Articles Posted by BurkesLaw
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The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan used his father's worldwide connections to wheel and deal with heads of state -- at U.N. gatherings -- on behalf of a controversial Swiss company that won a lucrative oil-for-food program contract......
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Asked about the election result, the sharp-tongued reporter simply put her hand on her face and said, "My God, the man is a fascist -- a fascist, I tell you." She warned that Bush's victory will mean one thing: more war. She expects Iran to be next. But surely Thomas, a female reporter who succeeded decades ago in a "man's world," had some empathy about Condi's appointment. As we suggested the notion, a look of horror came over Thomas' face. "I tell you, the women is a monster, a monster, a monster," she kept saying.......
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The Dan Rather Memogate scandal and the Kerry campaign's resorting to blatantly hysterical scare tactics -- claiming that President Bush will privatize Social Security, bring back the draft, increase global warming, withhold flu shots from elderly Democrats, and conspire with the Saudis and the Masons in order to establish the Halliburton Corporation as the world's sole superpower -- is indicative of a condescending attitude that seems to afflict most of the people whose jobs involve either making bad movies even worse or writing articles for journals of thought that are largely devoid of same. What I'm talking about is that...
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On Wednesday, in a case called Roper v. Simmons , the United States Supreme Court heard impassioned arguments on both sides of the debate over whether or not to allow capital punishment for murderers who committed their crimes as teenagers. In the past, the Court had already established the un-Constitutionality of executing an individual who is mentally retarded or under the age of 16. But the question has remained about sentencing to death juveniles who fall outside these two categories. Is doing so cruel and unusual punishment that fails to meet evolving standards of decency? Or is it a necessary...
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"If this film were shown on national television, there is little doubt George Bush would win......
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Amid a solid stream of bad news, The New York Times reported on its own poll -- showing Kerry 8 points behind Bush -- in an article titled: "Bush Opens Lead Despite Unease Voiced in Survey." The Times bases its "unease" conclusion on some secret documents recently given to them by Bill Burkett. This would seem to go against the 80 percent likability rating among Bush supporters I cited previously -- but hey, it's good to see Jayson Blair working again .....
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Republican strategists have warned that the Democratic efforts may be laying the groundwork for massive vote fraud on Election Day.....
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Whoever forged these documents should not only be criminally prosecuted, but should also have his driver's license taken away for the stupidity of using Microsoft Word to forge 1971 documents. And yet this was the evidence CBS relied on to accuse a sitting president of a court martial-level offense 50 days before a presidential election .....
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Are Dan Rather and "60 Minutes" a bunch of patsies suckered by the Kerry campaign? Not exactly. According to the American Spectator, "The CBS producer said that some alarm bells went off last week when the signatures and initials of Killian on the documents in hand did not match up with other documents available on the public record, but producers chose to move ahead with the story." Hey, why not? Who's gonna spot it? If CBS says it's so, that's good enough for Thomas Oliphant's Boston Globe, the New York Times and the Washington Post, all of whom rushed the...
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The oft-repeated claim that Mr. Kerry volunteered to go to Vietnam misleads: He apparently volunteered only after the draft deferment he had applied for was turned down -- thus allowing him to choose service in the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army....
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The fact is, even if Kerry was a Republican, these Swift boat guys would be hounding him. In a culture where "ABB" is now media shorthand for "Anyone But Bush", you would think the press would recognise these fellows for what they are: the ABK constituency. Meanwhile, "Bush hatred" - another losing hand the Democrats put too many chips on - has peaked, and any saggy nudists or trust-fund anarchists who succeed in pulling off some camera-worthy stunt in Manhattan this week will only be boosting the President....
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Well, I wasn't there, but I figure 254 Swift Boat veterans can't all be wrong. If they say John Kerry was a grandstanding phony whose war injuries were self-inflicted, that's good enough for me. I do know one thing for certain, and that is that Gigolo John must have been smoking some pretty strong weed or dropping a lot of acid in Nam, because the presidential campaign he is currently running has all the hallmarks of a bad LSD flashback. Other than molesting an 8-year old Spanish-speaking African-American quadriplegic on "Larry King Live", I can't imagine any way in which...
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So for two weeks, as the Swiftees exposed Kerry's Cambodian fantasies, the networks and the "newspapers of record" were like Sherlock Holmes's dog that didn't bark -- or, in this case, the sheep that didn't baa. Now the silence of the lambs has been broken.....
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The Democratic infomercial is over and the only thing that achieved any appreciable bounce was the balloons. If any one was watching CNN right after John Kerry's speech, there was the voice of the campaign organizer heard in the background hollering, "Balloons we need more balloons. What the f***k are you guys doing?" Finally the balloons began to fall. The Democratic convention was held in Boston for the Senator from Massachusetts. The Dems wanted to showcase the latest version of JFK. Unfortunately, Kerry could never fit John F. Kennedy's shoes. Kennedy was a leader; Kerry is not. Not only that,...
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An unscientific America Online poll taken during Teresa Heinz Kerry's Democratic Convention speech shows that Americans think she's a major drag on the Kerry-Edwards ticket....
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In the dining rooms of agreeable Ivy League colleges, they fret about imposing western values on the developing world but not a whit about imposing anti-western values, all of which were developed in the west -- from Communism and Fascism to subtler grievances like "neo-colonialism".......
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Like Thomas Sowell's definition of a "racist" ("a conservative winning an argument with a liberal"), the definition of an "unpopular Republican" is "a Republican the Democrats would like to be rid of." Whenever liberals are being hysterical about a Republican, it's because that Republican is not good for the Democrats.....
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In other words, the British Government did learn that Saddam Hussein did seek significant quantities of uranium from Africa......
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This seemingly simple man counselled hope, while the sophists of sophistication -- in the academy, in the media and in the halls of power -- counselled defeat and despair. While others cowed before the goliath of Soviet expansionism, this American David rallied his people and the forces of liberty and declared, "Enough! The walls of repressive tyranny must tumble." Where others saw economic stagnation and ennui, Ronald Reagan saw economic opportunity and growth; and then he made them happen........
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It's the crude sado-masochistic elements that bother me. Not in the photos, but in the ensuing ballyhoo. To witness an entire culture -- media and political -- toss all other business aside for a non-stop ritual self-flagellation session is a remarkable privilege. I use the term "self-flagellation" because, though many Democrats and pundits fancy themselves in the sado-dominant role and clearly enjoy flaying Bush, Rumsfeld and co, it is in the objective sense an act of masocho-submission, at least for America.....
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