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THE GIPPER “[W]e are currently in the midst of a re-ordering of the political realities that have shaped our time. We know today that the principles and values that lie at the heart of conservatism are shared by the majority. Despite what some in the press may say, we who are proud to call ourselves ‘conservative’ are not a minority of a minority party; we are part of the great majority of Americans of both major parties and of most of the independents as well.” —Ronald Reagan

** EXCERPT ** Conservatives have won an absolute majority with at least 163 of the 290-seats in Iran's parliament and reformists opposing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have 40 so far, state-owned Press TV reported on Sunday. Iranians voted on Friday in an election that was expected to keep conservatives in control of the assembly after many reformists, the staunchest critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were barred from running. The English-language satellite channel said four seats had gone to independents. Thirty seats were to be decided in run-off elections after candidates failed to secure enough votes for an outright win. Press TV...

Republicans must forget about John McCain and move on to far bigger issues! American conservatives are fed up beyond the level of 2006, when they allowed Democrats to take back control of congress in protest to liberal and moderate Republican policies coming from the Bush Administration and the Republican National Committee controlled congress. I know, because IÂ’m one of them. They are threatening to guarantee a Democrat White House in 2008 by way of these three equally ill-advised strategies...and Democrats appreciate all three. â–ª Staying home on Election Day in protest â–ª Supporting a non-viable Third Party alternative â–ª Writing...

White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. — House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) challenged House Republicans to make a few sacrifices in the next year that will help the GOP sell their agenda to voters in the fall elections. The Republican leader is scheduled to lead his members in a broad, potentially rancorous debate over lawmaker-requested projects Friday during their annual retreat here. The reform proposals include a one-year moratorium on earmarks for all Republicans, the creation of a special panel to review the process, including the abuses that have occurred, and a litany of smaller guidelines to curtail wasteful...

(IsraelNN.com) As Israel enters its 60th year, the American-Israel Demographic Research Group (AIDRG) provides some good news: The ground is being prepared for a major Jewish demographic boost, beginning in 2025. The Arab birthrate is down, while the Jewish birthrate - especially in the hareidi and religious sectors - is increasing. The effects are currently merely arithmetic, but these are expected to begin multiplying geometrically within a generation. At present, the Jewish majority is hovering around 80%, with the religious and hareidi populations each representing slightly over 10% of this amount. Latest Central Bureau of Statistics numbers show that there...

While researching a story about a city council race for a local newspaper, I came across one of the most disturbing and disgusting phenomena I’ve yet seen come onto the scene in American politics. We all know about the parade of far-Left freaks that includes MoveOn.org, George Soros, Peter Lewis, David Geffen and their ilk, who are using their vast resources to propagandize the American public into voting us incrementally toward being a morally bankrupt, internationally castrated nation. We’ve heard the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) referred to as “the most dangerous organization in America” due to its support for...

Just when it seems the darkest in Iraq, the people there seem to believe otherwise. I admit, like many other Americans, to being war-weary. And who could blame Americans for getting tired of seeing the daily carnage in Iraq, like today's chlorine gas attack? Yet three articles from the Times Online today show that, from an Iraqi perspective, removing Saddam was the right thing to do, and that Bush's troop surge should be given a chance to work. These articles confirm my belief that the top leadership of the Democratic Party, not necessarily the rank and file, want to see...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Jimmy Carter defended his new book on the Middle East on Thursday against sharp criticism from Jewish groups and said a majority of U.S. citizens including many Jews supported its main proposals. Letters he received since the publication in November of "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid" were largely supportive and included support from many readers who described themselves as U.S. Jews, said the former president. Jewish groups have expressed outrage at the book, arguing that its title and contents could undermine perceptions of Israel's legitimacy. Carter, 82, was addressing a forum at Atlanta's Emory University in which he...

I know the Republicans lost; it is time for sole searching, etc. etc. The fact is, however, if 3,615 votes in Virginia and 1,423 votes in Montana had gone the other way, the Dems would have no Majority. My point? The Dems will not be the “Permanent Majority” for too long. Here is the math: Web in Virginia won with a 7,231-vote margin – Half of it is 3,615. In Montana, Jon Tester won with a 2,847 margin – half of it is 1,423. 3,615 + 1,423 = 5,038.

About 46 years ago, with no previous immediate family or personal involvement in politics, I began to study our government and the elective and judicial processes. As a local Jaycee president and eventually vice president of the Missouri Jaycees, through Jaycee programs I became aware of Americanism and the threat by outside ideologies to our freedoms. Even though I had an uncle who was a Democratic state senator in Arkansas and an active grandfather in that overwhelmingly Democratic state, neither my father, his associates nor myself and friends had even been politically involved until my Jaycee days. However, through study,...

SAN FRANCISCO A majority of California voters may cast absentee ballots in the Nov. 7 election, a milestone that's forcing politicians to rethink campaign strategies and prompting registrars to streamline ballot-counting procedures. The growth of absentee voting in the most populous state echoes a nationwide trend that's most pronounced in the West. Oregon has used mail-in ballots almost exclusively for a decade. More than half of all votes are absentee in Washington, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. Marin County, just north of San Francisco, has sent ballots to 54 percent of its nearly 147,000 registered voters. And registrar Elaine Ginnold...

  Democrats named their party after democracy. They used to think it was a good way to run things.There has been debate on the right for years about whether President Bush’s promotion of democracy in the Middle East as an integral part of the GWOT is perhaps too naively Wilsonian. Democrats are largely silent or dismissive on the issue. Woodrwo Wilson was, of course, a Democrat.The once fervent support for democracy among Democrats from Wilson through Truman has been ebbing over decades. The one time elections in much of the old colonial world in the sixties most often led to...

"We must share the benefits of our wealth" beyond the privileged few." - Nancy Pelosi, discussing plans for the first 100 hours of democrat control of the House of Representatives in November 2006. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." -Karl Marx 1875

I don't think this will shock anybody. I spoke with an old pal today who works on the Hill. My pal informed me that the majority of Congress critters, their Chiefs of Staff (the person who really calls the shots in the Congressional office), and other staffers on the Republican side have already written off keeping the majority in the House. My pal mentioned that many staffers were told as far back as last January that it was highly likely that Republicans would lose the majority. HOW PATHETIC IS THAT???? Word from the Hill is that as of Friday, the...

Jim Geraghty on "Voting to Kill"October 2, 2006 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I'd like to welcome to the program Jim Geraghty from National Review Online. He has a blog called The Kerry Spot, TKS. It's just a brilliant body of work. During the campaign of 2004 it was cited often by me -- not stolen by me, but cited often by me -- on this program. Jim has a book out called Voting to Kill. It's been out since September 19th. He went out and interviewed a number of Americans about the issues on their minds as the midterm elections come...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Interior Ministry forces have reached 92 percent of a planned strength of 188,000 troops, the commander of the Coalition's Civilian Police Assistance Training Team said Monday in the capital. The Iraqi police are 90 percent trained and 83 percent equipped, according to Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Peterson, speaking to reporters from Baghdad Monday with Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, spokesman for Multi-National Force – Iraq. Members of the Iraqi National Police, formerly called special police, are 98 percent trained and equipped, the general said. The Interior Ministry also controls the Department of Border Enforcement. Its...

Tories sense coming of Harper-led majority Party members show confidence in PM despite gripes over management style Toronto Globe and Mail Monday, July, 17, 2006 GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA -- Yes, they are governing in Ottawa but Conservatives across the country want more. They want a majority. And they see Stephen Harper as the man who will give it to them. Last summer, Mr. Harper was battling image problems and the threat of mutiny. He was described as too staid, too serious and too angry to charm Canadian voters. Some members of his own party were calling for his resignation,...

There's probably no way congressional Republicans can lose this fall, no matter how unpopular President Bush is or how unhappy the voters are with the war in Iraq. That's the prevailing view in Washington today. But it's wrong. If history is any guide, we're heading into a major political storm. And that means we could see a national tide in November that will sweep the Democrats back into the majority. Virtually every public opinion measure points to a Category 4 or 5 hurricane gathering... But many analysts have noted the absence of strategic behavior on the part of the Democrats,...

Robert McDowell was sworn in on June 1 as a member of the Federal Communications Commission, giving Republican Chairman Kevin Martin his first partisan majority since taking office 14 months ago. McDowell, a telephone association executive until joining the commission, could cast major votes on media ownership and cable carriage rules at his initial FCC monthly meeting, on June 15. Until June 1, Martin has contended with a commission split 2-to-2 between Democrats and Republicans, and for a few months was even the sole Republican on the agency. Now, Martin is asking commissioners to reverse last year’s FCC decision limiting...

WASHINGTON--DEMOCRATS are all but breaking out the Champagne. Republicans are divided and disheartened; President Bush's poll numbers seem to be in free fall. Many Democrats are talking not only about victory in November but about what they will do once Congress is in their hands. Such talk may well be premature. Election Day is six months away, and the party has lost many a winning hand. But here is a slightly heretical question, being asked only partly in jest right now: Is it really in the best interest of the Democratic Party to win control of the House and Senate...

Rallying the troops with a timid cry April 14, 2006 Good men always rally to the battle cry when the issue stands in doubt: "We have not yet begun to fight." Or this one: "Rally to the Virginians, boys, there stands Jackson like a stone wall." Or this one: "Remember Pearl Harbor." But nobody rallies to this one: "Every man for himself." The congressional Republicans have scattered now for two weeks, to return to their districts to convince skeptical constituents that they're still not as bad as the Democrats -- or even as bad as the president, if that's what...

Without winning a single Toronto seat, Prime Minister Stephen Harper could secure a majority in the next election. Mathematically, the possibility has always been there. Toronto has just 23 of the 308 seats in Parliament. What wasn't initially clear was whether Harper would try to build a winning coalition without Toronto. The emerging consensus: Yes. Political insiders at city hall, Queen's Park and on Parliament Hill expect the Prime Minister to make Quebec his top priority. The Conservatives now hold just 10 of the province's 75 seats. As a secondary thrust, Harper will target ridings his party lost by a...

Boehner Aide Tied to Trip Set by Abramoff By DAVID HAMMER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - A White House aide who was once chief of staff to House Majority Leader John Boehner helped plan a 1996 trip to the Northern Mariana Islands that was organized by fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff, billing records from Abramoff's firm show. Barry Jackson, now chief deputy to White House adviser Karl Rove, accepted an invitation to travel to the island of Saipan in April 1996 but later decided not to go, White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said Tuesday. The government of the U.S. Commonwealth of...

In between sessions today Republican Study Committee Chairman Mike Pence told reporters that RSC members - who believe in fiscal discipline, limited government and traditional moral values - were the majority of the Republican majority. Pence's statement is important because given current Republican woes it is easy for grassroots conservatives to wonder if there are any good guys left in Washington. As Pence points out, there are. But Pence's statement is also important for another reason. If, as Pence says, the majority of the majority believes in conservative principles of limited government and traditional values, then why has government spending...

Hamas' victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections is already being sanitized by the politically correct, despite the terrorist group's bloody track record and its fallacious and dubious historical claims to the land of Israel. Thankfully, some Western leaders are condemning the selection of murderers by Palestinians for their government. At the top of a BBC article yesterday regarding the Hamas terrorist group winning Palestinian elections: The win poses problems for efforts to restart peace talks with Israel, say analysts. Israel insists it will not deal with an authority including Hamas. So this is all just Israel's problem/fault because the majority of...

WASHINGTON--As readers of this page know all too well, excessive government regulation, taxation and spending strangle economic growth as frequently as runaway litigation and soaring health-care and energy costs do. What politicians say about these issues does not matter much, but what we do about them does. I'm proud of what House Republicans have accomplished on this front over the last several years, but I know that much remains to be done. House Republicans have cut the tax rate on capital gains and dividends, substantially lowered personal tax rates, and set in motion a plan to eliminate the death tax...

With The Tories Closing In On A Majority, Their Leader Becomes The Target Election front-runner Stephen Harper faced a gang-up yesterday as his political rivals moved to reverse Conservative momentum, especially in Quebec. The Tory Leader, now boasting a double-digit lead according to some polls, was forced to absorb criticism from all fronts as Liberal Leader Paul Martin moved to win back federalist votes bleeding to Mr. Harper's party, while Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe accused Conservatives of being part of the Option Canada issue. The French-language debate was the last chance the four leaders had to face each other...

This weekend, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) announced that he would not seek to regain his post as Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. DeLay was forced to step down temporarily from his leadership position because he is currently under indictment by Texas Democrat District Attorney Ronnie Earle. DeLay has not been convicted of anything, but the rules for the Republican Caucus in the House are different from those of the Democrats, and the mere indictment is sufficient for a Republican member to step aside from a leadership role. Unfortunately for DeLay, the Republican Party has once again shown...

That is because Tom Delay has now been indicted by a Democratic District Attorney in Texas. From Fox News. Rep. Tom DeLay said he would temporarily step down as House majority leader on Wednesday after he and two political associates were charged by a Texas grand jury with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme. House sources said Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill, would recommend Rep. David Dreier of California to take over DeLay’s majority leader duties. There is some talk that the Republican leadership in the House has been preparing for this eventuality. Probably not what Tom Delay was hoping for…to...

Minority Rules! Who Will Protect The Majority From The Minority? According to most encyclopedias, a Republic is a "state or country having a government whose political power depends solely on the consent of the people governed." The Constitution, if interpreted with common horse sense, dictates that the majority of the people should have at least some input into how the United States is governed. Liberal manipulation, however, has effectively dissolved the influence and vote of the majority and has displaced Majority Rules with Minority Rules. An overwhelming majority of Americans do no not approve of Partial Birth Abortion in which...

Robert Novak reports Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) "has informed" Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) "that Federal Appeals Court Judge Priscilla Owen will be filibustered if President Bush names her to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. "Republican senators are divided on whether former Texas Supreme Court Justice Owen is vulnerable because she underwent a filibuster for the appellate seat and was confirmed under the compromise agreement. Frist is known to believe Owen can be confirmed in the face of a filibuster. "Republican Senate strategists believe Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is the only possible Bush nominee...

It’s time to throw out the traditional playbook and be bold as you plan for the 2006 elections. There is a real possibility that next year’s contest will be a landslide for Democrats and you need to be prepared to win. Specifically, Emanuel and Schumer should file candidates for every single Congressional seat and ever single Senatorial seat in the country, even those that have traditionally been Republican. And the DNC should be encouraging state legislative leaders throughout the country to take similar action on the state house and senate levels. (Excerpt) Why do I think big Democratic gains loom?...

Ariel Sharon had evidently reached the conclusion that a military victory was needed, and since he was incapable of directing or unable to order a military victory over the Palestinians, he ordered a military victory over the Jewish "settlers". Israelis opposed to Ariel Sharon's unilateral "disengagement plan" had something in common with those who backed the plan. Neither group had any idea at all of why Sharon was implementing it. Those who opposed the plan, the "Orange Banner" camp, unsurprisingly had trouble understanding what benefits Sharon could possibly think would come from the "disengagement". But the supporters of the plan...

EL PASO, Texas - Texas has become the fourth state to have a non-white majority population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Hispanics moving to the state. According to the population estimates based on the 2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state. Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states with majority-minority populations — with Hispanics the largest group in every state but Hawaii, where it is Asian-Americans. Five other states...

BATAVIA, Ohio — Batavia, Ohio typifies much of the state's 2nd Congressional District, which hasn't sent a Democrat to Washington in nearly 40 years. But with a special election set for Tuesday, the competitive race for the seat has surprised many election watchers. "The 2nd district of Ohio is normally not a competitive seat. It is an unusual set of circumstances here," said Michael Margolis, a political science professor .....snip "I've said that I don't like the son-of-a-b---- that lives in the White House. But I'd put my life on the line for him," Schmidt leads Hackett in fund-raising by...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20050715/tc_cmp/165702500 UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses Aoife White Thu Jul 14, 9:38 PM ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)--A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate. The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops. In a report released Thursday, the U.N. panel outlined four possible options for the future of Internet governance for world leaders to consider at a November "Information...

Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA

Certain seasons or events have historically spawned their own lexicons which are unique to those events and used almost exclusively to describe them. Late in the college football season, some games have what are unfailingly called, “serious bowl implications.” Likewise vice-presidential candidates must possess ''gravitas'' and Super Bowls oddly acquire roman numerals. So. too. does the Supreme Court nomination process require its own terminology, especially when the president is a Republican. Over the next several weeks there are a number of ordinary words and phrases that will be used ad nauseam in reference to whomever President Bush submits to the...

'There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists," Father Paul Hawkins of St Pancras parish church told his congregation on Sunday. "The people who carried out these attacks are victims of a false religion, be it false Christianity or false Islam." Oh, dear. "Britain can take it" (as they said in the Blitz): that's never been in doubt. The question is whether Britain can still dish it out. When events such as last Thursday's occur, two things happen, usually within hours if not minutes: first, spokespersons for Islamic lobby groups issue warnings about an imminent backlash against Muslims. In fairness...

It is difficult to understand the tepid nature of a majority party in two of the three branches of government, as they allow the minority party to continuously subject them to a public whipping and humiliation. It would seem somewhat akin to appeasing a spider in whose web you are ensnared intent on sucking out your life’s blood. It is give and take in the world of politics it is said but in our current political situation, the Republicans give and the Democrats take. Sounds right I guess if you’re a Democrat. It is General Douglas McArthur that is most...

Just over half of Americans, 53 percent, now say the war in Iraq was a mistake - the highest percentage to say that in AP-Ipsos polling since December 2003, when two-thirds said the war in Iraq was the right thing to do. The poll taken earlier this week also found that almost six in 10 disapprove of the Bush administration's conduct of the war, but about the same number say they would prefer keeping troops until the situation is stable instead of immediately withdrawing them from Iraq. Some other findings: -Who most favors the war: Suburban men, Republicans. -Who is...

We’ve received a lot of calls over the last few days regarding the procedures to be followed if, in fact, a vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States takes place at the end of the term. As it stands right now, it appears that the Supreme Court term will end during the week of June 27th. It is conceivable if a vacancy takes place, it could be announced the last day of the term. It is also probable that the White House would make an announcement as to the appointment of the replacement within 48 hours. There is...

Their mission is clear. They want to overthrow what they consider a puppet government and return to the way it was before their power was lost. Their strategy embraces an insurrection and their agenda is to undermine the new government by discrediting and obstructing at every opportunity. Fighting this insurgency is remarkably similar to the Vietnam war. We knew exactly who the enemy was and where the power was coming from. In that war the insurgents’ strategy was to watch the political situation and wait until Americans got tired of fighting and capitulated. It was a war of will and...

Radio ads ask Republicans to get rid of majority leader Drive targets six vulnerable House members and one on the ethics panel By BENNETT ROTH June 2, 2005, 1:05AM Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - MoveOn.org, a liberal political action group, has targeted seven vulnerable GOP House members by running radio ads in their districts urging them to remove Tom DeLay as majority leader because of alleged ethics violations. The spots, which begin airing today and will run for a week, are an effort by the well-funded Democratic group to make DeLay and his ethical problems a defining...

Despite continuing outrage among conservatives over last week’s sellout of Senate Republicans by seven “moderates” in their midst, it is clear that Arizona Senator John McCain, the apparent leader of the effort, presumes himself to be a big winner. While McCain has been positively deferential towards Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist when questioned directly, his actions dealt a severe setback to Frist’s efforts to solidify Republican Senate clout. Appearing widely in front of network cameras (a place he clearly relishes), McCain nevertheless pronounced that the compromise had been undertaken “in the finest traditions of the Senate.” Any presumed victories resulting...

The Republicans have had the Democrats on the defensive. They have won seven presidential victories in the last 10 elections since 1968; control of the House since 1994; and, recently, control of the Senate, both with increasing majorities. The Democrats have not broken 50 percent in any presidential election since 1976 or 48.5 percent in the six congressional elections since 1994. They have not won a majority of the white votes since 1964, and their geographic base has come to be concentrated on both coasts. You can fly over virtually the entire country without flying over states that voted Democratic....

After talking for months about the “constitutional/nuclear/whatever option,” Senate majority leader Bill Frist was finally set to bring the measure to the table. The move to restore the rights of the majority in consenting to judicial nominees by a majority vote was finally going to signal the end of the Republican weasel-ness that plagues the party every time it gains power. Then the weasels stepped in. The “great compromise” resulted in the Republicans giving up everything while the Democrats gave up nothing. The give-take deal worked as it always has. Republicans give, Democrats take. The parties shake hands and the...

The biggest winner is Senator John McCain, who once again sold out both principles and party, to the applause of the mainstream media. Not only is he assured of good publicity, he has pulled the rug out from under Majority Leader William Frist, his probable chief rival for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. Winning a showdown with the Democrats by using the so-called "nuclear option" to stop the filibustering of judicial nominees would have given Senator Frist the kind of name-recognition that McCain already has and would be a major achievement to solidify the support of the conservative Republican base....

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor and proclaimed that the agreement reached that allowed the Senate to avert the “Constitutional Option” over President Bush’s judicial nominees signified our “Republic was strong.” Once again, Mr. Reid is on the wrong side of right. The deal struck to avoid the showdown on the president’s judicial nominees proved only one thing, that the resolve of moderate Republicans keeps moving the conservative movement in the wrong direction. Whenever you see Reid, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi standing in concert praising something that a group of Republicans agreed to...