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President Obama needs a Supreme Court that will endorse his far-left vision for America and Elena Kagan will help him realize it. President Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan tells us a great deal about the Supreme Court that the president wants to create as his lasting legacy to shape the future of this country. It’s a far-left vision for America. Elena Kagan is an interesting pick for the Supreme Court. She graduated from Princeton and then Harvard, where she was an editor of Harvard Law Review. She clerked for a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals,...

AUSTIN -- American icon Willie Nelson says he supports efforts to impeach President Bush and "throw the bastards out," adding that the administration will do anything to stay in power, including staging an event to cancel the election. Nelson made the comments on a radio show Thursday, saying that he supported Dennis Kucinich's attempt to impeach Bush. "If you break the law you have to pay for it one way or another, and if these guys haven't broke the law nobody has," said Nelson. "The deck's been stacked and we need to figure out a way to get a new...

John McCain also took on Mr. Obama, with the Arizona senator declaring he would oppose "eloquent but empty calls for change that promises no more than a holiday from history and a return to the false promises and failed policies of a tired philosophy that trusts in government more than people." Mr. McCain, too, raised questions about Mr. Obama's fitness to be commander in chief. Mr. McCain pointed to Mr. Obama's unnecessary sabre-rattling at an ally (Pakistan) while appeasing our adversaries (Iran and Syria). Mr. McCain also made it clear that reining in spending, which is a McCain strength and...

His current term isn't up until 2010, but "Snarlin' Arlen" Specter announced he plans to run for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate. "There are a lot of important things to be done and finally after being here to acquire some seniority, I'm in a position to do that," the 77-year-old Specter told the Associated Press. "I'm full of energy and my wife doesn't want me home for breakfast, lunch and dinner." If he wins in 2010, Specter will be 86 by the time his term ends. That's kind of young for the geriatric Senate, where Robert Byrd, the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is proving once again that the Democrat label of “party of the people” is simply that: a label. Now, the San Francisco liberal is complaining about the size of the House speaker’s jet and requesting one much larger than Republican Dennis Hastert was provided. As noted in a FOX News story, following the attacks of September 11, 2001, “the Pentagon agreed to provide the House speaker, who is second in the line of presidential succession, with a military plane for added security during trips back home.” C-20 twin-engine aircraft Republican Dennis Hastert was the first speaker...

Democrats are trying to frame the midterm elections as a referendum on an unpopular war and an unpopular president. Republicans say this election is really a choice between a mainstream GOP and congressional Democrats who are well to the left of the American electorate. Do the Republicans have a case? Based on the abundantly documented public record, they do. This is especially true on the House side where political gerrymandering has favored election of the most liberal Democrats. Nancy Pelosi's party should be having a very tough time, indeed, selling itself as a mainstream alternative to congressional Republicans. Start with...

In his book, ''State of Fear,'' author Michael Crichton appended an opinion entitled “Why Politicized Science Is Dangerous,” and cautioned against, “a social program masquerading as a scientific one,” citing the widespread eugenics movement in the early part of the last century. “A second example of politicized science is quite different in character,” warned Crichton. “It exemplifies the hazard of government ideology controlling the work of science, and of uncritical media promoting false concepts.” Just as eugenics drew praise and support from politicians, academicians, and media in its time, so too has the manufactured crisis of global warming today. This...

The Barack Obama for president bandwagon has hit Illinois, but voters are split on when the freshman U.S. senator should get in the driver's seat. A quarter of voters want the South Side Democrat to seek the White House in 2008, and another 38 percent think he should wait until a later presidential year, according to a Chicago Sun-Times/NBC5 Poll. That means a combined three out of five voters see him as presidential timber.

John Edwards, the former Democratic nominee for vice president, has made a courageous admission: "I was wrong," he said, and made "a mistake" in voting for the war in Iraq when he was a senator from North Carolina. Edwards wrote his mea culpa in an op-ed article for The Washington Post on Nov. 13. Now, let's hear it from those other Democrats and, possibly, brave Republicans who are willing to admit that they, too, had been misled into war. That may be asking too much of members of the Democratic Leadership Council, who often toss in their political lot with...

The Right loves to sling this smug accusation at critics from the Left. Mark Morford has a reply: I get this a lot: Hey Mark, you nefarious and perverted liberal commie tofu-hugging sex-drunk San Francisco medical experiment gone wrong from the land of fruits and nuts (or some iteration thereof -- so cute, my hate mail can be), hey, I notice you love to ridicule those creepy Christian megachurches and you enjoy spanking wide-eyed Mormons and tweaking the litigious nipples of the cult of Scientology and you recoil from toxic Bush policy like a vegetarian recoils from undercooked veal ......

Taking a Deep Look Inside John Kerry's Character Written by Joan Swirsky Tuesday, October 19, 2004 Editor: This article was written in April, but its message is still highly relevant: During his primary campaign, John Kerry traveled on private jets, ate lavish dinners with his ever-present and presumably loving wife, was spared any criticsm from his competitors and was lionized by a leftist media. To recover from the extreme ''stress'' of this routine, the senator took a week's vacation at his wife's multimillion-dollar getaway in Idaho. Every eligible American voter must now ask: If simple campaigning made Kerry snap at...

Something to Yak About – Yeah, That’s the Ticket: Kerry-Edwards More Liberal Than Mondale-Ferraro With his selection of John Edwards as his running mate, John Kerry has managed to construct a Democrat ticket that’s even more liberal than… (drum roll, please…) Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro! That’s right, folks, the Kerry-Edwards ticket has amassed a documented record of liberalism that exceeds even that of the utterly failed Mondale-Ferraro ticket of 20 years ago, according to the Lefties at Americans for Democratic Action. Hard to believe, but the numbers don’t lie. It’s The Record, Stupid! Just when we thought John...

The Democratic Party chose a nominee Tuesday who probably cannot win the White House in November. In opting for Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and turning down Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Democrats have broken from the pragmatism and moderation that dominated their party’s profile under Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the 1990s. Their party has now moved back to the liberal extremism of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis that characterized the 1980s — with the same predictable result. It is now up to President Bush to take advantage of this by implementing a three-part strategy in the...

Last Thursday, Howard Dean declared, "While Bill Clinton said that the era of big government is over, I believe we must enter a new era for the Democratic Party—not one where we join Republicans and aim simply to limit the damage they inflict on working families." Clinton alumni, naturally offended, fired back. Bruce Reed, Clinton's former chief domestic policy adviser, called Dean's remark "a cheap shot at Clintonism." Friday, the Dean campaign denied that Dean had meant to slam Clinton. "If he is the nominee, Governor Dean would ask for President Clinton and former members of his Administration to be...

Former Vice President and first runner up in the 2000 Presidential Election Al Gore has come out of ‘seclusion’ and placed his support squarely behind the Hate-Bush candidate, Howard Dean. This serves as notice that Al Gore, who touted himself as a centrist Democrat in 2000 claiming he was the candidate who would unite the two parties, has officially shown his true colors. Al Gore raises his flag of ultra-liberalism today and confirms what everyone who voted for George W. Bush was saying in 2000: Al Gore was and is an ultra-liberal trying to sell himself as a centrist. It...

July 22, 2003 DEMS SEE POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY ON HOMELAND SECURITY . . .  THEY SHOULDN’T! President Bush Has Provided Unprecedented Funding For Homeland Defense “The Democratic candidates’ challenge to Bush’s stand on homeland security … comes as their party is struggling to raise public doubts about Bush’s ability to protect American security.”  (Steven Thomma, “Bush Criticized On Homeland,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/19/03) THE FACTS ON PRESIDENT BUSH’S HISTORIC COMMITMENT OF RESOURCES FOR AMERICA’S FIRST RESPONDERS President’s FY 2004 Budget Calls For Large Increases In Homeland Security Spending.   “The President’s 2004 Budget provides the necessary resources for the Department...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush has invited one of his Democratic rivals for the White House to join him on Air Force One for a trip to North Carolina's Camp Lejeune.</p> <p>Sen. John Edwards, who is seeking the party's presidential nomination, and Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-North Carolina, received the invitations from the White House and are scheduled to travel with the president when he flies to Jacksonville, North Carolina, Thursday.</p>