Fred Thompson's Support of Rush Limbaugh

Out of all the Republican candidates Fred Thompson seems to be the one that has come out with the strongest amount of support for Rush Limbaugh.

"Congressional Democrats are trying to divert attention from insulting our military leader in Iraq and pandering to the loony left by attacking Rush Limbaugh. He is one of the strongest supporters of our troops, yet Democrats claim he is not being strong enough. I wonder who General Petraeus and his troops think is most supportive."

Other Candidates (McCain and Romney) seem to be hedging their bets stating "If" Rush Limbaugh meant what Media Matters said he meant, then he should apologize. Only we all know the truth about what Limbaugh meant by the phony soldier comment, so this position may seem, well, phony. It will be interesting to see if the Thompson camp sees a bump in the polls from his stronger support of Limbaugh. I suspect it will.

New South Park Episode

The rest of season 11 is here! Watch tonight at 10:00PM eastern time.

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Congress Sneaks Hate Crime Legislation Past the Public

During the last Democrat debate on MS NBC, which I'm sure everyone watched, Hillary Clinton said that she hopes everyone votes for the new hate crimes bill that would be coming to the Senate floor. Excited that the Senate would have an opportunity to debate the bill and vote on it according to its own merits, I was soon disappointed to learn it was attached to the Defense Appropriations bill that passed 93-0.

Even though Congress refuses to openly debate hate crimes legislation based on its own merits, citizens should. Of course, one could easily argue that hate crimes legislation is a complete contradiction to the principle of equal protection under the law, and should be deemed unconstitutional. It makes no sense that person A can commit a crime on person B and get five years in prison, whereas, person C can commit the exact same crime on person D an get twenty-five years in prison, merely because the thoughts of person A during the crime differed from the thoughts of person C. This legal reasoning doesn't even take into account how problematic it is to prove in a court of law an individuals specific thoughts during a crime.

So while hate crimes legislation may feel good, it very well could be unconstitutional, and without a doubt problematic legally. For these reasons Congress should have the guts to debate the issue in front of the public, rather than sneak it past us.

Reid Calls Bush Veto Heartless

Here comes the spin previously discussed in "President Bush Vetoes SCHIP." Senator Reid has just called the veto "heartless." I felt it was heartless when Reid told us we lost the war in Iraq when the surge hadn't even started yet.

President Carter Tries to Get Tough With Sudanese Security Officails

Recently, former President Carter got into a shouting match with Sudanese security officials when they restricted his travels, while trying to visit tribal leaders in the problematic Darfur region. "We're going to anyway," Carter yelled at the security officials. Not surprisingly Carter agreed to a compromise to visit the tribal leaders at a different location later on. Carter got everyone all excited "he getting tough in his older years," people around him probably thought to themselves. Then, nope, same old Carter.

President Bush Vetoes SCHIP

Today President Bush vetoed the SCHIP program, and should be seen as a success to fiscal conservatives. The program Bush vetoed would have extended health care benefits to middle class families, and provide coverage up to 25 years of age. This program would also have been unsustainable by the year 2013. Part of the funding of this program would have been paid for from a raise in the Federal cigarette tax. In other words the tax would have been regressive. Poor individuals would have been paying for the health care of middle class children. Unfortunately, this will probably be spinned in a fashion to make conservatives look uncaring.