How Dangerous is the liberal ethos?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372469,00.html



This 14 year old girl had a baby in the bathroom of her school and subsequently killed the baby.



This is the deranged manifestation of the pro-choice, pro-abortion, position.



I blame herself, her parents, and groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL.

Second Amendment: Not Aborted!!!

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWBT00928420080626?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Thank God!

The "Me" Generation and Barack's Vanity

(Photograph by Jonas Karlsson, appeared in Vanity Fair)

Today in the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove wrote an opinion piece entitled, "It's All About Obama." This article emphasizes Barack's penchant for acting not on principle, or in accordance with his lofty speeches, but in the name of pure, infantile, self-interest. Despite his talent for speech and words, Barack has proved to the American voter that neither are reliable indicators of his character or intentions.

Karl points out a number of things.

1) His insane attempt to re-design the Presidential seal.

"His seal featured an eagle emblazoned with his logo, and included a Latin version of his campaign slogan."

2) His former support for public financing--flip flopping

In the past: he "strongly supported public financing"

This past week: withdrew from the public financing system

3) Townhall meetings with John McCain.

at first: in reply to a challenge of 10 townhall meetings, "anywhere, anytime"

now: only wants two, His campaign spokesman said, "Take it or leave it."

4) Lying about his accomplishments

Barack: wants credit for "extended health care for wounded troops." In doing this, he cited the 2008 defense authorization bill.

In reality: Oops. The bill passed 91-3 but guess who didn't show up???? Barack wasn't there.

Jeff Beatty: "This guy would make Tom Clancy blush"

My friends in Massachusetts, John Kerry is a very vulnerable Senator and he has a very formidable opponent: John Beatty.

In Human Events, Ken Pittman writes an article entitled, "Is Massachusetts Ready to Dump Kerry?"

Not only does Pittman ask the question, but he also proposes an answer...Yes?

First, the climate is fertile.
- "almost 1 in 4 Democratic delegates want to see someone else represent Massachusetts as senator."

- "A recent poll taken by Suffolk University (the only ones to get New Hampshire's primary right) shows that only 38% of voters want to see Kerry re-elected."

-John Kerry's Democratic primary opponent, lawyer Ed O'Reilly, did much better than expected. He gained 23% of the delegates

Second, Beatty is highly qualified and has unique experience.

-retired U.S. Army Delta Force assault team commander

-CIA counter-terrorist officer

-FBI hostage crisis analyst

-Founded and ran a security consulting firm for 12 years.

Beatty's credentials are hard to beat. This race will be interesting. Republicans, take out your wallets, and contribute to Beatty's campaign. Let's unseat Kerry once and for all.

Saudi Arabia arrests Al-Qaeda militants

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371267,00.html

Not sure if we can trust Saudi Arabia for accurate information. They might just want to appear as if they are cracking down on terrorists. The Middle East is a region, known for it's disinformation. If it's true, great! It's about damn time.

Saudia Arabia can be blamed for the spread of Wahabbism around the world. They also finance propaganda centers and "intellectual" organizations around the world, including the United States, with their radical brand of extremism.

Please not, that out of the 701 arrested, 181 were released because there wasn't enough evidence against them. 520 remain incarcerated.

According to the AP:

Saudi Arabia has arrested 701 suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants this
year, some of them suspected of plotting attacks against the kingdom's oil and
economic installations, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

Supreme Court update

Today the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for child rapists to get the death penalty. This grants leniency to perverse human beings and won't help to deter future child rapists. With these five justices, the pendulum is swinging back in the favor of criminals and away from "Law and Order."

The AP writes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_child_rape

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a law that allows the execution of
people convicted of a raping a child.

In a 5-4 vote, the court said the
Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates
the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
"The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.

Note to the CIA

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/me_hamas0270_06_24.asp

I sincerely hope you guys are tracking former members of the U.S. military with allegiances to Islam. What better way to track terrorists than to start with someone we already know about. We know their background, their weaknesses, their health history...

It doesn't surprise me that terrorists are using our training and education against us. In a way, it's a compliment. They know we have the best military training in the world. At the same time, the U.S. needs to be careful about which soldiers we are training and what information they are privy to.

Ellison Bullying Barack

Fox News reports today that it was Congressman Keith Ellison who pressured Barack Obama to apologize to "two Muslim women booted from the front lines of a public appearance by the Democratic presidential candidate."

Apparently, he didn't do it in a tender way either. "Congressional sources indicated that Ellison's exchange with Obama was so intense that CBC Chairwoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., had to intervene and attempted to gavel down Ellison."

Geez. Ellison's reaction was kind of extreme eh? Obama's campaign was rude to those women. It shouldn't have happened and an apology should have been issued. But why is Ellison going nuts over this? Is this indicative of the level of Ellison's radicalization?

I wish Ellison cared about oil prices as much. Or the economy. Or supporting the troops in Iraq.

What's worse, is that Obama caved into Ellison's pressure. If Ellison can do this, I can't even imagine what Ahmadinejad could extract from a President Obama.

Something to lose sleep over.

The Muslim Community and Barack Hussein Obama

"The joke within the national Muslim organizations is that we should endorse the person we don't want to win."
Ms. Safiya Ghori, Government relations director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council


Even though Obama's presumed policies would benefit Muslims, apparently he is facing some friction with Muslim voters. Andrea Elliot of the New York Times writes about this in her article, "Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama."

Keith Ellison, America's first Muslim Congressman (from the great state of Minnesota), complains about Barack's campaign staff and its message control. He whines that the campaign isn't spending enough time courting Muslim voters. Of course, he doesn't want to hurt Barack's feelings, so he isn't blaming Barack (a man above reproach), he is blaming his aggressive campaign staff.

There are several grievances of people like Ellison.

1) Barack has been to churches and synagogues, but "has yet to appear at a single mosque."

2) Barack has cancelled campaign events with Muslims.

3) "Two Muslim women wearing head scarves were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing behind Mr. Obama at a rally in Detroit."

4) Barack has no problem denying that he is a Muslim, but treats the identity as something inherently bad. As Ellison said, "A lot of us are waiting for him to say that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, by the way."

This is a case of Barack Obama trying to campaign too hard. He knows that people always connect his name to the Islamic faith. So he is really trying to run away from any type of association. In doing this, he is offending a bloc of voters. Whether, Muslims don't vote for him or not, only time will tell.

It still seems like Muslims will vote for him, as long as they view any problems with his campaign as his campaign staff, not him.

If he is elected ( and hopefully he won't be!), I can pictures liberals and other supporters--They won't blame Barack for anything. It's never him, it's just the incompetent people on his staff. Barack is above reproach and perfect.

It's funny how that method of reasoning didn't apply to George W. Bush. Under Bush's administration, anything that the federal government did wrong was his fault.

Is this fair??.... you decide.

Barack's View on Terrorism: Rosy

Attorney Scott Johnson writes an Opinion piece in the New York Post today about Barack's "lack of knowledge on important issues--such as the law and terrorism."



Here are some of the highlights.



In an ABC interview, Obama "claimed that, in the case of

the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest
those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in US prisons,
incapacitated.

As Johnson points out, this is patently false. Johnson cites the writings of Andrew McCarthy, who prosecuted the culprits of the World Trade Center attack of '93:

While the government managed to prosecute many people responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing, many also escaped prosecution because of the limits on civilian criminal prosecution.

What this means, is that many terrorists involved in the '93 attack are not in prison. There is a certain threshold of evidence needed to convict someone in the American justice system.



People, like Abdul Rahman Yasin, were released because "there was not sufficient evidence to hold him."

For those that were thrown into prison, like Omar Abdel-Rahman, they were able to communicate with their followers through their defense attorney, Lynne Stewart. Essentially, they could be just as effective in an American prison.

Solamere Capital

Tagg Romney, son of former MA governor and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, is starting up his own private equity firm called Solamere Capital.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/romney-son-moves-into-private-equity/

It will be interesting to see if Tagg can be as successful as his father who started Bain Capital in 1984. It's going to be difficult to outshine his father, but Tagg has the same positive characteristics that his father has.

Joining Tagg in this venture is the talented Spencer Zwick, who was a Romney loyalist back in his Governor days as well as the National Finance Chairman during the Presidential Campaign. I wonder if this gives insight into whether the Romneys think McCain will pick him as VP. They might not think so. Certainly Zwick would be on Romney's VP staff.

Frum wants Giuliani to be McCain's VP

In a recent article published in the June 25, 2008 edition of the New Republic, David Frum comments on John McCain's Vice-Presidential selection process.

He cites the dire political situation of the Republican Party and the importance of McCain's pick--not necessarily to boost McCain's ticket, but to ensure the future of the Party and the country.

Admittedly, Frum is a little biased in his favored pick. He thinks McCain should pick Rudy Giuliani. (Correct me if I am wrong, but Frum was an advisor to Giuliani's Presidential campaign).


He writes,

I have my own personal nomination for vice president for McCain. It's Rudy
Giuliani, precisely because he shares the vision of a practical, reforming, war-winning
Republican Party that inspires John McCain, plus the
stronger-than-usual grounds for hoping that he might be the rare candidate who
can make a difference in an essential state--in this case, New Jersey.

This blog certainly wouldn't mind if Giuliani was the VP pick. We prefer Mitt Romney for his youth, business experience, and organizational assets. But Giuliani would also be another good choice.

If Giuliani isn't the pick, we sincerely hope he runs for Governor of New York. After the Spitzer mess, and now the Paterson fiasco, New York needs a solid Republican governor. No one knows New York like Rudy, and he could certainly lift the state out of the current blindness it faces. No pun intended.

We will miss you Tim.

(From the Boston Globe)

"Brits Back Bush" (New York Post)

During President Bush's recent trip to Europe, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown affirmed his support of President Bush on two fronts: Iran and Afghanistan.

According to the New York Post,

Brown said he and other European Union members are backing Bush's push to freeze
the assets of Iran's largest financial institution, Bank Melli, to try to thwart
the rogue country's continued drive toward nuclear weapons.

Also, amid the Taliban prison break in Afghanistan,

Brown agreed to add 230 British soldiers to Afghanistan, too, bringing his
country's total there to 8,030.

Unfortunately, the Iranians claim that President Ahmadinejad "secretly withdrew" $75 billion from banks in Europe and moved the money to Asian banks.

Hopefully, the Asian banks will do their duty and freeze the assets. Knowing them and their lack for moral concern, they will do nothing of the sort.

Texas Bluebonnets

(from the website of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison)

Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll

Obama: 47%

McCain: 41%

VP Search Committees?

Does anyone find these VP "Search Committees" unnecessary? Can't the nominee just look at the facts and backgrounds himself and decide without input from 3 random people?

Or at the bare minimum, if there had to be a "Search Committee," wouldn't you want people on it who know Barack well and would pick a good match for the ticket? Maybe Michelle Obama or David Axelrod would be more qualified to make the VP selection.

One member of Obama's VP committee, Jim Johnson, has stepped down. Charles Hurt and Geoff Earle from the New York Post write:

Democratic heavyweight Jim Johnson, who got personal loans at favorable
rates as a close "friend" of Countrywide Financial chief Angelo Mozilo, stepped
down from the panel Obama put together last week to help him find a running
mate.

"Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of
gathering information about my vice-presidential nominee, so he has made a
decision to step aside that I accept," Obama said in a statement yesterday,
announcing the move.

Why Michael Jordan would make a better President than Barack Obama

1. Michael Jordan has excelled at a profession: basketball. This profession is highly competitive and requires teamwork and leadership. If you play poorly in basketball, you will hear about it loudly, from fans and team ownership. There is accountability. If you play bad, you will most likely be dropped or traded. With some argument, Michael Jordan is the best basketball player to ever play the game.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, has not emerged at the top of any field. Correct me if I am wrong, but Barack Obama has never been counsel to any major litigation, nor has he ever been author of any significant academic piece.

2. Michael Jordan is a capitalist. He believes in the right of a man to make money and keep that money. He also doesn't have serious qualms with American companies like Nike, for he used to endorse their shoes. Hence, the Air Jordan Nike shoes. He also has been a spokesman over the years for other companies like Hanes, McDonalds, and Gatorade.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, is a socialist. He wants a socialized, government run, universal health care program. He wants to increase taxes on the rich and punish those who make more money. He wants to excessively tax oil companies just because their profits are at record highs.

3. Michael Jordan is a consensus building character. To my knowledge, he has never even voiced a political opinion publicly. Conservatives and liberals like him. Most of us adored watching him play basketball.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, is divisive. Many conservatives fear him. Many Democrats, mostly Hillary Clinton supporters, dislike him and find him unqualified.

4. Michael Jordan has business experience. He is part owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, has no business experience. He hasn't even run a convenient store.


5. We know MJ is not a Muslim.

6. MJ doesn't have sketchy ties to terrorists like William Ayers or priestly fanatics like Jeremiah Wright.

7. Michael Jordan could beat Obama in basketball.

8. Michael Jordan has international recognition. There are probably still a few areas of the world that have not heard of Barack Obama: the Middle East not being one of these areas. Iran is cheering him on, as well as Hamas.

As I think of more reasons why MJ would be a better President, than Barack Hussein Obama, I will update this list.

The Chinese Menace

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-06-10-olympicspy_N.htm

As revealed by USA Today, the Chinese are after more than just Gold Medals at this summer's Olympics. They also seek highly confidential and highly secret information. This is just another reason why we shouldn't let rogue regimes hold the Olympics in the first place. It will be a gold mine for information. Why should the Chinese send intelligence agents to foreign countries when they can just attract important businessmen and leaders to polluted China. This threat needs to be taken seriously by people. This blog, calls again for President Bush and other Western leaders to boycott the Olympics and withdraw their athletes. Here is the full text:

National security agencies are warning businesses and federal officials that laptops and e-mail devices taken to the Beijing Olympics are likely to be penetrated by Chinese agents aiming to steal secrets or plant bugs to infiltrate U.S. computer networks.
Chinese government and industry use electronic espionage to "easily access official and personal computers," says one recent report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council, a federally chartered panel comprising security experts from corporations and the State, Commerce and Treasury departments.
Equipment left unsupervised for just minutes in a hotel or even during a security screening can be hacked, mined and bugged, adds Larry Wortzel, who chairs the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a federal panel that monitors China-related security issues for Congress. China's government also controls Internet service providers and wireless networks, he says, so computers and PDAs can be monitored and planted with bugs remotely, too.
"There is a high likelihood — virtually 100% — that if an individual is of security, political, or business interest to Chinese … security services or high technology industries, their electronics can and will be tampered with or penetrated," Wortzel says.
China's embassy did not respond to requests for comment but usually dismisses espionage charges.

Barack Spends His Time E-mailing a Woman That Isn't His Wife

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10980.html

So instead of brushing up on his history or maybe learning more about Iraq, Barack Obama is spending his valuable time in frequent e-mail correspondence with the lovely Scarlett Johansson, a famous actress and fundraiser for the Senator.

While this blog doesn't dispute Johansson's natural beauty or her interest in politics, we do take issue with whether this type of communication is appropriate for a married man.

Sure, Johansson raised a lot of money for Barack and he should thank her for her efforts. Maybe an e-mail or two would suffice. This frequent communication though is highly inappropriate. Obama has a wife and two kids. Married men should not be e-mailing attractive actresses just for fun.

I would be interested to hear what Michelle Obama thinks of this. Did she know this was happening? Is she ok with it? Most woman get jealous quickly and Michelle probably isn't an exception.

During the primaries, Obama called for "change." He wanted to be a different kind of candidate than those of the past. (cough, cough)... Bill Clinton...(cough, cough). Yet, here, his behavior is oddly reminiscent of Mr. Clinton.

Barack "Hussein" Obama Afraid of the Truth

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4100170.ece

In an attempt to assuage concerned voters, Barack Obama's campaign is setting up an internet war room to fight back against "false" rumors. They are afraid the American people will think he is a "Muslim," that he prays to Allah, and that he will undermine the war on terrorism in favor of the Islamists.

Sure, these false rumors do exist on the internet. All kinds of rumors about politicians and celebrities exist on the internet. It's the arena of free exchange and nothing less could be expected. With this announcement though, it shows how paranoid the Obama campaign is. They feel especially vulnerable about this.

In reality, they will probably also go after bloggers like me. I hope they do. Starting in several weeks, I am going to be running a series of blog posts about why Barack Obama is the most underqualified Presidential contender in history--and in turn, why Senator John McCain is the much better choice. I will debate the merits and focus on the issues. Although, since Obama has such a flimsy thin resume and very little legislation or vote record in the Senate, I may have to make inferences based on his rhetorical career and childhood historical facts.

I hope the Obama campaign visits my blog a lot and I challenge them to debate me. They will certainly lose. Their candidate is all pomp, all circumstance, and zero substance.

Bring it on Obama!