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May 13, 2008 Liberal IQ After a six-week convalescence, I began driving again and learned how much the price of gasoline has increased. I love it! Despite a 120 mile round-trip daily work commute, I get excited when the price of gas goes up because I hold out hope that it will lead to a corresponding rise in the IQ of liberal Americans. Logic dictates that if liberals must pay out their noses for gas, they will make an effort to learn why it costs what it does. With that realization, they will then take steps to help lower the price. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be working because they still recite their ignorant litany of reasons for the high gas prices: Bush, Cheney, Big Oil, Halliburton, space aliens, etc. There is one cause for high gas prices and one cause alone—supply and demand. And there is only one solution to high gas prices—America must drill and refine its own oil. Period. If liberals could just understand those two basic truths, their IQs would increase dramatically and we would be well on the way to lower gas prices and energy independence. But their IQs are not rising and so they prevent us from drilling for oil in Alaska, the Dakotas, Montana, off the continental shelves, and in the Gulf of Mexico—areas that could provide us with all the oil we need well into the future. Instead, they sit back and line the pockets of the OPEC nations while complaining about our dependency on Arab oil and the price of gasoline in the United States. I’m not sure of the amount, but there is a gasoline price tag out there high enough to cause a considerable uptick in the IQ of liberals. We may be on course to learning just what that is. Copyrighted © 2008 –
Joseph K. Waltenbaugh
Recycled Lies The recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI has allowed the political left and the mainstream news media to recycle one of their favorite lies: pedophile priests in the Catholic Church. As they did when the church scandal first broke, the left and the media continue to avoid the truth when reporting this issue. Pedophilia was never a problem in the Catholic Church. That was just the term applied to it by those who could not admit the real issue to themselves or to the public. The real problem was homosexual priests recruiting teenage boys. Had the problem been pedophilia, young girls would have been paraded out as victims, but that wasn’t the case. The victims were all boys in their mid to late teenage years. Many will not admit that fact because they see nothing wrong with homosexuality. Ironically, they insist that homosexual scout leaders be allowed unbridled access to America’s youth, and they are quick to chastise anyone who takes steps to prevent that access. Also, they lie to us and to themselves by reporting that homosexual men do not recruit young, impressionable teenagers. The fact is they do recruit, and what transpired with the homosexual priests is proof of that fact. The real scandal in the Catholic Church was that church leaders turned a blind eye to the number of homosexual men infiltrating the priesthood. It was these homosexual men who then made overtures to the impressionable teenage boys under their charge. Fortunately, the church has now revamped its screening process for prospective priests and has weeded out many who should not have been ordained. But the political left and the news media will continue to push the pedophilia lie because they hate the Catholic Church and they don’t want to offend their friends in the homosexual community. Copyrighted © 2008 –
Joseph K. Waltenbaugh
Terminator Remember the movie Terminator? It tells the story of a time in the future when machines rise up and attempt to destroy the very humanity that created them. Then after decades of war, and on the eve of losing the war, the machines find a way to send one of their own—a terminator—back into the past to kill the person responsible for leading the humans to victory over them. A good story line, but it doesn’t have anything to do with reality. Or does it? Here in the reality of the present day, we see the story line of Terminator taking shape and playing out in the political landscape right before our very eyes. The political machine in the Republican Party has risen up, and it is systematically attempting to destroy the very thing that formed and created the modern-day Republican Party—conservatism. Its weapon is a liberal terminator in the form of John McCain who, like the movie terminator, appears unstoppable using conventional weapons. Now he is even attempting to reach back into the past and destroy the founder of the modern-day Republican Party—Ronald Reagan. By attempting to link himself with Reagan and claiming that they have identical values and beliefs, he hopes to undermine the philosophical underpinnings of conservatism. But it won’t work. In the movie, the terminator is himself terminated, and in the real world, the same fate awaits John McCain. Come November, he will be relegated to the ash heap of history where he belongs. Then, after his defeat in November and four years of socialist drift brought to us by incompetent Democrat leadership, a new, revitalized—and conservative—Republican Party will emerge to once again claim its rightful place as the true protector of individual freedom. Copyrighted © 2008 –
Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Mr. President He’s bright. He’s articulate. He’s attractive. He’s experienced. And he’s extremely qualified. He’s the worst nightmare of Democrats and the news media. He’s Mitt Romney. And both the Democrats and the media know he will be the next president of the United States if he gets the Republican Party’s nomination. Therefore, through lies and obfuscation, they will do whatever is necessary to prevent his nomination. That won’t be easy for them because of Romney’s resume. He was an incredibly successful businessman and he was also a competent and successful governor. Therefore, he brings to the office a broad understanding of business and government, something this country desperately needs. The dirty little secret is that both the Democrats and the news media know that there are only three candidates qualified to become the chief executive of the United States (i.e. Romney, Huckabee, and Guiliani), and Romney is the most qualified of the three. The Democrat stable of candidates is completely devoid of any executive experience or qualification, and the Democrats and media know this. That is why they are desperately trying to push McCain as the Republican nominee who is as deeply flawed and unqualified as the Democrat candidates. But besides being unqualified, John McCain is not a real Republican, and he will not get the nomination no matter how much the media tries to force him down our throats. But that doesn’t mean they will give up. They will try to boost McCain by destroying Romney, and they will call Romney every name in the book to try and damage him. But regardless of the names they call him, there is one name they will eventually have to utter when speaking of Mitt Romney next January, and that name is Mr. President. Copyrighted © 2008 –
Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Wish List Christmas is approaching, and it’s time to compose that wish list to send to Santa. So what will al-Qaeda ask for this year? I think it’s obvious: 1) America’s surrender in Iraq; 2) the pulling of American troops out of Iraq; and 3) freedom for al-Qaeda to plan attacks on the American homeland without interference from the American military and intelligence services. And what will Democrats ask Santa for this year? Again, it’s fairly obvious: 1) America’s surrender in Iraq; 2) the pulling of American troops out of Iraq; and 3) freedom for al-Qaeda to plan attacks on the American homeland without interference from the American military and intelligence services. It’s getting harder and harder to draw distinctions between the philosophies of al-Qaeda and the Democrats. Unfortunately, if the Democrats get their wish, it won’t be coal that America gets in its Christmas stocking this year; it will more likely be a severed head or a roadside bomb. But don’t be frightened or disheartened because Democrats won’t get their wish. Despite the fact they have abandoned our fighting youth by refusing to provide the military with the financial support it needs; our troops are being victorious and have almost driven al-Qaeda completely out of Iraq. Now we must take action to complete the victory by endeavoring to drive the Democrats completely out of Washington. But let’s face it. We will never truly be rid of Islamic religious extremists as we will never truly be rid of Democrat political extremists. All we can do is keep our collective foot on their throats and never give them room to breathe.
Copyrighted © 2007 –
Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Web of Lies It began as a series of
individual lies told by Joseph Wilson about the president, vice-president, and As a part of a witch hunt, the
gang of liars set their sights on Mr. Libby because he had had the audacity to
expose the lies of Joseph Wilson, a beloved figure to the American Left.
They set upon him with all the lies they could muster, and they found
sympathetic accomplice in the form of a special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald.
It’s hard to imagine anyone
being a bigger liar than Joe Wilson, but Fitzgerald gave him a run for his
money. Fitzgerald lied to the public
prior to the Libby trial, lied to the jury during the trial, and continued lying
after the trial. Of course, the
media perpetuated his lies and those of Joseph Wilson, and it continues to do so
today. And let’s not forget the
judge in the trial. He permitted the
lies and used his position to block the introduction of truth into his
courtroom. As I said before, Mr. Libby is
the only one in this whole travesty who appeared to tell the truth, and
unfortunately, he is the one going to jail.
If this isn’t a wake-up call to conservatives and Republicans of the
need to stand up against the tyranny of left-wing ideology and the dishonesty
that permeates the news media and the Democrat Party, I don’t know what is.
Copyrighted © 2007 –
Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Black Hearts I went on vacation immediately
after the mid-term election, and I was wearing my “Lynn Swann for Governor”
hat. Although the election is over,
I like the hat and continue to wear it. When someone unfamiliar with our governor’s race asked if the candidate had won, I told him that Pennsylvania is a Democrat state, and unfortunately, white Democrats don’t vote for blacks. He looked aghast at my claim and pointed out that there are elected black politicians. In response, I offered a further explanation. Of the few elected black
officials out there, they tend to come from smaller electoral regions where the
population of blacks is greater, such as congressional districts like The problem arises when you
increase the electoral region to the size of a state that diminishes the overall
concentration of blacks. As a
result,
you see more black members in the U.S. House of Representatives than you do in
the U.S. Senate, of which there is currently one and only because of an odd
situation where no white candidate was running. Michael Steele in Maryland—one
of the most impressive candidates this season—almost became the second black
senator; however, he ran into the white Democrat wall as did Lynn Swann in
Pennsylvania and Ken Blackwell in Ohio.
Instead, In the pro-life movement,
it is often said that the real challenge is to change the hearts of the
abortion advocates. Perhaps, in the
effort to elect more black candidates, work must be done to change the hearts of
white Democrats, if they even have hearts. Copyrighted © 2006 –
Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Axis of Evil Is it possible to be a Democrat and still be an American? Likewise, is it possible to be a member of the major news media and remain an American? Years ago such questions would have been deemed outrageous, but today they are legitimate questions in light of the behavior of both the Democrat Party and the American news media. Shortly after the attacks of
9/11, President Bush defined the Axis of Evil that included With the approach of the
mid-term elections, al-Qaeda has stepped up its attacks in So does Copyrighted © 2006 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Kill the Jews They speak
with one voice, and their message comes through loud and clear:
Kill the Jews! No, I’m not
talking about Hezbollah and Hamas. I’m
talking about the United Nations, the mainstream news media, and liberals in
general. On June 7,
1981, Fortunately,
Israel
knows how to deal with the anti-Semitic hatred and attacks coming from of the
likes of the U.N. and the liberal news media.
And it does so with rockets and an overwhelming military force aimed at
the perpetrators of world discord and terror, the diabolical Hezbollah and its
enablers, In end,
Israel
may again save the world. And while
it is saving the world, we will be forced to endure an unrelenting chorus of “Kill
the Jews” sung by an ungrateful world and led by the U.N. and the liberal news
media. People often
wonder why I so detest the United Nations, mainstream news media, and liberal
ideology. The answer is clear.
It’s their message: Kill
the Jews! Copyrighted © 2006 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Death of Islam As I watch Muslims commit murder and violently
demonstrate in the streets over what they view as the
humiliation of Islam through the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed, I
am struck by the dichotomy with another religion.
537 years before Mohammed was
even born, another religious leader was held up in ridicule by means of one of
the most humiliating methods of that time—crucifixion.
But instead of resorting to murder and violence, his followers turned the
tables and did something that totally baffled and eventually disarmed their
opponents. They embraced the symbol of humiliation and turned it into
the peaceful symbol of their religion. And
from that day forward, the cross became the symbol of Christianity. Islam would do well to take a
lesson from Christianity, but it won’t. It
can’t. Unfortunately, Islam is
stuck in the 12th century. It
inherently believes that it can prevail through violence, murder, and
intimidation, but that path will inevitably lead to its own destruction.
Civilized society of the 21st century has been as tolerant as
can be expected despite the beheadings, bombings, and uncivilized prodding of
militant Muslims and the silent approval of the rest of Islam; however, even a
civilized society will reach its breaking point.
And when it does, watch out. The 12th century
seems dead set on having an ultimate battle with the 21st century
with all the death and destruction it can muster. And when this Super Bowl of civilization takes place, the
smart money is on the 21st century.
What we may be witnessing here is the death of Islam.
And unfortunately for Muslims, they appear to be the ones promoting their
own demise.
Copyrighted © 2006 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Elephant in the Room The indictments have been
issued in the CIA leak investigation, and it appears that Lewis “Scooter”
Libby, has been accused of having lied about not having committed a crime that
wasn’t committed and wasn’t a crime. Got that?
No? Well then let me repeat
it. Special Counsel Patrick
Fitzgerald has accused Mr. Libby of having lied about not having committed a
crime that wasn’t committed and wasn’t a crime. If you’re having trouble
following that pretzel logic, congratulations, you’re a sane, rational human
being living outside of the Capitol beltway.
Only in Washington do they think in such terms. One of the most disturbing
things about Mr. Fitzgerald’s investigation is that it took him two years to
come up with such convoluted charges. In
reality, the investigation should have lasted no more than five minutes because
that’s how long it takes to learn that Valerie Plame, CIA employee and wife of
Joseph Wilson, was not a covert agent and hadn’t been a covert agent for more
than five years. Therefore,
according to the law, it was legal to tell anyone her name and where she worked. That’s the elephant in the room that Mr. Fitzgerald and the
press have been trying to ignore. Instead of ending his investigation when he first bumped into the elephant, Mr. Fitzgerald dragged it along for two years until he could manufacture a crime. And even in that, he failed miserably. But what would you expect? He’s a government lawyer, and by definition, he’s not the cream of the crop. As such, Mr. Libby should have
little trouble proving his innocence. After
all, there’s still that elephant in the room.
You can’t miss it. It’s
sitting next the other elephant, the one that exposes Joseph Wilson’s lies
that were the impetus for this whole fiasco. Copyrighted © 2005 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Snobs and Elitists President
Bush summed it up very well when he commented on the “chatter” circulating
about Harriet Myers, his nominee for the Supreme Court.
I have to agree. There is a
lot of chatter out there—ignorant, hysterical, elitist chatter—and much of
it centers on the allegation that Ms. Myers lacks the intellectual capacity to
interpret the Constitution. The
Constitution with its preamble and amendments consists of approximately 8,000
words. Contrary to popular belief,
interpreting an 8,000-word document is not that difficult.
It’s definitely not brain surgery, and it doesn’t require an
intellectual elitist to figure out what it means.
After all, it was written by common men, most of whom were farmers. In fact, it
has been the intellectual elitists on the Supreme Court that have bastardized
the Constitution over the years. The
intellectual elitists were the ones that gave us the Roe v. Wade Decision where
they said the Constitution endorses the killing of unborn children.
The intellectual elitists were the ones that gave us the Dred Scott
Decision where they said the Constitution endorses slavery.
And most recently, the intellectual elitists were the ones that gave us
the Kelo v. New London, Connecticut Decision where they said the Constitution
endorses the unbridled taking of private property in order to increase the
wealth of government. I’m pretty
sick of the intellectual elitists on the Supreme Court, and I’d welcome
someone who doesn’t ascribe to their arrogant and foolish elitism.
Someone with a humble, down-to-earth understanding of life and the
Constitution would be a welcome change. I
don’t know if Harriet Myers fits that bill or if she is that type of person,
but she may well be. It’s
possible we could find out very soon unless the intellectual snobs have their
way.
Copyrighted © 2005 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Media Insurgency It
began as a war against President Bush, but it has morphed into a full-fledged
war against America. Not only must
we contend with foreign terrorists, now we must contend with an American media
insurgency aiding and abetting them. Why
the American media would throw-in with terrorists is beyond understanding.
Why suicide reporters would completely destroy their credibility in order
to jeopardize our lives and injure our nation is mind-boggling. Americans
take a risk every time they open a newspaper or turn on a television news
program because it is unknown when a media insurgent will attack their
patriotism, intelligence, and sensibilities.
Suicide reporters don’t care how unpatriotic or how stupid they appear
as long as they can wreak havoc on America’s goals of security and success. Their assault on America doesn’t
stop at national defense either; they also seek our economic ruin.
They whip up discontent over the price of gasoline while spreading lies
and misconceptions that prevent the drilling and refining of our own oil.
And on a personal economic level, they lie about the state of social
security and try to make everyone believe that it is solvent and doesn’t need
reformed. After all, a poor and
desperate population is easier to convince that America is evil and deserves to
be defeated. Call me naïve, but I don’t
believe the American media insurgency will prevail. It may have the full support of the Democrat Party, but I
truly believe that both are doomed to failure.
America’s greatness will ultimately prevail, and the foreign terrorists
along with the America media and the Democrat Party will be defeated.
The demise of the Democrat Party is already at hand. The fall of the
American media and the terrorists is only a matter of time. Copyrighted © 2005 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Terminal Divorce It’s the hottest trend in
American society and jurisprudence, and it’s a real boon to those championing
male machismo. The only thing
missing is a catchy name to make everyone rush out and try it.
How about this one, “terminal divorce”?
Okay, so it’s not so catchy, but at least it’s descriptive.
If you don’t like that one, try one of these: “lethal divorce,” “physician-assisted
divorce,” or maybe even “divorcenasia.” If you’re a married man—and
you must be a man—who wants to get in on this latest trend, all you have to do
is kill your wife, preferably by starvation and dehydration.
There is no paper work to complete.
No licenses to purchase. And
definitely no living wills or advanced directives required.
All that’s necessary is that you claim your wife wants it this way.
No one will question what you
say and do. But even if someone
does, the American courts will stick up for you and grant you carte blanche to
do whatever you want. You get to
keep the house, cars, and all the money, and then you can go hang out with
Michael Schiavo and all the liberal elites.
Even the women’s movement will consider you a hero.
And here’s the best part. If
your wife happens to be pregnant at the time, you gain bonus points with the
American Left—two for the price of one! So go ahead and pull the plug.
And if there is no plug, no problem!
Just lock her in the closet and stop feeding her.
It will be a “blissful” experience for her, and she’ll probably
thank you for it. Copyrighted © 2005 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Passion Play It is being referred to as a
modern day crucifixion, a poignant and applicable description.
The reference is even more relevant because it is being played out during
Passion Week. Of course, I’m
referring to the execution of Terri Schiavo. It is a passion play with all
the markings of another infamous execution. There is the betrayer, Michael Schiavo, conspiring and
arranging the murder out of hate, greed, or selfishness.
There are the tormented family members and friends of the victim,
watching in horror from the sidelines, pleading for mercy while their friend,
their sister, their helpless innocent child is brutalized and murdered.
There is the judiciary sitting
in judgment and condoning the execution while sanctimoniously washing its hands
for all to see. And there is the
American Left, demanding her death while crying out in their blood lust, “Her
blood be on us and on our children!” Lastly,
there is the left-wing media, lying and giving false testimony about the victim
in order to seal her fate. The torture is unconscionable,
the execution an abomination. It
only demonstrates that we are no more civilized or compassionate than we were in
33 A.D. Terri Schiavo is being
killed because she is disabled and helpless. She is being killed because a tyrannical liberal judiciary
will not uphold the basic tenets of life. She
is being killed because the disabled, the innocent, and the helpless are
considered disposable in our society. If Terri Schiavo were a convicted murderer, a terrorist, an endangered animal, or even a tree, the judiciary and the American Left would not tolerate her execution. But she is an innocent human being, unable to defend herself, and that fact dooms her. Like a lamb led to the slaughter, she opens not her mouth. What a powerful Easter message! Too bad no one is listening. Copyrighted © 2005 – Joseph K.
Waltenbaugh Angels Among Us On the day before the election, I expressed my greatest fear: Iranians, Palestinians, Iraqi insurgents, and al Qaeda terrorists dancing in the streets at the news of George W. Bush’s defeat. They did it after the 9/11 attacks, and I knew they would do it again because a defeat of the president would have been a defeat of America. It could be compared to
Mogadishu. For those who get their history from Hollywood, Mogadishu,
Somalia, was highlighted in the film Black Hawk Down.
It is where Islamic fundamentalists—trained and financed by Osama bin
Laden—killed eighteen U.S. soldiers in 1993.
The reaction by the Clinton administration was to immediately cut and
run, and that caused Osama bin Laden to conclude that we are weak and
vulnerable. The lethal result was
September 11, 2001. Had America’s enemies run
George W. Bush out of office, they would have again concluded that we are weak
and vulnerable, and the result could have been much worse than 9/11.
Fortunately, Osama bin Laden underestimated the grit and resolve of the
American people just as he underestimated the grit and resolve of our president. Like it or not, George W. Bush
symbolizes America’s strength to the world, and our vote on November 2nd
confirmed that strength to our enemies and our allies.
As a result, we will be safer over the next four years. Any other outcome would have proved disastrous. In his inaugural address after the
tumultuous 2000 election, President Bush referenced a letter written to Thomas
Jefferson by Virginia statesman John Page after the signing of the Declaration
of Independence. In his letter,
Page asked the question: “Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and
directs this Storm?” It’s comforting to know the Angel still rides with us. Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Hanoi John The more things change, the more they stay the same. How true, especially when talking about John Kerry. John Kerry likes to boast of his time spent in Vietnam, but other Vietnam veterans have now exposed the truth of his unsavory Vietnam antics. But that’s not the most troubling aspect of Kerry’s past. The real problem lies in what he did upon his return from Vietnam. Always the self-promoter, Kerry sought to propel himself into the political limelight using unabashed anti-Americanism as the vehicle to get there. It didn’t matter that the lives of Americans and South Vietnamese were at stake. All that mattered—and all that still matters—was the political ascendancy of John Kerry. John Kerry colluded with enemies of the United States to help orchestrate our loss in the Vietnam War. He openly admits going to Paris in 1970 to meet with a delegation of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong who used him as a pawn to undermine our war effort at home. (“Useful idiots” is how the Communists referred to the likes of John Kerry.) As a result of Kerry’s actions and the actions of others like Jane Fonda, the United States lost the war in Vietnam, and Kerry was awarded an honorary spot on the wall of the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. His picture still hangs there today as a testament to Americans who helped the Vietnamese Communists defeat the United States. Now Kerry is engaged in the same kind of demoralizing activity with regard to Iraq and the whole war on terrorism. Not much has changed since his post-Vietnam days. The anti-American words and tactics are the same; only the time and place are different. Like I said, the more things change, the more they stay the same.Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Gutter PoliticsHave you ever met an alcoholic? No, not the guy lying in the gutter with an empty bottle of
Ripple. He’s not an alcoholic.
If you don’t believe me, just ask him. It’s the guy down the street,
the one with the nice wife and kids. He’s
the alcoholic, and he’ll openly admit it.
He hasn’t had a drink in years, but he’ll assure you that he’s an
alcoholic. There’s one thing all
admitted alcoholics have in common. They
all had to hit rock bottom before they were able to pull themselves out of the
gutter. Afterward, they must
totally abstain from alcohol because one drink could send them right back
to the gutter. In a sense, we’re all
recovering alcoholics. We hit
bottom with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Then, amid our surprise, disbelief, and despair, we resolved to pull
ourselves out of the gutter and take committed action to see that it never
happens again. Inspired by the
steely determination of George W. Bush, we fixed our gaze on success and
victory. We knew what had to be
done, and we were willing to do it. We
would never forget 9/11. Well, we have forgotten—at
least some have—and the news media and the Democrat Party are to blame.
With the 9/11 images hidden, we are told that 9/11 really didn’t happened or that it could never
happen again. We’re offered the
cup of complacency, liberalism, and cowardice, and too many are quick to take
the drink that leads straight back to the gutter. We are now faced with a choice. Will we remain vigilant with President Bush and take the
fight to those who seek to destroy us, or will we join John Kerry in the gutter,
drunk on our own indecision and complacency? Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh A ParadoxI
know a very well respected man—a family man—who walks around town wearing a John
Kerry for President button. I guess it’s what you’d describe as a
paradox. Claiming
to be a Roman Catholic, he sends his children to the Church to learn that it is
immoral to kill a child in its mother’s womb, and yet he supports John Kerry
who protects and promotes abortion. He
is concerned about his retirement investments and his college tuition savings,
and yet he supports John Kerry who promises to take more of those investments
away through higher taxes on capital gains and dividends. He
complains that the public schools cannot educate his children and that private
and parochial school tuition is too high, and yet he supports John Kerry who
refuses to reform public education and will not support school vouchers that
would enable him to use his tax money to send his children to the best schools,
public or private. He
wants a strong, independent country, and yet he supports John Kerry who promises
to subordinate our national interests and defense to the veto of the United
Nations. He
wants the country and his neighborhood safe from terrorist attacks, and yet he
supports John Kerry who will stop the overseas war against terrorism and hope
that the terrorists decide not to return and again attack us in our own streets.
He
wants us to be energy independent, and yet he supports John Kerry who is against
tapping energy sources in our own country. He
wants his children brought up in a society with strong moral foundations, and
yet he supports John Kerry who promotes raising homosexual cohabitation to the
same acceptable level as marriage and family. Like
I said, it’s a paradox. Or is it just plain stupidity? Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh PromisesPromises, promises, and
more promises. All politicians make
them. Surprisingly, some even keep
them. George W. Bush kept his
campaign promises—especially the one about lowering taxes—and that totally
confounded his critics. After all,
following through on promises just doesn’t happened in Washington D.C.
But what about John Kerry and his campaign promises? Kerry has openly
promised to raise the dividend tax from 15% to 35%.
He has promised to raise the capital gain tax from 15% to 20%.
And he has promised to raise the death tax.
What’s up with that? Has
he decided to run on a platform of “Vote for me so I can take away more of
your money?” And it doesn’t stop
there. Remember last year’s tax
rebate check and the larger tax refund you received this year?
Kerry proudly promises to take that away.
He wants to reinstate the marriage penalty and raise the tax rates.
He also wants to decrease the amount of the child deduction.
(Evidently, he doesn’t think you need any more money to raise your
children.) He also promises to
raise taxes on small businesses from 35% to 40%, and he supports the double and
triple taxation of investments and savings. So are we to believe
him? If elected, will Kerry keep
his campaign promises like President Bush did?
I think it’s fair to assume that any Democrat promising to raise taxes
has every intention of following through on that commitment.
Democrats have a track record of raising taxes even when promising to
lower them. So why wouldn’t a
Democrat raise taxes when he promises to raise them?
It’s a no-brainer. Speaking of no-brainer, I recall another Democrat presidential candidate who also promised to raise taxes. His name was Walter Mondale, and we know what happened to him. Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh June 1, 2004 The Worst GenerationThey’re called the Greatest
Generation, a title well deserved. They
were honorable, determined, courageous, and patriotic.
On Memorial Day, I heard one of them disdain the title and instead apply
it to the very first American generation, so I guess you can add another
descriptive accolade to the WWII generation: humility. But what about the Worst Generation—my own generation—often referred to as the Vietnam
Generation? Over the years, the worst
of the Worst Generation have gravitated to the Democrat Party and
the entertainment and news media, and they have come to represent the most vocal
critics of the current war on terrorism. Perhaps
it’s because they view everything through the prism of Vietnam. They cry out for more troops in Iraq
while at the same time demand a politically correct war in which our actions must
be governed by the UN. They don’t
want us to be too aggressive, and don’t even think about offending anyone or
embarrassing captured terrorists. In
other words, they want Iraq to be fought just like Vietnam. They also lack perspective and common
sense. The Greatest Generation
knew that the Japanese, Germans, and Italians represented a single threat.
The Worst Generation refuses to draw a similar conclusion when
faced with worldwide Islamic terrorism. The
Greatest Generation knew that the troops fighting in the Pacific and European
Theaters were fighting the same war. The
Worst Generation is unable to make that connection in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fortunately, President Bush is the antidote to the Worst Generation. A throwback to the Greatest Generation, he exhibits the same grit, honor, courage, and patriotism that brought us victory in WWII. He will not succumb to the lunacy of the Worst Generation, and he definitely will not allow us to succumb to the threats of our enemy. Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh
The FallenThe only good soldier is
a dead soldier. That could be the
mantra of the news media and the Democrat Party.
If you have any doubts, you only had to watch Ted Koppel’s Nightline
the other night where he spent the entire program reading the names of American
soldiers killed in Iraq. Strangely
absent were the names of soldiers killed in Afghanistan because highlighting
those deaths would not further the defeat of George W. Bush. The defeat of Bush can
only be accomplished through the defeat of America in its war on terrorism.
And to defeat our war on terrorism, you need lots of dead American
soldiers. Live American soldiers
represent victory, and victory is not something Democrats and the liberal news
media will tolerate. Live soldiers
are only to be criticized and portrayed as villains.
After all, it was John Kerry who referred to his own “band of
brothers” in Vietnam as baby killers, rapists, and murderers. No, it’s dead soldiers
you need, and lots of them. Therefore,
expect to see a body count for every single soldier lost in the line of
duty—but only those lost in Iraq. Also,
expect to see their names and faces spread across all the major newspapers and
on ABC, which rightfully has earned its new name as the Anti-American
Broadcasting Corporation. Defeat of
America must be achieved at all costs, and to the American Left, dead American
soldiers are simply acceptable collateral damage in achieving that defeat.
Nothing more. Nothing less. If the war on Bush is successful and John Kerry is elected president, it may then be necessary for Ted Koppel to host a program displaying the names and faces of every American citizen because, at that point, we all become fallen soldiers in the war on terrorism. Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh FriendsBased on the rhetoric
spewed out during the Democrat presidential primary, we know that George W. Bush
is public enemy #1 in John Kerry’s eyes.
We also know that worldwide terrorism (personified by Osama bin Laden) is
public enemy #1 in George W. Bush’s eyes.
And those two differences make me hearken back to a Middle Eastern saying
I heard during the first Gulf War: The
enemy of my enemy is my friend. Recently, Democrats have
become hysterical over the observation that both John Kerry and Osama bin Laden
have similar interests in the United States presidential race.
It is not arguable that if Osama bin Laden and all the other terrorists
were able to vote, they would vote against George W. Bush.
After all, he is the one trying to hunt them down and kill them.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I don’t blame the
Democrat rank-and-file for being upset with these comparisons, but the truth is
inescapable. Worldwide terrorism
wants George W. Bush out of office because he is the only one opposing it.
John Kerry and the Democrat leadership are not willing to oppose
terrorism, and the terrorists know it. The
enemy of my enemy is my friend. Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Bad News for America
I’d first like to
state that I definitely know the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. But before I reveal that information, I would like to make a
brief comment about the Democrat presidential campaign. Howard Dean started it.
John Kerry continues it. And
John Edwards and Wesley Clark echo it. So
what’s the message the Democrat candidates are proclaiming with such zeal and
vigor? It is hatred—pure, unabashed hatred—and that is not good
news for America. It seems that Democrats
hate everything. They hate large
and small businesses. They hate the
rich and the poor. They hate the
car you drive and the food you eat. You
name it; they hate it. But mostly
they hate George W. Bush, and that hatred spills over to a hatred of America and
a good majority of the American people. When you have abject
hatred of the commander-in-chief, you can’t help but hate the actions of the
armed services and the individuals who serve there.
When you despise the president of the United States, you can help but
despise the country and people he leads and protects. Every action you take to harm or injure the president brings
harm and injury to the country as a whole and the people who populate it.
Al Qaeda and the other
terrorist organizations around the world know that, and they share the Democrat
hatred of President Bush and America. That
was one of the reasons for the 9/11 attacks.
Fortunately, the national Democrat Party disdains God.
If you were to throw religious fervor into the mix, you might find
Democrat activists strapping on explosives before they waltz into Starbucks for
their morning lattés. Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Coloring the NewsRush Limbaugh stated on ESPN that the
sports media are desirous of seeing a black quarterback succeed. The reaction was not immediate, but a firestorm
eventually ensued.
In response, the sports media revealed how desirous they are of seeing a
white sports commentator (i.e. Limbaugh) fail, and they demonstrated how their
desires and biases really do color their reporting.
Could it be that Rush was right? Mitch Olszak—the editor of my local
newspaper—doesn’t think so, and he said as much in his 10/6/2003 editorial. Not only did he disagree with Rush’s observation, he jumped
on the racial bandwagon and followed the other media lemmings right off the
cliff. So what are Limbaugh’s
views about race? Rush espouses the conservative view that regards all races as equally competent in achieving success through
hard work. The levels of success
are dependent only on the talents and motivations of the individuals. The key is hard work
and achievement, not the color of their skin. Liberals, on the other hand, espouse
the philosophy that minorities are incompetent or incapable of achieving success
without the assistance of whites (i.e. white liberals).
It is the philosophy from which all affirmative action programs spring.
Minorities must be coddled every step of the way by caring, understanding
whites. What could be more racist
than that? Olszak’s hostility toward Rush
Limbaugh’s conservative view of race betrays his own liberal leanings.
It would be easy for me to call for Olszak’s head for the racial
insinuations in his editorial or to rally forces demanding his resignation or
firing, but that would make me no better than the intolerant liberal media. Instead, I’ll use Olszak’s own words and point out that freedom of speech gives him the "fundamental right to express his opinions," but he can't expect people to pay to read them. Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh $87 Billion LieIt’s a lie.
There’s no other way to describe it.
Not only that, it’s the eighty-seven billion dollar lie. That’s the amount President Bush is requesting for military
support and the rebuilding of Iraq—but that’s not the lie.
The lie is what Democrats and the news media are saying about it. Democrat politicians, especially the
presidential contenders, in concert with the news media are trying to whip up
hysteria among the public to turn them against the president and his efforts to
defeat terrorism and protect our homeland.
In doing so, they are making the claim that Americans are outraged at the
amount of money Mr. Bush wants to spend on the war and the efforts in Iraq.
They claim that Americans—that’s us by the way—are demanding a
better accounting of how this money will be spent. No we aren’t.
We know that this money is going to be spent no matter what.
We also know that the money will never be returned to us if it is not
spent on Iraq. The Democrats
definitely will see to that. Democrat aversion to returning any of our tax money assures
that we will never see a dime of that $87 billion.
Instead, it will be poured down some black hole of social spending or
used to buy votes. It will never be
returned to the American people through tax reductions or tax refunds. So if this money is not going to be
given back to us, it might as well be spent to protect and defend us. After all, that’s the number one responsibility of the
federal government, the one that’s enumerated in the Constitution.
And if it can keep us safe and prevent
terrorists from flying more planes into our buildings, it will be money well
spent. Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh Simple Minds
Have you ever tried to
argue with a stupid person? I mean
a really stupid person. It can be
incredibly frustrating. First you
discover that the person lacks the intellect to rationally process information.
Then you are left in stunned amazement at his shallowness of thought.
That’s the dilemma
facing President Bush daily when must deal with the news media.
Let’s face it; members of the news media aren’t very bright.
No matter what Mr. Bush tells them, they cannot comprehend it.
Unfortunately, they then turn around and report as “news” their
misconceptions of what he said. A good example of this
is the media hype over a statement in the State of the Union Address about
Saddam Hussein and African uranium. The
exact quote from the speech is this: "The
British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant
quantities of uranium from Africa." The
British are standing by their intelligence report.
So despite what the news media are saying, the statement made by the
president in his speech was true then and is true now.
So what’s so hard to understand? Why do the news media
have problems understanding simple concepts?
Perhaps it’s because they’ve always lacked such understanding.
I remember these people from my schooldays.
They were the ones who couldn’t grasp what was being taught, the ones
who couldn’t master long division. To
hide their failures and inadequacies, they set about disrupting the
classroom—that is until we chased them off the schoolyard.
Now they’ve returned as adults and journalists.
And to hide their current intellectual failings, they’ve set about
disrupting the nation much as they did the classroom. In days past, we simply would have chased them off the schoolyard and been rid of them. If only it were that easy now. Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh The Name Game
What’s in a name?
Take for instance the name Conner, a common name for boys these days.
It happens to be the name of my godson, although he spells it
differently. But it’s not my
godson I want to talk about. Instead,
I want to talk about another boy, one named Conner Peterson.
You know him as the son of Laci Peterson, the woman whose body recently
washed ashore in San Francisco Bay along with the body of Conner. In order to seek the
death penalty against Conner’s father, Scott Peterson, the prosecution is
charging Scott not only with the murder of his wife, Laci, but also with the
murder of Conner. This is unusual
in as much as Conner was an unborn child. He
was still in his mother’s womb when the murders were committed.
What is even more unusual is that he has a name, and amazingly, his name
is being repeating in the news reports. Pro-abortion groups are
frantic over the fact that Scott Peterson might be charged with the murder of an
unborn child. They fear that this
will hurt their agenda and undermine their goal of desensitizing people to the
horrors of abortion. But it’s not
the criminal charges they should fear. It’s
something much more powerful yet quite subtle, and it has the potential to
change the hearts and minds of people, the one thing that will eventually doom
the abortion industry. What has done more to awaken the sensitivity of people in this case is the simple act of naming Conner. A child has a name; a fetus does not. You can abort a fetus, but what do you do to a child? In this case, they’re calling it murder. We in the pro-life movement have been calling it that for years. Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh An Angel
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