Iran is preparing for war

It is unpopular to say, especially with so many of our soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq, but Iran and her insane President are preparing for war. Israel will be first, they promise, with the "Great Satan" (America) to follow.

Con Coughlin of the London Telegraph fleshes out the bizarre beliefs that Ahmadinejad and his fanatical clerics and imams adhere to regarding the not-to-distant defeat of The West.

Krauthammer on Sarkozy

Charles Krauthammer sounds off on Sarkozy in France and Ahmadinejad in Iran.

"Britain is a natural ally. Germany, given its history, is more follower than leader. France can define European policy, and Sarkozy intends to."

Your politics look a little "green", Senator Sanders

The only things better than Amanda Carpenter of Townhall.com's looks are her politics and skill with the pen (word processor).

Check out her latest article here: Socialist Dem's in Congress want Big Brother to "level the playing field" yet again; this time under a disingenuous banner of "Green"

Slavery and America

Wow. Michael Medved (my hero) has taken a risky chance with this latest column in which he attempts to put our nation's history of slavery in to context. Good Luck, my friend.

"Unfortunately, the current mania for exaggerating America’s culpability for the horrors of slavery bears no more connection to reality than the old, discredited tendency to deny that the U.S. bore any blame at all."

_ _ _ Bless America...

Why "God" Belongs in Public School

by: R.J. Moeller

Thursday’s headline atop Chicago’s Daily Herald read: “Atheists daughter takes own stand at school”. Dawn Sherman, daughter of local outspoken atheist and all-around public nuisance, Rob Sherman, led the charge in a Student Council meeting to have the song God Bless America removed from a list of songs to be played at this year’s Homecoming at Buffalo Grove High School.

I guess my suggestion during my own senior year of high school that the Homecoming theme be inspired by Joan Osborne’s 1997 Pop-hit What if God was one of us? would probably have been off the table here, huh?

Dawn, a 14 year old freshmen at BGHS, has been made a pawn in her father’s 20-year obsession with denying 230 years of historical and cultural tradition that point to this being a God-fearing nation (with a secular government, of course). Equally frustrating, reporter Sheila Ahern of the Herald did an excellent job of failing to conceal her obvious approval of a tax-payer funded public school brazenly tossing aside a song that in 1938 was nearly declared our new National Anthem by Congress.

In the very same #214 school district, just last year, there was a highly publicized controversy over the more-than-questionable content of various books that the school board had approved for students as young as Dawn Sherman’s age. Topics included: masturbation, gay sex, drug abuse, and suicide. You know, the classics, right?

More to the point, the very same Daily Herald newspaper wrote extensively about the #214 students who had come to the school board meetings to voice their own moral objections to the material they were being encouraged to read. Far from the congratulatory tone Ms. Ahern and her colleagues used in writing about an atheist’s daughter objecting to a patriotic song during a time of war, the Herald lambasted the Christian students who had taken a stand for their beliefs as being the “brainwashed” children of religiously radical parents.

Alright, so denying common sense, history, and putting your atheistic dad’s agenda ahead of the feelings of students’ families who have military ties in their family = courageous “stand” for your convictions. Attending a school board meeting to ask that the content of books you are required to read be more closely monitored, and a focus on classic literature be revisited = radically conditioned responses from disingenuous kids who wouldn’t be saying it unless their parents made them.

I smell liberal math here…

What is really taking place in high schools like Buffalo Grove is the systematic re-writing of our nation’s historical narrative to satisfy people who don’t like the moral and ethical implications that the word “God” carries with it. Why do you think those of us who went through the public school system (in the past thirty years) never learned about Congress’ first act as a legislative body (hiring a minister to pray for wisdom and guidance before each session), but can tell you exactly how blankets of small pox Judeo-Christian imperialists from Europe gave to unsuspecting Native Americans?

Or that we don’t know Thomas Jefferson (old Church-and-State himself) attended weekly church services IN THE CAPITOL BUILDING and General Washington held official days of prayer and fasting during the Revolutionary War? Or that Lincoln used a scriptural reference in nearly every single public speech he ever gave and FDR publicly prayed to the Christian God of the Bible on national radio on D-Day in 1944?

Want me to keep going? The idea I’m getting at here is summed up in a word that the secular Left in American academia and news-media are terrified of: CONTEXT. Nothing is put into context as naïve high school and college students today lap up the secular-progressive drivel their liberal teachers learned in high school, college, and graduate school while other Baby Boomers were busy starting businesses, raising families, and volunteering at their local church.

Sadly, all of the countless examples that I could give regarding the not-so-separate relationship Church and State have had since 1776 likely wouldn’t change the hearts and minds of people who resent the fact they live in a Christian nation. And, truth be told, even the most pious of the Founding Fathers knew we must keep the two entities mutually exclusive as much as possible.

But, the anti-God crowd knowingly misapplies the “freedom of religion” clause in the Constitution and consistently fails to put it into the context anyone with a library card and even a passing interest in what the Framers actually intended America to be could easily find out.

Dawn Sherman said, “The songs should be secular,” when asked about her reasoning for the part she played in removing the “offensive” song. Hers is the standard (but dead-wrong) answer most secular-atheists would give. The truth is we are entitled to freedom of, not from, religion.

The Founding Fathers knew their recent 16th and 17th century history and that King’s who ran the church and state (i.e. Henry VIII in England) always ended up abusing their powers. This disdain for impersonal, centralized power was the same reason Luther and Calvin and the Reformers of the 16th century broke away from Rome and her Pope.

The over-centralization of power in the hands of anyone but God Himself was a terrifying thought to the men who defeated the British and constructed the greatest form of government the world has ever seen with little more than a rag-tag army, a commitment to democracy, and a collective firm belief in the Almighty and His providence.

I have but one question to ask the Sherman family, the Daily Herald, or any of you reading this that have been so liberally indoctrinated with political correctness (and the antipathy toward any claim of objective truth that typifies the “tolerance” championed by the Left in American public schools and news journalism): When Thomas Jefferson used the term “Creator” in the Declaration of Independence, what did he mean?

The foundational sentence in the foundational document of the freest, most prosperous nation reads: “…With certain inalienable rights, endowed by our Creator…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Who or what is the “Creator” he references?

According to those who signed their names to that precious document, it is God, not Man, who grants freedom to the men, women, and children of these United States (and truthfully, the world).

What are we to do with this word, “Creator”? Those intent on seeing God removed from the American public square are not only knowingly attempting to re-write history, but worse still, they are removing the very core of our forefather’s argument to the world as to why they deserved to be free. Their God-centric conviction has anchored the freedoms and way of life we’ve enjoyed for more than two centuries.

And now we’re going to throw that all away because a 14 year-old girl’s dad shamelessly fed her (and the other 40 students in that Student Council meeting who voted along with Dawn) a lie that God Bless America would in any way be antithetical to the spirit of tolerance that millions have flocked to the United States to enjoy since its conception?

Either we are a nation that believes in the “first principles” espoused by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and George Washington, or we are something far, far worse…Europe. There they have adopted the “anything goes, as long as God isn’t brought up to ruin our fun” lifestyle, and now boast: the lowest birth rate of any continent (save Antarctica, but it’s a close one); economic instability to the point where they had to gang up in a Union to compete with Uncle Sam’s free market; and perpetual threats from radical Islamic terrorism which come from within their own European population (see: citizenship of 7/7 and Madrid bombers, and Vincent Van Gogh’s grandson’s murderers).

America could have been founded by Bedouin sheiks from the Middle East who prayed to Allah five times a day, but it wasn’t. It could have been Torah-believing Jews from the Holy Land who settled Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, but it wasn’t. It could have been Buddhist monks from China who penned the Declaration, but it wasn’t. Look at what the ideologies of Atheistic Communism and Theocratic Islam have produced the past 230 years, and compare it to our country's history. Can it be just coincidence or natural selection that those men, at that time, in this place formed the prolific government and economy we now (supposedly) cherish?

The story of America, of the Western Civilized World itself, is (for better or worse) inseparable from the Judeo-Christian heritage that spawned it. This is the simple, uncomfortable, unadulterated truth. It’s not a perfect history, but it's our history.

So let the band play and kids sing God Bless America at every Homecoming around the country this year, and we should all thank our lucky stars (unless you prefer to thank the Person who created those stars) that our national ancestors were who they were, and believed what they believed. The State has no business in the Church, but every member of the Church must remain vigilantly involved in the State.

Ahamdinejad is coming...to town

Iran's President got a not-so-welcome welcome at Columbia University today where he was grilled with questions regarding the cavalier way he threatens other countries and the suppression of freedom that typifies his regime.

He came back with the laughable response of: "My people are the freest people in the world." The scary thing is, this guy believes the things he says.

Iran, is that your "final answer"?

The Iranians are promising a "final response" to the United States for their support of Israel. This cryptic promise is due to be revealed on Friday October 12th, the date of which was selected by the former and late theocratic leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khohmeini.

Is anyone else disturbed by such a veiled threat by the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism? The President of Iran said last year at this time that he could "...imagine a world without the Zionists (Israel) and the Great Satan (America)..." in the not-too-distant future.

Another Christian lawmaker killed in Lebanon

Yet another bomb went off in Beirut today, and in an anti-climatic announcement, Lebanese officials have confirmed the victim as being a Christian lawmaker who was against the totalitarian policies of the meddling Syrian government in Lebanese affairs.

Syria is a Muslim-run theocracy and has tried to strong-arm Lebanon into submission for decades now. The radical Islamic nuts kill Christian politicians and citizens who speak out against the underhanded tactics of a government run by the Religion of Peace.

Maybe we can't all "just get along"

The Left has tried its darnedest to heap the blame of terrorism on American laps (unless that lap belongs to someone named Clinton). Mark Steyn decidedly tears those foolish notions down in his latest syndicated column.

"We should beware anyone who seeks to explain 9/11 by using the words "each other": They posit a grubby equivalence between the perpetrator and the victim – that the "failure to understand" derives from the culpability of both parties The 9/11 killers were treated very well in the United States: They were ushered into the country on the high-speed visa express program the State Department felt was appropriate for young Saudi males. They were treated cordially everywhere they went. The lapdancers at the clubs they frequented in the weeks before the Big Day gave them a good time – or good enough, considering what lousy tippers they were. September 11th didn't happen because we were insufficient in our love to Mohammed Atta." (Steyn in the New York Sun)

PLEASE read this!!!

The leading voice of reason in economic matters, Walter E. Williams, brings remarkable clarity to the biases we all have towards economic matters.

"Honor" killings anything but honorable

The "religion of peace" took a big legal hit yesterday to its perpetually disintegrating public image. The London Telegraph reports that a 70 year-old grandma was sentenced to 20 years in prison for giving the green-light to have her daughter-in-law murdered in what the religion of peace calls an "honor killing".

Israel's had enough of Hamas

Hamas leaders led the hostile take-over in the Gaza Strip earlier this year, live like kings themselves, and now are calling Israel's decision to cut off electricity and oil to the war-torn territory a "crime" and "unjust".



The UN is denouncing the Jewish State as well, citing the possible infraction of international law.



Are there any sections in that international law about violent military coups of duly elected governments (Fatah's, in this case), including the systematic murders of innocent women and children (all of which Hamas is more-than-guilty of)? Hamas has been declared an "enemy enmity" by the Israeli government because....surprise, surprise...they are an enmity which proudly calls themselves an enemy of the nation of Israel.

Reagan was an American first, conservative second

Tony Blankley pinpoints the reasons why President Reagan was so successful, and why GOP candidates in 2008 will fall short if they rely on "talking points" rather than revolutionary ideas for the times.

NY Times in hot water over Moveon.org ad

"The top Republican on the House oversight committee yesterday called for an investigation into possible elections violations by the New York Times for selling an advertisement to the liberal group MoveOn.org at a reduced rate." (Washington Times)

Moveon received a discount of more than $100,000 for their near-treasonous advertisement which ran on September 10th and called into question the legitimacy of General Petraeus's testimony before Congress last week.

I actually think the fact that the top Republican in this committee, Thomas Davis, is pursuing investigations into the matter is lame. Is anyone surprised that Moveon was given a discount in a newspaper whose Editorial Page is indistinguishable from its Front one? By crying foul the GOP now comes off as reactionary and annoying.

Europe vs. USA: Who’s safer?

by: R.J. Moeller

“Austria became the latest European country to grapple with the threat of terrorism as it arrested three people with links to al Qaeda who posted an online video threatening attacks against Austria and Germany.” (AP News)

Since September 11th, 2001 there have been scores of “incidents” involving radical Muslims in Europe. There was the violent reaction to a Danish newspaper’s printing of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that insinuated Muslims often over-react violently to trivial events (like cartoon caricatures) that they alone are allowed to call offensive. There was the Madrid bombings in 2004 that changed the outcome of that year’s elections in Spain, and led to a complete withdrawal of the Spaniards in the War on Terror.

These “incidents” range in size, scope, and damage from this week’s problem-free arrest of three 2nd generation Austrian-born Arabs, to the London bombings that claimed more than fifty lives on 7/7/05. Paris, Copenhagen, Hamburg and many other cities have fallen victim to the not-so-peaceful actions of radical adherents to the “religion of peace.”

Here in the United States during that time, despite what John Edwards or The New York Times say, we’ve had it pretty good. Last fall, in response to disingenuous calls for the non-existent torture of enemy prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to stop, President Bush divulged the fact that pre-emptive interrogations of captured terrorists (like 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Muhammad) had yielded information that prevented at least four different attacks on American soil before they occurred.

Regardless your impression of the man, President Bush and his administration has kept us safe for six years. We keep hearing that its not “if”, but “when” in terms of the next cataclysmic event here in the States. While likely true, we’ve been hearing that since September 12th, 2001 and it has yet to be realized. If Bush gets the blame for every single thing that goes wrong on this planet, he at least deserves some credit for adverting disaster thus far at home.

My point in bringing up our relative safety in relation to that of European nations is this: maybe, just maybe, the unwavering message from the White House since 9/11 that this jihadist enemy wants all of Western Civilization to fall under an Islamic caliphate (kingdom) is as true for Bjorn and Pierre as they are for Brad and Angelina. In fact, maybe even more so for the former rather than the latter.

Wait, but I thought terrorists only hate George Bush, the United States, and Israel? Why won’t they leave the Old World alone? Don’t countries like Germany allow immigrants to come and live for free on the government’s dime while they spend their days in radical mosques plotting terrorism (this is literally how and where the attacks of 9/11 were planned)?

You see, Europe is in all but name a Socialist state. They’ve adopted the secular-progressive, liberal view of humanity and government that is the “paper tiger” equivalent of the Chicago Cubs starting lineup in they eyes of a Cubs fan each Spring Training. What begins as, "Hey, on paper this team looks like a winner,” by the end of most every season turns into, “How in the world are these bums even allowed on the same baseball diamond with real teams?”

Liberalism, Socialism, and their crazy uncle, Communism, only work in the hypothetical world. Their policies fail every time they are implemented (i.e. the USSR, the “Great Society” under LBJ, etc.) and can only be kept alive when aided by the inevitable seizure of total control and power by the originally “egalitarian” oligarchy or dictatorship (i.e. Fidel’s Cuba, Hugo’s Venezuela, and present-day Communist China) that had convinced everyone it was a good idea in the first place. But, human nature being what it is, we (okay, Democrats) keep thinking that “if only I were the one in charge” these inherently flawed ideologies might work.

Europeans live in an eternal state of denial where their good intentions (i.e. curbing of economic growth, willingness to put the arbitrary standard of political correctness ahead of national security, and divorcing of almost all ties with the Judeo-Christian heritage that literally spawned the once-great Western Free World as we knew it) will somehow turn things around for a continent that is not-so-slowly being rendered inconsequential as China, India, and the United States economically and demographically "pull away" in power and size.

Consider this: Europe has what American Liberal Democrats passionately advocate for our own country. High taxes. Big government. Nationalized Healthcare. Four-day work weeks. Perpetual adolescence where marriage and children are frowned upon until you’ve had your fill of nightclubs, one-night stands, and penicillin. A weakened military that necessitates other foreign powers (America, in Europe’s case) fighting their battles for them. The need to consolidate national sovereignty and band together with more than a dozen other nations just to keep up with a Free Market economy (i.e. European Union).

Man, they got it all, eh, Hillary?

When it comes to terrorism, the open-border, open-armed pluralism of Fortress Europa seems only to encourage continued attacks, not quell them. Why is that do you think? Are they just unlucky? Is it simply because the terrorists are lazy and don’t want to travel across the pond again for another shot at the Sears Tower or Space Needle? Do jihadists hate the Euro exchange-rate as much as American tourists do?

My own personal, fascinating theory is that the Arab-Muslim mindset is such that they prey on the weak and feeble. I’m picturing a Discovery Channel documentary on hyenas set in the African Serengeti. Knowing full well that a frontal attack against an adult Zebra or even baby elephant would be foolish and painful, the cunning (cowardly) scavengers gang-up on the crippled animal in a herd and nip at the heels of the larger creature until it collapses from exhaustion.

Europe is the easy score. Europe has so many self-inflicted wounds that it has become easy pickings for the radical Islamo-fascists (hyenas). They attacked America on September 11th because they saw from the time of the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut in 1982, to the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, to the American Embassy bombing in Kenya in 1998, to the USS Cole bombing in Yemen in 2000, that America was, as Osama Bin Laden himself told ABC News in 1998, a “paper tiger.”

But then something they weren’t counting on changed after that day in September six years ago. The American President that most had written off as a bumbling dunce rallied the unparalleled will of the United States and unexpectedly parted ways with the appeasement-rich policies of his predecessor (think: cigar). He declared to the world, “You’re either on the side of freedom or the side of tyranny, but you better pick a side.”

He passed counter-terror measures like the Patriot Act (which simply lets the FBI and CIA treat terrorists like they treat the mafia). He received the confidence and votes of the American people, the United States Congress, and the United Nations Security Council to conduct a pre-emptive attack on a de-stabilizing force in the most unstable region of the world. He stood firm while nearly every other world leader found comfortable chairs in which they could play the role of armchair quarterbacks from.

We all know that nothing in life is perfect, and that even the people we love most dearly let us down from time to time. Mistakes have been made, but our President, Congress, and courageous military (with little thanks to the opinion poll-crazy Left) have protected us where European Prime Ministers, Presidents, Parliaments, and “peace-keeping” troops could not protect their own.

Don’t lose your resolve when you hear fear-mongers throwing around words like “wire-tapping” and “water-boarding”. Of course we must hold our elected officials accountable, but it is our duty to be grateful and appreciative when they do the primary job for which they were created: the protection of the citizenry.

Univ of Michigan student was ready to murder in the name of "Jihad"

In case you weren't having trouble sleeping at night...this story should ensure you'll be watching infomercials till the wee hours of the morning.

Thankfully authorities caught this madman (not the AMC show). Otherwise, if his plan to murder fellow students had come to fruition, we'd have to hear from "experts" about the tough childhood he most certainly had and how it's America's fault for being the Middle East that he slaughtered innocents on our own soil.

Get a clue people: the War on Terror is real and can strike anywhere at anytime if we aren't vigilant. It's not Bush or Cheney that make a nut like this dress in camouflage and head-off to gun-down citizens of the same country that was nice (foolish) enough to allow him entry.

Iraq, 9/11, and Insane Liberal Reaction

Mark Steyn is relentless in his pursuit of journalistic perfection:

"Have you seen that bumper sticker "9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB"? If you haven't, go to a college town and cruise Main Street for a couple of minutes. It seems odd that a fascist regime which thinks nothing of killing thousands of people in a big landmark building in the center of the city hasn't quietly offed some of these dissident professors — or at least the guy with the sticker-printing contract. Fearlessly, Robert Fisk of Britain's Independent, the alleged dean of Middle East correspondents, has now crossed over to the truther side and written a piece headlined, "Even I Question The ‘Truth' About 9/11." According to a poll in May, 35% of Democrats believe that Bush knew about 9/11 in advance. Did Rumsfeld also know? Almost certainly. That's why he went to his office as normal that today, because he knew in advance that the plane would slice through the Pentagon but come to a halt on the far side of the photocopier. That's how well-planned it was, unlike Iraq." (New York Sun)

Free Health Care for All in the City by the Bay

The People's Republic of San Francisco is at it again. This time the Michael Moore of American cities is taking steps to give free health insurance not only to United States citizens, but to illegal aliens. If our laws don't matter, then why even make them? What's special about being the citizen of a country if anyone and everyone have the exact same rights and privileges as non-citizens?

Democrats can't help themselves

Democrats have flip-flopped their positions on the War in Iraq so many times, it's hard to keep up with what their views are on a week-to-week basis. Ann Coulter points out the consistently inconsistent pronouncements by the Left since March of 2003.

Ground Control to Congressman Kucinich...

...You're a Traitor!
by: R.J. Moeller

Current congressman and presidential hopeful, Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), is no stranger to anti-American sentiments, but this time even he may have gone too far. His bizarre, quasi-treasonous rhetoric in a live interview on Syrian television during a recent trip to the Middle East is the seditious icing on his career-long incompetence cake. What’s the over-under on when this guy hold his “I’ve got no money and/or supporters” press conference? I’d say February 1st, and I’ll take the “under”.

"The United States must take steps to repair the damage that has been done to the
lives of the people of Iraq for the people who have lost their lives. We need to
help bring about a process of reconciliation between the Sunnis, the Shiites,
and the Kurds. That cannot occur as long as there is an occupation. We need to
see that there is honest reconstruction in Iraq, no Halliburton dishonest
cheating of the people of Iraq and the people of the United States."


There are times and places to voice opposition to President Bush or the War in Iraq. The time and place to publicly lambaste your own country, President, and military (during a time of war) is not while visiting a country who is a sworn enemy of the United States. This type of amateur-hour foreign policy is laughably ill-advised at best and purposefully subversive at worst.

“I've repeatedly challenged the thinking behind the surge…the United States must
end the occupation, close the bases, bring the troops home, but we must have a
parallel political process that reaches out to the international community, with
the help of Syria and Iran…”

Kucinich is living in a fantasy world I pray none of us ever see when he implies that only when saner heads (i.e. Iran and Syria) prevail in Iraq will peace and stability return. The world’s two largest state-sponsors of terrorism are going to be the ones that bring law-and-order to the very country that they have helped fuel insurrection in for five years? These diluted conclusions from Congressman Kucinich would be funny if it weren’t so shocking that he is actually an elected representative of the same America I reside in.

Imagine isolationist Congressional delegates traveling to one of the enemy Axis countries during WWII to give propaganda-rich interviews disparaging FDR and Ike? The reason this treachery is tolerated at all on the Left today is that so many of them still refuse to admit that we are at war.

Democrats and Petraeus

by: R.J. Moeller

The strategy by Democrats and Far-Left Liberals to undermine General Petraeus’ “Progress in Iraq” report to Congress and the American people this week is as misguided as it is infuriating.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain emphatically condemned the actions of elected representatives in Congress who have decidedly put politics and their own re-elections in 2008 ahead of realities on the ground in Iraq and in the War on Terror:

“The Bush administration clung for too long to a flawed strategy in this war, despite growing evidence of its failure. Now advocates of withdrawal risk making the exact same mistake, by refusing to re-examine their own conviction that Gen. Petraeus's strategy cannot succeed and that the war is "lost," despite rising evidence to the contrary.”

Lieberman himself knows first-hand the vitriol Democrats unleash on anyone who dares support the President and his Generals: he was booted from the Democratic Party last November and had to mop the floor with their candidate as an Independent, six years after being Al Gore’s running mate in the 2000 election.

Previously anti-Iraq War advocates like Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Brookings Institute Scholars Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack decided to actually leave Washington D.C. this summer and went to Iraq for a first-hand assessment of Petraeus’s “surge”. They, among countless others, have returned to give hopeful accounts of the actual and literal progress found in former hot-beds of insurgency and terrorism around the war-torn nation.

Needless to say, the media and their cohorts in Congress have undermined anyone who thinks the war is anything but a categorical failure. They’ve disabled any Conservative or Republican from being able to comment on a war that the Left sees as being purely political. That is to be expected, as unfortunate as it may be for the American people who simply want real answers and real signs of progress.

What baffles me are the non-responses from Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Liberal pundits like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann when their fellow ideological brethren publicly admit things have turned around in Iraq.

A Republican Senator who has been an outspoken critic of Gay Marriage gets caught toe-tapping in a men’s bathroom in the Minneapolis International Airport and only week-long, around-the-clock coverage will do for MSNBC and the Washington Post.

An anonymous soldier writes an article in the anti-war periodical The New Republic that U.S. soldiers are terrorizing Iraqis, and is quoted everywhere from the Floor of Congress to Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room as gospel for more than two weeks, even after it was proved that the disgraced soldier had lied about the unsubstantiated accounts and his own military service.

A staunch critic of the President and life-long dovish Democrat Senator Carl Levin returns from a battlefield he voted against going to, has positive things to say about Iraq, and is pushed aside by his colleagues like a Barrack Obama illegal land-deal “scandal”.

Are the only stories worth reporting ones that defame and embarrass Conservatives? What are we to make of the obvious neglect shown stories that undermine Liberal positions and policies?

The truth is that Democrats are so invested in defeat in Iraq that anything that deviates from the storyline that the war is a monumental disaster cannot be tolerated. If the American people are bombarded with misinformation and led to think that Bush went to Iraq for political reasons, is incompetent, and his Generals are Pinocchio’s to his Gepetto, then they won’t be as able to discern the purely political reasons for the Democrats unwillingness to admit this war is not only winnable, but absolutely necessary.

The Left has disingenuously made the decision for voters one between un-ending military presence in Iraq for more than a century, and immediate withdrawal and temporary safety for American troops. Democrats’ shortcoming is the very thing they consistently accuse Republicans and President Bush of: an inability to see a “middle way” of adaptation and compromise en route to victory.

General Petraeus and his counter-insurgency “surge” plan should have been implemented two years ago. Rumsfeld and Bush were simply wrong about the troop levels this conflict required. President Clinton shouldn't have cut the military nearly in-half during the 90's so there would be more troops to use. Mistakes have been made across the board, and have yielded devastating consequences militarily and politically. This we know. This Bush knows.

Yet, the same "boorish" Texan who allegedly refuses connection with reality has in the past year: removed his Secretary of Defense, re-tooled his top military chain-of-command, and given his soldiers on the ground the means and lee-way to conduct this war in such a way that would cause Democratic Senators to change their rabidly anti-Bush, anti-Iraq War tune.

The President has changed. The Generals have changed. The results have changed.

What remains to be seen is if Democrats will be willing to concede they might have been wrong about pulling out of Iraq prematurely. For six years we’ve heard that it is the partisan politics of Bush and Karl Rove that have prevented any potential unity in Congress and across the nation. Here’s a chance for the Left to make good on their calls for consensus.

What does evil look like?

Cal Thomas addresses what exactly is at stake in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the broader War on Terror.

Things are working in Iraq

General David Petraeus came to Washington with a message to Congress and the American people that progress has been made and sustained efforts in Iraq will continue to yield positive results.

"A premature drawdown of our forces would likely have devastating
consequences," the general told a House panel as he and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
Ryan C. Crocker delivered a highly anticipated assessment of the war. "There are
no easy answers or quick solutions," said Gen. Petraeus, who warned that Iran
and Syria are intent on destabilizing Iraq and that violence could spill across
Iraq's borders absent a U.S. deterrent

Brits: We're Fighting Iran in Iraq

A British military commander tells the London Telegraph that the war in Iraq is simply a proxy battle against the world's largest state-sponsor of terror: Iran. This is what Republicans, intelligence agencies, the President, and Israel have been saying for two years now.

Iran is the real threat. I'm not saying immediate military action is required, and we've got more than our hands full in Iraq (which, up until this year, was grossly mishandled), but to ignore the clear and present danger the radical theocracy in Iran poses is to miss the desert for the IED's.

What do George Michael and Larry Craig have in common?

The definitive word on the Senator from Idaho's bathroom etiquette from Mark Steyn in the OC Register.

This guy looks straight to me, eh?

No Sauerkraut for Oil

Germany has little to do with the war on terror, and have stayed our of Iraq and Afghanistan, yet German officials have captured three terrorists who were ready to kill on their home soil. Maybe, just maybe, our enemy doesn't care who they kill, but simply want to instill fear in the hearts of minds of all "infidels."