Conservative Politics, Religion, Culture, and Anything Else
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Here is an excerpt from a call on Rush’s show yesterday about an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel that wanted to chat a bit on the war, his feelings on it and the “drive-by” media. It’s excellent and illuminating, and not all that different than some of the things my brother has said, especially about the [...]
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The lovely Mrs. Sal alerted me today to a case which is now before a U.S. District judge to determine whether convicted murderer Robert Kosilek has a “right” to a sex-change operation while serving his life sentence. An “expert” witness has said that Kosilek is suffering from Gender Identity Disorder, and will kill himself if [...]
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Henry Paulson, Chairman of Wall Street Financial firm Goldman Sachs, has been named as Treasury secretary by President Bush. This is a good move on the part of the Bush Administration. Paulson will be both an excellent spokesman for an economy that grew at its fastest rate in 2 1/2 years this past quarter, and [...]
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It was reported today that Pope Benedict XVI asked God why he remained silent during the Holocaust? This is of course a more specific and gut wrenching version of the question: “why is there evil in the world?” In my opinion, free will is the most obvious answer and also the simplest. C.S. Lewis once [...]
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John Murtha is a disgrace. All of a sudden, after all his efforts to discredit Bush, the war effort, and consequently giving aid to our enemies by giving them hope, John Murtha NOW sees this Marine scandal as the one big thing that’ll end support for the Iraq War.
First of all, if those Marines killed [...]
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The leftist kooks at the New York Slimes are grumbling. They really want their hero Al Gore to challenge She Who Must Not Be Named in 2008. I especially love this fawning quote from Frank Rich: “Mr. Gore’s stands on Iraq (both in 1991 and 2002) were manifestations of leadership - the single attribute most [...]
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Yesterday, my brother, Staff Sergeant Patrick Hynes, was kind enough to drive down to New Jersey (by Rhode Island standards a very big undertaking to be on the road 4 full hours!). The purpose was double– visit his brother (me), as well as speak to my classes about his experiences in Iraq.
On the first end, [...]
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President Bush gave a commencement address at West Point Academy today. I just got up in time to watch it. Brilliant speech, laying out the historical process from Truman, through the end of the Cold War and how the lessons of the past have helped us move towards the future. We have seen a military [...]
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I always believed that temporary taxes were permanent. I stand corrected. The temporary telephone tax to fund the Spanish American War has been repealed. President McKinley kept his promise. Maybe I’ll believe the next politician who claims his or her tax increase isn’t permanent.
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Rick Santorum has been rock solid since being elected in 1994. Unborn children could not ask for a better friend. He supports a strong American military. He tries to keep our taxes low. Unfortunately, Rick Santorum does not have the edge in this year’s Senate race. He is down in the polls and will probably [...]
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If you ever want to know which way the political winds are blowing during an election year, watch the moderate Republicans. Under normal circumstances, these RINOs crave the approval of the media. During an election year, they seek the approval of the voters. The Democrat strategy for re-taking the House in November is to target [...]
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No leader is perfect. Ronald Reagan, the greatest President of the twentieth century, made a mistake in 1986 when he granted amnesty to illegal immigrants. I have always defended Reagan on this issue because he did not have his own failure as an example. Ed Meese, a key player in the that amnesty failure, reminds [...]
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Expose the Left is doing just that tonight. Earlier today many media outlets, led by ABC News, falsely reported that House Speaker Dennis Hastert was being investigated in a bribery scandal. To ABC’s credit, they have corrected the story. Not so for many in the left-wing blogosphere who are still running the original story.
This from [...]
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It is well known that I’m a Stephen Harper fan. Once again, I’m impressed. Convinced that the Parliament Hill press corps is nothing but an arm of the opposition, Harper has announced that he will ignore them and take his common sense message directly to the people. Bravo Prime Minister!
Our White House press corps has [...]
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I had a good chuckle watching a few of these videos from a Drudge link to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. While I agree with some of their CO2 assumptions in the second video, I don’t quite embrace their approach.
Either way, they’re worth a look and the third video is a critique of Algore– who wants [...]
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She Who Must Not Be Named recently blamed abortion on pro-lifers rather than the people who support keeping it legal at any time for any reason. She especially blames conservatives for denying poor women contraceptives. Funny. I thought whore pills were legal.
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This new age of media we enjoy is a wonderful thing. People who in the past would have been uninformed or misinformed by three networks and an Old Gray Whore in New York now have more access to up-to-the-minute and accurate information than ever before. However, even the most informed among us can lose sight [...]
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Lloyd Bentsen has died at the age of 85. Being a consumer of political minutia, I was the only younger history teacher in the lounge who recognized the name and gave a nostalgic “aw shucks” at the report. I had put him into the “I already thought he died” pile with George McGovern, who I [...]
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My internet access is back and so am I. I apologize to the Axis of Right community for my recent prolonged absence. I assure you it will not happen again.
I am firmly in the camp that believes She Who Must Not be Named is a virtual lock for the Democrat nomination in 2008. She will [...]
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Ray Nagin, the most inept mayor of a large city since Newark’s own Sharpe James, has been reelected 52-48% over Lt. Governor Landrieu to continue his tenure over the “Chocolate City.” Though the absentee ballots were close, Nagin pulled ahead in the end and will continue to blame everyone else for his travails, beg others [...]
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Apparently, the movie is not that good. Reviewers from around the nation have been luke-warm on the film, which is based on a book that spend years on Bestseller’s Lists. Obviously, sometimes the book does not translate well on film, so shortly after its release. Some Christian groups have wanted to boycott the film, but [...]
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The Iraqi Parliament has finally chosen a government, minus just a few positions. The missing positions, however, happen to be three security posts that caused a few Sunnis to walk out in protest.
Nonetheless, it is a huge move in the right direction as the Prime Minister said that his biggest priority will be security and [...]
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I’m quite worried that the President is going to mess things up tonight with this televised address to the nation on the issue of immigration. He needs to secure the border with a fence, guard and serious consequences for those coming over illegally.
Instead, I fear, we’ll just get placation– a token few guardsmen, a whimpering [...]
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Yesterday, May 12, 2006, my brother Army Staff Sergeant Patrick C. Hynes returned home from a 12 month tour of duty in Iraq– 6 months in the Taji area in the north of Baghdad (including parts of Sadr City), and 6 months in Western Iraq out of the Al Asad Airbase, monitoring the Jordanian border [...]
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Yet another classified NSA program has been spilled to the press by “anonymous sources”. Apparently, the NSA keeps a database of all phone calls made in America to try to get “trends” on people to determine if there are any trends that have terrorist underpinnings. They do not, however, listen to the content of the [...]
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Well, after a somewhat lengthy hiatus due to capitalistic concerns, I’m back to further discuss and debate here at the Axis of Right.
As many of you know, two of my more passionate topics include Judicial Activism and the State of the American educational system. Well, both of these topics merged this week when a California [...]
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Apparently, the major powers have no agreement on what to do with Iran. I was actually hopeful that Mahmoud’s letter was going to break the deadlock– that Iran wanted to engage the world community, but under certain conditions that we could accomplish through nuance and back channels. Apparently, Mahmoud just wanted to nag Bush directly, [...]
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Democrats are getting confident: so says the Washington Compost in an article where Nancy Pelosi has finally started to outline what Dems’ll do once in office after they believe they will trounce Republicans this fall. Essentially, they’d:
End all their legislative obstructionism with harmful policies toward America’s business class by raising the arbitrarily calculated minimum wage [...]
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So now it’s prescription drugs. This story sounds even more shady today. Kennedy gets to admit he has human failings, gets to go to the Mayo Clinic while the heat dies down, and gets to fly, yet again, to reelection in the People’s Republic of Rhode Island. A very convenient, almost formulaic situation. Pelosi and [...]
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Like father, like son! Patrick “My Dad Sure Can Swim” Kennedy was involved in a car “hiccup” accident early this morning, hitting a police barrier en route to a vote… a vote he was at least THREE hours late for! Now much else is “hiccup” known about what happened. Drudge has more details.
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