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Hey! Whaddaya Know? The Village Voice IS Good for Something!

From a comment left at The Mudville Gazette comes a link to this Village Voice piece that absolutely RIPS Kerry on his chairmanship of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs.

Excerpt:

The stated purpose of the special Senate committee—which convened in mid 1991 and concluded in January 1993—was to investigate the evidence about prisoners who were never returned and find out what happened to the missing men. Committee chair Kerry’s larger and different goal, though never stated publicly, emerged over time: He wanted to clear a path to normalization of relations with Hanoi. In any other context, that would have been an honorable goal. But getting at the truth of the unaccounted for P.O.W.’s and M.I.A.’s (Missing In Action) was the main obstacle to normalization—and therefore in conflict with his real intent and plan of action.

Kerry denied back then that he disguised his real goal, contending that he supported normalization only as a way to learn more about the missing men. But almost nothing has emerged about these prisoners since diplomatic and economic relations were restored in 1995, and thus it would appear—as most realists expected—that Kerry’s explanation was hollow. He has also denied in the past the allegations of a cover-up, either by the Pentagon or himself. Asked for comment on this article, the Kerry campaign sent a quote from the senator: “In the end, I think what we can take pride in is that we put together the most significant, most thorough, most exhaustive accounting for missing and former P.O.W.’s in the history of human warfare.”

And dig that graphic:

What does it say for a rag as Leftist as The Village Voice to publish so devastating an anti-Kerry hit piece?

Perhaps I was wrong, and it’s not too late for the Dims to “Torricelli” him! I’m sure Hillary is just waiting in the wings to be “drafted” at the last minute and “save the nation.”

THIS is Important!

Moorewatch is, well, you read what JimK has to say:

I’m so thoroughly disgusted by Michael Moore’s new book of supposed letters from soldiers that I’ve decided to put my money…or more precisely, my time, where my mouth is.

I will assemble a counter to Moore’s book. Unedited, untouched except for the assemblage, a book of letters from soldiers that support the President and do not trust Mr. Moore.



If you are military and you are interested, or you have military family members who would like to participate, please send your letters to letters at moorewatch dot com. All hate mail will be deleted upon receipt, so save your energy, Moore-ons.



If you prefer to write old-fashioned snail mail letters, I will get a P.O. Box and make the address available. Email would be the best route though, since time is of the essence.

I will touch not a word of these letters. Not one. If you send a letter, you must be willing to allow me to publish it AND publish your name and branch of service, so independent people can verify that you are who you say you are and that you wrote what I say you wrote. EVERYTHING will be public and verifiable. I refuse to hide any aspect of this.



If we can’t get anyone interested in publishing it, we’ll publish it our damn selves. But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Right-fucking-on. And I bet Regnery will jump all over it. Please pass this around.

(Hat tip, SondraK.)

Here’s an Excellent Piece that won’t make the Major Media

(I’m still not posting much – but at least I’m not not posting at all.)

It’s entitled The Truth About Guns, from AmericanDaily. Teaser:

We recently took the safety course required to obtain a “concealed-carry” permit for a handgun. As residents of the District of Columbia we cannot even legally own a bullet without registering it, and handguns are completely illegal. Yet, since we believe in the Second Amendment, we wanted to have first hand facts.

It’s a short piece, and to-the-point.

Oh, and I also wanted to mention a book I saw referenced over at The Geek’s, called Shooters: Myths and Realities of America’s Gun Cultures that looks excellent. I’m going to have to pick up a copy.

According to John F. Kerry, I’m Obviously a Paid Stooge of the Republicans

Here’s the latest SwiftVets anti-Kerry ad. (Windows Media File, sorry for you Quicktime folks.)

I’m personally very happy that they’re reminding everyone of Kerry’s Senate testimony, since Kerry has decided now that his 4.5 months in Vietnam were “honorably” spent “defending his country.”

BTW, I’ve been registered as a Democrat ever since I moved to Arizona in 1981. They’re welcome to check.



Oh, and Dean Esmay is right:

The Internet has detected the mainstream media as a form of censorship and simply routed around them.

Edited to add: If, by chance, I AM on the RNC payroll, YOU’RE BEHIND A FEW YEARS GUYS!

The Internet Means a Looooong Memory.

(Right after I say “no new posts” I go and prove myself wrong.)

The RNC has a pretty damned good commercial out – 12 minutes long – of Kerry on the war in Iraq, in his own duplicitous words. Highly recommended. Pass it around.

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Blog Hiatus

Sorry, y’all, but for at least the next few days there will be no posting of note here at The Smallest Minority. Life intrudes. My apologies to my regular readers and to whatever new ones have come lately.

I’ll be back.

After all, you’re entitled to my opinion!

Just another “Gullible Gunner,” I suppose…

Gunner, proprietor of the blog No Quarters sent me the link to this cartoon, in relation to the rather long, drawn-out discussion I had over the previous few months with Tim Lambert of the blog Deltoid. Very apropos, though, as Gunner points out there’s no way to know when it was originally drawn.

The artist, Jim Unger was born in the UK, but started cartooning in Canada in 1974, and retired in 1992. (Must be nice, huh?) So all we know for sure is that the cartoon was 1992 or earlier.

Lack of Posting…

Sorry about the dearth of new stuff, but I’ve been really busy and had other things to attend to. Were it not for the fact that I had promised to host the Carnival this week, I might not have posted anything at all. I’ve got a mother of an essay rolling around in the back of my skull somewhere that might actually get out of me tomorrow or the next day, though.

Anyway, thanks for bearing with me this week. Expect, however, that the volume of my output will be somewhat reduced for the foreseeable future due to work and other considerations. There’s a lot going on that I’d really like to comment on, but I simply have not had the spare time.

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