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The handling of Barack Obama calls to mind a movie called The Harder They Fall, in which Humphrey Bogart played a boxing promoter whose client was a heavyweight named Toro Moreno. Bogey learned early on that Toro couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag, but that didn't stop him from guiding the palooka to a shot at the world title.

Well, it's about time. For the first time in a long time, President Bush's advisors got it right and got him out quickly and forcefully on an issue that has taken center stage of late, and that is the problem of illegal immigration. Many Americans were upset at the immigrant marches, and rightfully so. The rabble-rousing efforts of the radical Hispanic leaders and their followers incited fear in many of us, with their speeches about taking back the country and waving those Mexican flags. It was not a comforting sight, and many of the more conservative Hispanics were just as...

Always the opportunist and never a philanthropist unless there's something it it for him, Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch has once again jumped from one bandwagon to another, and Hillary Clintion is the donkey with the brass ring in her nose. Word is out that the old-timer, Rupert, is planning to host a fundraiser for the other old timer, Hillary, to help fill her campaign coffers. And why not? The randy entrepreneur loves attention more than anything in the world, and what better way to get it -- and dump your overly criticized reputation of being a right wing news...

"(N)o legitimate interest is served when oil and gas become tools of intimidation or blackmail, either by supply management or attempt to monopolize transportation," thundered Vice President Cheney to the international pro-democracy conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. "(N)o one can justify actions that undermine the territorial integrity of a neighbor, or interfere with democratic movements." Cheney's remarks were directed straight at the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin, who is to host the G-8 Conference in July. Cheering Cheney on is John McCain, front-runner for the GOP nomination, who has urged President Bush to snub Putin by boycotting the G-8 summit. What...

No! NOT the mogul whose first wife (Ivana) took to calling him "The Donald." The man who has dedicated himself to protecting America instead of promoting himself and accumulating as much wealth as possible before his demise. An Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. The youngest and the oldest person to have held the position of America's Secretary of Defense. The man who oversaw the transition to an all volunteer army AND led the Defense Department during the liberation of Iraq. THAT man is Donald Henry Rumsfeld, still married to...

Last night, radio talk show host and former US Justice Department official Mark Levin shocked many listeners when he reported that President Bill Clinton gave nuclear technology to the Iranians in a harebrained scheme. He said that the transfer of classified data to Iran was personally approved by then-President Clinton and that the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program. The CIA, using a double-agent Russian scientist, handed a blueprint for a nuclear bomb to Iran, according to a new book "State of War" by...

Amidst all of the news of sectarian violence and the temporary inability to form a government of national unity in Iraq, there is actually reason for optimism. The truth is that the forces of freedom and democracy are making progress. Now, if we could only get the media to pay attention. Following the February bombing of one of the Shia's most sacred shrines, the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra, the situation could have careened out of control into full-fledged civil war. But it didn't. In spite of many reports that it had already reached that point, the top Shi'ite leader...

Clinton and Carter just have to have the limelight while out of the Oval Office. Therefore, they claim anything that will make some sort of headline. Usually it's pathetic. Now BC has said he'd shake hands with Hamas if the Islamic killers would assure the world of the same peace that Arafat assured. Naturally, BC is on his way to the mental ward. But in the meantime, we have to endure such tripe. BC and Carter continue to work against the very nation that put them in office. However, that too seems to be a current fad among those who...

One has only to reference the showing by some 500,000-plus legal and illegal Mexican aliens in Los Angeles last weekend to realize that the discussion regarding Immigration and its legality and security concerns is now THE topic of discussion across America. But perhaps "showing" is too kind a word to describe what took place this past week. Hundreds of thousands protested--it seems even to the casual observer--the "right" to be in the United States illegally. It was an onslaught of ungrateful, mostly Mexican nationals that held up banners that had slogans like "This is stolen land" and "Chicano Power." Of...

"If I must die, I will die," Abdul Rahman told a human rights worker. Facing execution for converting to Christianity, Rahman had just been moved from a jail in Kabul, where his life was in imminent peril, to the notorious Policharki prison outside Kabul, where 2000 are incarcerated, including 350 Taliban. Rahman is a man of faith and courage, the stuff of which Christian martyrs have ever been made. And, thanks to U.S. intervention, he is a free man, though he will live, if he remains in Afghanistan, in constant danger of being assassinated or lynched. The ordeal of Abdul...

France, the birth-place of socialism, is now living socialism's logical end-game. Mobs in the streets of France, led by university students, are smashing store-fronts, burning automobiles, barricading streets, and their labor union buddies are threatening a syndicalist general strike. The occasion for this fulmination is the proposed enactment of a first-job contract law that would permit businesses to fire a worker under the age of 25 for any reason during his first two years of employment. These reactions are idiotic. Students are rioting against legal action to make it easier for them to get jobs, a process with limited prospects...

(satire) Since it's all the rage right now to spout on and on about conspiracies like those being perpetuated by Charlie Sheen and ilk that believe the US government is responsible for 911, we'd like to take the opportunity to offer a few of our own. Titanic sank by explosives! The ice berg was a cover. "Berg" is the key word here and is the obvious giveaway concealing a Zionist plot to defame the queen of england. Dramatic new photos clearly show metal hull plates of the great ship blown-out, not in. This is collaborated by the many Titanic survivors...

The Associated Press story regarding the US government entrusting a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere, on the heels of the Dubai ports controversy, has done much to bring the issue of seaport security and nuclear scanning to the forefront of political discussion. According to the AP story, the Bush Administration confirmed that it entered into a no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. will be involved in running a sophisticated US radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present. Since September 11, 2001,...

t's that time of year when bubbles burst and buzzer beaters ring out across the land. For many, it's an occasion for great elation, for some, bitter disappointment. But if recent news reports are to be believed, it is truly the month of March Madness for Democrats. According to Rowan Scarborough in the Washington Times, Senate Democrats are planning to use the March congressional recess to "stage press events with active duty military personnel, veterans and emergency responders to bash President Bush on virtually every one of his national security policies." So in order to regain their footing at the...

One of the bluest of the Blue States in the nation gave Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton(D-NY) some disheartening news today: If the presidential election were held today, Sen. Clinton gets whipped in New Jersey by Republicans Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and "America's Mayor" Rudy Guiliani, according to a new poll. Giuliani beats Clinton in New Jersey 53 to 39 percent and McCain beats her by 54 to 39 percent in the newly released Quinnipiac University poll. New Jersey is always considered a state that can be counted on to give its electoral votes to the Democrat presidential candidate. According to...

A couple of traditionalist blogs recently have encountered what may be PC, thought-police suppression. It may be purely coincidental, but two traditionalist blogs have at roughly the same time been black-listed or threatened with disbarment from an internet service provider in what seems to be an arbitrary manner. Maybe it's paranoia, but the suspicion is unavoidable that this may be an additional liberal tactic, along with threats to bar some conservative websites for supposedly violating campaign finance laws. Alains Newsletter was informed by Google that it would not be included in sites referenced by Google, because in Google's opinion the...

Each and every day the Democrats and their "mainstream media" are denigrating the Iraq war, the Iraqis and US troops. Much the same as they were able to vilify those who fought in and supported the US fight against repressive communism in Viet Nam and were able to sway the American public toward opposition to that war, they are currently using their own bully pulpits to destroy any chance of democracy in Iraq. Recently, I asked the question in an Op/Ed "Are Liberal Democrats Really Pro-Terrorist?" The answer, now, is a resounding "Yes." In fact, liberal politicians from both sides...

Anti-US and anti-Bush demonstrators would have liked for more to have shown up once again to blast America, but basically worldwide they were disappointed in the numbers. According to AP's Ed Johnson, "The turnout was lower than protesters had hoped in Britain, whose government has been the United States' strongest supporter in the war. Authorities shut down streets in the heart of London's shopping and theater district for the demonstration, which organizers had predicted would attract up to 100,000 people, but police estimated the crowd was about 15,000 people." A projected 100,000. An actual show of 15,000. Not very much...

The New York Times reports that just prior to the United States lead invasion, Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein informed his top generals that he had destroyed his stockpiles of chemical weapons three months before their war plans meeting. According to the Times report, the generals all believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and were counting on the WMD to repel the oncoming coalition invaders. While reporting on this story, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said he is not surprised that the CIA and other nations believed Saddam had WMD since Hussein's own generals believed they had them. He said...

Does it mean that UAE is really gone from US ports? Or does it mean that they are just handing over managerial control to the US while still actually owning? Good question. Some Congresspersons are wondering the same. According to Jonathan Weisman of The Washington Post, to safeguard any loopholes a bill is proposed to make certain the UAE is completely OUT. Gone. En toto. US President George W. Bush says that the Congressional reaction will damage US-Muslim relations. Rational persons ask if anything in the world can improve secure-never-to-be-broken US-Muslim relations. After all, we are dealing with a worldwide...