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The MSM is fond of doing the “where are all the heroes” lament everytime a celebrity or sports figure is caught doing something wrong. The story is absurd on so many levels, the most glaring is the idea that because someone looks well on camera or can hit a ball far they are a hero. [...]

    As to the proposal that “Any office holder whose sex life makes it into the news for whatever reason has to lose their office no ifs ands or buts about it,” constitutionally, it has been proscribed for the past two hundred and twenty years. The problem is our elected officials did not ever read, studied, [...]

    I reply to THPrincess as a post instead of a comment attach to her own recent post because of its importance. With the rise of the twenty-four news cycle, the news-readers of the cable- and non cable-news programs must fill time. ‘Leave no dead air’ is a lesson beginning dee-jays learn in radio early. It has [...]

Okay I want a new rule and I want it now.  I want it ironclad, no exceptions, no second chances.  Any office holder whose sex life makes it into the news for whatever reason has to lose their office no ifs ands or buts about it.  I don’t care whether you are getting gay sex [...]

Maverick and the Machine: Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story by Dan Walker, Peggy Lang (Editor) ISBN: 0809327562 Pub. Date: May 2007     Out of a dirt-poor, yellow-dog Democrat family in Texas, Dan Walker went up to Illinois to become a successful trial lawyer, business executive, and governor of Illinois and then to the fall that [...]

Hint: Hillary Rodham was his opposing counsel during this Congressional hearing. Who is this? What was the hearings about? Update Since I have been told this was an easy quiz, I shall give you a bonus question: What did Nixon call Thompson’s appointment?

Censorship and Double-Dealing at Boston College is how Dinesh D’Souza describes his battle with that school over releasing the transcripts of his debate last April with Alan Wolfe, who heads the Boisi Center for Religion at Boston College. Wolfe and the New York Times aside, the more vicious attacks on D’Souza and his book The [...]

An Iraqi man sacrificed his life in order to save American soldiers and other Iraqi civilians. These are the people that Pelosi and Reid demand that we abandon to Al Queda. How do Democrats sleep at night? Source: mnf-iraq.com | Hat Tip to Don Surber

Filling the Ranks It is no news at all that – if we are to sustain a presence in Iraq sufficient (approximately 150-200 thousand troops) to carry through on the exceptional work being done there, reinforce and extend the NATO effort in Afghanistan, maintain a strategic reserve capable of intervening decisively in any other theatre [...]

    State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) shall help insurance companies as it help them back in nineteen sixty-five. Forty-two years ago, the senior citizens (65 & older) were dumped from the private insurance rolls into the hands of governmental care; now, with the help of the Democrats, children (“25?” & younger) may be joining their [...]

See this is what happens when you raise your child on classics instead of fads.  Today Marshall asked me if we could go to the Forest of Arden.  I don’t even know if Arden is a real place or something Shakespeare invented.  I could look it up but I thought it would be more fun [...]

Under enemy fire paramedic Luann Van Peursem rescues two men in Iraq. Note that she gives credit to God for her heroism, and the local newspaper demotes her Lord to “god.” http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=52511&rnews_story_type=18

For most of my adult life being pro-life was an intellectual choice.  I could clearly see what the “culture of death” had wrought in our soiciety.  It seemed so clear that we were raising young people with no respect for human life and we were paying the price with the skyrocketing murder rates in our country.  [...]

America has killed millions of its young since nineteen seventy-three without too much remorse. Yet, some professional football player is treated as a crime-against-humanity criminal for being connected with a dog-fighting racket. We are more concern about animals’ humane rights instead of if the next/replacement generation ever gets born. What don’t people understand about “humane?” [...]

On Foxnews’ Fox & Friends this morning, they discussed the teens’ (ages 13 to 25 according to the new social calculation for maturity) obsession for their imitating the movies Jackass and Jackass2 by video-taping similar stunts then posting them to the YouTube website. If you don’t like your children watching the time-waster YouTube then don’t [...]

National Review Online linked to this story about Indiana Dumocrats are worried about Senator Rodham on the top of the ticket. It seems the Democrats are worried that the senator is a “polarizing figure.” My question is can you name a Dumocrat who isn’t polarizing? That’s their whole schtick. Since FDR the Dems have have [...]

Bill Moyers bids farewell while blasting Karl Rove as creator of the monster Bush. His argument is Rove’s manipulation of the Christian right and other assorted rubes from Texas. It is illustrative of how liberals view conservatives. It’s the epitome of hate speech. Can Moyers’ judgment be of any worth of historical facts? His years [...]