Archive for February, 2007
This Is Pathethic
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Even by the AP’s standards. Just out on the wires:
Group skeptical of global warming notes his home is big energy user
Um, what does one have to do with the other? Oh, it’s never said, because it is irrelevant as the energy usage statistics aren’t disputed.
Following criticism by a conservative group of Al Gore’s large home [...]
Is New York being Targeted by Iran ?
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007NYPD concerned New York a target by Iranian agents:
March 5, 2007 issue – Increasing tensions between Washington and Tehran have revived New York Police Department concerns that Iranian agents may already have targeted the city for terror attacks. Such attacks could be aimed at bridges and tunnels, Jewish organizations and Wall Street, NYPD briefers told [...]
Republicans Would Jeer The Motto of TRADOC, “Victory Starts Here”
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007I can hear Republicans cheering:
Rushed by President Bush’s decision to reinforce Baghdad with thousands more U.S. troops, two Army combat brigades are skipping their usual session at the Army’s premier training range in California and instead are making final preparations at their home bases.
Some in Congress and others outside the Army are beginning to question [...]
Memories of “Conservative” Republicans
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Were Republicans “conservative” in the 1990s, were they micro-managing a war, were they defying the Commander in Chief or were they simply posturing politically, with soldiers as pawns?
GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, speech on the Senate floor October 6, 1993
I supported our original mission, which was humanitarian in nature and limited in scope. I can [...]
Dems Whine About College Republicans Event
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007I can just picture Howard Dean begging the RNC to make them stop:
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Democrats on Tuesday urged Republican Party chairman Mel Martinez to stop the independent College Republicans from holding “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” events around the country.
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean and Ramona Martinez, chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic [...]
A Stroll Down Memory Lane
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007At Powerline. If you substitute “cooling” for “warming” the rhetoric is exactly the same as 30+ years ago:
Coincidentally, earlier tonight a friend put into my locker in the gym a copy of the very Time article, dated June 24, 1974
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing [...]
Pardon Me, Senator Clinton
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007The sins of the husband come back to haunt:
WASHINGTON — Six years ago, the launch of Hillary Clinton’s career in the US Senate was marred by allegations that her brothers had received payments from people pardoned by President Bill Clinton in the waning months of his presidency.
Now, in the wake of the launch of her [...]
The nation’s first Green President
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Ace posted earlier on Al Gore’s hypocrisy.
Today, Taranto points to TreeHugger.com’s post on President Bush’s environmental record:
Is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace [...]
Komrade Katie Concerned for Gore
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Katie Couric, the anchorwoman from the show no one watches on the channel no one watches, fears Gore will suffer a backlash:
Along with millions of other people, I was watching the Oscars last night, checking out the dresses. (Personally, I found Penelope Cruz’s the most beautiful and tasteful of the night…)
But as the throngs of [...]
Senator Sounds the War Trumpets
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007{3-count to Erick @ Redstate for breaking this big story}
“I think we ought to take action on all fronts including Syria and any other source of weapons coming in, obviously Iran is the focus – but it shouldn’t be the sole focus.”
Great. Which republican, neo-con hawk & Bush lackey said this?, which will just [...]
They missed! Too bad.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007That’s how the left is reacting to the news that Vice President Cheney was the target of an assasination attempt:
A suicide bomber struck at the main entrance to Bagram air base in Afghanistan today, as Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting.
Immediately after the attack, a red alert traveled throughout the base — a red alert [...]
58% Support the Troops, 42% Do Not, Which Side is the GOP?
Tuesday, February 27th, 200758% of Americans seem to have some common sense on reasonable measures that support the troops:
Murtha’s plan has drawn fire in the House, including from some of his Democratic colleagues, after it was announced on a liberal Web site. The Post-ABC News poll, which did not associate the plan with Murtha, found that 58 percent [...]
More Liberal Hypocrisy Exposed
Monday, February 26th, 2007More inconvenient truths:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household [...]
On Liberalism: Misguided Emotion
Monday, February 26th, 2007After reading many, too many perhaps, comments and closely monitoring the public statements by modern liberals over the last few years, it is obvious and inarguable that people counting themselves as “progressives” are guided in their political philosphy (to the extent you can count it as one) by childish emotion.
For example, on the issue of [...]
A Troop Liberals Don’t Support
Monday, February 26th, 2007As clear as can be, and very true:
People back home may not realize how effective this enemy is using the media as a weapon. Every time some talking head gets on the TV and shouts anything negative about this war, it motivates our enemy, who interprets dissent as weakness and who uses our free press [...]