President Bush told the truth yesterday when he bluntly stated that trying to negotiate with terrorists is akin to the appeasement policies of the 1930's. Barack Obama and the Democrat leadership got their panties in a knot over Bush's remarks, but Bush never used the words "Democrat" or "Obama" in his speech. Sister Toldjah has the best blogger response; she lists a multitude of examples where Democrats have, in fact, denounced the United States or attempted to interfere with US policy while on foreign soil. She also has a good follow-up to the story.
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A Kuwaiti freed from Guantanamo in 2005 has carried out a suicide attack in Iraq. This is the first confirmed incident of a former Guantanamo prisoner actually carrying out an attack, but God only knows how many former prisoners have rejoined the terrorist ranks.
You should read this too: A Day In The Life of a Guantanamo Guard. Should the Guantanamo prisoners be held liable for attacking their guards with physical assaults (including beatings and attacks with vomit, feces, and urine) and violent verbal threats?
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(Image from No Looking Backwards )
House Democrats have again defeated a measure that would open up a small area of ANWR for oil exploration. But they did decide to stop adding oil to the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit says that the Democrats' uniform position against oil and gas exploration, nuclear power plant construction, and oil refinery construction could be the number one issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. He may be right; currently, the economy is holding its own.
This California editorial page chides the global warming alarmists who would have industrialized nations so drastically reduce carbon emissions that an economic disaster would result. They argue that nations with strong economies are in a better position to spend money on environmental research and energy-saving technologies. I think they are right.
Here is another article from the Canada Free Press that discusses much of the discredited science that is still being used to hype man-made global warming theories.
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Barack Obama is starting a press campaign to appeal directly to Evangelical Christians. Obama markets himself as a "committed Christian." Um ... does this mean "theocracy" if he is elected?
Charismatic/Pentecostal mega-church pastor and End Times prophet John Hagee has apologized for various remarks made over the years that have angered Catholics. Hagee has endorsed John McCain for president, but McCain has never attended Hagee's church or regularly consulted Hagee on spiritual matters.
John McCain might be thinking about using a Mike Huckabee endorsement to woo Evangelical voters. But I think a McCain-Huckabee ticket would be a disaster. It seems that some of Huckabee's supporters think that an Obama presidency would be punishment from God for not electing an Evangelical president. (shudder)
Last week, a Philadelphia bank robbery perpetrated by three men resulted in the death of a police officer and one of the robbers. The robber who died, Howard Cain, was a Muslim. He and his cohorts disguised themselves as Muslim women in order to commit the robbery. But -- his mosque has refused to bury him. One of the directors of the mosque said, "We don't want one slight scintilla hinting that we condone his behavior." I only wish more Muslims were brave enough to stand up to those who commit crimes in the name of Islam.
Mike,
Good remarks on deadly bank robbery, I concur with your opinion.
You may want pull up the above website; tribute to murdered Police Officer.
Mike
Posted by: mike alerich | May 17, 2008 at 02:26 PM