TIMES and Treason

All Secrets Fit To Print

“ Security: The New York Times is reporting the U.S. military has "broad, secret authority" to kill al-Qaida terrorists anywhere on Earth. As is too often the case, the Times has spilled information it should have sat on ”

“ None dare call it treason, of course, this telegraphing of information that is useful to our enemies. But the Times nudged up against it when it revealed in Monday's edition the existence of a "secret order" from 2004 that "gave the military new authority to attack the al-Qaida terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States." [ IBD CONT] ” None dare call it treason?  Teacher .. teach ... teacher!! Here!  Over Here!

Saddam's WMD

NOW ...

“ IAEA Finds Uranium Traces at Syrian Blast Site   (IsraelNN.com) United Nations investigators have found traces of uranium contamination at the site of an Israeli air strike in Syria, diplomats told Reuters and German media sources on Monday. The report is the first sign of a “smoking gun” proving that Syria was in fact building a secret nuclear reactor on the site, as Israel and the United States have insisted. ”

and THEN “ Ex-Official: Russia Moved Saddam's WMD A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them. "The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org). "They were moved by Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units out of uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and eradicate any evidence of its existence," he said. ”

Lawless Liberals

Awash in Liberal Tyranny

Wake the FU** UP!

The Supreme Court's duty to protect the population from themselves?  Liberals are sick sick sick. “ More than one-third of California's lawmakers added their voices Monday to the chorus calling on the state's highest court to overturn  (whatever) approved by voters last week. Forty-four members of the California Legislature filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support one of the three lawsuits seeking to invalidate Proposition (whatever). The case, brought on behalf of  (whatever), argues  (whatever) be tossed out because voters did not have the authority to make such a dramatic change in state law. The brief argues that the (people)  improperly usurped the state Supreme Court's duty to protect  (whatever) from  (whatever). Proposition  (whatever) overturned the court's May decision that legalized  (whatever). ”

Truffle Encrusted Halibut

Best Times Ever

Our adopted son Joe took MoSup, me, and the rest of the family out to dinner last night to celebrate our anniversary.  These are the best times in life.  Thanks Joe.  Thanks everyone.

Child Abuse

Around the Clock, Without End

“ My child no longer participates in Toontown, an online consensual hallucination provided by Disney. I’m glad; it had promise, but seemed limited, the graphics were chunktastic, and your character had names like Merry Flippy Pantswhistle. What annoyed me most were the foes the toons had to battle for jellybean points – they were called Cogs, and they were all businessmen, various forms of capitalists in robot form. The Disney execs who signed off on the project must have a big bin outside the office where they could place their sense of irony before heading in to work. Lileks.Screed ”

Last night's dinner conversation

The au courant Muslim

Watch the spinning circle

Daddy, Are We Almost There?

Almost Dear

“ “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” Norman Thomas U.S. Socialist Party Presidential candidate 1940 “We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.” - Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959 Barking Moonbat ”

We have here dueling post-election autopsies. Antisocial Conservatives By W. James Antle, III  'Center-right' America lurches further left Mark Steyn: “ In truth, there is very little evidence that the country has moved left on social issues since 2004, when values voters were said to decide the presidential election. Polls have been shifting somewhat more pro-life since the mid-1990s. Even leftward movement on same-sex marriage, which has gone from being unthinkable in the early '90s to a live issue today, seems to have stalled around late 2003. Republicans emphasized their social conservatism much more in 2004, when they won, than during their losing campaigns of 2006 and 2008. My Republican friends are now saying, oh, not to worry, look at the exit polls, this is still a "center-right" country. Americans didn't vote to go left, they voted to go cool. It was a "Dancing With The Stars" election: Obama's a star, and everyone wants to dance with him. It doesn't mean they're suddenly gung-ho for left-wingery. Up to a point. ” W. James Antle, III (whoever he is) gravitates toward the David Frum camp's solution, "Republicans should now embrace "a future that is less overtly religious, less negligent with policy, and less polarizing on social issues," a move that will "involve painful change" on such issues as abortion."  Also known as the "what do Frank Luntz's focus groups say?" method of social pandering.  Poop. The  "overtly religious" values that so bother these party intellectuals, are values embraced by even those of us who are non-religious  -- because they happen to represent core conservative values. Mark Steyn, who actually understands, and lives conservatism, recognizes the real problem that faces us, and by "us" I mean all Americans. “ The president-elect's so-called "tax cut" will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those who are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, on the dole. ” The successor to the failed RNC formula, that has been leading us into the jaws of defeat for a dozen years, had better go back to acting out of principle in all matters, regardless of what a Luntz focus group dictates. In fact, quit using focus groups entirely. Give no quarter, and ask none. Begin by moving every resource they have into ACORN infested Minnesota, where Democrats are poised to steal Norm Coleman's Senate seat, using the Christine Gregoire method of "finding lost ballots" until she won. . Things have slipped so far that it may be impossible to restore our democracy, but keeping 100+ million of us together with focused, principled goals will make it possible to do this Don't Tread On USA, when necessary. Say Amen.

It's My Pond, and My Frog

"It's My Frog Now"

"Yes We Can . . . Ban Guns"-- Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda Before The Final Vote Count Is In

“ "Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." "Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment." "Closing the gun show loophole." "Making guns in this country childproof." ”