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Ericka Andersen’s Analysis of Hillary Reveals ‘Clinical Narcissism’ discusses “The Extreme Makeover of Hillary Rodham Clinton,” a new book by Bay Buchanan that offers examples “of Hillary’s instability, from her incoherent speeches as both student and First Lady, to her casual disregard for the law, to her ever-changing opinion on the Iraq war.” These traits, Buchanan contends, “make Hillary overly dependent on gurus and outside experts, with no internal compass to guide her — or the country.”

The piece is an interesting read and successfully articulates the many vague, gut feelings I have about her into clearly defined flaws in her character.

Of course, we all have character flaws- but the kinds Hillary has significantly impacts her ability to successfully lead.

National Review Online brings up an important point in this piece about the war in Iraq: if Congress got its way and funded the war for only two months Al Qaeda would have a very strong incentive to pour as much effort and resources into their terror campaign as possible. In effect, this would give not only an incomplete but incorrect picture of the true situation.

Telling your enemies when you are going to quit is no way to win a war. Admitting my lack of military experience, I still can scarcely believe that there is any more fundamental a truth to waging war than this simple fact.

Benchmarks and rewards for progress towards those benchmarks are fine- but threats to leave and allow Iraq to descend into genocide are not.

Amazing! The one thing the Democrats should actually do since they lamentably took control of Congress – which is one thing they said they would do – is pass stringent lobbying reforms. But no- we learn in this ABC News report that they have decided they like what the lobbyists do for them and so aren’t going to do anything about the rampant corruption and buying of favors. Though the Democrats are pretty much wrong on every single thing they want to do, this was actually one good idea that they had. Too bad they are hypocrites. Of course, don’t think I’m giving Republicans a free pass. They are just as guilty here. Since they were too weak to resist the charms of lobbyists they got burned (though not burned nearly bad enough).

Does this not enrage you that your tax dollars go to pork projects that benefit lobbyists who have essentially bought that pork from our elected representatives with favors, trips, parties, tickets, and what have you?

If not, it should.

According to this piece from WDBJ7, a former youth coach and ACLU leader has been indicted on child porn charges.

Maybe one day Americans will wake up to the dangers of allowing the ACLU to slither into and out of our courts. Of course, there are other perverts who seek child pornography that have nothing to do with the ACLU. But I can’t help but make the connection in my mind from this to the ACLU’s defense of the “rights” of NAMBLA.

This National Journal piece discusses the relationships between President George W. Bush and Nancy Pelosi. How could the two be expected to work well together? In brief, the two are so radically different that I’m amazed they are not constantly and publicly at each others throats.

The differences:

How could these two work well together, much less like each other?

In this piece, Democrats Subverting US Global Strategy, Douglas Hanson reveals the Democrats planned cuts to defense spending. And “subverting” is the right term. I don’t know how any clear-thinking individual could cut funds to critical defensive and offensive military projects- especially missile defense. But they are. If they want to cut spending, why not cut Social Security, cut Welfare, cut congressional salaries, cut pork (especially pork), and any number of other projects that do not directly benefit everyone like military defense does.

Our military has to be powerful enough to defend us. After all, Welfare does you no good if you are dead.

While surrender is not an option, Mort Kondracke’s “Plan B” may be the way to go. As he points out:

“Ever since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Sunnis - representing 20 percent of the population - have been the core of armed resistance to the U.S. and the Iraqi government. The insurgency consists mainly of ex-Saddam supporters and Sunni nationalists, both eager to return to power, and of jihadists anxious to sow chaos, humiliate the United States and create a safe zone for al-Qaida operations throughout the Middle East.”

Kondracke suggests backing the Shiites and Kurds who make up 60% and 20% of Iraq’s population, respectively. The problem is that this will likely lead to ethnic cleansing. Saddam himself was a Sunni - as were his supporters – but ethnic cleansing is not an option. I don’t care what method is used to wipe out the terrorist insurgents but innocent Sunnis cannot be tortured and killed. There are no guarantees in war, but if US forces can somehow protect innocent Sunnis then Kondracke’s plan may bring victory faster, and with less US casualties, than the current strategy.

It is not the best option, but it may be the winning option.

John Stossel’s The Public Trough Is Bigger Than Ever should serve as a warning to us all; but it won’t. Noting that 52.6% of Americans feed “substantially at the public trough,” one wonders how much longer this situation can continue. In 1950, “only” 28% of Americans lived off their fellow human beings labor.

Government grew under Clinton, has grown under Bush, and will grow under whoever is Bush’s successor. That’s what government does- grow. And since it produces nothing of its own to meet promises it makes that it has no authority in the Constitution to make, it takes its citizen’s money to fuel this growth. The question is, as put by Stossel, “productive Americans have forged ahead despite a constellation of transfer programs, but how long will they continue to do so?”

How long indeed? As Stossel points out, despite Europe’s stagnant economies, high unemployment, and government promises that exceed their ability to meet those promises we’ve still got mindless supports of big government. These people simply refuse to understand that those who can work but do not should be allowed to starve.

I used to dread the day that I know is coming- when Social Security collapses and Medicare becomes a thing of the past - as our government promises more to than it is able to take from its citizens. A lot of people will suffer. They will loose their homes. They will starve. They will wonder why this is happening to them. It will be a tragedy.

But the real tragedy will be their own failure to have depended upon themselves and planned ahead. It will still be sad, despite the fact that it is their fault. But as sad as that day will be I no longer dread it. In fact, I’m looking forward to it. Not for the suffering- which will truly be lamentable and heartbreaking – but for the moment that Americans learn that liberal fantasies of a utopia are no match for the realities of hard work and individual responsibility. It will be the final, and ultimate, repudiation of all the liberal fallacies inflicted upon us by a gigantic government.

Let the troops go without but increase minimum wage. Punish successful people and give to the lazy. Vehemently fight the president and all but ignore terrorists. Yes indeed, Democrats certainly have odd ideas. But none odder than this from The Defenseless Democrats in Investor’s Business Daily where they want to shift intelligence funds away from critical missile defense research to study, of all things, climate change.

Cataclysmic climate change is an inconvenient lie- for anybody with any sense in their heads. Nobody seems to remember the “ice age” scare of the 1970’s. Maybe that’s because it turned out to be a myth. Just like the environmentalist’s latest scare tactic: Global Warming. There is no evidence in support of this false religion – which is how adherents seem to view the movement – where Al Gore is the savior and America (as usual) is the evil Satan figure.

But here is a real threat- nuclear armed terrorists. You want to see real warming? How about New York vaporized off the face of the earth? Would that be hot enough for you? It’s more likely now that the reckless Democrats cut $764 million from the missile-defense budget. They also cut $400 million from the Airborne Laser Program. This system can destroy enemy missiles in their “boost phase” by using a laser cannon mounted onto a modified Boeing 747. Iran and North Korea must be thrilled. If they could vote here it would surely be for the Democrats.

Clearly, Democrats can’t be trusted with power because they use that power to make our country weaker. As the piece points out, Joe Biden, Jack Reed, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer and Carl Levin are all guilty parties in this plot to weaken America. But the laurels for most harmful to Americas interests and security goes to John Kerry who has voted against missile defense programs more than 50 times! How much more evidence do you need to show you that you must not vote for these people???

In my latest column I ask where the true leaders are these days. Obviously, I note that you can skip the ranks of the Democratic Party if you want to find any.

According to TheHill.com, Nancy Pelosi (Liberal, CA) is threatening sue President Bush (Good Guy, TX) if he attempts to defend presidential powers from congressional encroachment through a signing statement. This signing statement is a way Bush can sidestep the more foolish and dangerous segments that the Democrats forced into the Iraq war spending bill.

If Pelosi does sue, the case must go all the way to the Supreme Court where, thankfully, the majority has tilted away from the dark liberal tendencies that once controlled the highest court in the land to the enlightened, conservative side of the spectrum. Though one never knows, I believe the court under its current makeup would grasp the importance of the situation and rule in favor of Bush.

Either way, Pelosi is becoming more outlandish and dangerous. Conservatives must remove her from power. The best course of action is to throw her in jail for treason. In her recent trip to Damascus, she clearly violated the Constitutional provision that gives the president the authority to conduct foreign affairs. That’s what the separation of powers specified by the Constitution is all about. Bush has the State Department and the Secretary of State for such missions; Pelosi has no place here whatsoever. Further, the U.S. Supreme Court has previously established that Congress cannot “intrude” into the president’s responsibility of negotiating with foreign powers. Since she violated the Constitution, a felony offense, why is Pelosi freely walking about the streets today? Put her on trial now- there is plenty of evidence to convict and remove this troublesome San Francisco liberal from power. After all, as many liberals cry impeachment for both Bush and Chaney, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

In this World Net Daily piece we learn that radical homosexuals and their supporters seek to remove references to “mom” and “dad” in public schools because it may “reflect adversely” on deviant homosexual activities. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similarly wicked bill last year but California lawmakers are at it again to force their views on everybody else.

This has to stop. Homosexuality is wrong- just as adultery is wrong, just as stealing is wrong, just as child abuse is wrong, just as pedophilia is wrong. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God so I can’t say I’m any better or worse than anybody else. But I don’t try to spin what I do wrong into a positive light. I’m very, very greedy for example. I feel as if I can’t be generous because of how much of my salary government steals from me, but that’s another matter. Back to the point- extreme greed is not right. It is a sin. I know that and I struggle with it. But you don’t see me in anyone’s face saying “you need to accept my greed, understand it, and allow me to teach it as okay in public schools.”

If you are homosexual then seek help for your problem- just as I would advise a serial adulterer to seek help for their problem. But don’t try to force it into my face. When you do that you only make me and other heterosexuals - who understand you have a problem and so might otherwise be sympathetic to you – angry and feel threatened. That is where much of the perceived hatred for homosexuals comes from. But I don’t hate you or anybody else. I don’t want to see you hurt or anybody else hurt. So it is not your sin itself that makes us indignant. It is the openly flaunting of your homosexuality and trying to tell us and our children that it is okay and perfectly normal. It is not. Keep your problem to yourself just like most everybody else keeps their problems to themselves. We’ll all get along better that way because the people that I know who love their kids will not – I repeat will not – tolerate your agenda in the classroom.

Dennis Prager hits the nail on the head again in his A Letter to Our Soldiers in Iraq. He correctly points out that there is good and evil in the world and that so many here in America fail to understand this fact. Prager also correctly identifies their mission as good and the enemy they fight as evil.

The most powerful passage in the column follows.

“You know that there is real good and real evil in the world. You have seen both more than any of us at home will probably see in a lifetime. Why so many in America and the West generally no longer believe that there is good and evil, let alone in the importance of having good vanquish evil, is a subject for a book. But that is the problem here. So when, God willing, you return healthy and victorious, you will have another battle to wage — on behalf of moral clarity. In that regard we are losing our way. Millions of our fellow Americans — often the best educated — do not understand that those who send young people to blow up weddings, kindergartens, market places and college libraries in the promise of a paradise filled with young women are the Nazis of our time.”

This is very true- and unlike the “Greatest Generation,” who understood that wars have to be both fought and won, many of today’s Americans lack that moral clarity. As Prager notes, that problem is here- and it is a battle we will have to fight and win. If we fail, we risk more than the loss of strong morals alone. We will also loose our very nation because it will be paralyzed into inaction, unable to even defend itself while held in the grip of moral uncertainty.

In Dennis Prager’s “Even If Entering Iraq Was Wrong, Leaving Is Not Right,” the author lays out the case that liberals, in their perhaps well-meaning but ultimately deranged and misguided thought-processes, do not ask what will happen in Iraq if we leave. They only believe it was a mistake to begin the war and so, regardless of the consequences, we’ve got to leave Iraq.

First, one must understand that their initial premise- that we should not have rescued the Iraqis from a brutal, vial, and dark monster – is wrong. Secondly, and logically, that leaving before the job is done would likely only result in if not the rise of another brutal, vial, and dark monster then at least the horrors of genocide- which is just as bad.

Since Americas self interest seems to be of no importance to liberals then they - who claim to care so much about everybody else in their guilt induced delirium that favors intent over results -should not want Iraqis to suffer through another Saddam or genocide. Wish I saw evidence of that.

This Washington Post article relays some good news for America- the Democrats agenda has pretty much stalled and they are in danger of being seen as a do nothing party. Hopefully, this situation will reverse the electorate’s mistake in 2006 and, in 2008, we’ll see a chastened Republican majority returned to both the House and Senate as well as a Republican elected to the presidency. Then, we can continue to fight the war on terror and hopefully even privatize Social Security. And we’ll certainly prevent dangerous tax increases from threatening our economy- a nearly impossible dream with Democrats in power.

Clearly, the less Democrats do the less harm will be done to America. But, in my opinion, the best news in the article is the following: “A memo from the Democratic polling firm Democracy Corps warned last month that the stalemate between Congress and Bush over the war spending bill has knocked down the favorable ratings of Congress and the Democrats by three percentage points and has taken a greater toll on the public’s hope for a productive Congress.” That tells me that many Americans don’t see the war in Iraq as utterly hopeless like the Democrats what them to believe and that they want Congress to pass legislation that President Bush can sign into law- not legislation for cutting and running.