism, News | 2 Comments

Seriously though, this video shows Hugo with some girl on his lap like a wicked Santa, whispering who-knows-what in her ear. This truly creeped me out. I wonder what he was saying to the girl? “You hate George Bush, right? You love Uncle Hugo, right? I will give your family lots of free money and [...]

McCain, Grahem and Warner Will Be Hungover In The Morning, There Is No Other Explanation

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off

First, a sincere thank you to the ACLU for giving its “blessing” to the “Detainee Deal.” Well, we consider their condemantion a blessing.
Some more detail that has come out.
Over at DailyKOS, they are less than pleased, “Torture: GOP Rebels Lay Down Their Arms, Take Up the Rubber Stamp.”
Altrios writes, “McCain sells out the country and [...]

“A Speech I’d Like to Hear” by Alastair Gordon

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under News | Comments Off

From Ms.U
Sometimes it’s just great to hear some stuff from OTO countries (other than ours). I’ve been a subscribing member of the Canadian Coalition for Democracies, and especially a fan of Alastair Gordon, whose prose is posted here. We have to remember that regardless of what the media tries to tell us, we DO [...]

Tribunal/Interogation Bill Is A Good Deal, Why? The ACLU Has Just Condemned It

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 4 Comments

A press release just in from the American Civil Liberties Union:
New Military Commissions Compromise Gives License to Abuse Prisoners,
ACLU Says Dangerous Proposal Must Be Rejected
WASHINGTON - Following announcements that an agreement has been reached between the White House and Senators John Warner (R-VA), John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on military commissions, the American [...]

Bush, McCain Reach Compromise On Tribunal Laws

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News, War On Terror | 10 Comments

Update: I knew it was coming sooner or later….the ACLU condemns it!
Hat tip: Allah Pundit via MSNBC
The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement Thursday on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror. President Bush urged Congress to put it into law before adjourning for the midterm [...]

A Soldiers Greatest Fear Is JAG Not al Queda

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off

Jed Babbin a former deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H.W. Bush administration writes what many Oak Leafs have been saying for weeks:
Sending these brave men and women into a holding cell to interrogate an al-Queda tough without clear rules of law is tantamount to sending a Marine out in the streets of Ramadi [...]

If It Is Wal Mart, It Can’t Be “Fair Dealing”

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment

A typical Democrat view of Wal Mart:
I think it is clear to most Americans that Wal-Mart represents a lot of things, but fair dealing and integrity are not Wal-Mart management’s strengths.
What “evil” are they up to now?
Wal-Mart announced today that it will start a test program in Florida, where it will sell generic prescription drugs [...]

We Need Senate Hearings On (Dropping) Gas Prices NOW

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment

John McCain when gas prices go up:
In response to escalating gas prices in Arizona and California, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) yesterday sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking the Agency to investigate concerns raised by San Diego Mayor Susan Golding on the dramatic increase of gas prices in the West.
“I share [...]

Rangel to Chavez: Don’t Come To My Country And Attack My President

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, News, War On Terror | 4 Comments

Update: Video Here and at Hot Air.
Even as Chavez was being applauded in a Harlem church, Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY), one of President Bush’s harshest critics , condemned Chavez’s hateful “Bush is the devil” speech to the U.N. yesterday. I applaud Rangel for being the example and saying what all Democrats should be saying.
From [...]

Tough Interrogation Works, ABC’s Brian Ross Independently Confirms

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, War On Terror | Comments Off

Allahpundit has the details and the video of Brian Ross:
Anti-”torture” absolutists like Sullivan adamantly deny that harsh tactics produce reliable information. It’s their way of avoiding the moral dilemma presented by a ticking time-bomb scenario. But they’ll have to face it now, because in four short minutes Brian Ross utterly explodes that particular article of [...]

9th Circuit Bans Religious Expression From Public Libraries

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Activist Judges, Church And State, News | 4 Comments

Via FOX
The decision came from a case involving the Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries, a Christian group which won a court order allowing them to hold a “prayer, praise and worship” service in meeting rooms open to other groups at a Contra Costa County library branch. A federal judge said it had a First Amendment [...]

The Taj Mahal is a Hindu, not a Muslim creation

Posted on September 21, 2006 - Filed Under ACLU, News | 2 Comments

Standard histories credit the Arabs with a great civilization in the Middle Ages. Those who look at the detail of the civilization concerned, however, cannot help noticing that not much of it is Arab. It is generally derivative — derived from the Byzantine Greeks whom they lived alongside for 500 years or from [...]