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National Review has a record of Obama's pretzel twisting flat-out LIES. We should review them as Obama gives his speech celebrating the troops coming home. First, let's listen to Obama administration spokesman Vice President Joe Biden: I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. Now first see how Obama massively contradicted himself, all while...

Third of five parts One of the defining ideals of the European Union has been its social support system, often referred to as the European welfare state. The shared belief among EU nations that the state has a responsibility to care for its citizens has become a kind of common culture, unifying 27 different nationalities. But the European welfare system — largely put in place during the high-growth years following World War II — is under economic and demographic pressure. And the recent debt crisis is shaking the foundations of the European Union's shared social vision.

Can you name the following party? After twelve years of seeing their opponents occupy the presidency, they finally captured the White House. Once in office, however, their presidential leader, much to the chagrin of many party regulars, adopted many of the opposition party's policies. In the next open presidential election, this party's candidate lost because of a third-party candidate, who took votes away in a crucial swing state. Shut out of the White House, this party vociferously opposed a controversial war, only to backtrack once the United States military gained control of the field. Finally, in an attempt to regain...

COPENHAGEN – As police cracked down on climate protesters, church bells tolled 350 times Sunday to impress on the U.N. global warming conference a number that is gaining a following, but is also awash in contradictions. Conference negotiators, meanwhile, went behind closed doors in talks to pin down an elusive new pact on climate, talks in which the figure 350 looms as a goal for true believers, but one that appears impossible based on progress so far. It refers to 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the highest concentration that some leading scientists say the world...

Already, President Obama has been compared to a Colonial Despot and Richie Cunningham. But you can't understand anything about his leadership until you know, that if nothing else, Obama is a Player (or, ‘playa,' if you will). For those who don't know, the movie, "How to Be a Player," with Bernie Mac and Bill Bellamy, explains the game. Players have a ‘steady' (a faithful, trusting girlfriend or wife) and then all their other girls on the side. Using deceit and flattery, the Player tries to balance all his love affairs at once. For Obama, the American people are his ‘steady'...

Two parts of the Obama administration are giving conflicting reports on the dangers posed by terrorist detainees to Congress and the U.S. courts, executive branch sources tell HUMAN EVENTS. In effect, the Obama administration is keeping two sets of books on the terrorist prisoners. According to rules established earlier this year, the Obama administration is required to send Congress notification of its intent to move or release any inmates at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba facility at least fifteen days before the action is accomplished. These notifications, called “risk assessments,” were supposed to give members of Congress sufficient information for them...

Today, Vice President Joe Biden sings a different tune about the Iraq War than he sang 18 months ago. This week, Biden spoke at a welcoming event for members of the XVIII Airborne Corps returning to Fort Bragg, N.C. after 15 months deployment in Iraq. He said, Fifteen months ago, our country called you to serve in Iraq. For some of you this was not your first deployment. You arrived in a country that was on the brink of a civil war, a country that I first visited over six years ago...You went in the midst of what was an...

I watch Barack Obama speak - with his ever-present teleprompter to help him keep all his lies straight and prevent him from butchering the English language worse than 'Dubya' on his worst day - and I wonder: how does his head not explode trying to contain all the contradictions? Remember when Obama preached on his commitment to end pork spending and earmarks while back-to-back signing porkulus and an omnibus bill containing nearly 9,000 earmarks? Remember Obama preaching "fiscal responsibility" while at the very same time racking up more spending that ALL the past presidents in history, from George Washinton to...

If the Supreme Court continues using "evolving standards of decency" to interpret the Eighth Amendment, it may soon declare it cruel and unusual punishment to subject double-talking politicians like Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois to questioning by Tim Russert, host of NBC's "Meet the Press." Russert put Durbin on the rack last Sunday, torturing the poor man with his own contradictory words. When Durbin was first elected to the U.S. House, you see, he was pro-life. Now, as a pro-abortion member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he is expected by left-wing groups to enforce his party's pro-abortion litmus test...

The Bible does NOT teach that Jesus was Crucified on a Friday. Jesus was Crucified on a Wednesday. If you disagree, you must quote from my article, and then respond from the Bible proving your point. No personal attacks just because you disagree, you need to reply with Scripture regarding why you think I am wrong, and why you think you are right. Please excuse the formatting, the size of the article was too much to manually enter in HTML tags, so I did it in MSWORD, and it adds too many < P> !

The “Law” and “Reason” by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Ret. One cannot help but be familiar with the Peterson trial, if only by accident. It is the latest media driven “Soap Opera” from the courtroom played out for the public on national television. Where it certainly merited a report, a casual observer could get the impression that it was on par with the impeachment of Bill Clinton, or “OJ” Simpson’s trial for “killing” his estranged wife. There are several factors about or related to the Peterson trial that merit comment. First, if anyone is surprised by the verdict and punishment,...

ContraPolitics October 19, 2004 - The Kerry-Edwards campaign has given rise to a phenomenon I don't recall having witnessed in prior presidential campaigns. It is, simply, whatever Bush is for Kerry and his followers are against. The Kerry position always appears to be based on one of three premises; Bush is totally wrong, Bush is doing too much, or Bush is doing too little. This is nothing more than an extension of the "anybody but Bush" mentality that drives so many Kerry supporters. It is an attempt to forge hatred for Bush into enthusiastic support and loyalty for Kerry, something...

After talking with some left-wing friends this weekend, I realized now more than ever that the question of whether to vote for Bush or Kerry truly boils down to another question, “A war for our lives, or a nuisance to our lifestyle?” The later question was asked on Friday by eminent historian Victor David Hanson. He answers it with honesty and erudition, but leaves out a very important point: the fear factor. Hanson correctly identifies Kerry et al’s penchant for wanting to solve our foreign policy disputes through diplomatic bureaucracy ad nauseum -- e.g., the United Nations. He hints at...

The Two Johns: So What Do You Want for Lunch? (election levity) Written by Gregory Borse Sunday, October 17, 2004 A new reality television series is being launched by Al Gore's fledgling cable channel. Titled ''The Two Johns,'' the series will capture the riveting behind-the-scenes action as two rich, white liberals plot their run for the White House during the 2004 presidential campaign. While the series is still in production, a special screening of previously filmed footage was made available to the press for review. Here's a snip: John: ''So what do you want for lunch?'' John: ''You know, we...

Debate Score: Bush 3, Kerry 0 Written by Gregory Borse Saturday, October 16, 2004 Senator Kerry’s nuanced (read hypocritical) foreign policy record includes politically opportunistic votes on the idea of war (he’s for it when it’s politically expedient, or supported by Clinton, and against it when Howard Dean proves that it’s politically expedient in the Democratic Party to be against it). But Kerry has also voted against military funding every time the issue has been brought to the floor of the senate. Kerry’s foreign policy position in a time of war includes attempting to co-opt Ronald Reagan in Wednesday night’s...

In a development that the establishment press is treating like bombshell news, former Swiftboat commander William B. Rood has stepped forward to defend John Kerry against the charge that he exaggerated his valor during the Vietnam War in descriptions of a foiled Feb. 1969 ambush on his boat. But unmentioned in coverage of Rood's story so far is one salient fact: His account is sharply contradicted by one of Kerry's own crewmates, who complained eight years ago that Kerry took credit for bravery he didn't deserve - in an action that earned him the Silver Star. In Sunday editions of...

Yesterday: As admitted by the New York Times Ombudsman, this majestic bastion of the elite, The Old Gray Lady herself, failed to do their job in the run up to the Iraqi Front of the War on Terror, appearing to support this new front in the war based on their flawed information. Today: We are treated to the constant drumming of the failure in command at Abu Ghraib, intelligence failures, failure to find WMD, failure ..., failure .... These appear to be contradictions. How could Old Media in the US appear to be so at odds with its own previous...

Wilson contradictions leave Democrat senators speechless BY ROBERT NOVAK Like Sherlock Holmes' dog that did not bark, the most remarkable aspect of last week's Senate Intelligence Committee report is what its Democratic members did not say. They did not dissent from the committee's findings that Iraq apparently asked about buying yellowcake uranium from Niger. They neither agreed to a conclusion that former diplomat Joseph Wilson was suggested for a mission to Niger by his CIA employee wife nor defended his statements to the contrary. Wilson's activities constituted the only aspects of the yearlong investigation for which the committee's Republican chairman,...

Kerry, Edwards, Hollywood, and the Politics of Hate By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 13, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms John Kerry and John Edwards both looked at the same intelligence presented to President Bush, and they voted for the Iraq war. Then both Kerry and Edwards voted against an $87 billion funding package for our troops in Iraq. How could they be both for and against the war? Kerry, the great flip-flopper, has even gone so far as stating, I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. Several weeks before Kerry voted against the $87 billion bill,...

As I’m sure you are aware, there are many disturbing things about liberals in this country. Liberals are extremely vocal in expressing their often- deviant views, and they are obnoxiously tenacious in their ceaseless efforts to have their agenda accepted by the majority of the American population. The word “agenda” is important in this situation. Liberals are rarely united by a systematic belief system; rather, they are motivated by certain goals set forth in an agenda and are ignorant of the contradictions that often arise from the conflicting goals they set out to win for themselves. Well, I should clarify....

Dean vs. Dean Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont, is a Democratic candidate for President.  Here is how it might sound if Howard Dean chose to debate himself on the important issues of the day.  (All of the statements below are actual quotes from Howard Dean) On War with Saddam Hussein's Iraq Dean:  "Is the security of the United States affected by what's going on in Iraq today? … I don't believe it is." ("Meet the Press," March 9, 2003) Dean: "There's no question Saddam is a threat to the U.S. and our allies."  ("Face the Nation" on Sept....

WASHINGTON — Arnold Schwarzenegger, trying to assuage conservatives' anxieties about his credentials as one of them, displayed a rare refinement of effrontery when he said, "You know, I don't believe in spending." Just 10 months ago, in his first fling at making social policy by direct democracy, he crusaded successfully for an initiative requiring the expenditure every year of $550 million on before- and after-school programs when the noneducaton budget grows by a certain amount. Schwarzenegger so distrusts what he considers the profligate spenders in the Legislature, his measure bypasses the Legislature, automatically transferring the money from general revenues. Having...

Speaking as a Catholic, I wish the Vatican would say nothing about same-sex “marriage.” It’s beneath its dignity to enter into debate with a sick joke, and when it does so it only allows progressive-minded fools to change the subject. Such fools, some of them nominal Catholics, argue that the Church is a bunch of hypocritical old men nervously obsessed with sex and Jesus told us to be nice to each other and refusing to let homosexuals marry isn’t very nice because they don’t bother anyone and anyway what about all those pedophile priests so let the Pope mind his...

Sit Down, Stand Up By Evan Coyne Maloney ...excerpt: In the case of the September 11th report, critics say intelligence analysts missed signals and failed to evaluate the threat thoroughly. Had the analysts been more vigilant, the argument goes, perhaps the September 11th attacks would have been prevented. And in the case of the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, the criticism is that intelligence analysts put too much credence in a few suspect pieces of data. In other words, the analysts were overly vigilant in assessing the threat. Of course, it is not possible to be too vigilant and insufficiently vigilant...

QUESTION: What about a contradiction that cannot be successfully explained? ANSWER: You will have to accept the perfection of the Authorized Version by faith?

<p>Gov. Gray Davis is making much of the deep slashes in state spending, particularly for schools and local government aid, that he's making to close a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall.</p> <p>There's little doubt that if his budget plan is enacted, not only would Californians be paying billions of dollars more in taxes, but fewer slots would be available in college, K-12 classes would become more crowded, fewer poor people would obtain health care, and some city and county services would be abolished.</p>

July 8, 2002LETTER FROM SOUTH AFRICA UNITED NATIONS SHOCK HORROR ON AIDS SELLING THE MOTHER OF ALL DISEASES By Anita Allen The biggest international health event last week was the release of the latest UNAIDS report on the global HIV epidemic. The organization’s CEO, Dr. Peter Piot, said the world was gripped by what was "undeniably the deadliest epidemic in history". (1) This may be a case of many a true pun said in jest, because what Piot is asking us to believe in is a 100% fatal germ that never runs out of new victims and causes a...