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The best thing the Democrat Party ever did to advance the Republican Party was to make Howard Screaming Dean the chairman of their party. He is so far to the left of the great majority of Democrats that he will push many of them into the arms of the Republicans. His latest insanity, screaming that the Republican Party is a “White Christian party” underscores that point. Any fair-minded person of either party would acknowledge that the Republican Party is just as diverse as, if not more diverse, than the Democrat Party. The main difference spiritually is that the Republican Party...

by Barbara A. Olevitch, Ph.D Other Articles by Barbara A. Olevitch, Ph.D A Right-To-Die Fairy Tale 06/06/2005 Let's analyze a right-to-die fairy tale. You have probably heard this one. It is going around. In This Article...At the Bedside of Life and DeathMortality Is Not PredictableThe Interpretive Framework At the Bedside of Life and Death In the old days, before people became foolishly arrogant because of life-saving technology, they were wiser about the human life cycle and about the inevitability of death. When Grandpa took to his bed, they brought food to him, but when he stopped eating, they wisely realized that...

In my daily perusal of the news, I caught two items that illustrate, quite clearly, how liberals view the role of the judiciary, thus revealing, in stark terms, how critically important is the battle over the judicial filibuster. First, I read about a commencement speech at Brandeis University by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice who authored the opinion declaring same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts. Newsmax.com reported that Justice Margaret Marshall said, "Our courts function as a pressure valve to defuse political and social tension." Marshall equated criticism of "judicial activism" to a challenge to judicial independence and an effort...

THE Vietnam War is universally regarded as a disaster for what it did to the American and Vietnamese people. However, 30 years after the war's end, the reasons for its outcome remain a matter of dispute. The most popular explanation among historians and journalists is that the defeat was a result of American policy makers' cold-war-driven misunderstanding of North Vietnam's leaders as dangerous Communists. In truth, they argue, we were fighting a nationalist movement with great popular support. In this view, "our side," South Vietnam, was a creation of foreigners and led by a corrupt urban elite with no popular...

Can nothing spare us from the arrogance of liberal media figures, still parading around as Guardians of the Facts and Solely Anointed Professional Disseminators of the Truth? Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, in what reads like an early April Fools’ prank, has written an article for the Post’s Sunday "Outlook" section presenting himself as an objective reporter. The headline was "My Bias for Mainstream News." In it, he complains that the "cottage industry" of watchdog groups on the right and left "are devoted almost entirely to attacking the press." The most priceless sentence is this: "Regardless of the merits, the...

Snap polls of viewers by many news outlets right after the debate began to reveal that those polled thought that Kerry "won" last night's debate... As this debate is further reviewed, any “victory” bestowed on Mr. Kerry may be found to be premature. If the number of lies, misquotes, factual inaccuracies and misstatements used by each candidate is any indicator of "victory", then Kerry was clearly the big winner in a shutout. In a debate, even in a "question/answer" format as in last night's event, if the facts and information that you use to undermine your opponent or advocate your...

5/09/2004 First off today I would like to thank my friends Pat and Vince for joining me on my blog, they can help keep it more interesting and enjoyable and fill in the gaps when I am not feeling up to snuff on posting. Now for my opinion. I remember being 17 years old and watching incredulously as Clarence Thomas was being paraded on TV and being lynched verbally in front of my eyes. I actually was quite the liberal thinker then, although I had already made a right turn after President Reagan made his Surly Bonds speech after the...

Sen. Kerry and His Supporting Crewmates House of Lies Do Americans have the right to ask if Sen. Kerry's stated qualifications are truthful and trustworthy? Absolutely they do, just as any individual or business would be within their rights to verify if a potential new hiree prior experience or education is legitimate. In the coming weeks American's will be hearing revelations from Sen. Kerry's fellow officers who served along with him, or in close proximity with, during his brief four months in Vietnam as an skipper of a swift boat. Most will wonder why if everything they have to say...

Was it "shaking trees" or shaking knees that led to the arrest of convicted millennium terrorist Ahmed Ressam? As former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke tells it in his book "Against All Enemies," an international alert to be on the lookout for terrorists played a role in Ressam's capture at a Port Angeles ferry terminal in December 1999, his car loaded with bomb-making material. But national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, in her testimony before the Sept. 11 commission last week, discounted Clarke's version and credited a savvy U.S. customs agent, Diana Dean. Dean stopped Ressam because "she sniffed something about...

Dismantling The Da Vinci Code By Sandra Miesel“The Grail,” Langdon said, “is symbolic of the lost goddess. When Christianity came along, the old pagan religions did not die easily. Legends of chivalric quests for the Holy Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find the lost sacred feminine. Knights who claimed to be “searching for the chalice” were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned non-believers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine.” (The Da Vinci Code, pages 238-239)The Holy Grail is a...