Here’s the YouTube link for that terrific Mike Kaminski voiceover of George C. Scott as General Patton, setting the left straight on Iraq and the War on Terror, as played 7/29 on Backbone Radio. Great stuff!
Slated on Backbone Radio, July 29
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The liberals’ problem, said Reagan, is not that they’re ignorant. It’s just that so many of the things they think they know, aren’t so. Libs are sure, for example, that mankind is destroying the climate (see our quickie test below), biofuels beat petroleum, citizens shouldn’t own guns, and Ward Churchill is a martyr to free speech. (more…)
PoliticsWest.com is a new website of the Denver Post, chronicling the 500 days till Election 2008. I’m part of their Gang of Four blog, joining David Harsanyi on the right along with Diane Carman and David Sirota on the left. Click here to read our live-blogged discussion of the Democratic candidates’ debate on CNN/YouTube, July 23.
Here we go again. Another initiative that’s ‘for the children.’ And how you be against that, unless you’re a cold, cruel heartless SOB? I’ll do something really daring here… I’ll inject logic and common sense into this discussion and risk being called all of the previous names. Here’s what this is about: (more…)
“He speaks fluent Arabic, and for some reason this upsets the Arabs.” — Entry for March 25, 1988, referring to the imminent recall of the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, whom Reagan calls “a darn good man”.
HarperCollins in May published the long-awaited diaries of President Reagan, kept, says Nancy, because they wanted to be able to remember the presidential years better than the blur that was their Sacramento gubernatorial years. How quaint, how terrestrial, for this couple to want to remember what they considered not an entitlement due their obvious greatness, but a privilege bestowed on them by Heaven. (more…)
Shimon Peres’ remark in a Wall Street Journal interview last weekend that Israel must “get rid of” the territories it has occupied for 40 years tells us a couple of things: (1) He has bought into the Arab deception that their issue is a territorial dispute and not a basic desire to destroy Israel outright. (2) He is willing to betray the memory of those who have given their lives and blood in the 6 Day War. (more…)
To the progressives, victory is “stopping the violence”. Thus, each new car bombing only confirms at we are “failing” in Iraq, and that it is a “quagmire”. I saw a woman on CSPAN desperately crying “We must end it! We must end it!” It was clear she just couldn’t bear it! This Progressive secularist attitude is understandable. If you a moral relativist and don’t believe in a “hereafter”, and if your only vision for the future is just to live a comfortable life, a couple of things follow: (more…)
Slated on Backbone Radio, July 22
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“Protect us by Thy might, great God our King,” says that old patriotic hymn so seldom sung these days. It should be the daily prayer of all Americans, accompanied by daily alertness to the many threats against our country and by active defense against them. (more…)
It’s said we Navy guys don’t get on well with the Marines, but the USMC stands high with me. Look at the example of men like General Peter Pace, or our own Major Mike Coffman. All the more disappointing when I took friendly (or maybe not) fire this week from two tough-guy Marines displaying more bark than brains. (more…)
Bishop Anthony Lobo, Catholic prelate for the diocese of Islamabad, Pakistan, and Rawalpindi, India, talked with me and Captain David Petteys during his visit to Denver early this month. To listen to the interview from our July 8 edition of Backbone Radio, click here. For press coverage of Lobo’s visit, click here. Earlier background on the situation in his diocese is here.
If you’ve ever been disappointed by a meal at a fancy restaurant or researched a major purchase, you know that a big price tag doesn’t guarantee the best quality. Careful consumers want the most bang for their buck — not the most bucks for their bang. Unfortunately, big-government liberals seem to think that spending is the best benchmark to judge state government and that spending more is always better. (more…)
Upcoming on Backbone Radio, July 15
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America needs a new political force, I argue in my newest Denver Post column. Not another political party, but a responsibility movement to challenge both parties. Absent responsibility, neither the liberal concern with equality nor the conservative devotion to freedom can arrive at a good society. Watch how this insight illumines every topic on our show this Sunday. (more…)
(Townhall.com 7/14 & Denver Post 7/15) It’s time for a new force in American politics. We don’t need another party, not yet anyway. But we need a responsibility movement to challenge both parties and reach beyond them. We’ll call it Element R and launch it today, right here in Colorado. (more…)
My interview with Todd Bensman of the San Antonio Express-News, about his investigation of Mideast illegal aliens coming here through Mexico, starts in this sound file and wraps up in this one. (more…)
“No enemy to the left” used to be the motto of socialists and progressives in political struggles at home and abroad. For evidence of how deeply the Left mentality has now permeated American politics, look at the implication of “No enemy, period” in Iraq War statements this week from Colorado’s delegation in Congress. (more…)