EDITORIAL EXEGESIS“After the coldest April in 11 years, John McCain offers a ‘market friendly’ approach to global warming - saying we ‘have a genius for adapting, solving problems.’ But shouldn’t the problems be real?...We were disappointed when, at an Oregon wind turbine manufacturer on Monday, [McCain] seemed to embrace the shaky environmentalist position on global warming. Saying the costs of our reliance on fossil fuels ‘have added up now in the atmosphere, in the oceans and all across the natural world,’ he proposed that by 2050, the U.S. should reduce CO2 emissions to a level 60% below that emitted in 1990. The question is, why? Cold water was thrown on the climate-change disaster hypothesis by the National Climate Data Center’s recent announcement that last month was the coldest April in more than a decade and the 29th coolest since record keeping began 114 years ago. The average temperature was 1 degree cooler than the average April temperature of the entire 20th century. A few weeks ago, as North America was emerging from one of its coldest and snowiest winters in decades, the climate center issued a statement saying that snow cover on the Eurasian land mass had been the most extensive ever recorded, and that this March had been only the 63rd warmest since 1895. On April 24, the World Wildlife Fund published a study, based on last September’s data, showing that Arctic ice had shrunk from 13 million square kilometers to just 3 million. What the WWF omitted was that by March the Arctic ice had recovered to 14 million square kilometers and that the ice cover around the Bering Strait and Alaska was at the highest level ever recorded... We were pleased that McCain endorsed nuclear power as a pollution-free source of energy that can help us toward energy independence while reducing emissions. But the fact is that we will need more energy, not less, by 2050, from all sources. Both economic and technological growth will demand more... Global warming is debatable, both as to its causes and its effects. By taking the lead on domestic energy, McCain could help solve a real problem and make a clear distinction between himself and his head-in-the-tundra opponents.” - Investor’s Business Daily
VILLAGE IDIOTSNot impossible, just a miracle: “Nothing’s impossible. Look, tomorrow - something new could happen. Nothing’s impossible. You are talking to Terry McAuliffe. I don’t believe anything in life is impossible... Sure, something big would have to happen, I will give you that, absolutely.” - Terry McAuliffe on the possibility of Hillary becoming the Demo nominee
Chaos: “We should, a bunch of us, go there [to the Demo convention in Denver] and repeat the Democratic Convention from Chicago [of 1968]. Like, let’s just cause a bunch of trouble!” - Air America talk-show host Roseanne Barr
What is black and white...?: “People misunderstood the phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated vis-a-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black in the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.” - author Toni Morrison explaining her declaration that Bill Clinton was our first Black president
Village victimitis: “Everyone has been focusing on voter ID laws generally, but the most pernicious measures and the ones that really promise to prevent the most eligible voters from voting is what we see in Arizona and now in Missouri.” - Jon Greenbaum, director of the voting rights project at the Leftist group Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, stating opposition to requiring proof of citizenship for a resident to register to vote
From the Tin Foil Hat Department: “They hate liberals who can throw a punch. They, yeah, this... they. The vast right wing conspiracy that’s after me.” - actor Alec Baldwin
SHORT CUTS“Taking the high road is the high-minded approach to campaigning, but the high road can lead to disappointing places. That’s why successful pols usually look for alternate routes, just in case.” - Wesley Pruden
“[Al Gore] was the first incumbent president or vice president in 100 years to lose an election in peacetime with a good economy. Mind you, that was before we even knew that Gore was a deranged conspiracy theorist who believes the Earth is in serious peril from cow flatulence.” - Ann Coulter
“Air America Radio may have tried and failed to use washed-up comedians like Janeane Garofalo and Al Franken to make liberal talk radio work, but their rule seems to be that if at first you don’t succeed, flop, flop again. When wacky radical Randi Rhodes resigned over a nasty and profane denunciation of Hillary Clinton, Air America replaced her in afternoon drive time with... Roseanne Barr. And in no time flat Roseanne behaved like Roseanne.” - Brent Bozell
“Barack Obama went to the U.S. Capitol to monitor a secret meeting of uncommitted super-delegates. He’s been campaigning forever. He knows every road in Indiana like the back of his hand but he had to ask the tour guide how to get to his Senate office.” - Argus Hamilton
Jay Leno: As I’m sure you know by now, Hillary Clinton is not throwing in the pantsuit. No, siree Bob. In fact, The New York Times reported the other night, while they were on stage, Bill Clinton actually wiped away a tear. This is true. And when Hillary saw it, she said, “Don’t worry, Bill, I’ll always be here with you.” And he said, “Don’t make it worse!” ... Hillary said she will not give up. She will go to the convention and win - to which the bartender said, “Ma’am, it’s 2 a.m. We’re closing.” ... The latest rumor is Hillary’s campaign is going broke, and her staff have been told that the future campaign events are gonna have to cut back on the frills. Taking out all the frills. For example, when traveling, Bill and Hillary are gonna have to share a hotel room.
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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