>>Today, the questioning part of the the Judge Roberts "trial" begins
It would be great if we could declare war on liberal propaganda....that's their one remaining power.
We need a plan.
Interesting news from Japan - from today's WSJ..
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Fortune favors the bold, and on Sunday it smiled broadly on Junichiro Koizumi. Japan's Prime Minister won a stunning victory in snap elections because he stood on principle and called the vote after a reform dear to him, post office privatization, was blocked by the upper house of Parliament. The electorate rewarded him for trusting them.
Mr. Koizumi's governing coalition now holds more than the two-thirds majority it needs to override further upper house intransigence. The unexpectedly large victory means that Japan's voters have endorsed Mr. Koizumi's policy mix of smaller government and an activist foreign policy. The economic paternalism and diplomatic timidity of the post-World War II era are giving way to change. The Bush Administration can also be pleased by this victory for another one of its Iraq War allies. The opposition's promise to have the troops home by Christmas carried little weight with voters.
Mr. Koizumi says he wants Japan to become a "normal country," economically, militarily, culturally and in foreign policy. For decades, academics and diplomats have lauded the "Japanese Way" of minimal political debate and even more miniature returns on bank deposits, a combination that gave politicians money to throw at "champion" industries and companies.
Derisive laughter is as good as Fact Bullets imo to destroy agenda-driven stupidities. (I'm in attack mode today.)