Want to really lose sleep at night: Read what the President’s Panel on Tax reform has to say

What in the world is going on at 1600 Pennsylvania ave?

In one of the most ridiculous articles I’ve read lately an op-ed columnist in the Palm Beach Post is in a tizzy over the fact that “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” is going to be distributed to all the Flordian school children stating, ” When you can combine the forces of Disney, the McDonald’s Happy Meal and Gov. Jeb Bush in one tidy package — all of them working together to cram thinly veiled Christian theology down the gullets of Florida’s schoolchildren — you’ve got yourself a hell of a plan.”

You can read the whole bleg of junk here if you want to really see how badly liberals fear anything Christian. Now, Narnia has been a part of education for generations for a simple reason, it is a great, easy to read story that kids enjoy. Is it Christian, yes, but if we’re going to throw out everything with a Christian message (which is really what these folks want) then there is not going to be much left of Western literature. Dante’s Inferno… gone. Chaucer… gone. Pretty much any medieval lit… gone.

Read this hillarious post about the “Airline screening playset”
H/T: The Corner

Check out the premise:

Though widely viewed as an arch conservative in the major media, Bruce Bartlett increasingly finds himself alienated from the president of his party. Bush’s policies, he warns, have been anything but conservative.

Bartlett faults Bush for moving away from free trade, adopting Keynesian economic theories, increasing government regulation and doing an extremely poor job of developing and selling conservative initiatives, such as Social Security reform. As such, George W. Bush, he says, has been a disaster for conservatism. Criticism of Bush from the right has largely been confined to fringe elements outside the mainstream of the conservative movement. Bartlett is the first from within the conservative mainstream to make the case that Bush is not “one of us” and does not deserve conservatives’ support. As the next presidential election looms, Bartlett warns, a new standard bearer must be found who will correct the many errors of this administration and get America’s fiscal house in order.

What say you Save the GOP readers?

Any time you hear some lib talk about leaving Iraq immediately, show them this letter written by Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida’s #2 man to his top deputy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In it he said ” “The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy. … We must be ready starting now.” This makes me very glad that John Kerry is not our Commander and chief. He also points out that “More than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media,” he wrote. “We are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our umma,” or community of Muslims.” Ayman al-Zawahri also laid out his long term goals for Al-Quida, he said “It has always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established … in the heart of the Islamic world,” al-Zawahri wrote. The letter laid out his long-term plan: expel the Americans from Iraq, establish an Islamic authority and take the war to Iraq’s secular neighbors, including Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.”

This great article that one of the commenters points out covers the College Republicans and the primary with this great quote:

This in fact already happened in the 2004 Pennsylvania Senate primary between Arlen Specter and Pat Toomey, which closely resembles the Rhode Island race. The Pennsylvania College Republican leadership’s decision not to allow any College Republican chapter in the state to support challenger Toomey was a crucial factor in Specter’s 1.7-percent margin of victory.

This actually was not true Gettysburg, Lehigh, LaSalle, Bucknell (not officially as they have no real CR chapter), and Lycoming all endorsed Pat, and I am emailing the reporter but still…