Month: August 2004

Well, some of them are right here at Muslims for Bush (via One Hand Clapping). There’s an interview with the founder on this page with some interesting comments, such as:

(W)e truly believe that President Bush is good for Muslims. We feel like he is getting a bad rap. A lot of Muslims are going against him not for the right reasons. If there is someone who is very wrong for the job, it is John Kerry. Bush is the right guy for Muslims.
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(Kerry) is bad at a lot of levels. The first reason is that he was responsible for writing many parts of the Patriot Act. The second reason is that Kerry has said that he wants to denuclearize Pakistan. Pakistan has been America’s greatest ally in the war on terror. If John Kerry is going to ruin that, it will hurt Pakistan and the war on terror.

And this piece is outstanding, a Q&A for the American Muslim considering who to vote for. Question #14 is my personal favorite, but check #1:

Question #1 – Did President Bush go to Iraq for oil?
Answer #1 – Anyone who thinks that President Bush went to Iraq for cheap oil, has obviously lost the power of reasoning. If President Bush wanted cheap oil, he would have done a deal directly with Saddam. In that way, Saddam would have given an arm and a leg to be in the good graces of the United States. He likely would have given the oil for free, in order to maintain his position as the legitimate ruler of Iraq, much as he did through the corrupt ‘Oil for Food Program’ that the United Nations and France heavily benefited from. Cheap oil was never the agenda.

Apparently some Muslims have recognized that the Left has “lost the power of reasoning.” Not that it’s a difficult conclusion to reach.

Interesting stuff, and another reason an atheist like me reads the Rev. Sensing.

Payback’s a Bitch, Ain’t It?

As the Left is beginning to discover. Chris Muir nails another one in Day by Day.

Conservatives claim their views curbed on campuses

Students for Academic Freedom

Mallard Fillmore has something on the topic as well:

Political Correctness? Take THAT!



“Tolerance” works BOTH WAYS.

An Example of the Skillful Use of the Broadsword



Banagor of Shining Full Plate and a Good Broadsword reviews an excellent comment left on an anti-Nader site, and delivers an “Off-at-the-knees!” stroke of his own.

Teaser:

Democrats don’t get it. They don’t understand that some people won’t do something no matter how long or hard you talk.

That is why I have to laugh at their efforts and their sites. They are idiotic in their attempts to try to change the inevitable. They simply can’t do it, just like they can’t convince Sudan to stop killing thousands of people just by flinging potentially harsh words at them, or try to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb with finger-wagging.

Some people just won’t listen.

So what do they do? They attack other people’s freedom of speech and Constitutional rights. They can’t attack Nader on the issues because they have none, so they attack his right to run for President. They can’t attack the Swift Boat Vets on their testimonies, so they attack them on their right to speak out during an election. They can’t attack Bush on the current issues of the war because they have no solutions, so they attack him with Kerry’s thirty year old record of Vietnam.

This isn’t a party of issues any longer, but a party of idiots.

THAT’S gonna leave a mark!

Amen, Claire, Amen.

Claire, “La Profesora of Moonbatology” and contributor to SondraK.com, has an excellent post up. You need to read the links, too. Here’s a teaser, and something I agree with wholly:

We lost that war in Viet Nam and the Vietnamese people paid. Dearly. We cannot afford to lose this war through the same mistake of refusing to believe in ourselves and each other. This time, not only will we pay dearly, but the people of many other nations will pay, in turn.



We need to reacquaint ourselves with what is good and right and pure and unique about The Great Experiment that is America. We need to return to the roots of belief in the basic goodness of Man from which our approach to governance sprang. We need to give ourselves permission to be proud of all that we have accomplished in our mere 228 years and believe that we, indeed, still have the Right Stuff to continue to do credit to our forefathers, and to ourselves. We need to give ourselves permission to protect ourselves because what we have created and what we have done is worth protecting. And what we will do will be principled, and decent and right.

Go read it all. Spread it around.

Ravenwood has found possibly the seminal example of John F’n Kerry’s incredible skill at nuance yet, via the New York Times no less!

The truth, which is what elections are all about, is that the tax burden of the middle class has gone up while the tax burden of the middle class has gone down

I’m in awe.

And it’s TRUE! I saw the CBO report that said that the percentage of the total tax burden has gone up for the middle class after the tax cut that let the middle class keep more of their own money! See! See!

Actual REPORTING!

The Washington Times has an Assault Weapons Ban article that is ACTUAL REPORTING, in the unbiased “Just the facts, ma’am” style that the media swears is all they do. Connect that to the AWB primer I linked to a couple of days ago, and you have a very powerful education tool for the uninformed.

I think Jerry Seper of the WT will probably be fired for not following the AP Stylesheet when writing a firearm-related article. It wasn’t misleading or frightening enough.

OK, ONE more: Sometimes I Fear for Our Future



Checking my tracking I found a link from a blog I’d never seen before, so I clicked the link. It must have been someone using Blogger’s new header-bar with the “next blog” link, because there’s no way this blogger actually linked to me.

All I have to say is: “WTF, over?”