Edwards would invest billions in Michigan

Speaking to more than 1,800 Democrats in Detroit last Saturday, Edwards said he'd invest billions of dollars in Michigan.

It is no secret that Michigan is in financial trouble. Billions to Michigan would not be an investment. It would be throwing good money after bad.

When Republican governor John Engler left office the state had a surplus. It didn’t take long for Governor Jennifer Granholm’s socialist policies to nearly bankrupt the state.

John Edwards told Democrats in Michigan what they want to hear. However, if he was serious about “investing” billions in the troubled state, he really has no idea of the role of President.

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John Edwards and the arrogance of the entitled

Presidential candidate John Edwards (pictured) says that he and America are angry about wretched excess.

The candidate, who has been looking pretty [here] and pretty impressive in defining "Two Americas" -- one for the rich and privileged, a lesser place for everyone else -- came up with a wonderful device to show us all what he meant.

His campaign spending reports, required by the Federal Election Commission, revealed that he has been paying $400 for haircuts by a Beverly Hills cutter named Joseph Torrenueva.

The guy must be good, because Edwards' hair sure looks good. So does the rest of him, helped along by a $250 shaping at the Designworks Salon in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 at the Pink Sapphire spa in Manchester, N.H.

Well, the man has great hair. My barber tells me I do, too, and he only charges 20 bucks.

As Luczanne says:

Muskie's tears, Dean's scream, Al's sigh, Kerry's magic hat,
now this. It's the little stuff that gets them every time.

Now it’s Edwards excess while living in the “entitled” portion of his “Two Americas.”

Does the White House have enough mirrors to accommodate the Breck Boy?

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John Kerry hints at possible presidential run in 2008

Senator John Kerry (pictured) wants to be president so bad he can taste it.

He spoke to a small group of people at the Tattered Cover bookstore in Lodo (lower downtown Denver) hinting that he may step into the presidential race if the right situation presented itself.

As poorly as he managed his 2004 campaign it seems unlikely he would get enough primary votes to secure the Democratic nomination in 2008. However, voters sometimes have short memories so you never know . . .

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Cold and sleet cuts short global warming rally

Cold and sleet in Reno, Nevada cut short a global warming rally.

More than two dozen demonstrators braved cold, wet weather Saturday in Reno to attend a rally designed to draw attention to global warming.

More than two dozen? Big turnout.

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Katie Couric:Is America ready for a President who grew up praying in a mosque?

Katie Couric posted a question on her CBS blog about Barack Obama’s background:

Is America ready to elect a President who’s connections with Islam were the subject of rumors and innuendo?

Barack Obama has arguably the most diverse religious background of any candidate, ever. He was raised in Indonesia by a Christian mother and Muslim stepfather, and attended a Catholic school, but while growing up, also studied Islam. That background sparked rumors that he had studied in a radical madrasa, or Koranic school.

This is a question voters will be asking themselves during the 2008 primary elections.

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Hillary fell flat in MoveOn vote on Iraq

Hillary fell flat in a in a straw poll that asked what candidate 'would be best able to lead the country out of Iraq?'

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, lagged behind her main competitors, as well as some lower-tier candidates, in a straw poll taken after a virtual town hall meeting on Iraq.

The poll results:
Obama: 27.87%
Edwards: 24.84%
Kucinich: 17.18
Richardson: 12.26%
Clinton: 10.7%

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Top forecaster calls Gore a Gross Alarmist

A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore (pictured) "a gross alarmist" for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.

"He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans

Gray, an emeritus professor at the atmospheric science department at Colorado State University, has long railed against the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm.

Over the past 24 years, Gray, 77, has become known as America's most reliable hurricane forecaster.

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Pelosi accuses GOP of political stunt

It seems ironic that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (pictured) accuses the GOP of a political stunt for saying she should do her job instead of pulling a political stunt of her own in the Middle East.

Of course, she is secure in the reality that the liberal media will downplay her political stunt while making headlines when the GOP wonders why she doesn’t stop meddling in the Middle East and do her job as Speaker of the House.

Hmm … is she wanting headlines in the news so she can inch closer to becoming Hillary’s vice-presidential running mate in 2008? Naw - Hillary is too smart for that.

The Pelosi trip to the Middle East was a way to hold up funding for the troops and gain notoriety for herself at the same time.

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Democrats control congress with blank scorecard

Since the Democrats took majority control of congress in January, they have yet to show a desire to govern.

The House passed bills raising the minimum wage, promoting stem cell research and providing student loan breaks.

The Senate passed only one -- the minimum wage hike -- and it's hung up over disagreements on the size of small business tax breaks to include.

That means the Democrat controlled Congress is batting zero.

Maybe the Democrats like it that way.

When South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle (pictured) was Senate Majority Leader, before losing his re-election bid in 2004, the Senate was virtually deadlocked.

Daschle led filibusters along with other blocking tactics kept legislative action at a near standstill.

Legislative action in the Senate is back to where it was in 2003 and 2004.

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Bush critic Sheehan blasts Democrats

Cindy Sheehan (pictured), he radical full-time Bush protestor, is turning on her supporters.

Last Friday she said Bush should "end this madness" and accused his Democratic foes of having "betrayed" their anti-war supporters.

Actually, the Democratic Party has never really supported her. What financial support she has received is from the MoveOn group who claims to “own” the Democratic Party.

Sheehan took a tough line against Democrats who harnessed anger at the Iraq war to recapture the US Congress in November.

"They got there and they betrayed the grass roots that put them back there," she said. "We can't depend on the Democrats."

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End of evolution?

Good grief! And in only 7 days?

This would be a great photo to use for a caption contest.

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HBO film about Bush-Gore 2000 election recount

HBO will make a film about the 2000 presidential election when the TV networks first declared that Al Gore had won and then called Florida for Bush before announcing that the race was too close to call.

This was followed by three weeks of legal maneuvering.

Will the movie show how the Gore team demanded re-counts and then re-counts of some of the re-counts? It was as if they wanted to keep counting until they got the results they wanted.

What about the military ballots that were rejected by the Gore team because they arrived a few days late? Military ballots traditionally are overwhelmingly Republican.

Will the film show people holding ballots up to the light while studying them with magnifying glasses in a effort to try to guess the intent of the voter?

Will the movie show the results of two subsequent recounts by two different newspapers, both of which showed Bush won?

Will the film report that the Florida Supreme Court refused to hear the case the first time. It was then sent to the U.S. Supreme Court where it was rejected and returned to the Florida Supreme Court. After the Florida high court again refused, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case and ruled in favor of Bush.

Knowing that 95% of Hollywood is staunchly liberal there is little doubt how the film will be slanted. Expect as much innuendo as fact.

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Pelosi questions lack of female Saudi politicians

The title of this posting proves once again that Nancy Pelosi (pictured) is not known for her intellect.

She is not only mucking up the careful state department strategy for the Middle East, she is trying to cram social correctness down their throats.

If she were qualified to be a state department ambassador she would know that women in Saudi aren’t even allowed to drive automobiles.

Wondering why women don’t hold political office in Saudi Arabia is like wondering why black men didn’t hold political office in the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

Mrs. Pelosi also defied tradition and wore a lavender pantsuit instead of the long black robe, called an abaya, that women, Saudi and non-Saudi, have to wear in the kingdom.

Mrs. Pelosi arrived in Saudi Arabia from Syria, where she defied the White House's Middle East policy by meeting with President Bashar Assad and saying "the road to Damascus is a road to peace." The Bush administration has rejected direct talks with Damascus and criticized Mrs. Pelosi for her visit.

Other than that, and misquoting Israel Prime Minister Olmert, things went rather well for a bumbling Secretary of State wannabe.

How long before she takes credit for the release of the British sailors?

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Scandal manufactured by Democrats and media

Federal judges serve at the pleasure of the President. He hires them and can fire them.

The firing of eight federal judges has been made into the “scandal that isn’t there” by Democrats in Washington and perpetuated by the media.

The contrived controversy over the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys is largely an exercise in imaginary indignation.

Congressional Democrats suggest that some of the firings may have been improper and demand to know the reasons for each of them. By what authority they make such demand is not clear, since the Supreme Court has ruled that, with limited exceptions, Congress has no voice in the dismissal of federal officers.

There was no such outcry when Bill Clinton ordered Janet Reno (pictured) to fire all 93 federal attorneys. In fact, the liberal media made it seem like it was the right thing to do.

Furthermore, there is nothing to stop Bush from firing any political appointee for whatever reason he chooses.

The Democrats are trying to make anything the administration does to appear as a scandal until the 2008 election.

They know that Hillary will probably be their candidate for president in 2008 and they are afraid she will be a weak candidate. They also know that the media will keep their “scandal” accusations alive for as long as they can.

The sad thing about this whole “scandal that wasn’t there” affair is the unwillingness of the President and Republicans in congress to put a stop to his nonsense! This proves the old saying: “people will do to you what you allow them to do.”

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Only 36% of Democrats would vote for Hillary

Nearly half of the respondents in a recent poll said they dislike Hillary Clinton’s political opinions and Clinton as a person and that she does not appear to connect with people on a personal level.

More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for Clinton. Overall, 36 percent said they would vote for the former first lady.

This is not good news for Democrats because Hillary will probably be the standard bearer for the Party in 2008.

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Washington lawmakers feasting on pork

Washington politicians have been accustomed to adding their favorite pork projects to bills they think the president will sign because of the importance of the main portion of the bill.

When such a bill reaches the president, he must sign it, in spite of the pork, or veto the entire bill. He does not have the ability to veto parts of a bill.

The president should be given ‘line item’ veto power but such a bill would never pass the House and Senate.

The House bill, which passed last week, exceeded the administration’s request by $21 billion and included money for spinach growers, peanut storage and citrus farmers.

If the Senate bill goes to conference committee as written, the two chambers may find themselves fighting over the best cuts of pork.

Washington lawmakers try to hide some of their pet projects as they are doing with the $100 million for the political party conventions. $50 million for the Democratic convention in Denver, Colorado and $50 million for the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The $100 million for the political conventions is included in a section described as “Katrina recovery, veterans’ care and for other purposes.”

Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Monday defended the extra spending, describing it as “common sense and good economics.”

Senator Byrd (pictured), former Ku Klux Klan member, is the king of the pork-barrelers.

A good portion of $20 million is for insect infestation control in Nevada, thanks to Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Politicians love to take big chunks of federal money back to their home state to help insure their re-election.

With no term-limits and no line-item veto, Washington lawmakers feast on pork year after year.

Partial list of pork projects by Sen. Byrd:
(paid for by Federal tax dollars)
Robert C. Byrd Drive, from Beckley to Sophia (Byrd's hometown)
Robert C. Byrd Highway
Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
Robert C. Byrd Federal Correctional Institution
Robert C. Byrd Freeway
Robert C. Byrd Center for Hospitality and Tourism
Robert C. Byrd Technology Center at Alderson-Broaddus College
Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technologies Center, near Princeton
Robert C. Byrd Bridge between Huntington and Chesapeake, Ohio
Robert C. Byrd addition to the lodge at Oglebay Park, Wheeling
Robert C. Byrd Community Center, Pine Grove
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships
Robert C. Byrd Expressway, U.S. 52 near Weirton
Robert C. Byrd Institute in Charleston
Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing
Robert C. Byrd Visitor Center at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center
Robert C. Byrd Federal Building (there are two)
Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex
Robert C. Byrd Industrial Park, Hardy County
Robert C. Byrd Scholastic Recognition Award
Robert C. Byrd Community Center in the naval station, Sugar Grove

Senator Byrd is never questioned about his pork spending by the ruling left-wing of the Democratic Party in Washington or by the liberal media because he dutifully votes with Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer John Kerry, etc.

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Aide to Sen. Webb arrested for gun possession

An aide to Jim Webb, Democratic Senator from Virginia, was arrested Monday when he entered a Senate office building with a loaded pistol belonging to the senator.

Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the aide was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and possessing an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition.

Sen. Webb’s office said it was an oversight. Carrying an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition was an oversight?

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Newspapers hurting as advertising revenue drops

Big city newspapers continue to stumble financially.

Although advertising revenue increased on newspaper web sites, ad income dropped in the printed version keeps dropping.

Revenue from advertising was in striking decline last month, compared with February a year ago, and were generally weaker than analysts had expected.

What will big city dwellers use to wrap fish if newspapers go the way of the dodo bird? They’ll have to find something else to line the birdcage.

As politically irresponsible as big city newspapers are, I can’t say as I’ll mourn their passing -- if it comes to that.

A link to the New York Times article is here. Some day they may print their own obituary.

Turnout low at immigrant rallies

Pro-immigration activists were disappointed last weekend by paltry rally participation.

Tens of thousands were expected in Washington but fewer than 5,000 showed up.

Some said it was because the movement's national organizers in Washington have lost touch with the people.

Not mentioned in the article is what could be the main reason for the lower than expected turnout -- a feeling of complacency on the part of the immigrants.

Many of the immigrants have everything they want now so why bother with demonstrating?

They earn a lot more than they did where they came from and they get free medical care for their families. If they are ill or injured, they are treated at most clinics and hospitals. Most have no insurance so U.S. taxpayers end up paying.

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Give Gore a dunce cap instead of honorary degree

The University of Minnesota is considering giving AL Gore (pictured) an honorary doctorate in climatology for his 2006 movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Considering the multitude of misleading and inaccurate assertions Gore delivered in the film, Gore is better fitted for a dunce cap.

Inaccuracy is the norm rather than the exception in Gore's movie. He would receive no better than an "F" in any serious course on climatology. The question is, given the current crisis in our public schools, does giving a bad scientist an honorary degree really send the right message?

A complete list of Gore's false and misleading statements would fill an entire book.

Some of the highlights can be found here.