Could Quebec Help Keep Canada Conservative?

Will the Bloc Quebecois help to keep Stephen Harper’s Tory government in power?  They could if Gilles Duceppe resigns as the Bloc’s leader.

Why should we care?  It is in our best interest for Canada to maintain a center-right government.  Particularly in the “Age of Obama”, we don’t need our largest trading partner to become more free spending and certainly not more protectionist.

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What’s Good for the Bushies …

Lorne Gunter of Canada’s National Post observes that many of the policies scoffed and ridiculed by the left when George W. Bush was in office are now part of the Obama party line.  Does this truly mean that partisanship stops at the water’s edge?

I wouldn’t go that far.  However, even if the Obama administration is taking a tough stance on terror because of the political repercussions of an attack, at least they are doing the right thing.

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Biden In the Peanut Gallery

While his hometown paper attempts to prop up the faltering reputation of Delaware’s favorite son, Joe Biden seems destined for the typical role a Vice President, if that.  Candidate Obama may have felt a need for Biden to help bolster non-existent foreign policy credentials.  President-elect Obama has a team that seems to make Biden redundant at best.

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I Didn’t Know That John Kerry Was Running in Maryland

I had to “opportunity” to attend the Frank Kratovil dog and pony show in Salisbury yesterday.  As Yogi Bera said – it was deja vu all over again.  I thought that I was having a flashback from the John Kerry for President campaign.  We were treated to Kratovil’s having opposed the federal bailout before he supported it and Kratovil again stated his support for amnesty for illegal aliens.

For purposes of disclosure, yesterday’s show was a Young Dem event.  This was NOT mentioned in the press release I received regarding the event.  Had Kratovil’s campaign been honest about the event I wouldn’t have raised a stink about it yesterday.  Of course, I doubt any media would have showed up either.  Kratovil’s release made the event appear as if it was an SU event.

But I digress.  Sen. Barbara Mikulski got up and did her duty for party and the liberal cause.  She explained to the group of students that they all needed to get out and work for Barack Obama and Frank Kratovil.  As usual, she was pretty impressive.  I don’t agree with Sen. Mikulski on much, but I have always admired her constituent service and her willingness to take a stand.

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Goldwater Redux …

… and Barack Obama’s Total Lack of Character.

Human Events editor Jed Babbin wrote an excellent column this week regarding a key strategy being employed by Barack Obama and his handlers. Basically, the Dems want to paint John McCain with the same brush that LBJ and his lefty acolytes painted Sen. Barry Goldwater back in 1964.

Personally, I say let them try. The conservative movement was in its toddling stage back then; and the world is a far different place. If Obama’s folk want to claim that McCain is some sort of war-monger it’s fine by me; and I’m a pacifist. Our post 9/11 America will be more comforted by a military man who isn’t afraid of being tough on our nation’s enemies than Obama – who aspires to be the modern equivalent of Neville Chamberlin.

One item in Babbin’s column that is too often overlooked by most of us is Obama’s complete disdain for the military. It’s almost Clintonesque.

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The Obama Road Show – Blame America First

This doesn’t need any of my commentary. Just read Jim Hoeft’s piece from Bearing Drift and ask yourself -

Is this who we want as President?

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If It’s Good Enough for Fidel …

… it should be good enough for us.

How many times have we heard from the Left about the marvels of Cuba’s healthcare system? If only we had something so grand in the United States?

Well, Fidel Castro is ailing. Who’s providing Fidel’s care? It sure isn’t the vaunted Cuban system of socialized medicine.

I’m sure Barack Obama and his cadre of Blame America Firsters will find a way to make this our fault. It must be the trade embargo.

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Is Obama Selling Out Israel?

This is the questioned inferred by Christan Hudson’s post on DelawarePolitics.net. The Messiah won’t make any demands of the Palestinians, yet he’s already mapped out concessions for our only true ally in that region of the world.

Wait! Didn’t Obama just tell the world that we would ALWAYS defend Israel?

We ask again? Can America afford Barack Obama?

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Why Hugo Chavez is a Threat to America

Four Concerns About Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez

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Attack the Messenger, Particularly If His Name Is Scalia

True to liberal form, when you can’t win an argument on the merits attack the messenger. In this case, the messenger is none other Justice Antonin Scalia.

Yesterday Scalia delivered a scathing dissent in the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to grant habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees. I agree with the result of the opinion, but I haven’t read it. I wonder if former State Department lawyer David Kaye has either. One thing is certain, Kaye downed a big box of Wheaties thinking that he could take on one of the greatest legal minds of my lifetime.

True to liberal form, Kaye doesn’t attack Scalia’s arguments. He criticizes Scalia’s “tone”. Kaye builds straw men to knock down. Where is his analysis of Scalia’s actual dissent?

The only portion of Scalia’s dissent quoted by Kaye is the same old stuff we heard on the evening news. “It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed”. That’s a statement of opinion. Scalia would acknowledge it as such.

Whether I agree with Justice Scalia or not (and in this rare instance I don’t), his opinion deserves better analysis than one quote and a pile of straw.

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