Conservative Politics, Religion, Culture, and Anything Else
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Only a day after the UK thwarted a terrorist attack in London, a flaming car was driven into Glasgow airport’s main terminal. Police have arrested two Asian men in connection with this apparent attack. Since this story is still developing, officials aren’t saying if this attack is related to yesterday’s foiled plot.
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Some American liberals sounded like this when Bill Clinton left office. And when Al Gore lost. And when John Kerry lost. They were adults though.
Hat Tip: The Spectator’s Coffee House
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Alright, iGeeks and technophiles–roll up those sleeves, tape up those glasses and get ready to push in line! Your new gadget is here: the iPhone is on sale as of 6pm today! As usual, the frenzy is to be the first one on the block to get the new toy. Even the mayor of Philly [...]
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According to a new Mason-Dixon poll, 52 percent of likely voters will not even consider voting for She Who Must Not Be Named in the upcoming election. Looks like someone needs to improve her imperius curse.
This comes as no surprise. SWMNBN is one of the least likable figures in American politics. Like [...]
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Word has come out from across that pond that a loaded car bomb was found near Picadilly Circus in the heart of London outside of a popular night club, and on Park Lane, at the edge of Hyde Park. 60 liters of petrol, propane gas and nails were found in an abandoned car near Haymarket. [...]
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The Democrats debated tonight on taxpayer-funded television and would have embarrassed themselves once again if anyone other myself had seen it. Normally after a debate I give you my opinion as to who won, who accomplished something and who stumbled. Tonight, I cannot say that any of the candidates won. They were [...]
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I’ve always argued the first thing people who want to learn more about religion, especially Catholicism, need to do is ignore anything reported in the mainstream media because it is usually wrong. Sometimes the stories are inaccurate because of bias. Sometimes the inaccuracies are merely the result of good-faith theological ignorance. Whatever [...]
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The roof collapsed on the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill today when failed 46-53. Last time this bill failed I predicted that it wasn’t dead. This time, I think it is dead as dead can be in politics. Bush can’t revive it as the 2008 election draws closer. The only way this comes [...]
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One of the Roberts Court’s latest 5-4 decisions ends racial discrimination against children in local areas that force them to go to different schools based on the child’s race in order to promote “diversity.” While this doesn’t close the book on using race as a basis for school enrollment on the college level, as Justice [...]
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Last season CBS brought back the most memorable Big Brother houseguests from seasons past for an All-Star edition. Right out of the gate, the four members of the “Season Six Alliance” dominated the game. Along the way however, one member of that alliance, James, thought it would be a good idea to betray [...]
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John F’in Kerry adds his name to the chorus of those who are now coming out for renewal of the “fairness” doctrine to destroy talk-radio and silence free speech because Americans are realizing that fundamentally and philosophically, Liberalism is not a better alternative.
How are we realizing this? After forty-five years of Liberal pre-dominance of ABC, CBS, NBC [...]
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While flipping through the channels yesterday, I discovered that Hardball with Chrissy Matthews is still on the air. Who knew? Needless to say I was most pleasantly surprised to see none other than Ann Coulter as his guest. Midway through the interview, things got interesting. Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democrat [...]
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Tony Blair stepped down as British Prime Minister today, ending his decade-long stay at 10 Downing Street. His term in office will go down as one of the most significant in modern history. As Prime Minister, he transformed the face of the Labour Party and strengthened the already sturdy special relationship between Britain [...]
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What may now be a foregone conclusion in the Senate is decidedly less so in the House of Representatives. The Republican Conference in the House tonight voted 114-23 to express strong dissaproval of the Sentate immigration bill. While the move is symbolic, it has deeper implications. Speaker Pelosi has stated that she needs 70 Republican votes [...]
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I knew it! Dubya apparently belted out a major Freudian slip when he actually called the Senate’s immigration bill “amnesty” this morning. I mean, it is Dubya, he really could have meant anything, but it’s just kind of funny. I’m gonna miss him when he’s gone!
He said today that the status quo needs to change. So, [...]
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and in today’s political climate there is no brighter light than the conservative blogosphere. With Republican politicians torn between support from their base and contributions from Wall Street Journal types, some may try to vote for cloture and against final passage on the amnesty bill. The reasoning goes [...]
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Dog bit man at the Supreme Court today when the Court actually applied the First Amendment, holding that restrictions preventing a pro-life group from running issue ads prior to an election are unconstitutional, even if the ad in question references a candidate. The ruling was obviously 5-4, with the five justices who have [...]
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Rush Limbaugh is back from a week of playing golf and my summer vacation just started. Both of us converged on the first hour on his talk-radio show today when Rush took a swipe at DiFi’s (Senator Diane Feistein, socialist, CA) attempt to bring back the “Fariness Doctrine” to the media… but only to the radio. She all but [...]
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Vladimir Putin is trying to whitewash Soviet History in a way reminiscent of the old Soviet propaganda newspaper, Pravda, which used clever language and bold-faced lies to advance the Bolshevik’s totalitarian agenda. As an historian, this kind of thing really bugs me and is often a harbinger of reactionary and revisionist politics, which Putin is steeped in [...]
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as the notorious “Chemical Ali” was sentenced to death by hanging in Iraq’s highest court today for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Using mustard gas and nerve agents on the Kurds were his specialty, which earned him that morbid nickname. Nearly 180,000 Kurds were killed in Saddam’s security [...]
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This Daily Mail article linked on Drudge addresses the brilliance of a 2-year-old British girl named Matilda with a 152 IQ, and the youngest female member of Mensa, a society for those in the top 2 percent IQ range. Although she’s very bright for her age, she’ll advance further, earlier in school than most, being alienated [...]
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Conservatives have long been opposed to the Administration’s position over the last 18 months on the illegal alien debate. Echoes of Newt Gingrich ripple through this ABCNews online editorial by Rick Tyler, a former Newt Press Secretary, about the Senate’s resurrected immigration bill. While a very thorough article, I’d like to address its point about talk-radio’s fierce reaction to this [...]
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Drudge posted a MSDNC report on political contributors who work for the media and the story is worth repeating! There was nearly a 9 to1 margin in favor of Democrats. Since this is roughly the same percentage of those that admitted to voting for Bill Clinton in 1992, I was not shocked. However, some of [...]
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Let’s return to Season 3 for what can only be described as the dumbest decision in reality television history. Thankfully it was a decision made by Marcellas, one of the least likeable contestants in reality television history. This video is also worth watching because of the ending, and Lisa.
Livewire Joe video
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President Bush stood up for human life yesterday, causing She Who Must Not Be Named to deliver a predictable yet hysterical overreaction. According to the candidate, President Bush vetoed legislation which would have funded embryonic stem cell research because he values politics and ideology over science and progress. She did not [...]
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Liberal New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has finally left the Republican Party (he was a Democrat just before being elected to mayor anyway). Of course, he says that he “intends” to serve out the rest of his term as Mayor as an Independent and not run for President in 2008. Don’t take this seriously. Liberal NY counterpart, She [...]
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We’ve had an uptick in our Harry Potter traffic lately. Unfortunately our previous post on this topic only mentioned the fact that there would be a Harry Potter theme park. At the time, there was very little information on the park itself and that is still the case. However, Universal Studios is [...]
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Election 2008 update: according to the latest round of Rasmussen polls, Fred Thompson is on top of Rudy by a point, 28% to 27%. I know that this means nothing statistically, except that Fred is suddenly very very close to being a full-fledged leader in the Republican race, and the first person to lead Giuliani [...]
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President Bush has threatened to veto Democrat spending bills which exceed his own exorbitant budget proposals. Although the President should have exhibited this kind of fiscal restraint about six years ago, the veto threat is nevertheless welcome.
When Governor Bush ran for President in 2000, he warned that his opponent would increase government spending more [...]
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In another outburst of Muslim peacefulness and tolerance, effigies of the Queen and Salman Rushdie burned as the Pakistani parliament approved a measure today condemning the knighting of Salman Rushdie and calling for Britain to renounce the act and apologize. Then, Pakistan’s “religious” affairs minister, Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, said:
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