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I couldn’t help but giggle today during a search on Google. I came across an article titled “Republican Leaders...Does Karl Rove speak for you?” that can be found on the website of the Lyon County Democrats. The first thing that caught my eye was the sub title on the homepage that reads “Democracy is not a spectator sport”. It seems a little ironic the only action we have seen out of the liberal side of politics as of late is the action of the left-wing of the Supreme Court consisting of Kennedy, Souter, Ginsberg, Stevens, and Breyer that basically robs...

Remember when John F. Kerry testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations back in 1971? Just in case you forgot, or never knew about it in the first place, here's a taste of what he said. "They [American soldiers] told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside...

It is at this time of the year that some sentimental Americans reflect on the greatness of the Founding Fathers. Albeit, in the face of “political Correctness,” the “pop culture” mindset, and a government school system that has abandoned American history, the numbers who ponder such topics are shrinking. Nevertheless, several profound essays have been written on the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and their fates in the wake of that momentous occasion. It is worthwhile to consider just a few from among those perhaps greatest of Americans, how their examples spoke to the nation at its inception, and...

I first wrote about the Gitmo prison, four years ago. I laid out facts the MSM have yet to discover. Here’s another dose: 1. If Gitmo is closed, the prisoners, AND the complaints, will go elsewhere. (Is Senator Mel Martinez really that clueless?) 2. The Geneva Conventions do NOT apply to anyone captured in plain clothes, behind the lines, hiding among civilians (and also killing civilians). Anyone can read the Geneva Conventions for themselves. Fighters/soldiers must meet four conditions to be covered. Terrorists fail to meet at least three of those. These are not “insurgents.” Insurgents are people who disagree...

I constantly hear liberals decry the policies of George W. Bush, using catch-phrases like "out of the mainstream" and "dangerously irresponsible" to describe them. Apparently, if you repeat something often enough, using the same carefully crafted terminology, and applying to it the same condescending tone each time, it magically becomes the truth... at least in the minds of leftists. And, of course, the primary policy target of left-wingers in Congress remains the war in Iraq, even though nearly all of them supported it initially. As recent polls show support for the war waning, liberals all over the country are redoubling...

Having lost badly in this new century’s elections, Democrats are now sounding the alarm for impeachment proceedings against President Bush. If the word “impeachment” were not so serious in its intent, one is tempted to laugh out loud, and I will assume that many did. But this is today’s Democratic Party, where its DNC chairman Howard Dean says that Republicans “never made an honest living in their lives,” the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid (D, NV), calls a sitting president a “loser,” and the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), equated America as a modern-day war machine when she...

Since Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan’s infamously described Guantanamo Bay as the “gulag of our times” the Left has fallen all over itself in calling for Guantanamo’s closure. Never mind that millions were killed in the Soviet gulags while Guantanamo Bay holds fewer than 600 detainees. But again, as so often happens with today’s Left, why let the facts get in the way of a good sound bite. Over the past week, former President Jimmy Carter, Democratic Senator Joe Biden, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the New York Times have called for Guantanamo Bay to be closed. So...

While Howard Dean is out there talking about how much "hate" he has for Republicans and about how evil, dishonest and nasty we are I am here to stand up and say something very important. I LOVE you Mr. Dean! I mean that from the bottom of my dark, conservative, white, Christian heart. I really do love you man. And I love you more and more every day because you are out there showing everyone what you and the base of the Democratic Party believes. I love how you are out there each and every day spewing vitriol and hate...

Like everyone else I will be celebrating the Fourth of July as the birthday of our great nation, but I will be doing so with a nagging sense of foreboding about how much longer it will still be a nation that protect the rights set forth in the Constitution. It is an aspect of politics, liberal or conservative, that those who believe in America’s historic role come together when the Constitution is threatened. Walter M. Brasch, Ph.D., is as liberal as I am conservative. He teaches journalism at Bloomsburg University in the Pennsylvania. His latest book, “America’s Unpatriotic Acts: The...

President Clinton’s National Security advisor, Samuel “Sandy” Berger was caught stealing top-secret national security documents from the National Archives. Evidence shows “Sandy Scissorhands” hiding the secret documents in his pants, his jacket, his briefcase, his socks – and cut some of them up with scissors. On April 1 (April Fool’s Day), Berger pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of taking classified documents without authorization. Berger faced up to a year in prison and $100,000 fine. But thanks to a Justice Department plea agreement, he’ll pay only $10,000 and lose his security clearance for three years. Of course Berger’s outrageous...

Of all the great divides between the left and right wigs of American politics, one stands out more vividly with each passing year. That divide, the greatest of all divides is over one thing, patriotism Yes, yes, I know, those on the left will be very angry and disconcerted over such a clear assertion. They will, I am sure, send me a plethora of emails telling me how very wrong I am, and that is OK with me. They will be incensed anyone would dare question their love of America, and again that is fine with me. No matter how...

The title quote is from Le Monde a year ago. It has been updated over the decades, as France has grown. It is false. That many Frenchmen (or Englishmen, or Americans) can be wrong. The French proved that this week in voting down the proposed Constitution of the European Union. Oh, they were quite right to vote it down, as was the Netherlands, later in the week. The error was in their reasons for voting it down. Unlike most who’ve written on this story, I read that 28-page constitutional monstrosity. Here are a few examples why this is a mishmash...

The devil gets more brazen as the times grow thicker and thicker with weeds from hell. I HAD AN ABORTION is now being worn on T-shirts provided by Planned Parenthood, according to LifeSiteNews.com. The international baby killeries are burning night and day while the females who once carried those real-live human beings brag to anyone who dares to read that their wombs scraped out infants. That’s the "gospel from the pit" that’s being broadcast by PP as well as those female enthusiasts who claim to be equipped for motherhood but instead choose to murder their young. PP has a whole...

It began in New York. An official there found that almost 200 of his state’s most dangerous sexual predators got Viagra at no expense. Like Blanche DuBois, the paroled felons had depended on the kindness of strangers. The strangers in this case were taxpayers, who picked up the tab for the little blue pills thorough Medicaid. Yes, Medicaid, that superlative social welfare program from Lyndon Johnson and his War on Poverty. Medicaid is a federal law and mostly funded with dollars from Washington, but is administered individually by each state. When he was president, Clinton said he hoped that, "the...

Talk about apostasy taking itself into the twilight zone of lunacy. Furthermore, talk about the so-called high hat churchly intelligence going dumb dumber and dumbest. Now, according to the Church of England, homosexuals may wed one another but must promise to refrain from having sexual relations. In other words, "married" men to men and women to women will be recognized by the ecclesiastics if they don’t share sexual experiences. No touch. No feel. No sex. Of course, as the world knows, homosexuals enter into their trysts in order to have sex. That’s the prime point of it all. And scores...

IS GOD CANCELLING OUT TURKEY MOVE INTO EU? By: J. Grant Swank, Jr. RightConservative.com 05-31-05 In the last several days, the EU Council of 46 concluded to establish a law that made criticizing Islam a crime throughout Europe. The Council referred to "Islamophobia" as being criminal activity. All this was initiated by Turkey. Turkey prides itself on being a totally secular nation, though it is in fact very much a Muslim nation. Yet it downplays its Muslim religion because of the bad press Islam is getting? Therefore, Turkey tries to have the world conclude that it is not really a...

"’This is the first time I am enthusiastic about a French revolution,’ Andre Rouwvoet, of the Protestant ChristenUnie, said. ‘This constitution has no soul. ... They did not want to put a reference to the European Judeo-Christian tradition in. ... This is a rewriting of history of sorts.’" Lorne Cook of the Agence France-Press reports more detail regarding French voters saying NO to the new European Union constitution. It’s expected that the Netherlands will follow the French negative. There was much clamor about the EU constitution leaving God out of the document. Pope John Paul II particularly appealed to the...

Several weeks ago, I wrote a commentary that stressed to the Republican-controlled Congress--and President Bush--the perils of not following through on the conservative platform that the GOP stressed during the long campaign of 2004. (www.gopusa.com/commentary/vfiore/2005/vf_04251.shtml) The article, “For the GOP, a Warning,” was an attempt to relay to the Republican Party the general dissatisfaction of the conservative base and its many other constituents--all 62,000,000 of them--that labored for that platform in 2004, and believed in the Republican Party and the promise of 2005. With last Monday’s debacle, in what is now forever know as “The Deal” on President Bush’s judicial...

"Two former officers of a U.S.-based Islamic charity were indicted on federal charges accusing them of lying to authorities investigating the charity's alleged ties to terrorist organizations," reports Theo Emery for the Associated Press. It gets murky. It’s Muslim mess-up in Boston. And it’s just the start. Care International. Sound legit? Sound compassionate? Sound on the up-and-up? Not. Emadeddin Muntasser headed Care International. Muhammed Mubayyid was his right hand man — the treasurer for Care International. They both were taken to police headquarters. Then they were charged with "concealing information from federal agencies, conspiring to defraud the United States, and...

The family of famed evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould is suing two Boston hospitals and three doctors for misdiagnosing the cancer that ultimately led to his death. Interestingly, it turns out scientists can be wrong after all. And if they can be this tragically wrong about the evidence right there in front of their highly educated noses, just think how much more so regarding matters not as easily observed such as the origins of the universe. Though the loss of any human life deserves pity for the loved ones enduring such an unbearable hardship, it is only from the standpoint of...