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Because Americans can't seem to live without crappy Chinese widgets, President Bush is practically down on his knees in supplication to the leader of a nation that in comparison makes Hitler's Germany look like Vatican City...

Much of old-stream media's recent sensitivity to religion would be welcome, if the hypocrisy wasn't so rank...

Way left syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, who probably hates George Bush more than any other person in America, has publicly jettisoned support for Hillary Rodham-Clinton's presumed presidential run in 2008.

Ten Reasons Why Liberals Can't Stand Thanksgiving

Now that conservatives have torn themselves apart over Harriet Miers, and the President has nominated Alito, it may be time to examine the fundamental flaws in conventional mindsets that predictably pulls nominees from the legal profession every time. This practice reveals a degree of elitism that illuminates the great distance we have moved away from original constitutional intent.

Apparently, an American military unit in Afghanistan first killed, then burned the bodies of several Taliban terrorists last month.

Political correctness and cultural "sensitivity" will prevent an accurate and truthful examination of what is really going on in the hurricane destruction zone, especially in the New Orleans area. But news reports of lawlessness, looting, violence and vandalism might lead some to call into question the apparently razor thin veneer of civilization that exists in black communities...

Hugh Hewitt condemns Tom Tancredo as a "fringe nut", then plants lips on CAIR spokesman's behind.

It took nearly four years but the arrogantly stubborn, and dangerous, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has finally felt the heat of an angry backlash, and is launching a desperate public relations campaign that will attempt to convince America that Islam, after all, is a religion of peace. What's next? A full page New York Times ad from the Aryan Nation describing how it's members really don't hate blacks and Jews?

Since liberals are so blinded by their disdain for America, they have been unable to recognize their own culpability in Islam's war against the West.

President Bush may in truth be the only person in Washington who does not have an abortion-rights litmus test, but for the sake of his party and his legacy, he better get one. Real quick.

A postage stamp depicting a popular black comic book character in disparaging manner has caused the Bush Administration to issue a rare critique of the Mexican government.

By the time Senator Dick Durbin issued his flimsy and meaningless apology for equating American soldiers with Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler, it was too late. Damage to American resolve during this time of war had already be done. And certainly not unintentionally, nor for the first time, either.

In the Islamic world, which perceives itself under attack by Jews and Christians at every turn, conspiracy theories are as common, and dangerous, as any wild-eyed mullah.

In 1957, Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton opened up 20 million acres on the North Slope of Alaska for commercial oil and gas exploration and drilling. This was in addition to the already established Naval Petroleum Reserve (NPR) which included another 23 million acres. Even with oil plentiful and cheap, Washington recognized that the United States needed to strive for energy independence, and the cold, barren and relatively uninhabited tundra of Alaska must have seemed like a great place to drill...

Unless there is a last minute intervention from Florida's Legislature or Congress, Terri Schiavo will stop being fed on Tuesday, and within days will be starved to death...

According to Howard Fineman, Newsweek's resident Clinton apologist and synchophant, Bill Clinton is now "beloved" by America. Somehow, in just over four years, Fineman honestly believes this impeached, disgraced, and utterly classless hill-billy has been transformed into America's Pope John Paul.

Social Security, the largest and most invasive Ponzi scheme the world has ever known , has done more to destroy the American ideals of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility than any other single factor, and the fear and hysteria surrounding the President's suggestion of personal retirement accounts is proof.

Almost overnight, the Islamic world is in the process of metamorphosis. Beginning with free elections in Afghanistan less than six months ago, and continuing with tomorrow's historic Saudi vote, there is the unmistakable feeling of positive momentum towards an evolution of liberty among Islamic peoples. This turn of events must be surprising, and a bit embarrassing, to those who have consistently maintained that Moslems were not interested in freedom, not willing to fight for it, and after years of despotism, unable to adapt to self-rule...

On February 8, amidst wide smiles and handshakes, newly-elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reached across the negotiating table and declared a cease-fire. While staged a bit better for the cameras, this scene was simply the latest "agreement" between the country of Israel and the terrorist Palestinian Authority, and following today's homicide bombing in a Tel Aviv nightclub, just as transitory.