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Updated June 12 2004
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Saudi Vandalism
The Wahhabis keep tearing down Muslim holy places
in Saudi Arabia
What
Makes a President Great?
Scholars finally begin giving Reagan his due
College
GOP sues over speech code
Message ‘End Liberal Indoctrination on Campus’ deemed harrassment
The
first post-Enlightenment president? From The Economist Ronald Reagan’s
presidency brought the end of Soviet-block communism and changed most
people’s views of how a market economy should be run. These achievements
owed as much to gut feeling as to reason
Restructuring
the superpower From The Economist America is reducing its troop
levels in Germany and South Korea, two long-time allies, and is considering
repositioning other forces too. Will improved strategic flexibility
come at the cost of worsening already-strained relationships?
The
Ronald Reagan I Knew: A behind the scenes look at a consummate politician
and statesman
The
Man Who Called Out Evil
Reagan knew you had to say it
Reaganomics,
a Global Thing
The Gipper’s pro-growth policies work here — and everywhere
Iraqi
Gratitude
The new government is thanking America and Bush. Why are the media silent?
The left-wing zealots led
by the likes of the staff at the New York Times are much like Islamofascists,
driven by an overwhelming desire to destroy America and patriots and
freedom fighters such as Ronald Reagan. The following makes for interesting
and illustrative reading.
The
Times vs. Ronald Reagan
Reading the Washington Post’s and the New York Times’ coverage of Ronald
Reagan’s death is a study in contrasts
Ronald
Reagan, R.I.P.
He illuminated what was good about America
Who
doesn’t like Reagan?
Some critics silent, others can’t hide venom
The
Reagan Restoration
We forget how controversial his policies were in their day
THE
CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE
Wahhabiism calls for
the complete and total rejection or destruction of anything and everything
which is not based in the original teachings of The Prophet and finds
its most glaring practice in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or
the Shiite practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali
Pasha (Field Marshall) is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader
of the “Third Jihad”, who is Wahhabi as were his 9/11 attack
teams, 18 of which were also Saudi.
Wahhabiism calls for
the complete and total rejection or destruction of anything and everything
which is not based in the original teachings of The Prophet and finds
its most glaring practice in the policies of the Afghani Taliban or
the Shiite practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali
Pasha (Field Marshall) is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader
of the “Third Jihad”, who is Wahhabi as were his 9/11 attack
teams, 18 of which were also Saudi.
If you read nothing else
in this weeks update, read the complete article from the previous
paragraphs are taken. Go to Clash
of Civilizations.
“Reagan’s appeal can be summed up in one word: freedom. Freedom
for enslaved peoples, freedom of the marketplace from government regulation,
freedom from judicial tyranny and judges telling us how to live, freedom
from oppressive taxes, and freedom from the intellectual imprisonment
of government telling people that they cannot achieve anything without
government help. I miss Reagan already, and I feel like a part of
me,and a part of the soul of the Republican Party, has passed away.”
– Columnist Andrew Sullivan
“But the feature that truly distinguished Ronald Reagan was that
he meant what he said. He communicated this to the Soviets early on,
when in one of the first challenges of his Administration he fired
all the country’s air-traffic controllers who had defied him by going
on strike. As the crabbed old men in the Kremlin realized, there was
a difference between this politician and all the others. This one
wasn’t acting.”
– Wall Street Journal, 6/7/04
“We will talk the
next 10 days about who (Ronald Regan) was and what he did. It’s not
hard to imagine him now in a place where his powers have been returned
to him and he’s himself again–sweet-hearted, tough, funny, optimistic
and very brave. You imagine him snapping one of those little salutes
as he turns to say goodbye. Today I imagine saluting right back. Do
you? We should do it the day he’s buried, or when he
lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda.”
– Columnist and former Reagan speech-writer Peggy Noonan
Read The Reagan Legacy
by Laura Ingraham Click
here
THE SHINING CITY OVER
THE RAINBOW
“We kept faith with a promise as old as this land we love and
as big as the sky, a brilliant vision of America as a shining city
on a hill. Thanks to all of you, and with God’s help, America’s greatest
chapter is still to be written, for the best is yet to come.”
– Ronald Reagan, 12/1/88
SELF INDUCED ENERGY
PROBLEMS AND COSTS
America’s current energy
problem isn’t for want of crude oil…it’s for want of refining capacity.
We haven’t built a new refinery in this country for decades. Why?
Environmental extremism.
– Chuck Muth, News and Views. For more, click
here
“Like Pearl Harbor,
Sept. 11 steeled our resolve to defend America – but for some, only
temporarily. . . . I believe there are two very distinct groups of
Americans now: the Sept. 10 Americans, who are in denial, and the
Sept. 11 Americans. . . . I am a Sept. 11 American. I know the world
has changed and that Americans must defend America. Everything else
we do, everything else we believe, pales in comparison to that duty.”
– Sen. Ben Nighthorse
Campbell, Colorado Republican, Denver Post, 6/4/04
IT’S ALL ABOUT BILL,
POOR BABY
“Former President
Bill Clinton has privately expressed anger he has apparently been
left off the speakers list of Friday’s Reagan State Funeral, the DRUDGE
REPORT has learned. . . . Clinton’s inner circle is convinced Nancy
Reagan has personally shut out Clinton from any high-profile participation.”
– Drudge Report, 6/8/04
OUR FRIENDS, THE FIGHTING
IRISH, OR IS THAT FRIGHTENED IRISH?
“Controversy ensued
during a live concert appearance in Ireland when British music act
and ex-Smiths lead singer Morrissey [who?] announced to his fans that
former President Ronald Reagan had died. The singer then added that
he wished current President George W. Bush had died instead. The concert
crowd, attending the event at Dublin Castle, actually cheered upon
hearing that Reagan died after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s
disease. Yet, when Morrissey opined that he wished Bush had died,
the crowd allegedly erupted into a tizzy.”
– Talon News, 6/8/04
“Back in Washington,
staffers at the Democratic National Committee stopped a couple of
interns who were lowering the flags to half mast outside their headquarters.’The
interns were just doing what they thought was right,’ says a DNC staffer,
who heard about the incident.’But somebody a bit more senior told
them not to lower the flags until they absolutely had to, I guess
when President Bush announced that all flags should be lowered. There
was only an hour’s difference. It was pretty petty, but that’s how
bad things have gotten around here.’ ”
– “The Prowler,”
American Spectator, 6/7/04
“My life history
is I fought Reagan, fought Nixon, fought the war in Vietnam, fought
their struggle against civil rights, and I fought against their tax
cuts for the wealthy.”
– Sen. John Kerry to
the Miami Herald last year during the Democrat presidential primary
“Much of the world
remembers Ronald Reagan as a friend and a historic president, but
some writers and activists are vilifying the late president. . . .
We all know Reagan’s legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding
of the Nicaraguan military, in which over 200,000 people died,’ (actor
Danny) Glover said at a Sunday rally in Los Angeles to protest U.S.
involvement in Iraq. . . . Christopher Hitchens, in a column for the
online journal Slate, said Mr. Reagan was ‘dumb as a stump’
and ‘a cruel and stupid lizard.’
“…Liberal author
Greg Palast begins a column on his Web site with, ‘You’re not going
to like this. You shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. But in this case,
someone’s got to.’ Mr. Palast blamed Mr. Reagan for the 1983 terrorist
bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon. ‘Killer, coward, conman.
Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance,’ the column ends.
“On his Web site, cartoonist Ted Rall said of Mr. Reagan: ‘I’m
sure he’s turning crispy brown right about now. . . . A real piece
of work, Reagan ruined the federal budget, trashed education, alienated
our friends and allies and made us a laughing stock around the world,’
wrote Mr. Rall
– Washington Times, 6/8/04
Note: What horseshit, pardon me, what horse
manure.
“I thought that
remark accusing me of having amnesia was uncalled for. I just wish
I could remember who said it.”
– Ronald Reagan
“There is a proposal
in Congress to end subsidized, fixed-rate student loans. For those
of you that were educated in government schools that means that people
who take out student loans will have to pay the going rate for interest,
and the government will no longer kick in somebody else’s money to
pick up the slack. Good.
“Predictably, (John
Kerry) has come out against the idea, saying that the plan would harm
students. But why is it the function of the federal government to
subsidize student loans and guarantee them? Why should the taxpayer
get the shaft when people default? Why are we paying to artificially
lower the rates on these loans? The federal government should get
out of the student loan business entirely.”
– Talk show host Neal
Boortz, 6/8/04
“When Chad Taylor
noticed his son was apparently experiencing serious side effects from
Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, he
decided to take the boy off the medication. Now, he says he may be
accused of child abuse. In February, 12-year-old Daniel began displaying
some symptoms that his father suspected were related to the use of
Ritalin. So Taylor took Daniel off Ritalin, against his doctor’s wishes.
“And though Taylor
noticed Daniel was sleeping better and his appetite had returned,
his teachers complained about the return of his disruptive behavior.
Daniel seemed unable to sit still and was inattentive. His teachers
ultimately learned that he was no longer taking Ritalin. School officials
reported Daniel’s parents to New Mexico’s Department of Children,
Youth and Families. Then a detective and social worker made a home
visit. ‘The detective told me if I did not medicate my son, I would
be arrested for child abuse and neglect,’ Taylor said.”
– ABCNews.com, 6/7/04
VIETNAM
VETERANS AGAINST KERRY
Rongstad’s
(incomplete, but growing) Guide to Fighting Kerry Campaign
Websites and Buttons/Pins
by Vietnam Vet Richard Rongstad
Note: When I see a photo
such as this, I experience feelings of pride for my service in the
military and my service to America.
REAGANISMS
“Government is not the solution, it’s the problem.”
“I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
. . . (T)hat’s one of our sacred rights – to be stupid.”
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few
short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
“Realize that the doctor’s fight against socialized medicine
is your fight. You can’t socialize the doctors without socializing
the patients.”
“If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid
of reprisals…recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping
he’ll eat you last.”
“I’ve noticed that everybody who is for abortion has already
been born.”
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the
price of aggression is cheap.”
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
– Ronald Reagan
“(Democrat sugar-daddy George) Soros says that the pictures from
Abu Ghraib ‘…hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself.’
Three thousand people died in the attacks on the World Trade Towers
and the Pentagon. If any of the prisoners died from the abuse at the
Abu Ghraib prison, I missed the story. Soros looks at pictures of
bodies falling to the streets around the World Trade Towers; at pictures
of the wreckage of an American Airlines jet in Pennsylvania, and at
pictures of the burning Pentagon, and tells us that these pictures
are no worse than the pictures of naked Iraqi men wearing women’s
panties on their heads.”
– Talk show host Neal Boortz
“(A)s I walk off
into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan
revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the
work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren’t
just marking time. We made a difference. We made the (‘shining city
upon a hill’) stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in
good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all. And so, goodbye,
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.”
– President Reagan’s farewell address, January 1989
LOYAL DEMOCRATS CELEBRATE
GIPPER’S PASSING
“I’ve waited for this day for 24 long years, now i’m celebrating.
I don’t care what killed him, Alzheimer’s or the black plague, I’m
glad he’s dead and I don’t care how many times I’m scolded or chastised
for it. the day he took office was the most depressing day of my life,
and i swore, that on the day he died, I’d drink a toast of celebration
and figuratively piss on his grave and have said so to several Gingrich
sucking Reagan worshipping dickheads. F–k Ronald Reagan, and i hope
in some small way my f–k you counteracts all the bullsh-t we are
going to be hammered with for a f–king month after the fall of this
‘greeeeeaaaaaat human being’. F–k you Ronnie, here’s to ya pal. see
ya in hell.”
– “mopaul” on the Democratic Underground website, 6/5/04
WHY
WE MUST FIGHT BACK, WHY WE MUST FIGHT FOR AMERICA
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A variety of links I
think you’ll find interesting, helpful or thought provoking…if nothing
else, entertaining
Open Letter to Senator Patty
Murray of Washinton State – Subject: John Kerry
Kerry’s Salute by Vietnam
Vet Russ Vaughn
WWII
Photo Show – worth the download
Taps
– sent by Chaplain Martie Johnson
Allah
or Jesus? – forwarded via Email by Ed Hammond
Vietnam
Veterans Against Kerry
The Cold
Realities of Our Fight in Iraq
The
Victims of Saddam – Photo Collection
Photos
from Iraq – What the Left Wing Press Ignores
‘The
Spirit of Liberty’
Before attacking the Patriot Act, try reading
it. We are now in a struggle with an extremism that expresses itself
in the form of terror attacks, and in that we face what is probably
the gravest threat to this country’s institutions, if not to its physical
welfare, since the Civil War.
Want to know more about
the Constitution, or share it with others? Click
here For whitepaper on Federalist Papers, Click
here
Mig
Dig: Won’t See this in the Mainstream Media
Sarge
Introduces Brian Chontosh
Kerry,
Clinton, Kennedy, Others on WMD
Lessons
from Iraq
Can Arab democracy happen? By John Derbyshire
Mike’s
Flag – from Sarge
According
to a report by the American Electronics Association,
high-tech companies blame second-rate math and science education in
the U.S. for the offshoring of high-tech jobs. From Wired
The
Splendid Homes of John Kerry
White
men can’t jump. The politically correct can’t think by Eric
Burns
Five
questions to demand of any statistic
Excerpt
from Ann Coulter Commentary on Kerry…gigolo?
The
Perpetual Adolescent by Joseph Epstein
Off the Internet Circuit
forwarded to me by Nadine Gulit…How
to be a Good Liberal
Lo,
the Poor Terrorist
For some on the Left, purported bigotry against
Muslims explains Islamist terror
The
Separation of School and State
Link
to Part 5 with links to previous 4 parts
On
Religion and its importance to keeping self-governing democracy
in balance
The Politics of Honor and
Humiliation in the Middle East…a
fundamental understanding (Adobe pdf document.
If you don’t already have Acrobat Reader get the free download…click
here.)
DEMOCRAT vs DEMOCRATIC
I often hear and read,
in various contexts, about the “democratic” party. If people
knew what they were talking about, they would say the Democrat Party
as they say the Republican Party. From my perch, I would say that conservative
Republicans are the ones who truly believe in being democratic as opposed
to Democrats who truly want to tell us how we are to live and what we
can and cannot say. So, let’s don’t confuse democratic with Democrat.
SECULAR AND LIBERAL
It occurs to me that in
recent years the words secular and liberal have become synonymous. There
are those who are saying that The Passion is dividing Americans…I
suspect that if there’s a division, it is between me and liberal
securalists.
Zell
Miller: We’re Divided Between Wimps and Warriors
– a Democrat like they used to make
- Reagan Summed Up in One Word
- This Was No Act
- Returning the Salute
- The Shining City Over the Rainbow
- Self-Induced Energy Problems and Costs
- September 11 Americans
- Its All About Bill, Poor Baby
- Our Friends, the Fighting Irish, or
is that the Frightened Irish? - Pitiful, Petty Politics
- Kerry on Reagan
- Spitting on Reagan’s Grave
- Vintage Reagan
- Limiting Government
- Get Kid Off Drugs…Go to Jail
- Bush-Whacker Blinded by Hate
- Not Bad…Not Bad At All
- Loyal Democrats Celebrate Gipper’s Passing
- Why We Must Fight Back, Why We Must
Fight for America
- Election
2004 - John
Kerry Jokes and Quotes - Vietnamese
Americans Against Kerry - John
F Kerry - Vietnam
Veterans Against Kerry
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