Saturday, October 21, 2006

The immigrants


Col. Jon Kline's exceptional campaign commercial (hat tip: Powerline) deserves the "Classic Comics" treatment:


For centuries, it's been part of the American story.


Immigrants came here from every corner of the globe.


Yearning to be free and seeking a better life for themselves and their families.


They worked hard, embraced our culture, and helped make America great.


Republicans believe all immigrants should be welcomed here, provided they play by the rules.


But too often today, people enter our country illegally.


Their first act: to break our laws.


Too many Democrats want to reward them with citizenship if they pay a meaningless fine.


Selling American citizenship?


That means millions of illegals would get legal status more quickly than those who followed the rules.


On top of that, they would get Government benefits, paid for by your tax dollars:


Billions of dollars in social security and Medicare benefits.


There's a right way to come to America and a wrong way.


Democrats don't seem to know the difference.


Or, if they do know, they don't seem to care.


But, if you care, then there's only one choice.


Vote Republican.



Oven-baked good readin', just like Mama used to make:
Captain's Quarters: The Anchoress has the conn (and @ The Anchoress)
Gateway Pundit: As election nears, Liberals continue Christian-bashing...
Hugh Hewitt: The Incredible, Shrinking Harold Ford
Rick Moran: CNN sees no difference between us and terrorists
Samantha Burns: The Weekend
Sister Toldjah: Bush’s and Rove’s confidence leads the left to cook up conspiracy theories...
STACLU: Florida Court rules against parents rights

Friday, October 20, 2006

The Extremist


Don Surber has an outstanding and disturbing post on erstwhile House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Read it all, but I'll net it out for you.


The Center for Responsive Politics reports Pelosi's net worth is between $14,746,108 and $55,085,000. She might, then, be the richest Speaker in American history.


She gets a 100 percent rating from the National Education Association (e.g., primarily unionized teachers).


She gets a 0 percent rating from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which wants to crack down on illegal immigration.


She gets an F from the NRA.


Pro-abortion group NARAL gives her a 100 rating.


She opposed legislation to ease the construction of new refineries.


If Alaska's ANWR region were the size of a football field, she opposed drilling on an area the size of a postage stamp.


She opposed even having a Web site promoting the use of Yucca Mountain, Nev., as a nuclear waste dump.


On top of that, she wants to regulate energy prices.


Then she turns around and calls Republicans extremists.

Surber concludes:

Legislation is built on compromise...

...how can Republicans work with a person who holds so many extreme positions and will not budge an inch?

For six years, too many Democrats like Pelosi have preferred that Congress do nothing rather than address the problems the nation faces. This has helped plunge public approval of Congress...

Indeed.

Put simply, if you want a stable economy, lower taxes, pro-growth policies, and a thoroughly clear-eyed view on matters of national defense, then there's really only one choice.


Vote Republican.


Hat tip: Larwyn

Oven-fresh good readin', just like Mama used to make:
Captain's Quarters: House Intel Leaker Found?
Hugh Hewitt: One from Column A, one from Column B
Rick Moran: The Council has spoken
STACLU: Kim Jong Il Sorry About Nuke Test
Wizbang: Running against the ultimate empty suits

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

All the news that's not fit to print


Shhhhh. Don't tell anyone, but here are some juicy news items you won't be seeing in the New York Times (barring a rift in space and time, of course):


Since the Bush tax cuts of May 28, 2003, stock prices have been on a roll. The accompanying illustration depicts the performance of the Dow Jones Industrials.



And despite a double whammy consisting of the largest enemy attack on American soil and the greatest natural disaster in American history, the economy has continued to thrive under the stewardship of the Bush administration. Unemployment, currently hovering around 4.5%, is represented in the accompanying chart.



Furthermore, despite the catastrophic effects of twin hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which devastated oil refining capacity, gasoline prices have returned to pre-hurricane levels. Gas prices, despite the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history, are low by all historical measures.



And the price of natural gas, which also spiked after the hurricanes, has continued to drop. This directly benefits the enormous number of Americans that utilize natural gas.



And, since 9/11/2001, because of tools like the Patriot Act and exceptional work on the part of U.S. armed forces, law enforcement, and the intelligence community, multiple terrorist attacks on the American homeland have been foiled. The Bush administration and a Republican Congress deserve the credit.

The simple truth that the New York Times dares not mention is this: despite the devastation of a massive terrorist attack (and a major natural disaster), the U.S. economy has continued to thrive.

It is hard to overstate the total economic impact of the 9/11 attacks.

The estimated impact of the attacks on New York City alone has been estimated at nearly $100 billion (source: Comptroller of the City of New York [PDF]). Estimates of the total economic impact of the attacks have ranged as high as half a trillion dollars ($500 billion, source Center for Contemporary Conflict).

In addition to keeping Americans safe, the Bush administration's pro-growth strategies have sliced the federal budget deficit to its lowest level in four years. The 2006 fiscal year deficit was $71 billion or 22.3 percent less than last year and lower than just three months ago, when the president noted that deficit reduction was a year ahead of schedule.


Sure, you could choose to put the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Charlie "I never met a tax I didn't like" Rangel into power, but it's always worth remembering that old truism:

You get what you pay for.

With Democrats, you're certain to get higher taxes, more regulation, and less entrepeneurship. That's guaranteed. If you want Jimmy Carter-era financio-nomics combined with a questionable (and that's putting it kindly) track record on national security, certainly feel free to vote Democrats into office.

But if you want a stable economy, lower taxes, pro-growth policies, and a thoroughly clear-eyed view on matters of national defense, then there's really only one choice.


Vote Republican.



Oven-fresh good readin', just like Mama used to make:
Anchoress: Saddam wanted to strike the US?
Captain's Quarters: What's at stake in North Korea
Gateway Pundit: Democrat Steny Hoyer Says Michael Steele is Being "Slavish"
Hugh Hewitt: Another campaign update
Rick Moran's RWNH: A real anti-American
STACLU: Those who will not learn from history...
Wizbang: Ammo For Those Final Campaign Ads

Monday, October 16, 2006

Fascism: the Bush administration has finally gone too far


The latest memo from the "progressives" is a list called "the 14 defining characteristics of fascism." The list is ostensibly used to prove the Bush administration's fascism, but only in the sense that 9/11 "truthers" have confirmed that a Government/Zionist conspiracy brought down the World Trade Center.

Through this prism of brilliance, we can finally see that the Bush administration has gone too far. We need only recount some recent, sinister events to demonstrate -- beyond a shadow of doubt -- that the scourge of fascism has indeed reared its ugly head here in America.


For her inflammatory statements against the government, entertainer Barbra Streisand was sentenced to 10 years in a forced-labor camp.


Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, just days after ruling against the administration over international terrorist wiretaps, was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident near her house.


Using illegal wiretaps, the government arrested and jailed innocent American citizens of Muslim descent without trial or due process.


The Dixie Chicks' music was banned and their movie pillorying the Bush Administration was removed from distribution without explanation.


After an anti-government protest in front of the White House, thousands were arrested. Nearly one hundred organizers were executed and their bodies dumped in a mass grave near Manassas, Virginia.


After criticizing the government, actor George Clooney escaped government prosecution by leaving the country and now lives year-around in a guarded compound near Lake Como, Italy.


Comedienne and TV hostess Rosie O'Donnell was convicted of anti-Christian activities and deported to Saudi Arabia.


Linguist, writer and leftist philosopher Noam Chomsky disappeared from his home near Cambridge, MA under suspicious circumstances and has not been seen since.


After a visit to Iran, the late Sean Penn was executed by firing squad for moral support of a terrorist regime and treason.

* * *

In truth, suppression of dissent, mass imprisonment, and murder happen all-too-routinely in despotic regimes such as Iran and North Korea. America's "progressives" minimize the real human suffering and misery occurring as millions of North Koreans starve to death and Iranian women are routinely stoned for adultery.

All the while, "progressives" sip their Starbucks lattes, compare Bush to Hitler, and chuckle over the latest Stephanie Miller diatribes.

These "progressives" have every right to free speech.

But they should know that their misguided vilification of America's government, the greatest force for good that the world has ever seen, consigns them to history's dustbin.

Their free speech stands in stark contrast to countries where true rebels are executed for speaking out. A young Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Iran or Natan Sharansky in North Korea must be utterly disgusted with the egregious rhetoric of the Bush-haters. For they, unlike the "progressives," know the true nature of fascism.

Today's "progressives" are exceedingly poor representatives for liberalism. In days past, liberals believed in free speech. They defended the poor and down-trodden. And, at the end of the day, they stood for America and American values. After all, this was the party of JFK, of Truman, and of FDR.

Today's "progressives" can't really be called Democrats. And they will ultimately lose every meaningful election in which American voters outnumber the "progressives" ' growth voting blocs of convicted felons, illegal voters, and the dead.

Some days I think the only thing keeping the Earth aligned on its axis is the gyroscopic energy of JFK, Harry Truman, and FDR spinning in their graves.


Vote Republican.


Oven-fresh good readin', just like Mama used to make:
Captain's Quarters: Getting Reid into the Mainstream Media
Hugh Hewitt: Settle-up Sunday
Michelle Malkin: A small fraction?
Rick Moran: In the news
RUA: Who scontrols the intraweb?
STACLU: Scalia debates ACLU
Wizbang: Caption Pelosi
Washington Post Trackbacks: here, here, and here
Wuzzadem: Nobel Peace Prize Officially Surpassed In Prestige By McDonalds "Employee Of The Week" Award

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Presidential Jeopardy



Welcome back to Jeopardy, ex-President's Edition!


I'm your host Alex Trebek. Our current score... ex-President Carter is stuck at zero dollars, ex-President George Herbert Walker Bush is leading with $3900, and ex-President Bill Clinton is in second place with $200.

President Bush, you control the board...


I'll take Ghastly Gaffes for $600, Alex...


This person admitted to the theft and destruction of top secret documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.


Who is George W. Bush?


Uhm, I'm sorry, President Carter, but that's incorrect. In fact, you've answered "George W. Bush" on every single answer and so far you've come up dry...


Who is Sandy Berger?


That's correct. You still control...


Ghastly Gaffes for $800, please, Alex...


The answer is: this president's administration sustained a series of eight major terrorist attacks on U.S. interests without fighting back.


Who is George W. Bush?


*sigh*


Who is the war-mongering, imperialist, running dog lackey of the oil companies, George W. Bush?


Uhm, no, President Clinton, prepending some titles on the same wrong answer doesn't help. You're back to zero.


Who is President Clinton?


Correct again. Still your board.


I'll take Ghastly Gaffes for $1,000, please.


This president facilitated the coming to power of Marxists in Nicaragua, religious despots in Iran, signalled the Soviets that he wouldn't lift a finger if they invaded Afghanistan, thereby facilitating the rise of the extremist hatred and militancy that ended up spawning 9/11.


Who is George W. Bush?


It still amazes and frightens me that you were somehow elected President. No, that's incorrect. Again.


Who is John Quincy Fillmore?


For the love of...


*sigh*


Who is Jimmy Carter?


That is correct! Oh, thank goodness, the music is telling us it's time for Final Jeopardy... and the Final Jeopardy answer is "He was, hands down, America's worst President of all time"...


$#!@!!!


$#!@!!!


Hehe... this oughta be entertaining...


While you write your responses down, we'll recap scores. President Bush is in the lead with $5900, while Presidents Carter and Clinton are tied with zero...


And now it's time to unveil your responses...


Hmmm... I'm sorry, Presidents Carter and Clinton, but arrows don't qualify as valid responses, not that it would matter with your scores of zero...


President Bush, I'm pleased to say that you're our winner! And, since you wagered the entire $5900, you've ended up with $11,800 for your favorite charity...


Thanks, Alex, and I appreciate the opportunity to put some of our recent history in perspective. Some folks have short -- very short -- memories.


Oven-fresh good readin', just like Mama used to make:
Anchoress: Harry Reid story - not sexy enough
Hugh Hewitt: 25 days out: the Cleveland advantage
Rick Moran's House: Iraq - the clock is ticking
RWN: Weekend links
STACLU: Free-for-all
Washington Post Trackbacks: here, here, and here
Wizbang: DhimmiTube Pushback