tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79491462012-02-02T01:17:04.952-05:00"Then you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free."—Jesus, Gospel of John, verse 8:32Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1122583383337379582005-07-28T16:32:00.000-04:002005-07-28T16:46:22.453-04:00

According to The Drudge Report, curmudgeon, rabid anti-Bushite and ultra-liberal newswoman Helen Thomas has vowed to kill herself if Vice President Dick Cheney announces he'll run for president in 2008.Hey, Dick, all you have to do is announce. Then you can retract it.Maybe she'll reinstitute self-immolation like the Buddhist monks used in protest during the Vietnam War, in Vietnam?But, seriously

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1121531808995295512005-07-16T12:22:00.000-04:002005-07-16T12:36:49.003-04:00

But for the hand of God, I'd be dead. Couldn't be clearer. His mercies are incredible.I've been mostly off the air since July 1, as a result of a very severe vehicle accident. An 18-wheeler leased or owned by the Kroger Company rear-ended me and my former 1998 Dodge Dakota at a stoplight July 1. It was on a four-lane road, on a sunny day, with no impaired vision of the the line of cars in which I

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1120794979373241122005-07-07T23:36:00.000-04:002005-07-08T00:04:48.650-04:00

Today’s bombings will not weaken in any way our resolve to uphold the most deeply-held principles of our societies and to defeat those who would impose their fanaticism and extremism on all of us. We shall prevail and they shall not. . . . It is important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1120707511272812992005-07-06T23:07:00.000-04:002005-07-06T23:38:31.330-04:00

More on the hate-crime against Muslims that wasn't.According to Michele Malkin:According to the AP, a Muslim Virginia Tech student took responsibility saying he dropped off the burned Koran and other singed materials at the mosque, hoping "it could be given a respectful disposal." (Blacksburg, Va.) Police Lt. Bruce Bradberry reported that the student, who was not named, apparently contacted

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1120666277452355492005-07-06T11:39:00.000-04:002005-07-06T12:14:20.500-04:00

Do we laugh, cry or scream about the hypersensitivity and knee-jerk responses of Muslims in America who now translate most anything as a “hate” crime against them?Close to home, in Blacksburg, Va., last month, at the Islamic Center of Blacksburg, members found a plastic shopping bag in front of the door filled with a charred copy of the Quran and the burnt pages of Arabic books, according to the

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1120532442323047852005-07-04T23:00:00.000-04:002005-07-04T23:00:42.330-04:00

Happy Birthday, America 

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Bombs bursting in air... 

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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1120531204568730652005-07-04T22:40:00.000-04:002005-07-04T23:03:48.583-04:00

Old Glory, Ft. McHenryYou're a grand old flag,You're a high flying flag,And forever in peace may you wave.You're the emblem of the land I love,The home of the free and the brave.Ev'ry heart beats true'Neath the Red, White and Blue.Where there's never a boast or a brag.But should auld acquaintance be forgot,Keep your eyes on the grand old flag!There's a feeling comes a-stealing,And it sets my

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1120531159403214022005-07-04T22:39:00.000-04:002005-07-04T23:04:45.540-04:00

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119843562213826042005-06-26T23:25:00.000-04:002005-06-26T23:45:56.353-04:00

Something happened Saturday in West Virginia that indicates the intellectual and common-sense state of the state.By a few percent, the total turnout of about 15 percent of eligible voters voted against the Pension Bond Amendment to the state constitution. It would've authorized the state to issue about $5.5 billion dollars in bonds that would have stabilized the debt repayment on a bunch of other

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119755895597579532005-06-25T22:30:00.000-04:002005-06-25T23:59:18.266-04:00

Perhaps I’m cynical, but how many more editorials/opinions do we need that suggest the United Nations is broken and must be fixed?Apparently at least one more, because Tuesday Newt Gingrich and George Mitchell penned “Only change can make U.N. useful, relevant again” in USA Today. Sorry, fellas, the U.N. isn’t going to change. You know, we all know it—well, all of us except the Democrats’

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119751917454283772005-06-25T22:10:00.000-04:002005-06-25T22:18:47.560-04:00

One day a scorpion was walking along a river bank, trying to find a way to get across the river. He came across a frog sitting on the river bank. The scorpion asked the frog if he would take him across the river, by giving him a ride on his back. The frog quickly replied, "No, I will not give you a ride.”The scorpion then asked, “Why not?”The frog replied, “Because if I were to give you a ride on

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119671315418525312005-06-24T23:04:00.000-04:002005-06-25T22:01:03.806-04:00

How much more evidence does the country need to conclude that the Democrat Party no longer represents anything American?The entire Democrat leadership not only remained silent for the week after Dick Durbin's traitorous, malicious and despicable comments in which he called American soldiers Nazis and compared Gitmo to the atrocities committed by Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot, but they actually

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The CBS Evening News has yet to inform its viewers about Democratic Senator Dick Durbin's comparison on June 14 of interrogation techniques at Guantanamo to those employed by "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags."Nor has CBS mentioned Durbin's June 22 "apology."No political bias at See B.S., is there?As Brent Bozell, of media-watchdog Media Research Center, said in "Deaf and Dumb on Durbin":It is

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119502205477723002005-06-23T00:36:00.000-04:002005-06-23T00:53:26.216-04:00

I found this new word in a "Nazis uber Alles," by Jonah Goldberg at Townhall.com. He used it thusly:So how is Dick Durbin partly right?It is true, as Durbin claimed, that if he were to read the allegations about depriving prisoners of food or forcing them to defecate on themselves, many Americans would be reminded of the Nazis. But that's because vast swaths of the public and their opinion

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119464204572276222005-06-22T14:12:00.000-04:002005-06-22T14:18:50.443-04:00

If I ran a Republican senatorial or presidential election campaign, I would exploit this Dick Durban outrage to its fullest with the military and their families.Essentially, the Democrats have refused to criticize Durbin as part of the refuse-to-break-ranks solidarity. And that includes Dems who are veterans such as Chuck Hagel and Charlie Rangel.Of course, Rangel, the top House Democrat, still

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119458578830567852005-06-22T12:19:00.000-04:002005-06-23T00:54:31.063-04:00

So Dick Durbin got all teary-eyed and choked up yesterday in the Senate as he “apologized” for calling U.S. soldiers Nazis and comparing Gitmo to what Stalin and Pol Pot did.It’s many dollars short and more than a few days too late. He does not belong in the Senate. Period. His remarks were and remain reprehensible, seditious, malicious and slanderous. He knew exactly what he was saying. To wit:

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119399913053774602005-06-21T20:21:00.000-04:002005-06-21T20:25:13.060-04:00

The Associated Press reports that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., should apologize for his comments last week comparing American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis.According to AP, Daley said fellow democrat Durbin is a good friend.But Daley aid he says it's wrong to evoke comparisons to the horrors of the Holocaust or the millions of people killed in Russia under

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119365606326183462005-06-21T10:36:00.000-04:002005-06-21T10:54:39.246-04:00

The advocacy print and broadcast media have essentially refused to report Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of Sen. Dick Durbin, R-Ill.--the Senate's second highest-ranking Democrat--who, last week, called American soldiers Nazis and said Gitmo was like something out of the Third Reich.Cheney told WWTN Nashville radio host Steve Gill:I thought Durbin was totally out of line. For him to make

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119364117491109352005-06-21T10:23:00.000-04:002005-06-21T10:29:16.036-04:00

Evidently, Howard Dean’s trashmouthing of Republicans, Christians, conservatives, working people, white people—does this list ever end?—is OK with the Democrat Party.That’s all I can conclude, given that the voices which spoke out for him to put a sock in it have disappeared. Of course, Dick Durbin and his seditious, malicious, evil statement that American soldiers and Gitmo are like Nazis took

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119188274807890412005-06-19T09:12:00.000-04:002005-06-19T09:51:43.990-04:00

The older I get, the less I think I've seen or heard anything. Two news examples highlight this. First, there's Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller. San Francisco police allege he kept a record of his molesting as many as 36,000 boys in several states, Mexico and Brazil. Reportedly, he began his life of criminal sexual perversion 35 years ago. But--and you wonder how this happened--he never registered as

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1119154164997346842005-06-18T23:54:00.000-04:002005-06-19T09:50:38.460-04:00

I'm a proponent of private gun ownership. Didn't used to be, back in my leftist/liberal days, though. Had enough hands-on experience a few decades ago in Uncle Sam's basic training to understand this: You have pistol in your hand or a rifle against your shoulder, with your hand on the trigger of either, and you're god with a small "g."I have a very healthy respect for firearms, especially

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118872779179370452005-06-15T17:18:00.000-04:002005-06-15T18:00:11.756-04:00

If I were a Muslim jihadist or terrorist or whatever those murderers are called today, I'd be watching the Republicans very closely, as they begin to retreat on having Guantanamo Bay remain open.Why?Because I think I'd be gleefully getting very pumped about what I saw. In fact, I think I'd be so uplifted that I'd be planning something.Whoa, cowboy, that's too much, some might say. And to them, I

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Responding to news that Dr. Morgan Reynolds, a former Bush administration official, has publicly advanced a conspiracy theory that the World Trade Centers were demolished on 9/11, the Texas A&M University issued this statement today:Dr. Morgan Reynolds is retired from Texas A&M University, but holds the title of Professor Emeritus--an honorary title bestowed upon select tenured faculty, who have

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. . . when former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe publicly criticizes Dean's scorched-tongue campaign against Republicans, white people, Christians, workers and others.Reports NewsMax:Asked what advice he had for Dean, McAuliffe told Fox News Radio's Tony Snow: "I just think that sometimes you have to be, obviously, careful about how you say things." The ex-DNC chief added, "I was one of the most

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118866771052470512005-06-15T15:27:00.000-04:002005-06-15T16:21:59.900-04:00

I've been an advocate of this for years, knowing lots of people who've homeschooled great, well-adjusted, creative and intelligent kids. Today, Steve Warhurst, a pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Kingsport, Tenn., is introducing a resolution to the denomination's General Assembly to urge members across the nation to pull their children out of public school. My guess is that the

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118854990568389472005-06-15T12:21:00.000-04:002005-06-15T13:06:09.560-04:00

There's outlandish, there's outrageous, there's ignorant. And there are things that challenge one's sensibilities so much as to leave you speechless. But I don't know what to call this report from UPI:A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118634766910313782005-06-12T23:36:00.000-04:002005-06-12T23:57:14.993-04:00

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, is the largest bilateral donor to Nigeria, says the federal government.Through USAID's/Nigeria's Transition Strategy for 1999 - 2003, we the taxpayers sent more than $320 million to Nigeria. The strategy for 2004-2009 will provide close to $350 million. Yet, more news that the "religion of peace" continues to kill

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118601556474971532005-06-12T13:49:00.000-04:002005-06-12T14:58:45.506-04:00

It appears that some Democrats cannot discern there's a difference between standing for the party's values, whatever those may be, and simply attacking Republicans and conservatives just for the heck of it. Especially Christians.These aren't just any Democrats, either. They're the 40 members of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee. They set the direction of the party.And

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118526137283072832005-06-11T16:52:00.000-04:002005-06-11T17:45:26.650-04:00

I just heard on Fox News one of the most dreadfuls formations of a word I've heard in a while: incentivize.This type of formation, which is called a derivational morphology, finds use in places that, when the word is said--well, it just offends me. The formula has been around for a while: the attachment of "ize" or "ized" to a noun, in the formula "root word (noun) + ize = verb."That said, I

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118499483885903002005-06-11T10:07:00.000-04:002005-06-11T15:19:25.820-04:00

The advocacy/mainstream media didn't cover the recent desecration of Old Glory on a Gotham street corner by New York-based Muslims. They trampled on her and issued a threat against Islamic scholar Robert Spencer for publicizing their video of the event, along with accusations of their ties to foreign jihadists. According to WorldNetDaily:The video shows members of the Islamic Thinkers Society

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World War II poster

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Famous World War II posterEvery time he (Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) makes an outrageous remark, other Democratic leaders have to answer questions about it. So instead of talking about their best issues, they're talking about their loose cannon. He's throwing them off message.John J. Pitney Jr.Political scientistClaremont McKenna CollegeQuoted in June 10, 2005 Los Angeles

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Howard Dean's malicious, anti-Christian toilet mouth continues to run. Frankly that's good news for the country because he continues to reveal the true heart of the current Democrat Party and its leadership.But can anyone honestly say the Democrats who elevated him to that position expected him to do any less? Well, yes, people can and it's the Democrats who do and who've now become his

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118368775874357422005-06-09T21:16:00.000-04:002005-06-09T22:17:31.623-04:00

Howard Dean continues his William Tecumseh Sherman-like march across America, burning wide swaths of its political landscape as old "War is hell!" Bill did during the Civil War, with his scorched-earth tactics in and through Georgia, into South Carolina and to the Atlantic.Dean's denounced Republicans and conservatives . . . and whites/Caucasians . . . and Christians . . . and the list goes on.By

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118365986243876252005-06-09T21:08:00.000-04:002005-06-09T21:13:06.250-04:00

I have always known where the values of West Virginia lie--patriotism, faith, family, opportunity, a clear sense of right and wrong, and justice. The Democratic Party needs to get back to reflecting those core principles.Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va."West Virginia heads down a political road less taken"by James DaoThe New York TimesNov. 16, 2004

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"That the media love an easy story is no big surprise, but that they love a loudmouth, vulgar, and easily excitable small-state pol (Howard Dean) is interesting. . . "(Republican National Committee Chairman Ken) Mehlman is never not full of facts, and facts of the sort that political reporters ought to love . . . He's a volcano of facts, just not the sort of facts that interest many in the

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118283695857015532005-06-08T21:49:00.000-04:002005-06-09T19:36:39.996-04:00

In my previous post, I spoke to absence of testicularity at the local rag, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. That hasn't changed in the past few hours, by the way.Not going to beat that dead horse, though, maybe, the old horse isn't dead but simply on its last gasp and just needs that merciful coup de grace, the pistol shot to its head.Sorry.I’m going to publish a response that I’m pretty sure would

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1118239215024095472005-06-08T08:40:00.000-04:002005-06-09T19:40:06.070-04:00

The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lacks testicularity.Ordinarily I would not write this. But enough is enough. They have a Readers' Comment Forum at which, well, you guessed it, readers are invited to write comments to news stories, opinions and editorials. At least that's supposed to be the proposition.The filter it has is this: "Please note that all submissions are reviewed before being posted. The

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117932952029617232005-06-04T20:39:00.000-04:002005-06-04T20:57:34.936-04:00

Rightly so, President Bush Thursday called absurd Amnesty International's calling Guantanamo Bay detention center a gulag.Using gulag was over-heated rhetoric, said Josh Rubenstein, AI's Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International on Thursday. But Kate Gilmore, AI's Amnesty's deputy secretary general, defended Muslim Irene Khan's gulag remark, boasted how the criticism AI has gotten has

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"It's doing me good. I'll arrange to write a book or something, and collect all the money I can."Marvin FeltFormer FBI agent who claims he's Deep ThroatSpeaking outside his Santa Rosa, Calif., homeJune 1, 2005"This was always about the money, and they were very up front with me."J. Todd FosterManaging editor of The News-Virginian, Waynesboro, Va.Speaking about Felt and his family approaching him

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117649045881752632005-06-01T13:53:00.000-04:002005-06-01T14:04:05.910-04:00

In my book, there's is no such thing as "moderate" Republican. That's just another name for a fence-sitting Democrat. It's certainly not a name any self-respecting conservative would call himself.So, what then do we make of John McCain and the rest of his Gang of 14, the McCain Seven?Pat Buchanan hammers them well, when he says:In brief, is the Republican Party bound by this Munich? If it is,

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117595711044543482005-05-31T22:15:00.000-04:002005-05-31T23:20:35.190-04:00

I had really hoped to write little more, ever, about John F. Kerry. But he just won't keep his mouth shut, especially about what he doesn't know about the Bible--or, rather, how he so badly misinterprets it for his worldly and political lusts. I now that he's campaigning for the Democrat nod to be the 2008 presidential nominee--and he has been since Nov. 5, 2004--and he must be saying, "I'm bound

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117515992874301892005-05-31T00:49:00.000-04:002005-05-31T01:11:44.383-04:00

The price of believing in Jesus and telling others of him cost some Australian missionaries lives in and India and led to the assault of some locals.Overall, attacks on Christians in India are rising."On Wednesday, May 25, the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America urged the Indian government to intervene and end what it described as 'continuing instances of

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117511631559098632005-05-30T23:49:00.000-04:002005-05-30T23:56:03.150-04:00

Reprinted here, in its entirety, is author Frank Schaeffer's opinion, "Fathers, Sons and the Lessons of War," that appeared in today's Los Angeles Times.I never served in the military. Before my son unexpectedly volunteered for the Marines, I was busy writing my novels and raising my family, and giving little thought to the men and women who guard us. My attitude has changed. I did not choose to

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117491808631252222005-05-30T18:23:00.000-04:002005-05-30T22:47:07.210-04:00

Confederate dead at Antietam. (Photo courtesy The Civil War Home Page] This photo is of the Confederate dead at a fence on the Hagerstown, Md., Road at the Battle of Antietam, which the South called Sharpsburg. It was Lee's first sojourn into the North and a bloody prescursor of the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place just year later.To date, Antietam has some of the country's bloodiest

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Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117487825973365952005-05-30T17:17:00.000-04:002005-05-30T18:02:58.136-04:00

Photo courtesy of Arlington National CemeteryMaj. Gen. John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, proclaimed Memorial Day on May 5, 1968, in his General Order No. 11.This all started in Waterloo, N.Y. From "Memorial Day," published on the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden's Web site:It was 1866 and the United States was recovering from the long and bloody Civil War between

Kenna Amosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949146.post-1117486392757347372005-05-30T16:53:00.000-04:002005-05-30T16:58:02.250-04:00

Day is done Gone the sun From the lakes From the Hills From the sky All is well Safely rest God is nigh. Fading light Dims the sight And a star Gems the sky Gleaming bright From afar Drawing nigh Falls the night. Thanks and praise For our days ’Neath the sun ’Neath the stars ’Neath the sky As we go This we know God is nigh.

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This is an FYI because everyone's got to have seen this photo by now. But, if not, here goes.Demonstrators in Islamabad react to Newsweek's report of Quran desecration at Guantanamo Bay Here's Newsweek's May 23 story about the story it created, and the rioting it instigated by its reckless story on the flushing of some pages of the Quran at Guantanamo Bay.

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"Clearly the Newsweek report (about the Quran flushing at Guantanamo Bay) was used by people trying to stir up trouble and instigate riot."Did this come from some right-winger? No. H.D.S. Greenway wrote in the Boston Globe, in "Why Muslims distrust the West" on May 27. Note: Newsweek retracted its story on May 9.The magazine's editor, Mark Whitaker, published this "apology" in Newsweek's May 23

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"If, as the military now fears, there's a looming recruitment problem, the elite media should bear much of the blame," said Investor's Business Daily.How's that?IBD said:Now, with only volunteers serving, the anti-war crowd doesn't throw tantrums. It writes headlines.No question much of the Vietnam era's radical left migrated to the media (emphasis added). Their reflexive animus toward the

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For the second consecutive week, in its Nobles and Knaves awards, the Washington Times awarded its weekly Knaves designation to two news or journalistic recipients. This week's goes to Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley, the newspaper said, for reviving a false—and very damaging—theory. Her full citation:Miss Foley, meet former CNN executive Eason Jordan. At a May 13 meeting in St. Louis of

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Much like the princes of the world who crucified Jesus and thought they'd killed not just him but also Christianity, the Democrats continue their campaign of justifying their policies through the Bible, but don't sense how this will backfire.Washington, D.C., attorney and author Rogers Millbanks hits yet another nail squarely on its head with "Democrats Hijack Christianity," published first in

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"We did not go into harm's way to allow our fellow citizens to help our enemy. There is a great difference between freedom of speech and giving propaganda ammunition to the bad guys."That's just one eloquent and incisive thing Charles M. Grist, an Army veteran of both Vietnam and Operation Iraqi Freedom and master police officer with the Altamonte Springs, Fla., Police Department, said in his

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I dropped off the air back in January, due to a couple of thoughts.One, every Tom, Dick and Harry--and their female counterparts--had a blog. With so many keystrokes daily coming on the Web, I thought, What can I add that will be even a drop in the bucket? Actually, I still wonder that.But over the past months, I continue to read and hear about things that have literally led me to scream and

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Of course, John Kerry couldn't show any positive response to the elections today in Iraq. That would break his continuous record of disagreeing with anything that could be attritubed to President Bush. That would also indicate that he actually grasped part of the reason he lost: He's a pathological naysayer, whose cup is not just half empty, but fully empty and cracked. He said something

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Our colleges have become less marketplaces of ideas than churches in which you have to be a true believer to get a seat in the pews. We've drifted to a secular version of 19th-century denominational colleges, in which the university's mission is to crusade against sin and make the country a morally better place.Stephen H. Balch President, National Association of Scholars Quoted in John Tierney,

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Democrats don't need to reinvent their soul; they have to remember the (sic) have a soul.Donnie Fowler Candidate for DNC chair Statement made at the DNC meeting in New York City

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What, in the name of FDR, did former Indiana congressman Tim Roemer mean when he said this?I'm from a red state. We need a chair that doesn't only represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.Is he trying to say the "Democratic" wing is the Howard Dean-Michael Moore-George Soros-MoveOn.org-leftist faction?

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Environmentalism has become anti-globalization and anti-industry. Activists have abandoned science in favor of sensationalism. Their zero-tolerance, fear-mongering campaigns would ultimately prevent a cure for Vitamin A deficiency blindness, increase pesticide use, increase heart disease, deplete wild salmon stocks, raise the cost and reduce the safety of healthcare, raise construction costs,

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What a splendid day for Iraq and freedom! As Fox News' Special Report by Brit Hume just ended, they had images of Iraqis going to, at or leaving the polls. Also, they showed people smiling, dancing, yelping. I cried. We're watching something historic. More than 60 percent of the eligible voters voted in their first free election is almost a half-century. People walked miles to vote. They

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For inexplicable reasons, Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal penned yet another of her anti-Bush-Inaugural-speech columns. In her first column, published on the WSJ's OpinionJournal.com even as the inaugural balls were still not yet history, she slammed W. In "Way Too Much God: Was the president's speech a case of 'mission inebriation'?" she closed by saying:And yet such promising moments

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Once, years ago, far away in another galaxy, I lived in blue-state Massachusetts and New York, even in the bluest of the blue, New York City and Boston. As an independent, I voted for lots of liberals and Democrats, including some past and present on the national political scene. I was delivered of this inclination many years ago, whereupon I lived in what are now a few of the red states. For

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Maybe I laughed because of professional pressures that have kept me awake for many nights in the past two or three months. Maybe I laughed because of something ghoulish in me. Maybe I laughed because I had to, to relieve some of the tension created by me and my family having to hear about my older brother, Bill, who cannot walk or talk now because of a cancer that eats his brain and lungs and

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The Clinton News Network and MSNBC, too decent representatives of the liberally biased and Democrat-allied broadcast media, fared poorly on inauguration day. According to Drudge:CNN hemorrhaged more than half their audience from the 2001 Inauguration, overnights show. The troubled news network only averaged 779,000 viewers during yesterday's Inauguration coverage from 10am-4pm with just 168,000

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Police in New Jersey say an abortionist who flushed the remains of babies down toilets and tossed bloodied materials into garbage bins is now facing charges, just days after his receptionist was arrested for illegally performing terminations. According to the Asbury Park Press, Dr. Flavius Thompson, 60, turned himself in at the Lakewood Police Department this week, and is accused of operating an

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Thursday was a great day for America and the world, as George W. Bush was inaugurated. Many of his critics, notably Democrats and the mainstream media, lambasted him for spending so much money on the celebration. They misunderstand the meaning of an inauguration, that it's a time to celebrate the democratic process and to announce to the world that's what we stand for. However, as we know,

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Even tonight, the Democrats and liberals, sore losers all, are still wringing their hands in exasperation about the cost of Mr. Bush's inauguration tomorrow. $40 million! They rail about that, the things that could be done. Firstly, as we know, Democrats and liberals--and their mouthpiece, the mainstream media--have never been noted for letting facts or history get in their way. For example,

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Is it really true that America is politically divided between conservative “Red” states in the southern and middle sections of the country and liberal “Blue” states on both coasts? Not exactly: a close look at the district-by-district voting patterns of the coastal states in the 2004 elections brings into crystal-clear focus the real nature of our political divisions. There’s really no such

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The Associated Press reports that CBS will probably replace Dan Rather on the evening news with a multi-anchor, perhaps multi-city format. CBS chief Leslie Moonves said Tuesday he believes many young viewers are turned off by a single "voice of God" anchor in the Internet age. He further said:"Those days are over when you have that guy sitting behind the desk who everyone believes to the 'nth'

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Prince Harry, son of Prince Charles, really did a stupid, thoughtless thing when he donned the Nazi costume and went to that party. What was he thinking? Obviously not about the connection of some in Britain's royal family, or even some Brits' loyalty, to Germany even during World War II. Mark Steyn puts things in perspective, though, with his usual wit and at-time-tart words:It's a good rule

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Just when I was truly enjoying nothing much, if at all, in the news about John Kerry, he pops up three or four times in the past few days. Per usual, it appears to be the same John Kerry that got thumped in November. First, he's been to Europe where he met with Jacques Chirac, Kerry's idol. It's said they had a commiseration huddle last Friday in which they both deplored that Kerry did not

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Reality catches up with reality-TV CBS' "Survivor" Richard Hatch, who now has become tax-evader and subject-of-federal-criminal-complaint champion. Hatch, first winner of "Survivor," was charged today in the U.S. District Court for the State of Rhode Island with tax evasion. He failed to report his $1 million "Survivor" winnings to the IRS in 2000. And he also failed to report on his 2001 tax

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Sundance Channel has acquired television rights to "Embedded," a movie based on Tim Robbins' off-Broadway play "Embedded." Editor & Publisher said the show will air on March 20. Anti-conservative, anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Bush, anti-war-activist, leftist and all-around-whiner Robbins' play got some good press in La-La land, but took heavy fire in the Big Apple after it opened. From

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What's the probability of the author of anything, much less the recent CBS non-report report on Rathergate, admitting that his or her work was a "whitewash"? Zero. In true Alfred E. Neumann "What, me worry?" style, this is what Louis Boccardi, former head of the Associated Press and one of the two members of the panel who drafted the CBS report, said to Howard Kurtz, on CNN's Reliable Sources

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"Early in December, with a photographer and his assistant, I drove from Nebraska, near the geographical center of the United States, to the heart of Texas -- more than 700 miles, through empty spaces and sprawling cities and all or part of four states. We headed pretty much due south, no dodging or weaving. And never did we pass within 100 miles of a county that voted for Democrat John F. Kerry

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I believe Martin Luther King knew by the witness of God's Holy Spirit that he was going to be killed--and soon--in April 1968. He'd come to Memphis because of a labor strike of sanitation workers, most of whom were black. On the night of April 3, he gave his famous and remarkable "I See the Promised Land" speech. It must be read, but better to a video or recording of it, and then watch him and

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I remember the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It was absolutely unbelievable news. But perhaps I remember more the afternoon afterward. I was in my fraternity's house at West Virginia University, where I was living. I had just come downstairs to the main floor and was heading out the door to class, as I recall. There were a bunch of guys sitting on the couches and chairs in

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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. . . When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were

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Little attention has been paid to the Rathergate report's powerful narrative of the cover-up phase of the scandal. For twelve days, CBS attempted to wait out the storm raised first by the blogs and then by the media regarding the 60 Minutes story. During those twelve days, Dan Rather resembled no one so much as Richard Nixon himself as he stonewalled the issues, playing on his reputation and

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Less than a week after its whitewash of a non-report report on Rathergate, CBS snubs a White House request to have White House Counsel Don Bartlett appear on "Face the Nation" today to offer a foil to the predictable ultra-liberal, Bush-baser Ted Kennedy. Reports NewsMax in "CBS Nixed White House Request to Rebut Kennedy" today:CBS News turned over its entire "Face the Nation" broadcast on

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Liberals and Democrats are beside themselves for the apparent money being spent on President Bush's upcoming inauguration. Per usual, with so few of them having served in the military, they don't understand that on the firing range, it's "Ready, aim, fire," not "Fire, aim, ready." Democrats and liberals, never one to let facts get in their way, it seems, don't seem to understand that inaugural

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Seeing alliteration in newspaper articles always heartens me. But seeing them written by sportswriters especially does. From "In end, the Jets couldn't Hackett," by Mike Vaccaro in today's New York Post:Dressing amid the detritus of another disappointing denouement, the Jets tried to console themselves with the comforting memory of a battle fiercely fought. But they were bad actors.He was

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After spending three months on an investigation that must have rung up hundreds of thousands of dollars in billable hours, the team of lawyers hired by CBS to investigate its scandalously spurious report about George W. Bush's long-ago National Guard service finally concluded last week that CBS shouldn't have aired the September 8 broadcast at all. Former attorney general Dick Thornburgh and

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The latest attempt to homosexualize America is this tripe by C.A. Tripp about Abraham Lincoln being homosexual. His book, "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln," was just published earlier this week. The late Tripp was an associate professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York, a homosexual and a researcher who worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on studies concerning human

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You've got to love Dave Letterman's proposed changes at CBS:10. Stories must be corroborated by at least two really strong hunches. 9. "Evening News" pre-show staff cocktail hour is cancelled until further notice. 8. Reduce "60 Minutes" to more manageable 15-20 minutes. 7. Change division name from "CBS News" to "CBS News-ish" 6. If anchor says anything inaccurate, earpiece delivers an

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From former CBS News "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes, on the day she got canned for her part in Rathergate:I am terribly disappointed in the conclusions of the report and its effects on the four of us who will no longer work at CBS News. I am disappointed as well for the entire organization. It has been my second family and I will miss my colleagues there. I am shocked by the vitriolic

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According to Drudge, this is what Dan Rather said in response to the CBS report on Rathergate:The panel report is part of a process--a necessary process to deal with a difficult issue--at the end of which four good people have lost their jobs. My strongest reaction is one of sadness and concern for those individuals whom I know and with whom I have worked. It would be a shame if we let this

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Reuters reports that a former inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison said Tuesday even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things as he was forced to do. The "torture" to which he was subjected? He alleges he was forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men. "I couldn't believe in the beginning that this could happen, but I wished I could kill

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In my previous post, "Virginia loses its mind," I posted an AP story about yet another liberal/leftist mountain-of-a-molehill. At the National Review Online's The Corner, Michael Graham posted this. It's worth reading:THIS FLAG IS YOUR FLAG, IT SURE AIN'T MY FLAG... [Michael Graham] That was the clear message from listeners and emailers defending the state of Virginia's policy that school

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Stuff like this infuriates me.STAFFORD, Va. (AP)--Students will now be allowed to sit during the Pledge of Allegiance in Spotsylvania County schools. The School Board's decision to change its policy, given final approval Monday night, was sparked by seventh-grader Gabriel Allen. The 12-year-old student at Ni River Middle School said he didn't want to stand for the pledge because he disagrees

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Must see: Village Voice's Ward Sutton gives much-deserved award to Dems. It's a terrific political cartoon.

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In the continuing saga of Rathergate and in the day after CBS released its report on what happened--it's a whitewash of great proportion--it seems at least one casualty refuses to go quietly into the night."If there was a journalistic crime committed here, it was not by me. I am concerned that [the actions of CBS network chief Les Moonves] are motivated by corporate and political

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Perhaps we should've known that CBS would never indict itself of liberal, anti-Bush bias. The report they issued artfully dodged the issue, though it came close to saying there was. Even it's own evidence contains what appear to be smoking guns. Interesting, isn't it, that with the thinnest strands of connection, questionable sources and more, CBS lept at the story about President Bush's

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Today, CBS released its 243-page report on what happened in Rathergate and what they intended to do about it. Yes, three senior CBS executives were "asked to resign" and Mary Mapes, the producer who worked with Dan Rather, was fired. So what? Nothing happened to Rather, other than he agreed to retire early from his position, only to be given another "investigative reporter" show at CBS.

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The Democrats, liberals and leftists, aided so willingly by their accomplices in the MSM, continue to show why they lack the substance to govern, but also defend. One big reason is the pretend or actual thin skin. In "Unanswered Questions: Alberto Gonzales will likely be confirmed. But that won't stop the widening scandal over Gitmo detainees," Newsweek opens with the terrible tell of woe and

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Atheist, Californian, doctor and lawyer Michael Newdow, who attempted to get "Under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, has filed a petion with a federal court to prevent President Bush from "engaging in Christian religious acts" at the Jan. 20 inauguration. His beef? Christian ministers Franklin Graham and Kirbyjon Caldwell prayed at the January 2001 inauguration. And Inaugural '05 Web

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