Conservative media guide
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Nutty morsels from the lunatic right
July 30, 2005
LIES, MORE LIES, AND SOME FAKE STATISTICS
The ugliness of the Democratic attack so far -- attacking the Roberts family's faith, hinting that Roberts might be a closeted homosexual, attempting to link him to the Iran-Contra scandal knowing that it was a different John Roberts -- indicates how desperate some on the far-left fringe are willing to go to beat the Bush Administration.
-- The Prowler “Fringe Democrats” The American Spectator, 7/25/2005
Today, what was called the "counter-culture" in the 1960s now controls almost every cultural venue: the entertainment industry (which is now the most powerful force in our culture), the government schools, the media, even many churches. The ideology usually know as "Political Correctness," which is really the cultural Marxism of the infamous Frankfurt School, is using every type of cultural institution in our country to achieve its purpose, which is the destruction of traditional Western culture and the Christian religion.
-- Paul M. Weyrich, “The Centrality of Culture”, Accuracy in Media, July 25, 2005
the MSM shills for environmentalist scaremongers
--David Hogberg “Soaking in Chemical Stews”The American Spectator, 7/25/2005
The federal government first got involved in the student loan business on the grounds that, left to their own devices, rational lenders wouldn't offer loans to college students. Who'd lend money to somebody with no job, no visible means of support except mom and dad, and thousands of dollars in annual expenses? Well, the answer is just about every bank out there, as credit card company reps patrolling campus will attest.
-- -- BRENDAN MINITER, “Uncle Sam's Tuition Bill”, Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2005
Unfortunately, all the "hostiles" aren't in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some are politicians, some are in the media and others are part of the old, anti-military, "Blame America First" crowd.
Last month Democratic California Senator Diane Feinstein's assessment of the war was "that everything seems to be going the wrong way." Illinois' liberal Senator Dick Durbin likened the men and women of America's armed forces to those of Cambodia's Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. New York Congressman Charlie Rangel actually proposed legislation to "bring back the draft."At my own practice, we frequently see uninsured or "private pay" patients. Some of these patients are working people whose employer does not offer health insurance coverage. A fair number of these patients are small business owners. If asked, most of these people would say that they cannot afford health insurance, but this is simply another way of saying that it makes no financial sense for them to pay an insurance company hundreds of dollars per month in premiums so that the charge for a $55.00 office visit can be reduced to a $25.00 co-pay. While the private pay approach to healthcare carries the obvious risk of great personal financial hardship due to medical expenses in the event of developing a serious medical condition or sustaining a major injury, the unlikelihood of this happening must be weighed against the absolute certainty of having to repeatedly pay out insurance premiums to cover likelier and less costly medical services whose monthly or annual totals will most probably exceed the cost of paying out of pocket for the same services.
-- Bob Newbell, “About Those Uninsured Americans,” TechCentralStation, 7/25/05
As for the new, more discretionary China, it may well peg the value of the yuan to a dollar-dominated basket of currencies. There may be a bit more influence from the yen and the euro, but the best possible spin is that the peg will be dollar-based. This suggests currency stability and more non-inflationary growth for the Big Tiger. It also rules out a creeping appreciation of the yuan, which could cause deflation in China and inflation in the U.S. The currency-basket rule would also eliminate an Argentina-like crackup of the yuan, which would lead to a total loss of confidence by international investors.
-- Larry Kudlow, “Currency Basket Cases,” National Review, 7/26/05
Despite the insipid whining from the usual suspects, labor market conditions continue to improve on the back of ongoing reflation by the Federal Reserve and lower tax rates on the factors of production.
-- Michael Darda, “Keynesian Sleights of Hand,” National Review, 7/26/05
I believe the stage is now set and that conditions are more conducive than ever to the introduction of a flat tax in this country.
-- Steve Forbes, “Americans Deserve Flat Tax,” Washington Times, 7/20/05
As our history chapter makes clear, Reagan's dramatic reforms were undone by subsequent administrations.
-- Steve Forbes, “Americans Deserve Flat Tax,” Washington Times, 7/20/05
AND MORE CRAZY RANTINGS
The only way a Supreme Court nominee could win the approval of NARAL and Planned Parenthood would be to actually perform an abortion during his confirmation hearing, live, on camera, and preferably a partial-birth one.
-- Ann Coulter, Souter in Roberts’ Clothing, 07/20/05
It's always good to remind voters that Democrats are the party of abortion, sodomy and atheism, and nothing presents an opportunity to do so like a Supreme Court nomination.”
-- Ann Coulter, Souter in Roberts’ Clothing, 07/20/05
The question of the hour for social conservatives is whether Judge Roberts, if confirmed, will help put an end to the judicially-imposed moral disorder that has forced abortion, not to mention pornography and homosexuality, on the American people.”
-- Steven Mosher, Roberts Will Rule for Life, NewsMax, 07/25/05
Make no mistake here — the Left is obsessed with one thing: mainstreaming their nihilistic, empty lives. Within their narcissism and desire to be ‘normal,' society must be made to look like them, and let's be honest here — their world of victimhood, depression and hate is not a pretty one.”
-- Tammy Bruce, The Increasingly Ugly Left, NewsMax 07/26/05
During my time with the National Organization for Women, one of the (many) things that disturbed me during national board meetings was the fact that many of the women seemed to be allergic to bathing, and especially frightened of the concept of ‘grooming.
-- Tammy Bruce, The Increasingly Ugly Left, NewsMax, 07/26/05
Being Unhealthy and celebrating the Ungroomed is an art form on the Left. And ultimately, as evidenced by Chait's opinion piece, those who do take care of themselves, and dare to remind society of how things should be, are demonized. Why? Because they serve as a counterpoint to what the Left is not.
--Tammy Bruce, The Increasingly Ugly Left, NewsMax, 07/26/05
So there's no question the ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror allies.
-- Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor
The sexual abuse and the consequent cover-up, as egregious as they were, were not the scandal — they were symptoms of the scandal. The real scandal is a lack of fidelity to age-old Catholic teaching.
-- Selwyn Duke, The Sins of Liberalism’s Man in the Mirror, Renew America, 07/25/05
I have known Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts for 25 years. I had the privilege of working with the Mozartlike prodigy at the Justice Department during the Reagan administration.”
--Bruce Fein, Impeccable Choice, Washington Times, 07/26/05
To ask what school of jurisprudence inspires Judge Roberts would be like asking Shakespeare what school of drama gave birth to his genius. He sports a trenchant and original legal mind, combining the profundity of Socrates, the wit of Alexander Pope and the statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln.”
-- Bruce Fein, Impeccable Choice, Washington Times, 07/26/05
We recently commented that the reason the military is having difficulty meeting its numerical requirements is because of media coverage of the war that is so distorted and hostile to American goals and interests. Exaggerated reporting about abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, calls to cut and run from Iraq, and comparisons of the Bush administration to Nazis, Soviets and the Khmer Rouge have certainly not helped.
-- Roger Aronoff “The Troops in Iraq, By the Numbers”, Accuracy in Media, July 25, 2005
Despite his perspicacity Walsh had a bizarre theory about Jews being drawn to communism because theirs is an apocalyptic religion, as is communism…. But should this failure taint all of Fr. Walsh's life? To say so is to dismiss Martin Luther King for his marital infidelities.
-- Mark Gauvreau Judge “Joe McCarthy's Jesuit” The American Spectator, 7/21/2005
For many Democrats the only good Catholic is a bad one -- a Catholic ready to dissent from his religion for the sake of a spot in the secularized public square. Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer, and company are sure to question, in one veiled form or another, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts about his Catholicism. That is, they won't baldly ask him about his religion but they will probe his "personal" views, and the question implied will be: You promise to give our judges' liberal rewriting of the Constitution greater priority than your own religion, right?
-- George Neumayr, “Antireligious Tests”, The American Spectator, 7/21/2005
The House of Representatives is about to pass a new energy bill. Predictably, the left and the media are all worked up about how the legislation doesn't do enough to curb our dependence on foreign sources of energy. This is total nonsense and is the height of hypocrisy….
First, the only way to limit our dependence on foreign oil is to produce more of it here. No amount of hybrid cars or ethanol is ever going to limit our consumption.
-- Neal Boortz, “Energy Bill Ready”, www.boortz.com, 07/26/05
Now there's no question that worldwide terror exists because people help these savages. Some actively, some passively, but help is help.
Target number one, the USA is the ACLU, which is demanding that accused foreign terrorists be afforded Geneva Convention protections and trials in criminal court. The Geneva Convention is quite clear in stating that captured individuals wearing no uniforms and those who attack civilians are not entitled to Geneva protections. The ACLU doesn't seem to care about that.
The Constitution makes no mention of any legal rights for foreigners captured overseas. Again, the ACLU doesn't care. The ACLU is also demanding that more pictures of the abuse at Abu Ghraib be released. The Defense Department is fighting that. Everybody knows those pictures incite violence against Americans. So why should more of them be fed to the press? We already know what happened at Abu Ghraib. And people are going to prison because of it.
Clearly, more pictures of Abu Ghraib (search) help the terrorists, as do Geneva Convention protections and civilian lawyers. So there's no question the ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror allies.
-- Bill O'Reilly, “Those Who Help the Terrorists...”, July 26, 2005 FOX News
