THE FOUNDATION

“It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to justice.” — Thomas Jefferson

INSIGHT

“You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.” —Winston Churchill

“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.” —Arnold Toynbee

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” —Voltaire

“The legacy of nobility… is the great cause of all men who are friends of liberty, of truth, of civilization.” —Bonnie Prince Charlie

“Where else but in America could the women’s liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?” —Bob Hope

UPRIGHT

“Today, some politicians crave nothing more than the honor, prestige, and power of the presidency; they’ll do anything they can to get it. How different American presidential campaigns would be if the candidates were running out of a sense of duty, service, and self-sacrifice.” —Ken Connor

“Democratic office-seekers… [are] drenching their campaigns in religiosity, if not necessarily authentic religion. Be prepared to hear a lot more about the ‘Religious Left’.” —Suzanne Fields

“In the animistic church, any using or changing of the physical world (such as burning carbon) is a sin against the sacred, holistic, living world (the Gaia hypothesis). But as everyone uses energy (just as every Christian sins), the neo-animist church, too, must provide for a remission of sin (and also, a handy source of profit for the carbon-offset company owners—such as Al Gore…)” —Tony Blankley

“Every conservative I know is depressed these days, and they are right to be. Under President Bush, conservatism has won only in the sense of not losing as quickly as it would have under a President Gore or a President Kerry.” —Joseph Bottum

“America needs a people who do not merely talk about public virtues, but embrace them with passion and humility.” —Brent Bozell

“Gun control historically serves as a gateway to tyranny… Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government.” —Rep. Ron Paul

“I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe the United States [military] is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.” —Marine Gen. Peter Pace

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Liberals’ aversion to Fox News has finally gone over the top. The Nevada Democratic Party had agreed to let the right-tilting network co-sponsor, of all things, an August debate in Reno between Democratic presidential candidates. Party officials were serious about drawing national attention to the state’s January presidential caucus, the country’s second in the 2008 nominating process. What better way for the party to reach conservative and ‘values’ voters who might consider changing allegiances? But the socialist, Web-addicted wing of the Democratic Party was apoplectic. The prospect of having to watch Fox News to see their own candidates would have been torture in itself. So they set the blogosphere aflame with efforts to kill the broadcast arrangement, or at least have all the candidates pull out of the event. Before Friday, the opportunistic John Edwards was the only candidate to jump on that bandwagon… No, even unfiltered, unedited, live debate between loyal Democrats couldn’t be entrusted to Fox News. The approach of outfits such as MoveOn.org is so juvenile it’s laughable… This hyperventilation results from the fact that far-left Democrats have no comparable media outlet, nor any widespread national appeal, for their radical views in favor of heavy-handed regulation, wealth redistribution, diplomatic capitulation and economic protectionism. So they attack their rivals’ messenger with a reckless barrage of rhetoric that cuts down their own allies with friendly fire. By Friday, the Nevada Democratic Party caved in to the lunatic fringe and began seeking a more ‘appropriate’ television partner. Comedy Central, perhaps?” —Las Vegas Review-Journal

DEZINFORMATSIA

Media obsessed with Libby verdict: “Who wouldn’t have a blood clot after the lying that he did? Talk about a backup of blood!” —Joy Behar of “The View” on Vice President Dick Cheney, in the wake of the Scooter Libby “guilty” verdict ++ “Tonight we’re bring out into the open Vice President Cheney’s downhill slide… and it’s not pretty.” —CNN’s Paula Zahn ++ “You also have to wonder whether new signs that Mr. Gonzales and other administration officials are willing to cooperate with Congress reflect the verdict in the Libby trial. It probably comes as a shock to realize that even Republicans can face jail time for lying under oath.” —Paul Krugman, NY Times

Nailing Hillary’s pandering: “Now, Hillary Clinton is supporting the new Democratic Senate legislation which would start to bring troops home by March of 2008. She told me in an interview about a month and a half ago that she didn’t like the idea of timetables. Take a quick listen to what she said in New Hampshire over the weekend, compared to what she told me back in January.” —CNN’s John Roberts (“Our soldiers matter. That’s why we finally have to start bringing them home.” —Hillary)

From the “See B.S.” Department: “More than 46 million Americans have no health insurance. So when it comes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and good health, all men are not created equal.” —CBS’s Katie Couric

Moonbat analysis: “I do not exclude myself from this criticism… By and large, so many journalists… have adopted the go-along-to-get-along [acquiescence]… In many ways, what we in journalism need is a spine transplant.” —former anchorhead Dan Rather *How about a brain transplant?

Newspulper Headlines: Lock Up Your Daughters!: “Clinton Focuses on Women” —PoliticalWire.com

Stupid Is as Stupid Does: “Key Lawmakers Complain of Weak Intelligence” —Washington Times

Good Thing It Was Phony: “Phony Pipe Bomb Exploded in Northeast Charlotte” —WSOC-TV Web site (Charlotte, NC)

We Think They’d Be Cooler if They Didn’t: “Germans Are Cool to Call to Impose Autobahn Speed Limit” —Day (New London, CT)

News You Can Use: “Contractors Shouldn’t Take On More Work Than They Can Handle” —Montgomery (AL) Advertiser

Yes, Brave Sir Robin Turned About, and Gallantly He Chickened Out: “Anti-War Dems Ponder Bold Action on Iraq” —Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

“I’ve always been a Yankees fan”: “I don’t feel noways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy.” —Hillary in ‘08 Clinton with some pretty pathetic pandering

Campaign hyperbole: “Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.” —Barack Obama

Bad metaphors: “[JFK] was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was Catholic. A lot of people back then [1960] said, ‘America will never elect a Catholic as president… So when people tell me ‘a woman can never be president,’ I say, we’ll never know unless we try.” —Hillary Clinton

History 101: “I think that we’re in a place in American history where any serious presidential candidate and the president of the United States need to be clear what they want to do for the country.” —John Edwards *Otherwise known as “American history.”

Somebody’s got a wedgie: “This [Federal Marriage] Amendment was wedge politics at it’s worst. It was mean-spirited, it was against the entire forward movement of American history… In the end, we stopped the Federal Marriage Amendment and we sent a strong message that we will not stand idly by when anyone tries to write discrimination into our Constitution.” —Hillary Clinton

Say what?: “The bottom line here is you need a political solution inside Iraq that will be bided by outside Iraq. And the bottom line of that is, there’s never been an end of sectarian violence that’s self-sustaining without either a dictator, occupation or a federal system. Giving the people in that area… control over the fabric of their daily lives, and that, ultimately—everybody says, no military solution, need for political solution, yet there is no specific discussion of what the nature of that political solution will be. And if they get to that, it will be very positive.” —Joe Biden

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Race bait: “Why shouldn’t the black community ask questions? Are we now being told, ‘You all just shut up?’ Senator Obama and I agree that the war is wrong, but then I want to know why he went to Connecticut and helped [Sen. Joseph] Lieberman, the biggest supporter of the war… I’m not going to be cajoled or intimidated by any candidate not for my support.” —Al $harpton, from the Green (with envy) Party

Unique woman: “Hillary Clinton has spent her entire adult life working on behalf of women and children. She has a unique experience as a woman who has faced the obstacles in the way of women. No white man can understand the experience a woman has to go through to move ahead.” —Ellen Malcolm of Emily’s List, a pro-abortion group

Get over it: “By asking Georgia to apologize for its role [in slavery], we’re asking it to assume responsibility… I didn’t expect real cooperation from many of the white Republicans. Not all of them feel that way. But certainly people who benefit from slavery, especially in the state of Georgia, you wouldn’t expect cooperation from.” —Edward DuBose, president of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP

From the “Global Village”: “Those who want to go directly to hell, they can follow capitalism. And those of us who want to build heaven here on earth, we will follow socialism.” —Venezuela’s “president” Hugo Chavez

SHORT CUTS

“As many have pointed out, there’s a shining example of a government-run hospital already: Walter Reed. Imagine that example replicated across the land. Then again, imagine if the government was the defendant in every single medical malpractice case in the land. If nothing else, we’d get tort reform.” —James Lileks

“But we live in Washington, where destroying lives, as the late Vince Foster famously said, is sometimes a partisan sport.” —Wesley Pruden

“John Edwards vowed to raise taxes for universal health care and tried to shame Republicans for passing tax breaks for the rich. He’s a wealthy trial lawyer. Democrats think it’s okay to be rich as long as you just feel awful about it.” —Argus Hamilton

“In a Beltway political scandal, you appoint a special prosecutor who investigates it for years and the scandal metastasizes and morphs in bizarre fantastic ways. I’m not being especially partisan here. I thought Bill Clinton should have resigned when the blue dress showed up. But the months pass and instead he’s testifying to the grand jury about his definition of non-sexual relations—if the party of the first part is apart from the parts of the party of the second part while the party of the second part is partaking of the parts of the party of the first part, etc.” —Mark Steyn

David Letterman: “Top Other New York Times Allegations Against Al Gore”: In addition to “An Inconvenient Truth,” wrote “Big Momma’s House 2”; Against CO2 emissions, yet he insists on exhaling carbon dioxide; Ordered his vice presidential limousine stocked with Yoo-Hoo and caramels; Al Gore, al-Qa’ida? Not a coincidence; “Al” is short for “Alice”; Real reason polar bears are endangered—he’s eating them.

Jay Leno: I guess you heard, today was a big day for the U.S. Border Patrol. They caught 500 immigrants trying to sneak into the country and 200 Halliburton executives trying to sneak out. … Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel—he’s a Republican—called a press conference to announce he’ll be making a decision about running for president sometime later in the year. So, he called a press conference to say maybe later in the year he’s going to say something important. This is the kind of bold, decisive leadership this country needs. … Did you see all those people protesting while President Bush was in Latin America? Bush hasn’t had that many people shouting “Gringo go home!” since his last trip to LA. … Last week NASA fired that crazy astronaut Lisa Nowak. Apparently there was no place at NASA for an unstable woman. The good news? Today she was hired as co-host of “The View.” … Rudy Giuliani has defended Newt Gingrich, saying it’s okay Newt had an affair and that no one is perfect. That’s when you know the Republicans are in trouble—when a guy with three marriages and an affair is defending the guy with three marriages and two affairs, so they can team up and beat a Clinton. … In a speech in South Carolina, presidential candidate Joe Biden says he has a plan for Iraq, he can solve the problem and it’s time to make a change. And then the kid at the counter said, ‘Uh mister, do you want fries with this?

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.)