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THE FOUNDATION

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” –George Washington

INSIGHT

“Money with [Congress] is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.” –Davy Crockett

“The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.” –Charles Grassley

“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.” –Malcolm Forbes

“The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.” –Duguet

“Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.” –H.L. Mencken

“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” –Edmund Burke

UPRIGHT

“Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated – separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.” –Thomas Sowell

“If another reason is needed to oppose illegal immigration…how about spread of a deadly communicable disease? According to an essay in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, a form of tuberculosis that has shown itself resistant to several drugs has invaded California and is present primarily in the state’s ‘foreign-born’ population, a politically correct euphemism for illegal aliens.” –Cal Thomas

“If Terri Schiavo had been dehydrated to death at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Dick Durbin would be reading her autopsy report from the Senate floor. … Instead, Democrats – even as they spent part of the week crassly celebrating, with news of Schiavo’s autopsy report in hand, the human rights abuse of euthanasia against the disabled – are in a moral lather over the paucity of air conditioning terrorists receive at Guantanamo Bay.” –George Neumayr

“The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today’s Senate was even in office the last time America saw a lynching. Some were not even born. But that’s the way we prefer our apologies in American politics. We don’t apologize for our own sins.” –Mona Charen

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“What’s infuriating is that whenever a Democrat luminary goes before the cameras to initiate damage control he ends up sounding hopelessly immature. [Democrat Chairman Howard] Dean blamed the controversy over his uncouth remarks on the Republicans, because its ‘exactly what [they] want.’ Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, responding to Mr. Durbin’s unfortunate analogy, said, ‘The noise machine from the far right never stops. … This is all a distraction by the White House.’ For his part, Mr. Durbin has also blamed the ‘right-wing media.’ So, the Republicans and the White House are supposedly to blame for what Democrats say. No doubt it’s all part of some insidious Karl Rove plot. As for the ‘right-wing media,’ Democrats apparently think it’s incredibly unfair that reporters actually report what a politician has said. Here’s some free advice to Democrats: Stop saying stupid things.” –The Washington Times

DEZINFORMATSIA

This week’s “Dan Rather Journalism” Award: “My question is, is President Bush ready to replace Kofi Annan with my friend President Bill Clinton as the United Nations secretary general?” –White House reporter to Scott McClellan

“If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away winners.” –Dan Rather to President Clinton, 27 May 1993

Through the Vietnam Prism: “It’s worse than Vietnam because Vietnam was a tiny country with no strategic importance and we could declare victory and leave. Iraq is at the nexus of terrorism and oil and it’s a war that we don’t know how to win and can’t afford to lose. …[O]n Capitol Hill…people are talking privately now about trying to put more pressure on the administration to come up with some sort of rationale as to how they’re going to conduct the war and when and if we’re going to get out – the White House’s response is the President is going to give speeches on it. I mean, what is he going to say? …[W]hat people see on their television screens and hear from the commanders on the ground is at enormous variance with the happy talk out of the White House.” –Eleanor Clift on Iraq

Through the Watergate Prism: “[O]n the President and his popularity numbers, you have to go all the way back to Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal broke to find a President who did this poorly at this point in his second term. Now, no one suggests that Mr. Bush’s presidency is going to go anywhere in that direction, still the President is hoping that by sharpening his focus he can regain public support for his policy on the economy and Iraq.” –See BS’s Joie Chen

More Pollaganda: “According to the latest Gallup Poll, 56 percent of Americans say now the war was not worth it, almost 60 percent say the Pentagon should pull some or all of the troops out of Iraq. In addition to that, the latest New York Times poll out today, President Bush has one of his lowest approval ratings of his presidency with 42 percent. So, how does the Bush Administration deal with all these numbers?” –NBC’s Katie Couric

Newspulper Headlines….

“NASA Sees Earliest Manned Moon Landing in 2015” –Reuters

“Giant Balls of ‘Snot’ Explain Ocean Mystery” –LiveScience.com

“Jihad May Be Fueling Attacks” –USA Today

“Chronic Insomnia Baffles Sleeping Experts” –Associated Press

“Undetectable Waves Detected” –LiveScience.com

“Biden to Seek Presidential Nomination: Senator Says He Plans to Run in 2008 Unless He Has Little Chance of Winning” –The Washington Post

“Bin Laden Not Believed in Afghanistan” –Associated Press

“College Towns Lead in Marijuana Use” –CNN.com

“No climate change in energy bill” –Reuters

“Consumer Group Wants Warning Labels on Potato Chips” –Reuters

THE DEMO-GOGUES

This week’s “Jane Fonda Apology” Awards: “I have learned from my statement that historical parallels can be misused and misunderstood. I sincerely regret if what I said caused anyone to misunderstand my true feelings: our soldiers around the world and their families at home deserve our respect, admiration and total support.” –Sen. Dick Durbin **Not to worry. The troops and the American people understand perfectly your true feelings.

“My only explanation for the entire episode is that I was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision – a jejune and immature outlook – seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions.” –Sen. Robert KKK Byrd

The BIG Lie: “We are not on some fishing expedition here at all to derail the Bolton nomination.” –DemocRAT Senator Christopher Dodd

From the “Periplaneta Americana” Files: “America was once very rightly viewed as a leader in human rights and the rule of law, but Guantanamo has drained our leadership, our credibility, and the world’s good will for America at alarming rates.” –Senator Patrick Leahy

“Well, it either needs to be closed down or cleaned up. It’s time that there are no more stories coming out of there about people being abused.” –Bill Clinton weighing in on Gitmo

“D” is for “Diverse” Portfolio: “[Teresa’s financial portfolio is so large] I couldn’t even tell you what energy stocks I have.” –John Kerry, man of the people

Obstruction is fun: “Once we get [the information we seek], we can have an up-and-down vote immediately. We’re not going to let the administration tell us we’re not entitled to exercise our oversight responsibility. If we give up on this, we might as well forget about oversight.” –The “principled” Senator Joe Biden on “needing” more (classified) documents before voting on John Bolton

This week’s “Politically Correct” Award: “The U.S. Senate last night approved a resolution apologizing for its failure to enact federal anti-lynching legislation decades ago.” –The Washington Post

VILLAGE IDIOTS

It’s the end of the world!: “A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR and PBS, starting with ‘Sesame Street.’ This would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting. NPR and PBS are under attack, but Americans trust them over the commercial networks. Sign the petition to save NPR, PBS and our local public stations from losing their funding.” –MoveOn.org lamenting that Congress may actually be displaying a bit of fiscal discipline

From the “Non Compos Mentis” Files: “We’ve got to establish the message of the Democrat Party: that we’re not against America, that we’re not immoral people.” –Sandra Brown, a committed Democrat from Galveston County **“‘Democrats: We’re not against America! We’re not immoral!’ Does this sound like a winning message?” –James Taranto

This week’s “Village Success Story”: “By fighting for reproductive freedom, and making it possible, I have made a contribution to a safer and more caring society where people have a greater opportunity to realize their full potential. … Well-loved children grow into adults who do not build concentration camps, do not rape and do not murder.” –Canadian Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian aborter who “went through four jury trials and spent 10 months in jail for providing abortions” before the Canadian Supreme Court struck down abortion laws in 1988.

What goes around, comes around: “The drumbeat of religious fascism has never been as troubling as it is now in this country.” –Martin Kaplan, associate dean of The Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, inveighing against freely organized boycotts of pro-homosexuality advertising programs **If boycotts of pro-homosexuality ads are “religious fascism,” then aren’t boycotts of religious and conservative endeavors “homosexual fascism”?

SHORT CUTS

“A California jury acquitted O.J. Simpson of murder, so why should it hold Michael Jackson accountable for molesting children? Maybe Michael can now help O.J. search for the ‘real killer’.” –Cal Thomas

“Sen. Mel Martinez…has become the first Republican to call for shutting down Guantanamo. Martinez hasn’t said where the 500 or so suspected al-Qa'ida operatives currently at Gitmo should be transferred to, but I understand the Neverland Ranch might soon be available.” –Ann Coulter

“I am not questioning Sen. Dick Durbin’s patriotism, at least not for the first couple of paragraphs. Instead, I’ll begin by questioning his sanity. … Spot the odd one out: (1) mass starvation, (2) gas chambers, (3) mountains of skulls, (4) lousy infidel pop music at full volume. One of these is not the same as the others, and Mr. Durbin doesn’t have the excuse of being some airhead celeb or an Ivy League professor. He’s the Senate Judiciary Committee’s second-ranking Democrat. Don’t they have an insanity clause?” –Mark Steyn

“Bill Clinton said Sunday it’s time to shut down Guantanamo prison or clean it up. He said it’s an embarrassment to the United States. His voice carries a lot of weight, because who knows more about embarrassing the United States than Bill Clinton.” –Argus Hamilton

“A couple of elections ago Sen. Joe Biden…considered running for president. Then it was revealed that he had plagiarized a speech and so he never ran. But now he says he’s going to run in 2008. Apparently all these years he’s just been Biden his time. However, a lot of people, including the lady senator from York, think the idea is nothing short of Hillaryous.” –Lyn Nofziger

NIGHTLINES

David Letterman…. “Top Things Overheard During The Michael Jackson Verdict”: “We the jury find the defendant not guilty – oh, did I say the wrong one?”; “Of course he’s nervous – look how pale he is”; “Will Mr. Blake and Mr. Simpson please keep the laughter down?”; “No, I think he’ll do fine in prison”; “I’m a celebrity in an L.A. courtroom – I like my chances”; “Do you think this’ll be on the news tonight?”; “We the jury find the defendant – creepy”; “Wait, have Tito, Latoya and Jermaine always been on the jury?”; “Another case of a white guy getting preferential treatment.”

Jay Leno…. Well the big story, the Los Angeles Police Department announced they will no longer arrest famous people who break the law. What’s the point? …. I bet Russell Crowe wishes he threw that phone at somebody in Los Angeles, huh? …. The three big areas for job openings in California over the next decade are computer technicians, medical researchers and district attorneys. That’s what they need. …. Here’s an interesting statistic – according to “Cosmo”, over 30% of men between the ages of 18 and 34 still live with their parents. These men are known as “Star Wars” fans. …. Major heat wave in India – 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India. …. A top Taliban member said today that Osama bin Laden is alive and well, which is great because that means we can still kill him. …. McDonald’s has announced they’re going to start selling their own skateboards and bikes. Apparently they feel our kids have gotten so fat and lazy now, the only way to get them to a McDonald’s is to roll them in.