Saddam Ties to Terrorism
Deroy Murdock, a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University has put together a summary of "Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror."
Kerry Supporters Threaten Violence To Block Showing of Soldout Film
From WPVI Philadelphia:
People who came out to see the anti-Kerry film, "Stolen Honor" were already upset that management of the Baederwood Theater cancelled the showing after threats of civil disturbances. Ultimately the anger reached a higher level when Bush supporters clashed with Kerry supporters. [...] Abington police had to move in several times to keep ardent Kerry and Bush supporters from coming to blows. This after the documentary "Stolen Honor" which was to debut to a sellout crowd of 600 people was cancelled."Joanne Dalbey/WARRINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA: "It denied me the right as an American citizen to see a movie that every American should have the right to see." Ryan Sweeney/SOMERTON: "I think it's terrible, I think it's ridiculous that they're gonna shut this down and at the same time they're gonna show Michael Moore the day before the election."The producer of the film blames Kerry operatives for shutting down the showing of the film.Carlton Sherwood/FILM PRODUCER: "The underhanded coercion and intimidation tactics of John Kerry, here's my reaction, what is John Kerry so afraid of with this documentary?"Kerry supporters were pleased the showing of the film had been cancelled. [WPVI Philadelphia, "Anti-Kerry Film Showing Canceled" October 19, 2004]
Australia’s Howard says he wants to see Bush win
From Yahoo News:Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday he hopes George W. Bush wins a second term in office, and praised the U.S. president for his "great leadership to the world in the fight against terrorism." Howard, whose conservative government recently won a fourth term in office, is a key regional ally of Washington and contributed 2,000 troops to the invasion of Iraq last year. "I wish him (Bush) well and I hope he gets re-elected," Howard told reporters in Jakarta after meeting with President-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.[...] Australia lost 88 citizens in the Bali bombings in 2002, and last month Islamic militants attacked the country's embassy in Jakarta, killing nine people, including one suicide bomber. Since the attacks, Howard's anti-terror rhetoric has mirrored that of Bush, and he has spoken of the need for pre-emptive strikes against suspected militants outside of Australia. [...] [AP, "Australia's Howard says he wants to see Bush win"]At least Kerry has Arafat, Chirac, and Saddam's support.
Re-importing Drugs from Canada
The first time I ever heard of this idea, and the fact that some Canadian politicians were encouraging it, I said "Hurrah!" Nothing could please me more than bankrupting the Canadian government, but I figured the Canadians would back down if American politicians actually allowed re-importation to occur. I am not worried about drug company profits because the Canadian government is picking up the regular bulk price of all the drugs it buys and is then selling them back to Canadians at a subsidized discount under the universal health care plan in Canada. The main reason I am not worried about drug company profits though is because it is readily apparent the Canadian government will not allow America to re-import the drugs en masse, because the Canadian government would in effect have to buy drugs for a population many times their own, an even more untenable situation than the situation already in place.Sure enough, this is already beginning to dawn on Canadians as demonstrated by this article. I wish people would study economics more, but the chances of that are slim. The only reason drugs are "cheap" in Canada is because the government taxes the hell out of its citizens to pay for those drugs and then resells them to Canadians at a loss. Were Canada to engage in this dopey practice for their population and ours then their whole government would run out of money within 10 years at the maximum. Not only that, but as the article suggests, they will end up having massive drug shortages for their own citizens.
Let us see what ingenious idea John Kerry comes up with next to replace this idea when the Canadians recognize reality (for the first time in a long, long while) and tell him it isn't going to happen. Such an eventuality almost makes a Kerry victory worth it.
John Kerry: OK, If U.S. Troops Die for U.N. Missions
From the Washington Post:Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, "If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no."Classic Kerry.
Related Article: Thinking it Alone: U.S. Must Reject the Evil Doctrine of "Multilateralism"
The Kerry’s “Feel Good” Draft
From Cox and Forkum:
As part of his 100 day plan to change America, John Kerry will propose a comprehensive service plan that includes requiring mandatory service for high school students and four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of national service.Though no longer on Kerry's web site, for while the above quote could be seen on a Kerry page archived online at Way Back Machine. If you click on that link, you'll find that the page is no longer available there either. But since the proposal was part of speeches and at least one press release from Kerry, traces of it are found elsewhere on the Internet. A web site called Bank of Knowledge archives Democrat campaign speeches. In a May 2003 speech on National Service, John Kerry said:
So I propose that all high school students should also be required to do community service before they graduate.A New Hampshire political news web site reported on the speech: Kerry pushes mandatory national public service.
Speaking to veterans and to students at his former high school, Sen. John Kerry proposed a $3.5 billion national effort to involve more Americans in public service building on the framework of other programs and mandating that all high schools incorporate service requirements for graduation.Slate magazine reported in July 2003 that The Agenda of John Kerry includes:
3. Institute mandatory and voluntary national service. Kerry would provide four years' tuition at a public university to any American who performed at least two years of national service. He would make some sort of community service a prerequisite for graduation from any U.S. high school. The high-school programs would be state-designed but federally funded.The online encyclopedia Wikipedia contains this line from their entry on the John Kerry presidential campaign:
Kerry supports supplementing national service in nearly all aspects of American life, including requiring community service for high school students to graduate [...]In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Gazette posted a press release from the Kerry campaign dated November 20, 2003: Kerry Presents Vision of 100 Days to Change America. "As part of his Action Plan for the First 100 Days, Kerry vowed to ..."
Make national service a way of life by requiring mandatory service for high school kids and giving Americans the chance to earn four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of service.Using Google, I found a dead link for the above press release at the Kerry web site. But if you look at the first entry in this Google search, you can still see what used to be on Kerry's site: "... national service a way of life by requiring mandatory service for high school kids and ...". John Kerry and some of his supporters continue attempts to scare up votes by saying that Bush will institute a military draft, even though Bush has unequivocally rejected conscription as an option, and even though a recent Democrat draft proposal was overwhelmingly defeated in Congress (2 votes for, 402 against). The truth is that John Kerry has publicly promised a special draft of his own, and it now appears he wants to hide it. The immorality of a draft does not arise from the fact that it is military service. A draft is immoral because it is involuntary service, and involuntary servitude is a violation of individual rights whether it occurs in fox hole or a soup line. And it is exactly involuntary servitude that Kerry has planned for high school students. John Kerry's use of a trumped-up draft scare is sleazy enough as it is. Turns out it's hypocritical, too.