Quote-a-rama

There will be no peace in the Middle East until the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews."
--Golda Meir.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
--Sir Winston Churchill

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
--Robert E. Lee

And to add a little levity, here's a couple from the former Mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Berry:

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Ha!

"Schwarzenegger to Debate His Own Campaign Team"

Another funny one from ScrappleFace.

Rejected Slogans of Some Californian Candidates for Governor

Bill Simon: "Because Schwarzenegger is too long to spell"

Arianna Huffington: "Another candidate with a weird accent"

Peter Ueberroth: "Betcha thought a name couldn't begin with 'Ue', didn't ya? "

Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Would you vote against someone who could snap your neck?"

Cruz Bustamante: "Will tax you 0.000003% less than Davis"

Tom McClintock: "Can bench press 30 lbs more than Arnold"

Leo Gallagher: "...and Sledge-o-matic is good for smashing your opponents' heads..."

Gary Coleman: "The Governor that you could put in your pocket"

New Blog to Me

The Sophorist is a snazzy blog run by a snazzy fella with snazzy ideas. Just great analysis.

Plus he shamelessly stole my Silent Cal quotes, but I guess plagarism imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

For the Political Geek in Your Family...

You can buy an album of presidential campaign songs from the 1789 elections to the 1996 campaign. The title of one song does crack me up, "Get on a Raft With Taft." It better be one buoyant raft. (Even Amazon's editorial review points that out.)

Wisdom from President Calvin Coolidge

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government, or long remain as such.

Our Government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles, they cannot believe in our Government.

Susan Estrich pens an a potent column criticizing pundit turned California candidate for governor Arianna Huffington for her mothering skills:

Arianna Huffington has been recalled as a mother.
Her children have voted with their feet. They didn't want her to run for governor of California. She ran anyway. On the day she announced her candidacy at "A Place Called Home," in South Central Los Angeles, her children moved out of hers in Brentwood and into their father's. "Our oldest daughter has been devastated by it," her dad said.

And:

This is, after all, the woman who runs against oil interests and lives in a mansion financed by oil money, rails against pigs at the trough and pays no taxes, runs as an independent and supports a guru. She's even got a documentary crew following her for the campaign. I wonder if they filmed the children moving out.

Ouch.

Yeeehaaaa!

MSNBC is reporting that Chemical Ali, head thug of Saddam's chemical weapons program, has been captured by US forces in Iraq.

And you know what? I beat Drudge in posting this story. Ha.

Link-y Love

Be sure to drop in on my fellow Southern Conservatives posters' blogs:

Jeff Quinton: Backcountry Conservative

Joel Foreman: 1 Foreman Lawyer

David: Ya need a blog, buddy!

And eventhough I've linked it before,

Nathan Hallford: Politics and Law Blog

Shameless Plug

The good people at Southern Conservatives have been kind enough to let me become a poster there. Check out my initial post.

UPDATE: And check out my post on the Mississippi governor's race there, too.

Election 2003

If you're a Mississippi voter, please remember to vote for:

Working 9 to 5

In an effort keep its budget from going into deficit, the Swedish government has told its military to operate only during the office hours. Further, "They also will cut fighter plane patrols to a minimum, keep navy ships in port, mothball armored vehicles and stop using large caliber live ammunition during exercises."

Now here's the kicker:

"A parliamentary defense commission said in a recent report that the likelihood of Sweden facing a military threat in the foreseeable future was very small."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The fools! Don't they know they are next on the blood-thristy warmongering neocons' list of countries to invade? Their bloated welfare state is an affront to chickenhawk Straussians running the government, so it must be eliminated! And now they are ripe for conquest, especially between the hours of 5 PM and 9 AM.

Wow, I'm laying the sarcasm on rather rich, aren't I?

Election 2004




Like I'm going vote for Kucinich.

Tony has no sympathy for the Texas Democrats hiding out in New Mexico. Nor should he.

Quotes of the Day

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
--Booker T. Washington
[Ed: Sadly, eventhough he said this around a century ago, it's still applicable today.]

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
--Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic.
--Walter Williams

Allende Wasn't A Hero

Val e-diction posts a great (and lengthy) article combating the matyrization of Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende by simply describing the political and economic situation of Chile at the time. Definitely a keeper.

Tip o' the hat to Instapundit for the link.

Quote of the Day

"We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world."

-- Barry Goldwater, Speech to the Republican National Convention; June 16, 1964

A Couple of New Blogs

First, there's Southern Conservatives, a group blog of four southern conservatives (hence the name) that is churning out a bunch of a great content.

Also, there's Mookieriffic, run by high schooler Rachel who has a lot of spunk.

Now click on the links and enjoy these new blogging talents!

Back in the Saddle Again

I'm back, y'all. I've been in Mississippi at my grandparents for the last two months, and therefore, I didn't have a convenient Internet connection to blog all the live long day. But, as I said, I'm back in Clarksville with the trusty DSL connection. And as soon as I wade through and delete all the spam in both of my e-mail accounts, regular blogging will resume.

Thanks y'all for all your support with this li'l blog.