Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc, June 2005

1. Kelo. By a 5-4 vote, the SCOTUS repealed p art of the Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights last week. The opinion was written in response to a case from New London, CN where the city was using eminent domain to steal homes and give the property to a development corporation. The excuse used by New London was the corporation would pay more taxes than the homeowners, and the taking was written up and approved in a planning document adopted by the community. The opinion essentially repeals the Fifth Amendment requirement for property to be removed by government only under the grounds of public use. This opinion essentially repeals the notion of private property here in the US – at least according to the majority on the court. The court also did something else that was quite amazing, especially in light of their ruling two weeks ago that the commerce clause could be used to justify any intrusion by the feds. In Kelo, they found that they did not have the ability to review the theft of private homes by local governments because that theft had been justified in a planning document. Justice Breyer (Clinton Appointee) takes the logic even f arther than that, publicly stating that any private property can be seized at any time for the public good – whatever that means. This ruling essentially forces the political battle back down to the local level – a small good, but a good nonetheless. The door is now wide open for politicians at all levels of government to define quite clearly precisely when and where eminent domain will be used. And then they need to define precisely what just compensation means – and in a market based economy, just compensation means precisely what the seller chooses to sell their property for – no more and no less. The only reason New London used eminent domain against the homeowners was that they were too cheap to buy them out and too cheap to move the homes elsewhere. Granted, some of the homes were old family homes, occupied for nearly a century. Purchase price would have been quite high, but then again, under the notion of private property, the price is whatever the buyer and seller agree upon. The corporation didn’t want to write the checks, so they got the government to strong-arm the owners and evict them. Reaction on the net was instantaneous and hostile – as well it should be. The (formerly) mainstream media immediately buried the story behind a headline that eminent domain had been upheld rather than p art of the Bill of Rights being repealed. This decision was as outrageous as Dred Scott in 1857, for it also cuts right at the foundation of this nation – the notion of private property rights. I’ll conclude with a couple comments from the net. First is from NRO’s The Corner Blog on Friday: “The quickest way to reverse Kelo is to find some conservative town in Utah somewhere to shut down an abortion clinic in order to make room for a WalM art. Also, that would be the most fun way to get Kelo reversed.” The second by Hei Lui on Instapundit on Thursday: “So according to recent Supreme Court decisions, the government has no business in your bedroom (unless you are growing marijuana), but they can drive a bulldozer right through it.” SCOTUS justices serve only while they exhibit good behavior. Repealing p art of the Bill of Rights by judicial fiat is hardly good behavior. It is time to remove some of the clowns from the circus.

2. Ronnie Earle. Travis County Prosecutor, elected democrat rock star Ronnie Earle got caught by Byron York selling justice for contributions to his favorite non-profits. Last Monday in NRO, York wrote about Earle, who is hot on the trail of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R, TX) – via made-up facts and questionable use of his prosecutorial authority. Earle’s Grand Jury indicted three of DeLay’s aides over allegations of questionable fundraising practices. Last September, he also indicted eight corporations which had donated to DeLay’s PAC on the same grounds. He recently dropped indictments against four of the companies – which included Sears and Cracker Barrel – in return for their donation to a non-profit campaign. Byron York wrote the following: “… after the companies pledged to contribute to a program designed to publicize Earle's belief that corporate involvement in politics is harmful to American democracy.” The program tried to shake down Sears for nearly $1 million, and also went after the other companies for similar amounts. Had they been found guilty, Sears and the rest would only have paid a fine of up to $20,000. None of the companies believed they had done anything wrong and did not want to write the big checks. Sears finally agreed to $100,000, with a check written to the University of Texas, where the non-profit was operating from. Sears went public about the shakedown when Earle’s office st arted leaking to friendly democrat media outlets that the companies had flipped and provided information against DeLay. Not only were they shaken down by a democrat prosecutor, but the same prosecutor st arted lying about what had really happened to the media. Sears chose to take its story to the alternative media. It appears that Delay is not the problem in Texas. Democrats are.

3. Rove. President Bush sent Carl Rove out to set up the democrats last week, and the setup worked to perfection. Rove gave a speech in front of the Conservative P arty of NY. In it he went after the liberals like MoveOn.org who would rather respond to terrorist attacks on the US with indictments, understanding and tolerance than with military might. He never mentioned the word “democrat” once. Not unexpectedly, the verbal attack on liberals and MoveOn.org instantly drove the very same democrats and media that kept their mouths shut about Dick Durbin’s (D, IL) verbal comparison between US military and 20th century mass murderers nuts. Democrats and their media lackeys went apoplectic, demanding his immediate apology and resignation. This gave the RNC and Republicans nationwide the opening they needed to remind the nation what these same democrats had said about response to terrorists right after 9-11, when they were cautioning against declaring war. The talking points were written and distributed. So were the quotes. Governor Patiaki (R, NY) even went after St. Hillary of Chappaqua, reminding everyone that she had kept quiet, not saying a single pubic word after Durbin ran his mouth. A few democrats understood that this was a trap and were yelling on a couple of their blogs: Don’t do it. It’s a trap! Pavlov shouldn’t have used dogs. He should have used liberals – who are just as predictable.

4. Hilly Book. Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Ed Klein’s anti-Clinton book “The Truth about Hillary” appears to be a pro-Hillary card trick. Remember that Vanity Fair was one of the Clinton’s largest supporters during the 1990s. It was also one of the places that they dropped hit pieces against their critics and women who accused Bill of being a sexual predator. The media immediately blamed the book on the conservative media – the talk shows, FNC and the blogs – none of which were promoting the book. This is precisely what the Clinton’s media machine did when they had something to hide during the 1990s. Klein was a big Clinton supporter, though he now claims not to like Hilly any more. My guess is that this book is p artly intended to inoculate Hillary against some very damaging, well researched books now being written, p artly intended to shield her from criticism during the 2006 and 2008 campaigns, and p artly intended to marginalize her vocal opposition in the alternative media and among conservatives. It is something the Clintons have always done – get the bad news out first, blame it all on the conservatives, and make her look like a victim. We will hope this doesn’t work.

5. Memos. The Downing Street Memos appear to be another media-manufactured anti-Bush hit, not unlike CBS’ manufactured Texas ANG letters. The British reporter who has them claims that he retyped them from the originals to make them legible. He then destroyed the originals and is now touting the rewrites as exact representations. The French-looking junior US senator from Massachusetts, John Francoise Kerry (D, MA) was going to take the memos to the floor of the senate and force impeachment hearings against the president. He was sufficiently worried about their content to call that little demonstration off. Perhaps Mary Mapes is now working for the British media.

1. Club Gitmo. Limbaugh spent the week ridiculing leftist complaints about harsh treatment of terrorists at Guantanamo. He is starting to offer T-shirts with all the standard tourista slogans. And his listeners are buying them like crazy. He has started advertising Club Gitmo as a resort – far better than physical location than the deserts of the Middle East. Shoot, they feed you, give you Korans, and show you which way to point to Mecca when you want to pray. The food for the visitors is better than the guards. They have air conditioning. You even get to keep your head. Humor and ridicule is the very best way to fight this ongoing assault by the left. And if the democrats believe that providing aid and comfort to terrorist detainees – people who have been captured off the battlefield trying to murder Americans in uniform – is a winning electoral strategy for 2006 and 2008, I believe they are in for yet another rude awakening. Today, not only do democrats want to coddle criminals, but they also want to coddle terrorists.

2. Durbin. The senior US Senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin (D, IL), who is also the number two democrat in the senate came out swinging against the prison camp at Guantanamo last week. He took to the floor of the senate, read an excerpt from an FBI observer at the camp about unpleasant treatment of the 20th hijacker and proceeded to compare that abuse to the very worst out of the Soviet Gulags, the Nazi Concentration Camps or the murderous rampage of Pol Pot in Cambodia. He essentially called those in the American military war criminals. Reaction to this diatribe was predictable. Al Jazeera was positively jubilant, and reported the tirade for days (and probably will continue on for weeks) afterwards. The (formerly) mainstream media didn’t report anything at all, doing everything possible to bury the story. The new media exploded in anger and spent the entire week blasting away at Durbin and his apologists. Democrats, who have been saying this sort of thing privately for years scratched their heads at the reaction, wonder what the bid deal was. The military reacted much the same way as they did to John Kerry’s self-serving treachery and treason nearly 35 years ago. The difference this time is that there are news and media outlets available that were not available to war supporters 35 years ago. Durbin has dug himself a nice little hole and he seems intent on digging it deeper. We should perhaps provide him with a larger shovel.

3. DeWine. Pat DeWine, son of US Senator Mike DeWine (R, OH) was cruising to a victory in a Republican primary to fill a safe Congressional seat until his father decided to muck around with Bush’s judicial nominations. Mike DeWine chose to become part of the Gang of 14 with Ben Nelson (D, NE) and John McCain ( RINO, AZ). Republican activists took their anger out on the son, Pat DeWine, who went from running even to slightly ahead of a field of several candidates to a convincing loss. Pat DeWine came in fourth, with only 12% of the vote. We will hope that his father gets the message that Republican activists turn out and vote in the primaries – not democrat beltway types that he is pandering to.

4. Jackson Trial. Limbaugh Tuesday spoke at length about the Michael Jackson trial – but not in the way you might think. He took the opportunity to point out how the entire media missed – completely misreported – what actually happened in the courtroom. It appears that the jury did its job, thoroughly analyzing the evidence over several days. They arrived at the conclusion that there was not enough evidence that Jackson had done anything to convict him of anything. The prosecution witnesses ended up being a stream of hucksters and get-rich-quick artists all intent on making Big Bucks blackmailing Jackson. The mother was teaching kids to run a scam against her selected target – Jackson. The media should have spent a lot more time actually reporting what went on in the courtroom and a lot less time worrying about Jackson’s physical condition or what was going to happen to him in prison. The media blew it again.

5. Prison Camps. Recent leftist yammering about detention facilities – prison camps – at Guantanamo and elsewhere demonstrate quite nicely that the anti-war left neither understands nor cares about things that need to be done fighting this war. We take prisoners on the battlefield for a couple of reasons. One of them is for intelligence, which is why all of them are interrogated. The other reason is to simply keep them off the battlefield and remove them as a threat to our troops. These people support the goals of an extra-national organization, Al Qaida, who declared war on the US way back in 1996. They are bound by no formal rules of war. They routinely target civilians. They routinely torture, maim, and brutally murder their enemies. As such, they have no rights under the formal rules of warfare. Because they fight without uniforms and outside a normally constituted armed military force, they are not covered by the Geneva Conventions. They can be shot on sight. They can be interrogated for a while and then shot. We don’t do that. We simply keep them off the battlefield in conditions far better than those managed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix. In senate hearings last week, Pat Leahy (D, VT) demanded to know why none of these people were being tried. The Army General testifying said it was because there was an injunction in federal court that kept hearings before military tribunals from taking place. By Sunday, FNC reported that preliminary hearings in front of properly constituted military tribunals had taken place for all detainees. The grandstanding politicians now want to take these people and dump them all in the federal courts systems for trial or release. Imagine the tens of thousands of Al Qaida loosed in the general population inside the federal prison system. The politicians reject the jurisdiction of duly constituted military tribunals, even though they have been used throughout the history of this nation to adjudicate the fate of people captured on the battlefield. This is World War III. It is not an extended edition of Law and Order. We muck around with the things that work when dealing with people who kill civilians at our peril.

6. Schiavo. The Florida Medical Examiner released the results of his autopsy of Terri Schiavo last week. The autopsy raised more questions than it answered. Her brain had atrophied and was half the normal weight. She was also blind at the time of death. There was no evidence of heart attack. There was no evidence of bulimia. The medical examiner did find a one hour delay between the time she collapsed at her home and the time 911 was called to come help her. The medical examiner did not have access to all her medical records and was unable to correlate what he found in her body with what the medical records over the period of her impairment showed. He ended the autopsy with a note that the conclusions could change with more information. The pro-death crowd immediately grabbed the brain damage and blindness as an excuse for her murder by the courts. If you follow their logic far enough out, you can kill, by whatever means you choose, any citizen who is blind and has brain damage on quality of life grounds alone. The pro-life people seized upon the one-hour time lag between her collapse, the absence of evidence of a heart attack, and the lack of evidence of bulimia. Her husband had claimed both maladies, neither of which existed according to the medical examiner. Florida Governor Jeb Bush asked a state prosecutor to investigate the time lag between her collapse and the call to 911. Michael Schiavo and his pro-death lawyers will learn a little lesson about the Bush brothers. Never, ever attempt to publicly humiliate them. They have a long memory and know how to return fire. I predict a long, expensive, unhappy life for Michael Schiavo and his pro-death supporters. And it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

1. Google. One of my primary tools for fact verification for this column has been the Google search engine. Over the last several months to a year, results for searches on conservative subjects have served up an increasing number of strange leftist web pages, blogs and related drivel. The result I am looking for, one that has been mentioned on the talk shows during the week has been buried. There are those on the right that think that Google is starting to diddle their search algorithm so that their results for searches on conservative subjects. It’s pretty interesting programming criteria if you can do it. Limbaugh mentioned this growing difficulty on his show last Friday in passing. I did a short experiment this morning with a search using the phrase “google skewing conservative searches.” The top six hits all included some variation of the phrase “search results display a conservative bias” – mostly hitting on an Annenberg Online Journalism Review article discussing that notion. When the left starts complaining about something – it is almost always because they are already doing it, have been doing it for a long time, and are good at it. Google may have diddled their software so it moves their results around a bit. It might be time to start using Dogpile.

2. WA Court. The Washington court trying election fraud in last November’s gubernatorial election found that the challenger could not prove fraud in either the vote or the vote counting. As such, the court refused to order a new election for governor. In finding for the democrats, the court set an impossible standard of proof for election challenges in the state (unless, of course those challenges are brought by democrats or leftists against Republican victors). The new standard is that fraudulent votes – voting felons, dead people voting, illegals voting, more ballots cast in areas than there are registered voters, and ballots that kept on showing up for counting during the three recounts which eventually gave the democrat her victory, etc. are irrelevant because the challenge could not prove who those votes went to. The Republican challenger found roughly ten time more fraudulent votes than the democrat’s margin of victory. There were 1678 illegal votes cast last year in that election. These included 754 voting felons. The Republican legal team was unable to prove fraud because they were not allowed access to the actual ballots by the vote counters, who all worked for the democrat administration. Stalin was right. It doesn’t matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes – especially in Washington state, where once again we have another democrat win in a close due to election fraud, a win supported and upheld by a politicized state court. Michelle Malkin Blog.

3. 2006. The next election cycle is shaping up nicely as a contest between the old and the new media. It won’t be nearly the issue next year that it will be when Hillary runs in 2008. Expect an effort by the FCC to regulate political speech on the Internet. Expect congressional democrats to try to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Expect a revision of McCain-Feingold, with an effort to limit what goes on via e-mail, on talk radio and on the net. All this will be done to shut down political speech and reporting by those of us on the net. If the only story getting out is what the (formerly) mainstream media wants out, the leftists will win. Do I think they will be able to do it? I don’t. But that doesn’t mean that they won’t give it one heck of a try – for it is the only thing they have left.

4. Aborto-Clinics. Planned Parenthood has had a bit of difficulty with their aborto-clinics in recent months. There are two state attorneys general – Kansas and Indiana – going after Planned Parenthood for medical records for underage patients. They are looking for medical records of girls under the age of 14 who have visited their clinics. In both states, there have been girls as young as 12-13 with abortions. Planned Parenthood has adamantly refused to notify either the parents or the law enforcement about the under age pregnancies. According to Rich Lowry in NRO, the rape shield laws protect the girls from prosecution, and they are not targets of the investigation. The men involved, on the other hand average seven years older – in their early 20s, and are going to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law provided Planned Parenthood is not allowed to protect them any more. Planned Parenthood is protecting the men involved, which makes sense if you assume they want more business. In a related story out of Illinois, another aborto-clinic is being sued for wrongful death by the parents of a 13 year old who died as the result of a botched abortion. The death happened in 1999 after they used too much anesthetic on the girl. The parents sued and lost in 2000. They appealed on the grounds that the trial judge had inappropriately kept evidence from the jury. The appeals court ordered a new trial. The Illinois Supreme Court agreed with the appeals court last week. Things are going to get really expensive for Planned Parenthood in the upcoming months. WorldNetDaily, Thurs.

5. ACLU. Some of us have been trying to figure out how to defund the ACLU and their anti-religion lawsuit game. It turns out that Pat Robertson broke the code on that. He set up his own law school, the American Center for Law and Justice out of Liberty University. He is turning out a number of lawyers who also happen to be strongly committed Christian and they in turn are starting to oppose the ACLU in their lawsuit scam. Remember that federal law allows a judge to reimburse lawyers for legal fees when they win a civil rights lawsuit. The ACLU has for years filed a series of anti-Christian lawsuits under the specious notion of separation of church and state. They have also gone after the Boy Scouts on similar grounds. They were reimbursed over $800,000 for removing the Boy Scouts from Balboa Park in San Diego, breaking a long-term lease on separation of Church and State grounds. They were reimbursed nearly a half a million for removing the cross from the LA County seal. They win because local governments refuse to fight them and because a bunch of local governments are friendly to their notions. Well, Pat Robertson’s ACLJ is not so friendly. The ACLJ has started responding to these lawsuits, joining with the governments and organizations under attack. And they have started winning court cases in front of juries. When the ACLJ wins, the ACLU doesn’t see a red cent in legal fees, for they have lost the lawsuit. This means that they are starting to pay a price for their actions and starting to see a lot of pro bono legal time go down the rathole. It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people. And it is not a moment too soon.

6. Grab Bush. Fresh off their outrageous claim that the Bush administration is torturing Al Qaida and related Islamist detainees at Guantanamo, the rocket scientists at Amnesty International suggested late last week that local governments grab President Bush, Vice President Cheney and / or SECDEF Rumsfeld while they are out of country on a visit and bind them over for trial. These high-minded civil libertarians want the courts of other nations to do once again what they did to Augosto Pinochet when he was seized on orders of a Spanish Judge while traveling on diplomatic immunity while undergoing medical treatment in Great Britain. Amnesty International wants members of the administration bound over to the international Criminal Court for trial. Imagine that. If we grab people off battlefields across the Middle East, people who are actively bearing arms against our troops, people who are operating without any government or any formal military structure, people who operate willingly, even gleefully outside all accepted rules of armed conflict, and people who would train for years on plans to murder tens of thousands of innocent Americans, and detain them so they cannot do what they want to do for as long as this war is underway, this is torture? Amnesty International needs to get a reality check. Perhaps they will discover real torture in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe or Sudan’s Darfur. Then again, in their world, it must not be torture if Americans aren’t doing it.

1. WMD
2. Lott
3. Rejection
4. Abu Ghraib
5. Amnesty International
6. Impeachment

1. WMD. UN weapons inspectors, using satellite photos for analysis, charged midweek that the Coalition allowed equipment used to manufacture nuclear, biological and chemical weapons to be removed from 109 sites across Iraq since the war began. The announcement was intended to blast away yet again at the Coalition for incompetence. The (formerly) mainstream media joined in a little bit. They weren’t too loud, for how can you blast the Bush administration for allowing things to be looted that were not (according to conventional wisdom) ever there? If WMD don’t exist in Iraq, how can equipment to manufacture them possibly be looted? Limbaugh, Fri.

2. Lott. American Spectator Online in their prowler column last weekend reported that former Majority Leader Trent Lott, (R, MS) was deeply involved in the crafting the infamous deal on judges. Lott had continuous, secret meetings with Ben Nelson, (D, NE) over the weeks leading up to the last-minute announcement of the compromise. He handed off the final announcement to John McCain, ( RINO, AZ). According to the Prowler, Lott wants to be Majority Leader again after Bill Frist, (R, TN) retires next year, and he is actively using his chairmanship of the Senate Rules Committee to position himself for that vote. He is also actively undercutting President Bush and Bill Frist on judicial nominations and actively sabotaging the confirmation of John Bolton – as payback for lack of support when Lott let his comments on Strom Thurmond run him out of the Majority Leader’s job a couple years ago. Lott is pretty good at working the caucus. Unfortunately, he is an unmitigated disaster when working against democrats politically. Remember that Lott simply gave away power to senate democrats in the aftermath of the 2000 election when the senate was tied 50-50. Then Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D) took that agreement, walked over the aisle to Jim Jeffords, (I, VT) and talked him into leaving the majority caucus. If Daschle hadn’t been given political power by Lott, he wouldn’t have had the horsepower to make that deal. Lott was also instrumental in turning the Clinton Impeachment trial into a show rather than a real trial in 1999. Lott also allowed Connie Mack, (R, FL) to retire from a safe seat in Florida without any good replacement candidate. This led to the loss of another senate seat, resulting in the 50-50 tie following the 2000 election. Lott is up for reelection in 2006. Let’s hope the people of Mississippi and conservatives nationwide remember his self-serving treachery during the campaign next year. Limbaugh, Tues.

3. Rejection. French voters rejected the long, incomprehensible constitution for the European Union a week ago. The vote approached 55-45% against. This vote is a stinging defeat for EU bureaucrats, unaccountable and unelected. It was also a rejection of French President Chirac and his support of the EU constitution. Chirac responded to the defeat by firing his Prime Minister and replacing him with America’s favorite French diplomat Dominique de Villepian – the face of French opposition to the war in Iraq. Voters in Belgium also rejected the EU constitution a few days later. The vote in Great Britain was postponed indefinitely. The French rejection was apparently driven more by protectionism than anything else. They don’t particularly like competition. They like their socialism, and they don’t want to change anything. Interesting thing about the EU – it seems to lose every single time when faced by actual voters with actual ballots.

4. Abu Ghraib. Laura Ingraham Weds interviewed Steve Mansfield, author of “The Faith of the American Soldier.” They chatted about the strong Christianity of most of our young troops overseas. Mansfield said that there was a religious – a Christian component to the Abu Ghraib incident. Apparently the outfit with the problem soldiers kept the Chaplain in his room, not allowed to wander about the prison. He was told to remain away from the enemy and only minister when soldiers specifically came to his room for guidance. This was apparently a component to the incident. The replacement unit used their Chaplain differently. The Commander told the Chaplain he wanted him out and about continuously, among the prisoners when they were moved, put into cells, taken from cells, and constantly out and about among the troops. This strategy worked pretty well, as the replacement unit cleaned up the mess left them.

5. Amnesty International. Amnesty International self-identified as a part of the leftist anti-war, democrat support machine a week ago with their charge that the Pentagon was operating an archipelago of torture prison camps worldwide – the gulag of our times. The charges were immediately taken as gospel by the anti-war left and democrats angling for political advantage. The charges also instantly damaged what little reputation Amnesty International had among the general public. They chose to concentrate on American camps for detainees where nothing much is going on these days thanks to Pentagon fear that someone will complain, rather than other parts of the world like Zimbabwe or Sudan, where people are being regularly tortured and killed. President Bush and SECDEF Rumsfeld responded to the charges immediately branding them as absurd. Then the online community went to work and uncovered connections between Amnesty International and democrats. At least two of their top officials contributed the maximum of $2,000 to the Kerry Campaign. The organization has also been a recipient of grant money from Teresa Heinz for a number of years, connecting it nicely to her leftist, anti-American agenda. At its core, the charges attempt to equate terrorist action against innocents with that of a duly and lawfully constituted nation at war against another nation. When you choose to operate outside of the laws of warfare to attack and damage your target, you also choose to operate outside the laws governing your treatment when captured. There are literally no legal limits to what the US can do to the detainees according to the rules of warfare – despite what the meddling activist judiciary thinks. The only limit to what we can do to those captured while making war against us and not wearing a uniform is that imposed by the Pentagon and the Bush administration. Amnesty and the leftists know and understand this completely. By week’s end, Amnesty backed off the Gulag comment. The Executive Director was on Fox News Sunday and got nicely grilled by Chris Wallace, who sliced and diced him into sushi. Wallace got Mr. Schultz to admit that they didn’t have any evidence of torture at the camps at all, rendering him all but speechless by the end of the interview.

6. Impeachment. The French-looking junior senator from the state of Massachusetts (who also served in Vietnam and ran illegal arms to Cambodia), John Kerry, (D, MA) demonstrated yet again last week why US Senators traditionally resigned their seat in the Senate to run for president. Kerry managed to come up with a copy of the Downing Street Memo, a document produced by a note taker for a Tony Blair meeting, that in Kerry’s mind provides irrefutable proof that the Bush administration proceeded into war in Iraq knowing there were no WMD at all (see Item 1, this issue for more information on reality). Kerry promised last week to bring that memo into congress and confront the members with the evidence and demand a start of impeachment proceedings against Bush for the action. What rot. Interestingly enough, Limbaugh predicted this move against Bush last October at the height of the election campaign. Limbaugh believed that if Bush won (which he did) the leftists would come after him on impeachment charges based on Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo or the failure to discover WMD in Iraq. Once again, Rush is right.

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- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.

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