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THE FOUNDATION: ADVICE

“Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.”  - Benjamin Franklin

INSIGHT

“Let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for... Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.”  - Ronald Reagan

“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.”  - Calvin Coolidge

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”  - Herbert Swope

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”  - William Blake

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Back from the front, Gen. David Petraeus called on Congress Thursday to begin considering a drawdown of U.S. troops after five years of war. Violence in Iraq has plunged to its lowest levels since 2004, and al-Qaida is a tattered shadow of its former self - key leaders dead, successors weak and recruiting down. ’My sense’ Petraeus said, ‘is I will be able to make a recommendation (in the autumn) for further reductions.’ This is no Saigon-style exit, but a coming victorious end of a long conflict. U.S. forces have pounded al-Qaida into irrelevance. Using highly disciplined Special Forces strikes, advanced intelligence and communications, and local allies in the right places, 155,000 U.S. troops have been crushing a vicious enemy motivated by no rational forces in a war with no precedent. They are winning against all odds, overcoming not just terrorists, but other obstacles such as a lumbering Pentagon bureaucracy and weak-kneed Western intelligentsia whose media toadies trump every military error and harp on every isolated bad deed. Now proven wrong, these same critics retaliate by ignoring what is a very big story. Worldwide terror attacks have fallen off 40% since 2001, according to a study by Canada’s Human Security Report Project, and support for al-Qaida in the Arab world has collapsed. The study found terror attacks had been over-counted because Iraq War atrocities distorted the figures. Security gains elsewhere included even sub-Saharan Africa, where the improvement was called ‘extraordinary.’ Just as the conflict in Iraq is coming to a close, two related terror wars - in Spain and Colombia - are also seeing signs of victory... From the deserts of Iraq to the villages of Spain to the jungles of Colombia, these victories against terrorist groups are all linked. They are the result of using proven tactics, holding together resolutely, cooperating with other nations to share and deliver intelligence, and forming united fronts. When this happens, terrorists cannot flourish. Recent successes show that these wars are winnable.”  - Investor’s Business Daily

UPRIGHT

“As I have talked with some of our young soldiers, as well as some vets and their families, I have begun to notice a budding awareness (if not yet quite resentment) among them that not only are a very small fraction of Americans prepared to wear the uniform and bear the burden of citizenship but also few of their fellow Americans even seem to be aware or appreciative of the sacrifice.”  - Tony Blankley

“As for this week’s Clinton complaints [that sexism is doing her in], I imagine [Margaret] Thatcher would bop her on the head with her purse. [Indira] Gandhi would say ‘That is no way to play it.’ [Golda] Meir? ‘They said I was the only woman in the cabinet and the only one with - well, you know. I loved it’.”  - Peggy Noonan

“If the House of Representatives has now declared it ‘illegal’ for the government of Saudi Arabia to restrict oil production, why is it still legal for the government of the United States to restrict oil production? In fact, the government of the United States restricts pretty much every form of energy production other than the bizarre fetish du jour of federally mandated ethanol production.”  - Mark Steyn Break “Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise the price of oil, as well as most everything else, and lower the value of the pension and mutual funds that union members and retirees depend on. Of course, they don’t describe their plan that way. Instead, they call for a windfall-profits tax on the oil companies. But it’s the same thing.”  - John Stossel

“Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. Duncan complains that conservative, pro-life, pro-gun Democrats won three special elections by stealing GOP issues... Democrats didn’t steal your issues, sir. You abandoned them. Your party discarded them. Democrats simply engaged in dumpster harvesting.”  - Cal Thomas
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DEZINFORMATSIA

When torture isn’t a big deal: “[John] McCain, who was shot down and captured in 1967, spent the worst and most costly years of the war sealed away, both from the rice paddies of Indochina and from the outside world. During those years, McCain did not share the disillusioning and morally jarring experiences of soldiers like [John] Kerry, [Jim] Webb and [Chuck] Hagel, who found themselves unable to recognize their enemy in the confusion of the jungle; he never underwent the conversion that caused Kerry, for one, to toss away some of his war decorations during a protest at the Capitol. Whatever anger McCain felt remained focused on his captors, not on his own superiors back in Washington.”  - New York Times Sunday Magazine’s Matt Bai

Beware the bogeymen: “Other people, I should point out, other Clinton loyalists, but realists, say that that electoral map is a stretch in one regard: There are, you know, Republican governors and Secretaries of State, if you will, Katherine Harris-type election officials in those states. So, even though he [Obama] may have won primaries or caucuses in those states, he has to go up against the establishment, which would be Republican, and he has to figure out a way to get a fair vote if he’s the nominee in those red states.”  - NBC’s Andrea Mitchell

“I would be a liar if I said that there hasn’t been a certain amount of glee in the press corps about Hillary Clinton not doing that well. To use a very fancy word, there’s some schadenfreude among the press.”  - Time magazine’s Richard Stengel

Newspulper Headlines:

What Do You Call 100 Silent War Protesters? A Good Start!: “Protesters Give Iraq War the Silent Treatment”  - Grand Rapids (MI) Press

Breaking News From 2005: “AP IMPACT: Leaky New Orleans Levee Alarms Experts”  - Associated Press

We Blame Global Warming: “Dawn of an Ice Age: Hockey’s Hot Again!”  - MSNBC.com

We’re Going to Guess Jimmy Carter: “WHO Calls on Israel to Lift Palestinian Blockade”  - Agence France-Presse

Sounds Awfully Harsh to Us: “Initiative to Target Kids With Guns”  - Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) Break Sounds Awfully Lenient to Us: “Boy Band Creator Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison”  - Associated Press

News You Can Use: “Sitting Too Long Before Computer May Lead to Piles”  - China Post (Taipei)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Peacock Dies After Being Hit by Train”  - United News of India Break “Obama Faults McCain; Clinton Mulls Delegate Challenge”  - Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

The Professional: “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”  - Hillary Clinton Break “I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election.”  - Hillary Clinton, professional liar

World’s smallest violin: “She is winning the general election today and he [Obama] is not, according to all the evidence. And I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running.”  - Bill Clinton, proving that he did inhale

That’s the spirit!: “The president had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead - by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan, and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests - Mr. Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.”  - Sen. Joe Biden, Obama Supporter and Chief Cynic

Non Compos Mentis: “I had a uncle [sic] who was one of the... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.”  - Barack Obama, whose uncle must have fought for Stalin’s Red Army, the actual liberators of Auschwitz Break “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today - our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”  - Barack Obama **Fallen heroes in the audience? Really?
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VILLAGE IDIOTS

Superman: “I’m a superdelegate, having been president before, and I think that a lot of us superdelegates will make a decision... quite rapidly, after the final primary on June 3. I think at that point it will be time for [Hillary] to give it up.”  - Jimmy Carter, who made his decision so rapidly after June 3rd that he made it before June 3rd

Super diplomat: “The United States must let Iran know that we want to give them fuel and everything they need for a non-military nuclear program. Twenty-five years ago we cut off trading with Iran. We’ve got to resume trading to show Iran we are friends.”  - Jimmy Carter, desperately seeking a friend

Endorsements you don’t want: “[Barack Obama] is doubtless, from the social and human points of view, the most progressive candidate to the U.S. presidency. Were I to defend him, I would do his adversaries an enormous favor.”  - Cuban thug Fidel Castro

Blame America first: “We are living in an America that, in the last seven and a half years, has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list.”  - actress Jessica Lange

Nice try: “I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else... I had been this, you know, concerned about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine. And all these earthquake and stuff happened and I thought: IS THAT KARMA... when you are not nice that bad things happen to you?”  - actress Sharon Stone

SHORT CUTS

“McCain is still being vilified for referring to Iran-supported terrorists in Iraq as al Qaida, as if the vast majority of Americans care about the distinction between a Sunni and a Shiite terrorist.”  - Doug Patton

“Barack Obama was speaking to a Jewish group, and he told them that his name Barack is the same as the Jewish word ‘baruch,’ which means one who’s blessed. Obama had a harder time explaining his middle name, Hussein. Things got quiet there.”  - Conan O’Brien

“I’m sure [Barbara Walters is] going to catch plenty of flak from her cronies in the media. Certainly not because she’s using an affair, long over and done with, to hawk her book, and certainly not because Sen. Brooke is a black man, but because... he was, of all things, a Republican.”  - Burt Prelutsky

“When the House of Representatives takes up arms against $4 gas by voting 324-84 to sue OPEC, you know that election-year discourse has gone surreal.”  - Charles Krauthammer Break “I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress. That was my first mistake... Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz knew the routine: ‘I can’t say that there is evidence that you are manipulating the price, but I believe that you probably are. So prove to me that you are not.’ Had I been in the hapless oil man’s expensive shoes, I’d have answered, ‘Hey, you first. I can’t say that there is evidence that you’re sleeping with barnyard animals, but I believe that you probably are. So prove to me that you are not’.”  - Mark Steyn

Jay Leno: Barack Obama is now focusing on John McCain, is calling it “a contest of the past versus the future.” How many people wish it were the future and this election was already in the past? ... The McCain campaign announced it will be releasing John McCain’s medical records. They would have released them sooner, but it took a while to dig them up, literally. They had to have a team of archaeologists literally dig them up... Hey, good news for John McCain. He announced this week he had his best fundraising month ever - $18.5 million. That, plus what he gets from Social Security, so that works out. ... When speaking in Montana, Barack Obama got a standing ovation when he said, “It is time to take back the country.” The bad news: he was on an Indian reservation at the time. ... Earlier this week, Vice President Dick Cheney gave the commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy. He was given a 19-gun salute. And two Coast Guard members were slightly injured when Cheney returned fire.

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 granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)