There is a war within the Iraq war. There is a war not only for the hearts and minds of Iraqis, but for the hearts and minds of Americans, as well. President George Bush is an abysmal failure at managing and selling the necessity of this war to the American people. |
If the Bush administration Justice Department were the politically motivated cesspool of corruption portrayed by the Democrats and the liberal media, would a Bush appointed US Attorney pursue such a case? |
Rutgers University and the Rutgers University's women's basketball team were understandably outraged by the comments made about them by Don Imus. However, Rutgers, the state of New Jersey and universities in general have long been complicit in promoting racism and bigotry. |
Have they no shame? Is there not one shred of morality and compassion left among these people?
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If certain organizations (like liberal media watchdog groups) are going to claim that ethnic slurs are hate speech and should be banned from the public square, then they should be consistent about it. So, in the interest of doing what liberal "watchdog" groups have not done - and because I am of Sicilian descent - what follows is a list of some more vitriolic remarks about Italian-Americans. |
Faux journalism: These would have been excellent questions since Jackson rationalized that the difference between his slur against Jews and Imus' remark was that this was part of a consistent pattern by Imus. Since it can be established that Jackson has a consistent pattern of slandering Jews, Meredith might have wanted to point that out. But that might have come too close to genuine journalism. |
Flowers in her hair, and spreading peace: Now, this San Francisco liberal Democrat is showing signs of megalomania. Pelosi believes she can conduct foreign policy. Perhaps she has Nobel Peace Prize envy. |
Rumor has it, however, that Mayor Street has conjured yet another reason for the carnage. He will announce at his next news conference, that he now knows the reason for Philadelphia's spiraling out of control homicide rates.
It is global warming. |
Let's cut right to the chase: In this interview with John McCain, the first question concerned the antipathy the right wing has for his candidacy. |
From bloggers to bureaucrat, complaints are being filed in the wake of Duncan Hunter. Could this be an example of the law of unintended consequences?
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Are Philadelphia lawmakers unable to think outside the box? Gun homicides and assaults on teachers are paradigms of the crisis caused by ineffective city policies which have solutions that sound good, but are not sound. |
Sen. Patrick Leahy is absolutely correct - Americans do expect the government to follow the law. (For example, one thing Americans expect is for senators not to leak intelligence information - which Sen. Leahy did while a member of the Senate Intelligence committee during the 1980s.) We also expect U.S. senators to act responsibly and not behave like a lynch mob, eagerly inciting the public and condemning as outlaws public servants who are doing their best to protect the American people. |
I asked him, " ... was the Iraqi plot to assassinate former President G.W.H. Bush an act of war? If so, would it justify an invasion?" |
What the Democrats did not say was that NIE's are not infallible. Intelligence analysts have been known to make monumental errors.
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Not only is he a Vietnam Veteran, Hunter's son served two tours in Iraq - one in Fallujah. This would make him the first President since FDR whose son served in combat during wartime. * Michael P. Tremoglie is the author of "A Sense of Duty" available at Amazon.com.* |
In an atmosphere of politically correct law enforcement, Border Patrol Agents are coming under fire for use of excessive force. Two seperate incidents provoke questions as to who is being over-zealous, the Border Patrol Agents, or the Justice Department prosecutors? |
Sen. McGovern really needs to review his own 1978 speech calling for military intervention in Cambodia to stop the communist holocaust. (Leftist icon Noam Chomsky vehemently criticized McGovern for this.) McGovern wanted to use military force to stop the very same holocaust he now denies occurred. |
I received information from a local school teacher who told me that college students had been offered "grants" to attend the anti-war rally held Jan. 27. The grants were offered by Campus Progress which, according to their Web site, is "part of the Center for American Progress, (which) works to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses and to empower new progressive leaders nationwide. Obviously, Campus Progress is not against military action entirely. It is not a pacifist or anti-American group. It is, however, a subsidiary of an organization led by and staffed by former Clinton administration personnel. Is this why they offered to finance the participation of college students in the anti-war rally? Did the college students who accepted the grants know this?
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However, the paradigm of how liberals - especially liberal journalists - feel about those in the military was exhibited by William Arkin. He is a "military analyst" for NBC. He also writes a blog for The Washington Post.
It was his blog that revealed the true feelings of liberals about the military. Arkin wrote, "I've been mulling over an NBC Nightly News report from Iraq ... in which a number of soldiers expressed frustration with opposition to war (sic) in the United States. I'm sure the soldiers were expressing a majority opinion common amongst the ranks ... I'm also sure no one in the military leadership or the administration put the soldiers up to expressing their views... . I'm all for everyone expressing their opinion, even those who wear the uniform of the United States Army. But I also hope that military commanders took the soldiers aside after the story and explained to them why it wasn't for them to disapprove of the American people. (emphasis added)
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It is quite evident which political party talks the talk about being tough on crime and which walks the walk. A Republican federal judge in Texas sentences a businessman convicted of fraud to jail for ten times longer than a Democrat federal judge in New York sentences an attorney for helping terrorists who plotted to kill American citizens.
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I did my master's thesis on the correlation between war and crime. My hypothesis was that participation by the United States of America in war, or for that matter any military involvement, will cause an increase in crime. I cited a category of criminogenic theories that would apply to this concept of war as a causation of crime - the sociological theory of crime (i.e. crime caused by social forces).
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An anti-war protester friend of mine once asked me - does it really matter if the anti-war movement is led by communist, pro-Palestinian or anarchist groups. Politics makes strange bedfellows she said. My reply was to ask her if she would participate in a protest led by David Duke, formerly of the Ku Klux Klan. After all, he has a lot in common with United for Peace and Justice. Duke opposes the war in Iraq just as UPJ does. Duke is pro-Palestinian and opposes aid to Israel, just as members of UPJ do. She did not respond.
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Soon-to-be-former House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Congressman Duncan Hunter of California says: "I am strongly Pro-Life. A nation that spends millions trying to recognize life on other planets should be able to recognize life here on Earth. I voted against partial birth abortion and in favor of parental notification laws."
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When it comes to hypocrisy and hatemongering the Democrats really shined in the area of foreign policy. Regardless of one's opinion about the Bush administration's Iraq policy, the duplicity and mendacity of the Democrats' Out of Iraq caucus and the shameful ad hominems by Senator Barbara Boxer and Pelosi - set new standards for appalling. |
This past week the U.S. 9th Circus (uh Circuit) Court of Appeals overturned the 22-year sentence of Ahmed Ressam, a Muslim terrorist, convicted of attempting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport. Meanwhile two Border Patrol agents began serving 11-year and 12-year prison sentences for shooting a Mexican smuggler who illegally crossed the border into Texas with a cargo of contraband marijuana.
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According to a 2002 Senate report, there is a great deal of proof that capital punishment is a deterrent. The report states, "Death penalty opponents attack capital punishment by focusing on the alleged risk that we will execute an innocent person or that we already have executed an innocent person. While there is no credible evidence to support these claims, there is overwhelming evidence that capital punishment saves a substantial number of innocent lives, deterring probably thousands of murders in the United States every year." |
It was amusing to see Pelosi sworn in by Michigan Democrat Congressman John Dingell, who, only a few months ago, said he does not take sides for or against Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that has killed hundreds of Americans.
It was even more amusing to hear Pelosi talk about instituting ethics reform as she backed John Murtha for Majority Leader in Congress. Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam scandal in the early 1980's. |
Eastern football was to college football what the World Football League was to professional football. Then Pitt joined Penn State after a national championship in 1976. During the mid to late '70s those two, as well as Syracuse, Boston College, and occasionally one other sleeper team like Rutgers and Temple, fielded competitive teams.
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| | | | | | | Wesley Autrey stands with his two daughters Syshe, 4, left, and Shuqui, 6, at the Broadway & 145th Street subway stop in New York shortly after he saved the life of a teenager who fell onto tracks in front of an oncoming train. Photo by Nick?Brooks/Newsday/AP. | |
Wesley Autrey is the kind of person we would all aspire to be. During an interview, Autrey attributed his military training as the reason for his actions. Trust me, no amount of training in the world would make one do what he did.
Autrey should receive the notoriety he richly deserves. His name should be mentioned in the news 24/7 for the next month. |
University of South Carolina Criminologist Geoffrey Alpert and two other researchers published a May 2005 study in Criminology that determined, "The results indicate that minority status does influence an officer's decision to form nonbehavioral as opposed to behavioral suspicion, but that minority status does not influence the decision to stop and question suspects." |
Somebody once said people get the government they deserve. It is necessary to explain to voters exactly how liberal judges destroy the Constitution and that there is a direct correlation between their vote and the appointment of liberal judges.
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Apparently, the quantity of shots fired is the main issue according to those who have condemned this incident. Sharpton, who has already appeared on TV talk shows with the victim's fiancée, was quoted by the Washington Post as saying, "Something has to break the cycle where those police that step out of bounds feel they can get away with it." |
Who could possibly object to a resolution condemning a town for naming a street after a cop-killer?
Thirty-one Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives can, that's who. Specifically, those 31 Democrat Congressional Representatives are..." (please read for list?
(sic) of Philadelphia Police Office (sic) Danny Faulkner."
The resolution was introduced by Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick on behalf of himself and Representatives Schwartz, Shuster, Sherwood, Dent, Pitts, Weldon, Holden, Brady, English, Murtha, Platts, Murphy, Pearce, Peterson, Gerlach and Hart. The resolution passed the House by a vote of 368 to 31 with 8 voting present.
Now who could possibly object to a resolution condemning a town for naming a street after a cop-killer?
Thirty-one Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives can, that's who. Specifically, those 31 Democrat Congressional Representatives are:
Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii), William Clay (Mo.), Carolyn Kilpatrick (Mich.), Robert Scott (Va.), Barbara Lee (Calif.), Jose Serrano (N.Y.), Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.), Cynthia McKinney (Ga.), Fortney Hillman Stark Jr. (Calif.), John Conyers (Mich.), Gregory Meeks (N.Y.), Edolphus Towns (N.Y.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.),Tom Udall (N.M.), Danny Davis (Ill.), James Oberstar (Minn.), Nydia Velazquez (N.Y.), Raul Grijalva (Ariz.), Major Owens (N.Y.), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Maurice Hinchey (N.Y.), Ed Pastor (Ariz.), Anthony Weiner (N.Y.), Mike Honda (Calif.), Donald Payne (N.J.), Lynn Woolsey (Calif.), Jesse Jackson Jr. (Ill.), Charles Rangel (N.Y.), Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas) and Bobby Rush (Ill.).
Those voting "present" were also all Democrats. They were:
Sam Farr (Calif.), Al Green (Texas), Luis Gutierrez (Ill.), Sheila Jackson-Lee (Texas), John Lewis (Ga.), George Miller (Calif.), Janice Schakowsky (Ill.) and Melvin Watt (N.C.).
Among the Democrats opposing the resolution condemning the honoring of a cop-killer are members of the Congressional Democratic Party leadership. Some will be powerful committee chairmen when Democrats take control of Congress. Some are whips or deputy whips. Most notable are:
* John Conyers, who wants to impeach President Bush and who will be chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
* Charles Rangel, who will be chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, who keeps insisting on a military draft, who erroneously keeps claiming only poor people serve in the military and who wants to rescind all tax cuts.
* Fortney "Pete" Stark, who will be chairman of the subcommittee on Health and who has been campaigning for years for socialized medicine.
* Maxine Waters, who is a chief deputy whip, who was named one of the most corrupt members of Congress by a watchdog group founded by a former aide to John Conyers and Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer.
* Jesse Jackson, Jr., son of the "civil rights" leader.
* Barbara Lee, co-founder of the Out-of-Iraq caucus.
* Lynn Woolsey, co-founder of the Out-of-Iraq caucus.
Some of the Democrats who voted "Present" (meaning they did not want to vote for the resolution or go on record opposing it) also are House Democratic leaders. They are:
* John Lewis, senior chief deputy whip
* Jan Schakowsky, Deputy Whip.
These will be the Democrats who will hold the reins of power in the House of Representatives now that the American people elected to Congress in 2006 "moderate" or "centrist" Democrats, many of whom were "military veterans" or even more ironically "law enforcement veterans."
These are the people who accuse the Bush administration of conducting an illegal war and violating the Constitution?
These are the people who want to tell us what to do about terrorism?
When have these people ever been concerned about legality, truth, justice, the murder of innocent people, or the Constitution of the United States?
One has to wonder if the people who voted for Democrats this past election knew about what the Wall Street Journal appropriately dubbed the "Cop-Killer Caucus" of the Democratic Party.
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Race hustlers and hatemongers are making the same unsubstantiated claims about this latest tragedy (NYPD shooting) as they always make. They claim blacks are shot and killed by police more than whites. They say when blacks are killed by police, it is the result of institutional racism. These claims are repeated - with a Pavlovian reflex - by a mainstream media hell bent on propagating the myth that every cop is a Bull Connors. There is no critical examination by the media claques to determine if these assertions are true. |
While appearing on a radio show on Nov. 20, ESPN analyst Michael Irvin said, "I don't know if some brother down in that line somewhere, I don't know who saw what or where, his great-great-great-great-grandma ran over in the 'hood or something went down....If great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandma pulled one of them studs up out of the barn, 'Come on in here for a second,' you know, and they go out and work in the yard. You know, back in the day."
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The worst hypocrisy of all, however, is the current leadership of the Democratic Party. They are all, by their own definition, "chickenhawks," who favored sending our brave military personnel to die for their country in the Balkans, Africa, Iraq, Haiti and elsewhere. Here is a partial list...
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In the world of the liberal Democrat, gay marriage is ordained as acceptable. People must show their tolerance by condemning those who oppose it. Polygamy, being a Republican, or being pro-life are different. One can show venomous hatred for them and still be considered tolerant.
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Allyson Schwartz received about 50% more votes than are registered Democrats in the district. If this were the other way around the Democrats would be claiming voter fraud. Thankfully the Republicans did not.)
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You have to give these Democrats credit. All these years they have been so busy defining liberalism as the exact opposite of what they campaigned for this year that they duped everyone into thinking liberalism was something it was not.
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What if you are a second-class citizen in your own country? Would you love it just as much? What if you were not afforded the rights of other citizens? Would you be patriotic? What if you were considered little more than chattel in your country? Would you be willing to defend it? This is the question African-American men have had to confront for years. |
The myth persists that military personnel are losers who cannot make it in polite civilian society, so they enlist. Quite the contrary, many military personnel have valuable skills when they enlisted - skills more formally educated civilians do not have. So the label that that Marines cannot make it in civilian life is not true, and the claim that, if you do not have an education, you get stuck in Iraq is a fallacy.
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One comment on a conservative Web site illustrates this, "This election was a refutation of Bush/Rove Rino policy - they had better think long and hard about supporting policies which are opposite of the core conservatives."
The Democrats understand this, which is why they anointed a retired military veteran to run opposite Curt Weldon for the district outside of Philadelphia. Weldon, is a conservative considered to be corrupt.
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"W" and the Republicans represent the bulwark against the government Leviathan. Unfortunately, unlike Zorro and the caballeros, some Republicans on Capitol Hill strayed.
Perhaps President Bush needs to don mask and cape, ride a horse up the steps of the Capitol building and carve a "W" on the front door. |
The idea that those in the military are losers - that they are in the military because they are not talented enough, or smart enough, or skilled enough to get a real career - is not an original thought of Kerry's. It is part of the liberal Democrat canon.
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The best chance to get a criminal to go to prison was to use the federal court system where there are mandatory minimum sentences. Philadelphia Police Department Chief Inspector Joseph Fox proffered that the thugs who are terrorizing the communities of Philadelphia are fearful of the federal court system and implied that they are rather dismissive of the local court system, where conviction and punishment is a chimera.
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After 12 years of being the minority party, Democrats now seem to have a successful formula for being elected to the majority. What is this magic formula? They are pretending to be Republicans! |
After spending an hour interviewing Cummings about a variety of issues, I got the impression that, if elected, he will not continue moving along with the inertia of Philadelphia politics. He has ideas that are new or, in some cases, represent a different way of thinking for Philadelphia politicians.
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I must confess that I did not believe Raj Bhakta was a serious candidate for Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District. I thought the only reason he was the Republican candidate was for much the same reason Arianna Huffington was a candidate for governor of California - publicity. However, after speaking with him, I learned my preconceived notions were incorrect.
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It seems Democrats are very forgiving and nonjudgmental of the scandals of their own. However, they act like a lynch mob when it comes to their political enemies. Democrats are the vilest of hypocrites in that they do not even bother to hide their hypocrisy. They think they can fool all the people all the time.
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One is the Hamas Covenant, which states Hamas' raison d'etre. It says that because we are allied with Israel and Israel is an evil, illegitimate nation that must be annihilated, the United States of America must be annihilated as well.
The second is a letter from Osama bin Laden.
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These are the people the Democrats are saying are experts who conclusively refute the Bush administration's policies in Iraq and the war on terror? These duplicitous and incompetent people are who we are supposed to regard as authorities? People like ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson who unequivocally stated - two months before 9/11 - that bin Laden is not a threat? Or Marine General Anthony Zinni who said in 2000 Iraq has WMDs, yet in 2003 and 2006 said, when he was looking at the intel about it in 2000, Iraq never had WMDs?
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The Democrats went from the party that cut funding for the military and for intelligence operations to now trying to be the biggest proponents of them. Their current election year strategy included recruiting military veterans as window dressing to show how pro-national security they are. Simply put, the Democrats strategy is to make the voters believe they are something they are not.
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The attack on George H.W. Bush's war record, during the 1992 campaign, by Democrats was more savage. Sidney Blumenthal, who would later work for Clinton's White House, wrote an article about Bush's World War II service and his awarding of the Distinguished Flying Cross, for the October 12, 1992 edition of the New Republic. The piece questioned whether Bush may have bailed out of his plane too quickly and left his mates to die. So Democrats have no problem impugning a military veterans' war service or questioning whether a veteran deserved his hero status. Talk about "Swiftboating?" Democrats invented it.
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All liberal Democrats seem to know how to do is make false accusations, act as judge jury and executioner, deny their political opponents civil rights, and engage in ruthless actions to destroy anyone who does not think as they do.
Are these the type of people Americans want to control congress?
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They say Republicans are "chickenhawks" because the members of the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress who support the war did not serve their country during wartime. However, as is usually the case with liberal Democrats, this is a distortion of the truth.
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The year 1979 was a catalytic year for the people of the United States of America.
The year began with the formation of an Islamic theocracy. On February 11, 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran.
On March 28, the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, experienced a partial meltdown of its reactor core. This made us more dependent on foreign oil.
The next sea change of 1979 occurred on July 16, 1979. Saddam Hussein became the dictator of Iraq. |
Listed here are some of the more notable false accusations made against the Bush administration along with the names of notable proponents - in parentheses - and the facts. |
It is ironic that some were more concerned about the anti-semitic remarks made by a drunken actor to a police officer while being arrested for a DUI, than they are about sober comments by a Congressman who refuses to take sides in a dispute between a terrorist organization that has murdered Americans, and an ally of the United States.
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On July 20, the House of Representatives passed Resolution 921 which condemned "the recent attacks against the State of Israel, holding terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for such attacks, supporting Israel's right to defend itself, and for other purposes."
The resolution passed 410 to 8. Four representatives voted present - essentially abstaining - and ten did not vote.
There are those in American politics, primarily liberal Democrats, who do not think that there is a difference between Israel's actions and the actions of Hezbollah. Indeed, they make excuses for Hezbollah and Muslim terrorists.
Why? Who knows.
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Never mind the reams of evidence that state that more guns owned by honest citizens deter crime, the Street administration follows the failed liberal Democrat doctrine to reduce crime - ban guns. Never mind that the perpetrators are mostly those with criminal records who are not in jail as they should be because the court system in Philadelphia is user friendly for violent criminals. |
There is no question the government's secret program of monitoring international financial transactions is an invaluable tool to deny financial resources to the terrorists. A July 2005 letter written by Al-Qaida's number two Ayman al-Zawahri, to the recently-killed Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, contained a request for funds. Zawahri complained his funding avenues have been cut.
The liberal main-stream media has once again displayed their arrogance, their ignorance, and their hypocrisy. I once wrote that liberals are the self-righteous, led by the self-serving, for the benefit of the self-interested. |
However, when the orchestra played "God Bless America," the entire audience stood en masse, waved small American flags and enthusiastically sang along with the orchestra. Brother, if that don't send a chill up your spine, then you ain't human.
This was Philadelphia, the place where one of the greatest documents in human history was created, on the 230th anniversary of its adoption by men who risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
They would be proud of what they accomplished. People from all over the world came to America's birthplace to celebrate America's birthday. What other evidence is needed of what America represents. |
This is the difficulty with the debate about Iraq. The American public, because of an administration that is not publicizing the facts and some politically partisan journalism, is not being furnished with the information necessary to form an opinion.
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Kim Gandy president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) said to The New York Times, "It's disappointing that the Phillies didn't consider Brett Myers' status as a role model when they decided to play him in this game ...It sends such a bad message to kids who watch sports. When someone who has just been arrested for assault is the starting pitcher, it seems like there are no consequences."
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Tom Rolland, Republican candidate for Pennsylvania's 194th legislative district is an African-American, a Christian and a social studies teacher at Girard College. I recently interviewed Rolland to learn a little more about his political philosophy and to clarify his proposed policies. |
I would vote for an increase in the state sales tax and a real reduction in property tax. You cannot have a tax plan voted on, like Manderino did, that depends solely on gaming proceeds. They have no idea how much money will be made, it is all a best guess estimate. |
It proves that those who oppose the war are lying or ignorant when they say Iraqi military forces, police and government officials are cowardly, inept, and do not welcome the coalition forces. |
This is baffling. The fact that Republicans are the majority political party is an extraordinary accomplishment when one considers that the opinion forming institutions in this country - the news media, the entertainment industry, and the education establishment - are clearly liberal and sympathetic to Democrats. |
Sixty years ago, this was exactly situation in which our nation, the United States of America, found itself. Nations like the Soviet Union, Britain, Germany, Japan and China were near ruin. Their populations were demoralized, their military forces and arsenals depleted. Their cities and towns were demolished. We could easily have conquered the world.
If we Americans were the imperialists "peace" proponents say we are, we would have.
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I have my own experiences as a cop in a high crime district and the experiences of a friend of mine who received a Purple Heart in Vietnam to which to refer. We had a conversation once, some of which I used in my novel Sense of Duty, about the differences between his experiences as a soldier in South Vietnam and mine as a cop in Southwest Philadelphia. We concluded that the distinction was he was surrounded by savagery and violence most of the time - while being far away from home. I experienced savagery and violence only occasionally - while being close to home.
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It is easy to be patriotic when you have benefited from everything your country has to offer. It is easy to love your country when your country has made you wealthy and successful. It is easy to say you want to defend your country and its way of life when you are living the good life.
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Philadelphia's Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson is an apostle of this politically correct law enforcement philosophy. He too is more concerned about eliminating guns than eliminating criminals.
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