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Approaching the fetid core, what is being Left is ultimately personified by the likes of Professor Ward Churchill. His own words and ideas speak for themselves... as they do for those Liberals and Democrats that support him, sponsor him, and invite him to speak to their sensibilities. Portland's Independent Media Center, for instance. (HT. Michelle Malkin) The Denver Post reports on the Professor's recent visit to Portland, Oregon to speak at an... Anti-Military forum? Indeed! What is being Left supports the troops, if they see fit to murder their fellow Americans. "Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon...

I am speaking again tonight to Democrats as much as Republicans, asking them to contemplate the recent statements and actions of their Congressional surrogates in both houses - Senator Richard Durbin (D. Illinois) and Representative Charles Rangel (D. New York) - and ask yourselves if they represent you, your values, and your viewpoints. Because, I submit that what is being Left is increasingly at odds with the sensibilities of the majority of both the Democrat Party and the people of America. On Tuesday, Senator Durbin chimed in with his latest denigration of the U.S. Military's actions in the War on...

There is a very serious issue before us today. We have been asked to amend our fundamental principles to attain the popular approval of secular whim. The Church is being pressured from without and within to redefined its foundations to align with certain contemporary cultural prerogatives. Why? Why are we being asked to do this? Does such an alteration somehow benefit our faith?... Our culture? Our Church? Why should we?... What do we gain? How do we develop? The questions are key to understanding the substance of the issue before us today. Serious reflection and candid affirmation will guide us...

Rush is reporting this morning that the confirmation vote is staged for a confrontation in the Senate Judiciary Committee. But, Senatopr Santorum is attempting, covertly, to delay the vote again, bowing to so-called internal P.O. polling data. Hello!... Hello?!

Democrat Members of the House and Senate staged an opposition rally in Washington D.C. on Wednesday with their friends at MoveOn.Org. You remember MoveOn? They were the group endorsing "Screaming Howard" Dean in the 2004 Presidential election, running adds likening George Bush to Hitler, and mainlining the wealth of billionaire Socialist George Soros in his effort to buy the outcome of a free election. They are the champions of fringe Left ideology in this nation and the Democrat party, including so-called 'centrist' Hillary Rodham-Clinton, is their political concubine... payed for with special interest contribution and clad in tawdry rhetoric to...

A structural lesson seems in order for fringe America and it's judiciary: Of this... And this... This... ... is a rational connection! Judge Richard Kramer has demonstrated himself to be incompetent in matters of law, and an imbecile when it comes to logic. In his ruling, Monday, striking down California laws that limit marriage to "a man and a woman..." he stated that, "No rational basis exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners..." Ignoring for an instant the historic condition of unification, which in itself constitutes rational or logical establishment of a cultural definition, the natural mechanism...

PORTLAND - A flaming object was spotted streaking through the Saturday night sky across Western Oregon and the impact was heard all the way from Salem to Medford, according to various reports. Newspapers across the western half of the state and KPTV were getting phone calls from people who saw the object. Summer Jensen of Portland said she was sitting in her living room with her father when they saw the flash of light outside and rushed to see what it was. "I've never seen anything like that," Jensen said, adding that the object appeared to be moving slowly compared...

As I prepared for my ride in this morning, studying, watching the market, and playing with my kids ( I get up frighteningly early), Eric Hogue was lamenting the failure of Republicans to make the case for the privatization of Social Security. Playing clips of Harry Reid, obstinent in his determination to do absolutely nothing about anything, Eric pointed out that the Conservatives have failed the President and Congress on this issue giving Reid and his 'Do-Nothing' party the determination to stand firm in the destructive resolve against the President's plan to fix the Social Security system. And as I...

The Oregon State Legislature will soon be considering a bill that would outlaw semiautomatic "assault rifles" and large-capacity magazines and require registration of these items purchased before the bill's effective date. However, any attempt to prohibit an individual citizen's right to own a firearm represents a gross misunderstanding not only of U.S. Constitutional Law, but also of the basic principles of human nature that caused the Framers to specifically pronounce that right in the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Every constitutional scholar recognizes that the Framers composed the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as a reaction to the...

Hillary Clinton is running in 2008. This much is certain. Here's the question. What is she going to do about Bill? If you thought the Kerry campaign had trouble getting Teresa to put a sock in it, what do you think Hillary's team is going to have to contend with dealing with the former president, with all the charisma you can pack into a frame that is physically incapable of telling the truth. If she has a chance at winning, she has to be in the limelight. The problem is, he still sucks all the oxygen out of the room....

IF OLD MEDIA--the "legacy media" of the big papers and old networks plus the newsweeklies--was a city and not simply a set of gasping institutions, it would look like Stalingrad circa 1944. Parts of most of the virtual buildings are still standing, but the devastation is pretty complete. And the pummeling just keeps coming. On Sunday last, Power Line's John Hinderaker undressed the New York Times biggest big foot, Thomas Friedman, for all the blogosphere to see, The Belmont Club was scissoring the Associated Press's credibility, and I was pointing out the many defects in a Washington Post front-page story...

Shortly after our first son was born, our attention shifted with friend's, to the arrival of their new baby boy. The day brought both joy and tragedy. Their son was alive, but had been born with a severe birth defect that threatened both his immediate survival and hope for a normal life beyond. I cannot imagine the strength that it took for them to endure the first few seconds of birth, through the perserverence of the weeks, months, and even years of care, pain and surgery. An easier decision might have been made elsewhere in the world for them, despite...

Gregoire's the Winner! In Washington, the Democrats have declared their candidate 'the winner' in the 2004 Governor's race. After two previous unsatisfactory election results, showing Republican Candidate, Dino Rossi, first winning by 261 votes and again by 42 votes, a third review seems to have yielded the votes that count. Out of 2.9 million votes cast, the close results should demonstrate that every individual voice does have profound significance in that less than a tenth of a percent can decide and election. In short, every vote cast in a legitimate manner does indeed count... or does it? Komo News Reports:...

"You go to war with the Army you have," not the one you might want, was the retort of Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld as reported by CNN to questioning by troops after a morning conference at Camp Buehring, Kuwait . This particular inquiry (as reported by the AP ), presented by Thomas Wilson of the 278th Regimental Combat Team concerned the logistics of combat: "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" Wilson asked. "We do not have proper armored vehicles to carry with...

I have heard much discussion as of late regarding Defense and Education spending as percentages of the Federal budget. Many on the Right have argued that defense spending is a fraction of the Federal expenditures on Education. But, as I look at the issue, just in terms of raw numbers, this argument does not make enough sense to me to even attempt its use. Could someone help me understand just this argument as it breaks down?... or point me to a thread or article that engages this discussion? On the surface, it seems to me to be a bogus argument...

After a brief respite from external reality attending to personal matters, nothing jolts one back to blogosphere like the knowledge that Western Civilization is crumbling around us. Some physical traits are genetically recessive. So to, it seems that both stupidity and insanity are recessive among generations of humanity. Little more than 70 years ago, one of the most progressive nations on the planet pursued a ‘just’ system of genetic filtration in league with an alliance for world domination. What evolved was the greatest nightmare the world has yet known, as millions of men, woman, and children were terminated in line...

Wisconsin town in shock over shootings Duluth News Tribune RICE LAKE, Wis. - The community where eight people were shot, five of them fatally, after a hunting dispute Sunday was trying to absorb the horror of the incident today. "The community is in shock," said Glen Ruie of Rice Lake. "These people weren't murdered. It was a massacre. We're all just trying to cope with it." Mike Neil, a salesman at Link Motors in Rice Lake, where two of the shooting survivors work, said, "This is insane. This doesn't happen around here." He predicted that the incident would lessen hunters'...

My grandmother is 95 years old. I absolutely adore her. She and my wife are truly the most selfless people I have ever met. Grammy lived through WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War, The Cold War, the first Gulf War, and is still absolutely as sharp as a tack as she views the current GWOT and Gulf War II. I would love to ask her what she thinks of all of this mess, but I love her too much to make her think about that stuff. I’d rather watch her play with my 2 year-old...

In 1974, American author and philosopher, Ayn Rand, was chosen to deliver the Commencement Address to that year's Graduating Class of West Point. The title of the address has come to be known as, Philosophy: Who Needs It? During the course of her speech, Mrs. Rand answered here own question. "Everyone!" She also bestowed on the United States Military, one of the more profound vindications of their existence as has ever been noted. On this Veterans Day, 2004, do let's recall her words, and share her gratitude to the brave men and women who DO NOT sacrifice themselves for...

How yet resolves the ludicrous Caliph of stygian whores?This is the latest parle we will admit; Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;Or like to men proud of destructionDefy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,If I begin the battery once again,I will not leave the half-achieved HarfleurTill in her ashes she lie buried.The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,In liberty of bloody hand shall rangeWith conscience wide as hell, mowing like grassYour fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.What...