Brian's Commentaries

Election Post-mortem

2008-11-11T22:16:39Z

Well, the election is over and I send President-elect Obama congratulations on his victory. I did not support him, and we agree on very few issues. Sen. John McCain waged a brave battle against considerable odds, and in the end came up short 52%-47%. He was facing a strong political headwinds all year, with our country fighting two wars, in the middle of a recession and a real-estate collapse. Despite all this, he was actually leading in mid-September when the bottom fell out of the stock and financial markets. Then everyone starting panicking and reacting reflexively against the party in power. To the extent Pres. Obama governs from the center, he will have my party's cooperation. If he goes hard-left, GOP senators will block his every move. I would like to congratulate African-American voters in California for their decisive role in voting in favor of the gay marriage ban in that state. They voted 70%-30% in support of the proposition, wjhile Hispanics voted for it by a smaller margin. Anyone who thinks a liberal wave swept over America should look at this vote, as well as successful efforts in Florida and Arizona. This is just a temporary setback, and conservatives will be back to their winning ways soon...

OJ Goes Down (Finally)

2008-10-04T19:19:01Z

Well, OJ SImpson has finally gotten his just desserts. Thirteen or so years after beating the rap for the Brown-Goldman murders, he was convicted on all charges in the casino memorabilia-kidnapping case. It couldn't happen to a more deserving dirtbag than he. While there was plenty of evidence in the past criminal case, a heavily black jury sprung him. No such jury, and so such luck this time. He's facing between 25 and 50 years, so I don't think we'll hear much more from him. Let's hope that when his Florida mansion is sold, the Brown and Goldman families will get some of the proceeds they're owed under the civil suit. You can get by, but you can't get away...

Pickens Gets It

2008-07-22T14:58:12Z

When I first watched oilman T. Boone Pickens commercials, and went to his website, I thought I was looking at a guy who had maybe been around too long. He seemed be leaning too much to wind and solar. But in a recent Senate hearing before the Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Joe Lieberman, |-Conn, he made it clear that he's for everything that isn't foreign oil. That means drilling offshore, in ANWR, using oil shale, windfarms, solar plant, and nuclear. Sen. John McCain is in agreement with all of it except for ANWR, and I think he'll eventually come around on that. He's begun running ads blaming Obama for the big recent oil increases. He is to blame, but he has company. The whole eviro-whacko wing of the Democratic party, that has consistently blocked drilling offshore, building nuclear plants, even building oil refineries. Not just Obama, but all of them must be stopped-- the whole scurvy crew.

VFF Strikes Back

2008-07-06T10:15:05Z

I take my hat off to Vetsforfreedom.com, a 501(c)(4) dedicated to counteracting the evil influence of moveon.org, the leading group of antiwar kooks on the Internet today. They are dedicated to victory as much as MoveOn is dedicated to our defeat. Sen. Obama is changing his positions so fast and furiously, he's giving his left-wing supporters whiplash. He wonders why anyone would think he's a liberal weenie, just because he has a repulsive voting record. After years of supporting gun control, partial-birth abortion, gay marriage, and being a big spender, we're supposed to believe he's changed on all of that. Well, I was born at night, but not last night. This all strains credibility to the breaking point-- he's trying to sweet-talk a few rural hunters into voting for an ardently antigun politician. Just be what you are and what you have been for years-- a socialist. Don't fall for this ridiculous charade. He's hoping for the blind ignorance and gullibility of the voting public. Click the following link to hear from a radical fellow-traveler: Obama supporter Father Michael Pfleger

Welcome to the party, Barack

2008-06-16T18:46:29Z

It was truly illuminating seeing Sen. Barack Obama speaking about the responsibility of fathers on Father's Day. He spoke at the Apostolic Church of God, a South Side Chicago megachurch known to me as one of the largest Pentecostal churches in America, affiliated (until recently) with the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. I would like to know where he has been the last few years. It's all well and good to move to the center during an election year, but was he saying these things two years ago, or four years ago? He's picking up Bill Cosby's line of argument, and Bill has taken all kinds of heat for those kind of comments over the years. I wonder how many more election years conversion positions we're going to see from him?

Barack Gets A Beat-Down

2008-05-14T15:49:15Z

For a guy who is on his way to the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama sure does show a alot of weaknesses. Hillary Clinton got 68% and thumped Obama by 41 points in West Virginia. It looks like Obamamania is running out of steam. Back in December, when Obama was the 'flavor of the week', I asked people who were going crazy for him, including my mother, what he stood for. All I heard from her and others was about how handsome he was, and how great his speeches were. No Democrat in a hundred years has won the presidency without carrying West Virginia, and Obama show great weakness here. He is also going hammered in Kentucky next week as well, since it has similar demographics as WV. As he limps towards the finish line, he looks more and more like Mike Dukakis, another notorious loser of 20 years past. This was noted by no less a person the Susan Estrich, Mike Dukakis" campaign manager!

No Fool Like An Old Fool

2008-04-28T19:29:10Z

Fomer Pres. Jimmy Carter, on his recent 'peace mission' to kiss up to the terrorist Hamas organization, has made a complete fool of himself. A weak president while in office, and a weak character since, he somehow got it into his mind that he could actually get Hamas to do something constructive by sitting down and talking to these murderers. Well, he was rather disappointed. First, they made him look ridiculous when he said they had accepted Israel's existence. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal quickly denounced that statement, saying he had agreed to 'ten-year truce' if Israel returned to pre-1967 borders. He later renounced even that. Carter also defied the US State Dept. to make his little trip to cozy up to terrorists. The Israeli ambassador to the US harshly criticized him as a 'bigot', and the father of a kidnapped Israeli soldier wasn't impressed either. Receiving a letter from his son, he condemned Carter as 'a postman for Hamas'. Sounds pretty much like a complete disaster to me.

Go Get 'Em, Lindsay!

2008-04-09T18:37:08Z

My hearty congratulations to the patriotic organization Veterans for Freedom, which held a rally for Gen. Petraeus after his Capitol hill testimony yesterday. Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, a decorated naval aviator in Vietnam, fired up the crowd saying "...we will never surrender to the extremists." But my biggest cheers go for Sen. Lindsay Graham, a reserve USAF colonel, who said the following:

"Do you know who wants to come home more than anybody?" said Graham. "Al Qaeda -- because you are kicking their ass. We are going to get you home, he told U.S. troops. But we are going to leave behind an Iraq that makes America safer."

Remember that freedom isn't free!!!

Fight Terrorism-- Foreign AND Domestic

2008-03-13T14:51:10Z

The explosion of a pipebomb last week at a recruiting station in Manhattan reminds of the threat we face here at home from dangerous domestic Weathermen leftovers. The antiwar "peace" extremist has committed several small-scale attack on military recruiting offices and personnel over the last few years. These deluded nuts are closely related to left-wing radicals at such extreme organizations as Codepink and other extremists. Law enforcement must get serious about tackling these nuisances. Just as during the Vietnam conflict, they are attempting to impede and damage our war effort against Al-Qaeda, and this cannot be allowed.

Old Terrorists DO Die...

2008-02-14T15:07:48Z

Today we celebrate the death of venerable, legendary dirtbag terrorist, Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus, Syria yesterday. Wanted for involvement in the 1983 Beirut bombing of the Marine barracks there and the murder of Navy diver Robert Stethem in 1985 during a hijacking. He was the most wanted terrorist in the world before 9/11. A high-ranking Hezbollah operative, Mughniyeh died when his car exploded. This was though to be the work of the Israeli Mossad with some help from other Western intelligence agencies (meaning the CIA). Long may he rot, and we are gratified that no matter how long it takes, we're going to get all of these vermin. Iran, who finances Hezbollah, released a statement condeming Israel. Well, we know where Hezbollah's home address is, don't we?

US Out-- of Berkeley

2008-02-04T14:34:59Z

So, the Berkeley, CA City Council has passed yet another irritating antiwar resolution. They have declared the US Marine recruiting office in their city is not welcome "due to their discriminatory policy against gays and lesbians in the military." What a bunch of idiots. The policy is determined by the Congress and the President of United States. If you don't like it, contact them. To harass our brave fighting soldiers during wartime is a grave insult. This dopey resolution, a throwback to the 60's, refers to the US' "history of launching illegal, immoral, and unprovoked wars of aggression...". What a bunch of knuckleheads. I hope if we find any terrorists in Berkeley, we just let them go to commit their mayhem their. These nutballs don't deserve the protection of the armed forces of the United States, or any Federal agenies. Hank Adler, of Chapman University, proposed that all Federal agencies be withdrawn from within the boundaries of Berkeley. I applaud his wise proposal-- it should be implemented immediately. The city government has, outrageously, given Code Pink knucklehead special parking permits to harass the Marines. Since willfully impeding recruitment into the Armed Services is a federal crime, the local US Attorney should prosecute!

The Eclipse of Microsoft?

2008-01-29T13:22:34Z

I've been a Microsoft customer for many years, and I think they added a great deal to our mighty technological civilization. I also believe that they have made enough money, and we may need to find some alternatives to their 90% dominance of the world computer market. Recently, a Linux-based graphics-oriented system called gOS has been released, and is being marketed by Google. This system is definitely geared towards the tech-savvy teens and twentysomethings of the 21st century. It has icons for a quick connection to Wikipedia and social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube. Best of all, it's free, and completely open-source. No more shelling out $300 for a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate! It has the Firefox browser, and the OpenOffice look-alike of Microsoft Office 2003. It's compatible with preexisting Office files as well. I've tried out the system, and it seems to run fairly reliably. Walmart has a $200 PC available running this system, which is considerably less than a similar $350 Windows Vista system with the same hardware. This show that Microsoft's weight on the PC industry is heavy indeed. So strike a blow for the forces of liberation, and try gOS!

"He That Liveth By The Sword...

2008-01-15T17:34:32Z

...shall perish by the sword", as the Scripture tells us. Here pictured is Hussam Zahar, 24, son of Palestinian Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, who died fighting Israeli military units in the Gaza strip. This definitely not a man of peace. He had already lost an elder brother several years ago during an unsuccessful Israeli asassination attempt on his father. As President Bush toured the Mideast, Islamic radicals continue to stir up trouble and conduct terrorist attacks throughout the region. We support PA President Mahmoud Abbas in his attempt to find a peaceful solution to differences with Israel. The forces of civilization must prevail against these evil militants!

Rush is King

2008-01-07T18:45:43Z

Congratulations to Maha Rushie! The Number One radio talk show host has been named "Man of the Year" by Human Events magazine. They are recognizing his towering defense of conservative principles all through the year. He was attacked by the Left on several different occasions, including an unprecedented assault on him by Senate Majority Leader 'Dingy' Harry Reid. This was the famous 'phony soldier' story, where Reid and his nefarious tools attempted to twist Rush's words. Rush astutely pointed out a supposedly antiwar soldier who in fact was a fraud who never served in Iraq as he claimed. Reid jumped on this "case" and denounced Rush, a private citizen, on the floor of the Senate. This kind of tactic hasn't been used since the McCarthy era. He and his co-asassins were proven wrong, and Rush turned the tables by auctioning off a complaint letter signed by 44 Senate Democrat for $2.1 million. Matching it with an identical amount, Rush donated the entire $4.2 million to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. Rush is truly a King among men.

Giuliani for President, A Tested Leader

2008-01-02T18:06:43Z

Today, right before the Iowa Caucuses, I am announcing my pick for President of United States. I am proud to endorse former NYC Mayor Rudi Giuliani for President. As a conservative, I have looked carefully over all of the well-qualified GOP candidates for president, and Rudy impresses me most of all. More than anything else, I am a national security conservative, and I am thoroughly convinced that Rudy will defend this country with determination and vigor. He proved his metal by showing strong leadership during one of our nation's darkest hours, the 9-11 Attack on NYC's World Trade Center. He also showed strength and determination in fighting organized crime in NY as a US Attorney under President Ronald Reagan. We do have some differences in social issues, but he wisely promised to appoint conservative judges in the mold of Justices Scalia and Thomas. That's good enough for me. Other candidates, like Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas are stronger on moral issues, but go soft on law enforcement and illegal immigration. We would all sleep more soundly with Rudy Giuliani as president in these turbulent times.