More on Mr. Buckley

Since the day of William F. Buckley's passing, there have been many fitting tributes to him. None more fitting than this one by his nephew, L. Brent Bozell III.

The same link also provides an audio link so you can hear his first, if not only, interview since his uncle's death, with Mark Levin.

The American Thinker posts highlights of and links to Peggy Noonan's and George Will's tributes to Buckley. Both are good reading.

Finally, at least for now...Bruce Walker wrote a very good piece about the Conservative Qualities Reagan and Buckley had in common. Here are a couple of paragraphs:

No Leftist will ever be as loved by Americans as that "Arch-Conservative" Reagan and no Leftist will ever be as respected and admired as William F. Buckley, Jr. While conservatives thrash about to define ourselves, to find ourselves, to seek our inner selves, let us first study a bit what made these two giants unifying leaders who they were.

The first common characteristic is that both men were devoutly religious -- it is impossible to think of either man without soon noting the importance of God in the biography. Buckley's first book, God and Man at Yale, wrote about the absence of God from universities: who else then would have even noticed? Yet Buckley, a deeply religious man, realized that all political problems are ultimately moral problems, and all moral problems ultimately religious problems. The attempt to expunge God from politics, therefore, was the first step toward totalitarianism and the sort moldy social jelly that it Europe today.

Reagan also put God above all else. Buckley and Reagan, however, were not the sort of political-religious leaders like Huckabee. Neither man would have said a word about Romney's Mormonism. The God of Buckley and Reagan had very long arms. It was a God that Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Christians each recognized well. This God was concerned about unborn children, but just as concerned about souls trapped in the Gulag.

As a natural consequence of the importance of God in their lives, Buckley and Reagan believed in the divine purpose of marriage and family. Buckley was married once and for a very long time. Reagan did have one unhappy marriage, but that was a Hollywood marriage, and his long and loving marriage to Nancy shows just how important he considered a happy and devoted home life. Both men grounded themselves in those natural bulwarks of conservative values, faith and family, values which when working right in the lives of men make the Left less than unnecessary.

Buckley and Reagan were also men with a genuine love of life. They were not morose (although both were, at times, seriously worried about America and American values in the world.) Buckley at the sail or harpsichord, Reagan chopping wood or riding a horse -- these images of happy men whose life was not just politics -- are part of what a full life should be. Both men had a wonderful sense of humor to complement a life of decent fun.

There's more, but I don't want to steal his thunder. Be sure to read the entire piece.

Marvin Olasky, of WORLD Magazine remembers Mr. Buckley.

There may be more good tributes and if I stumble upon them, I'll be sure to post them.

McCain's Freudian Slip of the Day

From John McCain's lips to your eyes:

"I'm a proud, conservative, liberal Republi- Hello! Easy there," McCain said, laughing along with his audience at Texas Instruments Inc.

He corrected himself immediately. "Let me say this: I am a proud, conservative Republican, and both of my possible or likely opponents today are liberal Democrats."

Evidence of Global Cooling

Has the "drive by" media covered the fact that there is Evidence of Global Cooling or do you have to hear it on talk radio or the FoxNews channel?

Tuesday we told you about several areas around the planet experiencing record cold and snowpack — in the face of all the predictions of global warming.

Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets have released data showing that temperatures have dropped significantly over the last year. California meteorologist Anthony Watts says the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundredths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree.

That is said to be a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. It is reportedly the single fastest temperature change ever recorded — up or down.

Some scientists contend the cooling is the result of reduced solar activity — which they say is a larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases.

It's only going to get noticed by the global warming believers if you persist in being ever louder in your logical arguments against this flagrant global hoax contrived to introduce global taxation.

William F. Buckley 1925-2008

What an amazing man William F. Buckley was. Watching him on TV was always mesmerizing even when I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. As I write, I'm listening to an interview he did with Rush shortly after his autobiography, Miles Gone By was released in July of '04.

Rush knew Buckley quite well and today he eulogized Buckley in a way you won't hear anywhere else on the airwaves. You may be able to hear it on the free side of Rush's site and it is certainly well worth your time.

It would only be fitting that you visit National Review Online, to find out more about the life and times of its illustrious founder.

What tribute to Mr. Buckley would be complete without Ann Coulter's insightful accolades? Seriously, take in her column...she always does her homework and comes up with the big money quotes. She does Mr. Buckley proud!

William F. Buckley was truly one of the legends of our times.

Below is a YouTube presentation of Mr. Buckley on the Charlie Rose Show in a tribute to Ronald W. Reagan:



Thanks to Lucianne.com for this.

WND: 67% of 2007 recalls were from China

The China recall brouhaha started with the pet food fiasco. Remember? That's when I started to get anal about reading labels...and that was just over concern for my cat! Since then we've learned all manner of careless or just downright despicable processing problems extant in China.

WorldNetDaily is reporting that 67% of 2007 recalls were China imports. Gives one pause, does it not?

I don't know about you, but I've become scrupulous about reading labels and knowing the country of origin of whatever we buy, especially when it comes to food.

We spend a fair amount of money each month at Whole Foods Market here in Dallas because it's a great store and carries superior foods of all types. But that doesn't mean you don't have to read the labels.

Just yesterday I was cruising the Whole Foods isles at one of their newest and premier stores located at Preston and Forest in North Dallas. My wife gave me implicit instructions to get some frozen sweet snapped peas....or something like that...(I've since destroyed the shopping list)....but all they had of that variety of frozen veggie was from China; and that was from Whole Foods own label, "365." Sorry...no can do!

I also shop a lot at Sam's Wholesale Club where they have great prices on almost everything. They also have great beef; it's always better than the average super market beef because it's all "choice" whereas most supermarkets only carry "select."

Sam's fish prices are also good, but wait...the salmon I looked at last Friday was from China and last I heard, China's seafood processing was done in disgusting conditions. No China fish for my family!

It's bad enough almost everything on the store shelves is made in China. I don't blame anybody for that; after all, we want cheap prices on everything, right? But when it comes to food, I don't want to eat something that has been scraped off the floor in some nasty sewer. No sir!

Organic farming is one thing, but processing food where organic filth is everywhere, well, that's quite another thing. As for me and my family we avoid food grown and/or processed in China. Read those labels!

Get this from the Eagle Forum:

In May, 900,000 tubes of toothpaste imported from China were withdrawn because tests showed that glycerine had been replaced by diethylene glycol, a chemical used in antifreeze. This poisoned toothpaste has turned up in U.S. hospitals, prisons, and juvenile detention centers.

We import 80% of the seafood we eat, and China is our largest foreign source. The FDA says that a quarter of the shrimp coming from China contains antibiotics that are not allowed in U.S. food production and cannot be eliminated by cooking.

The FDA rejected 51 shipments of catfish, eel, shrimp, and tilapia because of contaminants such as salmonella, veterinary drugs, and a cancer-causing chemical called nitrofuran.

China raises most of its fish in water contaminated with raw sewage, and China compensates by using dangerous drugs and chemicals, many of which are banned in the U.S. The Chinese try to control the spread of bacterial infections, disease and parasites by pumping the food with antibiotics and the waters with pesticides.

Chicken pens are often suspended over ponds where seafood is farmed, recycling chicken feces as food for the fish.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to allow China to sell cooked (but not raw) chickens to the U.S. even though public health officials have warned for several years about a potential avian influenza pandemic. Doesn't the U.S. have enough chickens?

China exports more than 80% of the world's vitamin C, which is put in thousands of processed foods from fruit drinks to applesauce to granola, and is used as a key food preservative. There is no claim of contamination yet, but many worry about dependence on China, which has driven all U.S. competitors out of business.

Read those labels, folks!

Another "Stellar" News Update by Uncle Jay

Uncle Jay tells it like it is, er, was in the news of this past week. Don't miss it!

One of the Most Important Campaign Issues

John Fund has an extremely important piece out there today about the Chilling Effect all of the candidates will have on the ginormous changes they will impose, along with an eager Congress, in an effort to counter act the trumped up hoax known as man-caused global warming, now called "climate change" since the warming aspect has been proven to be inconclusive.

John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all promise bold action on climate change . All have endorsed a form of cap-and-trade system that would severely limit future carbon emissions. The Democratic Congress is champing at the bit to act. So too is the Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of companies led by General Electric and Duke Energy.

You'd think this would be a rich time for debate on the issue of climate change. But it's precisely as sweeping change on climate policy is becoming likely that many people have decided the time for debate is over. One writer puts climate change skeptics "in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial," another envisions "war crimes trials" for the deniers. And during the tour for his film "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore himself belittled "global warming deniers" as unworthy of any attention.

Take the reaction to Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg's latest book, "Cool It," which calls for a reasoned debate on global warming. Mr. Lomborg himself leans left, and he opens his book by declaring his belief that "humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels over the past centuries, thereby contributing to global warming." But he has infuriated environmentalists by saying it is necessary to debate "whether hysterical and head-long spending on extravagant CO2-cutting programs at an unprecedented price is the only possible response." To do so, he says, it will be necessary to cool the doomsday rhetoric, allowing a measured discussion about the best ways forward. "Being smart about our future is the reason we have done so well in the past. We should not abandon our smarts now."

Mr. Lomborg's solution is to avoid discredited cap-and-trade programs, in which developing nations limit economic growth while they fruitlessly try to convince booming economies such as India and China to do the same. His alternative: "Let's focus on research and development. Let's focus on noncarbon-emitting technologies like solar, wind, carbon capture, energy efficiency and also, let's realize the solution may come from nuclear fission and fusion." He laments that the climate change issue has been demagogued by ideological groups on both sides, "and the ones who are making panicky or catastrophic claims simply have better press." At the end of the day, he ruefully acknowledges that potential progress and the sorts of solutions he advocates "are just boring things."

There's more to the article and this topic needs a great deal of public discussion. All of the candidates need to be publicly discussing their take on this costly, volatile and unproven theory. If voters don't demand debate on this vast and unfathomably expensive false fix for the hoax of man-caused climate change, then life as we now know it will be changed forever; and in the not too distant future. That's not an understatement!

This ranks right up there with our national defense and border security as one of the most important things to come if the public doesn't fight the current trend of succumbing to this populist hoax.

Why, you ask? Because those who espouse this bogus agenda are making it next to impossible for us to produce more energy. We cannot progress without more energy. Period!

Conservation is all well and good, but it does not produce more energy for growth and sustenance. We simply need to produce more energy and the powers that be are not allowing it!

A Quote to Remember During the Campaigns

Barry Goldwater said it and we dare not forget it:

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

T-Shirt Du Jour, er, Del Dia

I saw a young Mexican kid, this afternoon, proudly wearing this shirt as I was driving in Garland, TX, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. Had I not been on the move I would have loved to accost him with my camera if, for no other reason than to see his reaction. He needn't have fretted...after all, that's the message on the shirt. What did he have to worry about? Who's going to go to the trouble of deporting him, much less make him feel unwelcome.

Ya think illegal aliens in Mexico would dare wear this shirt?

You're Known by your Friends and those who Endorse You

It's doubtful that Obama will denounce Farrakhan's enthusiastic endorsement:

CHICAGO (AP) - In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.
The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.

"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."

Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

"A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly followers. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."

It will be interesting to see if the other candidates have the cahones to openly discredit the racist Farrakhan. How 'bout it, Senators McCain and Clinton!

Doug Giles: A Time to Clash

Every now and then I feel the need to consult the wit and wisdom of angry white man extraordinaire, Doug Giles; you know, just to see if his anger level is any where near mine.

His most recent column is a good one to check. He's got a list of things that make us angry...and rightly so, by the way. It's probably a growing list! Here are a few:

1. I don’t like our nation being threatened by Islamo-facsists. I think they should die on their turf and on our terms. Yes, I’m not buying this “religion of peace” yumminess.

2. I don’t like what democrats have become.

3. I don’t like people screwing around with my right to keep and bear arms.

4. I don’t like traditional values being trashed.

5. I don’t like folks who don’t like America.

6. I don’t like the slutification of our culture.

7. I don’t like metrosexuality.

8. I don’t like how our universities have become liberal madrasas.

#2 got my attention...I don't even like what republicans have become!

You can read the rest of "A Time to Clash" right here. It won't make you mad. You're already mad! It might even quell your anger by focusing your attention on what you need to do.

If a famine swept the land, would we blame SUV's?

There are some dead on, sure-fire, make-sure-you-read columns out there this week-end.

The first one is titled The ugly results of banning God from the culture. That's right, we're leaving God in the dust and when we're to going need Him most He's going to pretend He's no where to be found.

Which leads me to the above headline, If a famine swept the land, would we blame SUV's? Think about it. When punishment comes to this country in the form of REAL climate change and catastrophic turmoil (see Matthew 24 in the New Testament) as a result of turning our backs on God, the whacked-out environmental extremists are going to be blaming SUV driving Christians for all our woes. Count on it! But I digress...

Pat Boone has a timely piece about the Academy Awards, titled Hollywood salutes its WMDs. He's a long time member of the Academy and in this piece he shares his insights on what's been happening in the movie business. He's long been one of the good guys. It's people like him who keep Hollywood from falling into the ocean.

If you're following the Obama phenom then you'll want to read Kathleen Parker's, Obama the Messiah of Generation Narcissism as well as Jerome Corsi's Is Obama the messiah?

Mark Steyn wittily contributes to the Obama v. Hillary rout in his Obama turns Hillary into Bill Richardson wherein he likens what is happening to Hillary as what happened to Margaret Thatcher. His opening paragraphs are irresistible:

On the day that Margaret Thatcher was toppled by her own party, I ran into an old friend, a hard-core leftist playwright, Marxist to the core, who wasn't as happy as he should have been. He jabbed me in the chest. "You bastards on the right!" he fumed. "You wouldn't even let us be the ones to drive the stake through her heart."

I'm sure in America's Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy there are similar mixed feelings. The Clintons have met their Waterloo but it's not some doughty conservative warrior who gets to play Duke of Wellington, only some freshman pap peddler of liberal boilerplate whom no one had heard of the day before yesterday.

Now there's some good reading!

One man's pride is another man's shame

From the Editorial Cartoons site.

The New York Slimes

Another hat tip to Lucianne.com for this.

Navy Missile Hits Spy Satellite...Heh heh!

Some might see this as something that really needed to be done and some might see it as an "in your face" to our enemies around the world...and you know who you are.

It's good to get in the face of our enemies from time to time. Otherwise, they may perceive us as weak or technologically inept. It does my heart good to let the rest of world know that we have "star wars" technology and they don't. Eat your hearts out enemies!

Here's the deal folks. We've been evicting God from every institution we can and it's been more than a generation since we depended on Him to protect us from our enemies. There was a time when most thought we were protected by a divine "hedge" around our country. Who among us believes that today?

We, as a country, if we're not already there, are getting to the point where we no longer depend on, or even hope, that God could or would come to our aid in a crisis. So if we're not going to depend on God to aid in our national defense, then it behooves us to have the strongest, most technologically advanced armed forces the world has ever seen. If we can't ask God to come to our aid, we better be stronger than any of our enemies.

So far so good. If the leftists get into the White House, they would dismantle the "star wars" technology that took out the satellite today. Why? Because it "threatens" other nations.

That's the failed mentality of the left.

Quote of the Day

Once again, from the brilliant Ms. Coulter:

Pro-lifers like to ask, "How many Einsteins have we lost to abortion?" I ask: How many Reagans have we lost to campaign-finance reform?

There's much more brilliance in her most recent column wherein she assails the campaign-finance restrictions which have and will keep good people out of the despicable campaign process. In fact there is so much brilliance to behold in her column, I fear, in your laziness, that you'll not take the initiative to go there; so here are 3 of the money paragraphs:

By prohibiting speech by anyone else, the campaign-finance laws have vastly magnified the power of the media -- which, by the way, are wholly exempt from speech restrictions under campaign-finance laws. The New York Times doesn't have to buy ad time to promote a politician; it just has to call McCain a "maverick" 1 billion times a year.

It is because of campaign-finance laws like McCain-Feingold that big men don't run for office anymore. Little men do. And John McCain is the head homunculus.

You want Reagan back? Restore the right to free speech, and you will have created the conditions that allowed Reagan to run.

Love or hate her, she knows what she's talking about. Long ago Rush aptly termed McCain-Feingold, the incumbant protection act. How undeniably true!

The more you follow politics, the more disgusting politicians become. And to think we have to vote one of them into the White House; or more likely, vote against one of them from getting into the White House.

The First Thing He'll do is...

Thanks to Lucianne.com for the Obama 'toon.

The next thing he'll have to do is get rid of those pesky American flags:

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he doesn't wear an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for "true patriotism" since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Asked about it Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped wearing the pin shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas to citizens.

"The truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin," Obama said. "Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.

"I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest," he said in the interview. "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism."

Then he'll need to do away with that archaic tradition of placing the right hand over the heart while the "Star Spangled Banner" is being played:



Well, we could give him the benefit of the doubt that this particular rendition of America's theme song was so bad that he didn't recognize it... (note to Obama...when in doubt, take your cues from the people around you.)

We could, but we won't!

Early Voting in Texas Begins Tomorrow--(why I'm voting for Obama)

Early voting for the March 4th primaries begins tomorrow (Tuesday February 19th) here in Texas. I'm a staunch conservative to the right of your stereotypical right winger. In this day and age conservative could mean anyone from Lieberman to Limbaugh; but trust me, I'm to the right of Limbaugh.

That being said, I'll be voting early in the Texas Primaries for none other than Barack Hussein Obama. Additionally, because we believe in living large in this great state, we get to vote twice if we choose to, and you don't even have to be dead like in so many other states. After we vote in the primary we can then go to the caucas and vote again! It's a beautiful thing!

I believe it's imperitive to stop the Clintons here and now in the primaries, before they go any further. But know this; they will stop at nothing to secure victory. Those of us who oppose them need to stop them now before they get the nomination and before they can steal the general election.

Obama is every bit the socialist that Mrs. Clinton is, and maybe even moreso, but he doesn't have the collossal machine behind him. He doesn't have the FBI files or the countless Clinton operatives already working within the bureaucracy. He doesn't have the Clinton intimidation factor working for him that has worked so well for them lo these many years and he doesn't have the Chi-Coms in his back pocket like the Clintons do. Nor is he haunted by dubious body counts that will ever be associated with the Clinton legacy. Furthermore, Obama has never had to have anyone be in charge of "Bimbo Eruptions" as have the Clintons and as far as we know, Obama has never used or abused any interns in his official Senate office. While he does smoke cigarettes well out of view of the paparazzi, it's never been reported that he misuses fine cigars in the presence of interns.

Because the Clintons are probably the most corrupt and dishonest set of politicians that have manifested themselves in modern times, and because they've already been there and done that, I don't ever want them to have the opportunity to be there and do it again.

So I will be voting for Obama in the Texas Primaries, doing my part to stop the Clintons in their quest for Bill's third term. But rest assured...I would never vote for Obama in the general election.

It's President's Day!

Got this amazing video from the Stop The ACLU blog. It may well be the best 10 minutes you spend online today. It's a fascinatingly subtle transformation of each and every president; one right after the next. You have to see it to appreciate it. Hey, it's President's Day...do you even know what Rutherford Hayes looked like? Do yourself a favor and watch this video. It's a piece of history! Forty-THREE pieces of history!

Whoever produced this piece did an amazing job! Please be sure to watch it and be careful not to blink or you'll miss the nuanced transformations!

Another Reason to Homeschool

A recently proposed California bill would require science curriculum to cover climate change as fact...that would be "man caused climate change" which is an unproved theory. But then, Darwinism is an unproved theory taught as fact as well, isn't it?

The Nasty Naked Emperor Wannabe

Snifter click to the observant folks at Lucianne.com for this one! Does anyone really want 4 or, heaven forbid, 8 more years of the Clintonistas? Puhleasssse!

Uncle Jay Explains Presidents Day!

If you've never seen or heard Uncle Jay Explain the News to our "young people" or the otherwise "little minded" illinformed masses, by all means click on this video link and start learning. After watching this tutorial, be sure to visit Uncle Jay's Website for more of the same on the many subjects which he's covered over the years.

This guy is good. He surely has a cult following but he deserves to be Prime Time. Henceforth, I'll be posting his witty illuminations whenever they are released; usually each Monday.

Enjoy!

Quote of the Day

Peggy Noonan said it about Mrs. Clinton:

Her whole life right now is a reverse Sally Field. She's looking out at an audience of colleagues and saying, "You don't like me, you really don't like me!"

The quote is from Ms. Noonan's most recent column. Check it out!

We should all be thankful that Ms. Noonan isn't Mrs. Clinton's speech writer because this is what Ms. Noonan would have her say:

Look, let's be frank. A lot of politics is spin, for reasons we can all write books about. I'm as guilty as anyone else. But right now I'm in the fight of my life, and right now I'm not winning. I'm up against an opponent who's classy and accomplished and who has captured the public imagination. I've had some trouble doing that. I'm not one of those people you think of when you hear a phrase like 'the romance of history.' But I think I bring some things to the table that I haven't quite managed to explain. I think I've got a case to be made that I haven't quite succeeded in making. And I'm going to ask you for one more try. Will you listen? And if I convince you, will you help me? Because I need your help.

If there's anything the opponants of Mrs. Clinton would hate to see, it's a classy and heartfelt plea such as this because it just might work. But would she or could she pull it off?

George Burns once said,

The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Therein lies her problem...she hasn't gotten the sincerity thing down quite yet.

McCain Unmasked

Malkin Defends Conservative Talk Radio--Hear Hear!

The ubiquitous Michelle Malkin, one of the hardest working people in the conservative movement, posted a good piece at NRO today chiding the left leaning republicans who can't help but stick it to their would be brothers on the right:

The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It’s disgusting.

Author Mark Helprin’s grenade in the Wall Street Journal stands out. Yesterday, he launched an attack on conservative radio hosts who oppose presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Helprin sneered that their “major talent is that, like hairdressers, they can talk all day long to one client after another as they snip.”

It’s one thing to hear such petty snark coming from the left. Outraged that conservative talk radio has succeeded in the marketplace while liberals have bombed, and unnerved that new media outlets have upended mainstream journalism’s monopoly apple cart, liberals have long crusaded against the medium. Bill Clinton blamed the Oklahoma City bombing on the “many loud and angry voices” in conservative talk radio that “spread hate.” Democrats continue to deride “Republican noise machines” and are working in Congress to marginalize, regulate, and stifle influential talkers — most recently by threatening to reinstitute the Orwellian Fairness Doctrine.

But now, we have establishment Republicans parroting liberal ad hominem rhetoric: Talk-radio hosts are talentless blabbermouths. Their listeners are mind-numbed robots. Or, as supposed free-market conservative and McCain supporter Phil Gramm told the Washington Post last week in his broadside against talk radio: “They say they have principles, but some of it is their ego and power, too. They’re well-known, and they’re used to having power.”

Funny. These trash-talking GOP politicians and pundits had no problem when conservative talk-radio hosts used their “ego and power” to help kill Hillary Clinton’s massive government health-care takeover in 1994. They had no problem when conservative talk-radio hosts used their “ego and power” to galvanize support for the Republican revolution, two Bush presidential campaigns, and the war in Iraq.

In major metropolitan U.S. cities, conservative talk radio offers rare relief from liberal orthodoxy — and local talk show hosts have spearheaded effective activism. KSFO in San Francisco led the Gray Davis recall brigade. KVI in Seattle was instrumental in launching the successful fight against Hillarycare and in support of an initiative abolishing government racial preferences.

Were they nothing more than empty-talking hairdressers then?

Michelle always does the movement proud. Be sure to read the entire piece.

Now would be a good time to make mental notes of who's who in this present political brouhaha. It's always good to know who's really on your side. You need to know who you want to have in your fox hole.

Much more is going on than what we're seeing on the surface. There's a very real battle going on for the soul of our country. It's a war between the givers and the takers; the left and the right; the tax and spenders vs. those who eschew big gov't.

If you care to look a little deeper, you'll find that this is a battle over our core values as a country. Are we going to uphold the Godly values that this country was founded upon like liberty, freedom, and all that our founding dads gave their lives for, or are we going to race headlong into godless socialism like so much of the world and the U.N. has embraced?

These are crucial times; not exactly the time to stop paying attention.

Rush Limbaugh's interview with TIME

Rush did a phone interview with James Carney of Time Magazine this morning before coming on the air. It's a good interview. Read it here.

Quote of the Day

Ann Coulter said it:

A few more primary wins and B. Hussein Obama will be able to light up a cigarette during a televised speech and still get the nomination. It looks like the only thing that can stop him now is an endorsement from Al Gore.

You gotta love Ann...she not only spouts truisms, she does so uproariously. She exhibits even more brilliance in the rest of her most recent column. Be sure to read it at the above link.

...People liked Reagan!

"A Hobson's Choice" - A term with which to become familiar

Mark Levin mentioned a Hobson's choice just in passing this evening in one of his many brilliant monologues. Having never heard that phrase, I had to look it up. You may have to as well!

It's timely terminology, politically speaking; prescient, if you will.

"Move-on" McCain funded by Soros since 2001

Well, well....this is interesting! What's the difference, again, between "conservative" John McCain and any other liberal democrat?

"Death to America" Day in Iran

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers for this happy little piece:

TEHRAN (AFP) — Hundreds of thousands of Iranians on Monday shouted "Death to America" and pledged their loyalty to the Islamic republic as they celebrated the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

Large crowds of people were converging on Azadi square in Tehran from points across the city to hear a speech later by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, braving cold and misty weather in the capital.

"Down with the USA!" read placards carried by the demonstrators, who also shouted "Death to America!" the Islamic republic's traditional mantra of enmity against its arch-foe.

"I sacrifice myself for the leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said another banner carried by demonstrators.

Isn't that special!

Chavez Threatens US Oil Cutoff

Isn't THIS reason enough to begin drilling in every viable oil field within our grasp, including ANWR?

What's the rationale behind the belief that oil production is bad when ours is the cleanest nation on earth?

What's the rationale behind the belief that we should be held hostage by third world thugs, such as Chavez; as well as the terrorist backing Saudis?

We have massive oil deposits waiting to be tapped, on and offshore, but radical leftist environmental groups are winning the public relations scare that oil is bad and energy reduction is the only acceptable way to go. Even the left leaning republicans have been seduced into believing further oil production is a bad thing. John McCain is among those who fall in line with the anti-oil production leftists.

So what are we supposed to do?

Some will rightly and strongly encourage you to elect the most consevative Congress ever to fight the next liberal president at every turn. Others will encourage you to pray that Americans will wake up and see the light.

Then there are those who will tell you to bend over and kiss your sweet way of life good-bye, because the times are a fixin' to change big time! Really big time!

'Let's make our own rockets'

There's an article in the Jerusalem Post titled, 'Let's make our own rockets!'

You can almost imagine Mickey Rooney and/or Judy Garland uttering those words in an old Andy Hardy movie if the setting was modern day Israel near the Gaza Strip:

A new Facebook group is urging Sderot residents to use the Internet to learn how to build crude rockets, much like the Kassams launched at them from the Gaza Strip, and fire them back at the Palestinians.

The group, which currently has 45 members, posts material from the Internet on how to manufacture rockets.

Facebook, a social networking site that has taken the on-line world by storm, allows anyone to create groups and to invite people to join.

The group's creators, Shai and Batya Messenberg from Petah Tikva, posted a description that reads: "It cannot be so difficult: If those retards from the Gaza Strip can do it then so can you."

The description encourages residents of the town to trawl the Net for information on how to build ballistic missiles from materials found in the home.

"I'm sure that very soon they [the Gazans] will get the message," the group's creator wrote.

It's about time some ingenious locals start figuring it out. It's quite evident that the Israeli gov't isn't going to do anything about it. Certainly the U.N., or the rest of the world, for that matter, doesn't care if the Palestinians lob rockets at the Israelis.

But just wait until creative Israelis citizens start fighting back and all diplomatic hell will break loose decrying the abuse of human rights. The lopsided debate would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

Blast from the past

I was doing some searches of my past posts about how both parties have been racing toward the left. I found this post particularly interesting in light of what's going on today in politics. The post also referred to the highly amusing song and dance piece by the inimitable Charles Durning in his role as governor in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982). His role typifies the stereotypical politicans who skillfully dance around the issues. You can see his unforgettable performance right here:

Quote of the Day

President Bush said it:

John McCain is a 'true conservative.' I think that if John is the nominee, he has got some convincing to do to convince people that he is a solid conservative and I'll be glad to help him if he is the nominee.

Simple logic should cause one to therefore ask, if McCain is so unabashedly conservative, why is he going to have work so hard to convince conservatives that he's conservative?

Big Burger v Big Govt

When the Clintons become co-presidents in charge of national health care, articles like this will be more than just irritating, what-business-is-it-of-yours-what-I-eat blurbs that can be easily dismissed.

You better be paying attention to these kinds of articles that badmouth independent businesses. If you don't like Hardees or Carl's Jr, then don't patronize them. Don't cry to Big Govt that these meanies want to kill us.

Has Big Burger ever held a gun to your head and forced you to eat their fat-filled burgers? If so, you know you loved it!

But Big Govt routinely holds a gun to your head if you don't conform to their mandates, regulations and pay their confiscatory taxes. Figure it out, people! Does Big Burger, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Health Care, Big Box Store, Big Tobacco or Big Anything hold a candle to the damage that Big Govt can do to you? Can any big business knock your door down and force you to do anything?

Wake up! Big Govt is the villain here, not business!

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Novak: Bush Against Romney

According to Robert D. Novak, President Bush does not like Mitt Romney's "hard line" position on immigration:

While President George W. Bush has maintained neutrality among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, he privately expresses to friends his exasperation with Mitt Romney's hard-line stance on immigration.

Bush is upset that Romney changed his position on the issue, compared to what it had been when he was governor of Massachusetts, at the expense of the president's immigration reform. Bush and Sen. John McCain are not close, but the president is grateful for McCain's support on Iraq and immigration.

This is one ginormous reason to get behind Romney rather than McCain.

Liberal Fascism: You VILL buy health insurance!

Hillary suggests snatching wages for those who opt out of buying health insurance. There's more abuse of power where that came from.

Get used to it, folks!

Shift Happens!

This is an amazing video meant to get you thinking about the exponential aspect of information and knowledge. Are we keeping up and what will happen if we're not. Be sure to watch it!