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Amyone really watching the development of politics in America today must see that Fred Thompson is really President-Elect Fred Thompson. I say that as someone who thinks Rudy Giuliani would make a great wartime president and who would also do many of the good things for America that he was able to do for New York. The reality, however, is that even the shadow candidacy of Thompson is casting a huge shadow indeed. The online Sean Hannity poll showed Thompson getting, as an unannounced candidate, more votes that all other Republican candidates combined. Fred Thompson, as an unannounced candidate, is...

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How can you not love those secular progressives. They've taken a human condition that has bedeviled mankind for centuries and solved it in one fell swoop. Various cultures deal with sin and guilt in vastly different ways. Certain Arab cultures flagellate themselves till they draw blood and thus achieve cleansing. Catholics are given proscribed penance and absolution. Christians, thank God, have Jesus who died for their sins. Secular progressives, having chosen man over God, are thus left in a peculiar situation. The closest the left comes to religious observation is obeisance to 'Mother Earth,' so they have had to figure...

If you've gotten the impression there is more foul language on the left blogosphere than on the right blogosphere, it turns out you're right, at least if this blogger's Google search is correct. By his count, George Carlin's seven words you can't say on television are used 18 times more often in the most popular left blogs than in the more popular right blogs.

EXPLORING THE NEW MEDIA'S EVOLUTIONARY PATH -THE BIRTH OF THE FLU BLOG - Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing (Paul Valery) In February of 2003 newspapers, cable news and radio were the interface between the American public and breaking news. It had long been such. No one set out to destroy the relevancy of these institutions. Like so much change it just happened. Passion and thirst mixed with a witches' blend of electronic gadgetry created a new paradigm. A paradigm where power was snatched from the media elite and taken by the citizenry - and...

Folks, with all the hoopla surrounding the issue of global warming and the overwhelming, undeniable scientific proof that will soon be coming, dissident voices are being raised. One comes from an unexpected quarter. Australian Cardinal George Pell is one of them. In a recent column, he wrote:We have been subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate disasters as some zealots have been painting extreme scenarios to frighten us. They claim ocean levels are about to rise spectacularly, that there could be the occasional tsunami as high as an eight story building, the Amazon basin could be destroyed as the...

EXCLUSIVE: THE FULL 11 POINT PLAN FOR VICTORY IN IRAQ by General David Petraeus Commander of all U.S. Forces in Iraq, Admiral William Fallon, Centcom Commander, Middle East, and Ryan C. Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. This is the 11 point plan that the men in charge of U.S. Victory in Iraq have submitted to The White House, The Pentagon and the State Department, and which will serve as the blueprint for victory in Iraq. It has been brought to me and confirmed by sources both inside and outside of the Military. This plan allays a principle fear of both...

Joanna Rutkowska has always been a big supporter of the Windows Vista security model. Until she stumbled upon a "very severe hole" in the design of UAC (User Account Control) and found out — from Microsoft officials — that the default no-admin setting isn't even a security mechanism anymore. Rutkowska, a hacker with a track record of defeating Vista's security mechanisms, believes UAC has a major flaw in the way it automatically assumes that all setup programs (application installers) should be run with administrator privileges."[When] you try to run such a program, you get a UAC prompt and you have...

A much needed biometric technology is brought to the battlefield in Khalidaya The Snake Eater in action. Click photo to view. In the middle of January, I embedded with the joint U.S. Marine and U.S. Army Military Transition Team based in Khalidaya in Anbar province. The MTT was then commanded by Major Owen West. Major West's greatest criticisms of the war effort is our failure to recognize the nature of the insurgency, which in many parts of Iraq is fought by applying what he calls "heavy police tactics," and our failure in applying the right tools to deal with the...

Sergeant in Afghanistan - Stop the BS and "Let's Get It Done" "It is proper to demand more from the man with exceptional advantages than from the man without them. A heavy moral obligation rests upon the man of means and upon the man of education to do their full duty by their country. On no class does this obligation rest more heavily than upon the men with a collegiate education, the men who are graduates of our universities. Their education gives them no right to feel the least superiority over any of their fellow-citizens..." - Theodore Roosevelt I've got...

Jeremy Schoemaker, an A List blogger who is also known as ShoeMoney, contacted me yesterday and discussed a recent legal document which was served to him by the police. Jeremy was subpoenaed by the District Court of Saline County, Nebraska in a lawsuit wherein Kristan Yoder of the Quick Connect, Inc. company has accussed Thor Schrock of Schrock Innovations of slander. In this landmark case, the slander took place not in a newspaper or recorded conversation, but in the comments on Schoemaker’s blog, ShoeMoney.com. The ShoeMoney blog is ranked by Technorati as being one of the Top 100 most popular...

SGT Jason Hess from the 1st Cavalry Division only wanted some better mats for his troops when he emailed a company called Discount Floor Mats for information: --- To Whom it may concern: Do you ship to APO addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for who ships to APO first. SGT Hess --- Seems like a fair question. There are many companies that don't/won't ship to APO addresses for many reasons. The main reason is that once the packages leave the states, they leave...

***If the videos don't work- I am having trouble postin them here at FR- come view them at www.mymanmitt.com where we will have updates throughout the day. Justin Hart, over at MyManMitt.com is live blogging the NRO conferance in DC today and tomorow. I am going to include some of the interesting videos from the ocnferance for your viewing enjoyment (This all Justin Harts blogging): Session 1 Video of Newt: Former Congressman Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania. Awesome guy. Everybody loves his approach. Salient Points: Understand 3 things 1) the default setting of government is bigger government, 2) Almost all bad...

The New Underground Railroad started as the result of numerous conversations that have taken place with Black leaders from across the country. It was started with the goal of dispelling the Myth that Blacks are incapable of being success without government programs. It will expose the Democrat Party’s legacy of bigotry and hatred. Over time we have invited several likeminded black thinkers from across the nation to contribute to the discussion. Well, now the time has come for us to expand our reach and ask you, our loyal readers to join the fight to free our people from the...

There is a new web tool that allows you to post links directly to a portion of the content of a page. You enter a URL and the text within that page to which you want to link. You'll get back a URL that you can use. When a user clicks on that URL, they will see a version of the original page with the text you selected hi-lighted and at the top of the browser page. This is very useful for posting links to specific comments/replies on blogs.

1. I am going to stop automatically assuming all liberals are brain dead. 2. I am going to stop automatically assuming that all pundits with letters after their names (Ph.D.) are totally divorced from reality. After all, statistically speaking, there must be a few who live outside the theoretical world and have had a brush with reality. 3. I am going to stop playing by the arbitrary rules set up by liberals. To wit:

WASHINGTON (Dec. 26) - Former U.S. Republican leader Tom DeLay, known as "The Hammer" for his tough tactics on Capitol Hill, hasn't nailed the art of typing but that's not keeping him from a new career as a blogger. The former U.S. House of Representatives leader's entry into the blogosphere brought an onslaught of nasty responses during a trial run on Sunday, December 10. "I guess liberals are the only ones around on Sunday afternoons and they inundated us with vile, nasty comments. We pulled it down and cleaned it up," DeLay told Reuters. In an interview, he said he...

Merry Christmas to everyone! 2006/12/21 In the Name of Almighty God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate Merry Christmas to everyone! My sincere congratulations to everyone for the Glorious and Auspicious Birthday of Divine Prophet - confirmed and authenticated by Gabriel, the angel of Divine revelation - the Obedient of Almighty God, Jesus Christ, the Messiah (peace be upon Him) He was a messenger of peace, devotion and love based upon monotheism and justice. He was raised in His Mother’s hand – Virgin Mary (peace be upon her) – that Almighty God stood her as impeccable and exalted her above...

WSJ's Opinion Journal has indulged in another round of the MSM's upturned nose to the lowly blogger, another cornucopia of contumelies, a mountain of maligning. We are all fools and imbeciles according to assistant editorial features editor, Joseph Rago in today's Op Ed, The Blog Mob. Here's the wind up... Blogs are very important these days. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has one. The invention of the Web log, we are told, is as transformative as Gutenberg's press, and has shoved journalism into a reformation, perhaps a revolution. I feel a "but" coming! And the pitch... The blogs are not as significant...

Blogs are very important these days. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has one. The invention of the Web log, we are told, is as transformative as Gutenberg's press, and has shoved journalism into a reformation, perhaps a revolution. The ascendancy of Internet technology did bring with it innovations. Information is more conveniently disseminated, and there's more of it, because anybody can chip in. There's more "choice"--and in a sense, more democracy. Folks on the WWW, conservatives especially, boast about how the alternative media corrodes the "MSM," for mainstream media, a term redolent with unfairness and elitism. The blogs are not as significant...