Political Quote of the Day….
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Political Quote of the Day
“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.” - James Burnham
Archive for November, 2005
A Marine Corrupted by Liberalism? By Barbara J. Stock
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
A few shocking statements were made last week by an old Marine. “It’s time to bring the troops home,” was just one of the comments of Representative John Murtha (D-PA). Murtha uttered the words that indicated, in his mind anyway, that the Iraq war was virtually lost, and he probably stunned many of [...]
Clueless in the Senate By the Bear
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Last week Senator Mary Landrieu made presentation on the Senate floor about the reconstruction in New Orleans. The Senator used a a number of charts with photos and kept using this same expression, “These charts are not hard to understand.”
The presentation was something one might see in mid level grade school. Was she doing this [...]
Subject: I don’t care! WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS?
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Unless you’re an American-hating idiot, you have to admire this lady’s spunk…………..
The lady who wrote this letter is Pam Foster of Pamela Foster and Associates in Atlanta. She’s been in business since 1980 doing interior design and home planning. She recently wrote this letter to a family member serving in Iraq.
“Are we fighting a war [...]
Our Troops Must Stay BY JOE LIEBERMAN
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
America can’t abandon 27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists.
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of [...]
The “Moral Authority” Canard Andrew C. McCarthy
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Senator McCain is heroic, awe-inspiring, and wrong.
In Rhetoric, Aristotle observed that personal character is often the most formidable weapon in the speaker’s arsenal — more persuasive, if skillfully deployed, than even the logical force of his arguments.
Two-and-a-half millennia later, in a world of made-for-TV sound bites, techno-imagery, and information overload, the concept is hollowed [...]
Novak: GOP retreating on taxes by Robert Novak
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
The Republican majority in the House of Representatives got out of Washington for the long Thanksgiving holiday without passing a pending tax bill. It was not just the congressional tendency to put off doing today what can be postponed until tomorrow. There were not enough Republican votes to pass a quintessentially Republican tax bill.
The reasons [...]
Our accomplishments in Iraq make for long list BY MARY LANEY
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
We’re over there, we Yanks, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait. We kicked the Taliban thugs out of Afghanistan, sent them packing, and worked with the populace that emerged from the rubble, allowed a government to form, citizens to vote, women to go outside, girls to go back to school, and all to return to work [...]
What did U.S. military know before 9/11? James Rosen, Star Tribune
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
WASHINGTON - A top-secret military program set up six years ago to probe the Al-Qaida terrorist network is provoking fierce new debate about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Military intelligence officers and contractors who ran the clandestine mission, named Able Danger, say that more than a year before the attacks, the operation identified four of the [...]
Hillary engages Clinton double act for White House By Philip Sherwell
The Bear on Nov 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Hillary Clinton has enlisted her husband to attack the White House over Iraq in an attempt to shore up her sliding support among Democrat activists.
The New York senator, who is expected to run for the White House in 2008, has been alarmed by a drop in her opinion polls ratings as she pays the political [...]
