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Religious zealots riding high after W's win Less than a month after the national elections, the mullahs of America's religious right are in full swagger. Dispensing with pretense, they are openly reconfiguring American government in the service of a narrow version of fundamentalist Christianity. For weeks, the press has focused on how a vast mobilization of evangelical voters helped President Bush to reelection. That's missing the disturbing sequel to the story: an explicit, organized campaign to erode the nation's status as a modern, secular and constitutional democracy. Consider the following events, all of which have taken place since Election Day....

(From a mailing I received) I want to ask for your help today to defeat George Bush’s # 1 post-election priority: his plan to privatize Social Security. This is a fight we can win if we all work together – young workers, college students, baby boomers AND seniors. The president’s Wall Street cronies have amassed a war chest to sell this terrible idea to Congress. It’s time for us to step up – and tell our representatives to oppose it. The Bush privatization plan would gut Social Security benefits for all Americans – especially younger people. It would make us...

Master Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey paid a tribute to the Vets today on FOX news, amid all the "Semper Fi's" and tributes, he said (from memory, not transcript):"Yassir Arafat died today, it's the first thing the French have done right in a while."SEMPER FI, GUNNY!

Civics lesson Bronx: I'll never vote again. I was told my vote counts, but obviously that went out the window along with my hopes and dreams for a safer, more prosperous, healthier world. I've had enough of my vote being wasted. Let's go destroy the inaugural. Don't we have a constitutional right to overthrow the government? Grisela Sanabria

I know today is Halloween, but this election season is like something out of the "Twilight Zone". Can't you feel the insanity in the air? It's been building for four years and the Liberal Democrats are getting crazier as the election gets closer. They lost it back in December of 2000 when it was rightly and justly ruled that George W. Bush won the state of Florida and thereby won the election. Gore won the Popular vote, Bush won the Electoral vote. Looking back, I think that Gore's popular vote win was a lot more suspect, considering the voting irregularities...

This is basically about President George W. Bush. He was just another in a long line of votes for me that was the lesser of two evils. I didn't dislike him as much as the other guy. I first voted for President in 1972. Voted for Richard Nixon, mainly because McGovern was such a weenie, and I hated the idea of America retreating from Vietnam, I felt it would be easily winnable if the restrictions on our troops were removed. Maybe things would have been different, but the media hated Nixon and looked for reasons to take him down. He...

I guess you could say the "Gray Lady" is getting senile. The NY Times laid a BIG egg yesterday (10/25) when it "broke the story" that over 380 million TONS of explosives were missing from an Iraqi ammunition dump; "Jump on anything anti-Bush" Kerry made this a large part of his and Bubba's coming out party yesterday to the cheering lemmings in Philly. THE October surprise had scored a direct hit! Except the story wasn't quite true. Yes there was a large ammunition dump at the location, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had discovered it in January, 2003, and...

Last night, Friday 22 Oct, was the night the Sinclair Network was going to show "Stolen Honor", the Kerry/Vietnam documentary the Dems and left wingers have been trying to suppress for the past month. Well, they won. Kind of. The documentary was suppressed, greatly restricted, I guess. Some viewers felt it almost came across as a "pro-Kerry" program. It seems that a threatened boycott and economic pressure was applied to Sinclair and they had to make a strategic withdrawal (Hmmmm? Economic pressure....all those Heinz dollars and subsidiaries...as well as the Soros Billions...coincidence?) and air "Stolen Honor Lite". However, the video...

Muslim-Americans are upset that there are too many negative images and stories about Islam. They feel that President Bush and this administration have unfairly singled them out as enemies of the United States, and they are threatening to not support him for re-election. Oh, well. (sigh) Let's start with the no support for re-election: if the Muslim-American community really wants to prove all the negatives, not supporting President Bush is probably one of the best ways to do so. Turning your collective backs on the leader of the world-wide anti-terror movement will make reasonable people assume that you do not...

French Back Kerry by Large Margin (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249661/posts)Retired Malaysian Leader Urges US Muslims to Unite Against Bush ("in the name of Islam") (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249660/posts)Yasser Arafat endorses Kerry: Thinks Democratic senator 'better for Palestinian (Terrorist) cause'(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249573/posts)A Registered Democrat's Creative Writing (NTY publishes hit piece same day they endorse Kerry) (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248077/posts)CHINESE COMMUNISTS ENDORSE KERRY (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184147/posts)

It absolutely amazes me to witness the level of venom being used in this election. The Democrats are still grousing about the 2000 Election, and how it was "stolen" by Bush and the Supreme Court, and the media goes right along with the concept. The truth is, I think, that the Dems are a tad miffed that their plans to steal the election were foiled, generally by the people they were hoping to cheat with. If you are going to use ringers and multiple voters, you should make sure they are not illiterate. The "Butterfly Ballot" was not the problem:...

Sinclair Broadcasting program will focus on John Kerry's protest of government's Vietnam-era policies. For the first time in our history, a major television company is openly trying to tip a presidential election. No, not CBS. Sure, that "60 Minutes" segment on President Bush and his National Guard record was sloppy and partisan reporting. But Dan Rather and CBS News President Andy Heyward at least pay lip service to some basic standards of journalism. They eventually admitted their mistake. Not so with David Deniston Smith, CEO of Sinclair Broadcasting, or Mark Hyman, the company's vice president for corporate relations. Sinclair owns...

What a wonderful night, last night (10/8), at the debate. Round 2, and GW came out swinging. He was articulate without being a stuffed shirt, he was also warm and down to earth, while being passionate about what he believed in. I enjoyed it all, just watching him enjoy it all. And what about the "Great Pretender"? If you've seen him twice you've seen him all. I say twice so you can get both sides, like him. Last night he was against abortion, but for it, especially partial-birth abortion, while he was for the ban, he voted against the ban....

The U.S. State Department cracked open the door and now the invasion has begun. Foreign election monitors determined to oversee the U.S. election this November seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Even Jimmy Carter has gotten into the act. The bottom line is that the November election is being set up to humiliate the United States and place in doubt the legitimacy of our government. Those calling for the election monitors, like Democrat California Representative Barbara Lee, argue that the move is necessary in order to “make certain that every person’s voice is heard, every person’s vote is...

Never Forgive, Never ForgetLast night (10/05/04) we had the VP Debate between the Real VP, Mr. Cheney, and the "Pretender", Mr. Edwards. Mr. Cheney had a lot more substance than Mr. Edwards, who was just a pre-programmed Dem robot spouting the same talking points as always (which I am not going to recount here). At any rate, there is one "talking point" that I am getting tired of and I wish the President would rebut it. It has to do with the whole "War on Terror" battlefield. The challengers keep insisting that we should have finished in Afghanistan before moving...

sKerry's publicists earn their pay again

I read an excellent column today at the "Accuracy in Media" website (http://www.aim.org/guest_column_print/1968_0_6_0/), it was entitled One Thousand Dead U.S. Soldiers in Iraq: A Much Needed U.S. Perspective. It compared the deaths of our troops in Iraq with the deaths of victims in America's major cities, as well as historical facts concerning casualties: Pearl Harbor, WTC, and D-Day. It was not trying to whitewash it, or demean the sacrifice, it was trying to put it into a proper perspective. America's perspective has been blurred by the media. The media wants Iraq to be Vietnam, a war that was lost in...

I sit here listening to PM Allwi of Iraq addressing Congress, and the man continues to impress me. He thanked us for having the courage to invade his country and remove the Beast from power, libertaing millions of his countrymen. GRATITUDE? My God, the concept is so foreign that I can hardly believe my ears! When you consider how much American money has gone into most of the UN member nations to feed and clothe and care for them, and how much hate we've gotten in reurn, or the close support we've not gotten from staunch allies that we've rescued...