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Back in the “good old days”, a lot of states had “literacy tests” for voters. If you didn’t pass them, you couldn’t vote. Of course, it was a scam: the real reason for the testing was to eliminate black voters, and the fight to remove the laws was part of the civil rights movement to […]
In a previous post, I joked that if the Governor of Wisconsin wanted to fire all his teachers, he could hire a lot of qualified Filipino teachers to replace them. Yet this is not quite a joke: The cut backs in US medical training have resulted in the active importation of foreign medical graduates to […]
An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh: Rush, since I can never get through and have no time to sit and dial, redial, etc. This will have to suffice. Slim chance that you’ll ever read it but maybe some caring person will forward it to you.    They do you an extreme disservice if they do not. […]
Chris Gacek of the Family Research Council gave the GOP a stern warning via his October ’07 essay in Politico – “Lou Dobbs Voters Will Decide ‘08â€. Of course, the arrogant GOP Hierarchy paid little-to-no attention. Hence, they were punished severely on 11/4/08 by this massive block of former/traditional GOP voters now estimated by Rasmussen […]
Well Conservatives have been waiting around patiently for a leader to rise to the surface of the Republican Party.  Someone that would speak out boldly and radically in defense of our Nation, the Constitution and Conservatism. Yes we need impetuous radicals in the Republican Party, too, to counter the multitude of progressive radicals in the […]
a timely rant…..by Darvin Dowdy Do you hear it? A resounding Death Knell  ( link1 ) for the Republican Party? Has the cloaked Grim Reaper  ( link2 ) cast its shadow of doom over the Conservative Movement?  The slow cadence of the funeral dirge has already begun as the procession moves toward the two gravesites. But […]
In these stressful times you might find yourself having trouble dropping off to sleep. So many things to worry about, you know? Well if you are in need of a good sedative tonight but are wanting to avoid heavy medication, may I recommend, hot off the presses, the “Republican Road to Recoveryâ€.  Gingerly presented, courtesy […]
The esteemed British medical journal, the Lancet, has gotten a black eye in the news lately for articles that were poorly screened and were biased for political/personal reasons. The first one is the 1998 study linking MMR vaccine with Autism. This study has had devastating effects on three fronts: One, the terrible guilt by parents […]
Subtitle: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Although American Theocracy is Kevin Phillips’ thirteenth book, it is the first one I have read. In fact, I had never even heard of Mr. Phillips until I saw him on Charlie Rose a few years ago. That interview […]
By Jefferson Flanders Here are five “Monday Morning Quarterback” observations about the 2008 campaign: 1. In the end, consider the key to the 2008 presidential election not President-elect Barack Obama’s lofty inspirational rhetoric, nor the inadequacies of the message-challenged McCain campaign, nor the drag of the GOP’s unprepared vice presidential nominee, but something much more […]
There is a cluenessless about God as part of one’s life and worldview can be seens in this article, where pro abortion politicians have plainly decided to receive communion from the Pope in a public forum.The press will undoubtably report this as a political issue, but here is the key clue that the politicians don’t […]
Holy Week is a time for the world’s Christians to pause and ponder the mysteries of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Reuters news agency is reporting today that Benedict XVI is part of a conspiracy on the part of the European Union to antagonize and publicly undermine Islamic interests throughout the Moslem world, […]
I’ve written before about the problems with the “Body Count” article published just before the US 2006 Congressional elections in Lancet. LINK LINK2 BizzyBlog has a summary if you aren’t familiar with the story: that right before the US Congressional elections, the Lancet published an article claiming a large number of deaths since the US […]
It was touted as a major massacre, where innocent civilians were killed in cold blood by trigger happy soldiers. The “massacre” was widely publicized, with news reports and pictures inflaming the public. Indeed, the news reports and pictures were deliberately manipulated by some as a way to influence public opinion against the regime that the […]
A big thanks to Townhall commentator Matt Lewis for his 9/13 spotlight article on Texas Gov. Rick Perry.  Illuminating what we Texans have known for almost a year as the governors true ambitions. After Gov. “Good Hair” managed to squeak by and pull off a victory with less than 39% of the over all vote, […]
In America Hillary Clinton decides what is and what is not printed about her campaign. Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story about alleged infighting within her campaign. Hillary offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to […]
A Rasmussen Reports poll of 800 likely voters released on Wednesday found that those surveyed have a much different opinion of the role of lobbyists and their ability to influence politicians than the current 2008 Democratic frontrunner.
By Jefferson Flanders So Senator Hillary Clinton has asked the public to choose her 2008 presidential campaign song by voting at her website on a selection of nine songs It’s a clever idea, mixing pop culture, Web interactivity, and a faux election; the Clinton staff has been careful to screen the songs so that they […]
More proof that Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, the former Democrat and the one responsible for making all Republicans look like racists — with help from the MSM — is at it again. Lott is making noise that he would like to compromise with the Democrat Party over the safety of our troops and listen to […]
A few sources, not the least of which is Michael Barone, are reporting that the Democrats are ignoring important Iraq briefings conducted by General David Petraeus in an apparent effort to stymie efforts in Iraq. It is well known that they are not supportive of the troops in Iraq and the president’s “surge” plan they […]
Senator Hillary Clinton has promised to introduce in the Senate a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college.
Prelude: I’d like to say a word about the following op ed before it begins as a way of warning the reader that I, a Conservative, am going to take issue with Jonah Goldberg, another Conservative. I think Mr. Goldberg is wrong on his main point in his op ed from Tuesday that I am […]
In a letter to its members on Friday, the nation’s largest firefighters union accused Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani of committing “egregious acts” against firefighters who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Dana Milbank is mad at Democrats for somehow letting Former Iraq Chief Paul Bremer off the hook today in the Washington Post’s â€Rusty Democrats Unable to Pin Anything on Bremerâ€. I guess to show he is a real meterosexual, Milbank starts his piece off with an observation on Bremer’s choice of footwear and draws the […]
Last month I wrote an op ed about how this one last move by the Illinois Republican Party drove me from the state’s Party as a self-proclaimed member. (Why I left the Illinois Republican Party) I warned that their announcement that only THEY were allowed to say who is allowed to proclaim themselves to be […]
The Democrats really disappointed voters today, with a non response to the Bush speech last night. All the positioning before the election, all the threats, the promises of change in the war before the election, and…….. as was reported elsewhere on this Network “Pelosi Bans smoking in the Capital”. Yes that’s about it. They drag out […]
The AP isn’t the only one going ga-ga over the ascension of Nancy Pelosi to become the “first Female Speaker of the House”. We are seeing the fawning on just about every news outlet out there. And it is, indeed, quite an historic change from the long line of gentlemen that have taken the Speaker’s […]
Cochise County, Arizona’s, 2006 election
1. In the November 2006 election, the hottest issue in Cochise County, Arizona, was Smith Ranch, a proposed bedroom suburb for Tucson. Smith Ranch would have held about 12,000 people — about 10% of the county’s entire population, in about 1/40 of 1% of the county’s area.
by Craig Dimitri On December 12, House Democrats capped their victories in the 2006 cycle by defeating Rep. Henry Bonilla (R., Texas) in a runoff; former U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D., Texas) will return to the House after defeating Bonilla on Tuesday, in a huge district that spans part of the border between Texas and Mexico.   Thus, in the […]
Proving that Time Magazine never understood a single thing about John McCain, Time writer, Karen Tumulty, is all worried about the "cost" of McCain’s purported run for the 2008 GOP nomination for the presidency. The head and sub-head lines alone are so filled with misconstructions, assumptions and laments that one doesn’t have to read the […]
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