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We can supply them with fresh water. We can get them sticking plasters and body bags, and we can ring up the helplines and pledge our cash, and so we should. But, as we contemplate the thousands of dead on the shores of the Indian Ocean, there is one thing the whole planet wants, and that we cannot supply. We all want someone to blame. Deep in our souls, we want to find some human factor in the disaster, in the way that our species has done since - well, since the Flood. What was the cause of that first...

I havent heard Michael Moore, Gore, Kerry, Hitlery or any of the other left wing nuts blame Bush for the Tsunami as of yet. Im sure it will happen. Has any of you heard Bush blamed yet? If not, how long will it be before he receives the blame?

The majority of U.S. soldiers do not blame President Bush or Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for a shortage of body armor in Iraq, but instead say Congress should be held responsible - according to a new poll by the Military Times. Sixty percent blame Congress for the shortage of body armor in the combat zone, reports USA Today in its coverage of the Times survey. In more bad news for congressional Iraq war critics, 63 percent of active duty personnel said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war. Further confounding media attempts to demoralize the...

My scholarly friend Herb Meyer contends the American Revolutionary War was the greatest intellectual event in western civilization, not simply because the British were beaten, but rather it determined God's power flowed to the people and not to the kings. With that, insists Meyer, the rule of law and the concept of individual rights were born.

My scholarly friend Herb Meyer contends the American Revolutionary War was the greatest intellectual event in western civilization, not simply because the British were beaten, but rather it determined God's power flowed to the people and not to the kings. With that, insists Meyer, the rule of law and the concept of individual rights were born. I think Herb quietly winked at me when he mentioned the word "British' in that opening statement. Meyer insists it was no coincidence that, when thousands of freedom-loving students demonstrated in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 they built a huge replica of the...

Democratic critics of their party's devastating 2004 election losses say that its liberal grass-roots base needs to be fundamentally transformed, if not pulled out by the roots, before the party can win again. In the continuing soul-searching debate over their party's future, and what needs to be done to halt its decline, no postelection analysis has sparked more uncomfortable political buzz among Democrats than a New Republic magazine critique that calls for blunting the influence wielded by the party's leftist, anti-war wing in its presidential-selection process. "[John] Kerry was a flawed candidate, but he was not the fundamental problem. The...

There is a lot of talk lately about forcing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to step down. I don’t agree and I don’t appreciate the piling on by my colleagues. But unfortunately, it does not surprise me. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I sat and watched this new Secretary in his first confirmation hearing before the Senate, look them squarely in the eye and not blink. He was not going to be intimidated, much to the chagrin of most in the Senate who don’t care for someone they can’t intimidate. He told us we were not providing...

Former "This Week" host and National Public Radio veteran Cokie Roberts blamed conspiracy filmmaker Michael Moore on Sunday for causing Sen. John Kerry to lose the presidential election. "I think Michael Moore actually had a very major impact - a negative impact - on the Democratic Party," Roberts told NBC's "Chris Matthews Show." "I think he exemplified all of the things that people hate about Democrats. And the fact that he was - it was a hate-America-first campaign and that hurts the Democrats every time." Adding insult to injury, Roberts also contended that Moore's "physical appearance did not help."

Democrats Blame Rumsfeld for Mistakes in Iraq WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats on Saturday said U.S. soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites) lacked adequate body armor and plated vehicles because of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's flawed leadership. Reuters Photo   Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, in the Democrats' weekly radio address, blasted the Pentagon (news - web sites) under Rumsfeld for "a litany of serious miscalculations" including underestimating the Iraqis resistance and failing to give troops enough protective equipment even though Congress gave it all the money it requested. "The Pentagon says the lack of protective equipment is a matter...

White House officials yesterday blamed Bernard B. Kerik for repeatedly failing to disclose potential legal problems to administration lawyers vetting his nomination to be homeland security secretary, as President Bush (news - web sites) prepared to quickly name a replacement and try to put the controversy over the former New York police commissioner's background behind him. Kerik, who withdrew his own nomination Friday and apologized yesterday for embarrassing Bush, was asked numerous times by White House lawyers if he had employed an illegal immigrant or failed to pay taxes on domestic help, the sources said. Kerik was told he would...

Renowned Russian political scientist Sergei Markov told reporters in Moscow on Thursday that the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine was in fact a Polish conspiracy with the aim of imposing Polish patronage over Ukraine and thus raising Polish influence within the European Union. “Yushchenko’s electoral campaign has been developed within the Polish diaspora abroad and its ideological basis was prepared by former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his two sons,” the Newsru.com web-site quoted Markov as saying. Markov said that another ethnic Pole, Andrian Karatnitsky, the head of the U.S. foundation Freedom House, had hired Serbian spin doctors...

Just finished watching this week's edition of Inside the NFL on HBO and in the first ten minute segment Bob Costas, Dan Marino, Chris Collinsworth and Cris Carter talked about the incident from the Pacers/Pistons game in Detroit last Friday night and the implications for the NFL. In summary Bob Costas blamed fan behaviour in Detroit and in general on talk radio, a totally outrageous statement.

``In the aftermath, the Democrats will form their ritual circular firing squad of recriminations.'' -- Former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal, writing in The Guardian on Nov. 4. Bruce Springsteen blames Jon Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi blames James Taylor. Taylor blames Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam blames the Dixie Chicks. The Dixie Chicks blame Dave Matthews. Matthews blames Michael Stipe, who blames Bono. Bono blames George Soros. Soros blames MoveOn.Org. MoveOn.org blames Michael Moore. Moore blames Don Imus. Imus blames Howard Stern. Stern blames Al Franken. Franken blames Jon Stewart, who blames Paul Krugman. Krugman blames Katrina vanden Heuvel. Vanden Heuvel blames...

It was Osama's fault! That's the claim being made by former Democratic presidential contender John Kerry, who said that Osama bin Laden's bombastic pre-election video was responsible for his loss to President Bush. Kerry made the claim during a chance encounter on Thursday with Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera in a holding room prior to the processional leading up to the formal opening of the Clinton presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. Rivera said he told Kerry, "Tough luck, senator," when their paths initially crossed, referring to his election loss. He said Kerry responded, to the best of his...

From Roll Call: You gotta blame somebody when your party loses the White House, the Senate and the House. So why not blame the Catholics? That’s sort of what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did in a letter sent this week to major donors to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee....In the second paragraph of the letter, Pelosi said the election outcome showed a distinct pattern — that “the Democratic message was eclipsed by so-called values pronouncements.” “As a devout Catholic, I observe with great regret the intervention of some Catholic bishops who joined evangelical leaders in the political arena,”...

<p>THE global managing editor of British news agency Reuters said today the US military was entirely to blame for the deaths of three of its employees in Iraq since the start of the war there in March 2003, an allegation disputed by the Pentagon.</p>

Retired CIA Director George Tenet is said to blame Condoleezza Rice for not keeping America safe from the 9/11 attacks in a book proposal for his memoir currently being shopped to publishers. -snip- "He claims she was incompetent, that she didn't do her job" before 9/11, the source said. Adding to the speculation is the involvement in the book project of Robert Barnett - the onetime Whitewater lawyer for Bill and Hillary Clinton who negotiated record book deals for the former first couple. Barnett is currently shopping the Tenet proposal.

I'm sorry that this is not "news," however, I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to BlameBush.com (it's now "Cynthia and Gary's Wedding Pics")? That site was hilarious! Does anyone know who the writer was, and if he/she has another site? Thank you.

Truthfully, I really wasn't gloating these past few days. Probably they caught me smiling and laughing a bit, though. Yeah, I had to go into the city (90% liberal) and visit with the Democrats. Couldn't resist. I wanted to actually see the sad faces for myself, up close and live. Local Democrats have been a glum lot these past few days. Many are still grumbling. On Capitol Hill, Democrats were whining like Valley Girls at a sorority party that ran out of wine, pointing fingers at their leaders and talking about making war against the Republicans. Liberal Hill-Rats must have...

As the Kerry campaign disintegrates into oblivion, the finger pointing in the Democratic ranks has already begun. The New York Post's must-read Page Six reports that numbers of notable figures in the 2004 campaign are being roasted by party insiders. These include: # Alexandra Kerry: The paper said John Kerry's daughter "made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival last spring when she appeared on the red carpet in a see-through dress." Campaign "insiders snipe that all she did was rack up major expenses. 'She had an entourage of five people with her everywhere she went.' A hairdresser, makeup artist,...