“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Part of his argument against the Iraq war is our inability to locate Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. He feels that George Bush cannot be trusted; that we were misled into this conflict; and that there was never any justifiable reason for invading Iraq. He has even suggested that we apologize to the Iraqi people and leave Iraq forthwith.

Now the news comes out of Iraq that a mortar shell, rigged as an improvised explosive, has tested positive for Sarin. Sarin is a deadly nerve agent so powerful that one single drop is enough to kill a man. This is hard and indisputable evidence of the presence of chemical weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Iraq did not manufacture only one of these shells. According to the reports, the shell was of a series claimed by the Hussein regime to have been destroyed previous to the Gulf War of 1991. It is highly dubious that Saddam kept only one. By all accounts, this shell should not have existed.

It was not the only evidence of WMD in Iraq to be found, however. A week earlier, another explosive device tested positive for mustard gas, another chemical weapon, considered a weapon of mass destruction and outlawed by the Geneva Convention, to which the Iraqi government is a signatory.

The news of these discoveries filled me with feelings of vindication. The evidence we had before going in was sufficient for me to support Bush in his decision. Sooner or later, I thought, the evidence would come to light.

Meanwhile, the opposition was having a hey-day. Bush was so wrong about WMD. He manufactured the evidence. The war was concocted long before 9-11. Bush knew of the attacks before they happened and did nothing to stop them.

The burden of proof was always on the Iraqi government to show complete disposal of their stockpiles of illegal weapons. There were many, here and abroad, who held that Iraq might have never had these weapons. Such a claim is easy to make, considering how hard it is to prove a negative. But they succeeded in shifting the burden of proof from Saddam Hussein to George Bush.

Those of us who supported Bush in his decision felt the pressure. My friend sent me e-mail regularly chiding me for my position, which admittedly looked out-of-step. I questioned my position long and hard. Are we doing the right thing? Are the reasons we were given apart from WMD sufficient to justify this war? I decided to keep to my position.

Now this news from Iraq: some evidence comes forth. It is enough to demonstrate that WMD did exist, and in fact still do exist, hidden somewhere in Iraq. Saddam’s government had long since removed any markings on the shell indicating the presence of chemical weaponry. It would blend into all the other conventional weapons in Hussein’s armories. The circumstances surrounding the use of this shell demonstrate that the assassin was most likely unaware that it contained three liters of chemicals which, when mixed, produce Sarin gas.

Conservative commentators and talk radio hosts were unanimous in shouting from the rooftops, “We knew it!” They also cautioned that the liberal media would downplay the finding, minimize it, or claim it was a plant.

Dave Ross, a radio commentator on the CBS Radio Network, stated today that the cache of weapons of mass destruction supposedly to be found in Iraq amounted to “a single, Sarin-tainted shell.” Now, if Saddam made one of these things, he made hundreds, or even thousands. And in my opinion, three liters is way beyond “tainted.” Dave never mentioned the mustard gas shell.

Liberals want a man like John Kerry to save them from the evil George Bush. Never mind that Kerry has taken both sides of every issue with which he has been confronted. Never mind that he admits to communications with communist forces in Vietnam after his tour of duty. Never mind that he has shown no leadership at all in the face of this national crisis. George Bush, on the other hand, has stayed with his decision despite public and media pressure because he believes it is the right thing to do. His actions are more in line with my definition of leadership.

So, the conservatives were right about WMDs. More of these discoveries will be forthcoming. And they were right about how the left in this country would react to the discovery. In essence, Liberals will do two things: 1) refuse to face reality, as they have always done, and in doing so, 2) refuse to admit that G. W. Bush was probably right, despite the intelligence failures. The evidence will not be enough for them. For my friend, it will require a “disinterested” third party, like the French, to broadcast images of piles of biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons all prepped and ready to be launched in a moment’s notice. But he still won’t vote for Bush.