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I guess I'll count myself in that group.
In a fight, everybody has a plan until they get hit. In this remarkable story about Melinda Gates and her struggles with the constantly changing plans of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the American Thinker draws a remarkable parallel to the constantly changing plans in war.
As reported by Brit Hume, last week in Jena, LA Jesse Jackson said, "there is something wrong with a country where there are more black youths in jail than in college." This is a popular urban legend.
Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star takes an interesting look at the things being ignored in the case of the Jena 6. He's African American, which shouldn't matter, but otherwise he'd be called a racist cracker. I suppose he'll be called an Uncle Tom, instead.
Came across this today and thought you might be interested to see it.
No, not that war. I'm talking about the War on Poverty. One that has destroyed untold numbers of lives and yielded more poverty. But do liberals want to get out of this quagmire? Nope, they want to rush headlong into it. Keep in mind that for liberals intentions count for more than results, even really, really bad results.
How were we supposed to create an Ice Age? The same way we're supposed to create global warming.
Charlie Rangel, D-NY and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is continuing to call for huge tax hikes. Surprise, surprise, the liberal media is ignoring it. Newsbusters.org has the skinny on this fat tax hike, though.
News out of the Benton County Republican Committee meeting last night is that Vickey Boozman, widow of the late Dr. Fay Boozman, has announced her candidacy for House Seat 99. The seat is currently held by Horace Hardwick, RINO, who is term limited, thankfully.
As I mentioned yesterday, John Brummett's column in response to the bumbling of Karen Ray was so off base it was embarras- sing. Huckabee wasn't known to be pro-illegal alien until long after he was reelected for the last time, so it obviously had nothing to do with his previous popularity. It has a lot to do with his current unpopularity with Arkansas Republicans, though, among other things.
Dave Elswick, KARN host, and Grant Exton, who were major supporters of Stand Your Ground legislation during the previous session, started the Arkansas Concealed Carry Association this past year to help organize law abiding gun owners to defend our rights. Elswick does a superb job of giving voice to this and other issues on his show. The ARCCA is a natural extension of that.

Hillary won't pledge troop withdrawal. Didn't I already predict that? Yep, I think I did.
Wanna read some superb analysis of the Karen Ray Email Debacle? Try his latest column.
Michael Smith, a running back for the Hogs, who made a crucial fumble against Kentucky on Saturday night, was arrested on Sunday for using a stolen credit card. Coach Nutt has suspended him indefinitely.
Nothing yet on the results of the RPA Executive Committee meeting. But Andrew DeMillo, Arkansas AP writer, has some interesting analysis of the boat Gov. Beebe and Karen Ray find themselves in. As I've mentioned before, they've both had some trouble expressing themselves.
You read that right. This is one of the premier democrat mouthpieces. Read this if you think you can stomach it.
It appears that this was a previously scheduled meeting, but the Executive Committee of the RPA is meeting tonight. I have been informed that the #1 topic on the agenda will be Karen Ray and the email debacle. My sources suggest that she will probably weather the storm. How effective she will be dealing with county committees and rank and file Republicans from now on is questionable, though, given how insulting her comments were.
Looks like we're getting some interest in this topic, so I thought I'd move it up the queue. No word yet on the results of a rumored conference call about Karen Ray's actions.
Speaking at the Clinton School, Gov. Beebe and 3 other democrat governors echoed his recent statements that dealing with illegal aliens should be a federal issue.
Rep. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, has announced that she will challenge incumbent State Senator Irma Hunter Brown, D-Little Rock, for her seat next cycle. Elliott is one of the most effective and ultra-liberal members of the legislature. She is commited to the liberal cause and very cunning. Sen. Brown, who was the first black woman elected to the Arkansas legislature, is pretty fair-minded and deserves another term. I'm rooting for her.
A soldier sets up a picture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, illustrating that terrorists are, indeed, allergic to bullets. Bombs have also been found to cause severe reactions. A recent rash of bullets and bombs aimed at terrorists in the Diyala province of Iraq has resulted in an increasing number of deaths and injuries to this group which was once thought impervious to disease, ahem, defeat.
Tom Coburn is rising in prominence in the U.S. Senate. Hopefully, Republicans will follow his lead and stop trying to beat the democrats in the spending category.
Not if you're a liberal writer at the New Republic. Despite the actual results of lower taxes---economic and revenue growth---liberals just refuse to believe the facts. This is true of long established economic numbers and numbers from today that demonstrate that somehow government revenue has grown at a lower tax rate. The opposite is true and easy to demonstrate, as well. Just look at any period of high taxes in our history. They go hand in hand with economic slumps and slow (if any) growth. Or just look around the world today. You can see capital flowing into low tax economies and out of high tax economies.
As a friend once pointed out, what Americans call poor would have made kings envious a hundred years ago. Big screen TVs, indoor plumbing, air conditioning, refrigerators, microwaves, cars, cell phones...
Karen Ray, ED of the RPA, has gone over the line with this one. Apparently, she sent a legislator an email excoriating him for what she called "feel good legislation" that makes Republicans look racist, in reference to any legislation that would seek to stem the tide of illegal aliens in Arkansas.
That's a hard choice. Both are annoying forms of torture, but I'm going to have to go with Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
When we have a whole segment of our country calling for our defeat that's a good question.
From the Where Are They Now files, whatever happened to the claims that Global Warming was going to bring lots of hurricanes this season and last, ad infinitum?
What a surprise. If this was a conservative organization, the news would be that the organization has a systemic problem and is reeling and that the Republican Party is falling apart.
That's the Max Brantley's favorite source, by the way.
9 months ago the democrats were saying that there was no way that we could be successful militarily in Iraq. As the good news rolled in, they started saying we weren't being successful politically. Last night, after the president's address, the democrats responded with their pat answer that we would never experience political success in Iraq. Since their other predictions have failed, it struck me. What are they going to say when we acheive political success?
"I can here you! I can here you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people -- and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!"
Sorry, Johnny, that flag is offensive. It's the symbol of evil, racist, imperialistic, multi-national corporate rule...
Or, some might say, congresswoman, as in Eleanor Holmes Norton, the radical liberal non-voting "congresswoman" from Washington, D.C.
David Sanders has a column about the lemming rush to raise the severance tax on natural gas. I don't think the governor will like it, but hopefully he'll listen to some reason. If not, we're bound to add to one more tax. Of course, that's seems the be the way of things. If something is profitable, it must be taxed. And the protection racket gets bigger, while we get smaller. It's amazing how a handful of rants by a kook (Max Brantley) can change the governor's mind.
I guess this was just a ruse to sell bumper stickers, cause we all know the War on Terror is just a bumper sticker slogan. Right?
I'll say. Not being aborted is the real human right. Thank God for a good pope.
"HELP, HELP, DEMOCRATS!!! George Bush is TORTURING ME!!!!"
Having been smoked by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker yesterday democrats are waiting for their latest talking points to respond. This is apparent on the ArkTimes blog, where little was said after their testimony other than rehashing the same preemptive attacks which were disproven in testimony.
Check out this neat little trick from Max Brantley at the ArkTimes blog.
Ike Skelton, D-MO, Chairman of the House Armed Services Commit- tee, speaks of bad news being "trouble- some". What is trouble- some is that a man holding his position is so proud to make pronouncements of our inevitable defeat. Good grief. More updates as the day goes on.
One of the most remarkable things about this hearing is the preemptive strikes by Chairman Lantos and Chairman Skelton on the character of General Petraeus.
Another note: Another pro-defeat kook was just escorted from the room, after the latest hysterical outburst. If the situation was the other way around, you can be sure that a major story would be how embarrassing this should be for us. It ought to be embarrassing to the democrats on the committee, but the media is unlikely to make much of it.
Politicians in Britain are suggesting that people with "unhealthy" lifestyles shouldn't receive health care. This is what happens when the government pays for things with your tax money. Remember the old saw, a government powerful enough to give everything is powerful enough to take everything away.
Director Brian De Palma, who did the same thing to Vietnam vets with his Casualties of War anti-American propaganda movie, has recently released an Iraq War version. In it he graphically depicts the rape of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her entire family by American servicemen. Just like Casualties of War, Redacted, which the film is titled, is designed to reinforce the John Kerry-styled assault on the valor and honor of our fighting men.
A recent headline on Drudge caught my eye. It read, "POLL: English believe environmental fears being used as excuse to raise taxes..."
Better late. Fred Thompson announced last night that he is running for president on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has said that the language in the ballot initiative to ban adoption or foster parenting by unmarried, cohabitating adults doesn't pass his muster---surprise, surprise. Liberals at the Arkansas Times blog are understandably glad to hear it, since such a measure would surely pass a statewide vote.
That's trick #1. For months everybody's been calling the upcoming report by General Petraeus "the Petraeus Report". But, in an effort to undermine our obvious success, democrats are beginning to call it "the Bush Report", to make it appear that anything positive that is reported by the general is a rosey, political report made up by the White House.
In a survey entitled Survey: Less Than Half Of All Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory the fallacy that Global Warming is "accepted science" is exposed.
Can you imagine the outcry if Tom Tancredo led passage of a law to put illegal aliens in straightjackets for deportation? It would be called racism, but what do you call it when real live Spanish people do it to illegals in their country? What do you call the brutal treatment the Mexican government metes to its illegal immigrants? Is that racist, too?
Tim McQuillan (left) and Sean Fritz (right) were "married" in Des Moine, Iowa as a result of Judge Robert Hanson overturning the state's ban on gay marriage. This happy pair was the only one that was able to meet the window to make this happen before the judge ordered a stay to his own judgment.
"To address climate change, we must use more wood, not less. Using wood sends a signal to the market- place to grow more trees and to produce more wood."
Well that may be stretching it, but I'm having a hard time coming up with many better. If Max Brantley calls someone the "Worst. senator. ever." (sic), they're probably someone I should like.
Katie Couric, CBS anchorwoman, has been forced to change her story on Iraq like others who have visited recently. This all comes after years of carping about our inability to succeed.
Those curtains should be red.
Of course, we all know that George Bush invented the War on Terror for political gain. So, pay no attention to Al Qaeda's threats to attack us.
Thank God for Mississippi is a favorite refrain here in Arkansas. Apparently, the people in Mississippi, though the poorest in the nation, are thankful for food, because they eat a lot of it.
This one goes out to Hillary.
I guess that explains the heavy breathing.

After saying that Americans should give up their SUVs John Edwards announced that he's keeping his. What a surprise.
Any time I can recommend something by Dr. Sowell (which is any time he writes something) it's a real pleasure.