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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...