Saturday, May 26, 2007

Line o' the Day: Christianophobia?

 
The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto:

Saudi officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying that the city, which Muslims consider to be holy, is off-limits to non-Muslims... Last week we noted that the Organization of the Islamic Conference was complaining about "Islamophobia." But we don't know of any city in the West that is off-limits to Muslims. When Christians, Jews and atheists are free to visit Mecca and Medina, we'll take "Islamophobia" seriously.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

John Edwards proves that there is no "War on Terror"

 
The so-called war on terror is a bumper sticker slogan!

It is not a war on terror... it is an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration.

A "war" that Bush has used to justify everything from abuses at Abu Ghraib...

...to the invasion of Iraq.

By framing this as a "war", we have walked right into the trap...

...a trap the terrorists have set.

That we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war on Islam.

I do not believe there is a global war on terror.

As president, I pledge to use force only to pursue essential national security missions...

...to improve civilian-military relations ...and root out mismanagement at the Pentagon.

This administration has abandoned any claim to U.S. moral leadership in the world.

We need a post-Bush, post-9/11, post-Iraq military. A military that is mission focused on protecting Americans from 21st century threats.

A military that is not misused for discredited ideological purposes.


Quotes and copy courtesy of Newsbusters, Breitbart, and USA Today

Sign the No Amnesty Petition

 
The message is clear. The vast majority of Americans favor sealing the border first, before Congress foists an enormous bureaucracy on an unsuspecting public.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The brilliant Energy strategy of the Democrats

 

Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership oppose: legislation to ease the construction of new refineries; allowing energy exploration in any of the areas marked in red; and nuclear energy.

Act accordingly in 2008. Assuming gas isn't $12 a gallon by then and you can even afford to drive to the voting booth.

Asia spontaneously combusts

 

Six are dead in a massive explosion in Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the rush hour blast a "treacherous and brutal terrorist attack."


Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the low-grade civil war between Islamist terrorists and the Lebanese Army continues in and around one of the major refugee camps. According to the AP, unrest in other camps is an "ominous sign that the trouble could spread across Lebanon."


In Pakistan, state security forces continue to battle terrorists in North Waziristan.


In India's Kashmir province, five Islamic militants and an Indian soldier were killed in a series of gunbattles. The attacks come in the midst of a counter-insurgency campaign to suppress terrorist attacks.

* * *

You know, if only the beleaguered Palestinians could take possession of Israel... and NATO would leave Afghanistan... and the U.S. and the U.K. would leave Iraq... and the U.N. would stop bugging Iran about its nuclear program, all of this bloodshed would end!

Update: Nuke Gingrich has been working the calculator and the results ain't promising.

News flash: the Sun is a major cause of Global Warming

 
Science website Space.com highlights what many scientists have been saying for years (while being completely ignored by Al Gore and the mainstream media). That is, solar cycles are responsible for significant percentages of -- if not all -- measurable global warming activity.


Shhhh... no one tell the IPCC. This revelation might interfere with the UN's global warming bunko scam and Al Gore's burgeoning Carbon Offset business.

Hat tip: the Astute Bloggers

Immigration: Congress at the helm

 
I had a vision for a political cartoon but The Orange County Register's Mike Shelton beat me to it.


Congress: Seal the border - then we'll talk!

Monday, May 21, 2007

The Abominabill: Immigration and the Blogosphere

 
Is it really that hard for these simpletons in Congress to comprehend? Seal the border, then we'll talk. I've summarized the message from some of the blogosphere's luminaries. The message should be crystal clear even to the so-called Republicans who appear to be kowtowing to Ted Kennedy.

Ace of Spades: A Disaster for the Economy...
Dr. Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, talks with Mark Levin about the costs of amnesty:

Take-away: Every low-income citizen added to the population collects, on average, $30,000 per year from the government in services -- schooling, hospitals, Social Security (including supplemental SS for low income people who haven't paid much into the system), Medicaid, etc.

Each low-income citizen pays about $10,000 per year in taxes, total.

Net: Each new low-income citizen added to the population costs the nation around $18,000 per year, to be borne by other taxpayers.

At retirement, it gets worse.

Total cost: $2.5 trillion (with a t) flowing out of Social Security and Medicaid at just about the time the system's already going bankrupt due to the end of the huge wave of Boomer retiring and collecting from the smaller post-Boomer age cohorts.


Macsmind: Slowing down the stampede to Immigration Reform...
As you know I’ve been saying we need to wait and see before prejudging the proposed immigration bill. Now that I’ve reviewed many of the main points of reference I have one thing to say. Wait a minute!

...The fact that McCain is losing it when asked the simplest question about it, and that there seems to this mad rush to passing it, I say - wait. In reading some of the tenants of the proposal I had far too many “What the??” moments to count. Far too many to simply “slide it through” for expediency.

Time for a prolonged debate.


John Hawkins: Project Payback: Google-Bombing Pro-Amnesty, Republican Senators Up For Election In 2008...
Since 2005, conservatives have been loudly saying, secure the border, build the fence, crack down on the people hiring illegal aliens, and no amnesty. Because those conservatives have put the interests of the American people above those of illegal aliens, they've been ignored, insulted, and talked down to -- not just by the Democrats, which is to be expected, but by Republican senators.

The latest amnesty bill, which was pushed through by Ted Kennedy without going through normal channels in the Senate, is as wildly unpopular as any bill in recent memory with conservatives. For example, on Friday I put up a poll here at Right Wing News that read, "What do you think of the illegal immigration bill the Senate is poised to pass?" 1552 people voted in that poll by the time this post was written and here are the results:

It sounds like a good bill. I support it. (4%)
It sounds like a bad bill. I oppose it. (96%) ...


Captain's Quarters: Cloture Means You Never Have To Say You're Sorry...
This bill has many complexities that have to be researched and analyzed before anyone can think about limiting debate. So far, I have not even heard that the legislation has been entered into the record -- so no one even has an official copy of the bill. That means that advocates want to press for approval before anyone reads it and has a chance to offer improvements. What exactly does that say about this legislation?

And what exactly is the rush? This proposal purports to solve a number of problems -- border security, the status of 12 million people illegally residing in our country, labor management for low-skilled jobs, and the creation of a vast bureaucracy to handle all of these projects. All address problems that have existed for 21 years. Can't we take a couple of weeks, at least, to peruse the bill to make sure it does it effectively?

And if not, why not?

This Congress has kept troops in combat waiting over 100 days for funding and supplies like the AMRAP armor that could save their lives. That's something that should have been completed in a week. It's beyond ridiculous to insist that Congress immediately pass something of this complexity with the barest of analysis, and it underscores the impression that we're being sold a bill of goods.


Hugh Hewitt: Necessary Amendments And An Argument For Discretion...

... Construction of at least half of the double-fencing prior to the issuance of a single probationary visa, and completion of all 800+ miles of the double fencing prior to the issuance of any 4 year Z visa or any Y visa.

... Acceleration of the six-year build-up in the authorized level of Border Patrol agents so that its number of agents reaches 25,000 within 3 years with the funding for their hiring in place. This should be another hard trigger.

... A detailed statement of how and by whom the millions of background checks and interviews called for by the act are to be done, with funding authorized and allocated to support such obligations. This should also be a trigger.


LGF: Immigration Bill Online...

N.Z. Bear has put the entire proposed Immigration Bill online in HTML form (all 326 pages), and also posted some notes on using it.

And now that we’ve had a few days worth of pundits, talk shows, and blogs sounding off on it, here’s another silly internet poll to see if LGF readers’ views have changed from the overwhelmingly negative response in the last one...


Powerline: "F*** you": The inside story...

Senator McCain has been largely missing from the Senate since late March, when it became apparent his fundraising operation was seriously lagging. Senator McCain hasn’t made a Senate vote in the past five weeks. But he wanted to be front and center when the immigration bargain was announced, and Kennedy and Specter did everything they could to accommodate him. They reserved the Senate press gallery room for 1:30 p.m. Thursday, just in time for Senator McCain to attend before heading out to New York for more fundraising.

A minor problem arose. Bush administration negotiators and a bipartisan Senate group had been meeting several days a week since February, often with glacial progress. (McCain rarely attended, though his staff was there.) As of Thursday morning, however, agreement hadn’t been reached. A final meeting started at 10 a.m. in hopes of finishing the deal. With a dozen Senators, two Cabinet members (Chertoff and Gutierrez) and perhaps 15 staffers in the room discussing an unpublished documents exceeding 300 pages in length, it was slow going. Senator Cornyn, tacitly supported by Sen. Jon Kyl, pushed hard to streamline legal procedures to allow prompt deportation of illegals. Senator Kennedy resisted.

As the clock moved closer to 1:30 p.m., Senator McCain suddenly lost it. "This is chickenshit," he told Senator Cornyn. "I think it would expedite things if you would just leave the room, Senator, so we can get along with finishing this up." Senator Cornyn responded: "Wait a minute. We’ve been meeting for three months on this in good faith, and now you parachute in here this morning and tell me to leave? I think you’re out of line."

Senator McCain responded: "F*** you! I know what is going on here. I know more about immigration than anybody in this room!” Other Senators moved in to calm things down, and the talks went on. Senator Cornyn’s provision was not included. At 1:30 p.m. sharp, the conferees (not including Senators Cornyn or Menendez and a few other negotiators) were in the press gallery, congratulating each other. Senator Kennedy recognized Senator McCain early to make his televised comments, then Senator McCain departed before the press conference was over for a flight to New York City. Later that afternoon, he missed yet another Senate vote -– this one on the Democrats' $2.9 trillion budget plan, an outline for the largest tax increase in U.S. history...

Detecting a trend yet?

A Texas-sized hat tip to Larwyn

Open Letter to all GOP Senators

 
Subject: Respectfully request you call a halt to this disastrous bill

Senator, as a longtime GOP supporter, I respectfully request that you and other Republican leaders call a halt to this disastrous immigration bill.

Conservatives and many centrists want enforcement of existing immigration laws first and foremost. What is proposed is instead an enormously complex amnesty program, which is certain to foist another tremendous bureaucracy on the public.

Furthermore, it will lead to permanent Democratic majorities and an outrageous tax burden on Americans. Please join with us in halting this abominable piece of legislation.

Sincerely,

Doug Ross

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Don Surber, Walter Williams tag-team Al Gore and Tom Teepen

 
Al Gore has gotten huge lately. And I don't mean just physically. Sure, he may in fact be visible from space, but more importantly, a grass-roots presidential campaign has emerged in recent months. The "Draft Gore 2008" campaign is a touch comical given his recent efforts to take commercial advantage of the publicity surrounding climate change.


The 'draft Gore' exertions highlight a certain blissful naivety (note: I restrained myself and didn't say "gullibility" this time) present in certain segments of the electorate.

Why do I consider these well-meaning citizens naive? First, consider that Gore's 10,000-square foot Nashville estate consumes roughly $2,400 a month in gas and electric bills, including $500 a month for the pool-house. Gore also has two additional homes including a 4,000 square foot Arlington, Virginia mansion. And, while promoting his recent movie, Gore traveled in private jets rather than on commercial flights. So, when it comes to personal sacrifice, Gore isn't exactly making himself an eco-martyr.


Then there are the facts behind global warming itself. In a recent op-ed, the brilliant Walter Williams shredded the "science" surrounding the human causation of climate change. Put simply, the assertion that we can control the Earth's temperature dials by suppressing industrial economies is the modern-day equivalent of alchemy, only without the intellectual rigor.

About 65 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the most rapid and extreme global climate changes recorded in geologic history. The period has been named the "Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum." The ocean was 18 to 27 degrees hotter than it is today. Antarctica, which is today's coldest place on Earth, was home to temperate forests, beech trees and ferns. The Earth had no permanent polar ice caps.

In the past 65 million years, the Earth's temperature has increased and decreased with no help from mankind. My questions to the anti-climate change warriors are: Can mankind really stop climate change, and what is the "correct" Earth temperature? [Ed: emphasis mine]

Don Surber notes several little-publicized events in which scientists increasingly question Gore's eco-hysteria using -- who'd have thunk it? -- science, as opposed to YouTube videos of glaciers collapsing into the sea.

Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week... Man’s contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn’t change the climate if we tried, he maintained.

“We’re all going to survive this. It’s all going to be a joke in five years,” he said.


[...and...]

Major cuts in carbon emissions would hurt the nation’s economy and provide little or no environmental benefit, a top hurricane predictor said Friday... And there’s scant evidence that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases affect hurricane power or frequency, professor William Gray told an audience Friday, the final day of the Governor’s Hurricane Conference in Fort Lauderdale.

But Oscar-winning expert Al Gore said penguins are walking across the Sahara...

Augie Auer said carbon dioxide as a result of man’s activities was only 3.2% of that, hence only 0.12% of the greenhouse gases in total. Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: 0.066%, 0.047% and 0.046% respectively.

And we’re going to waste trillions of dollars worrying about that 0.12%? Especially when the actual cause of Earth’s temperature fluctations is the Sun’s own temperature fluctuations?

Never one to let the facts get in the way of a business opportunity, Al Gore continues to shill for shutting down industrial capacity and for increasing the size of the "carbon-offset" market.


Carbon offsets are, of course, the so-called 'currency' that allows polluters to make up for their emissions. What Gore isn't telling you is that a wide range of respected scientists, environmentalists, researchers, agriculturalists, and activists -- on the left, mind you -- believe that carbon offsets are a "scam", "fantasy", "fiction", "nonsense", "fraudulent" and worse. In fact, whenever I hear the term, I catch the distinct whiff of a junk-bond scheme, only updated for the era of eco-hysterics.


Of course, a little science never stopped Democratic party public relations hacks -- er, I mean op-ed columnists -- like Tom Teepen from slamming the GOP. In a series of columns, Teepen pilloried three GOP presidential non-contenders (Brownback, Huckabee, and Tancredo -- quick, name their home states!) for questioning Darwin's theory of evolution.

So far has the Republican Party fallen into a sink of anti-intellectualism. Indeed, into fantasy. One doesn't believe in or not believe in evolution, any more than one believes or not in physics...

Republicans, as a party, have moved a broad contempt for science toward the center of their vaunted "values..."

Teepen, Democratic party shill that he is, can't see the hypocrisy that oozes from every pore. Al Gore and his merry band of eco-marketers have used every tactic imaginable to silence the scientists who question his climate change campaign and carbon offset rhetoric.


Instead, Gore and his PR hacks have run rough-shod over any scientists who point to history and question the advisability of destroying the global economy to enrich the carbon offset marketeers. Don't look for a column on this topic any time soon from the likes of Teepen, Dowd, and Cohen.

Ted Kennedy, latter-day Nostradumass

 
The National Review introduces evidence of Ted Kennedy's formidable prognosticative powers (and, no, I don't care if it's a word or not).

1965: "The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."


Prepare to repel boarders!

1986: "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this."

2007: "Now it is time for action. 2007 is the year we must fix our broken system."

Now, that's believable!

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Hillary '08 Bumper Sticker


Available as (a) a biodegradable bumper sticker; (b) a fireproof flag; and (c) a plexiglass ornamental paperweight perfect for hurling through Republican campaign office windows.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

The Essential Global Warming Quiz

 
Be sure and send the following link to all of your gullible truth-seeking friends who saw An Inconvenient Truth and who now drive Priuses: Global Warming Quiz.

Hat tip: Sean E.

Top Ten Rejected Hillary Campaign Slogans

 
10. "Read My Lips - No New Interns"
9. "Your long national nightmare is not over"
8. "President Clinton... this time with Pants"
7. "Bill betrayed her -- we shouldn't"
6. "She beat the indictments, she can beat Barack Obama"


5. "Don't ask what she's done -- ask what she says she's done"
4. "If you ever cheated on your wife, make up for it by voting for Hillary"
3. "I'm in it to Spin it!"
2. "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask How You
Can Illegally Contribute To My Campaign"
1. "America, Let's Just Pull Over And Ask For Directions"

Hat tips: Anvari, Planet Mike, Satirical Political, Those Shirts, Emmett Tyrrell and Jon Stewart.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

MSNBC is to Fox as Boys are to Men

 
The National Review's Media Blog has created a stunning video that contrasts the GOP debate questions posed by MSNBC and Fox News. For those with limited time, I've listed the questions below. These aren't word for word, mind you, but certainly capture their spirit.

MSNBC

* Should we change our Constitution to allow foreign-born citizens to become President?
* What do you dislike most about America?
* Do you have a plan to solve the shortage of organs donated for transplant?
* Is Karl Rove your friend?
* Beside yourself, who do you think should be the Republican nominee for President?
* Did you watch Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth?
* Do you find any faults in Mayor Guiliani?
* Would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton living in the White House?

Fox News

* Why should Americans continue to fight and die while Iraqi politicians dither?
* Since Iraq has a freely elected Government, how can you propose to require them to divide into 18 provinces and split oil revenue?
* Can you foresee any circumstances in which you would pull out of Iraq without leaving behind a stable situation?
* What would do to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue - and would you launch a preemptive strike against Iran?
* Critics have called you a "flip-flopper" for your positions on the "no new taxes" pledge. Isn't that a blatant appeal to the party base?
* Name three federal programs you consider wasteful - and what would you do to control pork and spending?
* As the baby-boomers begin to retire, would you reduce benefits -- even on wealthy Americans -- in order to pay for entitlement programs?
* You're pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control, you supported Cuomo over Pataki... are those the standards of a conservative?
* You've been criticized for changing your position on some issues, you say it's a part of learning from experience. Can you point to an area where your 'learning from experience' led you to change to a position that is less popular with the Republican base?
* Many Americans feel that the billions of debt that China holds is a problem, that if the Chinese decide to convert those dollars to Euros, the value of the dollar drops. Do you see that as a security threat, and -- if so -- what do you do about it?

Boys vs. men. David Frum's comment was spot on: "FOX News distinguished itself... and made the Democratic activists who are trying to deny that it has any journalistic integrity look foolish."

Line o' the Day: an Inability to Compete

 
"The illiberals' transparent, and often proclaimed, objective is to silence talk radio." Why? "By trying to again empower the government to regulate broadcasting, illiberals reveal their lack of confidence in their ability to compete in the marketplace of ideas, and their disdain for consumer sovereignty—and hence for the public."

                  --George Will on the Regressives' attempt to reinstitute the 'Fairness Doctrine'

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Do not taunt your Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)

 
Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker offers several key insights into the eco-friendly lighting frenzy called CFL. CFL stands for Compact Fluorescent Lamp. CFLs are designed to replace normal incandescent lamps but require less energy: roughly $30 worth over the lamp's lifetime.


Modern CFLs are supposed to last between 8,000 and 15,000 hours, as opposed to incandescent lamps that typically last around 1,000 hours. Thomas' experience, though, hasn't quite lived up to the hype:

* Four or five of his CFL bulbs have lasted less than a year (four hours a day for 365 days a year is less than 1,500 hours)
* Each CFL bulb contains 4-5 milligrams of mercury, not a huge amount, but sufficient to warrant special handling and disposal methods
* Thomas' hometown of Berkeley requires that CFL's not be disposed of in the trash, but must instead be taken to a community recycling center
* Ed Waage points out that over 15,000,000 fluorescent lamps were sold in California in 2001. Survey results indicate less than half a percent were recycled. This means that almost all fifteen million mercury missiles (as I like to call them) were probably disposed of in the trash... and are now leeching mercury into the ground or atmosphere.


Not to worry, though. If you happen to break a CFL, the U.S. Government has published a handy CFL recycling fact sheet (in PDF format, so you can presumably tape it to your refrigerator) that includes the following sage advice:

What precautions should I take when using CFLs in my home?
CFLs are made of glass and can break if dropped or roughly handled ..

How should I clean up a broken fluorescent bulb?
EPA recommends the following clean-up and disposal guidelines:

1. Open a window and leave the room (restrict access) for at least 15 minutes.
2. Remove all materials you can without using a vacuum cleaner.
* Wear disposable rubber gloves, if available (do not use your bare hands).
* Carefully scoop up the fragments and powder with stiff paper or cardboard.
* Wipe the area clean with a damp paper towel or disposable wet wipe.
* Sticky tape (such as duct tape) can be used to pick up small pieces and powder.
3. Place all cleanup materials in a plastic bag and seal it.
* If your state permits you to put used or broken CFLs in the garbage, seal the CFL in two plastic bags and put into the outside trash (if no other disposal or recycling options are available).
* Wash your hands after disposing of the bag.
4. The first time you vacuum the area where the bulb was broken, remove the vacuum bag once done cleaning the area (or empty and wipe the canister) and put the bag and/or vacuum debris, as well as the cleaning materials, in two sealed plastic bags in the outdoor trash or protected outdoor location for normal disposal.

Roughly translated, cleanup after a CFL bulb breaks is: (a) evacuate the house for a while, and then (b) clean up while wearing a traditional hazmat suit. Yes, it's... just... that... simple.

It reminds me of a Super Happy Fun Ball, updated for the Al Gore era of eco-hysteria.

Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.

Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.

Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which if exposed due to rupture should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.


Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete. Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:

* Itching
* Vertigo
* Dizziness
* Tingling in extremities
* Loss of balance or coordination
* Slurred speech
* Temporary blindness
* Profuse Sweating
or
* Heart palpitations

If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head. Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin. When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration.

Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability...

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Remember: Do not taunt your Compact Fluorescent Lamp.

Hat tip: Larwyn

Barrack Obama's Latest Math Error

 
Senator B. Hussein Obama has muffed some rudimentary arithmetic over the last few days. First he said that Japanese cars are getting an average of "45 miles to the gallon" (Toyota says the figure is closer to 30). Next he claimed that the Midwest tornados had killed "10,000 people" (the death toll was 12).


Fatigue tends to do that to a man.

Top Three Hillary Quotes

 
My personal favorites from the About.com Top Ten list:


3. "God bless the America we are trying to create."
2. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
1. "We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

Scared yet?

Monday, May 14, 2007

Party of Weakness

 
The Democratic Party is known in some circles as the "party of weakness." It has received this designation -- primarily -- because of its bury-the-head-in-the-sand approach to national security. Its schizophrenic approach to the war on terror, for example, has been thoroughly documented on this site and many others.

But there's another reason for the party's appellation. The left despises a fair fight, especially when it comes to an open and honest debate. Consider some examples:

* Sean Hannity has devoted precious air-time to voicing the opinions of Charlie Rangel, Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton.


* Now let's imagine Keith Olbermann interviewing Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich, or Hugh Hewitt.

Or:

* Radio talk-show star Hugh Hewitt has interviewed scads of left-of-center journalists like The Los Angeles Times' Joel Stein and Newsweek's Jonathan Alter.


* Now let's imagine Chris Matthews interviewing popular radio talk-show host and author Michael Savage.

Or:

* Laura Ingraham routinely entertains Democratic pundits like James Carville.


* Now let's imagine Bill Maher having more than one conservative voice on his panel. Maher's show is sporadically entertaining from time to time, but notice he can never handle more than one conservative on the panel at a time. That equation still yields a fair fight, though, as it pits one rational brain vs. four "progressives".

Well, you know what they say about the Party of Weakness. Though they pay lip service to free speech, they can't help themselves when it comes to suppressing opinions that don't happen to agree with their often schizophrenic talking points.

In short, they demonstrate all the fortitude and strength of Pee Wee Herman on Darvocet. And that's just when it comes to open and fair debate, not to mention matters of national security.

Update: Hugh Hewitt offers an update on the 'fairness doctrine'.