Liberals mocked George W. Bush’s “Forward Strategy of Freedom,” sneering that it was corny and idealistic, wouldn’t work, and didn’t suit exotic, backward, brown people who wouldn’t know what to do with liberty if it fell in their laps.

In the years since U.S. forces ousted the Taliban in Afghanistan and deposed Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the world has beheld a remarkably long line of popular uprisings in Middle Eastern and Eastern European states that has thoroughly vindicated Bush’s approach.

Four months after U.S. Marines took Baghdad in Operation Iraqi Freedom, a quivering-in-his-boots Muammar Gaddafi acknowledged Libya’s responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and paid billions in compensation to relatives of victims, and to those of the UTA Flight 772 bombing and the Berlin discotheque bombing.

Three months later we witnessed the Rose Revolution in Georgia, in which the public protested against rigged parliamentary elections, removed President Eduard Shevardnadze, and installed reformist Mikhail Saakashvili.

In 2004 we watched the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, in which protestors kept Viktor Yanukovych from assuming office as Prime Minister after fraudulent elections and instated pro-reform Viktor Yushchenko.

In 2005 we observed the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, in which citizens rioted to protest the assassination of pro-Western former Primer Minister Rafik Hariri, the presence of tens of thousands of Syrian troops, and the rule of a pro-Syrian government.

Days after the Cedar Revolution, we had the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan, in which protestors ousted corrupt President Askar Akayev.  read more »

I don’t think we’d need a graduated grading system say, for instance, ‘C’ for Champion and on the opposite end, ‘T’ for Traitor. Look at all the fun we could have with all of the grades in between.

‘Everyday’ patriot I think would describe most of us… just Americans who go about our lives, proud of the greatness of our nation. Then, on the opposite end of the spectrum, there are the inhabitants of the darkside. Goons, Goobers, Frauds and Thieves.

The Marxist pantheon is vast. The world they inhabit is as insubstantial as an early morning meadow mist that only they can see. But cling to that mist they will, beyond any ken of reasonable, rational men and women.

This is the great divide. It’s where the rubber hits the road. In the coming months, the divide between the American Patriot and those who would destroy America for the sake of their land of mists… the choices will become plainer than ever before. Those who work to enslave free people, those who consort with or give aid and comfort to the enemies of this great nation, will be called out to answer for their perfidy.

This nation may be facing the greatest perils and challenges of our country’s history. Aside from the enemy within, we are beset with enemies around the world. The deteriorating situation in the middle east can be laid directly at the door of Barack Hussein Obama and his administration. Worldwide food shortages, looming inflation, demonstrations, riots… can all be laid at least partially at the administration’s doors.  read more »

There is lots of talk around Washington these days about the debt ceiling.  Specifically about whether or not the Republicans will vote for raising the limit.  There are many thoughts out there.  Here are some of the things being thrown around.

Cutting a deal on a balanced budget amendment.  The thought being the Republicans can get the balanced budget amendment through if they vote to raise the debt ceiling.  What is it about  a balanced budget Amendment that we keep hearing about it.  To me a balanced budget amendment is tantamount to Congress becoming its own parents and setting limits on itself.  Well if they can't do that without the amendment how long will it be they alter it for this exception or that.  Besides with our current debt balancing the budget will not achieve debt reduction.

Altering entitlements.  While this is the third rail of politics it is also the cause of much of the increase in spending and does it automatically.  Once these entitlements start the outflow is hardly what you would call regulated.  So this is where the emphasis should be.  How do we effectively reign in spending on entitlements without depriving the recipients of some security?    Raising the age is one option as we are living longer and there are people who work until they can't work anymore.  We could gradually raise the retirement age  to 70 by doing it gradually going up to 66 in 2012, 67 in 2013 and so on.  This would be for all entitlements

One more is cutting non-discretionary spending.  Numbers are being thrown around but whatever happens it has to be big billions not millions here and there.  Cutting agency spending and costs would save money too.  As agencies have instituted policy without Congressional oversight (a flaw in the creation of each agency, giving them power to regulate) The congressional oversight committees themselves should pour over the mundane and duplicitous regulations and have an up or down vote on all of them.  Cutting back on Government regulations would free business up to possibly begin to manufacture here again.  But it is one step.  read more »

If you are a conservative or for that matter someone who just loves America you need look no further than the Center for American Progress (CAP) to find the Anti-American sentiment that is driving both the White House and many on the left.  This far left think tank has a very  “progressive” view of both the country and the constitution.  Want to know what the President is thinking check out the Center for American Progress.  Here is a report issued by the Center on the appointment of a couple of Republicans to committees.  If you would note the “New Tone”  of the rhetoric in this piece.  This is the think tank for the people calling for civility.

Senate Republicans Place Big Bank Apologist On Banking Committee

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA)

Ian Milhiser noted yesterday that Senate Republicans put Sen. Mike “noun, verb, unconstitutional” Lee (R-UT) on the Judiciary Committee, despite his radical ignorance regarding constitutional matters. But that wasn’t the only committee assignment for which the GOP decided that fealty to ideology was more important that acknowledging reality.

Even as Barack Obama was trying to convince everyone that he had become a committed centrist and business-friendly policy was his game, the second half of his speech was still laden with promises of more government intervention and control of business.

He speaks of pumping federal dollars into more ‘green’ technology, magically creating tens of thousands of jobs for happy American workers who will walk, bicycle or publicly transport to work singing ‘hi-ho, hi-ho’… or was that ‘The International’? By the way, did you know that the Green Party platform is the International Communist Manifesto in all but name?

While Obama is playing the centrist straw man, his Marxist minions over at the Department of the Interior and at the Environmental Protection Agency have taken up pillaging the nation right from where ‘centrist’ Obama left off. Another campaign promise to his nutcake base, Obama, unable to get cap and tax passed through the Congress even when he had overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate, has unleashed the regulatory dogs from hell on the United States coal industry. He did say that’s what he was going to do in the campaign.

This country really does need to pay attention when these people speak. If you do enough talking, and the DeMarxists do a lot of it, you’ll tip your true hand sooner or later. All I know is he’s purposefully destroying the livelihoods of tens of thousands more Americans… and it’s all behind such a fraud.  read more »

Ever since Democrats suffered historic, butt-spanking losses in the 2010 midterms, they’ve been whimpering for “bipartisanship,” “cooperation,” “compromise,” “togetherness,” “shared responsibility,” and “national unity.”

President Obama has been coaxing House and Senate Republicans to work together with Democrats to get things done.

Recently New York Senator Charles Schumer, one of the most viciously partisan individuals on the planet (you might say he’s full of “vitriol”), suggested it might be melodious for Democrats and Republicans to sit mingled among one another at Obama’s 2011 State of the Union Address, rather than hunkering down battalion-style on opposite sides of the room.

Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn was the first to stupidly take the bait, followed by dozens of other Congressmen including Charles Grassley, Pat Toomey, Mark Kirk, Olympia Snowe, and—surprise!—John McCain.

Obama, it should be remembered, campaigned for president on the promise that he would usher in a “new era of bipartisanship.”

If the Democratic 111^th Congress took Obama up on his idea, they had a funny way of showing it.

When they weren’t shutting Republicans out of committee meetings to write the 2009 stimulus bill and health care reform act, they were failing to post bills online for enough time to allow Republicans to read them and offer input.  read more »

The only thing missing was Barney Frank as Prom Queen… well, queen anyway. I can’t tell you how uncomfortable I felt when our chosen warriors were duped into the ridiculous pose of sitting with the opposition, to illustrate some sort of new ‘tone’ at the State of the Union show.

Many times I’ve talked about and warned the Republicans about letting the opposition control the message. Time after time we’ve allowed them to do it to us. And time after time they have succeeded, simply because they were allowed to.

I thought with the advent of the new Congress we would see a Republican party of much sterner stuff than the wishy-washy, panty-waisted establishment types which we’ve all come to recognize and despise. The only reason the left engineered this touching nouveaux amis was so that the visual of the huge Republican numbers wouldn’t be broadcast to millions of American homes during prime time. It’s a significant difference in numbers, and it shows.

What bothers me most is that a ten year old could have seen this coming a block away. The left playing off of the emotional backwash of the Tucson tragedy, the whole thing reminiscent of the anti-gun, anti-conservative frenzy whipped up by the Democrats, after James S. Brady was paralyzed during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr.  read more »

And that’s it in a nutshell, as they used to say. There have been many weighty opinions offered as to the success of the viral phenomenon known as the Tea Party or collectively the Patriot Movement, which name sort of encompasses all such groups.

It’s confusing to the liberals because they can’t find anyone to attack except Sarah Palin, who seems to be the target of the day every day. They must fear her terribly to hate her that much. Go, Sarah!

The Marxists can’t figure us out because we are diametrically opposed to them and their every precept. They are simply incapable of being honest with themselves. This in turn co-opts their sense of right and wrong and engenders attitudes of fear, spite and envy. A false sense of entitlement and anger towards those more successful in life. Perennially unhappy and unsatisfied, they inevitably seek to influence those around them to their own level of self-induced misery.

The difference between the liberal and the patriot could not be in greater contrast. On one hand, we are presented with doom and gloom and ever more strident calls for more of our treasure, both personal and national. On the other, we have the conservative patriot movement where the tempo is upbeat and the atmosphere is full of promise for America.

Our Conservative Congress is starting to make itself felt and will soon start flexing its muscles. What has made the difference so far amongst the ranks of the patriots, is that individual Americans have taken up the challenge in their own neighborhoods. They’ve thrown down the Conservative gauntlet at school board meetings and town council meetings across America.  read more »

Apparently, liberals are offended only when blunt talk is used to burrow through the verbal artifice they’ve constructed to protect their generally unpopular ideas. Notice that liberals thrive in institutions where the linguistic architecture of "political correctness" can be protected by harsh rules or by monopoly (universities, public schools), or where political messages can be folded into images or language designed for other purposes (entertainment, news).

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