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When he goes to Beijing for the opening of the Olympics over a week from now, George W. Bush will “worship” at a church there, it’s being reported.

Now for the part of the story that the Bush Administration doesn’t like to talk about…

The “church” that Bush will attend is no doubt going to be one of the state-approved churches that the communist government of mainland China keeps under its control. It will not be a congregation of believers who are free to worship as they best understand the leading of the Holy Spirit. They cannot even appoint their own leaders for their churches: the Chinese government determines who are the pastors and other officials, even installing its own priests for the supposedly “Catholic” churches there.

(By the way, Bush did the same thing almost three years ago and I wrote about it then, too.)

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Still working on my review of The Dark Knight, but it should be up later today. Part of the reason for the delay was that I’ve been so gosh-darned busy since it came out, what with crossing the country (and I didn’t even see The Dark Knight in my own, mind ya). And also ‘cuz I needed some time to really “suss” things out about this movie.

In the meantime though, I cast your attention to Andrew Klavan, writing for The Wall Street Journal, and he asserts that The Dark Knight proves that Batman and George W. Bush are practically one and the same. In short…

“The Dark Knight,” then, is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year’s “300,” “The Dark Knight” is making a fortune depicting the values and necessities that the Bush administration cannot seem to articulate for

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The last time that I flew anywhere was this past December, when I went to the Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival in Texas. I took Southwest Airlines – a carrier with superb service, I might add – out of Raleigh-Durham International Airport. And one of the few unpleasant memories that I have from the trip was watching the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) goons at RDU doing things like throwing bottles of baby formula and shampoo out, telling travelers that it was “regulation”. And not one traveler protested, because everyone knew that the TSA goons could have them arrested or worse for “talking back” or some other bullcrap. I also saw things like how the TSA scans for “shoe bombs”: they actually made one girl take her flip-flips off to have them x-rayed, and made another remove her ballet flats.

It’s stuff like this that makes me chalk up TSA as one of ...

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Y’know, it’s funny: I remember when Bill Clinton was President, and access to him and his staff was being “sold” in exchange for donations. It was some of the worst corruption of the highest office in the land, and a lot of us were right to have been angered by it.

So then here comes George W. Bush, and we were told that he would “clean house” and that this sort of thing would never happen in his “ethical” administration…

…only to find out that the Bush Administration is involved with the same thing. Long story short: if you donate enough to the George W. Bush Presidential Library, you get access to Dick Cheney and other Bush officials, and possibly even Bush himself.

This is the kind of thing that makes me believe that the only thing that makes the current White House administration more upstanding than the ...

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Three times today I’ve been sent or otherwise directed to the following from Investor’s Business Daily…

“Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn’t fit the media’s neat story line that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. It’s a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad. In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel — thus keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region. This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, as the AP

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Ron Paul has ended his campaign for the Republican nomination for President. Instead of conceding however, Paul has shifted gears and is channeling the resources of his political aspiration into the Campaign for Liberty.

Most readers here know that I’ve been an enthusiastic supporter of Dr. Paul, what with the pictures of him that I did in Photoshop and the video that was posted on YouTube. Heck, I even made a Ron Paul Jack-o’-Lantern for this past Halloween! And last month I finally got to meet him.

So now, he’s winding-down his drive for the Oval Office. What do I make of this?

Personally, I think that in years to come the Ron Paul presidential campaign is going to be one of the most appreciated things to have happened in the era of modern American politics. But that’s not going to happen before some very...

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WorldNetDaily is reporting that the Bush Administration has stated that if Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean want to go free, they should ask for clemency.

Ramos and Compean are the two former Border Patrol agents who were sent to prison by spineless George W. Bush lackey U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. Their “crime”: opening fire on a Mexican drug lord, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, who was later given immunity for prosecution in exchange for testifying against Ramos and Compean. Aldrete-Davila later admitted in court to smuggling marijuana.

The Bush Administration has been a pack of complete bastards in regard to its treatment of Ramos and Compean: two good men who were doing their job, in a time when too many others in this government don’t give a damn. Although the Bush Administration is usually a pack of complete bastards on just about everything else, but on this issue they are particularly vile.

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If nothing else has convinced any among my fellow citizens who beyond all reason yet hold to an opinion but that the government of George W. Bush is completely and hopelessly insane, then perhaps this will persuade them otherwise. It’s about the disastrous North American Free Trade Agreement. From the Associated Press story…

The White House on Friday vigorously defended the 14-year-old free-trade agreement among the United States, Mexico and Canada against sharp criticism from Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

“There’s nothing broken. Why fix it?” said Dan Fisk, senior director of Western hemisphere affairs for National Security Council. He acknowledged the administration must do a better job of explaining the benefits of the agreement.

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Bush has suffered a major setback on the trade front with the derailing of a proposed free-trade pact with Colombia. Bush sent the agreement to Capitol Hill earlier this

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The federal government will soon be taking DNA samples from EVERYONE that it arrests.

It took almost five years, but the dam has finally burst on this blog.

If you have any small children reading this blog, now would be a good time to escort them away from the monitor. Because I’m about to use a word that until now, I’ve never, ever used of my own volition here. Why am I going to do this? Because I know of no other way to express the anger that I’m feeling right now at how out of control this government has become, and I really don’t give a damn any more about “polite society”. If I use this word, God won’t hold it against me. But He might have something to say if I stand before Him someday, unable to tell Him that I did whatever I could in the ...

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To all the deluded saps still out there (including this guy) who somehow seriously believe that No Child Left Behind helps education, you’d better pay attention to this one. Tom Chapin brilliantly illustrates what’s wrong with George W. Bush’s education mandate with his song “Not On The Test”. Here’s the video…

And here’s the official website for “Not On The Test”, where you can watch the video, and if you like you can download both an MP3 of the song and the video in Quicktime format....

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