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I was listening to Rush today, and he was playing excerpts from miscellaneous Dems' reactions to President Bush's speech on Tuesday night. They are outraged - outraged, I tell you! - that the president dared to connect the events of September 11, 2001 and the war in Iraq. It's just like their purported indignation at Karl Rove's comments about liberals not supporting aggressive (read "military") responses to 9/11. Well, they have to act outraged and indignant, now, don't they?! Because they know full well that Americans will rally behind whatever is necessary to avenge 9/11 and prevent another one. They...

The best defense is a good offense. Just Google this often used adage and you’ll find it is frequently applied to every conceivable walk of life…..sports, politics, medicine, business, warfare….you name it. Everyone agrees that you must go on the offense to win. Democrats have been on the offense now since the beginning of the second millennium, you know that era when the supreme court gave the presidency to W. A fair appraisal of the Democrat’s offense is simply, it stinks. In the sporting world you often hear another cliché, ‘Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.’ Well, the Democrat’s...

China says unfairly picked on for fakesTue Jun 28, 4:10 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - China, where pirated goods from golf clubs to DVDs are sold openly on almost every city block, complained on Tuesday that it was being unfairly singled out for copyright fraud by the United States. A senior official expressed "deep regret" over a U.S. decision to put China on a priority watch list in intellectual property right protection, saying it was unwarranted. Vice Commerce Minister Zhang Zhigang said that losses incurred by piracy in Europe and the United States outshone China, with "the per-capita loss" reported...

Karl Rove told New York conservatives June 22 that liberals had a wimpy response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, drawing harsh criticism June 23 from Democrats who demanded that President Bush either rebuke or fire his senior political adviser. “Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Mr. Rove said at the annual dinner of the New York State Conservative Party. Mr. Rove also accused Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, of endangering...

Based on Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, it is incontrovertible that Democrats will not be deterred by the evidence from promoting the incendiary propaganda that Republicans engage in systematic intimidation and suppression of black voters. Will we ever be able to have a presidential election again without Democrats claiming they've been robbed? All it takes is for some Democrat bigwig or race activist like the Rev. Jesse Jackson to make an unsubstantiated allegation of black voter suppression. Henceforth, the truth of such allegations will be accepted and believed by large numbers of people, including many blacks, who trust Democrat bigwigs...

Leaders make things happen. Liberals stop things from happening, and laggards wait to act until someone else acts first. Leaders, liberals, and laggards are all present in our nation’s Capital, where our elected officials are supposed to work on fixing our big issues. Unfortunately, the leaders are way out-numbered. As a practicing leader for thirty-five years as a business executive and author of three books on leadership, I have documented the three critical things that leaders do to solve problems. After further experience and analysis it is clear that liberals and laggards in Congress do the exact opposite of what...

In between promoting mega-lunatic conspiracies theories about how supposedly the Bush Administration itself knocked down the WTC on 9/11 to make the poor al-Qaeda terrorists look bad, one of the biggest bugs up the Left's bonnet is McDonald's. They love to picket the Mac outfit and declare anti-McDonald's Days. NutWatch Leftists who have never fasted for a day in their lives love to insist that shutting down fast food joints will help alleviate world hunger. The non sequitur is the main tool of leftist analysis. Their French comrades-in-sissy-berets consider McDonald's to be a bigger threat to civilization than al-Qaeda. I...

Last week, Fox anchor Neil Cavuto secured a White House interview with President Bush, and liberals were upset. It wasn’t tough enough. Washington Post correspondent Daniel Froomkin reported that Cavuto asked about Mrs. Bush, John Kerry’s grades, and media overcoverage of Michael Jackson, but sneered: "Who wants to talk about that messy war in Iraq, or the Downing Street Memo? Not Neil Cavuto, Fox News executive, anchor, commentator and Bush campaign contributor." Fox-defending blogger "Johnny Dollar" noted two problems with Froomkin. First, Bush was asked about Iraq and that memo at a press conference the day before, so would that...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - City officials here have opened an investigation into why authorities apparently ignored numerous complaints about a full-scale drug den being operated out of the apartment of an elderly woman who suffered from dementia. Six alleged gang members took over the 84-year-old woman's apartment for months, even eating her free senior meals, police said after their arrests last week. The woman's second-floor apartment in the city's Mission District was littered with drugs and crack pipes. "This is one of the most egregious cases of elder abuse that I have ever seen," Trent Rhorer, executive director of the...

ROCHESTER--Today's Reochester Democrat and Chronicle(which cannot be reposted here thanks to the cretins at Gannett news), in anticipation of a rumored visit by President Bush to the area, carries an article such a visit will be "a logistical nightmare that draws on a community's scarce public-safety resources, requires hours of preparation and generates complaints from irate citizens who get caught in traffic jams."The article also warns readers of "traffic jams and roadblocks," as well as "at least some delays" at airports.The article also points out that local "coffers [will] suffer" because of increased overtime during the visit.To be fair, the...

On Thursday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote on President Bush's nomination of John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations. But that is now in doubt, as Sen. Joseph Biden, the panel's ranking Democrat, warns that Democrats might seek another delay in voting on this nomination that was originally scheduled for a vote three weeks ago. The pretext for the Biden complaint is that the State Department hasn't provided evidence of how Mr. Bolton used intelligence information in his speeches. Although Sen. John Kerry, another member of the Foreign Relations Committtee's anti-Bolton bloc, could not...

A Sermon by a Pseudo-ReverendIn the beginning, there was FDR. In his “infinite” wisdom, FDR created a program called Social Security. And liberals saw that it was good. And behold, FDR set up Social Security as a "temporary" government program, in which a 2% Social Security tax (divided equally between the taxpayer and their employer) would be paid to the government. And it came to pass that FDR promised Americans that the 2% tax would never increase, and the maximum wage to be taxed would remain $3,000 until the end of time. In looking to the future, FDR prophesied that...

If we look back at the war that started on September 11, there have emerged some general rules that should guide us in the next treacherous round of the struggle against Islamic fascism, the autocracies that aid and abet it, and the method of terror that characterizes it. 1. Political promises must be kept. Had the United States postponed the scheduled January elections in Iraq — once the hue and cry of Washington insiders — the insurrection would have waxed rather than waned. Only the combination of U.S. arms, the training of indigenous forces, and real Iraqi sovereignty can eliminate...

Where bananas never end The shriek of microphone feedback, the screech of fingernails on slate, the rippling reaction to an Atlanta-area woman's complaint about Columbus police officers' eating bananas at a Jan. 15 civil rights march. Each is going to grate on people's nerves, over time, so there's a "make it stop" plea I'll obviously be ignoring by writing this. But I don't really control the microphone, or the slate, or the way talk radio and the Internet can amplify a whine into a squall. And I certainly have no control over a congressman.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas state workers organization has filed two complaints accusing Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' administration of anti-union activities, a potential embarrassment for a Democrat who received strong financial support from labor groups in her last campaign. The Kansas Association of Public Employees filed its complaints Monday with the state Public Employees Relations Board, which reviews such allegations against government agencies. The complaints involve two state agencies, but the association's leader said anti-union activities are more widespread. One complaint said several revenue department managers made comments designed to discourage employees from joining KAPE. The second said Department of...

I wasn't going to address this and then I thought "what the heck?" Several days before Christmas -- and please note, I said "Christmas" and not "the holiday season" and that alone will anger the liberals -- a collection of obscure groups and individuals made a desperate plea for attention. They launched a campaign to pressure advertisers of this station because of this two-minute segment, The Point. Gasp! I've got opinion in my opinion segment. And not only that, but it presents only one point-of-view. (Segment on tape - scene from "Casablanca") Rick: "How can you close me up? On...

This is making it’s way around the Internet. Thanks to Andy and Evelyn Lewis for passing it along… Our liberal fellow-citizens have never stopped complaining to the Bush Administration about the "horrible" treatment the poor terrorist detainees are receiving at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Here is a standard form letter that the administration should send to each liberal complainer who is filled with concern and sympathy for Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees: The White House Washington, D.C. - 20016 Dear Concerned Citizen: Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees currently being held at...

The Tsunami in South Asia is a truly catastrophic event. The human carnage is overwhelming and my Christian heart can’t help but respond to the human tragedy. However… As the events were unfolding on our TV screens, I found myself feeling uneasy about something, internally conflicted, a feeling I just couldn’t shake. As someone who follows politics and world views, (views towards America and Americans that is), I was keenly aware of the views in that part of the world, even before the Tsunami struck. It has become a popular international pastime to bash America at every opportunity, and news...

SAN FRANCISCO - The committee tasked with doling out California's $3 billion in stem cell research grants selected two of its leaders Friday, amid conflict of interests complaints and accusations that its inaugural gathering violated the state's open meeting laws. Housing developer Robert Klein II was unanimously chosen chairman while biotechnology company Chiron Corp. co-founder Edward Penhoet received 21 of a possible 25 votes for vice chairman. Each will serve six year terms. Even Klein's unanimous appointment was criticized by some as preordained because Klein was the only candidate nominated for chairman and had successfully lobbied Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to...

Unsatisfied with increasing TV censorship from the FCC, the Parents Television Council is threatening the FCC with a Congressional audit in retaliation for a supposedly inaccurate complaint count. In case you didn't know, 99.9% of the indecency complaints to the FCC came from the PTC. The PTC points out that these complaints come from individuals via PTC, not the PTC itself. In a statement reminiscient of an election recount, the PTC says: “The FCC needs to count each and every complaint, regardless if the majority complaining are PTC members. ..." Even though the PTC is technically right, so is the...