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About AmendmentX

Christian, patriot, old enough to know better, young and daring enough to do it anyhow.

Amy on Iraq

Eric Black of the Star Tribune did an amazing interview with all three candidates for US Senator a couple of weeks ago, with follow-up questions and answers this week. (Hat tip KvM) AAA focused on a couple of specific Iraq … Continue reading

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That's a real stretch Howard

The conservative bloggers best friend spoke again. DNC Chairman Howard Dean spoke Friday in an Oakland (CA) union hall and accused President Bush of using Latinos as scapegoats in the immigration debate. “This is a nonsensical proposal put out by … Continue reading

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This man wants to be Senator (part 5)

Well we finally heard from Al Franken again. It has been a long time since we had an appearance by the man who would be Senator. This one comes to us courtesy of Scott at Powerline. Senator (want-t0-be) Al was … Continue reading

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And we WILL get that dog to throw the javelin

And do we all remember from 1997 the pictures of downtown East Grand Forks on fire while the entire town was flooded? And the cry that the Feds (meaning you and me) needed to pay all those people to build … Continue reading

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Connecting dots

The protests and complaints of people who whine about being here in America but say they want to be here in America has finally, I hope lanced the boil. Victor Davis Hanson has written another great piece on the subject … Continue reading

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A free press versus freedom of speech (part 1 of ?)

Remember when I said here that the attempt to marginalize the blogosphere (in wake of blogs being given the “media expemption” to McCain/Feingold) had begun? Well the LA Times came out swinging this morning. “BLOGS HAVE BEEN A POTENT force … Continue reading

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Shut down the 527s

This is good news for the people.“A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that the Federal Election Commission acted arbitrarily in 2004 when it decided not to regulate so-called 527 political organizations, but he declined to force the commission to … Continue reading

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All politics are local

It is an old adage, but true none-the-less. Everything our politicians do trickles down to effect our daily lives. However, I still had to think twice about this article when I first read it for it to really sink in. … Continue reading

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Another liberal meme busted wide open

This week has been full of them. From the Saddam WMD/al Qaeda connections, to the NSA “wiretapping” (see the posts at Powerline for details) liberal memes have been falling rapidly by the wayside. Today’s meme is an oldie, but a … Continue reading

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Pre-emption

I ran across this over the weekend. I found it to be an interesting take on the “worth” of pre-emptive strikes. “Consider the prophet Mohammed himself. According to Muslim history, God’s own messenger engaged in pre-emptive action against those whom … Continue reading

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