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As if creating Czars to control vast sectors of our country, firing Inspector Generals when they don't give a pass to his policies, and transferring the controls of the Census from where it should be to his Administration wasn't enough evidence that the man doesn't care what kind of promises he made yesterday, because it was all to get elected. Now that he is in power he just utters "nevermind." Via Hot Air comes this reminder of what candidate Obama said about the use of Presidential Signing Statements: Questioner: When Congress offers you a bill, do you promise not to...

STRANGE and unfamiliar sound emanated from Hollywood yesterday - total silence. It now looks as if the 9/11 attacks were just meant to be a tepid dress rehearsal for the big show. The atrocities that were narrowly averted yesterday - planes bound for our shores, to be blown up in midair by men who hate - prove one thing beyond doubt: If we care to watch our children grow up, get old enough to retire to Florida, or simply live to see another dawn, we must be vigilant. We cannot relax. The bullet we dodged whizzed by frighteningly close. That...

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2006 – The Defense Department will inform servicemembers who could be affected by the May theft of personal data from the Department of Veterans Affairs through their monthly pay statements, a DoD spokesman said here today. DoD is in the middle of an analysis to determine how many active-duty, Reserve and National Guard servicemembers could be affected by the data loss, which occurred when a VA employee loaded personal data onto a laptop, which was then stolen from his home, Army Lt. Col. Jeremy Martin said. The VA initially reported that the data stolen included personal information...

The Hamas terror group, as part of its new role as head of the Palestinian Authority, when presented in a conciliatory light in Western media, denies in Arabic, statements heralded as moderate. Ismail Haniyah of Hamas told CBS on March 16th that he hoped to some day sign a peace agreement with Israel. In his CBS interview, Haniyah said that he was "seeking a peace settlement and stability in this region," "looking forward to peace and tranquility in this region," and "seeking American administration to create this missing peace." According to a subsequent article in Al Hayat Al Jadida –...

<p>HOWARD DEAN has now done exactly what he promised he wouldn't do when he ran for Democratic national chairman — meddle in policy and put other Democrats on the defensive over Iraq. Dean's foot-in-mouth declaration that it's "just plain wrong" to think America will win the Iraq war has Democrats running for cover.</p>

Refusing to relinquish her extended fifteen minutes of fame, Anita Hill is back in the news. After doing all she could to prevent a black man, Clarence Thomas, from becoming a Supreme Court Justice, Hill is now attacking President Bush's nomination of John Roberts, saying she fears his selection could lead to "an all-white-male Supreme Court." God forbid. Sadly, hardly anyone noticed her racist and sexist comments. The liberal press simply yawned, since white males remain the primary targets of abuse by journalists, academics and feminists. They have been victims of affirmative action, quotas and reverse discrimination. Hill knows this,...

Once again, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo is speaking for the majority of sane Americans. And once again, liberals, terrorist sympathizers (is there an echo in here?), and cowards across the country want him rebuked and repudiated. Democrats, some Muslim groups, and the partisan media are boo-hooing over comments Tancredo made regarding the war on terror. Specifically, they’re upset over his response to a question by radio interviewer Pat Campbell—who asked Tancredo what the appropriate response would be to a nuclear terror threat against America. Tancredo said the following: “What if you said something like, ‘If this happens in the United...

If I were a judge, I would sentence Durbin and his fellow travelers and comrades in the Gitmo Flat Earth Society to: Endless hours of sleep-deprived filibustering watching continued reruns of documented terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and their murder of thousands; the beheadings of journalist Daniel Pearl, Nicolas Berg and others; the films of Uday and Qusay, Saddam Hussein's sons, depicting the systematic torture and murder of hundreds of Iraqis; Hitler's concentration camps in Germany and the starvation, gassing, burning of millions of Jews; the carnage of Pol Pot's systematic fratricide of 2 to 3...

I ran across an interesting article by Jared Ede at CNSnews.com about yet another gala affair the left held this last week in D.C. for liberal students so they will have the tools they need to fight the conservative movement. There were several quotes in the article from Paul Begala which exemplify the absence of thought on the left. Mr. Ede added a few facts that show what I said to be true in the Article Disharmonic Convergence is really just the same ole thing all over again. First, here are the Paul Begala quotes: “I was driving past the...

Immediately after the 7/7 London bombings, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) condemned the bombers and terrorism in general. “Any individual or group that claims that these heinous actions serve as a redress for legitimate grievances,” MPAC thundered, “is dreadfully mistaken. MPAC condemns the exploitation of people and issues, regardless of the perpetrators and their justifications. This assault is unmistakably an act of terrorism, an attack against humanity.” Words are hollow without deeds. Mindful of that, MPAC touts its “National Anti-Terrorism Campaign” (NATC): “It is our duty as American Muslims to protect our country and to contribute to its betterment.”...

When the media thought Karl Rove was the big source, the “Deep Throat” of the 21st century (give or take some hysterical adoration), newspapers blasted breathless reports on the front page predicting doom for the media-challenged aid. When it was learned that Rove was far from being the original source and that it was in fact he who had learned of Valerie “not-a-covert-spy” Plame-Wilson from other reporters, small blurbs could be found somewhere on page A17 of most major newspapers, lodged somewhere between competing advertisements for hair growth products. Of course by Friday the media were back to dropping Rove’s...

Dear Christopher, I wanted to take some time to write a short note to you on this the day of your entry into the United States Navy. Our country faces challenges — no, let me say it stronger— threats, from within and from without, the likes of which it has never faced in its 225+ year history. You have made a choice to serve your country, to embark on a career in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. And I am very pleased, proud even, as I and your friends and family see you off today as...

It doesn’t really matter why they do it. Democratic (and some Republican) politicians and party operatives vocally oppose U.S. foreign policy and international efforts. They may be seeking personal political leverage. They may deeply believe that if their group gains a majority they can make everything right in the world. They may even believe that they are being “patriotic” by vocally dissenting. They’re wrong, no matter what they believe. There are no bounds on political rhetoric today. Up until a few years ago (read: before 9-11), American politicians generally abided by the phrase “politics ends at the water’s edge.” This...

Once more we are having to listen to the black is white, up is down Dem-speak we’ve been subjected to for the last forty years. The Democrats, and their allies in the extremist lobbying organizations know how wrong Durbin’s comments were and that his “apology” on Wednesday was anything but a legitimate apology. They know that such a comment could be damaging to their election hopes in 2006 so they are running to cover Durbin’s egregious statements by trumping up a comparison between Durbin’s comments and those made by Carl Rove at a conservative fund raiser. Okay, I know that...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Somali immigrant accused of conspiring to help terrorists blow up a shopping mall is asking that his statements to investigators – including what he knew about a member of al-Qaeda – be barred from his trial. Attorney Mahir T. Sherif said Nuradin Abdi was arrested without grounds and pressured to answer investigators' questions. On June 1, he asked a federal judge to bar the statements, which are sealed. Agents told Abdi last November they were arresting him for violating immigration laws, but did not specify which laws and did not show him a warrant until three...

Spurred on by the fact that the US mainstream media allows and even encourages the Democrats to be as outrageous as possible (after all---it’s the MSM’s Party too!), Senator Dick Durbin has decided to challenge Howard Dean and Ted “the swimmer” Kennedy for buffoon of the year; if not the decade. Not satisfied with only comparing conservatives to the evil ones, Durbin decided to compare member of our US Military to Nazis, Cambodia’s genocidal leader Pol Pot and, of course, the Soviet gulags . In fact, he said as part of his inordinately long and loathsome diatribe: “On one occasion,...

"Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right." Howard Dean Howard Dean, G-d's gift to the Republican Party, has a point. He says things that get him in trouble, things that are not popular, but things that ordinary people know are true — if not precisely accurate. I know what you're thinking. He should apply...

The GOP a "Christian" party? Wait a minute - I thought it was run by, ahem, "neocons." Anyway, aren't American parties supposed to "look like America"? And last time I checked, wasn't America full of Christians? Like 95%? And is the insinuation here that there's something wrong with being white or Christian? That whites and Christians are a rather unattractive and robotically single-minded bunch? (If true, by the way, that would sure have spared Europe a lot of wars over the past 2500+ years ...) Isn't that an unwise thing to say for a Dem chairman who has promised to...

With folks like Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaking for Democrats, it would appear Democrats prefer minority status and will remain on the periphery of political relevancy. Howard Dean has proven time and again that his screaming tirade in Iowa, which arguably ended his presidential candidacy, was not an out of character moment, but rather is the norm. Harry Reid is spewing misinformation and falsehood so rapidly, one is left to wonder if he is profoundly ignorant and uninformed or simply so mendacious that he has become comfortable with deception and falsehood. Let’s...

The battles in Congress over the appointment of even lower court federal judges reveal a recognition that federal judges are now, to a large extent, our real lawmakers. Proposals to amend the Constitution to remove lifetime tenure for Supreme Court justices, or to require that rulings of unconstitutionality be by more than a majority (5-4) vote, do not address the source of the problem. The Constitution is very difficult to amend--probably the most difficult of any supposedly democratic government. If opponents of rule by judges secure the political power to obtain an amendment, it should be one that addresses the...