National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com): "As you know, NR's Richard Brookhiser is not only a crack journalist, but a crack historian (and, no, I'm not referring to his elegant broadsides against the illegality of drugs). Rick is the author of many books, on Washington, Hamilton, the Adamses, and others.

And he has an amazing talent for coming up with an exact and arresting historical analogy. It doesn't much matter what the subject or event is, Rick will find just the right parallel. And on this matter of Bush's reception in London - and the British intelligentsia's furious and fevered contempt for him - he has come up with a beaut. This is, really, the aptest thing you ever saw.
It comes from The Education of Henry Adams. Listen to this, folks:

London was altogether beside itself on one point, in especial; it created a nightmare of its own, and gave it the shape of Abraham Lincoln. Behind this it placed another demon, if possible more devilish, and called it Mr. Seward. In regard to these two men, English society seemed demented. Defence was useless; explanation was vain; one could only let the passion exhaust itself. One's best friends were as unreasonable as enemies, for the belief in poor Mr. Lincoln's brutality and Seward's ferocity became a dogma of popular faith.

There was an episode in which W. M. Thackeray utterly lost it, so disturbed was he about President Lincoln:

On quite insufficient evidence, he burst into violent reproach. Had Adams carried in his pocket the proofs that the reproach was unjust, he would have gained nothing by showing them. At that moment Thackeray, and all London society with him, needed the nervous relief of expressing emotion; for if Mr. Lincoln was not what they said he was - what were they?"

Yes, what were they? Apologists for, and twice-removed perpetuators of, slavery? And if Mr. Bush is not what "they" say he is — what are they? Apologists for, and twice-removed perpetuators of, terrorism and the dictatorships that abet it?

Nice going, Rick. Really nice going.

If for no other reason, it would have been for the women of Iraq that the war should have been waged. America has done wrong in its history, for we are all sinners, but this one was right. But I still would rather we had not sent our girls to fight.

Janice Shaw Crouse on Iraq Women's Delegation on National Review Online: "The women expressed appreciation over and over again and talked with deep sorrow about the Iraqis who were executed, gassed, or mass murdered. They don't even want to think about the torture chambers and the unmarked mass graves documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Pentagon files — 18 tons of documents consisting of five million pages of atrocities. For the women in the delegation, the stories of Saddam's brutality are all too true, as is the fact that women, especially, were targeted by the regime. "

Pruden's got it right. This war protest is a nostalgic exercise in dreaming, but the pot doesn't work anymore.

London's gathering of the clang - The Washington Times: Pruden on Politics: "Those wonderful folks who missed the last hay wagon home from the '60s are desperate not so much to stop the war as to reprise the glory days of their youth, when sex, friendship and 'revolution' flowered in the streets. But the times, they have changed, and Viagra and raisin bran can only do so much. "

They said the same thing in California a couple of decades ago when sodomy was legalized there. "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. --Ecclesiastes 8:11

Romney pursues law on gay unions - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics: "'Everybody should take a deep breath' about the Massachusetts decision, said Evan Wolfson, who leads Freedom to Marry, a group fighting for national marriage rights for homosexual couples. 'It's now been almost 180 days since couples began marrying in Canada, and Niagara Falls is still falling - and the sky isn't,' he said yesterday."

A great article by the "other" Limbaugh.

Hijacking the bench - The Washington Times: Commentary: "It is difficult to quantify the degree of misinformation, hypocrisy, malevolence and impropriety issuing from Democratic ranks in their shameless hijacking of the president's judicial appointment power. "

A great article by the "other" Limbaugh.

Hijacking the bench - The Washington Times: Commentary: "It is difficult to quantify the degree of misinformation, hypocrisy, malevolence and impropriety issuing from Democratic ranks in their shameless hijacking of the president's judicial appointment power. "

A great article by the "other" Limbaugh.

Hijacking the bench - The Washington Times: Commentary: "It is difficult to quantify the degree of misinformation, hypocrisy, malevolence and impropriety issuing from Democratic ranks in their shameless hijacking of the president's judicial appointment power. "

A great article by the "other" Limbaugh.

Hijacking the bench - The Washington Times: Commentary: "It is difficult to quantify the degree of misinformation, hypocrisy, malevolence and impropriety issuing from Democratic ranks in their shameless hijacking of the president's judicial appointment power. "

This is a great article about the disease in Washington by Marvin Olasky, but he misses the cure. It is certain that the five things he outlines will help mitigate the problem somewhat, but the cure lies int he wisdom of the writers of the Constitution, and specifically the Bill of Rights, especially Articles 9 and 10. The thirst for power is soon lost when there is little power to thirst for. It is the concentration of power in Washington that fuels the disease. The people must retake the power to be respoinsible for their own lives and fortunes, and resist putting that responsibility on to the central government.

WORLD November 22, 2003: Ring worms: "The 'passion for the inner ring' turns bold Washington outsiders into corrupt insiders"

"Over time we will rely increasingly--or take notice, at least, increasingly--on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues." Thus wrote Sandra Day O'Connor, the "Swinging" Supreme Court Justice in the infamous Texas ruling on homosexualtity recently.

What does it matter that she is sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States or that the Legislature is tasked with passing laws and the Administration with enforcing them The runaway Supremes have been making law for years and trampling upon the Constitution of the United States. Now they are on full speed ahead to sanction European corruptions and perversions which dominated the courts of Europe for centuries and brought persecution to the godly. International law is the mirror image of the US Constitution, and there is a reason for that--it is called the Bible. See the next article.

The Declaration of Independence speaks of rights that are endowed by our Creator. If a judge does not know the Creator or acknowledge Him, how is blue blazes will he/she/it ever know what a right it?

So this is the purpose for our freedom. I suppose a man can marry his dog and the woman her cat. Why not? This poor preacher said years ago, when sodomy was decriminalized in California that it would come to this. I doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out. When transcendent law [Revealed from God] and natural law [revealed in nature] are denied, what is left but whimsy and perversion?

Wake up, Christians! Does truth matter afterall? The persecution that has been on the horizon as a cloud the size of a man's hand is about to burst upon us. What happens if a minister refuses to marry a man to his dog? Thus the result of humanism: In the name of giving perverts the children's bread, we so defile the bread that it become unfit for holy consumption. But the truth of God shall stand: "Marriage is honorable in all, but fornicators and whoremongers God will judge. There will be preachers who will sanctify the corrup lusts of the sodomites, but that will change the unholy into the holy.

Excite News: "'Whether and whom to marry, how to express sexual intimacy, and whether and how to establish a family - these are among the most basic of every individual's liberty and due process rights,' the majority opinion said. 'And central to personal freedom and security is the assurance that the laws will apply equally to persons in similar situations.'"

So this is the purpose for our freedom. I suppose a man can marry his dog and the woman her cat. Why not? This poor preacher said years ago, when sodomy was decriminalized in California that it would come to this. I doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out. When transcendent law [Revealed from God] and natural law [revealed in nature] are denied, what is left but whimsy and perversion?

Wake up, Christians! Does truth matter afterall? The persecution that has been on the horizon as a cloud the size of a man's hand is about to burst upon us. What happens if a minister refuses to marry a man to his dog? Thus the result of humanism: In the name of giving perverts the children's bread, we so defile the bread that it become unfit for holy consumption. But the truth of God shall stand: "Marriage is honorable in all, but fornicators and whoremongers God will judge. There will be preachers who will sanctify the corrupts lusts of the sodomites, but that will change the unholy into the holy.

Excite News: "'Whether and whom to marry, how to express sexual intimacy, and whether and how to establish a family - these are among the most basic of every individual's liberty and due process rights,' the majority opinion said. 'And central to personal freedom and security is the assurance that the laws will apply equally to persons in similar situations.'"

So this is the purpose for our freedom. I suppose a man can marry his dog and the woman her cat. Why not? This poor preacher said years ago, when sodomy was decriminalized in California that it would come to this. I doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out. When transcendent law [Revealed from God] and natural law [revealed in nature] are denied, what is left but whimsy and perversion?

Wake up, Christians! Does truth matter afterall? The persecution that has been on the horizon as a cloud the size of a man's hand is about to burst upon us. What happens if a minister refuses to marry a man to his dog? Thus the result of humanism: In the name of giving perverts the children's bread, we so defile the bread that it become unfit for holy consumption. But the truth of God shall stand: "Marriage is honorable in all, but fornicators and whoremongers God will judge. There will be preachers who will sanctify the corrupts lusts of the sodomites, but that will change the unholy into the holy.

Excite News: "'Whether and whom to marry, how to express sexual intimacy, and whether and how to establish a family - these are among the most basic of every individual's liberty and due process rights,' the majority opinion said. 'And central to personal freedom and security is the assurance that the laws will apply equally to persons in similar situations.'"

These are vicious, mean, and arrogant people in the mode of the old "Laugh In" show, "Prairie Home Companion," the old "Smothers Brothers" show. What is the real joke, however, is that Christian men haven't yet caught on that they are the joke.

WORLD November 22, 2003: They're not kidding: "AL FRANKEN CALLS KARL ROVE 'human filth,' Ari Fleischer a 'chimp,' and John Ashcroft 'something of a nutcase.' Michael Moore calls President Bush a 'nitwit' and (in the voice of God, no less) a 'devil.' Molly Ivins manages to insult millions at once when she approvingly quotes William Brann's crack that 'the trouble with our Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough.' Mean-spirited, you say? No, it's all in good fun, the authors say."

This is the reason that the UN cannot and should not be involved in "peace-keeping" occupations. They have no heart for it, because they are a broad coalition for talking things to death, while criminal and gangster petty governments rape the coutnries. The UN is not philisophically able to do anything about it, for they have no idea what a criminal is. They are a kind of international "meals on wheels" and cannot muster the will to oppose evil, because their philosophy requires them to embrace the evil as equal to the good.

The Associated Press: "The United Nations suspended operations in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Monday after the killing of a French U.N. worker and a series of terrorist attacks."