Our friend Matt Margolis of Blogs For Bush explains:

Tom DeLay was on the Today Show this morning and he nailed Matt Lauer for his blatant double-standard on covering corruption. In the exchange, Tom DeLay noted, “There are scandals that need to be addressed. Republicans address them, Democrats re-elect them.”

The evidence is pretty darn clear.

Former Congressman Gerry Studds (D-MA) had sexual affair with a underage male page, and was re-elected six times until he retired.
Former Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-IL) indicted on statutory rape and child pornography charges in the summer of 1994 and was reelected that November with 90% of the vote. Bill Clinton commuted his sentence during his 11th hour pardon-spree in January 2001.
Some of you hypocritical liberals may say that those are “old stories.” So, why don’t I just mention a few Democrats who were reelected last yet despite being under a dark ethical cloud:

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) is the target of a federal investigation, was forced (by Republicans) to step down from the ethics committee last year but was reelected in November.

Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) was the target of a 2-year federal bribery investigation, had $90,000 in bribe money found in his freezer, and was still reelected last November.

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) was involved in the ABSCAM scandal, also apparently steered millions in federal funding to companies that were clients of his brother’s lobbying firm. He was also reelected in November.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) found guilty in civil court of leaking an illegally recorded phone conversation to the media in March 2006. He too, was reelected last November.

Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), linked to countless scandals, was reelected last November.

Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) linked to countless scandals, was reelected last November.

Delay’s right and so is Matt. Republicans call for the ouster of any of their corrupt members. Dems promote em right to the top.

Shame on your Matt for not mentioning our drunken Senator Kennedy who was elected with 70% of the vote only months after murdering his secretary in the Nantucket Sound.

And of course Matt leaves out the most corrupt one of them all “Sir Edmund” Hillary Clinton and her husband Bubba who are at the top of the Democrat presidential polls currently. (In second place incidentally, is the guy who thinks we should engage throat cutting anti-Semitic Jihadist “leaders” around the world in “diplomacy.” And the guy in third doesn’t believe we are actually at “war”- referring to it as a “bumper sticker.”) and both have some pretty significant integrity issues.

Since Democrats have lost the intellectual debate in America, their strategy isn’t to have an honest debate about America’s most pressing concerns- the vast majority of which were created by Dems (Social Security, Govt Run Education, Govt healthcare programs, etc…) That’s why they refuse to go on Fox and debate and field any challenging questions. They can’t. They are all for “debate” unless they actually have to- well- uh- debate. Their idea of a “debate” is to go on Hardball or Keith Oberman.

No their strategy is to do to Repubicans what they think they were successful in doing in 06′ which is to accuse Republicans of being “corrupt” and “hypocritical” etc (remember Mark Foley) to suppress values voters support on election day. That is why you are hearing nothing on CBS Evening News about the many successes in Iraq and are instead deluged nightly with reports from the salivating Katie Couric regarding whether the Craig Scandal will hurt Republicans with “values voters” in 08′. These people are so transparent- like used car salesmen. No wonder they can’t win a national election.

They know that they can not beat Republicans in a national election if Republican’s core constituency (Evangelical Christians- otherwise known euphemistically as “values voters”) come out by the millions flocking to the polls in droves. So Hillary and Barak who support partial birth abortion are running around the country pretending to be devout Christians talking about how vital their “faith” is to them etc..and will now talk about how Republicans are all corrupt hypocrites who don’t really represent their values etc… That’s the Dem’s plan-plain and simple.

The only way Dems have been able to win a majority of the vote which they have not been able to do since Jimmy Carter is through deception- disguising their values and beliefs and conning Americans into believing that they aren’t socialists-which of course they are. The only guy with guts enough to call himself one is Bernie Sanders. The rest of them share his fundamental ideology and vote just like he does- but are just too gutless to be honest about what specfic political philosophy to which they subscribe.

And you know if it were a Democrat Senator who was supposedly “gay” who approached another man in a bathroom, you better believe Dems would be defending him to the hilt and accusing any Republican who was critical of him in any way of being an intolerant Christian Conservative homophobe. Bet on it. What blatant hypocrites these treacherous Democrats are.

These pro abortion, pro same sex marriage, pro gun control, pro illegal immigration, pro open borders, pro socialist healthcare, anti school choice, pro-(socialist) Social Security, anti-military, anti-American, pro big government pork/tax and spend Socialist Democrats will be trying to convince Americans that they represent “average working Americans” and the “poor and downtrodden,” “Americans of faith” etc…and they will win unless Republicans run a presidential candidate who is an across the board Reagan style Conservative who actually does represent the core values and beliefs of mainstream Americans. But that is another post for another time.

My friend Daniel Bell who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanastan in the Special Ops and who is the head of the College Republicans for Veteran’s Affairs conducted the interview. I give him credit for staying calm when conversing with these “anti-war” demonstrators.

Prairie Junior High School’s required reading list for rising 8th graders gave children six books to choose from over the summer. Parents have complained that three of the six books contain adult content which is highly age-inappropriate. Those complaints, however, have fallen on deaf ears. At a recent school board meeting, school board members said they intend to continue assigning the books. The following are excerpts from just a handful of the many salacious passages found in one of the books, Fat Kid Rules the World, by K. L. Going:

·God, I want to touch her. Her legs are full. … If I could just reach under that skirt. … (p. 6)

·No one beats me or f—s me without my permission. (p. 11)

·F—k off, morons. (p. 47)

·I swear I’ll tear your g—d*mn, f—ing b*lls off…(p. 57)

·“She’d f—k you if you stay in the band,” he says (p. 141)

·…and now he has promised me that a forty-something woman will sleep with me if I’m the drummer (p. 142)

Classy stuff, Prairie Junior High. Is that how you talk in front of your kids, Principal Gwaltney?

And what did the superintendant have to say when questioned?

I telephoned Robert Berger, superintendent of schools for District 126, fully expecting him to assure me that this foolishness would be remedied. But instead, his response was defiant, defensive and arrogant.

Berger refused to answer me when I asked him several times if District 126 believed that such mature content was appropriate for children. (I wonder; if it’s so appropriate, then why wouldn’t he defend it?)

I asked Berger if one could infer that the district found the material appropriate since it was assigned to children. He quipped, “Infer whatever you want to.”

Here is the entire article here

In one of my posts from yesterday I discussed how the great battle in America today centers on values and whose values will under gird our Nation- the religion of the moral relativist Humanists (primarly on the Left) or Judeo-Christianity on which this nation was founded. Will books like this become the norm for 12 year olds? Or will the parents reject this blatant peddling of smut which is nothing less than a form of mind molestation? And people wonder why parents yank their kids out of these government run indoctrination camps fast enough?

Stop Digging

Photo: The Borg

A River in Egypt

Photo: Richard Seaman

We are winning this war.

This according to embedded writer Carter Andress, CEO and principal owner of American-Iraqi Solutions Group, is author of “Contractor Combatants: Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist.” Who says in his article “This Isn’t Civil War” in today’s Wall St. Journal

I write those words from my desk in the Red Zone in downtown Baghdad as hundreds of Iraqis working with my company — Shia and Sunni, Arab and Kurd — execute security, construction and logistics missions throughout the capital and Sunni Triangle. We have been here now over three years.

American-Iraqi Solutions Group, which I helped co-found in March 2004, has been intimately involved with creating the new Iraqi security services. Our principal business as a U.S. Department of Defense contractor is to build bases for the Iraqi army and police and then supply them with water, food, fuel and maintenance services. We are on the cutting edge of the exit strategy for the U.S. military: Stand up an effective Iraqi security structure and then we can bring our troops home.

We are not out of the Iraqi desert yet. But the primary problems we now face on the ground are controllable, given a strong American military presence through 2008. These problems include the involvement of Iran in fueling Shia militancy, the British failure to uphold their security obligations in the south and the tumultuous nature of a new democracy.

With regards claims of an ongoing “civil war” in Iraq:

I see no civil war between the Shias and Sunnis as I travel practically every day on the roads of Iraq with my Arab and Kurdish security team. The potential for renewed internecine warfare faded earlier this year, when al Qaeda failed to reignite the waning sectarian struggle the second time around with another attack on the Golden Mosque in Samarra.

On the Democrat’s call for retreat and defeat:

Let us, the American people, not be terrorized into retreating before our enemy — al Qaeda — just when they have begun to stand alone, stripped of allies, in a country beginning to enjoy the fruits of a democracy we have sacrificed much blood to help create.

If only the Defeaticrats would get that message.

My friend David Limbaugh hits the nail on the head with his latest article entitled “Secularists Often Behave As They Claim Christians Do.”

The secularists demanding the removal of specks from Christians’ eyes are oblivious to the planks in their own. Their paranoid predispositions about Christians lead them to the very type of oppressive behavior they wrongly ascribe to Christians. If anyone is guilty of wanting to foreclose debate and impose their values on others, it is these hyperventilating secularists.

They are the ones who have decreed there’s a consensus on global warming and attempted to stigmatize dissenters as paid mouthpieces for “evil” energy companies. With their absence of self-reflection it must never occur to them that in their professed monopoly on “science,” they squarely violate the fundamentals of the scientific method by forbidding debate and insulating their theories from scientific scrutiny.

They malign intelligent design proponents for daring to subject their dogma — and distortions — to the rigorous re-examination scientific methodology requires.

They seek to remove God from the Pledge of Allegiance, though one poll reveals that only 14 percent of Americans agree with them.

They brand as bigots opponents of the societal sanctioning of homosexual marriage. Some even pronounce certain scriptural passages on homosexuality “hate speech” that leads to violence, as if to disapprove of any behavior is to hate it or its practitioners and leads to violence against them.

Likewise, many pro-abortionists speciously argue that pro-life advocacy leads to violence against women — never mind the violence against the unborn.

The secular left condemns traditionalists for “legislating morality” and invading our bedrooms. Their quasi-religious fervor apparently blinds them to their efforts to wield governmental power to impose their own values, whether on homosexual marriage, abortion, wealth redistribution or socialized medicine.

click for entire article here

As discussed on these pages previously, the religion of the Left is Humanism. It is a Supreme Court recognized tax payer exempt religion that has, for the past 40 years, been establishing a quasi-(secular) Humanist theocracy in America by pushing Christianity out of virtually every corner of the public square and replacing it with their own religion of Humanism- the anti-theistic belief that man is God. Its primary tenets include Darwinian evolution, moral relativism, human induced global warming, multiculturalism, abortion on demand, redistribution of wealth (communism), and the redefinition of the family (i.e. normalizing homosexual marriage and homosexuality in general). They have been very successful instituting many of these tenets via activist courts, public schools (NEA), the media, entertainment industries, and academia. They have largely used the Soviet doctrine of the “separation of church and state” to con Americans into compartmentalizing their Christian faith while they have been simultaneously imposing their own religion of Humanism on society at large. It bears repeating a quote from C.F. Potter, founder of the NY Humanist Society regarding using the public schools to indoctrinate children from his book “Humanism: a New Religion”:

Education is a most powerful ally of Humanism & every American school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, & teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of a five-day program of Humanistic religion teaching? So very Humanistic is modern education that no religion has a future unless it be Humanism. The religion of tomorrow in America & all the world may not be in all respects identical with the religious Humanism we are advocating in this book, but it will be mightily like it & of the same spirit.”

Now I, like David, don’t blame the Humanists for advocating and advancing their core religious beliefs and values (although I oppose the furtive way they go about it). But I think it bears recognizing that the moral relativism of Humanism which dominates much of Europe will not save Western Civilization from the Jihadists who seek to impose Sharia law throughout the world and establish a global caliphate. Only those who adhere to Judeo-Christian values based on absolute truth- God’s Truth- and a belief that our rights emenate directly from God (the God of the Bible- the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) and that we have a fundamental God given right to freely excercise our religious beliefs- will protect and defend Western Civilization from extinction.

That’s right. It will be up to spirit filled Bible believing Christians to protect and defend Western Civilization.
The post modernist Secular Humanists throughout Europe are laying down. They have virtually given up the fight and have submitted to the Islamists. After all, Humanists don’t believe in God or eternal life (i.e. Heaven) so their embrace of Nihilism comes very easy to them. That’s why Europe is often referred to as Eurabia and London as “Londonistan.”

Somebody’s values will always predominate a society. The main question we face in America, it seems to me is, which values will predominate ours? The answer to that question, I believe, will largely determine whether we will be able to preserve America and Western Civilization in general. And I am sorry, but if there are some in our country who are not willing to fight those who seek to destroy our great nation and subjugate us under totalitarian Islamic Law, they should shut up and get out of the way and let those who think America is worth preserving do it ourselves. I would rather die than live under Sharia law. And folks, don’t think it can’t happen here in America. It’s all about values and whether we will we be willing to sacrifice our lives to preserve them for our children. That is the great calling of our generation. And it won’t happen by burrying our proverbial heads in the sand and calling Islam a “religion of peace” and installing foot baths for Muslims on college campuses. That I can assure you.

Stevie Ray Vaughn
October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990

Upon hearing about the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee: “his resignation is long overdue”

Bwaaaahhhhhhh. Good one senator. Good one.

Time Magazine
Summer, 1969

Bronze Star recipient Pete Hegseth, Executive Director and co-founder of Vets for Freedom joined me tonight, along with Bruce McQuain from QandO.

Vets for Freedom mission is to educate the American public about the importance of achieving success in these conflicts by applying our first-hand knowledge to issues of American strategy and tactics—namely “the surge” in Iraq. We support policymakers from both sides of the aisle who have stood behind our great generation of American warriors on the battlefield, and who have put long-term national security before short-term partisan political gain.

All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.

What is Pundit Review Radio?

Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.

Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us for another edition of Someone You Should Know, the untold, inspirations true stories of the men and women fighting for us around the world. The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Thanks to Matt, Bruce is now on board and we are lucky to have him as part of the show.

From Bruce’s Project Hero series,

The story of Cpl. Dale A. Burger Jr is a story of duty, honor and sacrifice. A young leader so concerned with his men he refused to stay out of combat even though wounded, and ended up making the ultimate sacrifice in support of other Marines.

All of our interviews are also available for download at iTunes and Podcast Alley via the Pundit Review Radio Podcast.

What is Pundit Review Radio?

Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin and Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10 pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.