THE FOUNDATION

“[A] faction [is] a number of citizens… who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” —James Madison, Federalist No. 10

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“We never cease to be amazed by the inability of the left to feel shame and its lack of reverence for America and those who defend its freedoms, including the right to be stupid. The cover of the April 21 issue of Time, taking the famous Joe Rosenthal photo of Marines planting our flag on the blood-soaked island of Iwo Jima and replacing our flag with a tree, qualifies for obscenity of the year. It echoes the greenie theme first advanced by Al Gore in his book Earth In The Balance that the internal combustion engine is the greatest threat in the history of mankind. Gore and Bill Clinton have both said that global warming is ultimately a greater threat than terrorism… This trivializing of the sacrifice of American blood and treasure to defend freedom ignores the fact that in World War II we faced a real enemy with a terrible agenda. The bombs that fell on Pearl Harbor were quite real, not the output of some badly fed computer model. ‘Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United States,’ Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the American Veterans Center, [said]: ‘The Japanese Empire on February 1945, however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history’.” —Investor’s Business Daily

DEZINFORMATSIA

Going overboard: “One of the things we do in this story, is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change.” —Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel, explaining the newsmag’s highly offensive cover story mocking renowned Iwo Jima flag photo by replacing the banner with a tree ++ “Going green: What could be redder, whiter and bluer than that?” —Time Magazine under the story title, “Green is the New Red, White and Blue”

Agenda-driven news: “Green is Universal. Earth Week. NBC News is committed to making our world a better place to live, changing our future, shaping our planet, one story at a time. On air, on cable, online, everywhere, this week, NBC News.” —NBC ad touting “Green” as supreme over the “Red, White and Blue”

Hit from the Left: “Obama said today that what you saw during the debate was the rollout for the Republican campaign against him in the fall. So it must have been painful for him to have it come out during a debate with a fellow Democrat.” —CBS’s Dean Reynolds

Unbelievable: “The Washington Post has a poll out now that shows that [Hillary] is now considered honest and trustworthy by only 39 percent of the people they polled. A year ago she was polling around 52 percent.” —CBS’s Bob Schieffer What’s amazing is that the number is that high!

Repent for the end is near: “Joblessness is growing. Millions of homes are sliding into foreclosure. The financial system continues to choke on the toxic leftovers of the mortgage crisis. The downward spiral of the economy is challenging a notion that has underpinned American economic policy for a quarter-century—the idea that prosperity springs from markets left free of government interference. The modern-day godfather of that credo was Milton Friedman…” —New York Times economics reporter Peter Goodman

Newspulper Headlines: A Clear Difference: “Bush Embraces Pope Benedict XVI” —ABCNews.com ++ “Carter Embraces Hamas Official” —Associated Press

News of the Tautological: “Preserve History for the Future” —Paris (TX) News

Stay Away From Urine Shows: “Heart Disease Linked to Bad Diet, Urine Shows” —Daily Telegraph

News You Can Use: “Make That Obama, Not Osama, Please” —Associated Press ++ “The Solution to Pollution Is Not Eating Spiders” —Associated Press

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Report: Tom Cruise Concerned About Posh Spice’s Influence on Katie Holmes” —FoxNews.com ++ “Daschle Not Interested in Vice President Position” —KELO-TV Web site (Sioux Falls, SD) ++ “Michael Moore Endorses Obama, Chides Clinton” —Associated Press ++ “Israel Says Streisand Won’t Attend 60th Anniversary Bash” —Associated Press (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

It ain’t easy being green: “I have to say the situation has not improved since I made the movie [’An Inconvenient Truth’] in 2006. Sure, awareness has grown and more people are concerned since scientists said we had just ten years to take action to halt rising sea levels. But the situation has got worse. The entire North Polar ice cap is melting and could be gone in some areas in as little as five years.” —the Populist Potentate of Eco-theology Al Gore ++ “If you give… [people] a list of 25 or 30 issues and ask them to rank them in order of seriousness, climate change comes at the bottom or near the bottom… I remember one poll where it came under dog litter.” —Al Gore

Demo trouble: “We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time. We’ve got to know who our nominee is.” —Howard Dean

Endorsements: “I can’t stand one more friggin’ minute of this administration and the permanent, irreversible damage it has done to our people and to this world. I’m almost at the point where I don’t care if the Democrats don’t have a backbone or a kneebone or a thought in their dizzy little heads. Just as long as their name ain’t ‘Bush’ and the word ‘Republican’ is not beside theirs on the ballot, then that’s good enough for me.” —documentarian Michael Moore endorsing Obama

From the Carter Malaise File: “The problem is not that I met with Hamas in Syria, the problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet these people… So I told [Hamas] don’t wait for reciprocation, just do it unilaterally. This will bring a lot of credit to you around the world for doing a humane thing. They turned me down.” —Jimmy Carter We’re SHOCKED.

Non Compos Mentis: “[J]ust when we were close to a national news media providing a general consensus on what the truth is, along comes the Internets [sic] that allows its users a choice on the kind of news it watches and the YouTube. My God, we’ve got to stop them.” —actor Tim Robbins

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Eco-theology: “Almost four decades ago, a group of visionary Americans energized the environmental movement, and indeed our nation, by dedicating a day to this ideal: we must preserve God’s creation, our planet, for the generations to come… The Bible tells us in the Old Testament ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship.’ To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us. On this Earth Day, and every day, let us honor the earth and our future generations with a commitment to fight climate change.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Bragging right: “I don’t see how a Democrat wins the White House without winning Pennsylvania.” —Hillary Clinton, victorious in PA Tuesday

And humble too: “I’m a pretty darn good politician. And I can give a pretty good speech and I can connect and inspire the American people in ways that I think will become apparent. I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t pretty good at mixing it up.” —Barack Obama

What about the Constitution?: “We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old—and that’s the criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges.” —Barack Obama ++ Obama’s kind of Justice: “’I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty’ is unconstitutional.” —Justice John Paul Stevens

From “Our First Black President”: “I think that [the Obama campaign] played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along… I don’t think I should take any s**t from anybody on that, do you?” —Bill Clinton

INSIGHT

“When a man ceases to believe in God, he doesn’t believe in nothing. He believes in anything.” —G. K. Chesterton

“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.” —William F. Buckley Jr.

“We have to get back to the values and perceptions of those wise old dead white guys who invented this country.” —Charlton Heston

“The Constitution is a written instrument. As such its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now.” —United States Supreme Court, South Carolina vs. United States, 1905

“Outside the teachings of religion there is no answer to the problems of life.” —Calvin Coolidge

UPRIGHT

“[Hillary’s win in Pennsylvania] is great news. For Sen. John McCain. She’s never getting out. Hillary will not leave the race tonight. She will not leave the race before the convention in August. She may not leave the race ever.” —Rich Galen

“One of the key questions for a president is where do you draw your team from? Who are your friends? What and who influenced you?… When will the MSM get around to a sustained examination of Obama’s ideological history? Thus far the farthest left major party candidate in American political history has received the least scrutiny of any modern near nominee of a major party.” —Hugh Hewitt

“Ultimately, people have to wonder what it is about Obama that attracts the support of Hamas, Communists, and domestic terrorists to him.” —Matt Lewis

“The big irony here is that while Obama has done extremely well for himself in our very unique free-market economy, he has the ‘audacity’ to demonize others who have done well for themselves, and to propose economic policies that, if implemented, would radically change our nation into something more akin to a Western European socialist state.” —Austin Hill

“I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: it benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry. If you lack either of those twin props, you wind up with today’s Europe—a present-tense Eutopia mired in fatalism.” —Mark Steyn

“My guess is if tax time meant that everybody had to reach into his or her own bank accounts for the full tax amount owed, there would be a new mindset about taxes. Why don’t we try it?” —Matt Towery

SHORT CUTS

“The liberal world order will not let go of their global-warming assault on free economies until hell freezes over—by which point, obviously, the global-warming theory will be visibly disproven.” —Tony Blankley

“Speaking of Vice President Gore, I’m sorry to relate that he’s a little bit sore at me. He’s convinced that on global warming, I just don’t get it. But lately with every passing day the evidence has been catching my attention. I have no doubt, none at all, that we are in the midst of a global warming, or, as I prefer to call it, spring. And I don’t want to sound like an alarmist, but it’s going to get a lot warmer before it gets cooler.” —Dick Cheney

“Why would any Republican want to leave the party to vote for a Democrat, when we have our own Democrat running?” —Rush Limbaugh

“The Carter administration was that bad: stagflation, gas lines, appeasement, never-ending sanctimony… You name a colossal mistake and Jimmy Carter probably made it a policy.” —Paul Greenberg

“Hillary Clinton was endorsed by the Plasterers Union Tuesday. Support law and order, you get the Police Union, support tariffs, you get the autoworkers. Drink a shot and a beer on camera, and you are the national spokesman for getting plastered.” —Argus Hamilton

David Letterman: Some winning entries in the “Top Ten Contest,” the “Top Ten Signs Katie Couric Doesn’t Care Anymore”: She now does the broadcast in her bathrobe and curlers (Hollywood, CA); She introduces the new members of her news team: Jim Beam and Jack Daniels (Azle, TX); Reports the over/under on how many days she has left (Roanoke, VA); Has listed her anchor chair on eBay (Wyanet, IL); Laughs out loud every time she says “Putin” (Sebring, FL); “Tonight’s top story: Some stuff I found in my pocket” (Austin, TX); Tapes entire week’s newscasts on Monday (Sachse, TX); Just repeats everything Brian Williams says about three seconds later (King, NC).

Jay Leno: In Pennsylvania, Hillary and Obama celebrated Earth Day by throwing dirt at each other. … According to some of the political blogs, Democratic operatives have been looking for dirt on John McCain since February. You know what you call someone who digs up dirt on John McCain? An archaeologist. … I watched the debate between Hillary and Barack. It was interesting. She was kinda lashing out at him, but to be fair, I think it was just the liquor talking. … As you know, Hillary Clinton is trying to appeal to the blue-collar voters. She’s drinking, talking about hunting and fishing, and it’s working. She is now, in the latest poll, up eight points in the mullet vote. … On “Hardball” the other day, a student asked John McCain to do shots with him after the debate, and all of the candidates have their favorite drinks now. For example, John McCain, he prefers Old Granddad. He likes that. Barack Obama, he likes the elitist Manhattan with extra bitters. And, of course, Hillary likes a shot of Old Crow, straight up. … With oil prices hitting an all-time high, Barack Obama promised today if he is elected, he will fund research to develop a car that runs on the bitterness of economically-strapped Pennsylvania voters. … This week, President Bush named a new HUD chief. Bush says he wants to reverse the direction of HUD. Now if you reverse HUD, doesn’t that give you “DUH?”

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.)