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Great Quotes from Scott Brown’s Victory Speech

I pulled a couple of great quotes from Scott Brown’s victory speech. He’s saying the right kind of things:

“In health care, we need to start fresh, work together to do the job right…we can do better!”

I will work in the Senate to put government back on the side of people who create jobs, and the millions of people who need jobs. And remember, as Pres. John F. Kennedy stated, that starts with across-the-board tax cuts for businesses and families to create jobs, put more money in people’s pockets, and stimulate the economy. It’s that simple.”

“Our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation. Let me make it very, very, very clear: they do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime.”

“Our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop [terrorists], and not lawyers to defend them.”

Some Conservative commentators and pundits have expressed caution in regards to Scott Brown because he is so new to the political arena–we just don’t know that much about him. But if he continues with rhetoric like this, and if he can follow it up with the walk to match the talk, then I think we have a new hero in the GOP.

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This is Torture?

Torture is defined as:

the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.

Below is a video that shows what the Liberals/Progressives in America have been whining about for the past couple of years. It is a demonstration of waterboarding, as used by American military interrogators. This is what Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the CIA lied to her about. This procedure has only been used  against 3 Islamic Jihadists.

The Left calls this torture. But no-one, not even in the State-run media, has ever demonstrated this for the American public. There’s a reason for that. By calling this torture, and not demonstrating it, the Left is using a form of psychological manipulation. When we cannot see a thing that someone uses a fearful word to describe, our minds fill the gaps in information with terrible images. The best antidote is the truth. That is what we endeavor to bring you here. Show this to everyone you know, especially those who say waterboarding is torture but have never seen it.

This was originally posted on the Weekly Standard:

Playboy journalist Mike Guy got himself waterboarded last month but I missed the video — probably because it doesn’t confirm everything the left already knew to be true and thus has very little news value. On the assumption that many other folks didn’t get the chance to see this, watch the video below. Guy takes it like a man, which isn’t to say that he lasts longer than five seconds — after all, the technique is designed to be extremely unpleasant. But the U.S. military trainer who applies the techniques makes clear that he doesn’t believe it to be torture, and Guy himself isn’t exactly convinced after having suffered through it. He seems to have gotten a buzz off of it. One wonders: if water-boarding really is torture, why are so many folks willing to give it a try? You don’t see people lining up to have their fingernails pulled off.

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Lieberman Disagrees With Pelosi On CIA Briefings

See the article with video in The Weekly Standard.

According to Rush, this is version 5 of Pelosi’s story about her knowledge of waterboarding.

Time for her to resign. She can’t be trusted.

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Obama Changes His Tune On Waterboarding

The CIA interrogators who engaged in waterboarding known terrorists to extract information will not be charged with a crime, according to an AP story today.

President Obama, faced with criticism for absolving the CIA, said “Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.” A nice sentiment, but his entire campaign platform was all about “laying blame” for America’s problems on the past administration under George W. Bush.

The reality is that the CIA did nothing illegal. They were operating within the bounds of US law and extracting information vital to national security, and now Barak Obama is having to come to terms with that. He’s got nothing to say.

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Vindicated, Yet Again

For the past seven years, we have been assailed with stories of how criminal and lawless the Bush Administration has acted with regard to its prosecution of the War on Terror. Specifically, the charges against Pres. Bush have included the use of wiretapping communications between people in the US and people overseas without obtaining a warrant, overstepping the Constitutionally-limited authority of the Presidency via the Patriot Act, and other charges ranging from engaging in War without the express consent of Congress to genocide.

The NY Times is featuring a story today that should put to rest the claims of criminality at least regarding warantless wiretaps by the Bush Administration. It turns out that they are legal after all. And conveniently, the ruling comes just before Obama takes office.

I predict, however, that this will be seen as selling out on the part of the Times by the rabid left in this country, in an effort to make peace with the outgoing Presidency. It will also be seen as Obama failing to implement the promised changes.

Here’s hoping Obama’s other promises come to naught.

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More Proof Of Saddam’s WMDs

Paul Weyrich had a great column yesterday regarding the AP’s coverage of the evidence of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program, and why it has been so long in coming.

Weyrich points out that the reasons for the silence from the Bush Administration on the matter has been for National Security reasons–in other words, what we should expect from an honorable Commander-in-chief.

Now that this story has broken over the AP wire, we can fully appreciate what Pres. Bush has endured from the lying opposition of the Left. Weyrich asks the question, will these people finally apologize for their persecution of Pres. Bush and his associates? Probably not. But, will Scooter Libby finally be pardoned? Let’s hope so.


Update: the original story appears here.

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Memorial Day 2008

Today is a hard day for my wife and I. Today we remember our little one, Ellie, who passed into the next world on December 12, 2007, after only two days of life. She was of greater stuff than this world could bear and so God, in his grace, let us hold her close for a few hours and then took her unto himself.

We named her Elisha, which means “God shall save.” God whispered the name to her mother in the days before her birth. We did not know how profound the name would become. God truly has saved her; saved her from a life during the most troubling and terrible times in earth’s history. We know that she earned that station through her goodness and obedience. She overcame the world even before coming here.

We grieve today with the parents and siblings and children of our fallen ones, taken from us in battle. They are truly heroes, and will be remembered in the eternities for their sacrifice. We salute them, and we honor their families.

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Who was Wrong about WMDs?

Recently, a friend wrote a letter to the editor of the Daily Herald, a local newspaper operating in Provo, Utah. This friend and I have been going around the tree for some time over the War in Iraq, an endeavor he views as immoral. In his letter he voices his support for our soldiers risking their lives for their country in places around the world, but feels sad that they must do so in an unjustifiable war in Iraq.

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