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Now his flip-flopping about resigning demonstrates once again the man has no guts. He's a spineless weasel who doesn't know what to do even about matters in his own life. Does someone like that belong in the U.S. Senate? Please don't tell me it's a den of thieves. I know. But it's a den of vipers and thieves because we allow it to be. At some point you have to start cleaning up the house that Harry Reid built one body at a time. I don't care if they are Democrats or Republicans, the corrupt, the malefactors, the sociopaths, the...

If self-styled "values voters" have felt snubbed by the Republican presidential candidates this election season, that snubbing is now official. Mayor Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and Senator McCain are all declining to participate in a September 17 debate in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that's being hosted by an umbrella social-conservative group called ValuesVoter.org. Social conservatives will be upset; other conservatives might well be heartened by the waning power of the religious right. A number of second-tier Republican candidates have confirmed attendance at the event, according to the news site WorldNetDaily.com, whose editor, Joseph Farah, is slated to moderate the debate....

Can the U.S. Senate do better than Larry Craig? Can the USA do better than Larry Craig? Can the state of Idaho do better than Larry Craig? He's been pampered in the U.S. Senate for the last 17 years. According to his own official biography, he has spent nearly his entire adult life in politics. He never worked for a living. He never had a job outside of his family's ranching business, where it is doubtful he ever got his hands dirty. But that doesn't stop Sen. Larry Craig from getting his hands and knees dirty on the floors of...

At least part of the city has been destroyed. And it should never be rebuilt, again. You know who is calling for it to be rebuilt at any cost? The same idiots who didn't lift a finger to evacuate the city – people like Mayor Ray Nagin, whose legacy will always be that photograph of an armada of school buses submerged in the big muddy. Joining him are Sen. Barack Obama, former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Hillary Clinton – all of whom don't see any reason to limit the spending on rebuilding the underwater city. Good thing these folks...

This whole drama is kind of a metaphor for the Bush administration. These guys, starting at the top, have been over their heads from day one. Bush tried so hard to get along with the Democrats. He cared so much about appearances and the way the New York Times, Washington Post and Associated Press covered his actions. He didn't care about his campaign promises to his base. He didn't even seem to care if he lost control of Congress – which he did. Now, amid this shameless feeding frenzy by Democrats and the press, he is reaping his just deserts...

But think about it. There are two components to Jesus' words. We are to "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's," but we are also to "render unto God the things that are God's." Well, everything ultimately belongs to God. But, most of all, this injunction by Jesus instructs us that government laws cannot trump God's laws – ever. If government commands you to do evil, as a Christian you must resist. There is no alternative. Citing the "render unto Caesar" line is an apologetic for accountability to God – nothing more, nothing less.

I am talking about the fact that, according to this poll, there are far more self-identified conservatives in America than self-identified liberals – even among a sampling that included far more Democrats than Republicans! Please, read the raw data for yourself. First, I want you to try to imagine the book-publishing trade industry selecting Ann Coulter to be its president. I know, I know. It could never happen. It could never happen despite the fact Ann Coulter sells more political books than almost anyone on the American scene. But it could never happen because, despite her tremendous success as a...

I'm astounded. I don't know how else to say it. I just continue to be amazed at the number of Republicans who are so easily conned, duped and hoodwinked by Willard Mitt Romney. I'm not sure there are any facts I could offer that would dissuade his minions from supporting their messiah. It's an emotional thing. They have found their political savior, and nothing he has ever said or done previously or in the future is likely to convince them they saddled the wrong pony. Here's the latest bulletin that will fall on deaf ears: The born-again pro-lifer, who swears...

Mitt Romney, fresh from a victory in the Iowa straw poll, says now he was wrong to misrepresent his position on abortion as a candidate and governor of Massachusetts. In other words, he admits he lied – then. But, what if he wasn't lying back then? What if he merely believes in situational ethics? What if, like so many other politicians, he will merely say or do whatever is expedient to achieve political victory and power? These are questions likely Republican voters should be asking themselves now – not when Romney is accepting the GOP nomination for the presidency.

That's the way Hillary and her hero Saul Alinsky viewed liberals. It was the same way the Old Left – the Communist Party – viewed liberals. Hillary quoted Alinsky in her thesis as explaining the difference between a liberal and a radical: "The liberal refuses to fight for the goals he professes." I'm sure Hillary still sees herself today as a "radical." But she could never use that term and remain a viable politician. So she has adopted another term – "progressive" – which means the same thing to those in the know. This is the favored term even today...

How do I put this delicately? Barack Obama is a blithering idiot, a politician so bereft of experience and wisdom as to be an embarrassment to the entire process of selecting an American President. That about does it. I refer specifically, but not exclusively, to Obama's comments to this effect: "I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance – involving civilians." He then added as an afterthought: "Let me scratch that. There's been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That's not on the table." As if the Democratic Party had not yet...

So what's wrong with Democrats in this country? Why are they being so reactionary? Why do they insist on holding out on so many of their constituents? How long will it take them to achieve their stated goals with such a penny ante approach to redistribution of wealth? If heath insurance is, as they insist, a universal right, isn't food? Isn't shelter? Isn't clothing? Why are there no proposals being made to ensure all Americans can get free food, free housing and free clothing among other essentials? If you get a chance – at a town hall meeting or at...

I don't know if this is a precipice from which there is any return for the party of Pelosi and Reid. These are turncoats in the truest form of the word. These are people who are secretly – and, now, not so secretly – praying for, hoping for and acting in the best interests of victory for Osama bin Laden and his cohorts who would chop off their heads just as fast as they would chop off yours and mine. Imagine political power meaning so much to you that you would sell out your own country – perhaps even the...

That's what Barack Obama called it. "A victory for all Americans." A small town in Pennsylvania votes overwhelmingly to elect a mayor on a platform of cracking down on the damage illegal aliens are inflicting on the community. The heroic mayor, Louis J. Barletta, fulfills his promise to his constituents by enacting an ordinance last summer prohibiting renting to those in the U.S. illegally. A group of "activists" challenge the law in court. And U.S. District Judge James Munley, an appointee of Bill Clinton, overturns the popular measure with a stroke of the pen. That is what Barack Obama characterizes...

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, a friend of W, is making the rounds defending every aspect of his case against Ramos and Compean. He's got an answer for every question. The only problem is that when he's finished answering the questions and demeaning the character of these two agents in every way imaginable, his official actions still reek of rank injustice. He doesn't understand that. Bush doesn't get it. But the American people, members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, look at what he did in the case candidly, honestly and objectively and conclude it was wrong – just plain wrong....

"Palestinians never used to do these things to one another." That was the first sentence of a New York Times Magazine story by the newspaper's Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Steven Erlanger. What are the things Palestinians are doing to one another today that they didn't do before? * putting bullets in the back of the heads of men on their knees; * shooting up hospitals; * killing patients; * knee-capping doctors; * executing clerics; * throwing handcuffed prisoners to their deaths from Gaza's highest apartment buildings; Is it naivete? Plain ignorance and incompetence? Deliberate disinformation? Partisanship with radical Islamists? Anti-Israeli zealotry?...

Meet the dumbest man in Congress Who could it be? Ted Kennedy? Joe Biden? Jack Murtha? I admit it. There's quite a bit of competition for the title – the dumbest man in Congress. Could it be Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee or Patty Murray? No, I'm not limiting the choices to men of the male persuasion. We're talking about men here in the sense of mankind. These chicks are in contention – no question about it. Each has made her own bids for the honor. What about Jim Moran? Charlie Rangel? Robert Byrd? It's a tough choice, isn't it? There...

Fresh from the success of his latest agitprop promoting socialized medicine, "Sicko" filmmaker Michael Moore is considering whether he will use his next movie to teach us all a thing or two about the mind and will of God. That's right, call him the Rev. Michael Moore. Specifically, he intends to share his biblical wisdom regarding the issue of homosexuality and what he sees as irrational hatred of it. "I think it's a very ripe subject for someone like me to make a movie about," he told the homosexual magazine the Advocate. "Simply because we are not there yet and...

I hope the atheists of America took great comfort from remarks last week by Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who told said: "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists." Gullibility comes in all shapes, sizes, colors – and apparently religions, judging from the applause that followed. Ellison was in the middle of a brief interlude from one of his frequent tirades against his own country, suggesting, once again, the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were staged by President Bush, much like Adolf Hitler burned down the Reichstag in 1933 to expand his control over the...

If you want to stay on the good side of racist David Duke, be sure you don't cross the beloved memory of the godfather of terrorism, Yasser Arafat. That was the lesson WND learned Thursday when Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein reported one of Arafat's confidantes, Ahmed Jibril, confirmed a French medical report on the cause of his death cited AIDS. That was enough to set off the Duke machine, which came to the rescue of Arafat's manhood. "The WND article by Aaron Klein, which came out of the Jerusalem office of WorldNetDaily, couldn't possibly be ZIONIST PROPAGANDA, could it?"...