John McCain is sort of like the guy who thinks if he says something enough, people will believe it even though he does the exact opposite. McCain's strategy is to use the phrase "straight talk" so much people forget that he has an extensive history of waffling.
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Why is it that every new "right" seems to cost an extraordinary amount of money. Lee Harris argues that the unenlightened masses that find evolution an impossible pill to swallow reject it because apes and gorillas are loathsome to most people. While many news outlets have focused on whether Bill Clinton is an asset or a liability, most of them lapse into a rhapsodic paean to the allures of the forty-second president. There are reasons to be optimistic, and they rest not on science fiction but within the badly misnamed “dismal science,” economics. Statist Republicans, thanks in large measure to the failures of the neocon ideology, are facing an anticipated backlash at the polls this November. Using instruments of public criminal justice to punish private hurts turns the family into government-occupied territory. In his recent book, Michael Ledeen sets out the case for a stronger response to Iran’s twenty-nine years of war against the United States and our allies. Ben-Peter Terpstra asks, Is God something other than a green evangelical tree force? Every presidential contender either pleads the fifth on illegal immigration or proposes to deep-six it. While McCain's lack of integrity in the MIA investigation is so dramatic because of his own military and POW background, there are other examples which are equally important and disturbing. Hillary Clinton has argued that voters should choose her because she is more "experienced" than Obama, but according to multicultural rhetoric, such claims (like the claim to be "more qualified") are merely racist code phrases. Normal people don’t fathom the ubiquitous evil of political correctness until their own tongues get sliced off by the teeth of its adversarial chainsaw. If being trite were a sin, most presidential aspirants would languish in political purgatory. Homeschool Legal Defense Association director Ned Ryun resigned over his group's endorsement of former Arkansaw Governor Mike Huckabee. Just as candidates began attending to the needs, wants, and aspirations of girls and women in the 1960’s, so too today, do candidates need to attend to the needs, wants, and aspirations of boys and men if they wish to win the Presidency. With the exit of Fred Thompson, conservatives will settle for Mitt Romney. Blaming the Big Corporations that are simply providing what you want and demanding that government ban various elements of the food supply won’t reduce your waist size, but it will increase your loss of personal freedom and choice. Rudy Giuliani's support for abortion rights is neither very deep, nor very consequential, and no other candidate can match his record, his intelligence, his strength, his tenacity, or his commitment to limited government, free markets, low, pro-growth tax policies, a strong and vigorous military, secure borders, and an aggressive, America-first foreign policy. In his recent book, P.M.S. Hacker paints with broad strokes the frieze of human nature that has emerged as increasingly apparent to his experienced and well-schooled eye. Whatever polls may say, the majority of the American people do not embrace higher taxes, the culture of perpetual victimhood, government intervention in their lives, the taking of innocent life and the defeat of our military at the hands of those who would see us all dead. Experience teaches that the systematic denial of fundamental rights occurs when imposed borders incorporate unwanted populations in a structure these reject. If the EU is to fulfill its intended purpose, it better consider itself as the protector of the wellbeing of all of its member peoples. The Book of Mormon is an insane document produced by a madman who was a criminal and a rapist, Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda, and Chris Matthews has a strange fascination with Erin Burnett. If you don't watch MSNBC, you really should check it out. Those who pile remorseless fact on remorseless fact in the name of rational science usually wind up constructing another idol, only one that is lifeless; that is their right and choice, but why should it surprise them that the rest of us refuse to bow down and worship with them? By comparing Mahmoud Abbas to Reverend Martin Luther King, Condoleezza Rice has managed to sully the heritage of Jews and Blacks at the same time. |
 
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