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“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” —Thomas Jefferson

INSIGHT

“Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory... so help us God.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.” —G. Edward Griffin

“It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.” —Albert Einstein

“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.” —Aristotle

UPRIGHT

“America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don’t get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.” —Dennis Prager

“America’s present problems are many and varied, but we seem not to have been gripped by the same sense of purpose that drove Ronald Reagan in his quest to bring the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion.” —Richard Allen

“We have been imposed on so often that it is understandable how some would think that we had reached the point where we would stand for anything.” —Thomas Sowell

“Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil.” —Doug Patton

“It is losing that Americans have no patience for—not casualties or a protracted war. Let Bush make it clear that he is serious about victory, and that he will do whatever it takes to achieve it. The political support he needs will follow.” —Jeff Jacoby

“Very hardheaded realist terms: interest, stability, regional powers. But stringing them together to suggest that Iran and Syria share our interests in stability is the height of fantasy. In fact, Iran and Syria have an overriding interest in chaos in Iraq—which is precisely why they each have been abetting the insurgency and fanning civil war. Perhaps in some long-term future they will want a stable Iraq as a tame client state of the Syria-Iran axis. For now they want chaos. What in God’s name will a negotiation with them yield?” —Charles Krauthammer

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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Ambassador John Bolton, along with all he represents, has become the first victim of the new Democratic Congress. Judged fairly—that is, by his actual record—Bolton has had a very good run as a temporary U.S. ambassador to the UN, and he more than earned the right to stay on. Since taking the post as a recess appointee in August 2005, he has vigorously represented American interests, brokered crucial deals at the Security Council and won over his more open-minded critics. The corrupt old guard at the UN seems glad to see him go, another sign that he was on the right track. It’s clear now that a fair deal for him was never in the cards. With the exception of Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, who opposed his nomination last year but later had the grace to admit error and change his mind, the senators who lined up against Bolton then showed no signs of budging. Now the majority of Senate Democrats, helped by renegade Republican Lincoln Chafee, are getting their wish. Bolton has announced that he will not seek to stay on after his appointment runs out, and the White House has given up trying to scrape together enough votes to bring his nomination to the Senate floor... The fact is, financially and politically, the UN is on thin ice. U.S. taxpayers cover more than a fifth of its budget, and most of them apparently believe this money is being squandered; polls show fewer than a third trust the UN. In his role as a reformer, pushing for more transparent and accountable UN management, Bolton was trying to save the organization from itself before benefactors in the U.S., Japan and other rich nations lost patience and pulled the plug. With Bolton gone, the diplomats and bureaucrats living well off U.S. tax money may breathe easier, but only for a while. A few years from now, those who are crowing the loudest about Bolton’s departure might realize, too late, that he was doing them a favor.” —Investor’s Business Daily
Legacy of the Reagan Revolution...

“Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.” —George Washington

DEZINFORMATSIA

Journalistic “integrity”: “The main shortcoming of ‘civil war’ is that, like other labels, it fails to capture the complexity of what is happening on the ground. The war in Iraq is, in addition to being a civil war, an occupation, a Baathist insurgency, a sectarian conflict, a front in a war against terrorists, a scene of criminal gangsterism and a cycle of vengeance. We believe ‘civil war’ should not become reductionist shorthand for a war that is colossally complicated.” —NY Times Executive Editor, Bill Keller **Well, other than that! ++ “The administration still won’t admit the obvious, that our soldiers are stuck in the middle of a civil war and that it’s going to take more than Dick Cheney powwowing with the Saudis to get us out of it.” —NY Times’ Maureen Dowd, setting right to work on using the term “civil war”

“Supporting” the troops: “The United States is not looking for a ‘graceful exit,’ [President] Bush assured [Iraqi Prime Minister] al-Maliki... Excuse me, but why aren’t we looking for a ‘graceful exit’? Isn’t that what we voted for in November? Graceful would be great. Even not so graceful would be better than what is going on right now. The war is a failure.” —Susan Estrich ++ “And can you offer [the troops] words of comfort and hope as I think many of them were hoping that perhaps with the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group that maybe we would begin a gradual pullout of troops but yet, once again we hear today that our troops will be there indefinitely.” —CBS’s Hannah Storm to First Lady Laura Bush

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From the “European-ness Envy” Files: “Just about every expert on energy says the best way to become energy independent is to raise the price of oil and gas, to have a serious energy tax. Why not call for it? Couldn’t we become independent much more quickly if we had the kind of energy tax you see in Europe?” —ABC’s George Stephanopoulos

Newspulper Headlines: How Does Pushing Turkey Protect Christians?: “Pope Pushes Turkey to Protect Christians” —CBSNews.com

No Wonder We Can’t Figure Out What They’re Saying: “Humpback Whale Vocabulary More Elaborate Than Thought” —LiveScience.com

Our Guess Is He Didn’t Do It Afterward: “Man May Have Killed Cellmate Before Killing Self, Officials Say” —Associated Press

Who Says the Arab World Isn’t Innovative?: “Data Can Now Be Stored on Paper” —Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

Bottom Story of the Day: “Kerry Says It’s Time to Move On” —Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Looking on the bright side: “You know, if... every jihadist in the world was killed tomorrow, we [sic] still have a major war in Iraq.” —Joe Biden ++ “[T]here are risks no matter what course we take, because obviously the Iraq policy has been such a terrible mistake; poorly handled, poorly conceived, a mistake going in... Democrats and Republicans want us to try to maximize the chances of success. No matter what course we take, there’s going to be risks. But the current course is a failure, we’ve got to change it.” —Carl Levin

Winter Soldier (http://johnkerry-08.com/new_soldier.php): “The fact is that more troops in Iraq will not solve the problem. It will worsen the problem. It will contort the United States of America itself. It will invite more attacks. And it simply won’t get the job done. It will invite greater jihadism that will provide a larger target in the region, and it runs contrary to everything our own military folks have told us.” —John Kerry **But who’s going to listen to our own uneducated “military folks” anyway?

From the “New Direction” Files: “We’ll do what makes good sense on Iraq, what makes good sense on tax policy, what makes good sense on the environment and on energy, and we’ll come up with a package that the people will like and that will make good sense in the middle.” —Rep. John Dingell, expected to become House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman

From the “Snake Oil Peddlers”: “Our domestic oil supplies are valuable but limited. We should not sacrifice our marine ecosystems, robust tourist economies, and fishing communities for the sake of extracting every last drop of oil from American soil.” —House Speaker-In-Waiting “San Fran Nan” Pelosi

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VILLAGE IDIOTS

Jimmy cracked corn: “Israel withdrew from Gaza. And then the Palestinians—what precipitated this was not the Katyusha rockets; it was the seizure of an Israeli soldier, which was probably a mistake on their side. So the Palestinians do hold one Israeli soldier. The Israelis hold 9,200 Palestinians, as I said earlier, including 300 children and about 100 women.” —Jimmy “Nobel Peace Prize” Carter ++ “I think that the United States should stop their horrible abuse of the Palestinian people in a generic sense... Because they voted for Hamas candidates last January, we have cut off all aid to the Palestinian people, humanitarian aid and otherwise... They don’t have enough money to pay their teachers, their nurses, their policemen, their firemen, anybody on their public payroll.” —Jimmy Carter **Or their bombers, their gunmen...

From the “Judicial Supremacists”: “We’re the boundary patrol... It’s a Constitution that protects a democratic system, basic liberties, a rule of law, a degree of equality, a division of powers, state, federal, so that no one gets too powerful.” —U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on our republic

Color blind: “Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations. More than 100 of the other issuers vary their bills in size according to denomination, and every other issuer includes at least some features that help the visually impaired.” —U.S. District Judge James Robertson, who thinks changing the color of our money will help the blind

This week’s “Village Glitterati” Award: “I like living here [in the U.K.] because I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.” —Hollywood’s Gwyneth Paltrow

SHORT CUTS

“If you’re one of those dummies who goofs off in school, you wind up in Iraq. But, if you’re sophisticated and nuanced, you wind up on a commission about Iraq.” —Mark Steyn ++ “Everyone is told to expect a recommendation [from the Iraq Study Group] that Iran and Syria be invited to assist the coalition of the willing in extracting the West from Iraq. We won’t be told how the enemy can help, since nobody knows. A pity FDR and Winston Churchill didn’t think about a strategy like this in early 1942. Half of us might be speaking German now (and the other half Japanese).” —Wesley Pruden

“Mexico’s new president Felipe Calderon was sworn into office in Mexico City Friday with former President Bush looking on. They are an important trading partner. In addition to oil, silver and tequila, Mexico is the number-one producer of Americans.” —Argus Hamilton
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Veritas vos Liberabit—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families—especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty, while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.)