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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

‘Is Mitt Minding The Store?’
  Election 2012 piece by Aaron Goldstein (1/31/12)

Mitt Romney’s performance in last Thursday’s GOP debate in Jacksonville was widely praised for his assertiveness against Newt Gingrich and it may have effectively neutralized the former House Speaker’s victory five days earlier in South Carolina. If Romney earns a decisive victory in Florida, it could prove to be the turning point in winning the Republican nomination. But his debate performance should have instead raised a big red flag.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Correctly Framing the 2012 Elections
  Election 2012 piece by Christopher G. Adamo (12/29/11)

As the nation lurches into the 2012 election season, the propagandists of the liberal media have gone into high gear. Their singular job is to prevent the American people from correctly assessing the precarious condition of their country, what needs to be done about it and, most dangerously of all, who among the major Republican contenders could best assume the helm of the nation’s government in order to implement a proper course of action.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Evidence, finally, of Democrat naivete
  Useful Idiots piece by Gary Krasner (12/22/11)

Democrats created what they thought was a good wedge issue in foreign policy, and since about 2006 or so----after the Iraq war became sufficiently unpopular----they advanced it in the form of the mantra, “we must talk to our enemies.”

Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Correct Answer
  Foreign Policy piece by Gary Krasner (12/11/11)

The ABC News candidate’s debate has just concluded.  I will give the correct answer to one of the questions.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Topeka, Kansas, Unified School District 501 Places Sexual Deviancy on Its Curriculum
  Edukshun piece by Paul A. Ibbetson (11/26/11)

What part should schools play in the personal development of our children? Most parents naturally expect teachers and administrative staff to assist their children in learning important skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic, but we now know a child’s development goes far beyond the basics at school. Upon closer inspection, most parents recognize that schools often teach children additional skills, such as how to interact with others, follow rules, think critically, and in many cases, develop career aspirations for what their Mom’s and Dad’s hope will be a bright and happy future. All this instruction is positive and benefits our children. However, there is more still that students will learn.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Single Young Males: A Defense
  Femi-Nazis piece by Bernard Chapin (2/5/08)

I’ve been a fan of City Journal since my interest in Harry Stein led me to the website back in 2000. The quarterly’s masthead features the names of numerous esteemed and intelligent social commentators. Looking back over the last eight years I can honestly say that there has not been one essay they’ve published that was not worthwhile. Kay Hymowitz’s recent endeavor, “Child-Man in the Promised Land: Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood,” is no exception to this rule - if only due to the way that responding to it sharpens the mind.

Top Internet Evangelist says Romney Vote is a Vote for Satan
  Elections piece by Michael Bresciani (2/5/08)

Using only his Bible as a guide top internet evangelist Bill Keller has a new website entitled “A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan.”

BHO is no JFK
  Elections piece by Doug Patton (2/5/08)

With several members of the now largely irrelevant Kennedy family endorsing the most radically left-wing, least experienced candidate in this year’s race for president, perhaps it is time to introduce some reason into the ridiculous argument that Barack Hussein Obama is the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

I need your help
  Elections piece by Guest: Carolyn Hileman (2/5/08)

I suppose I should be upset that one of John McCain friends has declared the anti illegal immigrant movement a small loud and obnoxious faction of zealots and has said depending on how you word it amnesty or a legal path to citizenship, most people prefer a legal path to citizenship. I will give him that, I would prefer they take a legal path to citizenship myself. One that includes going home and applying just like those immigrants who have been patiently waiting in line, You know how they changed illegal to undocumented and amnesty to comprehensive, well now amnesty is a legal path to citizenship it is that simple. John McCain has said on national TV that if elected president if the amnesty bill makes it to his desk he will sign it.

Unlawful Immigration - Federal Delay, Attempts at Local Innovation
  Immigration piece by FreeCongressFoundation: Marion Edwyn Harrison (2/5/08)

Regardless of one’s view as to how the very real inundation of unlawful immigrants and unlawful prospective immigrants ought to be handled, it is clear that the Federal Government has not produced a clear and workable process which likely would lead to a solution.  The country remains full of unlawful immigrants, with estimates varying between high and low gigantic numbers - namely, various millions.

‘A Surge for Mitt Romney?’
  Elections piece by Guest: Mary Mostert (2/5/08)

Events totally outside the realm of politics may have created a Romney surge that could dramatically change the overall results in the Super Tuesday Presidential Primaries.  Nearly the entire media and most polls have already announced a win for John McCain in the Republican races.  However, nearly all those predictions are based on polls taken prior to February 1st.  The Zogby poll, which was taken on Sunday, February 2, shows Mitt Romney leading with 40% of the California Republican vote to McCain’s 32%.

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  General piece by Steve Kellmeyer (2/5/08)

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‘Barack Obama - Another JFK or another Jimmy Carter?’
  Elections piece by Guest: Robert L. Griffard (2/5/08)

Some are comparing Barack Obama to John F. Kennedy. There are similarities; both young, bright, and charismatic; both excellent speakers who rally a crowd around a cause.

Clinton, McCain, Obama and the MSM
  Elections piece by JB Williams (2/5/08)

Not long ago, the idea that any of these three candidates could ever be President of the United States would have seemed insane to most Americans. Even now, most American’s are scratching their heads in disbelief and asking all of their friends, “Did you vote for them? ‘ No, did you? - No, how about you?  - No… Then who in the hell is voting for these people?”

Monday, February 4, 2008

New KA Server!
  General piece by Editor (2/4/08)

We have experienced some major issues, but our server is now much faster!

US Presidential Race:  Choose Your Liberal Poison
  Elections piece by Sher Zieve (2/4/08)

The 2008 US Presidential race for front-runner - both Democrat and Republican - is shaping up to be ‘all liberals all of the time’.  On the Democrat side, we have Hillary Clinton whose only real claim to fame, experience and accomplishment - such as it was -is that of her husband’s coattails.  Yes, Hillary is currently a US Senator.  But, as such, ask yourselves:  What has she achieved?  However, Bill Clinton was POTUS, so naturally Hillary assumes that she should be too!  She tells us that she watched her husband run the country (and hints to us that it was really her doing much of it) so she now knows how to do it.  Mrs. Clinton also tells us that she will resuscitate and shove down the throats of the American people her Universal Health Care plan and steal profits from the ‘rich oil companies’ and redistribute their wealth to fund her own pet projects.  As President of the United States (and with a Democrat-run Congress), presumably she will have the clout to do just that. 

Sunday, February 3, 2008

‘Does the New York Times Hate Meat?’
  MSM piece by Alan Caruba (2/3/08)

After a while, one grows accustomed to the environmental rants that appear in The New York Times. This newspaper, so often pointed to as an exemplar of the highest standards of journalism, has been repeatedly revealed to employ fantasists for whom truth and facts are mere impediments to the advancement of their obsessions and agendas.

America at Moral Crossroads
  Elections piece by Grant Swank (2/3/08)

Biblical moralists know that the Republic stands at a most crucial time frame in this presidential year.

How the Media Pick the Candidates
  MSM piece by Cliff Kincaid (2/3/08)

Whatever you think of Ron Paul, you have to admit that the media are notoriously biased against him. The Fox News Channel unfairly excluded him from its January 6 debate, while MSNBC and CNN tried to keep him from speaking for any significant length of time during their January 24 and January 30 debates. This is a candidate, we must recall, who placed second in the Republican Nevada caucuses on January 19, beating John McCain.

Cheap cars in Asia, expensive gas everywhere
  NewWorldOrder piece by OffSite (2/3/08)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)—The debut of the $2,500 car may be billed as a mobility breakthrough for billions of people in the developing world, but for U.S. motorists it could mean one thing: higher gas prices.

Discovery backs theory oil not ‘fossil fuel’
  Misc. piece by OffSite (2/3/08)

A study published in Science Magazine today presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product the Earth generates constantly rather than a “fossil fuel” derived from decaying ancient forests and dead dinosaurs.

Sex-ed course includes field trip to buy condoms
  Edukshun piece by OffSite (2/3/08)

A campaign has been launched by concerned parents and others in Florida where a school board has adopted an explicit sex ed curriculum that includes various how-to lessons for students as young as fourth grade, and in one incarnation proposed field trips for children to purchase condoms and then talk about their experience.

Judges: ‘Gay’ exposure OK for kindergarteners
  Judicial Activism piece by OffSite (2/3/08)

In a case that could wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court, an appeals panel upheld dismissal of a lawsuit by Massachusetts parents seeking to prevent discussion of homosexual families in their children’s elementary school classrooms.

Federal judge: Law penalizing businesses that hire illegals OK
  Immigration piece by OffSite (2/3/08)

The right of a small town in Missouri to deal with the cost and crime caused by the influx of illegal aliens has been upheld by a federal judge who ruled the community’s ordinance penalizing local companies that hire undocumented workers is not pre-empted by federal law, does not discriminate against Hispanics and does not violate due-process rights or state law.

‘UN ‘Peacekeepers’ Vandalizing Ancient Art—Where is MSM Reporting?’
  United Nations piece by Warner Todd Huston (2/3/08)

We are told over and over again that the United Nations is the answer to all the world’s ills. It is often claimed that without the UN things would be so much worse in troubled spots around the world. But, when we look at the pernicious effect the UN has where ever it goes, it’s awfully hard to reconcile the claims with the hard truth. For one thing, we’ve seen the UN responsible for turning indigenous teens into prostitutes for UN workers in Cambodia(1), Africa(2), and Bosnia(3). Well, now we can add vandalism of sacred, ancient wall-art to the ever growing list of evils perpetrated by UN operatives.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Hillary’s plantation politics
  Demercrats piece by OffSite (2/2/08)

Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, in their first one-on-one debate, in Los Angeles, were asked at the outset to distinguish themselves from each other.

Another pathological black mayor
  Progressivism piece by OffSite (2/2/08)

The dirty little secret about America’s big city black mayors over the past 40 years is that collectively their leadership record has been mediocre at best, pathological at worse. Their failure has been the dysfunction of liberalism and the entire civil rights movement from MLK on down - they put too much emphasis on white guilt and no emphasis on black responsibility. To this day, the consequences for black people across America have been apocalyptic. 

Cable news blamed for rise in Latino ‘hate crimes’
  Immigration piece by OffSite (2/2/08)

The fierce debate over illegal immigration on cable news channels could be the cause of a purported increase in hate crimes against Latinos, charges the radical Hispanic rights group National Council of La Raza.

Islamist ‘Trojan horse’ in Pentagon, say experts
  Islam piece by OffSite (2/2/08)

Federal authorities say a high-level Muslim Pentagon aide, who led a campaign to silence a Pentagon intelligence analyst for taking a hard line against Islam, is running an “influence operation” on behalf of U.S. Muslim groups fronting for the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

‘Liberal’ McCain Will Come Around
  Elections piece by Grant Swank (2/2/08)

John McCain has publicly stated that he knows he has to come around to a more conservative profile in order to drain out suspicion and in some places just plain anger that some Republicans hold against him. And justly so on their part.

Far Too Many Americas
  Progressivism piece by J.J. Jackson (2/2/08)

The problem with America is simple - there are far too many “Americas”. John Edwards, now a perennial also-ran in the presidential race, once opined about the direness of there being only a mere “two Americas” where he tried the typical class warfare tactic of pitting the poor and lower middle class against the upper middle class and the “rich”. If only it was so simple.

Post-Clinton Politics
  Elections piece by Nathan Tabor (2/2/08)

A friend of mine once speculated that if Hillary Clinton is defeated in the primaries, she would then divorce Bill and take him to court for his multiple infidelities. While the scenario itself may be unlikely, it raises a prospect which is looking more plausible by the minute: Hillary Clinton, defeated by her own party.

FBI Identifies Recurring Fraudulent E-mail Scam
  General piece by OffSite (2/2/08)

The FBI has recently developed information indicating cyber criminals are attempting to once again send fraudulent e-mails to unsuspecting recipients stating that someone has filed a complaint against them or their company with the Department of Justice or another organization such as the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration, or the Better Business Bureau.

The Clintons, Race, and the 50-year-old Calculation
  Elections piece by Selwyn Duke (2/2/08)

Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here.  They are political creatures first, most everything else second and statesmen last.  For this to elude one, he must have his head planted firmly in a particularly dense grade of sand.

How the Republican Party Committed National Suicide
  Republicrats piece by JB Williams (2/2/08)

Republicans no longer control the Republican Party and as a result, they can not advance a truly Republican candidate though the current liberal leaning primary process. By the time 99 percent of Republicans get a chance to vote in the primaries, all real Republicans have already been eliminated from the race. Lesser evil choices are all that remain by Super Tuesday...?