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Did we miss something here? Over the last several years, starting with a crisp Manhattan morning in September of 2001 and leading up to the present, their have been numerous startling revelations concerning the nature of this Nation's present struggle. Taken in their entirety, they hint at a picture too ghastly for many to comprehend. Recall for an instant, the image of our rebirth to reality. Fast forward, being the select method for reticent rationalized denial, America has skipped back one day and forward 1143 to the threshold of domestic chaos and a divisive Presidential election fueled on 9/10 rhetoric...

I recall seeing a thread on FR this week, concerning the murder of a young lady in California volunteering for the GOP GOTV. Does someone recall the thread, and can you direct me there? I'd like to know what became of the investigation.

What will you do? ...when this is the headline in your local paper informing you that your child's day care provider has staged a walk-out to put pressure on you and your employer to capitualte to demands of an otherwise unrelated Union? It is coming to your State complements of the thugs at the SEIU. The Local 503 in Portland has been pressuring our provider to join their union. This is the third time, they have approached her, this time leaving her a flyer today to that effect. It states the following: Speaking Out For The ChildrenIt's time for family...

I'm hard-pressed to log my thoughts on last night's third and final debate. I just don't know that they really matter much, if the expression of both substance and style is subverted to the grandstanding of punditry. Perhaps it would be more enlightening for Rove and McAuliffe to simply match irrational courage on a special edition of Fear Factor. It would be as informative as the networks dynamic post debate polling evaluations that are nothing more than email mass-mailings beginning in September or over samples of the fellows at local 49. The President clearly won all three debates where it...

On Tuesday, October 12th, 2004, The Kerry Campaign, representing the Democrat Party in America, made the following statement to a broadcast audience. “Listen - they better look out there at Sinclair Broadcasting," campaign spokesman Chad Clanton threatened, as the controversy around Sinclair's decision to broadcast a documentary about Kerry's anti-Vietnam War protests continued to heat up. "I'm not a lawyer, but they've stirred up a lot of hatred," Clanton continued to rail on Fox News Channel's "Dayside with Linda Vester." "We've got thousands of people now very mad, jackballed up - calling these [Sinclair]stations, protesting, threatening boycotts of their sponsors,"...

"Need some wood?" …If that doesn’t encapsulate the gist of the second presidential debate, nothing else does. That come-back can be ranked accordingly with "…Senator the first time I ever met you was when you walk on stage tonight!"… Compliments of Vice President Cheney in his debate. How can you say it differently? President Bush commanded the field at tonight’s debate; forcefully challenging every point Kerry made and keeping him on the defensive by disputing his facts, repeatedly repudiating his Senate record, and exposing his amorphous political convictions. By the 70th minute, Kerry was angry, reeling, and fumbling for a...

We might as well, Freep these polls.

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Part 1 Watching the Presidential debates of October 1st, and the subsequent reactions to them, has left me once again with the sad realization that there are many millions of people who prefer a man who says the wrong things well over one who says the right things badly – and in the case of the first debates we are talking about saying very, very stupid things well and intelligent things very, very badly. Now I don’t mean stupid in a bad way. I fully credit John Kerry with the intelligence needed to analyze, dissect, and evaluate a position and...

In the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the very buff-and-ready Sarah Connor pulls out her K-Bar from her belt holster and carves "No Fate" in to a park bench somewhere in the Desert Southwest. This is further explained in the movie to mean "No fate but what we make." What a pithy, yet profound, statement. Much of the Left complains that Bush's policies vis-a-vis Iraq do not reflect reality. To play off the above notion, I will say that there is no reality but what we make. The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor (sorry - I was channeling John Belushi aka...

"There's no conclusive evidence the Saddam Hussein regime had harbored Zarqawi," a U.S. official said on Tuesday about the CIA findings. But the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed that the report, which was a mix of new information and a look at some older information, did not make any final judgments or come to any definitive conclusions. "To suggest the case is closed on this would not be correct," the official said in confirming an ABC News story about the CIA report that the network said was delivered to the White House last week. ABC quoted an unnamed...

The trap has been set for tonight’s debate. With the aid of the mainstream media, and an old fiend by the name of Rather at CBS, Democrats think they have President Bush set up perfectly for John Kerry’s sucker punch. The inquisition will be, “ Mr. President, can you assure the parent’s of America here and now that there will not be a military draft in your second term?” Of course, as an honorable Man and responsible Executive, the President can NOT say ‘No’. The Democrat’s key issue will be christened, complete with a positive confirmation from Bush, which will...

The mesmerizing incredulity emanating from the Democrat’s 2004 Presidential candidate so far exceeds any heretofore recognized boundaries of decorum, respect, responsibility, and good sense or judgment that one might begin to suspect that he is being possessed by a foreign entity and made to advocate some cause on their behalf. Predictions of failure and a constant denigration of policy combine with his persistent challenges of executive authority to thoroughly undermine any sense of resolve on the part of this nation in the eyes of the enemy. Moreover, his allusions to quagmires of wars past and the morbidly prophetic references to...

JERUSALEM - Israel claimed responsibility Sunday for a car bombing in Syria that killed a top Hamas leader. Israeli security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the car bombing killed Izz Eldine Subhi Sheik Khalil. The death was also reported on a Hamas Web site. Top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) and the army chief, have warned recently that no Hamas leader — even those outside the Palestinian territories — was safe. Israel's Channel 2 television said the attack was a new tactic in fighting Palestinian militant groups. The station said the tactic...

"Artistry serves humanity by preserving the genius of vision, the wisdom of scholars, and the absurdity of fools." - Boes Dedicated to Billie Joe Armstrong Paying homage to the posterboy of boorish insult (reference ), I will answer the sophmoric angst of a naked generation of the absurdly alternative as expressed through a contemporary troop of contrived zeros, by dedicating a previously recorded argument to their green-necked bigotry and feckless stupidity (reference ). (Originally recorded in September 2003, the following statement was the culmination of an ongoing debate with an associate. We'll call him Marilyn. I believe his view would...

Growing up in Texas, it was exciting to watch the great thunderstorms come rolling dark and ominous out of the northwest sky. They were fast and frightening to be sure, yet quite safe to watch right up to the last minute, when the crash of the thunder united with the flash of lightning, and the eerie green glow warned of the eminent danger that was upon you. But, the storms did not always make a deliberate approach across a 200 mile horizon at 60 miles an hour. At times, they erupted overhead... the air ripe to seeding the very tempest...

Even as Kofi Annan rushes to flood the weekend press columns with a huge CYA, by his explicit declaration of illegality regarding the US-led war with Iraq (Source), the story is beginning to break on the UN’s complicity with and support of Islamic Terror. Claudia Rosett, a regular contributor to Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal , has been researching the connections that link the UN and member nations like France, and Germany with Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden to Al Qaeda operations through a criminal money laundering operation known as the so-called “Oil for Food” program. A new Fox...

The events and details of the massacre at Beslan have all but unfolded for the world. Unfortunately, the sins of a cursed political season have yielded little to coverage of the savagery from the mainstream America media outlets, who have addressed the event superficially and reluctantly, if at all. More images of the carnage and sorrow have circulated on Free Republic, it seems than all newspapers and television news combined. Together with in-depth analyses from Bloggers like wretchard at Belmont Club and The Command Post, the horrors of the event have been mostly realized for those concerned, yet detached observers…....

How fast can they back out of a room full of wasps… in the dark? The Left is in full panic after a two days of cramming through a door labeled “Feed your Frenzy!” CBS, the Boston Globe, the Kerry Campaign, many Leftwing Bloggers, and a few individuals I know (…ahem!) all rushed into the dark venue, sponsored by none other than Dan Rather and pals over at 60 Minutes-Lite. It should have been a great show by historic standards of Democrat ‘dirty’ tricks. The sultans of slime – Carville and MacCauliffe – were on the case, doctors bags open,...

All is fair in love and war … and politics. But, what is fair is not necessarily moral, and it is often far from the metal of Men. During a time of crisis, Mr. Kerry - wings melted, spiraling out of control on his own Genesis-like plunge to Earth - continues to hurl rhetorical obscenities upon the American nation in the form of attacks and accusations against the sitting Commander-in-Chief. Politics being as they are, one might expect strong expressions of disagreement with procedure and policy. It is afterall, necessary for candidates to distinguish themselves for the people in advance...