Causing the Sun to Rise

Kerry attempts to position himself ahead of the curve, then take credit for all that transpires thereafter. Though troop reductions after the elections have been planned for many months, Kerry would have us believe they'll be the result of his own influence and leadership.

Did I just hear that today, Election Day in Iraq, he let slip that should the Democrats win the House, the case has been established for Bush's impeachment? Just joking, he later explained.

Sure, Hanoiboi. Sure.

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Newsweek's Bubble

According to advertising revenues and circulation figures, MSM's the one living in the bubble and out of touch with mainstream America.

The MSM's bubble is known as 'inside the Beltway", and left wingers who live there show an elitist contempt for mainstream USA.

Victor Davis Hanson calls this alternate universe in the media and inside the beltway not a bubble but a boil, in National Review, "Lancing the Boil", January 6, 2006:

...For the last three years we have seen a carbuncle swell as the old Vietnam War opposition rematerialized, with Michael Moore, the Hollywood elite, and Cindy Sheehan scaring the daylights out of the Democratic establishment that either pandered to or triangulated around their crazy rhetoric. The size of the Islamicist/Baathist insurrection caught the United States for a time off guard, as was true also of the sudden vehement slurs from our erstwhile allies in Europe, Canada, and Asia. Few anticipated that the turmoil in Iraq would force the Syrians out of Lebanon, the Libyans to give up their WMDs, and the Egyptians to hold elections — and that all the killing, acrimony, and furor over these developments would begin to engulf the Middle East and threaten the old order.

In the face of that growing ulcer of discontent, we quietly kept on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy. All that is finally lancing the boil, here and abroad — and what was in there all along is now slowly oozing out, making the cure seem almost as gross as the malady.
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Election Day!

Great day for Iraqis.

Good day for Americans. Bad day for Democrats (except Joe Lieberman and a few others).

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Coal in His Stocking

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Talking Democrats: Retreat and Defeat

Watch the video here.

Seems the Dems are feigning shock, which is odd when all the ad does is show them talking.

John at Powerline says it well here and here.
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Got Milk?

Senator Franken?

From the RadioEqualizer - Brian Maloney:

Newspaper Endorses Al Franken For US Senate

STINKIN' ANNOUNCEMENTS?
Early Franken Endorsement, Armed Forces Radio Pickup

At least one newspaper is so eager to sweep away Republicans, it's already making what seems to be an endorsement, for a 2008 race!

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Return of Sen. Liveshot

He's BAAAACK...

Kerry bogarts the limelight
by kos
Wed Nov 30, 2005 at 06:32:47 PM PDT

There's a little kerfuffle inside the Democratic Senate caucus over John Kerry's insistance in being part of the official party response to Bush's hilarious "plan" in Iraq. Reid originally had designated Sen. Jack Reed to provide the official response. Reed did the "prebuttal" yesterday and had a press conference set up for today.

However, John Kerry stomped over Reed by deciding he was going to hold a press conference this morning as well in a naked bid to steal the limelight. Eventually, Reid was forced to combine the two press conferences to try and maintain a unified Senate Democrat response, but Kerry's antics have generated some ill will.

Much ado about nothing? Perhaps. But several DC Democrats I've spoken to today were not happy with Kerry's antics. And given 1) Kerry's continued inability to clearly articulate a coherent position on the war (as Feldman notes), and 2) the fact that Kerry voted for it (while Reed did not), it's not hard to see why.


Kerry Supports the Troops
John Kerry to Bob Schieffer on CBS's Face the Nation last Sunday:

And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not--

And, as James Taranto adds in WSJ's Best of the Web Today:

Terrorizing kids and children and breaking sort of the customs! Didn't "Jenjis Khan" used to do stuff like that in Vietnam? Note, too, that Kerry isn't against this per se; he just thinks Iraqis should be doing it. It's highly reminiscent of Vietnam, only back then Kerry's words carried some weight because he sold himself as a veteran against the war, whereas now he's just the junior senator from Massachusetts.

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Imp

As reported today on RushLimabaugh.com:

MEHLMAN: John Kerry was on Face the Nation this past weekend and he talked about American troops terrorizing Iraqi people, going into Iraqis' homes. I thought that was an incredibly irresponsible comment. I thought that Nancy Pelosi's echoing the retreat and defeat strategy that was laid out earlier was also wrong. I think Democrats all around the country need to stand up and be counted.

RUSH: And then in the midst of all this, Wolf Blitzer, after this interview, reported this.

BLITZER: Getting a quick reaction to my interview only within the past few minutes where the chairman of the Republican Party Ken Mehlman who took a strong swipe at John Kerry for comments he made on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer this Past Sunday. David Wade, a spokesman for John Kerry, just sent us over a statement saying: "Ken Mehlman's filthy and shameful lie about a decorated combat veteran is disgraceful. Political hack Ken Mehlman and draft dodging, doughnut-eating Rush Limbaugh have something in common, neither of them know anything about how to make American troops safe. John Kerry will continue to speak out about how to succeed in Iraq and protect brave American troops."

Cures gongorrhea too?

Consumer Reports calls air purifier ‘unhealthy’
Sharper Image's Ionic Breeze fails to clean air, magazine says

Updated: 12:46 p.m. ET April 5, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Consumer Reports magazine is taking renewed aim at a popular air purifier made by The Sharper Image two months after it fended off a libel lawsuit filed by the machine’s retailer.

The magazine reports in its latest issue hitting newsstands Tuesday that Sharper Image’s Ionic Breeze Quadra Silent Air Purifier and four other similar machines fail to significantly clean the air — but also release potentially unhealthy levels of ozone.

Religious Cleansing

The failure of Marxism to penetrate western civilization historically is attributed to the influence of it's Judeo-Christian heritage. Hence the antipathy of the Left to religion in general, and Christianity and Judaism in particular.

Individual integrity, particularly at the spiritual level, is at the heart of classical western liberalism and western civilization. And it’s individual integrity that the neo-liberal ideology of Soros and the new Democrat party seeks to expunge, to make way for their transformation of America into their own vision.

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Donkeysaurus Pox

Beyond this, nothing. Beyond these two positions, the Democrat Party is standing for nothing.

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Shaping Thoughts

Stealth

Merry Christmas to the good people at Stop the ACLU... and full speed ahead in 2006 !

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CBS Feelgood News

NBC's Couric May Jump to Rival CBS
The buzz is the "Today" star may take over the anchor desk.


Chasing Katie
LA Times CalendarLive.com
By Matea Gold, Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK — NBC's "Today" show co-anchor Katie Couric is being actively wooed by CBS to be its next evening news anchor — a move she is seriously considering, according to sources at both networks.In recent weeks, CBS News President Sean McManus has been doggedly courting Couric to switch networks and assume the anchor seat of the "CBS Evening News," according to three senior editorial employees at CBS and NBC.

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Wilson-Plame Privy

Pelosi: Progressive Poster Girl

Attack of the Pelosicrats
By Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com November 14, 2002

News From Iraq That You Won’t Hear From Liberals
California Conservative, November 26, 2005

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Ward Churchill: New Proof

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Kerry Comeback

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Trojan Donkey:Bringing a new look to liberty

Replacing indiviual freedom with collectivism, limited government with statism, equal opportunity with group entitlements, free markets with redistributive economics, and American sovereignty with transnational governance.

Why There Is A Culture War
Gramsci and Tocqueville in America
By John Fonte, in Policy Review

The slow but steady advance of Gramscian and Hegelian-Marxist ideas through the major institutions of American democracy, including the Congress, courts, and executive branch, suggests that there are two different levels of political activity in twenty-first century America. On the surface, politicians seem increasingly inclined to converge on the center. Beneath, however, lies a deeper conflict that is ideological in the most profound sense of the term and that will surely continue in decades to come, regardless of who becomes president tomorrow, or four or eight or even 20 years from now.

As we have seen, Tocquevillians and Gramscians clash on almost everything that matters. Tocquevillians believe that there are objective moral truths applicable to all people at all times. Gramscians believe that moral "truths" are subjective and depend upon historical circumstances. Tocquevillans believe that these civic and moral truths must be revitalized in order to remoralize society. Gramscians believe that civic and moral "truths" must be socially constructed by subordinate groups in order to achieve political and cultural liberation. Tocquevillians believe that functionaries like teachers and police officers represent legitimate authority. Gramscians believe that teachers and police officers "objectively" represent power, not legitimacy. Tocquevillians believe in personal responsibility. Gramscians believe that "the personal is political." In the final analysis, Tocquevillians favor the transmission of the American regime; Gramscians, its transformation.

While economic Marxism appears to be dead, the Hegelian variety articulated by Gramsci and others has not only survived the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also gone on to challenge the American republic at the level of its most cherished ideas. For more than two centuries America has been an "exceptional" nation, one whose restless entrepreneurial dynamism has been tempered by patriotism and a strong religious-cultural core. The ultimate triumph of Gramscianism would mean the end of this very "exceptionalism." America would at last become Europeanized: statist, thoroughly secular, post-patriotic, and concerned with group hierarchies and group rights in which the idea of equality before the law as traditionally understood by Americans would finally be abandoned. Beneath the surface of our seemingly placid times, the ideological, political, and historical stakes are enormous.

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A Foul Bird

A Soros Thanksgiving

CNN: "Computer Bug"

CNN: 'IT WAS A COMPUTER BUG''

IT IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN RE-CREATE TO SHOW YOU HOW IT HAPPENED'

CNN on Tuesday morning hoped to explain how and why a black 'X' flashed over Vice President Dick Cheney's face during a live speech. The startling 'X' flashes over Cheney's face were first revealed by the DRUDGE REPORT



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Democrat Plan for Iraq

With the relentless smear campaign and tonight the Murtha debate, this photoshop comment by David Lunde seems to say it all.

After so much weaseling and deceit, now let them go on the record with it... if they dare.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

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UNamerican

They’ve Been Partying Long Enough --
A scandal-plagued United Nations turns 60.
By Claudia Rosette, National Review Online

The UN Found the WMDs!!
By Atlas, Atlas Shrugs

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Wilson Up in Plames

Joe DeGenova: Fitzgerald news conference was a disgrace.
From Brit Hume, Special Report, Fox News Channel, via Shadow TV
HT Pookie, Free Republic


From Washinton Post, Analysis
Woodward Could Be a Boon to Libby
By Carol D. Leonnig and Jim VandeHeiWashington Post Staff WritersThursday, November 17, 2005; Page A15

...[T]he Libby legal team seized on Woodward's testimony, calling it a "bombshell" with the potential to upend Fitzgerald's case. After spending yesterday at the courthouse reviewing documents for the case, Libby emerged with one of this lawyers, Theodore V. Wells Jr., by his side. Wells said Libby is "very grateful to Bob Woodward for coming forward and telling the truth."
A few hours earlier Wells issued a markedly more pointed statement, saying, "Woodward's disclosures are a bombshell to Mr. Fitzgerald's case" that show at least one accusation to be "totally inaccurate." The Libby legal team plans to call a number of journalists to testify in part to show Libby was not determined to blow Plame's cover.
In an interview, Woodward said his testimony was not designed to help or hurt Libby. "My reporting and writing is as neutral as it can be," he said. "Fitzgerald asked me questions . . . I answered them."
Rove's defense team also believes he could benefit tangentially from the Woodward disclosure because it shows other officials were discussing Plame in casual ways and that others have foggy recollections of the period as well, according to a Republican close to Rove.
"It definitely raises the plausibility of Karl Rove's simple and honest lapses of memory, because it shows that there were other people discussing the matter in what Mr. Woodward described as very offhanded, casual way," a source close to Rove said. "Let's face it, we don't all remember every conversation we have about significant issues, much less those about those that are less significant."
Rove is under scrutiny for not initially disclosing his conversation about Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper. Rove's defense is he simply forgot the conversation took place. Sources close to Rove said they expect a decision on whether he will be charged soon.

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Open Source Media !

LAUNCHING NOW, the next generation in media for news, analysis and commentary.

'Pajamas Media' relaunches itself today as Open Source Media, a news website that will feature, in addition to news feeds, contributions from more than 70 high profile journalists and bloggers.

It's the cutting edge of a media revolution. BRAVO!

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Dean Ducks the Press

From DRUDGE REPORT:

HOWARD THE DUCK: DEAN DODGES NBC APPEARANCE WITH REPUBLICAN CHAIR
Dean Ducks Last Second Joint MEET THE PRESS Appearance With GOP Chair Mehlman

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from exclusive sources that Democrat Party Chair Howard Dean turned down Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman’s last minute offer to appear together on NBC’s MEET THE PRESS this morning. Moments before taping was to begin with host Tim Russert, Mehlman asked Dean outside the NBC studio’s green room: “There’s still time for us to go on together Governor.” Dean declined with a shrug of his shoulders and an uncomfortable cackle and then proceeded to walk away into the green room. DRUDGE has learned MEET THE PRESS producers have been working to get a head to head Dean/Mehlman appearance on the program since Dean was named chair back in February. Dean and his handlers have repeatedly turned down the request. The former Vermont governor only agreed to do this week’s program if they appeared in back-to-back interviews. Mehlman brought up Dean’s unwillingness to appear alongside him during the show: “I was hoping that Chairman Dean would be on sitting next to me this morning. Maybe we can do that on a future program. Look, he's somebody I've enjoyed getting to know. We meet in a lot of green rooms….”

Who's Lying about Iraq!

Here's the video to set the record straight on who's lying about WMD's and Iraq... Democrats: Dishonest on Iraq

And here's the article... in COMMENTARY, December 2005, Who Is Lying About Iraq?
by Norman Podhoretz.

Hat Tip: Stop the ACLU

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Chirac Declares Victory

Pledges that French authorities, including police, will never again breach the territorial integrity of Muslim no-go zones.

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Veterans' Day

Thank you.

How Sears Stole Christmas

Bill O'Reilly reports that his recent survey of major retailers indicates that Sears-Kmart may be the most aggressive in revising Christmas into an exclusively secular event, with Kohl's not far behind.

Email me please, if you'd like the GRINCH resized into a banner or button for your site.

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Denial

It's not religion, culture or ideology... just unemployment and poverty.

From The Real Global Virus: The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading, Victor Davis Hanson in National Review Online:

[T]he world—if it is to save its present liberal system of free trade, safe travel, easy and unfettered communications, and growing commitment to constitutional government—must begin seeing radical Islamism as a universal pathology rather than reactions to regional grievances, if it is ever to destroy it materially and refute it ideologically.

Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs


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New Moon

Defenseless Giant

The left leads a drum beat of malicious, contrived attacks, echoed by the mainstream media. The administration won't defend itself and GOP senators won't act like the majority party. Instead of a decent counter-offensive, we have ethics seminars and cower to appease lefty bullying.

Cooked

Chirac prepares surrender. France defeated by it's own ideology.

Chirac: "I have a plan"

Chirac has a plan? Probably got it from John Kerry (who got it from Joe Wilson).

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Fire?

How do you take your weasel... rare, medium or well done?

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Avarice

Avarice can lead to dangerous places... even for a lizard.

From Say Anything:

November 4, 2005
Wilson, Plame And The CIA Should Be Investigated
By Rob on November 4, 2005 at 10:22 am

Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame should be investigated.

Here’s why.

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Warring for Eurabia

From Captain's Quarters, Crossing The Von Choltitz Line, November 06, 2005:

Is this the beginning of the war for Eurabia? So far, the purported Islamist leaders of the uprising have kept a low profile, but if this violence proves successful, they will have no hesitation in loudly demanding their spoils of victory: autonomy of authority in the sink estates, a recognition of sharia law in the Muslim enclaves of France, and the creation of de facto proto-states where Islamist lunacy can breed and produce even more Eurabian terrorists.

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Libby to Put MSM on Trial

From Rush Limbaugh:

This First Amendment problem is going to surface because when these reporters are brought into a trial and all of their notes and all of their e-mails and everybody else they've talked to about this, and when Plame and Wilson get brought into trial, you know darn-well know they're going to be brought into this too.” “Andrea Mitchell probably will be drawn into this since she said it was common knowledge and the prosecution said it was not. Patrick Fitzgerald said in his indictment it was not common knowledge. Andrea Mitchell says it was. A lot of reporters have been saying it was common knowledge. So the prosecutor had his way. He had his time. But now the fight begins.” “It's going to be real interesting to watch the whole template that the media has set up on this story get blown to smithereens, and that's the real story. That's the real future. That's the real direction this case is going to go. It is not going to go where Chris Matthews and the rest of these people think it's going to go.” “The defense is obviously going to go after the very people who have put Scooter in this circumstance, and that's the news media. This is going to be fun. I feel sorry for Scooter, that he's in the middle of this and that it has to happen, but mark my words, it's a great lesson to apply every time you watch the news from this day forward, because what they tell you that is happening now isn't. It's what they hope will happen.”

Deja Vu

Using the CIA to sway domestic policy, then lying about it, hiding behind the CIA's cover, and blaming his critcs for the condition he himself created. Priceless.

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Bush Kicks Ass

Bush kicks ass. Ass brays bitterly.

Quote compliments of Knowledge is Power

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Alito, YES!

Respected highly on both sides of the aisle and confirmed earlier by unanimous vote of the Senate, Alito is tops. Still the jihad left will probably threaten filibuster.

If it's a fight they want, then the sooner the better, as America needs libs to come clean on the issues. So it's a pleasure to invite these petulant partisans to BRING IT ON!

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MSM: Keeping Us Safe

What would we ever do without mainstream media?

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Trophy

But whose bullet was it that brought down the beast? Joe's or Valerie's? And were Chuck, Jay and Teddy part of the hunt?

Treachery in the CIA

Phase II of Fitzgerald's investigation: Crackdown on Wilson-Plame and the CIA!

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Radio America Up 300% -- from 0.1 to 0.4%

From The Washington Times, October 25, 2005:

Speak up, Al

We were huddling with a local broadcaster yesterday when the topic turned to Air America Radio, the nationwide network that brings the politics and opinions of left-wingers such as Al Franken into our living rooms and automobiles.

This columnist expressed curiosity about why Air America's latest Arbitron numbers for its Washington affiliate, WWRC-AM (1260), are dismal -- so low that they didn't even measure on the listener scale -- when barely two months ago, on Aug. 4, Air America Radio President Gary Krantz issued a rather upbeat press release saying his network's Washington listenership had grown a whopping "300 percent" between spring 2004 and spring 2005.

The local broadcaster answered my question by forwarding the Arbitron figures from six months ago: Sure enough, Mr. Krantz was correct, listenership in Washington did grow 300 percent -- but from 0.1 to 0.4 percent. Now, apparently, that minuscule 0.4 percent has switched networks.

Hat Tip: The Radio Equalizer

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Thank You

Thank you.

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Looter Guy

One of the funniest sites ever is here, a lampoon of MSM's coverage of Katrina and crime.

Hat Tip: Pookie at Free Republic

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