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If you can believe this, President Bush's Inaugural speech is catching flack from some quarters, particularly American leftists and Euro-weenies, because he used the "F" word 27 times. This is an "F" word that is even more offensive to the left than the "F" word. Yup ... Bush said "Freedom" at least 27 times during the speech. Evidently Bush didn't get the booklet of instructions for Presidents making State of the Union or Inaugural speeches. You're supposed to talk about security, not freedom. Bush was talking about spreading freedom around the world, and much of the world was having none...

THE SWINE SPEAKS AGAIN We heard from that tired old Social Democrat Ted Kennedy again yesterday. Ted Kennedy. The man who never had to struggle to pay a bill in his entire life. The man who has never held an actual job. The man who wandered up and down a deserted seaside road worrying about his political career while a young woman (his girlfriend?) suffocated in the back seat of a car in just over four feet of water. Yeah ... that' Ted Kennedy. Well .. there he was yesterday engaging in his usual hyper-leftist over-the-top liberalism. Mr. Cradle-to-Grave government...

Those of you who listen to my show and read my ramblings know that I have a passionate belief in property rights. There has never been a "free" society that survived past the point that it started to ignore the private property rights of its citizens. One of the greatest threats to private property rights in this country is the newfound love that so many local governments have for the concept of eminent domain. It's as if politicians have just recently found out that they can use their governments monopoly on the use of deadly force to seize property from...

HOW DO WE ELECT DANGEROUS IDIOTS LIKE THIS? The brain-dead, idiotic, disgusting, anti-American, childish, can't-get-over-it politician of the day is one Nelson Polite, a member of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania city council. Thankfully this jerk will rise no further up the political ladder. Even Democrats think he's a fool. Polite is upset because of David Stoltzfus who runs a baked goods stand at the local city market. Stoltzfus has a picture of President Bush hanging in the stand. Polite is a Democrat. Polite made a trip to visit Stoltzfus to tell him that he and other Lancaster Democrats are "offended" by...

Did you happen to catch "CNN Presents" last night? I know .. it's hard to stomach Aaron Brown for longer than just a few minutes, but last night's program actually made it worth it. The subject was nuclear terror. Just what are the chances that a group of Islamic terrorists could manage to smuggle a nuclear weapon into this country and set it off? Answer: Pretty close to 100%. First of all; just how much weapons grade plutonium do you think would be needed to create a nuclear bomb? Would it take 100 pounds or so? Would you be surprised...

We have to go back to the Vietnam for a bit here. We have to go back because it looks like John Kerry has been caught in yet another lie .. and this one may be quite serious. Here's the story: In 1970 John Kerry went to visit the communist delegation to the Vietnamese peace talks. Then he went to visit them again. The congress of the United States was not informed of these visits until almost a year later. By the way, Kerry was a Navy Reserve Officer at the time. Finally ... then the leftist media found out...

This has to go at the head of the Nuze today. It's official. The Islamic bastards killing our men and women in Iraq are pulling for John Kerry. Most of us aren't surprised. The Islamic murderers in Iraq ("insurgents," as the media calls them) have now removed all doubt as to their objective. Is it just to kill Americans? Prevent democracy from taking hold in Iraq? Avenge the overthrow of Saddam Hussein? None of the above. They have now said their #1 objective is to elect John Kerry president of the United States next Tuesday. Surprised? You shouldn't be. A...

At first it didn't seem like that big of a deal in Wednesday night's debate. Bob Schieffer asked the candidates whether they thought homosexuality was a choice, and The Poodle brought up Vice President Cheney's daughter Mary, who is a lesbian. That turned out to be a big oops. It was the second time Mary Cheney had come up in the debates, with The Super Lawyer mentioning it in the Vice Presidential debate. Well, the Cheneys didn't seem to appreciate it one bit, and apparently have had enough. Lynne Cheney let Kerry have it first: "Now, you know, I did...

I actually stayed up to watch the so-called "debate." It's now before 5:00 am and I drawing some notes together. No problem ... I can always take a nap this afternoon and, after all, it's not like my job requires any heavy lifting. Now ... some disjointed thoughts on the debate. It looked like Bush was a bit slow getting started. The hesitations in his language stand out in contrast to the determined rhetoric of John Kerry. It's probably wiser to listen to the actual words being said rather than the hesitations. There's enough "ahs" and "uhs" during one of...

This is really about the sad status of Jimmy Carter. Carter made quite a new splash yesterday when he said that the State of Florida didn't even meet minimal international standards for holding a fair election. Carter's main points of contention seem to be that the Governor of Florida is the president's brother, and the Secretary of State was a Bush elector in the 2000 election. The presence of these two partisan individuals portends a rigged or unfair election. A few points about Florida and about Carter. First: You won't find the press hammering this, but the problems with the...

John Kerry and his keepers are making a big deal out of the cool reception President Bush received at the United Nations yesterday. Even some members of the media are joining in. I listened to a CNN newscast where it was reported that Bush's speech was not interrupted once by applause, and that there was only polite applause at the finish. This is supposed to give you the idea that Bush's speech was in contrast with other foreign leaders who are apparently met with with multiple interruptions of raucous applause and a balloon drop at the end. Compare the approach...

So where did the now-discredited Bush National Guard forgeries come from? According to one source one of the documents has a header on it showing that it was faxed from a Kinko's in Abeline, Texas. So what's in Abilene, Texas, besides a Kinko's? Who would go through all the trouble to anonymously fax the documents to CBS News? That Kinko's is 21 miles from Baird, Texas where Bill Burkett lives. Who is Bill Burkett? I told you about him yesterday. He is a retired Texas Air National Guard officer who is and has been hell bent on the political destruction...

As Donna got into the cab there was an anti-war demonstration brewing at Ground Zero. As I was dressed in running shorts, a t-shirt and sneakers I thought it would be a good chance to wade into the middle of the mob to listen and observe. Bottom line ... my earlier perception about these demonstrators turned out to be pretty much correct. They were overwhelmingly young, cocky and grungy. I would stand next to some of them until they tried to engage me in conversation. "Hey, dude. Is this a great way to meet girls, or what?" One unkempt and...

Have you been injured in an accident? If so, then last night was your night at the Democratic National Convention. North Carolina Senator and trial lawyer John Edwards addressed the crowd at The Fleet Center, along with the 483 people watching on television at home. So how was it? It was a pretty good speech....like Zell Miller said to Tom Brokaw afterward, the wrong man is at the top of the ticket. Edwards borrowed a lot of Reagan optimism....but in the end, would up towing the same old tired, boring, Democratic political line. Let's break it down, shall we? Edwards...

Speaking yesterday in Philadelphia, John Kerry said he will fight a more effective war on terror than President Bush. He then went on to say that President Bush should act on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and that their work should be extended for another 18 months. What for? What is it that these people are going to do in the next year and a half that they haven't already done? Kerry wants the 9/11 Commission extended because it provides a handy platform from which to launch his attacks on Bush. The Democrats want an extension so that the...

What got them riled up, you say? Me. Friday. Oh boy, you should see the email. Letters to sponsors, radio stations, the Democratic National Committee all pretty much demanding the same thing ... that I be cancelled/fired/executed. So, why all the fuss? Because I said on Friday that I honestly couldn't make up my mind which group of people was more dangerous to the future of this country: (a) Islamic jihadist terrorists; or, (b) people who intended to vote for The Poodle for president. It seems that some of the more strident complainers were convinced that I had compared Kerry...

Yesterday, New York Senator Hillary Clinton was speaking at a fund-raiser in San Francisco on behalf of Senator Barbara Boxer. At that fund-raiser, she told those in attendance to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress. That's right...she's telling everyone in advance she and the rest of her leftist pals are going to raise their taxes. Hillary really showed herself at this fund raiser --- if, that is, they manage to get the White House and control of the congress. Not only did Shrillary reveal...

Do you realize that at this point the story of the abuse of some Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison has received more press coverage for a longer period of time than did the story of the capture of Saddam Hussein? And just why is that? Come on, haven't you been listening? It's because the media believes the story of Abu Ghraib hurts George Busy, while the story of the capture of Saddam Hussein helps George Bush. You heard what Democrat Billionaire George Soros was up to yesterday, didn't you? Soros is the money behind such leftist anti-Bush organizations...

Iraq's new Prime Minister Allawi held a news conference on Tuesday. During that news conference he switched to English to say "I would like to thank the coalition, led by the United States, for the sacrifices they have provided in the process of the liberation of Iraq." Then President Busy had a news conference in Washington. Three times during that conference Bush said that he appreciated Allawi's words of thanks to the American people. According to Fox News Channel as of Wednesday evening not one major American newspaper had reported Allawi's remarks. Not one. The only thing you could find...

For days now the world's media has been full of stories about the abuse of prisoners at the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Let's review. We had pictures of Iraqi prisoners in a pile, pictures of an Iraqi prisoner wearing a leash held by an female American soldier. There was a picture of another Iraqi prisoner being intimidated by dogs and one standing on a box with a hood over his head and some wires attached to his hands. Strong stuff, right? And ohhhhh ... the outrage! Now ... what pictures did we see yesterday? We saw pictures of...