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Phoenix Abandons Sanctuary City Laws 2007-12-10 20:58:51 - Scott Miller
More proof that the illegal immigration issue will be a huge issue in next year’s general election… Phoenix
, AZ is walking away from their 15 year old sanctuary city policy. This from the Washington Times:
Phoenix to alter ’sanctuary’ status
A panel of former federal, state and local law-enforcement officials has been named by Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon to devise a way to enable Phoenix police officers to question and detain illegal aliens and notify federal immigration officials that they did so.
The panel’s creation comes in the wake of an announcement last week by Mr. Gordon that he has changed his mind concerning the city’s status as a “sanctuary city,” a policy that prevents officers from enforcing immigration laws.
“The problem with illegal immigration is, on many levels, the most urgent domestic issue facing our nation,” Mr. Gordon said. “It has divided our city and our nation. Phoenix has become gr Read more:Sanctuary
America to Gore: Shut the Hell Up 2007-12-10 20:19:10 - Scott Miller
The Harvard drop out (aka Chicken Little, aka Al Gore) was overseas accepting his sham nobel peace prize, and once again, scolding America
ns for causing global warming. This from ABC News:
Gore Gets Nobel, Scolds U.S. and China
Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and urged the United States and China to make the boldest moves on climate change or “stand accountable before history for their failure to act.”
“We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here,” Gore said in his acceptance speech.
This clown is so far out there on this issue, he reminds me of those nut-jobs that stand on the street corner with sandwich boards with bible verses and ”the end of the world is near”.
Al, the only planetary emergency we have here is that we can’t seem to find any place on this earth where we don&
Bill Clinton… the Gift that Keeps on Giving 2007-12-10 19:30:49 - Scott Miller
It used to be that Bill Clinton
was the most politically savvy guy in America. Now, seemingly inexplicably, he’s revealed himself to be a political moron as of late.
Once again he’s made headlines for himself (not Hillary Claus) by saying something that provokes an almost instinctively reflexive “Yeah, right” response from most Americans. This from the AP:
Clinton says Hillary was always the one
AMES, Iowa - Campaigning for his wife, former President Clinton says that when they were starting out he was so struck by her intellect and ability he once suggested she should just dump him and jump into her own political career.
That didn’t happen, of course, and on Monday he gave an Iowa crowd his version of why it didn’t.
“I thought it would be wrong for me to rob her of the chance to be what I thought she should be,” said Clinton. “She laughed and said, ‘First I love you and, second, I’m not going to run fo Read more:Giving
, Bill Clinton
Huckabee’s a Bush Republican, not a Reagan Republican 2007-12-09 16:36:46 - Scott Miller
(”I only raised taxes this much as Governor”)
There is no denying the so-called “Huckaboom” going on out there. Huckabee
has leapt to a commanding lead in Iowa, is number two in the latest national polls, and is rising in the polls in New Hamphire and South Carolina. He’s on quite a streak.
It is clear why he is doing so well… the guy’s got a great personality. He’s warm, quick, witty, folksy, and comes across as a regular guy. On the surface, there’s a lot to like about Mike.
Do some digging into his record as Governor of Arkansas, and that’s where conservatives should become a bit wary.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ll take Mike any day of the week over a Obama or Hillary Claus… but we are in the primary season, and this is where conservative need to push for the candidate with the most consistent conservative record. Huckabee fails on that key test.
You see, Huckabee is not a conservative Republic Read more:Republican
, Reagan
Brazil Refuses to Extradite Wife of Slain War Veteran 2007-12-08 19:58:52 - Scott Miller
I am bringing you this story at the request of digitalmedia.com. They wrote a piece about the tragic story of Karl Hoerig, a war veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, who police believe was shot in the back of the head by his wife. She then fled to Brazil
, and the Brazillian government has been less than cooperative in extraditing her to stand trail. This from Digital Journal:
Major Karl Hoerig’s memory lives on at Youngstown, Ohio Air Force Reserve Base as a friend and a fellow airman who served his country. He was a pilot both in the military and on civilian side and flew over 200 combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq with the 910th Airlift Wing’s Hercules C-130’s. He served for 25 years in the military.
Karl met his wife, Chris, online and they were married in Las Vegas in 2005. It is reported that their marriage was rocky. Karl had even confided in colleagues at Southwest Airlines that he was unhappy in his marriage and afraid his wife may try s Read more:Refuses
, Veteran
Frustrating the Surrendercrats 2007-12-07 12:41:35 - Scott Miller
It warms the cockles of my heart to read stories like this one from the AP:
Tax, spending issues frustrate Democrats
WASHINGTON - Cracks are emerging in congressional Democrats’ solidarity, as frustrated lawmakers concede their majority status is not enough to overcome Republican resistance on taxes, spending, Iraq and a host of other issues.
Let me rewrite the headline just a bit. If the lib reporter were really honest, the headline would read:
“Democrats Frustrated by Inability to Pass Tax and Spending Increases”
God Love Dick Cheney 2007-12-06 21:46:43 - Scott Miller
It’s a damn shame Cheney
’s ticker is iffy… he would have made an awesome President. This from Fox News:
Cheney: Democrats Can’t Stand Up To House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
WASHIGNTON — Vice President Dick Cheney
is suggesting that House Democrats who rubber stamp Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s wrongheaded agenda are lacking a spine.
Cheney expressed incredulity with the majority leadership during an interview published in The Politico newspaper on Wednesday. The White House later released a full transcript of the interview.
Senior Democrats “march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to the extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker. I’m trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened,” he said.
Nevertheless, Cheney said the Democrats in Congress — who took over the majority after the 2006 midterm elections — have “produced absolutely no
Big Government Bush 2007-12-05 20:51:27 - Scott Miller
President George Bush is not a conservative. Let’s establish that right up front. He is a Republican, but he is in no way a conservative.
A conservative would not have piled a massive new prescription drug entitlement program on top of an already fatally crippled Social Security and Medicare system. A conservative would not have ever argued for amnesty for 20+ million illegal aliens. A conservative would have never tried to sell our nation’s ports to the Islamic nation of United Arab Emirates. A conservative would have never tried to nominate Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. I could go on, but you get the point.
AND… a conservative would never stick government’s enormous nose into the free markets to bail out gamblers who are loosing on their bets!
Yes, I’m talking about the reported agreement brokered by the Bush administration to artificially “freeze” select sub-prime mortgages in yet another nanny state move. This from t Read more:Government
, Big Government
Healthcare: Too Many Want Something For Nothing 2007-12-03 20:38:53 - Scott Miller
Americans should take heed of the old adage “if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is” when they start to get sucked into the something for nothing mentality that the Democrat presidential candidates are promising with “universal healthcare”.
I’m so freakin’ sick and tired of hearing Americans whine about the fact that they have to actually pay for their healthcare coverage…. God forbid! Here’s another misleading liberal story from Reuters (a member of our socialist media):
Over 40 million in U.S. can’t afford health care: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40 million people in the United States say they cannot afford adequate heath care and go without drugs, eyeglasses or dental treatment, according to a federal report released on Monday.
The latest look at the state of U.S. health care also shows that while death rates from cancer and heart disease have dropped in recent years, just as many Americans ar Read more:Healthcare
, Nothing
Rudy OKs Anchor Baby Laws for Illegal Aliens 2007-12-02 10:18:50 - Scott Miller
Another story that should give conservatives pause about nominating Rudy. This from the AP:
Giuliani: Kids of illegal immigrants OK
BLUFFTON, S.C. - Republican White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday he wouldn’t try to change laws that make citizens of children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants, noting that it’s a matter determined by the Constitution.
“That’s a very delicate balance that’s been arrived at, and I wouldn’t change that,” Giuliani said in response to a question while campaigning at Sun City Hilton Head, a sprawling retirement community down the South Carolina coast from Charleston.
Children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants already are American citizens, and Giuliani said he would not try to change that.
If we are going to effectively address our illegal immigration problem, then we will need to stop the insane anchor baby policy that we have in the United States. An illegal alien can sneak into Read more:Aliens
, Illegal Aliens
Condoleezza Rice and the Schmuckabee Smack-down 2007-12-21 20:33:53 - Scott MillerÂ
It’s about time someone in this administration grew a set, and responded to the asinine liberal-like comments by Mike Schmuckabee about the Bush adminstration’s foreign policy. This from the AP:
Rice: Huckabee’s Criticism Is “Ludicrous”
In a brief foray into politics, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice on Friday denounced comments by a leading Republican presidential candidate that the Bush administration’s foreign policy is arrogant and unilateral.
“The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous,” she said at a State Department news conference. “One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy.”
I don’t want to hear from all you Schmuckabee supporters out there… I’m done giving this clown the benefit of the doubt. The more he opens his mouth the more he sounds just like a lib Surrendercr Read more:Smack
, Condoleezza Rice
The Faux International Global Warning Concern 2007-12-19 21:54:52 - Scott Miller
Americans are continually barraged with attacks on our so-called contribution to global warming, and the perception that we are the biggest polluter of the world community. While we can count on the blame-America-firsters in the Democrat party and our socialist media to take cheap shots at America, we are also told that we are hated overseas because we have not signed onto the so-called Kyoto global warming agreement.
Well, thanks to some great reporting at The American Thinker, it seems that the vast majority of the countries that have signed Kyoto treaties have an “do as I say, not as I do” attitude. This from The American Thinker:
Kyoto Schmyoto
One would think that countries that committed to the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that the United States, the only country that does not even intend to ratify, keeps on emitting carbon dioxide at growth levels much higher than those who signed.And one Read more:International
, Global
, Concern
Pelosi's Pork Ladden Congress: A Culture of Deception 2007-12-18 22:44:14 - Scott Miller
When the liberal Democrats won control of the House and Senate in 2006, Bug-eyes (aka Nancy Pelosi
) promised the most ethical Congress
ever. She stood before the American people and proclaimed that the days of earmarks (pork projects) were over. That the corrupt days of Republican rule were over, and she would run the House with full transparency so Americans would have faith again in their Congress.
One year later, and liberal Democrats are about as far from those predictions as they can possibly get. Under Bug-eyes leadership, the Democrats have gotten essentially nothing done. They have essentially wasted the taxpayer’s dollars all year long, attempting to hijack the role of Commander and Chief, while they tried their hardest to lose the war on terror.
The libs have been grossly derelict in their responsibility to pass 13 different funding bills to ensure the government continues to function in 2008, and they have held hostage desperately needed funding fo Read more:Deception
On the Threshold of Victory in Iraq 2007-12-16 21:34:27 -Scott Miller
This would be victory number two, by the way. For the record, victory number one came about three weeks after the invasion of Iraq
when our brave troops toppled the Iraqi regime in record speed.
Now, all signs are pointing to an amazing turn around in Iraq since General Patraeus’ anti-insurgency plan was put into effect. This from the AP:
General: Iraq at its quietest since ‘04
BAGHDAD - Violence in Iraq is at its lowest levels since the first year of the American invasion, finally opening a window for reconciliation among rival sects, the second-ranking U.S. general said Sunday as Iraqi forces formally took control of security across half the country.
Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the man responsible for the ground campaign in Iraq, said that the first six months of 2007 were probably the most violent period since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The past six months, however, had seen some of the lowest levels of violence since the conflict began, Odierno said, attribu Read more:Victory
, Threshold
Time to Short Berkshire Hathaway Stock 2007-12-16 20:43:58 This from the AP:
Hillary Clinton, Warren Buffett Appear Together to Denounce Income Gap
The Clinton-Buffet appearance was their second this year, following a similar session in June in New York. Like that appearance, Tuesday’s question-and-answer session was a fundraiser that brought in $1 million for the campaign of Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner.
From San Francisco, she headed to Sacramento to pick up another $300,000. In San Francisco, the biggest campaign donors got special treatment from Clinton and Buffet, including an extended picture-taking session that caused their “conversation on the economy” before an audience of 1,500 to begin later than scheduled.
Clinton played moderator and questioned Buffet — one of the world’s richest people with a net worth of $52 billion, according to Forbes magazine — about the economy. Buffett is chairman and CEO of Omaha, Neb.-based BerkshireHathaway
Inc., an investment company he founded.
Buffet a Read more:Short
, Stock
Democrats Pass the Terrorist Protection Act 2007-12-16 09:28:32 - Scott Miller
Democrats
continue to prove to Americans that they can not be trusted with the security of our nation. In a stunning move this week, the liberal Surrendercrats in the House of Representatives actually passed a law banning waterboarding, a interrogation technique that has proved to save American lives. This from Reuters:
House votes to outlaw CIA waterboarding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defying a White House veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.
In threatening to veto the House-passed measure, which now awaits Senate action, the White House argued it would prevent the United States from conducting “lawful interrogations of senior al Qaeda terrorists.”
House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer countered that the current administration had blurred the line “between legitimate, sanctioned interrogation tactics and torture.& Read more:Terrorist
, Protection
In Mondale Fashion, Democrat Candidate Vow Higher Taxes 2007-12-15 19:49:02 - Scott Miller
Hold onto your wallets… somehow the lib candidates, typical socialists, think that promising higher taxes and more spending is a message that will win them the White House next fall. This from the AP:
Dems in debate urge taxes on wealthiest
JOHNSTON, Iowa - Democrat
ic presidential hopefuls called for higher taxes on the highest-paid Americans and on big corporations Thursday and agreed in an unusually cordial debate that any thought of balancing the federal budget would have to wait.
“I want to keep the middle class tax cuts” that Congress passed during President Bush’s tenure, said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. But she said she favors raising taxes for the wealthiest. Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina readily agreed. “The truth of the matter is the tax policy has been established by the big corporations and the wealthiest Americans,” he said. “What we ought to be doing instead is getting rid of those tax br Read more:Candidate
, Fashion
, Higher
, Taxes
HuckaBUST… the Phony Conservative 2007-12-14 19:49:26 - Scott Miller
OK. I’ve been giving this guy a lot of slack, but the more he opens his mouth, the more he sounds like a lib Surrendercrat. Seems to me that the Huckster is turning into a mini-McCain… trying to ingratiate himself with the socialist media by adopting the lib language and the lib themes. Today he’s out taking cheap shots at the Bush administration. This from the AP:
Huckabee sees WH ‘bunker mentality’
CONCORD, N.H. - “American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out,” Huckabee said. “The Bush administration’s arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.
In one specific criticism, Huckabee said Bush did not send enough troops to invade Iraq. And he accused the president of marginalizing Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, who said at the outset of the war that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the invasion.
Government, Butt Out of Baseball Scandal 2007-12-13 21:51:56 - Scott Miller
The big news today was the huge scandal in Major League Baseball. This from the AP:
Stars named in report on steroid use in baseball
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pitching great Roger Clemens joined home-run king Barry Bonds among dozens of Major League Baseball players named on Thursday in the Mitchell Report that detailed widespread use of banned drugs in America’s pastime.
Two U.S. congressmen who held a 2005 hearing on steroids in baseball that rattled the sport said they planned to invite Mitchell, Selig and Fehr to another hearing next Tuesday.
So is this baseball/steroids issue a big deal… sure, no one like to see a great sport marred by cheaters. Is this something that a congress, especially a congress that can’t seem to get out of it’s own way, should be dealing with by holding hearings? How is this any of congress’ business? What jurisdiction does congress have here? This is a game… and a private business… unless I’m m Read more:Government
, Scandal
Out and Out Bogus Story by the AP 2007-12-13 20:43:36 - Scott Miller
As you know, Americans are constantly bombarded with misleading headlines and stories from our mainstream socialist media. This one is so egregious and blatantly misleading it’s quite pathetic:
CIA destroyed tapes despite court orders
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactic
The CIA destroyed the tapes in November 2005. That June, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. had ordered the Bush administration to safeguard “all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees now at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.” U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a nearly identical order that July.
At the time, that seemed to cover all detainees in U.S. custody. But Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the terrorism suspects whose interro Read more:Bogus
Merry Christmas from The Conservative Post 2007-12-25 10:29:52 - Scott Miller
As you may have noticed, we are bit slow with the posts this week…Â The Conservative Post has descended on the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina for Christmas
at the beach this year.
We are recharging our batteries, enjoying one of God’s most beautiful seaside creations, and getting ready for the huge political year as we go to work pushing back the liberal hordes.
To the troops, and their families, both here and abroad… our prayers are with you, thank you for defending our liberty, be safe and God’s speed.
To The Conservative Post readers… Merry
Christmas, and a happy New Year. Talk at ya’ next week! Read more:Merry Christmas
Big Spending Bush Winks at Libs, Guts Border Fence, Screws Conservatives 2007-12-22 10:25:40 - Scott Miller
(Bush to Conservatives
: Screw You)
President Bush once again is set to screw conservatives, and most Americans who want our borders controlled, by signing the Democrat Omnibus budget bill. The massive spending bill carries language that essentially guts the existing border fence law calling for double fencing. This from WorldNewDaily:
Bill guts border fence requirement
Republican presidential hopeful Duncan Hunter is blasting a Democrat-sponsored bill that would eliminate the requirement passed by Congress to build a double-layered fence covering 854 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.
“By eliminating the double fence requirement, the Democratic Congress is going to make it easier for drug and human smugglers to cross our Southern land border,” said Hunter. “This goes against the interests of any family that has been touched by illegal drugs or any American who has seen their job taken by an illegal alien.”
The Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations b Read more:Border
, Spending
Limited Government? 1,600+ (26 pages) Federal Programs 2008-03-10 11:24:28 - Scott Miller
If you ever wondered exactly how we get to a $3.1 trillion dollar annual federal budget. That means government stealing $3,100,000,000,0000 from you and me each year… here’s part of the answer.
Thanks to Mark Levin, we are linking to an alphabetical list of federal programs that the American taxpayers currently fund. It is [...] Read more:Government
, Federal
, Programs
Things You May Not Have Known About William F. Buckley Jr. 2008-03-09 18:01:01 - Scott Miller
Michael Johns, a great conservative writer, has put together a very interesting essay remembering William
F Buckley
Jr. titled, Walking the Road That Buckley Built. It is a uniquely well written piece that chronicles the totality of Buckley’s impact on the conservative movement and the past half century of American politics.
I’ve pulled some excerpts from the piece. [...]
John McCain Flashes Famous F-U Temper at NY Times Reporteret 2008-03-08 18:27:14 - Scott Miller
Many of us conservatives contend that the Republican party, in it’s infinite stupidity, has nominated the weakest candidate in the field. The self described “liberal conservative Republican” has been a darling of the national press corps because of his willingness to screw conservatives in his own party.
But now that they’ve been able to get him [...] Read more:McCain
, Famous
, Temper
, Times
, John McCain
More Socialist Healthcare Problems in Britian 2008-03-08 15:00:20 - Scott Miller
With 2 of the 3 major candidates proposing socialized healthcare for America, we have been documenting the huge problems that many of the European socialist countries are having with their existing socialist systems. Here’s the latest threat that Brits face with their National Healthcare
System (NHS). This from The Independent:
Junior doctors shortage hits NHS
Doctors’ leaders [...] Read more:Socialist
, Britian
Government Can Live with Less After All 2008-03-08 14:04:50 - Scott Miller
There is certainly no shortage of stories about how state governments, many of whom have constitutional amendments requiring balanced budgets, are having to make budget cuts this year. Stories like this one from the AP:
Sagging Tax Collections Hindering State Budget
WASHINGTON — Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire should be celebrating her state’s robust economy and record [...] Read more:Government
Oil and Gas Prices are the New Tax Cuts 2008-03-05 21:13:41 - Scott Miller
If the Republican party leadership would get off their “Dead Asses”, as leader Boehner put it the other day to his colleagues on a separate issue, and fight for the American people on the gas and oil price issue they might actually have a shot at regaining the majority in the House next November.
And no, President Bush, [...] Read more:Prices
, Gas Prices
With Nomination, John McCain Needs to Step Down as Senator 2008-03-04 21:20:59 - Scott Miller
Now that John McCain
has officially secured the nomination, I believe he needs to demonstrate his commitment to winning the Presidency by stepping down from his Senate seat so he can focus his efforts on beating the socialist candidate that will emerge on the other side.
Tonight, in his acceptance speech, he said that the [...] Read more:John McCain
, Nomination
, Needs
, Senator
Video: Priceless. Obama Cryin’ About Answering Press Questions 2008-03-04 20:31:08 - Scott Miller
You gotta’ love it when a guy like Barack Obama
… a man who has been treated with kid gloves by a fawning press corps… starts crying about “already answering like, 8 questions!”.
All togther now…. ahhhhh poor Barack.
You’ve have to watch this 37 second video of the press confernce that didn’t go so well [...] Read more:Priceless
, Press
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