David Online

Republicans look at the military and see men and women in uniform honorably serving their country. Democrats look at the military and see “children.” The infantilization of the military by both the media and the Democrats is insulting to the brave men and women willing to serve and fight for not only our own freedoms, but so that others may have them also.

If Al Gore had not invented global warming would anyone remember who he was?

Whenever someone suggests we need government run health care, tell them to go stand in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles or the U.S. Post Office. Then then come talk about it.

Michael Moore is wrong. We don’t have to look to Canada, Cuba, France, or Great Britain to see the benefits of government run health care. We just have to look at our own V.A. Hospitals.

We are fighting an enemy that can not be appeased; if that were possible the French would already have done it.

One could arguably make the case that our failure to launch pre-emptive attacks against other countries ostensibly led to 9/11.

The bumper sticker on the Toyota Prius in front of me read, “Imagine World Peace.” The last person to “imagine” world peace also imagined there was no heaven, no hell, no countries, and no religion. He was shot dead in front of his wife by someone who imagined otherwise. Reality always trumps make-believe.“

War is not the Answer,” says the anti-war Left. To the contrary, and more often than not, war is the only answer. Throughout history, neither diplomacy nor appeasement has ever worked. If not for war, these antiwar protestors would merely be disaffected colonials protesting the excesses of the British Crown and Queen Elizabeth.

Democrats say they want to fight al-Qaeda and terrorism. They just don’t want to fight al-Qaeda and terrorism in Iraq.

The hubris of Global Warming fanatics is beyond belief. That somehow they could decide exactly what the Earth’s temperature should be and then somehow bring that temperature about, boggles the mind.

If instead of global warming we had global cooling, would Al Gore and his disciples be advocating the building of more power plants, refineries, and SUVs to warm the earth?

Democrats want to surrender Iraq and bring the troops home. Nancy Pelosi says we need to fight the “real war” on terrorism. Is the “real war” on terrorism to be fought from the barracks at Fort Bragg?

When the Left says they “support the Troops”, that doesn’t mean they support the troops mission in Iraq or their goal of victory. The Left’s support of the troops is pretending to feel sorry for them.

The biggest untold story since 9/11 is there has’t been another 9/11. Just don’t look for the Bush administration to receive any credit. 

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may have said it best. Blair said that to him, 9/11 was a wake-up call. The problem is, he said, a lot of the world world woke up for a short time, then turned over and went back to sleep.

It is amusing to see so many Democratic presidential candidates campaigning against George Bush. Let’s hope they don’t learn too soon that President Bush has no plans to run for re-election in 2008

Last week, hundreds of people layed down naked on an ice glacier to bring about an increasing awareness of global warming. After that little stunt, the only thing I became increasingly aware of is that winnowing the gene pool may have some merit after all.

Sports builds character it is said. Michael Medved says sports doesn’t build character – it reveals character. Looking at O.J. and Michael Vick, I would have to agree.

If Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and MacArthur had paid heed to the Pelosis and Reids of then, we should now be speaking German and marching to the tune of “Horst Wessel” or averting our eyes and bowing down before the Japanese Emperor.

It turns out Al Gore was right after all. Global Warming is man-made and NASA has the proof.

For years now the Reverend Al Gore of the Church of Global Warming has preached to us that 1998 was the hottest year on record in the past millenium… or century, or 10 years; whenever. And that 2006 was the second hottest year since time began.  Apparently not. Inconveniently, NASA now says that’s not exactly true.

It seems that once upon a time, there was this Canadian name of Steve McIntyre, a retired mining engineer, who, like Al Gore, decided to study Global Warming temperatures. Unlike Al Gore however, Mr. McIntyre was paying attention and noticed an anomaly in some of the temperature recordings. He smelled a rat – or to put it politely - suspected that there was a bug in some of the software.

Having advised NASA of his findings, they promptly re-ordered their hottest year temperature records to the following:

1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938, 1939

Now 1934 is the hottest year on record. In fact, 5 of the 10 hottest years on record are all before World War II. It must have been all those soccer moms driving around in their SUVs and Al Gore’s daddy cranking up the air conditioning in the old Nashville mansion. 

What are we to think of a Democratic Party whose political success depends on the military defeat of the U.S. in Iraq? When the New York Times printed an opinion piece, “A War We Just Might Win” by Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the liberal Brookings Institute, the left wing bloggers of Daily Kos went ballistic. Unfortunately for those of us that believe the United States of America is the greatest country in the world, the “Daily Kos”, along with “MoveOn.org”, is the Democratic Party.

The problem the Democrats are having is the tide of the war seems to be turning in America’s favor. They are finding themselves caught between “Iraq and a hard place.” The Democrats would still like to lose; but only if we can lose while under the Bush administration. 

Democrat House Whip James Clyburn recently said if the forward progress being made in Iraq by General Petraeus continues, “that would be a real big problem for us.” For the Democrats who shun victory and desire defeat, progress in Iraq is very bad news indeed.  

In light of the positive news beginning to come out of Iraq, the Democrats, who don’t make a statement or decision without seeing which way the wind is blowing, are gradually beginning to change their anti-war rhetoric. Not against Bush, of course, but on the war in general. A couple of months ago, Democratic presidential candidates were stepping all over themselves to see who could surrender in Iraq the quickest. Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinch won that race with a tie. They’d both be out of Iraq tomorrow morning. 

Today, we are beginning to hear a different story from these contenders. A few days ago, Senator Dick Durbin of “Nazi, Soviet Gulag, Pol Pot regime” fame, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying American-led forces in Iraq were “making some measurable progress, but it’s slow going.” Not nearly enough for Mr. Durbin, of course. “As our troops show some progress toward security, the government of this nation is moving in the opposite direction. This is really unsustainable with the American people,” said Durbin. When the New York Times, who as done everything in it’s power to insure America loses in the war on terror, prints an opinion that maybe the US can win in Iraq, even blind Democrats have to stand up and take notice.

Sen. Joe Biden’s retort to Bill Richardson in the silly YouTube debate cut the knees off the “get out of Iraq now” crowd when he said a pullout of U.S. combat troops would take at least a year to complete, and that unless some U.S. troops remained in Iraq, all the American citizens would have to be evacuated as well. “You better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone [in Baghdad],” he said. “You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die.”    

Following Joe Biden’s admonishment and the recent results from the USA Today/Gallup poll that shows the percentage of Americans who believe the surge and additional troops in Iraq are working rose to 31% from 22% a month ago, the leading Democratic presidential candidates have lost their “out of Iraq today” vehemence, and while still pandering to their loony left-wing base, have at least acknowledged quitting Iraq immediately poses serious consequences.     

Unfortunately, no matter how good the news out of Iraq, it will never meet the bar set by Democrats, primarily because the bar gets raised every time a bench mark is met. Nevertheless, the progress being made in Iraq cannot be ignored. So while even the most anti-war Democrats like Dick Durbin are forced to concede “measurable progress” in Iraq and that the surge is working, it would not be wrong to suggest the Democrats will not be satisfied. After all, Iraq did not elect a Thomas Jefferson as president, the violence in Baghdad is still almost as high as Washington, DC, and the Iraqis have yet to build a Disney World.    

Americans do not like to lose. With a Democrat led congress and a liberal media, America “lost” in Vietnam and lived with shame and malaise for the next two decades. Do we need to “lose” again just so Democrats can remain in power?

Barack Obama speaking in the YouTube Democratic Presidential debate said, “I understand President Musharraf has his own challenges. But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again…If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”

In one week Senator Barack Obama has morphed from Jane Fonda cavorting with America’s sworn enemies to Dr. Strangelove, ready to bomb and attack America’s allies said Mitt Romney. Obama wants to talk to our enemies and bomb our friends. Last week he wanted to sit down for an afternoon tea party with Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro, Bashar al-Assad, and Kim Jong-il. This week he wants to retreat from Iraq and invade Pakistan.

If Obama is sincere and truly believes that Iraq is the wrong battlefield in the war on terror and that Pakistan is where we need to be, then why hasn’t he hasn’t he introduced a “Pakistan War Resolution” similar to the Iraq War Resolution of 2002? 

Every man, woman, and child in the world knows that the debate on global warming is over. Global warming guru and former presidential candidate Al Gore has told us so…about a million times…in case we didn’t hear him the first time he said it.

The debate is over only because Al Gore has refused to debate anyone who disputes his theory. The latest in a long line of challengers to Gore’s global warming alarmism is best selling author Dennis Avery.

The list of Al Gore detractors continues to grow as his extreme rhetoric and conclusions get dissected by by scientists, economists, and researchers.

Joseph Bast of the Heartland Institute notes, “Maybe its because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support climate alarmism.”

Contrary to the political spin put out by the Democratic Party and the preponderance of “letters to the editor” to the nation’s newspapers written by idiots who believe nothing bad in the world happens that can’t be laid at the doorstep of President Bush , the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis that collapsed last week was not George Bush’s bridge.

Not only was it not Bush’s bridge, it was not the federal government’s bridge. The bridge was built and owned by the city of Minneapolis. It was maintained by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. If the bridge was substandard and faulty, go talk to the Mayor of Minneapolis and the Governor of Minnesota. They financed it, they built it, and they maintained it.

The “Blame Bush” crowd complains that Bush wastes billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid and forign wars to build the infrastructure of those countries while our own infrastructure and bridges are falling down.

Since the bridge was built and owned by the city of Minneapolis and not by George Bush and the federal government, then why is Minneapolis wasting $500 million dollars on a new baseball stadium instead of maintaining their bridges?