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What They Thought February 11, 2007 Alan
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A lot of people, attributing the current conflicts in the Middle East to either religion or oil, believe they don’t really have a dog in the fight. What cannot be ignored however is that a paroxysm of religious strife has broken out in the Middle East and it is exporting death and terror in the name of Allah. Still angry over the defeat in 732 A.D. at Poitiers, France that stopped their northward conquest of Europe and the Crusades that followed from 1095 to 1291, the Arabs of the Middle East have taken the temperature of the West today and concluded that it’s time for a big comeback. Either through birthrates in Europe or the use of terror from Bali to Manhattan, they have concluded it’s time to try once again to be the ones who run the world. Considering how little previous generations of these Arabs or Islam have contributed to modern civilization this seems astonishingly arrogant. Read the rest... |
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Of late all we seem to hear about is the need to kick the oil habit. Before I address this, I want to comment to those who seem to say this so often. Do you really think that the radical Muslims will stay away from you just because we leave their benighted land? Get a grip. All cowardice ever receives as payment is more hostility by an emboldened attacker. If I injured the sensibilities of any of the liberals out there, I would like to say I’m sorry. But I won’t. What is needed now is another Republican Revolution. Read the rest... R.A. Hawkins Web Site Contact Back to Top |
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Senator Joe Biden shot his presidential campaign squarely in the foot recently when he referred to fellow senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” It’s interesting how people are all up in arms about this comment the same week we’re celebrating the first black head coach to win a Super Bowl. The only reason Biden’s remarks made people uncomfortable is because they happen to be true. Read the rest... Jonathan David Morris Web Site Contact Back to Top |
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With the elections over and the 110th Congress settling in, the media have been reporting ad nauseam about who has assumed new political power in Washington. We're subjected to breathless reports about emerging power brokers in Congress; how so-and-so is now the powerful chair of an important committee; how certain candidates are amassing power for the 2008 elections, and so on. Nobody questions this use of the word "power," or considers its connotations. It's simply assumed, in Washington and the mainstream media, that political power is proper and inevitable. The problem is that politicians are not supposed to have power over us — we're supposed to be free. Read the rest... Rep. Ron Paul Web Site Back to Top |
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The hoopla over whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have access to an Air Force commuter jet or to a larger, more amenity-laden, 757-styled jet just goes to prove that anything in Washington DC can be politicized. Quite frankly, with Ms. Pelosi’s penchant for taking pot-shots at the president, I would have thought her request would have been for a C-130 gunship. Traditionally, members of congress have had to requisition the use of Air Force transportation through the Executive Branch. The allocation of a personal aircraft to the Speaker of the House only began after the terrorist attacks of September 11th and then it was only because the Speaker of the House was second in the line of succession to the presidency. As the story goes, Speaker Pelosi’s people wanted to upgrade the aircraft used to transport her because the aircraft that had been allocated for this task while Illinois Representative Dennis Hastert was speaker can’t make it non-stop from Washington to California. Read the rest... |
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No column this week. Nancy
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