Free Republic

...Ashcroft.... will go down in history as the Attorney General who led the legal fight against terrorism. Every wartime AG has had to make tough calls about the balance between civil liberties and national security, and in a better world Mr. Ashcroft would be retiring to bipartisan accolades for taking on these difficult issues.... Yet no one in this Administration has endured more personal and political abuse. Granted Mr. Ashcroft isn't the smoothest public spokesman, and his cultural conservatism and strict interpretations of the law on the death penalty, partial-birth abortion and sentencing guidelines incensed liberals.... The irony is that...

...Mr. Gonzales has many things going for him, not least his relationship with the President, whom he has served for more than a decade starting in Texas. These personal ties -- much like those between Californians Ed Meese and Ronald Reagan -- will give him a stronger influence in the Cabinet than Mr. Ashcroft had. But his job will nonetheless be to build on the Ashcroft legacy. That includes moving ahead with terror cases, riding hard on the FBI as it reshapes itself to fight terrorists, and working for the renewal of the Patriot Act, portions of which expire next...

...No matter that such "obstructionism" cost their leader, Tom Daschle, his job just a week ago. Now all roads lead through New York for these bitter-ending Democrats. Their chief nominee for second-term judicial hatchet man is Sen. Chuck Schumer — who might rather run for governor in 2006. Nearly overnight, many of the senator's longtime supporters were glowering that he had better stay put.... Poor Chuck Schumer: Despite winning re-election with a record 71 percent of the vote, he still gets treated like the opening act for the blond lady in pantsuits.... Sure, he was a partisan tsunami in Bush's...

<p>Please right click and save this to your drive per request of the creator of this video. He's having bandwith problems.</p> <p>Please click this link to see the most decisive ad in the war of words and pictures. I wish every American acan see this.</p>

Hey You Political Pundits out there, I first ran across this commentary by Thomas Sowell in one of our local newspapers here in the High Desert of So Cal, "The Daily Press," and I beg your forgiveness if anyone's already posted it. I just couldn't passing up sending it off to those who have yet to enjoy it. I believe it to be a fine commentary, indeed, of the travesty (and mockery) of our Capitol Hill judicial nomination and consideration process--What a crock! But, as angry as I am with the Dems on the Hill right now, I'm probably just...

You’ve got to admire the tenacity of leftists. The same people who were colossally wrong about the war on terror (in both Afghanistan and Iraq); who clamored for America to sheathe its sword when America itself was under attack; who defamed America and its supporters as enemies of freedom even after the wars that led to liberation - these same people, now that history has thoroughly embarrassed them and refuted their claims, are … on the attack! They have not taken a moment to reflect on their treacherous antics, which would have kept the Iraqi oppressors in power and anti-American...

The American Way Wins NOW IT CAN BE TOLD. More precisely, now it has been told in new studies of comparative economic performance. It seems that the U.S. economic model trumps the European model, and is set fair to continue to do so. Since communism collapsed and the Japanese model of government-guided investment, exchange-rate manipulation, and the replacement of markets with ministers proved itself dysfunctional, the world has had on offer only two versions of how to create national wealth: the European Union and the United States. The governments of the European Union by and large claim about 50 percent...