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Peter Paul Olszewski, a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania judge, has ordered three young latino men, all school drop-outs, to learn to read and write english or go to jail, after their conviction on drug and gun-related charges.

“Do you think we are going to provide you a translator all your life?”, the judge asked them.

A lawyer for the trio is considering an appeal… probably on the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment.

http://www.cnn.com 28 March 2008

In an interview today, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, told Reuters that relations with the U.S. could worsen if John McCain were elected.
“McCain is too war-like”, Chavez noted and went on to say, “One would hope for the level of relations we had with ex-president Clinton.”

McCain calls Chavez a dictator, the article said.

Another reason to vote for McCain, in my book.

http://www.drudgereport.com 25 March 2008

On Saturday, the Washington Times and FOXNEWS disclosed that a State Department investigation into the improper passport snooping of all three presidential candidates is currently focused on a contracting firm hired by the department, The Analysis Corporation, owned by John Brennan, an Obama contributor and advisor.

Hmmmmmm.

http://elections.foxnews.com

The Drudge Report is carrying a Franklin & Marshall poll showing that one in five democrats plan to vote for McCain if their candidate is not nominated.  http://www.drudgereport.com 21 March 2008

Those who support John McCain will be buoyed by this news.

Those who oppose him will say, “Aha! I told you he appeals to dems!”

It’s the classic damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.

SEVEN POSTS IN A ROW! ISN’T THAT SOME KIND OF RECORD? ... OOPS! NINE POSTS!!

John McCain added his signature to a Friend of The Court brief which includes the signatures of 55 other Senators, 258 House members and Vice President Richard Cheney.

The brief calls on the Supreme Court to affirm the lower court ruling which voided the DC City Council Ordinance banning private ownership of handguns. The high court will hear arguments on Tuesday, 18 March.

http://www.foxnews.com Sunday, 16 March 2008

Senators Obama and Clinton did not affix their signatures to the brief, giving 2nd Amendment advocates a clear signal as to where either of them would stand on gun rights as president.

Several regular contributors to the infamously leftist DailyKOS are boycotting the site over anti-Hillary rhetoric, while angry accusations fly!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

The same story is available at Drudge

During his four-year tenure as President, and with National Security Advisor Zbignew Brizinski at his side, Jimmie Carter carried out some of the most destructive foreign-policy initiatives in our nation’s history; policies which every president since has had to deal with.

Carter resisted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by arming and supplying the very Isalmic radicals who would later morph into the Taliban. As a tragi-comic sideshow, he barred American athletes from participating in the Moscow Olympics in protest of the Russian incursion. Net result: The Cold War deepened and Afghanistan slid into a new Dark Age.

When a militant Islamic uprising spread across Iran, Carter turned his back on the Shah, our most ardent ally in the Middle East. The Shah was deposed and Carter, as a show of good will, arranged a flight for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeni to return from Paris in triumph to Tehran and establish the Reign of the Mullahs.

Not long after, Islamist revolutionaries, in apparent gratitude, swarmed the United States Embassy, and in violation of International Law, held the US Embassy staff in captivity for over four hundred days. In an effort to save some face, Carter reluctantly agreed to a rescue mission after putting impossible restrictions on the service men who were to carry it out. It failed and our soldiers died.  [The election of Ronald Regan brought this embarrassment to a swift conclusion.]

Carter arranged an ill-fated peace conference between Egypt and Israel which had three results: Israel was seriously weakened, the PLO was strengthened and Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, was assassinated by his own military. Shortly thereafter, Menachem Begin’s government fell in Israel.

Not satisfied with all this, Carter, with the continuing advice of Brizinski, meddled in the internal affairs of Pakistan, approving covert operations in support of the opposition and leading to a destablized government there, while raising deep suspicions in the government of India.

Almost as an afterthought, Jimmie Carter used his power and influence through the Saudi royal family to encourage Saddam Hussein to attack the Iranians.

In short, Jimmie Carter, during four short years, created a volatile, explosive mess of unparalleled proportions throughout the Middle East; one which the United States is still paying for today.

Yesterday, Loanni Prieto and 5 other young Cuban soccer players, and possibly a 7th - an assistant coach who is currently “missing” - fled the Doubletree Hotel in Tampa where the Cuban national team was staying, to become homeless refugees here in the United States.

How could that be? Doesn’t Cuba have the best health care in the world? Don’t Cubans live in a nation free from oppression and racism? Isn’t El Papa Fidel the Glorious Leader? Tell me it ain’t so!

Check it out at http://www.breitbart.com

When Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor and spiritual guide for Barack Obama for more than 20 years, says, “God damn America, America is the great oppressor, We nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, We oppress Palistinians and Africans, The CIA invented AIDS, America whined when the chickens came home to roost on 9/11, White America oppresses the poor, Hillary Clinton has never been called a n----r and Rich white men oppress blacks”, he touches a chord which resonates in the hearts and minds of many liberals.

While a number of them, including Barack Obama, will distance themselves from any or all of Rev. Wright’s specific statements, liberals will have a hard time denying that they share one thing in common with him… they resent or even hate what America stands for. They see our nation as an evil power in the world and one in which the haves oppress the have-nots at home. In that context, words like hope and change take on a very distinct and frightening meaning.

Many of them see liberty as a buzz-word for greed, freedom as a means of oppression and aggression, and individuality as a cover for gun-ownership, lower taxes and conservative values. Many of them hope all of that will be changed and Rev. Wright touches them in a deep, bitter core they will deny exists.

Had John McCain’s pastor made the obverse of these comments over a twenty year period, McCain would be condemned on the front page of every newspaper, magazine and blog in the country. But then, those who publish for the media are themselves liberals and find it very difficult - even painful - to expose Wright’s anti-American rants or Barack Obama’s twenty year connection to them and him.

President Bush, speaking in Nashville to the National Association of Religious Broadcasters, warned of renewed efforts among some in congress to resurrect the defunct “Fairness Doctrine” requiring networks to give equal time to opposing point-of-view programming. If enforced, the doctrine would spell the end of conservative talk-radio.

Look for an enthusiastic YEA! for this policy in the next liberal congress, if Obama or Clinton capture the White House in November. The naming of 2 or 3 more activists to the Supreme Court would seal the deal.

http://www.statesman.com 11 March edition: Blogs: Window on Washington

The mother of the man arrested for the murder of an Auburn coed apologizes to the victim’s family and says that her son’s service in Iraq changed him.

Looks like the new defense dejour for the next 10 years. Can’t wait for the NYT spin on this. 

http://www.breitbart.com

Yesterday in New Orleans, John McCain spoke to, and took questions from, members of the Council for National Policy, a ‘secretive’ but influential conservative think-tank.

Reporters were not permitted in the meeting and had to listen to the forum from a nearby room. When interviewed afterwards, most delegates spoke on condition of anonimity.

What is emerging from sessions like these is that McCain’s economic proposals appeal to fiscal conservatives, but that social conservatives continue to be highly skeptical. His foreign policy positions seemed to find some traction with both groups.

Which all goes to show that we conservatives are a tough crowd.

http://www.washingtontimes.com [Saturday, 8 March edition]

Today, Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times asked John McCain whether he had been in a private conversation in 2004 with John Kerry about running as Kerry’s VP candidate, and whether he would now return the favor and ask Kerry to run with him.

Obviosuly angered, McCain snapped back.

Everyone knows I had a private conversation with kerry. You know it too! John Kerry asked if I would consider being his running mate… and I catagorically said no.

Bumiller, whose paper has already been blistered for publishing a highly speculative article hinting that McCain may have had an affair with a lobbyist, persisted.

McCain fired back again.

John Kerry is a friend of mine. We are fellow veterans, but we have vastly different philosophical fundamental views. I respect those views, I just totally disagree with them.

Some other reporters described McCain as ‘testy’ with Bumiller. Frankly I think its refreshing to see a candidate not be PC with a generally anti-conservative MSM, and particularly with the sleeze-bags at the NYT.

http://elections.foxnews.com

Today, in the absence of Rush Limbaugh, Texas talk-show host Mark Davis sat in and during the second hour of the show made the following personal pitch for supporting John McCain.

* Sitting home on election day will be a, “stab-in-the-back of our troops in harm’s way”, making it likely that Obama or Clinton will be the next Commander in Chief.

* recent Supreme Court decisions, led by Chief Justice Roberts, with Justices Alito and Thomas in support, have shifted to the right. McCain will nominate more strict-constructionists like them; Obama and Clinton will not.

* McCain is not the ideal conservative, but he is the best hope of preventing a liberal White House/Congress veto-proof combination from returning America to a liberal agenda over the next four years.