Another leftist helps our enemies
KGB Letter Details Ted Kennedy's Offer To Help USSR This letter which details Senator Edward Kennedy's offer to help the Soviet Union defeat Reagan's efforts to build up the nuclear deterrent in Europe was unearthed by a Times of London reporter in the 1990s after the KGB files were opened. It got little or no attention, however, until the publication of Paul Kengor's book "The Crusader - Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism." But even then the actual text... [read more]

New Year's Comedy Challenge
Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor? Who else could set up this comedy challenge, that begins ... "These three guys, James Brown, Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein, meet at the Pearly Gates ..." Now it's your job to create the next great comedy result, be it skit, one liner or however you see fit, to conclude the above opening. They say celebrities die in 3's, this one's a doozy !!!... [read more]

Christmas in the ER
Christmas Eve was a solid-gold nightmare. We had one open bed in the entire hospital, and the private ambulance services were bringing in critically-ill people without calling us ("patient dumping"), because they knew if they did, we would divert them to hospitals that we knew had open beds. But they make their living on calls, not on mileage. So after the fifth "patient dump," the staff in my ER and the private ambulance services were not experiencing a lot of... [read more]

Wheels Come Off the Neo-Con Bus
Wheels Come Off Neo-Con Bus Conservatives Are Thrown Under By -Jefferson Paine It's time for true Conservatives to admit that the Battle in Iraq has ground to a halt and recognize that we should support pulling back militarily from the quag in which it has become mired. To tweak the metaphor a bit more - the wheels have come off the Neo-Con bus, and Conservatives should be tired of being thrown under it. The U.S. met its military objectives long... [read more]

Al Qaeda Sends a Message to Democrats
ABCnews.com has this message from AL Qaeda's #2 guy to the Democrats. Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists. In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, made available only today, Zawahri says he has two messages for American Democrats. "The first is that you aren't the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the... [read more]

More on the incident with Sandy Berger
foxnews.com has this article about the report from an internal investigation into Sandy Berger's removal of classified documents. Here are some of the more intresting parts of the inspector's notes: Berger took a break to go outside without an escort while it was dark. He had taken four documents in his pockets. "He headed toward a construction area. ... Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the DOJ (Department of Justice),... [read more]

Ahmadinejad: Britain, Israel, US to 'vanish like the pharaohs'
Here is a link to a story in which Ahmandinejad said, "The oppressive powers will disappear while the Iranian people will stay. Any power that is close to God will survive while the powers who are far from God will disappear like the pharaohs," he said Wednesday, according to Iranian news agencies. "Today, it is the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime which are doomed to disappear as they have moved far away from the teachings of God," he... [read more]

Paying 1/50th of our defense.
FOXNews.com - AP: Pentagon Wants $99.7B More for Wars - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon wants the White House to seek another $99.7 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to information provided to The Associated Press. 1/50th of $99.7 billion is about $2 billion. Coincidentally, $2 billion is the amount that our Governoire has proposed as a spending increase for this years state budget. Gregoire proposes... [read more]

Orwell's Dark Vision Looms
Orwell's Dark Vision Looms There's only one thing more disturbing than the roughly one-half of the American population afflicted by Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) - the other half which seems robotically blinded by the propaganda of Neo-conservatism (which isn't Conservatism at all). Can anyone explain how our Public Square and our nation's airports having been transformed into gleaming new monuments to coercion, kindly administered by the government's new Ministry of Safety (TSA), is not completely Orwellian? Let's get this straight... [read more]

Behold, the Awesome Power of Human Stupidity
There are some days that I encounter patients whose actions, driven by an utter absence of common sense, cause me to leave a treatment room shaking my head in dismay and mumbling to myself. I'm not talking about the basic run-of-the-mill honest mistakes here. These are not the "I thought I had shut off that circuit before cutting the wires" kind of crowd. These are the runner-ups for the Darwin Awards who tried very hard to kill themselves but failed... [read more]

Life and Death in Darkness
Last Thursday night/Friday morning, more than a million people in my region were plunged into darkness by one of the worst windstorms in modern Washington State history. Whole cities were still, dark and lifeless. Other than the drivers around me, not a single person was seen outside. The atmosphere was made all the more strange by the moaning of the wind through the power lines that bowed, dead and useless, from their poles. Huge old-growth trees were ripped from the... [read more]

Zogby - GOP Is Losing Its Libertarian Voters
After the Dec 2nd "mutual appreciation society" meeting of King County rubber stamp GOP PCO's, and a prevailing attitude of "kick the malcontents to the curb" to create an atmosphere of GOP "success" (KC GOP Chair, Michael "More of the Same" Young), I'm not too surprised by this potential continuing future for the GOP ... Zogby - GOP Is Losing Its Libertarian Voters Maybe some more big tent ass kicking will restore Republican votes ? West Seattle GOP PCO... [read more]

Liberalism - It's Not just a Religion - It's a Death Cult
[Note by Author: Recently discovered, disintegrating and secreted in a long-forgotten Citibank vault, the remnants of an ancient copy of the Gospel of Judas were scholarly transcribed and published by National Geographic to much fascination and acclaim. Not highly publicized though, and heretofore kept successfully under wraps, a second cryptic tome was recently uncovered, incredibly, in the bedroom closet of a certain Chappaqua, New York mansion. Now, in conjunction with scholarship from the Columbia School of Liberal Theological Studies, this... [read more]

One example of how the Democrats plan on fighting the war on terror
Check out this article that goes into some detail of Rep. Conyers the end racial profiling act that he wants to pass. It would cripple any and all law enforcement agencies ability to conduct any kind of terrorist investigations. Just see this one statement. The act, although it doesn't as yet impose large penalties, would bar any federal, state or local law enforcement agency from "relying, to any degree, on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion in selecting which individuals... [read more]

Cato Institute Gives Gregoire an "F"
The November/December issue of the BIAW newsletter included an interesting piece I needed to share... The Cato Institute, a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C., recently issued its biennial fiscal policy report card on the nation's governors. The report card's grading is based on 23 objective measures of fiscal performance. Governors who have cut taxes and spending the most receive the highest grades. Those who have increased spending and taxes the most receive the lowest grades. Washington... [read more]

GOP 2008 hopefuls initial reaction to Iraq Study Group
Sam Brownback: Fox News Sunday interview - transcript at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235758,00.html Newt Gingrich: The Baker-Hamilton Report: A Prescription for Surrender - entire article at http://www.humanevents.com/winningthefuture.php?id=18426 Rudy Giuliani: Giuliani raps Iraq recommendations - source http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2006/12/04/daily54.html Giuliani Calls Idea of Quitting Iraq 'Terrible Mistake' - entire article at http://www.nysun.com/article/44742 John McCain: McCain Remarks on Iraq Study Group Report - entire article at http://mccain.senate.gov//press_office/view_article.cfm?id=775 Related link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aJpDi99jaLps&refer=us Mitt Romney: No statement by Romney yet, but related article at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acInhdOjzKCs&refer=home Related to the above information,... [read more]

Are You A Conservative?
There seems to be an awful lot of confusion, or propaganda, these days as to what a true Conservative actually believes. Hang tight - to answer this, we'll have to get into some ideology.. We're all "ideological" at our cores because it shapes us as individual human beings - it's how we tell right from wrong, it guides our thoughts and actions, and ultimately it informs our decision-making for which political policies we will support, and for whom we'll actually... [read more]

Supermax: A feature, not a bug.
Read this article about whiner and Centennial Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph. Rudolph appears to be confused. That Supermax is a miserable hell which will inflict maximum psychological damage for the rest of his life, is the whole point. Even our less secure state prisons, where people are housed for much lesser crimes, should be much less desirable places than they are now. If criminals make a connection between almost certain severe punishment and the crimes they commit, there would be... [read more]

Ehren Watada's Excuses - A Report
Last night I attended the University of Washington's Ehren Watada (the Army officer deserter) event. Wow. There are simply no words of invective strong enough to adequately convey an accurate picture of this guy, or of the hippies, socialists, and (I'll say it) anti-Americans who were there to laud this criminal. Somewhere, members of al Qaeda are laughing. Going in, I strongly suspected he joined planning to desert like this as a political stunt. Having heard him speak, I am... [read more]

Seattle racism in the name of racial diversity is still racism
There is a policy concerning the use of race in school placement involving Seattle up before the SCOTUS, and the loyal defenders of Seattle liberalism, the PU PI, has gone unhinged to defend it. The case involves the Seattle open choice policy, where parents could ask to send their students to particular schools instead of depending on district boundaries, and its use of race as a tiebreaker. U.S. Supreme Court to hear Seattle's school racial-tiebreaker case Seattle Public Schools will be under a... [read more]

Report finds little benefit to elementary and secondary school diversity programs
H/T Sister Toldjah. Via the American Thinker, here is a report released from the United States Commission on Civil Rights that essentially states that there is “scant evidence” that diversity in elementary and secondary schools is beneficial to students. Specifically: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than one week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument[s] in two significant cases involving the use of racial benefits to reduce minority isolation in elementary and secondary education, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today issued... [read more]

8th District Partial Recount Coming
A recount of two precincts in Washington's 8th Congressional District will soon take place, at the request of a group that calls itself "Voters for Democracy in America". A total of 925 votes cast by mail and at the polls in an area of Issaquah will be the focus, reports the King County Journal today. The group apparently did some exit polling on election day (scroll down on link to "Republicans Complain about volunteer exit polling) and found "4 percent... [read more]

Seattle Digs Out from 2 Inches of Frozen Hell
This week, Seattle was plunged into chaos when a monster snowstorm of Biblical proportions dropped a fantastic two inches of snow on the Metropolitan region. Seattleites, who are horrible drivers in the best of weather, immediately set out to show the world how uncommonly stupid they are in a mind-bogglingly short span of time. Before the first inch of snow had accumulated, Seattleites threw all semblance of reason out the window. (This is not much of a stretch, considering the... [read more]

Failure to pass WASL indicative of a much larger failure
I was appalled to see that Queen Christine has stepped in to decree a three-year delay in the requirement that students in our state be required to pass the math portion of the 10th-grade WASL as a requirement to graduate. The goal that every student pass all three portions of the WASL -- the "three 'R's" if you will -- reading, writing and math, was set in 1993. Here we are almost 14 years later, with almost 30,000 high school... [read more]