I am saying that when a country has a democracy, things work. It's been proven time and again. But when the people give over to a dictator, thugs, mob rule or communism, you cannot have democracy.

Steven, I'm surprised you can write without a brain. But...you are a liberal.

What constitutes torture is subjective, which is one of the problems with defining what is allowed and what is not in U.S. interrogations......

A new fugitive operations team in Memphis: Illegal immigrants have historically faced little chance of being caught and deported if they make it to non-border areas like Memphis. But new immigration enforcement initiatives in the Mid-South likely mean ...

Considering the fact that this administration has never wanted to enforce our immigration laws, it comes as no surprise that the “linchpin” of their enforcement is being decided in one of the most liberal cities in the U.S. to assure its de...

Make that “13 Things I Don’t Have Time _or Energy_ for Today”
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Those who read here often know I like Ann Coulter. She is frank and harsh but more often then not, right on the mark when she goes after the liberals in America.

But not infallible, as this piece shows. In this article she at...

It has come to my attention that our cartoonist, Chris Muir, is going through a family crisis (emergency) at this moment. I encourage everyone of you to post a prayer request or a request for encouragement through these difficult times. After all, he.....

You won’t find many atheists feeding the hungry and ministering to the sick in places like Africa or Mother Teresa’s Calcutta.
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Consider, please; They could have started this nonsense many times in the past. Why now?
The answer is because of a demonstrated weakness on our part.

Look again at the link I put in my response to Stephen. Given that history, they knew all they needed to do was to get our own left... our weakness... going... and sit back and await victory which would be handed them.

I expect that that is exactly the sentiments of the insurgents and terrorists.

Gerson's problem - indeed the whole neocon mindset's problem - is that they cannot conceive of American outreach that doesn't have a mailed fist on the end.

As for you, You seem to have neglected to learn a very basic premise:

Any bastion of freedom, including our own country, requires military strength to maintain itself. We know, for example, that both Iran and Syria have been playing their little tricks in trying to overturn this victory. We know with some reasonable assurance , that they’ve attempted on at least one occasion, recently, to deploy chemical weaponry to that end. Thankfully, that attack backfired. We know that Iran is busy chasing nuclear weaponry. It seems likely that the reports of 10,000 centrifuges to create such weapons is pure nonsense, and on that basis it seems more likely that they are obtaining their weaponry from elsewhere. Recent reports would seem to suggest that the PRK is supplying Iran. Frankly, that wouldn’t surprise me at all… the timing of the revelation is spot on with what one would expect were the PRK lying to the world about their own nuclear intentions.

Does anyone really think that these two are going to behave themselves absent a strong U.S. presence in the region?

Here's the bottom line:

Negotiation and capitulation do not bring peace. What brings peace is judicious use of high explosives pointed at those who would claim power over others.

I don’t know about you, but I find this shirt sort of funny – in a sick sort of way, of course. What I don't find at all amusing is the over-reaction of the universities involved, and the chilling of......