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Its official: John F. Kerry is an unabashed liberal. Of course, we conservatives knew it all along. During Thursday’s anti-Bush, leftist love fest, led by the still enraged – and deranged – Howard Dean, Sen. Kerry finally shed his “centrist,” “anti-Dean” façade and proudly revealed himself as the radical, ultra-liberal he really is. Sen. Kerry has effectively masked his staunch liberalism for months now, running a successful primary campaign as the supposedly mainstream Democratic alternative to Gov. Howard Dean. Yet, with the endorsement by Dean, a man who is perhaps the biggest loser in American political primary history, Sen. Kerry...

This just in: "According to the Associated Press, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry served on a Navy gunboat in Vietnam and was recognized with numerous military decorations for courage under fire and wounds sustained in combat." Big news, right? I doubt it. One can hardly watch a Kerry campaign rally or stump speech without the senator droning on and on about his Vietnam War record. I do not mean to belittle Mr. Kerry's service. As the son of a career Navy captain, I was taught to show respect for all military men and women, including guardsmen and reservists. I...

George Bush and John Kerry Have Something in Common By Gary J. Livacari Believe it or not, President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry actually have something in common. No, this is not a joke, and this commonality goes beyond their widely known association with the secret "Skulls" society at Yale University. You can call it a concocted "Skull" conspiracy, or just a rare glimmer of sensibility on the part of Kerry, but when it comes to Saddam Hussein threatening the United States with weapons of mass destruction, Bush and Kerry are in undeniable agreement. In fact, as early...

Published: Thursday, January 29, 2004 Apparently GW Hatchet contributor Paul Kendrick missed his talking points from the Democratic National Committee, for he is one of the few remaining liberals who still has enough political nerve to take issue with the state of the American economy. Economic growth, soaring investor and consumer confidence and home ownership rates, and more than 500,000 jobs recovered in the third quarter alone - most of which were the direct result of the Bush tax cuts - are not convincing enough evidence to silence his reflexive repulsion to Bush's economic policies. In his recent column, "Responsibility...

Forum: The real visionary leaders By Gary Livacari ...from the right While the Democrats desperately search for a worthy opponent to President Bush, the State of the Union address made it clear that the American people have already found their leader. That leader is George W. Bush. As for the Democrats - well, I think the priggish expressions of the paradigm of morality, Sen. Ted "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy, that were on full display throughout the address speak for themselves. In the State of the Union, President Bush again devoted himself to renewing this country's sense of moral purpose and direction, providing...

The elite, liberal intelligentsia is a devoted guardian of political and social dogmas that now form the very political foundation of the modern Democratic Party. It blindly endorses such naïve slogans as "stronger gun laws reduce crime" and "universal health care for all." In the case of fighting fanatical terrorists intent on our destruction, we incessantly hear "America must always work through the United Nations." While many of these trite political clichés serve to perpetually irritate conservatives, they are actually of little political consequence. Such slogans only resonate in fashionable, progressive academic circles and not in mainstream America. Still, as...

Just browsing through Paul Begala's conservative smear tirade, "It's Still the Economy, Stupid," is a truly painful experience. The book is widely revered in the usual Democratic circles as the definitive, "must have" guide for exploiting the supposedly flawed economic policies of the Bush administration. It is premised on the shallow notion that all elections are ultimately centered on the state of the economy. Protecting Americans from suicidal terrorists is apparently a petty side issue. As you probably guessed, Begala thinks Bush is clueless on economic matters and that Democrats need only focus on this to win the 2004 election....

Column: The closet conservative By Gary Livacari "The Constitution requires an interpretation of the law... We want judges who will interpret the law and not make the law." (Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, on the Senate floor, Nov. 12, 2003.) I suddenly and violently arose from my seat in the Senate gallery - I thought I was hallucinating. It was getting late and I was definitely tired from a long day of debate. Could this really be true? Were these the words of Charles Schumer? It sounds more like an individual such as Justice Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Sen. Rick Santorum...

"The Constitution requires an interpretation of the law... We want judges who will interpret the law and not make the law." (Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, on the Senate floor, Nov. 12, 2003.) I suddenly and violently arose from my seat in the Senate gallery - I thought I was hallucinating. It was getting late and I was definitely tired from a long day of debate. Could this really be true? Were these the words of Charles Schumer? It sounds more like an individual such as Justice Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) or even former President Ronald Reagan....

The political leak from the White House has all the elements of a classic Washington scandal, playing perfectly into the game plan of the compulsive Bush-hating Democratic hacks who thirst for political blood. And this is not to mention their willing accomplices in the national media who will gladly do the Democrats' dirty work and exploit what is essentially a non-story. There is just one thing standing in the way - the truth. Allow me to concede that members of the Bush Administration did incidentally leak Valerie Plame's identity. This is about the only fact the media has reported accurately...

The American economy is recovering, and recovering fast. Productivity, home ownership, across-the-board income levels, retail sales and consumer spending are all rising rapidly. The foundation of our economy, the American stock market, has recovered nearly $3 trillion in lost wealth. We have also recovered nearly 70,000 jobs, and many economists are predicting a 5 percent to 7 percent increase in economic growth over the next quarter. In light of the fact that we are hardly two years removed from the devastating events of September 11 and are still facing uncertainty in Iraq and Afghanistan, these are promising, even remarkable numbers...

The American economy is recovering, and recovering fast. Productivity, home ownership, across-the-board income levels, retail sales and consumer spending are all rising rapidly. The foundation of our economy, the American stock market, has recovered nearly $3 trillion in lost wealth. We have also recovered nearly 70,000 jobs, and many economists are predicting a 5 percent to 7 percent increase in economic growth over the next quarter.

The list of past Democratic presidents is long and distinguished. It is composed of vibrant, visionary leaders. Men who dutifully answered their country's call amid turbulent times and, in the process, forever shaped the very course of world events and the ideals of one of America's great political parties. However, after analyzing the rhetoric of today's Democratic presidential candidates, it is clear that not only have the times radically changed, but so, too, has the Democratic Party. The soaring, rhetorical heights of John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt are but distant memories, lost in the blind and oftentimes hysterical hatred...