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A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Democrats constantly block good Supreme Court nominees

The Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com has excellent piece that talks about the U.S. Supreme Court and the judges, and how liberals have blocked superb nominations—women, minorities, judges of faith—for political reasons, i.e.,  to advance their liberal causes.

(Excerpts)
Leaked Democratic memos indicate that Mr. Estrada was targeted, in part, because, “he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment,” and because, “we can’t make the same mistake we made with Clarence Thomas.” Judiciary Democrats, led by Sens. Edward Kennedy, Patrick Leahy and Richard Durbin, agreed to block or slow-walk particular nominees at the behest of liberal campaign donors, including the trial lawyers, the NAACP, and the national abortion providers’ lobby. These Democrats decided, in advance of hearings, which nominees to block, and Democratic staffers characterized Bush nominees as “Nazis.”
...
Since 2003, Democrats have filibustered Mr. Estrada plus nine other appellate nominees: Carolyn Kuhl, Priscilla Owen, Judge Pickering, Bill Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, Henry Saad, David McKeague, Richard Griffin and William Myers. Most of them were elected previously to their states’ supreme courts and are either women or ethnic minorities. Others have been singled out due to a litmus test on abortion, by which Democrats have come perilously close to stating that people of orthodox religious faith are ineligible for the bench.
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The Supreme Court is now composed of four consistent liberals (John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer), three firm conservatives (Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia), and two middle-of-the-roaders (Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy). In all likelihood, the next president will replace at least two and as many as four. The type of jurists confirmed will determine the course of government for the next 50 years. Will liberal activists dominate, creating new constitutional mandates favoring their social policy, aiding the plaintiffs’ bar, and continuing Washington’s accretion of power? Or will constitutionalists rule, returning divisive social debates to the people, throwing out junk lawsuits, and regarding federal power skeptically? More to the point, will judges be returned to their historical role as neutral interpreters of the Constitution and precedent, or will the imperial judiciary be revitalized and extended for decades? It’s up to Republicans to make clear the choice.

Liberal Canada falls again—from 12th to 15th in competitiveness

While the U.S. is firmly near the top, Canada once again fell this year according to the World Economic Forum.

Please don’t take my word for it, though, you on the liberal-left in North America.  Dare to read something that doesn’t compliment yourselves. Go to the web site.  Don’t fool yourselves.

Here’s a direct copy of one of the charts from the site:

On the business competitiveness index, Canada fell from 12th last year to 15th in 2004.

"In 1998, Canada stood sixth in this ranking and in 2004 we stand 15th,"  said Roger Martin, Dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and institute chairman.

The bottom of the list was rounded out by countries in South and Central America,  Asia and Africa, including Nicaragua, Madagascar, Honduras, Bolivia, Zimbabwe,  Paraguay, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Angola and Chad, which was last.

 

Poor Bangladesh….. but then again, even though the liberal-left in Canada including Paul Martin all claim that "Canada is a peacekeeping nation",  Bangladesh and Nigeria both deploy larger forces than Canada to U.N. operations.  That’s according to the U.N. and once again, go to your beloved U.N. web site yourselves and verify that fact of liberal life. The rest of us already know the facts and that’s why we don’t have to rely on lies or spin or Hollywood or on the Michael Moore School of Obfuscation.

U.N.‘s and Kofi Annan’s Iraq Blunder

In this article, the writers suggest that the U.N. is in decline.  I say the U.N. has become a anti-American left-wing political and entirely corrupt institution quickly losing any credibility at all.

Fox News
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
By James A. Phillips and Nile Gardiner

Opponents of the war in Iraq have used many choice words to describe the U.S.-led military action there.

Few have merit, but do any make less sense than “illegal”? Yet that is what United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the war in an interview with the BBC, adding that “I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time.”

U.S. allies who had supported the liberation of Baghdad, including Britain, Australia, Poland, Bulgaria and Japan, immediately condemned his remarks — and rightly so. It was only the latest in a long line of blunders by Annan, whose leadership on the world stage, from Rwanda to Iraq to the Sudan, has proven a spectacular failure.

...

Annan’s statement that the war was “illegal” is both false and spurious. By Annan’s logic, the 1999 U.S./British-led intervention in Kosovo, which was conducted without benefit of a Security Council resolution, also was “illegal” despite the fact that the international community supported it.

...

Annan’s ill-timed comments should be seen as a poorly judged attempt to indirectly influence the U.S. presidential election.

The U.N. Secretary-General’s gratuitous comments were an extraordinarily undiplomatic and inappropriate intervention from a world figure who is supposed to be a neutral servant of the international community. They raise serious questions regarding Annan’s judgment and his suitability to continue in his post.

Moreover, Annan’s attack illustrates the insecurity running through the corridors of power (or what’s left of it) at the U.N. headquarters. Its prestige and reputation are running at an all-time low. The world body failed spectacularly to deal with the Iraqi dictatorship under Saddam Hussein, is failing to provide leadership in disarming Iran, and is weak-kneed in the face of genocide in the Sudan.

At the same time, it’s facing allegations of mismanagement and corruption relating to its administration of the Iraq Oil-for-Food Program.

The U.N. is in steep (and possibly terminal) decline, struggling for relevance in the 21st Century. Mr. Annan’s remarks only further underline his organization’s growing impotence.

Bodies of babies found in Saddam’s ‘killing field’

More shocking bad news from Saddam-era Iraq.  Thank goodness the Americans saved Iraq from thousands more deaths and tortures and rapes and chopped-off limbs and ears, and children can now go to school in safety and look forward to a free life.

I’m anxious to see if the New York Times—or any of the liberal media here—covers this story.

Bodies of babies found in Saddam’s ‘killing field’
By Joe Murphy, Evening Standard Political Editor
13 October 2004

A mass grave containing the bodies of children, babies and their mothers has been unearthed in Iraq.

Shocked investigators reported finding “thighbones the size of matchsticks” at what they believe is the site of one of Saddam Hussein’s atrocities. Among the findings-were the skeletons of unborn babies and toddlers clutching toys.

A baby had been shot in the back of its head and was found still being clutched by its mother, who had been shot in the face. The discovery was reported as Tony Blair came under mounting pressure to apologise to Parliament for the misleading intelligence claiming Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

It will strengthen the Prime Minister’s case that despite the intelligencefailures the war to topple the Iraqi dictator was justified by his record as a mass killer of his own people. Mr Blair is facing MPs for the first time since the Iraq Survey Group report last week admitted there were no illegal chemical and biological weapons in Iraq.

Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy demanded he make a full Commons statement on the findings but Mr Blair was hoping to escape by merely answering questions at his regular weekly appearance.

The mass grave was being excavated near Hatra, a village in northern Iraq with a large Kurdish population. US-led investigators have located nine trenches so far containing hundreds of bodies, believed to be Kurds killed during the repression of the Eighties. The bodies had been bulldozed into the ground.

Evidence from the graves will be used at the Iraqi Special Tribunal where Saddam will face trial for war crimes. “It is my personal opinion that this is a killing field,” said Greg Kehoe, a US official. “Someone used this field on significant occasions over time to take people up there and execute them.”

One trench contains only women and children while another contains only men. “The youngest foetus we have was 18 to 20 foetal weeks,” said a US investigating anthropologist. “Tiny bones, femurs - thighbones the size of a matchstick.”

Some 300,000 people are thought to have been killed during Saddam’s regime. Iraq’s human rights ministry has reportedly identified 40 possible mass graves across the country.

Meanwhile, Saddam underwent an operation to repair a hernia about 10 days ago and has made a full recovery, Iraqi sources said today.

He has been in US custody since 13 December and appeared in court in July for a preliminary hearing.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Halloween:  Don’t donate to UNICEF

UNICEF Demands Abortion for Underage Girls without Parents Knowledge - reminder Not to Donate at Halloween

WELLINGTON, October 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Providing a timely reminder why people should not participate in its annual Halloween donation boxes campaign , UNICEF is lobbying New Zealand Parliamentarians against a proposal requiring parental consent for abortions.  The nation’s health spokesman Judith Collins is promoting a law to require doctors to inform parents when underage girls are seeking abortion.  UNICEF has written all MPs to denounce the proposal.

The UNICEF letter, signed by UNICEF’s New Zealand executive director Dennis McKinlay, portrays parents as a danger to girls who must be told that their daughters are seeking an abortion.  UNICEF says this situation would place the girls at “additional risk from violence.”

The proposal was spurred by the fact that clandestine abortions allow sex abusers to escape justice. 

Citing rare cases of abusive parents, UNICEF argues for denial of parental authority and even parents’ right to be informed of serious medical interventions regarding their children’s lives.  The UNICEF letter acknowledges that the intent of the proposed legislation is to ensure parental support, but claims the “actual effect may be to place the health and safety of vulnerable young women at serious risk”.

See the New Zealand Herald coverage

See LifeSiteNews.com’s UNICEF page documenting the organization’s strong anti-life, anti-family direction in recent years.

Poll: 98 percent blame Liberals for Canadian military decay

Note:  Just the other day I wrote a column about Canada’s military.

Poll: 98 percent blame Liberals for Canadian military decay

In a poll

conducted over the weekend by the Global Television Network in Canada, 98 percent of the public blame the Liberals for the horrendous decay in Canada’s military.

Members of the public—including many serving and former members of the armed services—have overwhelmingly denounced the Liberal government for long-time neglect of Canada’s decaying military.

That was the lop-sided conclusion of 97.81% of 1,373 respondents to a Global Sunday Web site poll, conducted following an on-air dramatization of a “court martial” in response to last week’s HMCS Chicoutimi submarine tragedy that took the life of Lieutenant Chris Saunders.

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Ex-navy member Roy Smith, now a millwright-machinist in Salmon Arm, B.C., figured the only way to get the military’s message across would be to put the Liberals to sea on board the ill-fated boat.

“They would receive the same amount of training as our crews,” Smith says. “After about two weeks, the Liberals would be squealing like hell to get off the sub. Next thing you know, our armed forces would get some recognition and funds to do the job like we used to.”

Just the other day I wrote a column about Canada’s military.

Liberal Canada:  9/10 of new jobs in Canada so far this year: All Government Jobs

Nine of ten new jobs in Canada so far this year: All Government jobs

John Anania, assistant chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada, speaking on July 10, 2004 about a Statistics Canada jobs report: 

“The bulk of the job creation was concentrated in the public sector, while the private sector lost jobs, mainly in manufacturing and services.”

“For every 10 jobs created so far this year, nearly nine have come from the public sector,” Mr. Anania said.

Nine out of ten jobs created in Canada this year have been government jobs.

And of the remainder, most likely many of them stem from companies totally reliant on Liberal government subsidies such as Bombardier.

According to the Canadian Labour Congress,  the lack of growth in manufacturing jobs is a troubling sign.

“There is a fundamental weakness in the economy when a key sector like manufacturing had 79,000 fewer workers than in November 2002,” said CLC president Ken Georgetti.

Nothing more needs to be added.

Ok just this:  Join the conservative groundswell, but quick.

Blowing up their own civilization

I can’t do justice, here, in excerpted form, to an Op-Ed piece written by David Frum in today’s National Post.  But here’s a snippet.  I encourage everyone to take a look at the whole piece over at the National Post.

David Frum
National Post
Oct 12 2004

The morning after last week’s terrorist attack in Taba, Egypt, an op-ed submission from the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress popped up in my e-mail in-basket. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry’s article opened with a perfunctory expression of regret for the atrocity—and a rather more heartfelt expression of concern for the Egyptian tourist industry. The doctor then proceeded to his real message: Canadian newspaper readers must understand that the Israeli vacationers in Taba had brought slaughter and death upon themselves.

...

After the Taba bombing, the director-general of the Al-Arabiya TV channel, a journalist named Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, published an article in a London Arabic-language newspaper that bravely challenged Arabs and Muslims to repudiate all terror, whatever its putative justification, whatever its target.

“[The terror attacks] are interconnected ideologically, if not by the affiliation of their perpetrators. A solution solely concerned with security can never succeed in bringing terrorism to a halt. This sheds light once again on [the position of] the Arab intellectuals, who not only are silent but even justify terror, for they in reality supply terrorism with what it most needs—propaganda and legitimacy. Therefore they are embarrassed when [such an] incident takes place on their own land and they hasten to make distinctions and clarifications.”

Exactly so. By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

[... read the whole piece ...]

No, you’re awake.  Unfortunately.

I’ll take a wild guess that I’m not just having a nice dream—and it’s actually a mistake or somebody having a good time over at Canada’s “National Post” newspaper (a rather conservative paper politically, but still…!).

1.9 million new U.S. jobs just over past 13 months

More Republican weapons of mass appeal being found as we speak:

[Excerpted from Larry Kudlow’s column
October 12 2004]

U.S. job creation continued to move ahead at a steady pace with the announcement Friday that 96,000 non-farm payrolls were added to the economy. Over the past thirteen months 1.9 million new jobs have been created. The unemployment rate stands at a historically low 5.4 percent. One hundred forty million Americans are now working, a new U.S. record.

The brightest spot in the Labor Department’s September report is a 3.2 percent annual rate of increase for third quarter hours worked. This is the strongest quarterly rise in seven years. It probably foreshadows 5 percent real GDP growth for the third quarter, a number that will be released on the last Friday before the Tuesday presidential election.

At lower personal tax-rates more people are working, and they are working longer hours to produce more. This is consistent with supply-side thinking that lower taxes enabling people to keep more of what they earn generate new incentives for greater work effort.

As for wages, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.1 percent annually through September. This number has been steadily rising over the past year from a meager 0.8 percent increase registered in October 2003.

...read more…

Kerry’s “acceptable”, “nuisance level of terrorism” not Giuliani’s

Kerry doesn’t get it.  I’m finding myself becoming more and more baffled at how he even got to where he is.  Even more baffling is how people can follow this man and allow him near the white house.  It reminds me a little of Canadian voters.

New York Post
October 12, 2004—WASHINGTON — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday ripped John Kerry for saying he could live with a “nuisance” level of terrorism and demanded the Democrat explain that “to the innocent people who are killed.”

“The idea that you’re going to have an acceptable level of terrorism is frightening,” Giuliani said.

“How do you explain that to the innocent people who are killed that we are going to tolerate an acceptable level of terrorism, and that acceptable level will exist and then we’ll stop thinking about it?” Giuliani added.

The one-way street of liberal-speak (again)

In a world in which it is totally acceptable—nay expected—that conservatives be called “morons”, “idiots”, “extremist”, “nutbars”—and that’s just by elected Liberal officials (oh and the neo-communist Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell officially calls conservatives “barbarians”), it’s a wonder “conservatives” aren’t put in Canada’s Charter of Rights as a protected species.  (No, silly me, there’s frogs to protect.)

In 1999, during the Clinton impeachment trial, actor/activist Alec Baldwin said that in an ideal world, “We would stone Henry Hyde (the House impeachment manager) to death and we would go to their homes (other Republican impeachment leaders) and we’d kill their wives and children.”

Jesse Jackson once (in the course of an interview) called New York City “Hymie-town,” in reference to its Jewish population.

The blathering Michael Moore said, “The bastards who run our country (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al) are a bunch of conniving, lying, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.”

An unfan of mine once wrote (in an e-mail, of course) “I’m curious however why you don’t just apply for American citizenship, and leave Canada for real Canadians. I guess the exploitation opportunities are just too much for you to resist. Shame on you.”

On a public forum at which rage ensued against me personally, someone wrote:  “The great thing about Canadian regressive conservatives is that they’re a bunch of fringe nutcases”.  Another wrote, “We can see through evil morons in a second”. 

The there’s this conservative writer who got was publicly berated on a liberal’s blog as follows:  “Professor Brian Leiter, who fancies himself an arbiter of all things academically respectable, disagrees with my assertion that conservatives are treated with condescension and hostility in the modern university. His way of proving me wrong is to call me “embittered” and a “crackpot,” a “lunatic” whose “ranting” and “paranoid” “lies” are not only “embarrassing,” but raise “a serious psychological question” about my mental stability. Then, calling in the heavy intellectual artillery, he links approvingly to another blog which characterizes my article as “bullshit” and “total crap,” and me personally as “nuts,” a “Neanderthal,” “stupid,” “dim-witted,” “a twit,” “a moron,” a product of “the breeding ground of chaos and hate in this country [which] lies nested in the pathological conservativism of murderous anti-abortionist goons, right-wing militias, and wanna-be theocrats,” and—the coup de grace—“Ann Coulter’s long lost fraternal twin.” At this point Professor Leiter and his fellow bloggers apparently exhausted the thesaurus.”

But here’s the horrendous story of shame and humiliation found on the state-run CBC web site today:

Gay man awarded $1,000 for ‘fifi’ comment

CBC
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:31:31 EDT

MONTREAL - A gay man who was called a “fifi” by a used car salesman has been awarded $1,000 by Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal.

The man’s name can’t be revealed because of a publication ban.

The man told the judge he felt dehumanized, humiliated and degraded by the comment, which happened in November 2001 at Roger Poirier Automobile in Sorel, about 70 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

The salesman, Marcel Bardier, used “discriminatory words in regard to [the complainant], by revealing his sexual orientation in hurtful and vexatious terms,” wrote Judge Michele Pauze in her decision, according to the Montreal Gazette.

“Calling someone a `fifi’ constitutes a scornful way of referring to homosexuals. The use of this term wounds and adds to the disgrace and lack of respect of human dignity a person [can suffer], homosexuals in particular.”

In addition to the $1,000 in “moral damages,” the car salesman and his employer must also pay interest and expenses.

I’ve never even heard the word “fifi” before, and I would have thought they’d like it.  They call themselves “queers” and any number of silly deprecating antics take place at gay pride parades that certainly seem to imply they have a sense of humor about themselves.

Monday, October 11, 2004

Bush campaign offices burglarized again

Once again, Bush campaign offices have been burglarized. 

Offices that house President Bush’s re-election campaign in Spokane were broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Republican offices across the country.

Workers arriving this morning found a hole smashed through the wall from an adjacent, vacant office. Bush campaign officials say a small amount of petty cash is missing and a computer and television had been moved and left near the hole.

“They must have gotten spooked because they ultimately left the computer and TV,” said Bill Hyslop, the campaign’s chairman for the Fifth Congressional District.

The computer and the TV had recently arrived in Spokane and the computer was loaded with information from the Republican get-out-the vote program.

Maybe the Dem’s are looking for Republican Party weapons of mass appeal.

Dan Rather in 2001:  Clinton’s lies don’t make him dishonest…

I found this excellent interview between Fox News Channel’s super-bright ‘n feisty Bill O’Reilly and CBS News’ super-biased ‘n hypocritical Dan Rather.  It’s from March 2001.

Included in the exchange about why Rather and the other networks didn’t do much, if any investigative reporting on Bill Clinton pre-election:

Rather:  “I know you have a different view…. I know you’d find this sort of astonishing, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things”

O’Reilly: “Really? [in amazement]  See, I can’t. See I want my government to be honest across the board…”

Here’s the (Windows Media) link.  (Starts with an advertisement so wait for that).

Flip-flops to watch for in the future

Teresa Heinz Kerry, who earned $6.8 million last year, ten times more than George and Laura Bush according to tax records, and who flies around on her private Gulfstream V luxury jet aircraft to make campaign speeches for her beleaguered husband, says,

“John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.”

...implying that the President did just that. 

I think Teresa Heinz Kerry could probably think of other reasons for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq if she really thought hard about it before hoofing off to another campaign stop in her private Gulfstream V luxury jet along with her rich political friends and liberal Hollywood starlets and their private jets, as millions of now free Iraqis work hard to be able to vote for the first time in their lives and get over the fact that they may make it through a full week without being threatened with rape or torture.

And maybe someday, in between eating caviar on her Gulfstream, when the twin turbojet engines sputter out after consuming a damn good chunk of the world’s oil reserves, she’ll eat some crow and demand that America does go to war over oil. 

File this one under flip-flops to watch for in the future.

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