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This really stuck out to me today as I was scanning headlines, 34% of college graduates believe Creation occurred as laid out in the Bible, against the onslaught of the evolutionary monopoly taught in most institutions of learning. It is amazing to see that there is indeed much more than a remnant that God is preserving in America. Do not despair, hope springs eternal. And this hope does not require faith, for we have seen, and we rejoice in the knowledge.

Some of these are real doozies. Makes one wonder just how smart the average Joe or Jane they rub shoulders with every day are. I love people, they are an endless source of humor to me.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has abruptly walked away from her responsibilities with the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee after a report linked her votes to the financial well-being of her husband’s companies, which received billions of dollars worth of military construction contracts she approved.

Link to original article.

I found this link at MichaelSavage.com, which is really a good site for finding good independent articles.

They’re all humorous, they’re all deadly serious. It isn’t an accident the people I know with the best sense of humor and the most well balanced view on life are military and ex-military, vets, POWs and the like.

Geoff Metcalf has posted a list of the United States Marine Corps 24 Rules For Gunfighting, and the Navys list as well.

One more blog you should read. It was highlighted on a “Best of” Laura Ingraham show on which Laura interviewed a soldier blogger. Blackfive is his blog, and he has stories you need to hear.

Pat Dollard is someone you should know. Liberal in Hollywood, worked on Oceans 11, had a change of heart about liberalism, not Hollywood, thankfully. Spent time in the war zones and has produced a documentary. He’s a blogger, which is how you’ll get to know him.

Rush Limbaugh read an article which was published in the April 2nd,2007, issue of Newsweek titled We Protect Our Kids From Everything But Fear. The article is a must read.

Paula Spencer is a mother who does things the old fashioned way: cookies make things better, and a little grease and goodness will not kill your kid. Sunlight is beautiful and soda just makes them hyper. All things in moderation I like to say, but our society is so very fearful. Apparently the paranoids run the papers. Paula also runs a blog and site titled Momfidence! which preaches full living, not fearful living. I’m so glad that even though my mom did not know of Paula, she had her head screwed on straight and raised us into normal non-fearing human beings.

Go Mom!

What is so difficult about understanding the intentions of Iran? The London Free Press, in an article on the Prime Ministers statements regarding the act of war committed by Iran by seizing 15 British soldiers who were in Iraqi waters, makes some statements which are telling in their implication.

Tough talk in the last century involved phrases of specific and undeniable purpose and intent:

Reagan

Tear down this wall

Khrushchev

We will bury you

MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it

Consider then the tough words uttered by Mr. Blair, an undeniably able communicator on the purpose and intent of this war:

I hope we manage to get them (the Iranian government) to realize they have to release them. If not, then this will move into a different phase.

The paper does report that Mr. Blair stated he was willing to, if necessary, use means other than diplomacy to achieve the release of Great Britain’s service men and women. The reporter then, apparently all a-tizzy over the chance that the UK may be opening new fronts against arrogant dangerous and insane tyrants, finds a Blair spokesperson who ‘clarified’, patting the anxious reporter on the head and saying: “there, there, it’s alright, Mr. Blair doesn’t mean we’ll try military solutions or kick the Iranian diplomats out of London, don’t worry your little head about it.”

Ah, the courageous media in action.

What this war needs is a lot more tough talk and tough actions backing up that talk. Where are the Churchills or Thatchers, Reagans and Lees, brave men and women who see what must be done and do it, damning the consequences. Admiral Farragut in the civil war when faced with a particularly dangerous stretch of the Mississippi river that had been mined by the Confederate defenders famously said

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead

I am sickened by my cultures morbid fascination with celebrity, fame and the famous. There are people who appear on TV and are hailed as ‘famous’ for having more myspace buddies than anyone else (Tia Tequila, by all accounts a nymphomaniac who found a site to post semi-pornographic pictures about herself and who fancies herself quite the musician), or for being young and beautiful and marrying an ugly old man who has untold millions (Anna Nicole Smith). But something I tend to forget is that these people are human beneath it all. It makes the tragedy of their moral, spiritual, and physical demise all the sadder.

The Chicago Tribune has published an editorial about Ms. Smith which emphasizes her humanity and the results of choices she made throughout her brief life. The story does not address the fact that she was seeking meaning apart from God, but we can add that ourselves:

It is easy to forget when looking at images of Anna Nicole Smith that, in addition to being a pumped up, grotesque character striving for a weird beauty unburdened by thought, she was a human being.

Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska has lent his voice to the chorus of braying fools. Suggesting that President Bush could be facing impeachment hearings regarding his continuation of the War in Iraq.

Message to Mr. Hagel: President Bush doesn’t listen to opinion polls or focus groups generally. Unlike former President Clinton, the only poll which has matted to him are the two polls that elected him in 2000 and 2004. We elect leaders to lead, not second guess and waffle. A man with a plan is a true man. You are a whining, sniveling, craven and cowardly braying fool, Mr. Hagel. You are not a man. You Mr. Hagel are not presidential material now, nor will you likely ever be. And you are a shame to those in Nebraska who elected you.

Vox Day, quoted in the LA Times Blog, Political Muscle, defining the nature of the conservative argument. I could not agree more.

“The counterintuitive truth for conservatives is that principle is the ultimate pragmatism. No sports team has ever won a game by committing to move the ball in the direction of the goal that it is defending. Conservatives cannot win moderates to their cause by becoming moderate, they can only win them over by demonstrating confidence in the superiority of their ideas, principles and ideals.”