Doug Ross @ Journal

Consistent Track Record

Hugh Hewitt, once again, has demonstrated a mastery of historical detail that is completely (and ominously) germane to Kerry's fitness to serve as commander-in-chief.

IN THE SPRING of 1985 Ronald Reagan struggled with a Democrat-dominated Congress for authority to ship aid to the Nicaraguan Contras fighting the spreading grip of the Sandinistas on their Central American country... On the eve of a major Senate vote on the issue of aid, John Kerry and Tom Harkin jetted off to Managua for a weekend of intensive talks with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega... Kerry was wholly wrong about Nicaragua, about the limits of American power, about the applicability of the Vietnam experience outside of Vietnam, indeed even about the lessons of the Vietnam War. Kerry's instinct in 1985 was appeasement of Ortega, and there is no reason to believe that his fundamental views, quite visibly revealed in his mission to Managua, have in any way evolved to a more mature understanding of the nature of America's enemies or the use of American power. John Kerry: Wrong about Vietnam. Wrong about the Sandinistas. Wrong about the Soviets. Wrong about Iraq. The wrong man with the wrong ideas at the wrong time.

One Weekend in April, a Long Time Ago...

Iran's first nukes possible within the year

I have a few simple questions for citizens and residents of the United States:

1) Is it acceptable for Iran to possess nuclear weapons, given their longstanding sponsorship of suicidal extremist terror groups?

2) If you answered no to #1, how should Iran's steady progress toward nuclear weapons be stopped, given the breakdown of diplomatic approaches (which most analysts see as stall tactics on the part of the Mullahs)?

3) If a military option to dismantle Iran's nuclear program is necessary, which candidate has the persistency and consistency to execute such a plan?

U.S. sounds alarm on Iran: First nukes possible within year

Could Beslan happen here?

Could what happened in Beslan happen in the US? Two months ago, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported on a fellow called Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi, a suspected terrorist who'd fought with his fellow jihadi in Chechnya and somehow wound up in Minnesota, where he'd applied for licences to transport hazardous materials and drive school buses...

Licensed for transporting hazardous material and driving school buses

The Portland '7' intended exactly this sort of slaughter for my neighborhood... for my hometown... for the community center where my little brother learned to swim... all because it's named the JCC, the Jewish Community Center. The conversations ranged from inquiries about bomb making, to talk of cutting the heads off nonbelievers, to a desire to have "real" Muslim wives who would be willing to carry AK-47 assault rifles and be "ready to run and blow something up." He [Jeffrey Leon Battle] had said he wanted to kill hundreds of Jews at a Portland-area synagogue or Jewish school...

Looking for a few "real" Muslim wives

Still wondering why Kerry won't sign a Form 180?

"How many [American] soldiers do you know who are exhibited as honorary war heroes in the Communist War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City? I know of only one, his name is John Kerry. This is hardly a qualification to be Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces..."

Kerry Unfit for Command

And JustOneMinute notes:

The President is not running on a service record he has nonetheless fully disclosed; John Kerry is running on a service record he has not fully disclosed...

And the hits just keep on comin'

[An interesting] analysis from the Small Business Survival Committee over at Townhall.com regarding John Kerry's voting record on small-business issues over the past 10 years... Kerry's voting record displays a remarkable hostility to small businesses... be sure to read the entire SBSC report to learn how a Kerry/Edwards administration would unleash its hostility towards small business.

For Small Businesses, Kerry's Help Has Never Been On The Way

38 days and counting

The Washington Post has an ... account of Kerry's August collapse, but for all the focus on tactics, the weakness of Kerry as a candidate is obvious from the fact that it has now been 38 days since Kerry sat down... for an in-depth interview that would be certain to bring up Kerry's whoppers about his Vietnam service. Kerry's still in the box he built from himself of fables of CIA men and hats and gun-running to Cambodia...

38 Days and Counting...

What the hell is he saying?

I need a big favor from someone. Please watch this John Kerry interview with MTV and explain what in the hell he is talking about. It has now been 38 days since Kerry has been interviewed by a real reporter.

National Guard

What do you really know about George W. Bush’s time in the Air National Guard? That he didn’t show up for duty in Alabama? That he missed a physical? That his daddy got him in? News coverage of the president’s years in the Guard has tended to focus on one brief portion of that time — to the exclusion of virtually everything else. So just for the record, here, in full, is what Bush did...

The National Guard story, without the Spin

Forgery?

The [Boston] Globe story is itself based on last night's 60 Minutes report: "New questions on Bush Guard duty." The online version of the 60 Minutes story has links to the memos. Killian died in 1984; CBS states that it "consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic." Reader Tom Mortensen writes: Every single one of the memos to file regarding Bush's failure to attend a physical and meet other requirements is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing (especially in the military), and typewriters used mono-spaced fonts. The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction high-end word processing systems from Xerox and Wang, and later of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang and other systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used mono-spaced fonts. I doubt the TANG had typesetting or high-end 1st generation word processing systems. I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. This should be pursued aggressively.

Pop goes the "evidence"