The House votes to extend the Patriot Act, you know, that terrible Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld law that destroyed the Republic by allowing the government to listen in on the conversations of suspected terrorists (as well as doing some really dumb things), and which all the Democrats supposedly opposed. They also killed an amendment to an intelligence bill that would have criminalized cruel, inhumane and degrading interrogations.
While we fiddled: Iran’s continuing march to nuclear armament. The problem isn’t that Iran shouldn’t have nuclear weapons; it’s that the deranged fascist regime currently holding sway there shouldn’t have any weapons, much less nuclear ones.
James Delingpole on the new world order that is the real goal of global environmentalists. It’s not science, but power. That’s why they treat skepticism as heresy, rather than a scientific challenge.
From Daniel Hannan, a British conservative member of the European Parliament (and a far truer conservative than David Cameron and the other Tory posers) on the paradox of the conservative intellectual and with an invitation to a British Tea Party. Not sure that I agree with him about the ancestry of today’s British (or American) left being Fox, Wilkes, and Paine. They were democrats or democratic republicans, not socialist progressives.
Justice Ginsburg supported Roe v. Wade when it was decided because she thought it would lead to government-funded abortions for poorer people. She believed that the reason was a concern about too much population growth, especially among “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” Ginsburg was strongly pro-abortion choice, and Planned Parenthood has its roots in the eugenics movement, an outgrowth of the Progressive Era.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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Daily Briefing 06/24/10
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