Patriot Vol. 07 No. 36 Chronicle | 05 September 2007

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Patriot Vol. 07 No. 36 Chronicle | 05 September 2007

THE FOUNDATION: CHARACTER

“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”  — Samuel Adams
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UPRIGHT

“While conservative Republicans have to live and die politically by the moral standards most Americans believe to be a reasonable code of personal behavior, Democrats have no standards for personal conduct.”  — Doug Patton ++ “Once you become a liberal, you can wax eloquent on the glories of the public schools while sending your kids to private school. You can wax prolix about the greedy rich while making a fortune on the side. You can even use the government to impose your values willy-nilly, from racial quotas and confiscatory tax rates to draconian environmental policies and sex-ed for grade-schoolers — all of which will paid for in part by people who disagree with you.”  — Jonah Goldberg

“Politicians gave us the idea that the things we could not afford individually we could somehow afford collectively through the magic of government.”  — Thomas Sowell

“We need to remember that just as we are, our representatives are human. It is up to God to judge them in the end; our duty is to try to find the people who, despite their flaws, can run this country well.”  — Armstrong Williams

“Do you ever get the feeling that at this point Washington is run by two rival gangs that have a great deal in common with each other, including an essential lack of interest in the well-being of the turf on which they fight?”  — Peggy Noonan

“What better way to show our appreciation for the First Amendment than by exercising it to defend the Second Amendment?”  — Alan Gottlieb ++ “The argument for gun control has always been based more on utopian visions than empirical facts. That, and the Left simply does not trust an armed citizenry.”  — David Niedrauer

“The lesson is this: if you fail to fight a war in a manner calculated to win it decisively, you will lose it inevitably... Stop thinking about how to not lose. Think about how to win.”  — Jed Babbin

INSIGHT

“Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.”  — Kenneth Boulding

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”  — Helen Keller

“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.”  — Walter Lippmann

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”  — Thomas Carlyle

“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.”  — Socrates

“Don’t you think the road commissioner would be willing to pay my wife something for her recipe for pie crust?”  — Calvin Coolidge

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has backed down from demands for a withdrawal of our troops in Iraq by next spring. Selling voters on cut and run was always tough, but now a new UPI/Zogby Poll finds that 54% of Americans believe the Iraq war is not lost. Beyond the achievements of our forces, the public is obviously impressed that Iraq’s five top political leaders have agreed on a series of compromises, including oil-wealth distribution and provincial elections. Since Reid and other Democratic leaders now know that outright surrender is out, they’ve decided to try for whatever they can get. ‘I don’t think we have to think that our way is the only way,’ Reid told The Washington Post, making it clear he now seeks an anti-war alliance with shaky Republicans... But the U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, will join with our ambassador, Ryan Crocker, in presenting a progress report the week of Sept. 10, and he is expected to say exactly what recent travelers to Iraq have discovered: 1) the surge is working, and 2) leaving now would be disastrous. Democrat senators like Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin and Majority Whip Richard Durbin have had to concede that the new strategy — which Democrats assailed earlier this year as the same old strategy, with no prayer of success — is making real inroads toward victory and the establishment of lasting freedom in Iraq...[W]hen Gen. Petraeus tells lawmakers this month that victory is achievable, there will be a message the White House will be delivering loud and clear: Politicians micromanaging this war are the last thing we need right now.”  — Investor’s Business Daily
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Patriot Vol. 07 No. 36 Chronicle | 05 September 2007

DEZINFORMATSIA

This week’s “Non Sequitur” Award: “[T]he White House is trying to stay detached from Senator Craig in much the same way the White House has tried to stay removed from the lingering Gulf Coast problems since Hurricane Katrina.”  — MSNBC’s David Shuster, making a long connection ++ “And I think people feel that maybe the government is not funding the money fast enough because they don’t want people to really come back [to New Orleans].”  — CNN’s Soledad O’Brien

Open minded: “The administration, this time relying on Gen. David Petraeus to play the Colin Powell role, has had remarkable success creating the perception that the ‘surge’ is succeeding, even though there’s not a shred of verifiable evidence to suggest that it is.”  — The New York Times’ Paul Krugman

Au contraire: “No one has alleged any wrongdoing by the Clinton campaign.”  — NBC’s Lisa Myers on fishy Clinton donations from a fugitive from justice **We have!  http://archive.PatriotPost.US/pub/07-35_Digest/page-2.php

Hot air: “Across the globe, the number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled over the past 30 years. Some scientists say the cause is global warming.”  — ABC’s John Berman with the same old scare story

Commie apologists: “At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington’s side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.”  — Reuters **“Well, yes, by staying in power by force, of course Castro has ‘outlasted’ presidents who must face the voters and whose time in office is constitutionally limited.”  — James Taranto ++ “He is not a left wing guy.”  — Bill Maher on John Edwards

Newspulper Headlines: Everything Is His Fault!: “Bush War Leaves Central African Villages Deserted”  — Reuters ++ “Human Family Tree Now a Tangled, Messy Bush”  — LiveScience.com

We Fault Editors of Headline Writers: “State Faults Teachers of English Learners”  — Arizona Republic

Do We Really Need This Kind of Name Calling?: “Clinton, Edwards Butt Heads”  — Portsmouth (NH) Herald News

And We Know How Prone He Is to Distraction: “Bill Clinton’s Challenge: Keep Focus on His Wife”  — The New York Times

New Mexico Must Grossly Underpay Its Governor: “Richardson Calls for College Loan Help”  — Associated Press

News You Can Use: “That Strange Object in the Sky? It’s the Sun”  — Wausau (WI) Daily Herald (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Nothing like socialism: “It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care. If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”  — John Edwards on his universal-healthcare plan

“Friendly” fire: “George Bush and Dick Cheney may have turned divisive, special interest politics into an art form, but it was there before they got to Washington... There are those who tout their experience working the system in Washington, but the problem is the system in Washington isn’t working for us, and it hasn’t been for a very long time.”  — Barack Obama with not-so-veiled shots at Hillary

Excuses, excuses: “When you have as many contributors as I’m fortunate enough to have, we do the very best job we can based on the information available to us to make appropriate vetting decisions and this one was a big surprise to everybody.”  — Hillary **What, no “vast, right-wing conspiracy”?

Constitutional scholars: “The idea that the Constitution forbids a government to ban any type of weapon regardless of the reasons is unsupportable. It is plainly relevant that the District [of Columbia] allows residents to possess other perfectly effective firearms, especially given how much more death and misery handguns have caused than those other firearms.”  — DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, pledging to continue the fight for DC’s gun ban **Who knew that handguns had minds of their own, going around causing death and misery without help from people. ++ “I’ve learned you bring change by working in the system established by Constitution. You can’t pretend the system doesn’t exist.”  — Hillary, who daily pretends the Constitution  http://PatriotPost.US/histdocs/constitution/  doesn’t exist
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Patriot Vol. 07 No. 36 Chronicle | 05 September 2007

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the sycophant files: “[John Edwards is a] candidate whom I really admire. I can say without equivocation that no one who is running for president has presented anywhere near as comprehensive and accurate a prediction of what our country ought to do in the field of environmental quality, in the field of healthcare for those who are not presently insured, for those who suffer from poverty and with a special attention to a subject he knows quite well, and that is the rural areas of America.”  — Jimmy Carter

Border? What border?: “Mexico does not end at its borders... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico... We strongly protest the unilateral measures taken by the U.S. Congress and government that have only persecuted and exacerbated the mistreatment of Mexican undocumented workers.”  — Mexican President Felipe Calderon

Non Compos Mentis: “We’ve killed over 400,000 of [Iraq’s] citizens.”  — actor Tim Robbins with wildly inflated casualty statistics

The Spin Zone: Modern politics seems to require and reward some capacities that I don’t think I have in abundance... such as a tolerance for...  spin rather than an honest discussion of substance. Apparently, it comes easily for some people, but not for me.  — global-warming spinmeister Al Gore

This week’s “Quid Pro Homo” Award: “There’s a whole segment of the country that has decided that somehow the gay people are not legitimate. We need to include them in our society, we need to give them rights, we need to vote for hate-crimes laws, not vote against them and then go into a bathroom stall.”  — Clintonista Bob Shrum

SHORT CUTS

“Why the hurry? Why not take a little longer to think this over?...f he wants to wait until January or February, that would be ideal.”  — Mitt Romney  http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=550  on Fred Thompson’s late entry into the presidential race ++ “Fred Thompson, who is a former star of ‘Law & Order,’ confirmed that he is running for president. Afterwards, Thompson promised to solve the crisis in Iraq by the end of the episode.”  — Conan O’Brien

“Public men and women of hard-won, well-understood substance aren’t in oversupply right now, and the question is why? Why so many Kerrys and Doles and Dukakises, not to mention Trent Lotts, Harry Reids, Chuck Schumers, Chuck Hagels and Barbara Boxers? Why, Lord?”  — Bill Murchison

“’I am not gay,’ says Sen. Craig over and over, as somberly and emphatically as President Nixon’s famous insistence that he was not a crook. Any day now, the senator will announce OJ-like that he’s redoubling his efforts to track down the real homosexual.”  — Mark Steyn ++ “The rest of us, like it or not, have had to endure a crash course in restroom etiquette. Who among us knew that the placement of the feet while attending to certain needs of the body politic in a public restroom can be as intricate as the entrechat of a ballerina? Stumbling into a stall to deal with an emergency can be costly if you step on the wrong toes, accident or not. ‘Pardon me’ is no defense.”  — Wesley Pruden

David Letterman: “Top Signs Osama bin Laden is Alive and Well”: FBI has indicted him for funding an illegal goat-fighting operation; On recent al-Qa’ida audiotape, he says some kind words about Merv Griffin; The new U.S. Weekly has photos of him in a hot tub with Britney; The congratulatory phone call to Barry Bonds; He’s booked with Regis and Susan Lucci at Foxwoods Resort & Casino; His MySpace page was updated this morning; Seen house hunting in L.A. with wife Posh bin Laden.

Jay Leno: President Bush was going to give the White House staff the day off for Labor Day, but then he realized everyone resigned — no one works there anymore. ... A couple of big anniversaries [last] week. It’s been two years since Hurricane Katrina and one year since FEMA found out about it. ... A lot of people are now calling Sen. Larry Craig a hypocrite because he was a very vocal opponent of same-sex marriages. But to be fair, he has never publicly come out against anonymous, gay, bathroom sex. ... You had the cop on one side. You know who was in the stall on the other side? Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey. If he just tapped his foot the other way, this whole thing could’ve had a happy ending. ... Speaking at a forum organized by Lance Armstrong on cancer research, Hillary Clinton told Chris Matthews if she were elected president, she would declare war on cancer, then she would support the war on cancer for two years, then she would be against it for a year, then she would back out of it all together.

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.)

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