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Smokey Vs. Islamofascism

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 22, 2004 ⋅ One comment

I’m rather ambivalent about Smokey the Bear. Always have been. When I was maybe 13 or 14, I went camping with my family, and for some reason, found myself at an outdoor amphitheatre where a film about littering was playing. It starred a lesser woodland creature preempted by the USDA Forest Service, Woodsy the Owl [...]

Why Americans Hate America

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 8, 2004 ⋅ 3 comments

Dennis Prager wonders why America and Israel are the only countries in the world who have such virulently anti-American and anti-Israeli playah haters who are themselves also American and/or Jewish. He offers four possible reasons, though the first is a weak example that uses circular reasoning (“the left hate America and Israel because they’re on [...]

Steyn on 9/11 Comm

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 29, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Mark Steyn on the 9/11 Commission: The big news out of the report was, as the Washington Post headline had it, “Al-Qaida-Hussein Link Is Dismissed.” As it happens, the report didn’t “dismiss” anything, but you can’t blame the media for rushing out special commemorative editions and sending out 11-year old newsboys to shout, “Uxtry! Uxtry! [...]

Sleepwalking Toward Destruction

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 25, 2004 ⋅ 5 comments

Gerard Van der Leun has a lengthy post about America’s somnambulance toward the edge of a cliff of destruction. Soon it will be too late to stop before the edge is reached, and there will be neither time nor space to turn away. The one small chance remaining will lie in getting all to move [...]

Dear Mr. Prez

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 11, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Deb has a long letter to President Bush. She brings up some very important points that Bush would do well to consider.

Thoughts On Reagan

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 8, 2004 ⋅ One comment

I believe Reagan was a great President because he knew the pulse of this country the way no other President besides perhaps FDR knew it. He understood what people needed and wanted in a leader, and he understood the principles that made/make the United States a great nation. He strove to instill in Americans a [...]

Strength

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 24, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Bill Whittle has the last essay in his series Silent America up on his site. It’s called Strength, and in it he explains how America has demonstrated true strength, both here and abroad. He cuts down the assertion that Iraq is a disaster, a catastrophe. He demonstrates the foolishness of typical liberal thoughts when engaging [...]

Watching the Media in Wartime

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 18, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

If you haven’t read the Belmont Club’s analysis of the news media as a new weapon of warfare, do so immediately. This really puts to rest some of the doubts I’ve been having about Iraq; interestingly, this is not an attack on any media institutions, rather, it explains how media affect the state of warfare, [...]

How John Kerry Can Win

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 11, 2004 ⋅ 3 comments

Democrats are beginning to sound like a bunch of eBayers, who, upon winning an auction, realize they didn’t really like the product at all, just the thrill of winning. “It’s six months until the election, and Democrats are already having buyer’s remorse,” says John Fund of OpinionJournal.com. What do you do with a product you [...]

Democratic Party Muck

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 14, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

Gerard Van der Leun thinks the Democratic Party is consuming itself from the inside out. He points out that the characteristics of the Democrats are not progressive politics, but racial slurs of public figures, veiled and unveiled threats against national leaders, vile joy at the deaths of American soldiers, and rabid Bush hating that seems [...]

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