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The message is loud and clear. Democrats have learned nothing from their free-fall from power. Hard-line liberals [anti-American closet socialists] line up to crown their new king and it looks like Howard Dean is their man, the likely new head of the Deaniac’s National Committee. Once again, we have proof that the “enlightened ones” may not be so “enlightened” after all… They understand their need to appear more centered, but they don’t understand their need to become more centered. As they whine about their image problems, they continue their march to the left. Is Dean more centered than say, Kennedy,...

In this world, those who can lead generally do, by default. Those who can’t lead usually follow, also by default. Those incapable of either become Democrats today… The operative words for all modern DNC initiatives are “dissent”, “disorder” and “obstruct”. That’s why their new party leader is the king of dissent Howard Dean. The more outrageous and obnoxious ones screams of dissent, the better their chances for a leadership roll in today’s DNC. The party has chosen to define itself by the 10% in America who don’t like anything about America, those who see America as the evil empire, capitalism...

Senator Kerry, Denial Isn't Just a River in Egypt Posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 Only experiencing a few presidential elections in my life time, I thought the losing candidate was supposed to fade into oblivion. Bob Dole, though still visible as a pundit on some news stations, was relatively quiet following his defeat in 1996. Al Gore, apparently sulking in defeat at McDonald's, faded from the public eye for the first two and a half years of Dubya's presidency, only to re-appear as an angry vitriol spewing lunatic. Still yet, he had all but disappeared. Despite some efforts to "Re-Elect...

The opposition to the President’s nomination of Alberto R. Gonzales as Attorney General focused the attention of Congress, and America, on allegations that Mr. Gonzales’ authored an advisory memorandum for the president that at least implicitly approved the torture of prisoners in the War on Terror for the purpose of obtaining information. The broad claims of Democrats who opposed his nomination were that any opinion supporting the use of psychological or physical pain or duress for the purpose of eliciting information from a prisoner, or detainee, i.e., torture, mild or severe, is wrong, and should have disqualified Mr. Gonzales from...

Well, it's been a depressing year for liberals so far, what with the steadily shrinking unemployment rate (down to 5.2%), the Dow at a three and a half year high (10,700 plus), the greatest number of private home starts ever, twenty consecutive months of manufacturing growth, another healthy increase in the gross domestic product (best economic numbers in 5 years), low inflation, low taxes, the appointments of the first hispanic Attorney General and the first black female Secretary of State in U.S. history, the rapid decline in popularity of the "mainstream" media, and the phenomenally successful elections in Iraq. Indeed,...

The week before the Jan. 30 Iraqi election, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, branded Iraq a hopeless quagmire. "Bush's Vietnam," Mr. Kennedy bellowed. "Quagmire." "Vietnam." "Bush." Indeed, the senator's dire sermon invoked his fundamentalist faith's demons old and demons au courant. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California joined the snake dance, adding her own poisonous sanctimony. China's Mao Tse-tung wrote that guerrillas are fish swimming in the sea of the people. Translation: It takes popular support to sustain a genuine guerrilla conflict. The Saddmist thugs and al Qaeda zealots who kill Iraqi civilians and coalition troops are reactionaries with scant political...

"Excuse me, Miss, but here in my hand I have a warrant for your arrest," said a middle-aged man with a few days' growth of beard. "Please do not make any noise as you walk calmly to the Mercedes parked at the corner." When the man approached me, I had just left a bookstore. It crossed my mind to resist, but I thought better of it. In the car, I was flanked by two broad-shouldered men in black jackets. The man with the arrest warrant drove up Enqelab Avenue and waved the arrest warrant to assure me they were not...

In the wake of the release of a preliminary report by the Paul-Volcker-led team "investigating" the relatively unimportant — to judge by the mainstream media coverage afforded it — "irregularities" in the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, it will be instructive to review the roles of some of the pivotal players in the above-referenced $US 20 billion ripoff. (Eastman Kodak Company, by comparison, earned about 2/3 that amount — $US 13.4 billion — in fiscal 2004.) What jumps out here is not only the enormity, as measured by its sheer dollar-volume, of a story I hope will be at some point...

Words recently read have just so made my day, Some whimsical wisdom from sage Austin Bay, Who points out profoundly and slick as you please, The Democrat Party has Mad How Disease. The infection most certainly is iatrogenic, From too many visits to Dr. Dean’s clinic. They should have been warned that they should be wary Of getting too chummy with the Left’s Typhoid Mary. With such manifest symptoms, diagnosis is simple, That boil on their butt is now more than a pimple. Diagnosing the pathogen’s really no chore: Yellow streak down the back, an aversion to war. Beginning mid-body...

"Denial" – that popular psychobabble term – gained immense credibility in the last century as a result of "experts" who tried to convince the public that people who looked at a blue sky and called it pink were somehow not responsible for their perceptions. If one really believed that, they said, he or she must be "in denial" and therefore more worthy of "treatment" (or pity) than scorn. The idea had widespread implications. Simply excise the notion of accountability from the public imagination and anything was possible! Women who chose to destroy their in-utero infants could deny their acts by...