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Morte Terrorist Du Jour

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 12, 2006 ⋅ One comment

So they got Zarqawi. Back when he was a media superstar, it was all newspapers could do to keep from grinning maliciously at the fact that the number 2 terrorist in the entire world had thus far eluded capture or annihilation at the hands of our elite military. It’s amazing how quickly the media’s tone [...]

The Flaccid Species

By jelewis8 ⋅ February 13, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

We live in a universe of wimps, pansies, and lily-livered narcissists. Just turn on the evening news. The latest proof that there are very few real men and women of courage and self-sufficiency comes in the form of some cartoons published by a Danish newspaper depicting Mohammed in various ways. My current masthead features one [...]

Al-Zarqawi In Trouble

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 21, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

“As we pledge to maintain homage to your throne and to our precious Jordan…we denounce in the clearest terms all the terrorist actions claimed by the so-called Ahmed Fadheel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, who calls himself Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” the family members said. “We announce, and all the people are our witnesses, that we — the sons [...]

Bollocks To Cajones

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 18, 2005 ⋅ 6 comments

I’m pretty astonished at the turncoating Democrats who are now insisting on immediate troop withdrawal. It’s as if collective amnesia and stubborn idiocy are now mixing into a vile cocktail of petty partisanship and disastrous antipathy for the soldiers in Iraq. The Administration’s response hasn’t been nearly forceful enough, but it is encouraging to see [...]

Little White Sambo

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 4, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

It’s quite alright for leftist bloggers to reference ugly racial imagery when it suits their party cause. I mean, clearly, it’s perfectly within their rights, because they also bear the same skin tone as the person they are racially lampooning. It’s the height of ludicrousness to think otherwise. So I’m assuming this picture of Arnold [...]

HR Puff ‘n’ Stuff

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 19, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Obviously, I am not a great fool…you would have counted on it! So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. From the Huffington Post, a link to a New York Times article with the waspishly hopeful headline Senior Officer in Iraq: American Enterprise in Iraq ‘Could Still Fail’. Would I be [...]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 28, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Can the New York Times be trusted? Oh, if only it were a simple query with a simple response. As murky as the waters of the question posed above are, there is no doubt of the clarity of deceit posed by the NY Times’ editorial decisions, giving voice to, as Instapundit calls it, “out-and-out dishonesty” [...]

Revisiting Old Vile Claims Once More

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 18, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve stopped reading Instapundit on a daily basis, instead hitting his site about once a week to get the latest on whatever blogging fad he’s linking at the moment. So I missed a post from last Thursday in which he addresses the leftist fallacy that freeing Iraq and making way for democracy in that country [...]

End of the Illusion?

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 22, 2005 ⋅ One comment

The Bakery links to BullMooseBlog, which asserts the American Right now apes all that it hates about liberalism–that is, the excessive power-hungry, process-sidestepping use of federal powers to institute a policy of righteousness. BMB says that with Congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo case and with Bush prepared to wake in the middle of the [...]

Bush Negativity Revealed, Bloggers Rejoice

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 15, 2005 ⋅ 7 comments

Bush got decidedly more negative news coverage during the last election than did Kerry, according to a new study by a press watchdog affiliated with Columbia University. What does that mean for Bush supporters? Hopefully not a lot of gloating and “I told you so’s” to people who didn’t believe them when they accused the [...]

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