From the May 28th edition of the Financial Times, we learned that the Department of Homeland Security has finally gone completely batty:

The west needs a more comprehensive strategy to counter al-Qaeda propaganda and the US should stop using the term “war on terror”, according to a top intelligence official.

Charles Allen, the senior intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, says the phrase is counter-productive because it creates “animus” in Islamic countries.

“[It] has nothing to do with political correctness,” Mr Allen said in an interview. “It is interpreted in the Muslim world as a war on Islam and we don’t need this.”...

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Does Barack "Gaffeman" Obama actually employ a speechwriter for his campaign?  One must wonder, after his latest gaffe.  Speaking to a group of Democrat dignitaries in New Mexico, he began:

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

It's a cute sentiment.  The only problem is that on Memorial Day we remember and salute our honored dead, keeping the promise that they shall not have died in vain.

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Foreign Policy magazine has a list of the worst places in the world to be a terrorist.  Missing from the list -- despite the protestations of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama -- is Guantanamo Bay.

Sort of makes you wonder.

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If you think gas prices are too high, then you better not drink Starbuck's Coffee or any Anheuser Bush Beer.

Starbucks Venti:  $23/gallon.

Budweiser:  $11/gallon.

Just something to think about when you are downing your favorite liquid.

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That might be my mantra soon.  I really like Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin. She's a no-nonsense, kick-ass/take names, anti-corruption, anti-earmarking Governor.

And her pledge to challenge the Government's listing of the Polar Bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act is right on.

The simple fact is that there has not been a larger polar bear population in the Arctic in over 100 years.  The simple fact is that by listing the polar bear as "threatened" under the ESA gives the the government the ability to hold nearly ANY contributor to the threat of so-called "climate change" accountable.  The simple fact is that it is an overreaction by an Administration grasping for a legacy beyond a hard, tough, controversial war.

Bravo to Sarah Palin! 

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Thank God for incompetency.  Our incompetent Congress -- and I mean the entire bicameral body, regardless of party affiliation -- can't even pass a law and present it to the President according to the simple and clear edicts of the United States Consitution.

Remember that massive Farm Bill that was a complete and total charlie fox of bad farm economics which I blogged about here?  Well, it turns out that the bill the President vetoed the other day -- the bill Congress presented to him for signature -- was NOT the same bill that was voted on in session.

That means that Congress has to resubmit the correct bill, and vote on it again, and resubmit it to the president.

Way to go, guys!  This is the very reason I do not trust government to solve problems.  They cannot even perform their basic duties properly.

Robert Alt has more on the consitutional implications here.

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Maybe not.  Apparently there has been a growing movement of scientists questioning whether the "dinosaurs" and "early plant life" could have created the volume of petroleum currently available. 

This article from 2004 is instructive... and the debate goes on.

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For a man with an Ivy League education, Barack Hussein Obama is the dumbest, most non-serious candidates for the President of the United States in my lifetime.  No, I take that back.  He is the dumbest, most non-serious candidate for President of the United States. (And let's keep in mind, that includes Pat Paulsen).

Let's examine the evidence.

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Social conservatives all over the land are schvitzing over the fact that California's notoriously liberal Supreme Court has just ruled that gay marriage must be made in legal in one of the nation's largest state.

I suppose that as a social conservative, I should join in the renting of my clothes and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.  But I can't.  Because while I despise the ruling, I do so for far different reasons.

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There has been a lot of foot stomping in Conservative America about John McCain's endorsement of cap-and-trade as a so-called market-based solution to restricting so-called "greenhouse gas" emissions.  But no one has really asked "Why does he back this method"?

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