GOP Senator Say Iraq Is Near Chaos; Oct 23 5:36 PM US/Eastern; By DEB RIECHMANN; Associated Press

Just two weeks before the Nov. 7 elections that will determine whether Republicans retain control of Congress, the White House tried to calm political anxieties about deteriorating security in
Iraq. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers are calling on President Bush to change his war plan.

"We're on the verge of chaos, and the current plan is not working," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in an Associated Press interview.
U.S. and Iraqi officials should be held accountable for the lack of progress, said Graham, a Republican who is a frequent critic of the administration's policies.

Asked who in particular should be held accountable _ Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, perhaps, or the generals leading the war _ Graham said: "All of them. It's their job to come up with a game plan" to end the violence.

One has to ask why this man would say something like the statement above two weeks before an off year election that has become very bitter and contentious. This however really tells much about the Republican Party. Two weeks before a major election we have jack-asses like Graham, Warner, and Hagel running around shooting their mouths, when they themselves are not up for election, says the Republican Party has major leadership issues. And Republican Party is worried about traditional conservatives not voting in this election; really? Well it looks like the rank and file is doing a pretty good job of shooting themselves in the foot.

Message for the GOP; Shut Graham, Warner and Hagel up for the next two weeks.

Cross posted at the MVCA Commentary and Journal.

From the mouth of John McCain; "I think I'd just commit suicide,"

McCain told reporters, to accompanying laughter from Republicans standing with him. "I don't want to face that eventuality because I don't think it's going to happen."

I am glad that McCain doesn’t think the Democrats will win, but if one was to group together the obstacles faced by Republicans in the last few years, John McCain would have to be at the top of the list.

Cross posted at the MVCA Commentary and Journal

From AP:

Saudis signal support for OPEC cut

By TAREK AL-ISSAWI, Associated Press Writer

Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Thursday that his country supports OPEC's proposed 1 million barrels-a-day production cut.

"We will try to make the market balanced," Ali Naimi said, ending two weeks of silence from the world's largest oil producing nation and giving a quick jolt to oil prices.

Naimi's statement came as the cartel's oil ministers gathered in the capital of Qatar for emergency talks on cutting output after a price decline of more than 25 percent since mid-July.

Saudi backing is considered to be critical among analysts who have doubted two weeks of rumors that there was consensus for an output cut within the often fractious Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It was still unclear, however, whether the cut will be made to OPEC's official production quota of 28 million barrels a day, or to its actual output, which is believed to be slightly below that level due to slackening demand.

 

Read the rest here.

Well there you go, our chief Near East “friend” in the Global War on Islamism. We give with lives and they take our money. Wow that’s a great trade off.

In my humble opinion Saudi Arabia is a bigger enemy to Western Civilization than the Persian or Korean nutcases. Oh I ‘m sorry, I may have insulted CAIR. Well no need to worry about auto dealerships issuing Fatwa Fridays because OPEC is getting ready to issue their own "Fatwa Winter." Hit the
US during the winter with high energy prices!

I know I may be rambling like an emotional democrat blogger, but boy don’t you just get tired of getting screwed all the time by these knuckleheads? I know I sure do.

Not it! Mass. elementary school; Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:00:07 AM

From the Conservative Voice:

Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.

Without sounding over alarming, Ohio is heading down the same road that Massachusetts has as I note by the growing socialist undercurrents in our great State. And if the Reverend, and Doctor of European Socialism Ted Strickland, is elected the socialists will have a field day. First its cigarettes, then its dodge ball and tag, and next it will be the means of production! At first glance that might sound like a bit of a stretch, but if you insert socialized medicine into the picture, it becomes somewhat accurate.

From the SFGATE:

Strange bedfellows: It turns out that ultra-hot conservative talk show host Michael Savage is backing Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown for state attorney general. "What can I say? I think he'd make a great attorney general compared to the other guy. By the way, who is the other guy?'' Savage said, when asked why he chose Democrat Brown over conservative Republican Chuck Poochigian.

Savage, whose rants can be heard locally on KNEW-AM, is backing up his hot talk with some hot money as well. Savage Productions, which lists Savage as president and his wife, Janet Weiner, as director, has donated $5,600 to Brown's campaign.

"You have to make choices in an imperfect world,'' Savage said. "And this, this Machugian guy. (Like we said, it's Poochigian.) I never heard of him. I don't even know who he is."

Poochigian has spent the past 12 years in
Sacramento, first in the Assembly and now in the Senate. Doesn't impress the president of the Savage Nation.

"Why bet on a horse that isn't going to win? Why throw your money into the garbage?''

So how did the best-selling author of "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder'' wind up backing a liberal once nicknamed "Governor Moonbeam"?

"People change. He changed. He has experience,'' Savage said of Brown. "He started the
Oakland military academy -- that was a good thing."

And Brown's politics?

"He's moved to the center, which is what this socialist state needs," Savage said.

"So that's about it. I'm sure you will spin this and make something out of it."

Brown campaign manager Ace Smith would say only, "Michael Savage is one of 5,000 contributors to the campaign."

As for the Poochigian campaign, chief adviser Ken Khachigian told us, "We have Bo Derek, they have Michael Savage -- so between us, we've got the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.''

Wow! I listen to Savage out of Cincinnati and I am amazed. Not in 100 years would I give one red cent to a leftist like Brown. Before making any contribution I would at least seek to find out about any Conservative or Libertarian candidates in the field. I find it highly suspect that Savage would give $5,600 to such a leftist, even if this guy is moving toward the right. There is a lot of road in between Socialism and a Democrat and one does not get there over night. And this guy has a lot of traveling to go!

Brown is essentially psychologically imbalanced as he quite clearly demonstrated through out his life. I have also noted subtle messages by Savage concerning the positive strength of Hillary Clinton over President Bush and have been annoyed at many of his rants that are contradictory of typical Conservative ideology.

Maybe, Savage is the ultimate sleeper or maybe he has such keen insight well above mere mortal men and women; we will have to see. But for now, he remains suspect in my book.

Cincinnati tops Ohio for manufacturing; Cincinnati Business Courier; October 10, 2006

More than 34,000 jobs and 384 plants have left over the past 12 months, but Ohio remains among the top three states in the country for manufacturing jobs.

Ohio accounts for 5.8 percent of U.S. industrial employment, according to the Ohio Manufacturers Directory, published annually by Evanston, Ill.-based Manufacturers' News Inc.

The state's three largest cities account for more than 236,000 of Ohio's 1.1 million industrial jobs. Cincinnati tops the list, with 99,700 jobs and 1,589 plants; followed by Cleveland with 80,367 jobs and 1,977 plants; and Columbus with 56,282 jobs and 1,017 plants.

Cincinnati ranks sixth in the United States for manufacturing jobs, Cleveland is 10th and Columbus is 19th.

Other cities in the Ohio top 10 include, in order, Dayton, Akron, Toledo, Canton, Mansfield, Findlay and Mentor.

The state is home to 21,250 manufacturing companies, but the number is shrinking fast, the publication said in a news release.

"Rust Belt manufacturers continue to be lured by cheaper labor costs overseas, particularly in China, which is increasingly capable of handling greater production capacity," said Tim Dubin, president of Manufacturers' News Inc.

Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York have seen similar losses, Dubin added.

Jobs could be retained in Ohio, and actually increased, if Ohio would reduce or more importantly eliminate the business tax all together. Let’s face it, no corporation ever really pays taxes, they just pass them along to the consumer. The question Ohio voters have to ask themselves, do you want higher corporate tax revenues and bigger coffers for politicians to spend, or jobs? Rather than complaining about China its time we beat them at their own game; get rid of corporate tax and bring jobs back to
Ohio!

Also found at the MVCA Commentary and Journal.

I have made the comment, along with a few others on RightAngleBlog, that Ohio is dominated by socialists. And in a typical knee-jerk response, as was on the thread Newsmax Rips into Strickland, comments are enviably made pointing out that Republicans have been at the helm of the State, thus at fault for all the high spending and over taxation; and usually some Republican gets upset. Well this is partially true and while the dominate party is the Republican Party most of Ohio’s entire body elected officials are, or have, socialist tendencies.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, socialism is defined as system of social organization in which property and the distribution of income are subject to social control rather than individual determination or market forces. Socialism refers to both a set of doctrines and the political movements that aspire to put these doctrines into practice.

Even just a casual examination of Ohio’s legislative agenda for the last 10 years certainly points to socialism. Take for instance our Medicaid problem. Every year the price tag grows, and every year our taxes go up to pay for something many do not use, yet many are forced to use it without an alternative. And so far there is no effort in the General Assembly to privatize.

Consider the comment made by Jon Husted (R) at the beginning of the year in which he wanted to hand money out to a sinking General Motors Corporation. Husted believes its government’s responsibility to keep business afloat. Even Representative Mike Turner (R) wanted to allow municipalities to have more power to take private property. And then there's the smoking ban being pushed by Taft.

Moreover, Third Frontier was nothing more than a cash handout to private business, in which the state was attempting to control a segment of the market. One could go on and on demonstrating how Republicans are essentiality socialist; just pick up any newspaper and you’ll see the evidence. But it shouldn’t surprise you either to know that the vast majority of Ohioans are too. While they might not say they are, their voting and expectations of our politicians certainly denotes this fact. They want, and they know that they can use the coercive powers of government to get what they want.

So can Republicans be socialist; you bet they can and they are. But only way to turn the state around is to educate our population concerning the effects of socialism and to elect strong-minded and free market politicians that will take the hard right over the easy wrong. And lastly, we need to regain the Republican Party and purge the socialism out of it or begin to support the Libertarian Party. Otherwise we are going to continue to elect from same two parties while basically electing the same socialist politician.

From the Business First of Columbus:

Ohio's foreclosure rate continues to climb, report says:

Ohio remains in the top 10 among states with the highest foreclosure rates as the national average jumps 63 percent over last year, one market watcher reported Wednesday.

In its monthly report, RealtyTrac Inc. said Ohio went from posting the seventh-highest rate among the states to ninth with 6,794 properties entering some stage of foreclosure last month, down 9 percent from August but up 17.2 percent from a year earlier. Ohio had one property in foreclosure for every 704 households, research firm said.

The article is obviously another indicator of our economic problems. I feel fairly confident that Ken Blackwell would work to turn this around, but I am sure the Republican controlled General Assembly won’t. Lowering the tax rate, reducing government spending, and reducing the size of the state government are central to resolving our economic problems, yet in all these years the Republicans have failed to recognize this.

One other point worth considering besides the recklessness of our politicians is the recklessness of our citizens and the inability to live within their means. We can always point the finger at the politicians, but more often than not we have more control over our environment than we want to accept.

From the Blade:

A federal judge this afternoon denied a request for bond from terrorist suspect Marwan Othman El-Hindi, who took the stand in U.S. District Court in Toledo to make a plea for his own release.

Judge James Carr denied the request after hearing from Mr. El-Hindi and other witnesses during a court proceeding that spanned nearly four hours. Mr. El-Hindi pointed to his community involvement as a reason he should be released on bond while he awaits trial.

His attorneys were seeking his release on $20,000 bond. Mr. El-Hindi is currently incarcerated at the federal prison in Milan, Mich.

Mr. El-Hindi is charged along with Toledoan Mohammad Zaki Amawi and Sylvania resident Wassim I. Mazloum with conspiring to kill or injure U.S. troops and others in the Middle East and with providing the "support and resources" to do so. Mr. Amawi was also charged with twice threatening President Bush and with distributing bomb-making information. If convicted, they face a maximum of life in prison.

Attorneys Steve Hartman and Chuck Boss put El-Hindi’s wife, Marwa Aboud, on the stand as she would have been the custodian for her husband if he was released. Wearing a burqa that covered everything but her eyes, she testified that six of Mr. El-Hindi’s children by other marriages are now in New York, but the couple has a 14-month old daughter in Toledo.

A friend of Mr. El-Hindi, Muwahhid Adil of Toledo, testified that he has known the defendant about 14 years. The two met at an Islamic conference in Chicago.

Why are these people in our country if they don’t want to be apart of our society. Is it the great weather in Toledo?

Cross post at the MVCA Commentary and Journal

Well I noticed no one on the RightAngleBlog team posted anything on the Foley problem, so I figured I would throw in my two cents. I think the Republicans are getting what they deserve, yet at the same time this clearly demonstrates the fraudulence of the Democrat Party.

When you look the other way concerning norms and virtue, you are bound to be bitten by sin. Maybe Republicans will begin to realize homosexuality is a mental disorder and not normal. Maybe they will wake up and stop hindering these folks by furthering the radical gay agenda of misinformation. Maybe they'll realize you cannot compromise with the truth.

When it comes to the Democrats, did anyone expect they wouldn’t attack Foley because he was a homosexual? If you did you’d be a fool. Democrats like Republicans will eat their own and it appears quicker than most. Note this is the Party, along with the ACLU, that wants to put a homosexual in every Boy Scout troop yet thinks its wrong for a homosexual congressman to engage male congressional teen pages.

Let’s hope our Mr. Boehner does the right thing based on our Ohio norms rather than Republican standards.

Bobby Eberle has a posting worth reading on his (and GOPUSA’s) weblog The Loft concerning form Missouri Senator John Danforth’s effort to, in actuality, bring the Republican Party back to the left.

In a news story running this morning, former Missouri GOP Sen. John Danforth is hoping to take the Republican Party back from the religious right. The report, which is headlined “Ex-senator wants to save GOP from itself,” misses the point. The GOP does not need to be saved from its conservative base. What it needs to be saved from is its leadership which has driven the base to apathy.

The news story goes on to note that Danforth feels energy is “wasted” debating issues like gay marriage and also “diverts attention from important matters like the budget that are the proper province of government.”

While not mentioned in the article, but known to all Ohio Conservatives, Republicans, and Libertarians is our very own Mike DeWine. DeWine is one of many sheep called to the piped piper John McCain bent on removing traditional and Reagan conservatism from the party.

Eberle concludes that there is nothing wrong with the Republican core belief, rather the problem resides in the party leadership. This is extremely true in the case of the Ohio Republican Party. One only need to remember how the ORP thwarted the Pierce Senatorial run, and how they have treated Ken Blackwell.

The big question for
Ohio’s Republicans is how can we take the ORP back from the likes of DeWine, Dansforth, McCain and Bob Bennett? One thing is for sure Bennett needs to go; 18 years has been more than enough. Just take a look at where
Ohio’s economy has gone for the last 18 years and that should be more than enough to say we need a change. Let’s hope that after Ken Blackwell is elected Governor he forces Bennett out.

The question I raise to the Republican Party leadership is what good is it when at the end of the day when you have the largest and richest party, the Democrats are scattered, and yet you do not represent the people’s beliefs and norms?

Conservatives I say, stay the course, but do not give up. Do not turn your back on the GOP just yet. We must defeat those that will move the Party to left and educate those that do not know the real substance of Conservatism. After all we have send Whinovich packing.

Hat tip: Little Green Footballs

Tucker Carlson’s interview with CAIR’s Ohio Chapter President Asma Mobin-Uddin is worth watching.

One of the interesting items in her response is how she connects the promotion by Dennis Mitsubishi as mocking the Pope; bizarre. She drops all the appropriate words to deflect from the real issue, Islamic terrorism. What is even more interesting she mentions that CAIR has not even seen the promotion they are attacking.

Her response is typical double-speak and noticeably demonstrates CAIRs culpable alliance with the thug terrorist. She and CAIR are nothing more than the soft front of the greater threat.

Ohio car dealer drops "Jihad" commercial; Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:24pm ET: Reuter.Com

Relenting to pressure from the Ohio Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dennis Mitsubishi in Columbus cancelled its overtly humorous “Jihad” commercial. While this may have been a little off color, and something no one would have cared less about 10 years ago, political correctness trumps again.

While Dennis Mitsubishi offered a letter of apology, I believe it is CAIR that should apologize to the American people. When was the last time you read anything from CAIR condemning the terrorist action by these terrorist Islamic thugs we are at war with? When was the last time you saw CAIR working at any of the USO centers throughout our country supporting the U.S. Service men and women fighting and placing their lives on the line so CAIR can complain openly? You won’t; this is because as President Bush stated after the attack on September 11^th 2001, either you’re with us or you are against us; and CAIR is against us.

According to a Washington Post news report in 2003, CAIR officials openly support Al Qaeda and were planning to go to Afghanistan to fight our troops. CAIR also raises funds for a number of nefarious groups that are linked to another terrorist group, Hamas. This isn’t an organization that supports the norms of freedom and liberty; its part of the problem, it’s a section of the adversary.

The truth of the matter is that Dennis Mitsubishi was depicting the truth and we need to remember who it is we are fighting. If CAIR wants to be looked upon as being part of our society then they should get out there and show us they are. We have to remember putting a humorous spin on the truth has always been part of the American fabric. Tearing the cloth apart is the ultimate goal of the enemy.

At the end of the day a battle on the war on terror and Islamic hegemony was lost in Ohio.

Speaking before a group of students at Ohio University gubernatorial candidate Bill Peirce made some points all free-thinking, free-market, and small government supporters should consider.

From the Athens News:

Education should be managed by local boards rather than at the state or federal level. He believes in a voucher system so state money goes to the district that parents choose for their children.

"If you cut back the sales and income taxes, people might be inclined to pay more in property taxes," Peirce said. Peirce added that unlike most states, which pick one or two of the three main taxes to tax heavily, Ohio is heavy on all three: sales, income and property. Peirce explains his plan for the property tax: "Homeowners would pay a tax based on the inherent value of their land and its location. Any improvements to the property would not be taxed. This encourages development, and encourages people to improve their homes without the fear of higher taxes."

While I am not endorsing Peirce for Governor, the man and the Libertarian Party are more than momentary, they are viable. Peirce should be afforded equal treatment and allowed to debate Strickland and Blackwell because in the long run the citizenry is losing out. It seems like the “right” continues to lose out by the likes of Taft, DeWine, and Voinovich, not to mention, in very strong terms, the Ohio Republican Party (ORP).

As long as the powers to be control the ORP deals will be made, taxes raised, spending increased, and Ohio sinks deeper into fiscal problems. Breaking this hold and giving Conservatives, conservative Republicans, and Libertarians a real choice will only produce change. And change is something Ohio needs more than ever. Plus, in the short term it keeps Blackwell open.

As a Conservative, I want to hear more from the Libertarian Party because I want a choice. I want more of a choice than the choice I had in this last primary. I want more of a choice than Petro and Blackwell. I want this State to be a national leader, not a national loser.

Survey: Secure Driver's Licenses Could Cost Ohio $11 Billion

Reported by: AP; Web produced by: Liz Foreman; First posted: 9/21/2006 4:42:11 PM

A survey by
Ohio government organizations says new federal security rules for issuing driver's licenses could cost $11 billion to implement.

The price tag is raising concerns among states about paying for the changes.

The requirements -- which are not yet final -- are part of the Real ID Act of 2005, which grew out of a recommendation by the September 11th commission.

The law requires states to incorporate common security features to prevent tampering or counterfeiting, such as using standard materials in every state to print the cards.

States will have to verify the legitimacy of documents used to obtain a license and buy equipment to digitally store those documents.

From my perspective this is a complete waste of money and it violates the sovereignty of the State. Tampering and counterfeiting will always happen and trying to find ways to fix the problem through the federal government is typical tail chasing. The States need to tighten their own security and develop their own ideas. This would mean 54 states and territories coming up with unique solutions rather than the typical top down driven mandate.

Things always work better when they come out of the state and community rather than the federal government. Besides, is there really a pressing problem? After all the 9/11 hijackers got their's legally, as do most illegal aliens coming from south of the border.

Any day the ACLU is defeated is a great day indeed.

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/09/21/20060921-D1-03.html

The Monday, September 18, 2006, commentary in the Columbus Dispatch, by Ann Fisher, does indeed have a lesson, but it’s not the one offered by Fisher.

My son, who is now 10, also has been taught empathy and consideration for others. He’s proud to be serving on the safety squad at school, and he knows to pick up litter. He’s finally starting to understand why it’s nice to hold the door open for others. Folks tell me he always says "please" and "thank you," and that his manners are impeccable.

I’ll have to trust them on that score. I’m just the mother.

Last week, he learned another lesson: Not all grown-ups feel comfortable saving the day when a child is hurting.

He had fallen off his bike, cutting his leg. Because his bike chain had disengaged, he was unable to ride home.

While he waited for someone to notify me, about 20 minutes passed before a friendly adult acquaintance of our family’s approached and helped him clean up. She even found a Band-Aid. Then she lent him her cell phone so he could make sure I was on my way.

When we were reunited, I mentioned how nice it was that our friend had stopped to help. She is a nurse, and I appreciated that she discreetly told me she didn’t think the injury was serious.

My son’s response was puzzling: "Well, you would think it’s something anyone would do." He sounded ungrateful. When I asked him to explain, he told me that several adults ignored him, appearing uninterested "that tons of blood was gushing" from his leg.

Why wouldn’t anyone help, he asked. As a card-carrying "buttinsky," I was puzzled at first, too. Then it occurred to me that perhaps our efforts to teach our children skills of caution around strange adults cut both ways.

Who wants to risk having the good intention of helping a child be confused with something sinister? Who knows how the child will respond? Will an offer of help be misconstrued and frighten the kid?

When I explained my theory, the questions ceased. He got the point, sadly. Everyone has heard about child abductions. Although most are by noncustodial parents or other family members, abductions by strangers get the most media play.

Some children have turned that savvy inside out. Consider, for example, the
Vinton
County boy who said last week that a masked man had abducted him from school. The already cashstrapped sheriff’s office spent a lot of money and time investigating. Horrified district officials locked down every school. It turns out the boy made up the story so he could go home.

How does one deal with such confusing times? I have to have another talk with my son, this time to help him figure out when it’s OK to come to the rescue and what he should do if, someday, God forbid, he really needs some immediate help.

Let’s examine what Fisher has told us. She tells us that once her child turned four he was shuttled off to be raised by a third party while she worked. Then comes a day when her child is injured and no one is there to help the child. For Fisher the problem is this mixed up world where adults are now afraid to come near a child for fear of being accused of child adduction.

Fisher, like many Americans, is not raising her child. This is what is so distressing. The child may have been possibly hit by a car (or the dreaded SUV), or as she fears, possibly abducted while on his bike. But Fisher is away working at the Columbus Dispatch and we are supposed to feel concern for Fisher’s problem. No, I do not. I do however feel terrible for her son who spends his days without a mother; but for Fisher I only feel dislike.

Our country and communities have a myriad of social problems that are certifiably affixed to poor parenting. Just look at the sky rocketing criminal issues associated with the youth of today, yet we are suppose to join hands together and lament Fisher’s dilemma. Ms. Fisher the answer is very simple, if you want your child to have any semblance of safety, STAY AT HOME AND RAISE HIM YOURSELF! Or at the very least have your husband raise him, but stop placing responsibility on me, the baby sitter, day care center, and State.

Children do be fall terrible things while under the care and watch of a parent, but they will always be much safer with a loving and watchful parent. That is the lesson for Ann Fisher.

From the AP:

WASHINGTON Democratic Senator Russ Feingold wants President Bush to stop using the phrase "Islamic fascists."

The prospective 2008 presidential candidate says the term is offensive and misleading. And Feingold says it has nothing to do with the terrorists fighting the U-S.

In a speech to the Arab American Institute on Capitol Hill, Feingold says such terms link Islam with those who subvert or distort the teachings of what he says is a "great religion."

The Wisconsin senator also says fascist ideology has nothing to do with the way terrorist networks think or operate. And he says it shouldn't be connected to an "overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world who practice the peaceful teachings of Islam."

I think Ohio will hear the same limp wrist rhetoric from Brown if he’s elected.

Victory for Chaffee is a Victory for the RINOs

From The Hill:

Centrist Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) withstood a heated primary challenge on Tuesday from conservative Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey, winning 54 percent to 46 percent thanks to record turnout spurred by a national party-led get out the vote effort.

Chafee's win was in part due to the support of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and the White House despite a track record of bucking his party and President Bush. The more than 63,000 voters who turned out trumped the prior record of 45,000.

Laffey was backed by the conservative Club for Growth and made a name for himself as a brash and energetic campaigner who surprised many by making it a race against Chafee, the son of the late Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.) who took his father's seat in 1999. The NRSC indicated last week that it wouldn't support Laffey if he won the primary, citing polls showed Laffey 30 points behind Whitehouse in the general election. Chafee has polled neck and neck with the Democrat.

The Rhode Island Senate primary captured the most attention this week after the NRSC hammered Laffey with millions of dollars of negative ads. Laffey's loss is a defeat for the Club for Growth, which backed his candidacy and had won a victory last month when it helped defeat incumbent GOP Rep. Joe Schwarz (
Mich.).

"Chafee's independent, honest leadership drove historic turnout and clearly shows he's in a great position to win in November," said Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the NRSC.

Not surprisingly, Democrats read the tea leaves differently.

"When Chafee can barely win his own primary, you know he'll have trouble in the general election," said Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Ohio environmentalists are upset that the U.S. Coast Guard wants to train with their weapons in order to protect the citizenry of Ohio.

Critics decry Coast Guard plan for firing zones; Environmentalists, Great Lakes anglers, boaters and others don't like plan for weapons training; Associated Press.

CLEVELAND — Anglers, boaters and environmentalists are up in arms about the Coast Guard's proposal to establish weapons training zones on Lake Erie.

The Coast Guard wants to establish four areas on the lake, as well as 30 other zones on the four other Great Lakes, where they can train using live ammunition. Officials say they need the shooting practice to prepare for maritime threats including terrorism and drug smuggling.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and other environmental groups voiced concern over the plan and its possible effect on boaters and wildlife.

Commercial fishermen would have a hard time moving their nets for the drills, and recreational anglers and boaters could accidentally wander into the range, the department's Steve Holland wrote in a letter to the Coast Guard.

The zones are all more than five miles offshore and drills would only be conducted a few days every year, Lanier said. Exercises would use machine guns mounted on cutters and small boats.

During live-fire operations a small boat would patrol as a safety lookout. Any wayward boats would be escorted from the zone, and firing would stop until the area was cleared, Lanier said.

The Coast Guard trains this way everyday along the U.S. coasts in the Gulf of Mexico, and on Atlantic and Pacific Oceans without any problems. But in a typical self-centered response, the socialist environmental whiners in Ohio do not want to accept the price that comes with homeland security. So with the help of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources they want to prevent the U.S. Coast Guard from doing its primary mission, protecting U.S. citizens.

Ohio sits in the middle of one of the most open border entry zones for drug smuggling, illegal alien and terrorist entry. As such, we are obliged to ensure the U.S. Coast Guard fire a few live bullets a couple of times a year.

If you want to voice your opinion, email SAMUEL W. SPECK, Director of Ohio Department of Natural Resources at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/contactform.asp, and tell him that you want real border security, and for the U.S. Coast Guard to be able to train without the whining environmental tree huggers threatening our security.

Crossed posted at the MVCA Commentary and Journal

Brian Duffy

What will reduce unwanted pregnancies, well according to the Columbus Dispatch, and it seems President Bush, the tiny little pill.

The Food and Drug Administration’s much-delayed decision to allow over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive Plan B will help to reduce unwanted pregnancies, something welcomed by people on all sides of the debate.

The road to get to this point was unnecessarily long and complicated, made so by some FDA officials playing politics when they should have been serving science.

 

When will the Socialist and Nazis of this world learn that morals and solid ethical norms will prevent illegitimate pregnancies? Probably never.

The unfortunate consequence to the FDA’s decision is that illegitimate pregnancies will not decrease, they will increase as we have witnessed steadily since Griswold v.
Connecticut and Roe v. Wade. These pills will find there way into every school room in
America and overnight there will be an explosion of medical problems. Get ready.

Brian Duffy

A friend sent me this URL to the YouTube website that has a clip from a Reagan speech in which he deals with a heckler straightway. It should lift the spirits of any Conservative swimming in this world of socialism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLKvgf5gtgA

There are a few more clips of Reagan for your Conservative enjoyment.

Brian Duffy

University of Cincinnati Professor Emeritus, Abe Miller, has a very motivating article in FrontPage Magazine. While the article deals specifically with the Israeli political debacle in Lebanon, it should be a reminder to the Ohio electorate of the danger of voting for socialist; and it should be brilliantly clear that Brown and Strickland are not Democrats, but are Socialist.

Brian Duffy

Hey folks Andrea Yates is getting off because of excuses, but why not our Soldiers and Marines in the middle of a combat zone. Yates gets off for brutally killing her five children, but Soldiers and Marines are shackled in solitary confinement and held to a much higher standard while engaged in close quarter combat.

Where is the justice?

Brian Duffy

Today’s posting of the CounterTerrorsimBlog makes mention of a Hizballah activity in the US with particular mention to a case in
Ohio.

U.S.A. v. Mohammad Shabib,
Cleveland, Ohio: Federal prosecutors charged Mohammad Shabib with hiding his role in a drug ring which profits were funneled to Hizballah. Shabib, a gas station owner, had $8,000,000 in a Chicago bank account, which authorities say Shabib amassed by shipping roughly 3 tons of pseudoephedrine from Canada to
California, which he would sell to Mexican gangs who would use the drugs to produce methamphetamine. (See: Amanda Garrett, “Terrorists’ Money Takes Convoluted Path in U.S.,” The
Cleveland Dealer, January 18, 2004).

Ohio citizenry needs to be vigilant since the enemy is living among us. This is not to say that we should live a life full of paranoia; it means we should be as watchful as we would with any criminal element. FBI Director Robert Mueller said Americans must not stay complacent regarding the war on terror.

“We must understand that terrorism will be with us for a period of time. Ourselves, working together with state and local law enforcement, our joint-terrorism task forces are working hard to uncover these cells,' said Mueller.”

However as Mueller has also said, we must maintain positive contact with the Muslim community. As best I can tell, this has not been very successful, but hopefully once Ken Blackwell is elected, he may be able to reach out.