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So Is Killing 3,000 People On 9/11

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:36:16 PM
Archbishop of Canterbury: Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims
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Vision

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:32:36 PM

Biden: The “bad guys” don’t live in Iraq

So saith the Democrats’ supreme foreign policy expert and quite possibly our next Secretary of State, a guy who (a) used to advocate a “soft partition” of Iraq in the knowledge that the surge would never work; (b) previously called for sending U.S. troops into Darfur, presumably on the theory that “the bad guys” live there; and (c) even within the parameters of his own impoverished view that the “bad guys” encompass no one outside Osama’s inner circle still manages to miss the fact that, yes indeed, some of the bad guys have been known to turn up in Iraq from time to time. See Dean Barnett for a longer response to this idiocy, which raises the left’s visceral discomfort with the idea of jihadist elements in Iraq having anything to do with Al Qaeda to almost Trutheresque proportions. Exit question: Biden does realize, doesn’t he, that the “bad guys” don’t live in Afghanistan either?



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Ball Squarely In Congress' Court

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:54:39 PM
Policy paralysis in Washington keeps fuel prices high and the economy sluggish. The Democratic-controlled Congress refuses to act — which means the voters may act against it come November.

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On Tuesday, the president went much further in showing his ex-oilman's knowledge of the dynamics of the domestic oil industry and the global energy markets.

Drilling for more domestic oil, he said, would "change the psychology that demand will constantly outstrip supply." Although "it's going to take a while to get these reserves on line," he added "it won't take a while to send a signal to the world that we're willing to use new technologies to find oil reserves here at home."

The president described how the oil market currently sees that "supplies are going to stay stagnant while demand rises. And that's reflected somewhat in the price of crude oil," which affects the price at the pump.

It therefore makes sense "to say to the world that we're going to use new technologies to explore for oil and gas in the United States — offshore oil, ANWR, oil shale projects — to . . . send a clear message that the supplies of oil will increase."

Increased conservation, which already is happening, can also help, he added. But the president emphasized that "There is no immediate fix . . . . It took us a while to get here and we need to have a good strategy to get out of it."

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Ball Squarely In Congress' Court

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:50:40 PM
Policy paralysis in Washington keeps fuel prices high and the economy sluggish. The Democratic-controlled Congress refuses to act — which means the voters may act against it come November.

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On Tuesday, the president went much further in showing his ex-oilman's knowledge of the dynamics of the domestic oil industry and the global energy markets.

Drilling for more domestic oil, he said, would "change the psychology that demand will constantly outstrip supply." Although "it's going to take a while to get these reserves on line," he added "it won't take a while to send a signal to the world that we're willing to use new technologies to find oil reserves here at home."

The president described how the oil market currently sees that "supplies are going to stay stagnant while demand rises. And that's reflected somewhat in the price of crude oil," which affects the price at the pump.

It therefore makes sense "to say to the world that we're going to use new technologies to explore for oil and gas in the United States — offshore oil, ANWR, oil shale projects — to . . . send a clear message that the supplies of oil will increase."

Increased conservation, which already is happening, can also help, he added. But the president emphasized that "There is no immediate fix . . . . It took us a while to get here and we need to have a good strategy to get out of it."

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La Raza To The Bottom

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:46:36 PM
Barack Obama tells "The Race" that U.S. law enforcement officers are terrorists and that communities that enforce immigration laws are vigilantes. But then, that's exactly what La Raza believes.

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Illegal aliens are here illegally, and the companies that hire them do so illegally. ICE is merely enforcing the laws of the United States, laws that Obama will swear to faithfully execute if he's elected president. Unless Obama has really embraced the ideas reflected in the organization's name.

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Satire Backfire

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:41:28 PM
The New Yorker magazine thought it was doing Barack Obama a favor with its over-the-top right-wing caricature of the candidate. But the liberal publication underestimated his self-absorption.

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GM Needs To Lose Its Heavy Load

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:36:21 PM
As a venerable U.S. automaker cuts production by 150,000 trucks, a European producer is making plans to open a factory that will build 150,000 units a year. Guess which one is unionized.

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Betting On Ben

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:30:51 PM
Based on his testimony Tuesday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke seems to be in an intellectual tug-of-war with those on Wall Street who think interest rates need to rise, not fall or stay the same. We hope he wins.

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Too Much Government

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:20:10 PM
"Some of you might think this lacks compassion, but we have a big problem in this country. It's been a problem for a while, and it's growing. Way too many of our fellow citizens expect (and some of them even demand) that our government -- which is nothing more than all the rest of us -- take care of them in one way, shape, manner, or form; be it health care, or be it a home mortgage they can't afford, or whatever."

The government poisoned the financial markets, by meddling in the banking and mortgage industries. They gave us Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae. Now, people are clamoring for MORE government to fix the mess the government made? 

It's absurd to expect the government to help.

 People don't care about the war in Iraq; it's gas prices right now and everything flows from that: food, travel, leisure time dollars, going to and from work, all of that. President Bush schooled the press on oil today, and illustrated the tremendous opportunity the GOP has to crush liberalism. This is not the Democrats' year unless the Republicans hand it to them."

So Dianne Feinstein is asked what we can do to bring down the price of oil, and she says, "Explore alternatives." Now, DiFi might be a wonderful woman, but would somebody explain to me why she's an energy expert? This is another one of my bugaboos. We elect these people, they go to Washington, and immediately we confer expert status on them about everything!
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New Yorker Cover

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:13:47 PM
The New Yorker didn't put this cartoonish drawing on their cover to hurt Obama. They wanted to smear conservatives as racists, but now liberals are upset because the American people are too unsophisticated to get the joke.

News Busters: Andrea Mitchell: Dumb Americans Might Not Get 'Sophisticated' Cartoon

"The Obama campaign and The Messiah are very, very upset over this cartoon by the radical-left New Yorker. Let me ask you a question. Who is it that gets upset over stupid cartoons? Muslims. (Gasp!) Intolerant Muslims."

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Obama's Disturbing Op-Ed

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:04:52 PM
The War We're In
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Reductio Ad Absurdum

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:55:27 PM

University apologizes to student after accusing him of … “openly reading” a book

Behold the new plus ultra of campus tolerance, in which the act of reading scholarly material now constitutes an actionable offense. Our culprit? A student-janitor named Keith Sampson. His weapon? “Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan.” The charge? Racial harassment, for thoughtlessly brandishing this anti-Klan book with an image of Klansmen on the cover where others might see it. The AP story describes what happens next, but to get the full Orwellian flavor you need to read Dorothy Rabinowitz’s op-ed.

And Mr. Obama himself, the candidate of racial transcendence, has now taken a plunge of sorts to old-style race politics. In a pre-emptive dismissal of future criticism, he warned a Florida audience on June 20 of the racist tactics the Republicans planned. "We know the strategy," he said. Republicans planned to make people afraid of him. They'd say "he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?" 

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Recycling

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:46:17 PM

Obama delivers big Iraq speech brimming with crap you’ve heard before; Update: Lieberman unloads

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Bush Says Drill, Drill, Drill — And Oil Drops $9!

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:40:22 PM
In a dramatic move yesterday President Bush removed the executive-branch moratorium on offshore drilling. Today, at a news conference, Bush repeated his new position, and slammed the Democratic Congress for not removing the congressional moratorium on the Outer Continental Shelf and elsewhere. Crude-oil futures for August delivery plunged $9.26, or . . . Go

Democrats keep saying that it will take 10 years or longer to produce oil from the offshore areas. And they say that oil prices won’t decline for at least that long. And they, along with Obama and McCain, bash so-called oil speculators. And today we had a real-world example as to why they are wrong. All of them. Reid, Pelosi, Obama, McCain — all of them.
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Watch Out For The Moral Hazards

Posted by On the Right on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:35:56 PM
What will the bailout of Fannie and Freddie mean for taxpayers and the dollar? “The Saga of Fannie and Freddie”
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