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The news:

U.S. troops are bracing for the biggest joint offensive since the start of the Afghan war.

Officers say the troops will be joining their Afghan and NATO allies, targeting a southern town that’s believed to be a big Taliban stronghold and a hub for the militants’ lucrative opium trade.

Security issues prevent officers from giving a date the offensive begins. But U.S. commanders have said they plan to capture the town of Marjah in Helmand province. That’s about 380 miles southwest of Kabul.

It will be the first major offensive since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and many of the Marines set to participate arrived as part of the surge.

We know that a terrorist rabble cannot withstand our troops – as long as they are properly supported from home, they will win. But it will be a long, hard fight and we can expect serious casualties.

Remember, fellow Americans, that as we debate and argue here at home, the best we have are doing the real work of our nation. Pray for the troops, and pray for victory.

This is the very best thing we can do for our nation:

A group of Republicans senators will introduce a constitutional amendment tomorrow requiring the federal government to keep a balanced budget.

The proposal, which many states have enacted for their own budgets, would prevent Congress from running yearly deficits.

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and George LeMieux (R-Fla.) will announce the legislation at a press conference Thursday morning.

The senators will also propose a one year moratorium on earmarks, which critics say unnecessarily inflate appropriations bills.

We’re spending ourselves in to complete economic devastation. I know that the bankers and the government keep pushing out numbers saying things are getting better, but the truth is that its all coming apart – the bottom is out of the tub.

Balancing the budget, lowering taxes and getting rid of wealth destroying regulations is what will get us out of this mess – and nothing less will do.

I never expected this to happen… After Obama’s blasphemous victory in 2008, I figured his adoring supporters would never turn on him, and his party would sitck by him loyally as he destroyed the country.

Well, it appears that Democrats are actually distancing themselves from Obama as a they desperately try to cling to their elected positions.

In office only a year, and he’s already a liability. Gotta love it.

Is this site racist?

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“…(that) they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

While the ad was no doubt a clever marketing ploy by the front office at McDonald’s, the ad also showcases so much of what is wrong in our society when it comes to dealing with the issue of race.

Balkanization and ‘multiculturalism’ will not cure racism. Rather, it is my contention that by focusing on cultural differences, the ‘multiculturalism’ movement did more to foster balkanization, racism, misunderstanding and mistrust between races than white supremacist groups were ever able to accomplish.

Racism and division will not end until people stop focusing on the amount of melanin in one’s skin, and instead focus on our common humanity, and common goals as fellow citizens of these United States.

Only by focusing on shared, common values as human beings will we be able to move forward; and then and only then will we be able to achieve Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of a color-blind society.

This is getting more and more fun, all the time:

Centrist Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) on Wednesday asked arguably the most contentious question during a discussion between Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama, hitting at conservatives and liberals.

Lincoln, who faces a tough reelection fight, asked Obama to push back against “people at the extremes” of both parties, especially against Democrats “who want extremes.”

The kook left, it seems, has become quite a liability for the Democrats. Of course, they should have thought about that before they signed up the kook left as the merest of political expedients against President Bush. Lie down with dogs, come up with fleas.

A fascinating article on the intellectual battle of belief and unbelief. A sample:

…Harris is not aiming his barbs at Islam in this book, but at the Christians of his own nation — not the mushy ones, the amorphous silt swirling in mainstream denominations, but those who actually believe. His challenge is simple and accurate and hence refreshing: “If one of us is right, the other is wrong. The Bible is either the word of God, or it isn’t. Either Jesus offers humanity the one, true path to salvation (John 14:6), or he does not . . . . If Christianity is correct, and I persist in my unbelief, I should expect to suffer the torments of hell.”

Ah!, a breath of fresh air indeed. Harris is eminently disagreeable, and that is a true virtue. Here is a person with whom it is worth disagreeing, someone who takes Christianity more seriously than most Christians. Far better to spar with a clear-headed atheist who agrees that we disagree than a muddle-headed Neville Chamberlain type who declares sharp disagreements impossible because sharpness itself is an illusion. On to battle!…

Very much worth the reading.

As for me, I don’t think there are any real atheists out there – it just doesn’t make any sense…and the effort required would be just too bothersome. You’d have to be continually on guard against even the least bit of the supernatural…just allow one bump in the night, and that whole atheism thing is out the window.

But even outside of that, it is plain as a pikestaff that our mind – as differentiated from the physical organ we call our brain – just doesn’t fit neatly in to the natural world. It is an invader from outside – it is supernatural. In theory, you can trace back the chain of causation from that pebble you see in your yard right back to the beginning…but you can’t ever figure out how a mind will choose between mowing the lawn and heading out for a game of golf – neither of which actions logically follow from any other action, and neither of which are required in a Darwinian sense for survival.

Lots of people have chimed in with complaints about her appearance for this, that or the other reason. Here is her side of the story.

..Recently, some have tried to portray this movement as a commercial endeavor rather than the grassroots uprising that it is. Those who do so don’t understand the frustration everyday Americans feel when they see their government mortgaging their children’s future with reckless spending. The spark of patriotic indignation that inspired those who fought for our independence and those who marched peacefully for civil rights has ignited once again. You can’t buy such a sentiment. You can’t AstroTurf it. It springs from love of country and the knowledge that we can make a difference if we just stand up and stand together.

I thought long and hard about my participation in this weekend’s event. At the end of the day, my decision came down to this: It’s important to keep faith with people who put a little bit of their faith in you. Everyone attending this event is a soldier in the cause. Some of them will be driving hundreds of miles to Nashville. I made a commitment to them to be there, and I am going to honor it…

…I will not benefit financially from speaking at this event. My only goal is to support the grassroots activists who are fighting for responsible, limited government — and our Constitution. In that spirit, any compensation for my appearance will go right back to the cause.

The nature of the Tea Party movement means there may never be a “perfectly orchestrated” event: Democracy in action doesn’t come with a manual. But we must not get caught up in the politics or the controversies that some hope will distract from the heart of the movement. The focus must remain on our ideas and beliefs, and on supporting those ideas and beliefs however we can.

This weekend, it’s Nashville, but in March, I’ll head to Searchlight, Nev., for the kickoff rally at the Tea Party Express III. In April, I’ll be in Boston for a Tea Party gathering there. Across the country, tea-partiers will be sharing our vision for America’s future, a vision that promotes common sense solutions to out-of-control spending and an out-of-touch political establishment.

The process may not always be pretty or perfect, but the message is loud and clear: We want a government worthy of the fine Americans that it serves. And we’re going to keep spreading that message one convention, one town hall, one speech and one election at a time.

The movement will keep rolling right along and even after it has won, the critics still won’t understand where it came from or what it’s about. And the reason for that is because the critics don’t understand the true meaning of democracy, nor the genuine functioning of a republic.

Mark Steyn notes the MSM malpractice which allowed the AGW scammers to get away with it for so long:

You have to assume that America’s dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried “environmental correspondents” on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating “scientific consensus” on “climate change”? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese press.

But in competitive newspaper markets they still know a story when they see one. Surely the most worrying sign for the thuggish enforcers of “settled science” is that even the eco-lefties at the Guardian and the Independent, two of the most gung-ho warm-mongers on the planet, are beginning to entertain doubts.

Read the whole thing and follow the links for even more eye-opening information.

It is clear that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is false – that the climate heated up a bit in the late 20th century is likely, but that human beings were the primary or even substantial cause is laughably false. It is also clear, from recently uncovered information, that a determined effort to find out the truth would have uncovered this scam years ago, long before all the money was raked in by Al Gore.

The MSM wonders why we don’t trust it – the simple answer is because the MSM is untrustworthy. While truth does get reported, we know that lies do, as well and we can never be certain that the story we’re getting is the truth until later investigation confirms or denies it. Not every story in the NY Times is a lie, but only a fool would accept the veracity of any given NY Times story unless it is confirmed by at least one other, credible source. The failure of the MSM in Climategate just underscores the MSM’s long term failure.

Fortunately, we have the New Media all set to take the MSM’s place.

Seems our liberals in the Obama Administration have no clue about the current state of the world:

U.S. and Russian negotiators have reached an “agreement in principle” on a successor to the decades-old START treaty that expired last year, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

The deal would reduce the number of actively-deployed nuclear warheads from 2,200 to between 1,500 and 1,675, and the number of possible delivery vehicles — from missiles to submarines and bombers — would fall to between 700 and 800 per side.

“There may be finessing and fine-tuning, but the issues, from our perspective, are all addressed,” said Rose Gottemoeller, the Obama administration’s lead negotiator on the treaty.

The basic structure of the deal was reportedly approved last week during a phone conversation between President Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. The final drafting could take two months, officials said.

Why are we even doing this? START had its place in history – as a means of dealing with the old USSR and the over large stockpile of nuclear weapons we had built to confront that dead entity. Now things are different, and entering in to nuclear weapons agreements with Russia is as absurd as reviving the naval limitations treaty between the US, UK and Japan from the 1920’s. Why are liberals this obtuse?

What we need to be doing, now, is building (and testing) a new generation of nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles to confront the rising challenge of China – and the prospect of a series of Third World dictatorships obtaining nuclear arsenals. Our efforts should be geared towards the means of having a first-strike capability against such nuclear forces coupled with the ability to defend ourselves against any response. But here we are, negotiating treaties with Russia as if its still 1986!

As I noted in Developing a New American Foreign Policy, it is time for us to discard the failed foreign policy of the past and build a policy which actually serves American interests. Writing up pointless agreements with Russia about nuclear weapons is stupid, foolhardy – in short, just what we could expect from an Administration stocked with liberals.

Interesting article on the real strength in our diversity:

When Americans think of our nation’s power (or our imminent lack of it) we tend to point to the national debts, GDP or military prowess. Few have focused on what may well be the country’s most historically significant and powerful weapon: its emergence as the modern world’s first multiracial superpower…

…Over the next few decades this pattern of ethnic and racial integration will separate America from its key competitors. In 2005 the U.S. swore in more new citizens than the next nine immigrant-receiving countries put together. These newcomers will reshape the very identity of the country and allow the U.S. to continue growing its labor force.

Our prime competitors of the future – India and China – are unlikely to evolve in this direction. India is a highly heterogeneous country itself and remains driven by ethnic and religious conflicts. China, like Japan and Korea, remains a profoundly homogeneous country with little appetite or capacity to accept newcomers…

While our liberals like to think in terms of racial bean counting, the reality is that race, as a thing, is becoming ever less important in our society. I mean, seriously, how many of you out there would really be disturbed if a child or grand-child married someone of a different ethnic extraction? I imagine, not too much – a few hold overs aside, its just not that important.

It never was, of course, and save for purblind idiocy, it never would have been an issue. We’re all human beings – and the genius of America is that we can take any human being, from anywhere in the world, and turn them in to Americans. I remember shortly after 9/11 I was reassured by watching news of an American soldier on patrol against further attacks – my guess was that he either was an immigrant or the son of an immigrant…looked like he, or his blood, hailed from Indo-China. But he was an American soldier, and I’d stake my life on his willingness to defend me, a fellow American.

Back at the last census there was a bit of a debate about what a mix-race person should identify themselves as. If you’re half black and half white, should you be counted as white, or black? In my view, it was time to stop even asking such fool questions – the only question should be, “are you an American, or an alien?”.

I have in my blood Irish and German and Jewish and Scottish and Lord only knows what else. Don’t give a darn about it – what is Ireland to me? I mean, other than an excuse for beer and corned beef? And, heck, you don’t even have to have a drop of Irish blood to take advantage of that. I am native to this land; I am an American – if we are to have a race, then that is my race: American. And it is we Americans who will keep this nation strong and defy the whole world, if need be, in order to preserve the precious gift of past Americans.