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If Clark Is For Real— Hillary Isn't! By Lowell Phillips Wednesday, September 24, 2003 http://ToogoodReports.com/ Face it, either Wesley Clark is a "stalking horse" for Hillary Clinton, or Hillary does not want to be President. "There those paranoid Clinton-bashers go again." Right? Sadly, whenever the Clintons are involved it's difficult to avoid considering conspiracies. This comes from someone not predisposed to buy into them. Those who scoff at such notions and attempt to dissuade us actually make subterfuge more plausible by their granting the Clintons blanket immunity. Frankly it's easier to accept that people are weaving nefarious schemes if they...

9/11 Plus Two: Enemy Revealed By A Look In The Mirror By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports September 11, 2003 Contemplating the events of 9/11 and the freshness of them in my mind, it's hard to believe that two years have already passed. Gazing out across the political landscape however, it feels more like a century and at times like it never happened at all. The righteous anger is largely gone, replaced by ambivalence, if not outright boredom. Watching President Bush's address to the nation this past Sunday, I was struck by the absence of the aura that emerged in the...

Should Iraq Be Sentenced To UN Peacekeeping For Its Sins? By Mary Mostert Weekender, September 07 ToogoodReports.com/ Reuters News Service, which seems to seldom find anything actually good that President Bush or the United States is doing, reported yesterday that "President Bush may have a hard time negotiating an expanded U.N. participation in Iraq due to his previous unwillingness to share authority after the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Sen. Joseph Biden said, "This is kind of like the last chance to get it right, and to end this situation of the United States being the one to bear the coast...

Gutless Republicans By Bob Ellis Weekender, September 07 ToogoodReports.com Miguel Estrada, President Bush's eminently qualified judicial nominee for the federal bench, withdrew from consideration for the post of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after spending 28 months being stonewalled by petulant Democrats. Mr. Estrada has incidentally received the highest possible rating from the Left- leaning American Bar Association (ABA). Estrada has also argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court. Yet Senate Democrats just couldn't be sure whether or not he was some drooling, Hitler-clone who might disregard the Consitution in favor of his personal political...

Hollywood's Leftists And Lunatics By Lowell Phillips Weedender, September 07 ToogoodReports.com It's becoming increasingly difficult to be a pro-American, philosophical conservative and a movie fan at the same time. Certainly there are those of other political persuasions who believe the two to be mutually exclusive. How could it be that a right-wing "imperialist" is able to appreciate celluloid artistry? As everyone knows, conservatives are incapable of smiling, laughing or shedding a tear due to our inherent lack of empathy. How could we even make time for such things with so much required to devise ways to aid the "wealthy" at...

Distorting The War In The Minds Of Little Old Men By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports Weedender, August 31 I can't help feeling that I was a bit disrespectful to one of my elders recently, but only a bit. While flipping through a dated issue of Popular Mechanics at a good old-fashioned barbershop I frequent, I noticed a man in his mid-70's, wearing a toupee taking a seat in the barber's chair. Although I was intrigued at the sight, I didn't want to be obvious. It had never occurred to me that maintenance was needed on the real hair that remained....

The U.N. Gets Bombed,And The Media Suddenly See "Terrorists" (good hyperlink at site) By Lowell Phillips Weekender, August 24, 2003 http://ToogoodReports.com/ A cement truck laden with explosives plows into the Baghdad headquarters of the United Nations and, presto-chango, there are "terrorists" in Iraq. That's right, not "guerrillas," not "resistance fighters," but "terrorists." And the press is appalled at their wickedness. Suddenly journalists and pundits who could scarcely bring themselves to utter the T-word now find themselves compelled to use it. Strange how when a U.S. serviceman is killed while guarding a hospital or when Israeli women and children are obliterated...

How To Read The Washington Post 101 By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports Monday, August 18 ...But the media's Vietnam offspring are not deterred. The next best thing to a humiliating defeat is a delegitimized victory. Emulating their European brethren, as ever, they see the most promising methods to achieve this as questioning the motives for the war and weaving conspiracies. Weeks after the flap created by a misrepresentation of 16 words in the President's State Of the Union Address died, The Washington Post continues to pathetically flail away in hopes of landing a knockout blow. Only by a bit of...

Where Are All The Bush Bashers? By Lowell Phillips August 10, 2003 ToogoodReports.com News Flash: Liberals Hate George W. Bush Actually this isn't news. It doesn't take much effort to find examples of the seething animosity for the White House's current occupant. It's far more difficult to find someone who opposes the president that doesn't speak in wild hyperboles, foretelling the end of the world, and in serious danger of a stroke. So visceral has it become that the media and pollsters are speaking openly of it. A recent New York Times piece, "Disdain for Bush Simmers in Democratic Strongholds,"...

The Saudis Should Shut Up And Enjoy Their "Kingdom", While It Lasts By Lowell Phillips Thursday, August 7, 2003 http://ToogoodReports.com/ I'm a realist when it comes to foreign policy, and as such have developed a certain tolerance for the distasteful deeds and repugnant characters necessary to insure our national security. This doesn't, however, mean that I relish thinking about them or kid myself into believing the tasks are pleasant or that the people are noble. But when they feign morality, spout indignantly and castigate the United States from the gutter in which they dwell, cold rationalizations are a bit difficult...

Gay Rights And Santa's Elves By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports August 5, 2003 All sides of the "workers' rights" debate are weighing in on the heretofore unrecognized plight of Santa's Elves. Labor leaders and human rights activists are increasingly speaking out on behalf of the yuletide pixies that have, from time immemorial, been forced to toil in arctic conditions, with primitive equipment, to meet vast production quotas and inflexible deadlines. Added complaints have emerged regarding allegedly discriminatory employment practices. National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy has decried the conspicuous lack of female representation within the elf workforce and Little...

Democrats Curse Uday And Qusay! And Maybe Bill Clinton Too! By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports July 27, 2003 Damn Uday and Qusay Hussein! Damn them! For systematic oppression? For presiding over mass murder? For abducting brides from their weddings to rape, mutilate and kill them? For torturing children in front of their parents? Nah, they should be damned for being so discourteous as to allow themselves to be killed when American liberals were on a roll. Considering all the left did to assure that their reign of terror with daddy would continue this is doubly insulting. I'd like to say...

The Left's Blind And Dangerous Obsession By Lowell Phillips Weekender July 20, 2003 Being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. As one, I'm forced to accept things that I wish weren't true. I have to acknowledge that Santa Claus doesn't exist, and neither does the Tooth Fairy. I have to accept that "summer vacations" end when school is finished. And sadly, I have to accept that Democrats truly do value their own political power more than the security of the United States, and that the American media is not an institution with a duty, but one...

Making Peace In Liberia And Making War In The Twilight Zone By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports July 13, 2003 "It's nice to be nice again. We may as well savor it while it lasts, which should not be long. With the constant drumbeat of condemnation portraying our military as a modern SS and President Bush as a reincarnation of "Hitler", the calls for intervention in Liberia are like a face full of icy water on a sweltering day. It does not necessarily feel bad, but it certainly is a shock. Since the administration began to respond affirmatively, the editorial pages...

Is It A Fundamental Constitutional Right To Have Sex With Children, Too? By Lowell Phillips Tuesday July 8, 2003 Toogood Reports "This is a glorious and beautiful time to be queer." Don't start hammering out the hate mail just yet. Those aren't my words, but those of a bona fide "gay rights" activist. Amid the orgy of celebration (pun intended) following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, striking down sodomy laws, Molly McKay, spokeswoman for Marriage Equality California proclaimed, "This month has been filled with hope... This is a glorious and beautiful time to be queer." Few...

Here Is To A Nuclear Iran! By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports Weekender June 29, 2003 An unheeded memo here. A speculative prediction there. All those sporadic grains of sand spewed out onto a sprawling desert of information by our laundry list of intelligence gathering and law enforcement agencies should, according to critics, have led the Bush administration to know exactly when, where, how and by whom the attacks of 9/11 would be carried out. The scattered tidbits and guesswork to this day represent "proof" that the Al Qaeda attacks "could have been prevented". Others go further and contend that this...

An unheeded memo here. A speculative prediction there. All those sporadic grains of sand spewed out onto a sprawling desert of information by our laundry list of intelligence gathering and law enforcement agencies should, according to critics, have led the Bush administration to know exactly when, where, how and by whom the attacks of 9/11 would be carried out. The scattered tidbits and guesswork to this day represent "proof" that the Al Qaeda attacks "could have been prevented". Others go further and contend that this was willful neglect, designed to facilitate war, which they see as Republicans' preferred pastime.... http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/phillips/20030629-fss.htm

Rape Does Not Matter By Lowell Phillips Weekender June 15, 2003 Toogood Reports We hear it all the time, "The Clintons are gone", but right-wingers can't get over them. It's acrimoniously suggested that we "move on". Even some alleged conservatives agree, like syndicated talk-radio host Glen Beck who again admonished those who "just can't let the Clintons go." Interesting. A decade and a half after Ronald Reagan gracefully faded from the national stage his name remains synonymous with jingoist foreign policy and malevolence toward the downtrodden, according to the left. Scarcely a political exchange on the economy ends without a...

If Bush Was Going To Lie, Why Would He Lie About WMD? By Lowell Phillips Weekender June 08 Toogood Reports Call it a failing of mine, but I have this problem with things that just don't make sense. And, sorry, the bubbling hysteria over pre-Iraq War intelligence is replete with things that just don't make sense. None of the inconsistencies, however, have any impact on those who are positively breathless to believe the worst about President Bush and the rest of the administration. Pick up a newspaper, turn on a news broadcast, or listen to the callers on talk radio...

No WMDs? Let's Give Iraq Back! By Lowell Phillips Toogood Reports June 03, 2003 I was in a relationship some years back with a woman against whom it was utterly impossible to win an argument. Yeah, yeah, I know: you're not supposed to "win" arguments in relationships. I am no fan of such things, but some issues are so important and their implications so clear that a "compromise" is asinine. But patience, logic and facts were all futile, because her reasoning was in constant flux. If cornered, she would make something else the focus, claim not to have said what...