If you want to read about truly souless people, please check out this post on bornagaindemocrats.com. I think it about sums things up perfectly: ignore the terrible cost & pain of abortion for the happy convience of single life and the ability to use four letter words. All I have to say is, wow.
You may be asking yourself: Are there any decent, conservative Canadians out there? I mean, my God, it looks like Canuckistan is going downhill faster than the EU (and that’s fast my friends)! Well I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news: Canadia is going downhill frighteningly fast. The good news is that the conservatives at the Western Standard are chronicling it all for our enjoyment. Ok, maybe they aren’t writing about the demise of their beloved country so the Americans can get a good laugh now and again, but they are writing about it and doing a damn fine job too.
If you ever wondered what a Canadian conservative might be like then this is the magazine for you. I found the Western Standard quite by accident when I was googling for information on last years Canadian elections. I looked up and realized that I was extremely ignorant about the politics of our neighbor of the Great White North and I needed to find “the National Review of the North”. This is great read if you have the time, also I highly recommend their blog, The Shotgun. Now how could any American gun nut not like a blog called “The Shotgun”.
Now, what’s the relevance to saving the GOP and Canada? Well it’s very simple, the Canadians on the Right are facing the same struggle we are, it would do well to notice their mistakes and their victories. Every time they “moderate” or “tone down” their message they get crushed in the elections. The Canadian right often looks southwards for inspiration, I think it would be wise if we reciprocated and cast our gaze to the north once in a while.
Larry Elder’s recent column on the 2006 federal budget and its lack of a constitutional foundation lays waste to any argument of Bush: the fiscal conservative. I for one am sick and tired of the rhetoric that bubbles out of the GOP come election time but seems to evaporate into thin air when everyone gets together to draw up a budget. Sure Bush is 1000x better than Kerry would have been, but that isn’t saying a whole hell of a lot. You can’t cut taxes and then spend like you are FDR. I love the tax cuts, but this sort of fantasy budget is going to have serious consequences on the fixed income and currency markets. I am hoping we have some principled conservatives in the house willing to have another Alamo over this bill.
Everyone should please read this atrocious article on Salon. The funny thing is that they paint the whole panel as so pro-Bush and blindly following him. The reporter must have missed almost every panel where there was any kind of debate. The whole point of CPAC is that for the most part its CONSERVATIVE not Republican.
Bob Barr talks about the need to reform the Patriot Act
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Well here is my CPAC writeup through a little photoblogging. Click on More… for the whole wrapup.
Overall I thought the conference went very well, though I do think they are stuck between venues as this conference made very evident. They have a true dilema, as every year more and more people come, but one of the key reasons people come is how close people can get to leaders in the movement. Where else can one talk to Steve More, Ann Coulter, Norm Coleman and others at all, let alone hear even more than that talk. I am always somewhat disappointed by the lack of media, there wre plenty of foreign correspondents but rarely mainstreamers. Overall I give the conference a B+. Photoblogging commences below the break so click “More…” to see.
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This has been my first CPAC and it has been awesome. Mark and I were able to get extra tickets to Friday’s dinner which the Vice President spoke at. It was quite the night. Sen. Coleman was honored and gave an outstanding speech bashing the UN and made it clear that the Sea treaty which just passed the foreign Relations Committee (no thanks to the RINOs) was equivalent to high treason. Any member who votes for this bill should be impeached in my opinion.
Well day two of CPAC is wrapping up, and I am preparing to go to Davidson’s announcement event for CRNC Chairman. He is running against Paul Gourley for Chair. One of the under-reported stories of CPAC is the Gourley v. Davidson campaign. The Davidson folks have plastered the area with fliers for his announcement event. I went to Gourley’s event yesterday, where Sen. Thune endorsed Gourley (pics coming soon…).
Outside of CRNC politics things have been rather tame here. Nothing else breaking here, two days down one to go.
Well just got back from some fun, here are the good quotes:
-Ann Coulter on the Democrats leftward veer.” - Ann Coulter
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Here at CPAC, the line for the Zell Miller / Oli North signing wraps around the entire complex. CPAC this year has been great, Ann Coulter still has to speak this afternoon. Herman Cain was apparently amazing this morning though I missed him.
Iran and Syria announced today that “they will form a “united front” to confront possible threats against them”. Is this a joke? These two have been cooperating since the 70s. There is no way Iran could support the Shiite terrorists in Lebanon without the explicit permission of Syria. This is a public display of affection, not a change of policy or any newfound Sunni Shiite love. The Bush administration has conducted an elegant strategic maneuver and the Syrians and Iranians don’t even know it yet. I am not sure who is formulating this strategy, I can only assume Condi Rice. If so, then she is simply the smartest woman alive. The public, mostly because of the media, is “war weary”. Yet we still have work to do. We must get the ball rolling on Iran and Syria before the entire region is destabilized.
The subtle pressure, the drones scanning Iran, the withdrawal of the US ambassador is all part of a calculated plan to force the hand of these regimes. They got spooked and have had to make a public show of strength to try and deter US aggression and admittedly to many the situation is now slightly more complex than before. I see nothing that has changed though. Syria and Iran have been thick as thieves ever since they realized they both hate America. It would be hard politically to now add Syria to the “Axis of Evil”, but Bush didn’t have to, they did so themselves when they swore an alliance with Iran. Game over. Syria is next, Iran should be expecting air strikes, and covert ops.
I am somehow not surprised by this trial balloon by the President which is basically like a kick in the gut from a friend. Bush has caved to the political pressure (or is about to at any rate) and raise taxes to finance the privatization of Social Security. This is pathetic, and the more I read about this privatization idea the more of a sham it sounds like.
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Though it should be obvious by now to even the most casual of observers that China is on its way to becoming a superpower as each day more and more signs keep popping up. As I look out my window now I can literally see hundreds of cranes dotting the skyline as Beijing is building itself into a modern marvel as fast as it possibly can. There are three major news items that have recently developed that highlight exactly what is happening.
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South Dakota is in the process of passing a bill in the State Legislature that would automatically make abortion a felony if (when) Roe v. Wade is overturned. If all goes well, South Dakota will soon be joining the ranks of 30 other States with similar bills.
Michael Davidson candidate for College Republican National Committee Chairman launched his website today, at www.yourcrnc.org. Still no word from Paul Gourley or Dan Centinello, the other two candidates in the race.
Senator Arlen Specter’s office release a press statement stating that Senator Specter has cancer. I am sure I speak for everyone on this board stating our thoughts and prayers are with him.
China seeks hackers for information warfare, cites Clinton’s example
Special to World Tribune.com
EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Zhang Zhaozhong, director of the Military and Equipment Teaching and Research Center of the National Defense University, said the government is hoping to recruit computer hackers as part of its information warfare operations.
Zhang noted that former U.S. President Bill Clinton invited hackers to the White House for a discussion of network security. China could also follow this example to mine the skills of hackers, Zhang said.
He said that recruiting hackers would enhance information security levels.
The comments appeared in the Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po. The newspaper reported Feb. 10 that a well-known Chinese hacker organization, the Honker Union, had disbanded. The group claimed thousands of members, including network security professionals.
The group claimed to have successfully attacked the White House Internet site, and it was part of a joint Chinese effort to conduct attacks on U.S. websites following the April 2001 mid-air collision of a Chinese F-8 jet and U.S. EP-3 surveillance aircraft.
Other hacker groups that reportedly took part in the attacks were the Hacker Union for China and China Eagles.
My second time through the Communist Manifesto inspired me to write an article for our conservative newspaper on campus. Here’s some of it in progress. I think i need to tie things together in the conclusion. Suggestions are appreciated.
The Gulag Academia
Communism is dead. I mean really dead. This isn’t a secret to many of us who can’t remember a president who wasn’t named Clinton or Bush, but after my second time through the Communist Manifesto in two years at GW, I think some college professors never got the memo.
While reading the Communist Manifesto and reflecting on the slaughter and enslavement it wrought upon the world can be an infuriating experience, class discussions can be a lot of fun. Just think, thirty years ago anti-communists would have been shouted down for hinting opposition to the Marxism in the classroom. But today, thanks to Ronald Reagan, we can stand athwart history and give a big Nelson Muntz “Haa-Haa” at all of the pinkos in class. The funniest thing actually is to see them go on the defensive.
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Senator Rick Santorum, who has done much to distance himself from the conservative movement lately, has mroe bad news on the front. A Quinnipiac Poll shows him trailing Bob Casey Jr, one possible democratic candidate 46-41. Santorum’s below 50% numbers this early into the race are highly concerning. As I predicted earlier, Santorum has allienated his base while failing to attract another constiuency, which means he is walking in political nomans land.
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