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Liberté! Égalité! Fraternité! is the national motto of France. Liberty, equality and brotherhood were first employed as watchwords for the French Revolution, during which very little of these virtuous ideals were employed by the revolutionaries toward any group but themselves. Here in the U.S., our Revolution used similarly noble words to express our national identity: 'Live Free or Die,' 'No Taxation Without Representation,' 'Don't Tread on Me' and later, 'All men are created Equal.' And to be sure, for most of its history, America has embodied those sentiments, when unrestrained by a government originally instituted to support them. Sadly, it...

And why not? John Wayne was born Marion Morrison 100 years ago last month in the dreaded Midwest, before his family moved to a California that had yet to see the "golden days" of left-wing infiltration. He played football at USC before a surfing injury caused him to lose his scholarship and he soon found work as a Hollywood stuntman before stardom found him. He was incredibly handsome in youth and despite his large and rangy frame, had a lithesome quality to his bearing, even late in life. It is a cliche used in reference to many actors that women...

A funny thing happened on the way to the nation's highest forum last week. After Harry Reid attempted to use the well of the U.S. Senate to advance his party's frivolous attempt at ousting Karl Rove for outing Joe Wilson's wife, GOP leaders actually fought back. After four years of quietly beating the minority to a pulp behind the scenes and at the ballot box, Bill Frist and company exhibited a rare public display of political payback. Amid the undulating and ever-changing accusations of Republican skullduggery, the liberal left -- ever reliant on its faithful media wing -- finally turned...

One year ago the nation paid a fond farewell to its 40th president in a week-long tribute filled with pride, pathos and patriotism. Hundreds of thousands of Americans turned out to file past the president lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda and to line the streets of Washington to see his cortege pass. Millions more spent the week near TV sets to observe the pomp and circumstance attendant a rare state funeral. Crossing the country twice by plane, the body of Ronald Wilson Reagan went from sea to shining sea then back again with near continuous coverage of the...

Save Terri, Save America The gnawing in the pit of the stomach will not abate. The feeling that, little by little, we are seeing that which formerly made this country great slip away before our unbelieving eyes; that greatness which was represented by the notion that justice, truth and moral clarity would always prevail against tyranny in every form—especially governmental—seems to be at an end. That the founding principle of this nation—the safeguarding of the God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—has come to be regarded as so much un-nuanced corn, to be sorted out and ‘explained’...

Terri Schiavo and the soul of America By Lisa Fabrizio © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com It is often said by abortion supporters that a fetus is not a baby until it can survive independently outside the mother's womb. This is, of course, a specious argument since this "survival" is not possible without the care and nourishment of others, either pre or post birth. This is true not only of infants and children, but of the sick, disabled and elderly as well. But if certain right-to-death groups get their way this week, you can add Terri Schiavo's name to the growing list of...

This week's bombshell seems an awful lot like last week's and the week before: liberal reporter finds 'evidence' of a shocking story, liberal legislators conduct somber investigations demanding answers from the Administration, liberal press endlessly spins the results and the nation yawns. For the last month, it was the cacophony of 'Bush Knew' stories which lead to the appalling public grilling of Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and others. This backfired as the immediate result was the inflation of President Bush's poll numbers, and so commenced the quest for a new shocking revelation. Enter the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse story. You can...

The politicization of 9/11? Lisa Fabrizio March 11, 2004 For a man who labels himself as compassionate, George W. Bush is not engendering much of that sentiment from his adversaries, is he? In the past few years he's been called a thief, a traitor, a liar, a betrayer, a moron and a miserable failure to name a few. He's on the one hand a boobish cowboy, held on a short lasso by his wranglers and on the other a scheming, Ivy-League frat boy. When he first rode into town he promised to be a uniter, not a divider and although...

A bad week for Bush? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 13, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Lisa Fabrizio © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com It's been a bad week for President Bush, or so they say. After all, he was accused of being a traitor by a man who accepted campaign funds from the Red Chinese, a deserter by a man who shilled for an overt draft-dodger, embarrassed by his hand-picked weapons inspector and probably most dire of all, he had a less-than-inspiring appearance on a Sunday morning talk show. Or so they say. As is usual, even among conservatives, people tend to believe the...

There they go again. After the disgraceful, unjustified Borking of Miguel Estrada, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) called it a, "victory for the Constitution and the nation's judicial system and the American people." Whenever liberals invoke the C word, you can bet your bottom dollar that more damage to that sacred document is imminent. Similarly, when "victories" are claimed in the name of the rule of law, or worse, our Founding Fathers, you can immediately surmise that the exact opposite is true. Most on the left are either ignorant, or in blatant disregard of the precepts that undergird our system of...

       Email From The Front,     The Real Story In Iraq?                                     By                              Lisa Fabrizio   Toogood Reports [Wednesday, August 13, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger's entry into the race for the soon-to-be vacated California governor's chair, the mainstream media has taken a breather from lamenting the Iraq quagmire to begin slash and burn operations on the nominal Republican candidate. I usually write my own column, but in the event that the press really has given up their Vietnam-like strategy--using purported battlefield reports from actual soldiers to demoralize the rest of the troops and undermine public support for the war--I'd...

The Western White House in Crawford, Texas was recently visited by Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy. Signore Silvio, the best export from that country since foccachio, has the distinction of being the most despised European in Europe. Previous holders of the title usually spring from the British Isles; most recently, Lady Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Given the fact that Mrs. Thatcher is merely a woman and Mr. Blair merely a poodle and that the rest of Europe looks down its collective nose at all non-continentals, it is a mighty achievement indeed. After long being deluged by his enemies...