Quote of the day - Ann Coulter

When is The New York Times going to get around to uncovering an al-Qaida secret program?

Ann CoulterJune 28, 2006

Quote of the day - Peggy Noonan

Everyone should stop spinning. Because America is now a country composed of people who know better than anything how to deconstruct spin. It's our great national talent.

Peggy Noonan

Quote of the day - Thomas Sowell

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

Thomas Sowell

Quote of the day - Mark Steyn - Russia

Russia is a weak power: If Africa has health crises, the Middle East has Islamists and North Korea has nukes, then Russia's got the lot: a dying population whose men have a lower life expectancy than Bangladeshis with a Muslim separatist movement sitting on top of the biggest pile of nukes on the planet.

Mark Steyn - June 25, 2006

Quote of the day - C.S. Lewis

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Quote of the day - Ayn Rand

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand

Quote of the day - Ann Coulter

Indeed, abortion is the one issue the Democratic Party is willing to go to war over — except in the Muslim world, which is jam-packed with prohibitions on abortion, but going to war against a Muslim nation might also serve America's national security objectives.

Ann Coulter

Quote of the day - Joe Sobran

Are the sort of men who rule this country today the sort of men who built this country in the first place?

Joe Sobran

Quote of the day - Jeff Lord

Piece by piece, trench by trench, the empire that was once American liberalism is under assault by men and women of all ages, incomes, faiths, races and professions.

Jeff Lord - June 12, 2006

Quote of the day - Thomas Sowell

Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction.

Thomas Sowell

Quote of the day - Mark Steyn

What's the senator (Lieberman D-CT) done to offend the base? Nothing -- except be broadly supportive of the Iraq campaign and other military goals in the war on terror. He's one of a very few Democrats who give the impression they'd like America to win.

Mark Steyn June 18, 2006

Quote of the day - Will Durant

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Will Durant

Quote of the day - C.S. Lewis

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C. S. Lewis

Quote of the day - Ayn Rand

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

Quote of the day - Joe Sobran

By the way, why don't our civics courses teach pupils what the word "usurped" means? Is this a concept that government thinks we can do without?

Joe Sobran

Ann Coulter; Godless; the Witches of East Brunswick; Kristin Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Lorie Van Auken, and Mindy Kleinberg

Ann Coulter has deflated another MSM/DNC propaganda balloon, and the leftists are squealing like stuck pigs. In Ann's new book, Ann writes the following about four of the widows from 9-11 who have allowed their names to be used in a relentless campaign against George W. Bush and for the Democrats:

These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was part of the closure process.

These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much.

As Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote more than two years ago, "Americans are beginning to tire of them." Ms. Rabinowitz also wrote the following:

From August 1940 to May 1941, the Luftwaffe's nightly terror bombings killed 43,000 British men, women and children. That was only phase one. Phase two, involving the V-1 flying bombs and, later, rockets, killed an additional 6,180. The British defense, was, to the say the least, ineffectual, particularly in the early stages of the war--the antiaircraft guns were few, the fire control system inadequate, as was the radar system. Still, it would have been impossible, then as now, to imagine victims of those nightly assaults rising up to declare war on their government, charging its leaders, say, with failure to develop effective radar--the British government had, after all, had plenty of warning that war was coming. It occurred to no one, including families who had lost husbands, wives and children, to claim that tens of thousands had been murdered on Winston Churchill's watch. They understood that their war was with the enemies bombing them.

Read the whole thing.

Ann has now accomplished what the rest of us could not do with our respectful debate and measured attempts to refute the shrill attacks that were made in the names of these women. She has dragged them into the center of the fray, so that they could not continue to snipe from the cover of their status as "9/11 widows." From now on, the MSM/DNC will have a harder time introducing any of these women on their morning programs as "a victim of the 9-11 attacks who takes issue with the President's position on [Iran, Iraq, tax cuts, gun control, fill in the blank. . .]"



I applaud not only Ann's criticism of the women, but the tone of Ann's counterattack. They have spent years spewing mud from a safe position and are now getting it back. Blood is in the water. Other conservatives need no longer give these ladies a free pass. They are as partisan as Hillary Clinton, Cindy Sheehan or John Kerry and can be identified as such.

Any conservative who shrinks from attacking these ladies makes a tactical mistake and provides them with more respect than they deserve. The Captain wrote in a comment on his blog that Ann should ". . . criticize their policies instead of using insults and personal attacks. . . " This comment highlights the point of the 4 widows. They have no policies. Their usefulness to the MSM/DNC lies in their guerilla attacks, not in proposals or policies. Demanding a "commission" that would whitewash the causes of 9-11 and serve as a tool for partisan sniping is not a policy, it is a tactic.

H/T to Atlas for rallying to support Ann.


[H/T Atlas for the photo]

Being nice to those whose only goal is to foment Bush Derangement Syndrome will never pay off. We will never receive any credit for such refinement.

But those of us who are not blessed with Ann's mass appeal need not do the heavy lifting required to uncover the various MSM/DNC voices. We can, instead, sit back and enjoy the fruits of Ann's labor, as we watch the MSM/DNC search for new frontpeople to give voice to its tactics in its endless War on the War on Terror.

Al Zarqawi; Ho Chi Minh; the War on Al Qaeda

The MSM/DNC's favorite subject is Vietnam. The MSM/DNC will forever compare every war to Vietnam (unless that war is, itself, contrary to U.S. interests - like Bill Clinton's alliance with Kosovar muslims against the Serbian people). MSM/DNC has made it a fundamental strategy in its War on the War on Terror to say "Vietnam" at every opportunity.

But another difference has now emerged between Vietnam and the War on Terror. With all of its apparent expertise in Vietnam, the least the MSM/DNC could do is mention the fact that U.S. troops never killed Ho Chi Minh during the Vietnam war (Ho died of natural causes in 1969). But last week, as the MSM/DNC was forced to admit, U.S. forces killed Al Zarqawi.

Killing Al Zarqawi is not as good as killing Osama bin Laden. [Then again, the U.S. didn't kill Mao or Brezhnev during the Vietnam war]. But now Zarqawi cannot be praised by MSM/DNC historians as the man who "outfought" the United States - or the man who would have brought Jefferson style democracy to Iraq if only we had let him - or any other Ho-style sycophancy.

Zarqawi's death points out another crucial fact about this war. In Iraq, we are fighting Al Qaeda. We are no longer fighting Saddam Hussein. Hussein is in prison. Al Qaeda threatens to take over Iraq, just like they recently took over Somalia. Al Qaeda is the organization that knocked down the twin towers (and numerous other buildings in the immediate vicinity). The longer we stay in Iraq, the more Al Qaeda we kill. Those who urge immediate pullout from Iraq are demanding a retreat in the face of Al Qaeda.

Their surrender mentality is masked only by the passage of nearly five years since 9-11. Had Murtha, Kerry, etc. demanded retreat on September 12, 2001, they would have been marginalized immediately. Instead, they waited a few years and hid behind the fog created by years of MSM/DNC nitpicking and misdirection.

In order to clear the fog, just remember 2 things.

(1) Al Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center complex.

(2) We fight Al Qaeda now in Iraq.

Quotes of the day - Congressman Jim Moran; H.L. Mencken

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H.L. Mencken

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When I become chairman [of a House appropriations subcommittee], I'm going to earmark the s**t out of it [federal money for the 8th congressional district].

U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, D. Va. [campaigning for the fall election].

Quote of the day - Mark Steyn

What's nutty is that, half a decade on from Sept. 11, the Saudis are still allowed to bankroll schools and mosques and think tanks and fast-track imam chaplaincy programs in prisons and armed forces around the world.

Mark Steyn - June 11, 2006

Blogroll cleanup; Don't delete your blogs

I intend to clean up my blogroll over the next few days. I will add blogs that have blogrolled me and remove dead blogs. My apologies to those blogs that I have slighted by ignoring their patronage of my blog.

I have already started to eliminate some dead blogs from my roll. If you want to give up blogging, Don't just delete your blog.

Quote of the day - C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

Quote of the day - Thomas Sowell

If anyone ever doubts that Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all time, ask him: How many shutouts did Ty Cobb or Barry Bonds ever pitch? Ruth still holds the American League record for shutouts in a season by a left-handed pitcher.

Thomas Sowell

Quote of the day - Ann Coulter - Godless

“These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was part of the closure process.”

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much.”

Ann Coulter - Godless - [writing about 4 of the 9-11 widows]

Jack Higgins; Haditha; UK Times smear; Fifth columnists never stop - they simply switch tactics.

Even though the UK Guardian has retracted the slanderous photo that sought to blame the Marines for a massacre that Al Qaeda insurgents committed, the American branch of the MSM/DNC fifth column has picked up the fallen banner and continues to run with it.





Jack Higgins of the Chicago Sun-Times has reproduced the photo as a cartoon, implying that the Marinese were responsible for the deaths of the civilians in the picture.

Michelle Malkin provides e-mail addresses to which we can write in protest. Those who praised the UK Times for correcting its "mistake" will now find some other excuse to exonerate Higgins and the Sun-Times.

Whenever I identify a cartoon as perpretating a lie, someone always points out that it is "only a cartoon." Cartoons can contain lies, as this one does. What is the punch line?

I repeat my questions (with a few new ones) from several days ago - Does Higgins want our troops to be withdrawn? Does he want Al Qaeda to control Iraq, its geography, its people and its oil? If so, is he prepared to face the consequences? Is he prepared to live in a world that features a much stronger Al Qaeda in terms of manpower, money, bases of operation and power? Is he prepared to draw cartoons featuring massive American civilian casualties resulting from additional Al Qaeda attacks on U.S. soil? If so, will he attribute those massacres to the Marines also?

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update Thursday June 8th.
The Chicago Sun-Times and Jack Higgins have apologized (yesterday) for the cartoon. H/T Michelle Malkin

An Apology
A cartoon by Jack Higgins in Tuesday's Chicago Sun-Times incorporated inaccurate imagery to make a statement about the allegations that U.S. Marines killed Iraqi civilians in Haditha. Jack Higgins and the Sun-Times deeply regret the mistake and apologize to the U.S. servicemen, especially those in the Marine Corps, and to our readers who were understandably offended by the cartoon. Higgins, in doing Web research on the Haditha story, searched the Internet for images. A Yahoo search engine displayed a number of photos, one of which was labeled "IraqBodi...rd.jpg." Clicking on that image took Higgins to the MSNBC/Newsweek site. On his screen then was the original Yahoo search preview image and under it a Newsweek page with a small image of the magazine's current cover with the headline "The Haditha Question." Higgins made the erroneous assumption that the image in the photo preview was a photograph of victims of the killings that unproven allegations say were committed by U.S. Marines. Further scrolling down the page would have produced another image of this photo with a caption that clearly identities the dead as victims of Iraqi insurgents. The caption reads, "Insurgents in Haditha executed 19 Shiite fishermen and National Guardsmen in a sports stadium." Again, Higgins and the editors of the Sun-Times apologize for this egregious error.

Whether we accept as genuine the apology, this episode might provide some insight into the way the MSM/DNC operates. If we assume that the Sun-Times is now telling the truth, the cartoonist made an innocent mistake in relying on the photo he found in a Yahoo search.

Maybe this is how so many MSM/DNC employees got to the point where they have no understanding of what conservatism or America or Western Civilization is all about. Maybe many of the MSM/DNC columnists, reporters, cartoonists etc. have relied on lies for many years and have no idea that there is more to conservatism and America than racism, Halliburton, warmongering, "homophobia" etc. The MSM/DNC not only lies to Americans, it lies to those who work for or in the MSM/DNC. That is often how discipline and doctrinal purity are maintained within any mass totalitarian movement, of which the MSM/DNC is a good example.

While Ann Coulter refers to "liberalism" as a religion, MSM/DNC would more properly be described as a cult, like the one in Jonestown or the followers of El Ron Hubbard, except that the MSM/DNC seems to follow no one person in particular.

My point is [and I will continue to try to define the MSM/DNC in future posts], blogbursts that expose lies might have the effect of opening the eyes of some of the MSM/DNC employees who until now have mindlessly repeated the lies of the MSM/DNC. We can only guess as to how hardened some leftists have become over the years because they had access only to MSM/DNC lies without the opportunity for responsive blogbursts like the one that exposed this lie.

My advice to Jack Higgins (if his apology is genuine) is that he must learn to be as suspicious as the paranoid conservatives are when he seeks information from MSM/DNC sources. " . . . [W]e can't be sure of anything we do . . . anything we see."

Quote of the day - Ayn Rand

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Ayn Rand

Somalia - the latest domino

See Op-for and Michelle Malkin for the story of the fall of Somalia to Islamic fundamentalists.

Check out this link for a discussion of Islam's march across Africa.

green dominos





H/T Pamela at Atlas Shrugs for posting the map last summer.






The more a theory proves to be true, the more the MSM/DNC will try to discredit that theory. The more nations were seized by the Soviets and their allies during the cold war, the more that the MSM/DNC asserted how "discredited" the domino theory was. What will the MSM/DNC say about Somalia? It will either ignore Somalia or try to write off this development as the fault of George Bush.
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update
Yahoo News reports that the Islamic group that has apparently conquered Somalia has alleged links to al-Qaida. H/T Atlas Shrugs.

If this new government has ties to Al Qaeda, there is no reason we should not attack them now. I thought Al Qaeda was fair game, wherever they may be found.

Congratulations, MSM/DNC! In less than five years, you have nitpicked America away from its yearning to obliterate Al Qaeda on a moment's notice. We are now tied down with a 1000 lilliputian strings while Al Qaeda and Islam marches across Africa. Mission accomplished!

Richard Roeper; apologies to terrorists

I learned (from Mark Steyn's website) over the weekend that Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times demanded an apology in the immediate aftermath of the Washington sniper attacks (2002). He demanded this apology not for himself, but apparantly for terrorists everywhere because conservatives had unfairly blamed terrorists for the sniper attacks.

"An awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists," explained Richard. "But they were wrong. I'll say that because they never will."

Just so I understand Roeper correctly, after watching the news unfold of Islamic terrorist attacks that killed roughly a dozen people in the Washington area in 2002, Roeper wanted us to apologize to the terrorists??

h/t Michelle Malkin

The terrorists can win by many means. Killing and destruction are only part of their arsenal. Well placed fifth columnists who demand dhimmitude after every terror attack are just as essential to the cause of jihad. Those who seek to confuse and reorder every issue are more powerful to the terrorists than 100 roadside bombs. A society in which black is white, day is night, up is down and terrorists are not terrorists can not long survive and can not long resist new terror attacks. We cannot defeat terror if, after every attack, we have to stop and convince Richard Roeper that the attack we have just endured constitutes "terrorism." We will never convince him anyway. We can only marginalize his influence by exposing his views.

I don't know what Roeper's goal is in pretending that the terrorists are not really terrorists. I do not care what his goal is. But I know that he will never admit that Malvo and Muhammed are terrorists, despite their own writings and their actions.

Such an admission would betray too much ground in the MSM/DNC war against America. To admit (1) that not all terrorists have "official" ties to Osama bin Laden, (2) that terrorists can act independently with nothing to motivate them but Islam itself or (3) that continued vigilance remains necessary would contradict MSM/DNC policy of encouraging appeasement, dhimmitude and complacency.

And for the record, we did not want the snipers to be terrorists. We do not want anyone to be terrorists. We just want the attacks to stop. We want Ahmadinejad to stop threatening a nuclear holocaust. We want muslims in America to stop threatening to turn this country into an Islamic republic. We would prefer if the terrorists stopped trying to conquer Somalia. We want the terrorists in Indonesia to stop beheading little girls and the Islamic rioters in Europe to get jobs and stop burning down Paris. We wish that all terrorism was George Bush' fault so that we could stop it by doing nothing more than electing Democrats and trusting the MSM/DNC.




But we are not going to pretend that those things are not happening. We are not going to help lead our country to slaughter by convincing our fellow citizens that everything is OK, that all terrorism started because George W. Bush invaded Iraq or that Islamic snipers are not terrorists.

Quote of the day - David Harsanyi

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

Why not give it a whirl?

Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a LoDo cocktail party and see what happens.

David Harsanyi - The Denver Post

Quote of the day - Ann Coulter

The last time the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency was in 1993. Immediately after trying to put gays in the military and socialize all health care, Clinton's next order of business was to propose an energy tax on all fuels, including a 26-cent tax on gas. I think the bill was called "putting people first in line at the bus station."

Ann Coulter

Quote of the day - Mark Steyn

You get the picture: sure, Muslim fundamentalists can be pretty extreme, but what about all our Christian fundamentalists? Unfortunately, for the old moral equivalence to hold up, the Christians really need to get off their fundamentalist butts and start killing more people.At the moment, the brilliantly versatile Muslim fundamentalists are gunning down Maryland schoolkids and bus drivers, hijacking Moscow theatres, self-detonating in Israeli pizza parlours, blowing up French oil tankers in Yemen, and slaughtering nightclubbers in Bali, while Christian fundamentalists are, er, sounding extremely strident in their calls for the return of prayer in school.

Mark Steyn, Sunday Telegraph, August 27, 2002

UK Times lies about Haditha photo

[Scroll down for updates - Chicago Sun-Times and Jack Higgins pick up the fifth column torch.]
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It has become commonplace for the left to manipulate photos in a way that would make Joe Stalin, the left's patron saint, proud.

The latest example comes from the UK Times regarding Haditha.

The Times published this photo on June 1, 2006, with the clear implication that the American Marines killed these people after blindfolding them.
June 1, 2006 - UK Times












This episode was all set to become etched in MSM/DNC theology as an article of faith until Joe from Coonass in Texas discovered the very same photo in a 2005 edition of Newsweek.
May 2005 - Newsweek




The original photo contains the following caption:

Insurgents in Haditha executed 19 Shiite fishermen and National Guardsmen in a sports stadium

Michelle Malkin has more, including what you can do about it.

Our catchphrase for observing the MSM/DNC is "we can't be sure of anything we see . . . anything we do."

Both Joe and Michelle Malkin refer to this incident in terms of "slander" and "bias" and "slanted coverage". This lie amounts to more than mere "bias" or "slander". The UK Times is acting as a fifth column. It is acting as a propaganda mouthpiece for the terrorists. The Times promotes the pullout of the American troops with false stories and manipulated photos.

The only result from the this propaganda campaign could be the pullout of American troops and the takeover of Iraq by Al Qaeda. Does the UK Times want Al Qaeda to take over Iraq? Why would any westerner want this result? How deeply does the left's hatred of the West run?

See previous examples of photo manipulation - Sgrena's car, Goodnight Moon, NY Times use of WWII artillery shell photo, Condoleeza's eyes.

Leftists apparently mistake this book for an instruction manual instead of a history book:



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update - Atlas comments.

Chickenhawk provides details and recent history.
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update - 6-7-06 Jack Higgins picks up the fifth column torch.

Quote of the day - Joe Sobran

It’s an article of faith among some liberals that religious people, especially Christians, are nuts.

Joe Sobran

Debbie Schlussel blogiversary

Today is the 1 year blogiversary for Debbie Schlussel.



Detroit is a flashpoint for Islamic immigration into and colonization of the U.S. Debbie has been in the trenches reporting on the activities of terrorist sympathizers and enablers in the Detroit area and the law enforcement agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from them.

Congratulations on a successful first year and we look forward to many more.

Quote of the day - Thomas Sowell

One of the few encouraging signs in the current political scene is that Senator John McCain finished behind several other candidates in a Republican straw poll for Presidential candidates. Apparently his self-centered opportunism has not gone unnoticed, despite the good press he has gotten by pandering to the media.

Thomas Sowell

Quote of the day - C.S. Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

C. S. Lewis