Rush Speaks for America
Rush understands the crisis facing our country. It is unfortunate that the loony left of this country chooses repeatedly to brazenly politicize the global war on Islamo-fascism. Rush states emphatically that America will win. In his plain spoken Missouri manner laced in the reverberations of Ronald Reagan, Rush asserts that each generation must protect peace and freedom for the next generation.
Here are the words of Rush Limbaugh: one of the greats of our time appearing on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
“Some say we try diplomacy. Yeah, well tell me, how do we negotiate with people whose starting point is our death? Ask them to wait for 10 years, before they kill us? When Good negotiates with Evil, Evil will always win. And peace follows victory, not words issued by diplomats.
“But some Americans, sadly, are not interested in victory. And yet they want us to believe that their behavior is Patriotic. Well, it’s not. When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a few incidents at Abu Grahib and Guantanamo Bay than they are in defeating those who want to kill us; when they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program which is designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it; when they want to grant those who want to kill us, U.S. constitutional rights, I don’t call that patriotic.
“Patriotism is rallying behind the country, regardless of party affiliation, to defeat Islamo-Fascism. Patriotism is supporting our troops on the battlefield, not undermining the mission and morale. But let there be no doubt about this. America will prevail. We’re the same country that survived a bloody Civil War, defeated the Nazis and the Soviets. Each generation has a responsibility to the next. Our generation will not disappoint.”
Check out more at News Busters, Rush Limbaugh Home Page, Hot Air.
Revisiting Clown Wilson’s Calamity
The Joe Wilson/Liberal media debacle is worth revisiting for the rich tapestry of truth that has been exposed within Mr. Wilson’s and Senator Schumer’s tangled web. As much as the media touted, exploited, and overplayed this contrived plot that is so well-matched for a tabloid excursion, the journalists have not been at all interested in revisiting the embarrassing facts revealed as Wilson’s grand production became a tattered fairy-tale. It is well worth it for all of us who are sick and tired of the media’s repetitive mantra that Karl Rove and the Bush administration had broken the law and leaked the name of a secret CIA operative. Clown Wilson should consider moving to Hollywood (they already adore him), and working in idea and script development. His imagination is obviously brilliant and fiction is his forte. As Hollywood and Michael Moore develop their moonbat fantasies into movies that they affectionately refer to as documentaries, Wilson and his subordinate wife, Valerie Plame, could certainly develop second vocations, and live happily after with the over-population of liberals in America’s entertainment Mecca.
The unrelenting Ann Coulter has been on the story since day one. Oh how her enemies hate it when she is right all along. From the beginning, Ann smelled a rat, and the truth turned out to be worse than she suspected. ” Read more »
Kander Without Ebb…Start Spreading The News
There is an instructive article over at The New York Times that I have been meaning to post for anyone who may have missed it. Kander without Ebb, Start Spreading the News, is a marvelous piece about one of the greatest writing teams of the 20th century. Best known for their hit musicals Chicago and Cabaret, this writing team has had an almost unparalleled string of artistic and commercial hits. Read more »
The ACLU: Defending the Contemporary Hitler
The comparisons of terrorists to Hitler, Hirohito, and Lennin made by President Bush and Don Rumsfeld in the last week have the liberals screeching! One of the patron saints of American liberalism is screeching the loudest.
From Jay at Stop the ACLU, their latest Blogburst: Read more »
Revisiting Clown Wilson’s Calamity
The unrelenting Ann Coulter has been on the story since day one. Oh how her enemies hate it when she is right all along. From the beginning, Ann smelled a rat, and the truth turned out to be worse than she suspected.
Now it turns out, even point No. 3 of liberals’ conspiracy theory was false: The original “leaker” of Plame’s name to columnist Bob Novak — not a crime — was not in the White House at all. It was Richard Armitage, a State Department official and opponent of the Iraq war.
The information that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA had nothing to do with harming Wilson. It did not come from the White House. It did not even come from someone who supported the war in Iraq.
The rest of the world found out Armitage was Novak’s source last week, something Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the first week of his investigation. So what was Fitzgerald investigating?
Even people who think the president should not be subject to civil suits in office do not deny that Bill Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky and lied about it in a civil suit brought by Paula Jones. However irritating it is to liberals that lying about sex under oath is a crime, there was a crime that Ken Starr was investigating.
What was Fitzgerald investigating? Not only was there no underlying crime, there was not even — as the Times put it — “an attempt to silence Mrs. Wilson’s husband” (or an attempt “to respond to people calling you a liar in the New York Times,” as normal people put it).
Fitzgerald’s entire investigation was nothing but a perjury trap from beginning to end for anyone who misremembered anything about who told whom what about a low-level nobody at the CIA who happened to be married to a Walter Mitty fantasist.
One would think that the liberal media could admit the mistake and correct the record. David Broder comes close in today’s Washington Post.
Of course it is of no benefit to the deranged hate-Bush crowd, however, dignity, ethical behavior, and the very lining of our nation’s dialogue has been harmed by the amplification of Wilson’s strident and libelous statements. Admission of the errors in the matter would go a long way toward restoring faith in a mainstream media that seems a lot more like a promoter of fictionalized tales that supplant a liberal agenda than being a responsible part of the public discourse. Wilson’s close association with the democrat party leadership should be enough to convince voters not to elect Sherrod Brown and other liberal voices this November.
Others on the topic: Brent Bozell, The Muslim Question, Mark Levin, Ankle Biting Pundits, Webloggin‘, The American Spectator, From on High.
Kander Without Ebb…Start Spreading The News
“Constant to their themes and to each other, Kander and Ebb were among the most
successful songwriting partners in musical theater, and among the longest
lasting. Most of the great composers and lyricists either hooked up serially
(Rodgers with Hart then Hammerstein) or were, like Cole Porter, professionally
celibate. But from “Flora, the Red Menace” in 1965 through “Steel Pier” in 1997,
and for a few years on either side, Kander and Ebb, who seldom socialized with
each other, wrote almost nothing with anyone else. (Mr. Ebb even declined an
offer to work with Rodgers, post-Hammerstein, on “Rex.”) In all, 11 Kander and
Ebb musicals appeared on Broadway; when Mr. Ebb died, at 76, another four were
waiting in the wings.”
Kander and Ebb’s library of works may not be quite finished. Their final musical Curtains recently opened in Los Angeles to successful reviews. It will be interesting to watch the path of this show, and to hear the melodious music of Mr. Kander yet again.
The ACLU: Defending the Contemporary Hitler
From Jay at Stop the ACLU, their latest Blogburst:
It isn’t surprising that the ACLU were quick to react to Bush’s jaw dropping speech admitting to secret CIA prisons and pushing Congress to pass legislation that would put captured terror suspects under the rule of a military tribunal.
Via ACLU:
America is a nation dedicated to upholding the rule of law. However, President Bush’s draft proposal for military commissions fails to meet the standards recognized by the Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. The court held the President’s initial military commission scheme was illegal because it violated Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the most basic standards regarding treatment of detainees. The new proposal has nearly all of the same problems, and will eventually be found to be illegal. For example, it would allow a person to be convicted based on secret evidence and would allow the use of evidence obtained as the result of horrific abuse.
Of course the ACLU automatically accuses the U.S. of using horrific abuse to obtain our evidence without any evidence whatsoever to back that claim up. You can also bet that if one of their terrorist plaintiffs were to go before our court system they would make the claim that any evidence we have against them was obtained through such procedures and argue it was inadmissible. This is only one of hundreds of reasons that Congress needs to pass the legislation the President is requesting so these terrorist creeps, several of which are in the top Al Qaeda chain of command, need to go before a military tribunal. They are not American citizens and we can not afford the dangers involved in allowing them to be represented before the U.S. courts, in all probability represented by the ACLU.
“The president should have listened to the current Judge Advocates General for the four military services, all of whom have urged close adherence to the court-martial procedures, and all of whom oppose the use of secret evidence and coerced evidence. By contrast, Senators John Warner (R-VA), John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are reportedly following the advice of these top generals and admirals and supporting due process protections that are more in line with the time-tested courts-martial procedures.
“The president also proposes to gut enforceability of the Geneva Conventions by amending the War Crimes Act to completely immunize from prosecution civilians who subjected persons to horrific abuse that may have fallen short of the definition of ‘torture.’ As a result, government officials and civilian contractors who authorized or carried out water boarding, threats of death, and other abuse would get a ‘get out of jail free’ card under the president’s bill. The nation’s soldiers and sailors would remain liable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but civilians would be immune from prosecution under the only statute that applies to many of these acts.
That is simply wrong.
No, what is “simply wrong” is that cowards committed to terrorism and jihad against America that do are not signatories of nor abide by the Geneva Conventions should be afforded the protections of it. The sickening fact that the ACLU would steep low enough to represent an enemy of our nation to sue a military member for doing their job in capturing and interrogating these killers. This is exactly what the President is asking Congress to keep from happening. The President is asking Congress to make it clear what our protectors can and can not do and to protect them from prosecution of being sued by the very scum buckets they protect us from.
“The new Army Field Manual avoids some of the worst problems with earlier drafts and clarifies that those held by the military or at military facilities must be afforded the protections of the Geneva Conventions. However, it then creates loopholes for so-called ‘unlawful combatants’ by depriving them of the same protections–and specifically authorizes holding persons in isolation. And, the new manual does not apply to those held by the CIA. The Bush proposal is lip service unless the executive branch actually holds people accountable for violating it.”
“So called” unlawful combatants? If you are not abiding by the rules of being a lawful combatant then you aren’t one. It is that simple. The ACLU are the ones looking for loop holes in the system, and the very reason they are so up and arms on this is that it closes them up. What the President is asking is for Congress to make the definitions clear. In the Hamdan case, which the ACLU played a major part in, the door was left wide open for Congress to clarify and create legislation making military tribunals the main process for due process dealing with terrorists caught on the battle field. What does the ACLU have against bringing these murderers to justice?
The ACLU Defend the enemy. They have a long history of this one. They defended the P.L.O. in 1985. They defended Quadafi in the 1980’s. And they continue today. They have told Gitmo detainees they have the right to remain silent, as in not talking to interrogators. One issue that really disturbs me is their refusal of funds from organizations such as the United Way that were concerned the money would be used to support terrorism.
In October of 2004, the ACLU turned down $1.15 million in funding from two of its most generous and loyal contributors, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, saying new anti-terrorism restrictions demanded by the institutions make it unable to accept their funds.
“The Ford Foundation now bars recipients of its funds from engaging in any activity that “promotes violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state.”
The Rockefeller Foundation’s provisions state that recipients of its funds may not “directly or indirectly engage in, promote, or support other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist activity.”
They have since then demanded that the government release and make public top secret security information regarding not only the activities of our military, but also that of our intelligence forces. They have also initiated one lawsuit after another against the government to stop the searching of individuals for security purposes in mass transit situations, to stop what they call profiling (we will never see a Protestant white middle-aged woman as a terrorist working with an extremist Islamic organization) by race, sex and religion, and to stop the government from detaining and questioning or interrogating individuals who have ties or contact with known terrorist individuals and organizations.
They tried to kill the Patriot Act because they see the rights of an individual who may or may not be an American citizen as more important than the safety of the nation at large. They want the borders open because they see that as an infringement of the rights of non-Americans to become Americans however they can manage it. They want to have military and intelligence sources, activities, and planning revealed to the public so they can “watch dog” and ensure freedoms of individuals and/or groups are not being compromised, but in doing so will enable those very individuals and/or groups under surveillance the ability to avoid surveillance and possible capture before they do something destructive to American citizens.
When it comes to America’s enemies you can count on the ACLU to be there to defend them.
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