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Applying air power has some utility but the real work of fighting them is not going to be so distant… or clean. The illusion of action is not a substitute for effective action The Royal Canadian Air Force, (RCAF) is back in action again, dropping bombs on the slave-taking, throat-cutting rapists of ISIS. The morality of the situation is unequivocal, the effect of our contribution to the war on the new Caliphate is – alas – doubtful. We are fighting an ideology, an idea that keeps attracting new adherents and captures their hearts and seduces their minds. This means dropping...

Before the election results are in, and keeping in mind that there may be some unpleasant surprises for one party or the other — or both — it’s possible to assess how the Democratic Party has fared under the leadership of President Obama. To summarize the verdict: not so well. By one metric it has done very badly indeed. When Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, there were 257 Democrats in the House of Representatives. Going into this election there are 201 (including two vacant Democratic seats). ... The geographic clustering of blacks and gentry liberals in...

One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting. Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion University indicates that there are more than a million registered voters who are not citizens, and who therefore are not legally entitled to vote. The most devastating account of voter fraud may be in the book “Injustice” by J. Christian Adams. He was...

I pray that we never need to put Sun Tzu’s advice to the test – but as the saying goes: “Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.” As the elections on November 4th draw ever nearer I would like to share some words of advice from Sun Tzu’s (circa 544–496 BC) classic ‘The Art of War’. Given the apathetic/indoctrinated/dumbed-down nature of a large segment of the American electorate these days, I do not take a decisive conservative (read that as “less government”) victory as being a given. My attitude is one of...

The hard-core socialists have a party. The soft-core socialists have a party. It is the voter who is traditionally conservative that has no home I’m afraid we have done it again. The Left has been allowed to define the “independent voter” group and the Republicans have bought it; hook, line and sinker. For some reason, it is commonly accepted that the “independent voter” is to be found somewhere between the Republican and Democrat platforms. Every two years, during the campaigns, we see Republicans running as conservatives during the primary elections and then moving to the left for the general election....

Real science acknowledges that people can make mistakes, making such a dangerous virus a zero-risk to a nation or a state means taking precautions that absolutely prevent human error In 1968 Joan Didion published a collection of non-fiction essays titled Slouching Towards Bethlehem in which she took a look at the chaos of the counterculture in the mid-1960s. The title of the book comes from a line in a poem by William Butler Yeats titled The Second Coming: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” In the preface to her book,...

Every time you hear the haunting honking of the geese overhead, think of the one chant Obama has never been able to throw away: “USA!” “USA!” As usual, the Creator will look after the rest. If, like me, you are blessed enough to live in the Great North East, every day now you can see and hear the geese making their exuberant annual trek south for the winter. There’s something ineffably haunting in the sound of their honking. For me their V-formation flights and haunting honks kept me spellbound before even discovering the inspiration that comes from the science that...

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Frank Weathers says he’s done apologizing for Halloween. I’m way ahead of him. I never started. Halloween is a great holiday! I think it’s ridiculous that so many people think they’re pious for boycotting what should be a wonderful spiritual and evangelical opportunity. Plus, a lot of fun. Here’s what I love about Halloween:

The public's rights to someone's private property, Eminent Domain and California beaches Before surfers and friends celebrate their victory over venture capitalist Vinod Khosla regarding access to Martin’s Beach through his land, they would do well to consider the following: now that the Governor has chimed in, threatening the use of eminent domain, what we have is the State controlling and/or taking someone’s private property. Recall that the function of our government is to protect our freedom, lives and property. So the government should have stood firmly behind Vinod Khosla and his right to use and control his own property...

Steve King predicts Obama will “violate the Constitution, break the law and grant executive amnesty.” People really need to read the U.S. Constitution. It says, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” The Constitution makes no reference whatever to executive orders (EO). George Washington started the practice mostly because he had to. Traditionally executive orders have been treated by Congress as having the legal status of legislation, but only insofar as they apply to the management of how the government operates.

Nobody is really #ReadyforHillary, her dishonesty keeps reaching surprising new heights

"Lone wolves" do not just spontaneously generate in an ideological/religious/political vacuum--they are nurtured and cultivated by the pack Because of Ebola the country of Liberia is much in the news lately, yet most people remain unaware that the US has something of a vested interest in Liberia. It is, for better or worse (mostly worse), America’s only colony on the African continent—former colony I should say. Its capital of Monrovia is named in honor of the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe. It is one of only two national capitals named after a US president (the other one...

Fortuna Audaces Juvat We Conservatives keep talking to ourselves. This may cost us the Senate—the election—our country. The majority of Americans acknowledge strong support for Conservative principles. For the most part, however, they remain unmolested by the Conservative Media or Conservative Message. Instead, we Conservatives talk to ourselves—a lot. We have our own network (sort of), our own print and online media, radio, websites, books, pundits, and, sometimes, actual candidates. But most of our material, even our best material, remains unavailable to the majority of Americans. Why? Why is our (winning) message not getting through? We know why. Our schools...

U.S. will continue to get a black eye internationally for trying to save the lives of black Africans Stories that the Pentagon manufactured Ebola in a laboratory have been surfacing in a number of U.S. and foreign media outlets, helping to create even more of a panic over the spreading disease. A new variation of an old Soviet charge, it is designed to besmirch the reputation of the United States in black Africa. In the hands of Russian disinformation specialists, it could spark protests against the stationing of U.S troops in Africa to restrict the Ebola outbreak.

God help us! World health officials have not been very helpful Decaying corpses were stacked all over the burial ground and the streets were littered with the dead. When trains arrived at railroad stations, they had to be cleared of dead and dying passengers. The killer was Spanish influenza of 1918-19. In the U.S., about 500,000 people died, mostly young adults! This plague started (at least in the U.S.) in a Kansas army camp and within a week it was in every state! It then jumped the Atlantic Ocean to cut down millions. Five million people died in India! Total...

Canadians are entitled to have a person in charge of the RCMP who refuses to confuse criminal acts of violence with intentional terrorist acts In December, 2005, Jane Creba was a 15-year-old Grade 10 student at Toronto’s Riverdale Collegiate. On Dec. 26th, she went to Toronto’s Yonge Street with her mother and sister to do some shopping. Yonge Street is one of the city’s busiest shopping districts and the day after Christmas, Boxing Day, is the busiest shopping days of the year. Post-Christmas sales abound.

God Bless Our Troops Calling all Swift Boat veterans: There’s a move afoot in both Canada and the United States to disappear the wearing of military uniforms in public. Sending the wearing of military uniforms underground in the wake of last week’s horrific terrorist attacks on soldiers calls for a new battle cry from the courageous Swift Boat veterans. Canada Free Press suggests: ‘Wear Them, Don’t Hide Them’; ‘Don’t Let the Terrorists Make You a John Kerry.’

Concepts of forced marriages, honor killings, Jihad, as well as self-segregation are fundamentally un-Canadian and should not be tolerated When Trudeau père sold Canadians the conceit of multiculturalism as a workable societal foundation, most people eagerly bought in. After all, what harm can there be in turning the drab Canadian mangia cake uniformity into a colorful, spicy multinational quilt? The upside includes wondrous, redolent, zesty foods; quaint customs and celebrations that turn the old homogeneity into a vibrant heterogeneous stew of warmth and mutual respect. Of course, there were those who warned that the concept was pretty far-fetched and not...

When we lose our voice in the voting booth, the very foundation of our Nation will exist no more. With midterm elections around the corner, we have to ask ourselves if our voting system should be about the inherent value of our votes, or simply about winning elections? Currently, voter ID laws are the object of fights around the country in a game played out by politicians wanting to broaden their base and win elections. Unfortunately, the only losers in this game are the American people.