Something to think about:

The best example of religious persecution in America is the Salem witch trials. How many people were killed in those trials? Thousands? Hundreds? Actually, fewer than 25. Yet the event still haunts the liberal imagination.

It is strange to witness the passion with which some secular figures rail against the misdeeds of the Crusaders and Inquisitors more than 500 years ago. The number sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition appears to be about 10,000. Some historians contend that an additional 100,000 died in jail due to malnutrition or illness.

These figures are tragic, and of course population levels were much lower at the time. But even so, they are minuscule compared with the death tolls produced by the atheist despotisms of the 20th century. In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong produced the kind of mass slaughter that no Inquisitor could possibly match. Collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people.
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Whatever the motives for atheist bloodthirstiness, the indisputable fact is that all the religions of the world put together have in 2,000 years not managed to kill as many people as have been killed in the name of atheism in the past few decades.

It’s time to abandon the mindlessly repeated mantra that religious belief has been the greatest source of human conflict and violence. Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

In 2000, the Left lost the election and they claimed it was stolen.

In 2002, the Left lost the election and they claimed it was stolen.

In 2004, the Left lost the election and they claimed it was stolen.

In 2006, the Left won enough elections to take control of Congress… and while the losing candidates on the Right licked their wounds and moved on… a few on the Left lost their elections and they want recounts.

Also in 2006, the Left in Mexico lost the election and they have now set up an unofficial parallel government and refuse to recognize the winner.

Why do those on the political Left have such a hard time getting over it when it comes to losing elections?

Back during the height of the 2004 campaign season, Democrats were threatening American voters with a significant lie - that if George W. Bush were re-elected, he’d reinstate the military draft. I exposed the lying Democrats for just who they were then - claiming Bush would reinstate the draft while the Democrats, themselves, were the ones introducing legislation to bring back a draft.

Once again, it appears legislation will be introduced calling for a military draft. And once again, it’s a Democrat sponsoring the legislation.

Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (Charlie Rangel) has his way.

You people have no shame. You lie to the youth in America with the threat that if Bush were re-elected there would be a draft… hoping to scare them into voting for Democrats. Yet, it’s the very same Democrats who then introduce draft legislation.

Damn shameful, hypocritical liars.

…occurs more often for conservatives than liberals. But come on, are you really surprised?

The book concludes that conservatives who practice religion, live in traditional nuclear families and reject the notion that the government should engage in income redistribution are the most generous Americans, by any measure.

Conversely, secular liberals who believe fervently in government entitlement programs give far less to charity. They want tax dollars to support charitable causes and are reluctant to write checks to those causes, even when governments don’t provide them with enough money.

Liberals don’t want to give their money to the needy… they want to use the federal government to force you to give your money.

Back on November 6, the day before the election, I posted about an article written by Orson Scott Card, a Democrat, who was advocating the defeat of Democrats in the election.

Well, the election is history, and Card has a verdict: America just lost

Some highlights:

This election proves only that the monolithically leftwing mainstream media can make the public believe we are losing a war that we are winning. As long as we’re getting a two-party Congress, how about getting a two-party press?

If they’re really serious about becoming the majority party, what rich Republicans need to do is stop paying for thousand-dollar-a-plate fundraising dinners and start buying up newspapers and networks. The Democrats already own almost all of them, and we have seen in this election how a prosperous economy can be concealed and a successful war can be turned into a “disaster” when you own the public’s primary sources of information.

Agreed. I refer back to the tagline at the top of this site.

The way to save the lives of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians in Iraq is to get regime change in Iran and Syria. Syria we could topple quite easily, once Iran’s ability to threaten shipping in the Gulf was removed. And without Syria as its surrogate in the Arab world, and without any credible threat to the world oil supply, either Iran’s military would change the Iranian government, or the Iranian government would have to face the fact that it could no longer act with impunity.

The problem is, I doubt the new Democrat majority has the courage to fight this battle. Bold actions are not in their repertoire.

This is a new feature I’m going to try. I’m going to pick a topic relevant in today’s political arena, give my point of view… and ask those who feel differently about the topic to convince me their position is right and my position is wrong.

My position: The federal government has no business setting arbitrary minimum wage requirements on private sector employers. Market forces, employee skill and employer/job/career choice should drive wages. In America, if you’re not satisfied with your current income, job or employer, you have the ability to get more education, more training or seek a different employer or line of work to improve your situation. If you choose not to, so be it. But the federal government shouldn’t be telling those who take the initiative to start their own businesses and employee others they deem qualified for the job, how much they have to pay employees. Not to mention, many jobs are different and thus pay should not be set to the exact same level for all. I especially don’t think there should be a minimum wage for those in tip-earning positions. The whole concept of tip-for-service is to incentivize the service provider to provide a quality service and increase the amount of gratitude (in the form of a tip) from the customer. Sure, some people will not tip appropriately, but the employee is free to find another line of work if they’re worried about it. Along this line, if the federal government can mandate the minimum wage and employer pays the employee, what’s stopping the federal government from mandating a minimum tip for waiters and bartenders? Bottom line, where we work, what we do and for whom we work are choices we can freely make. Because of this, we are free to find the job that compensates us as we feel adequate. This is not the place for arbitrary regulation by the federal government.

Convince me that the federal government should be setting (and raising) a minimum wage.

A liberal blogger posted an “open letter to conservatives” back on November 9th and then magically, a “pledge to disheartened conservatives” appeared on Michael Moore’s site on November 14th… signed by Moore, himself. Not so much as a credit or hyperlink to the original author.

There’s a thread on DU that does a side by side comparison of the two:

Moore: A Liberal’s Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives
Me: Dear dismayed conservatives:

Moore: I, and my fellow signatories, hereby make these promises to you:
Me: I hereby make these promises to you.

Moore: Should a mass murderer ever kill 3,000 people on our soil, we will devote every single resource to tracking him down and bringing him to justice. Immediately. We will protect you.
Me: We will protect your lives and livelihoods.

Moore: We will always respect you for your conservative beliefs.
Me: We will listen to and respect your beliefs.

Moore: We will respect your religious beliefs, even when you don’t put those beliefs into practice. // We will let you marry whomever you want, even when some of us consider your behavior to be “different” or “immoral.”
Me: We will never try to force you to change your religion, sexual orientation, or first language.

Moore: We will never stick our nose in your bedroom or your womb. What you do there as consenting adults is your business. We will continue to count your age from the moment you were born, not the moment you were conceived.
Me: We will do our best to reduce the number of abortions in our country.

Moore: We will not tolerate politicians who are corrupt and who are bought and paid for by the rich.
Me: We will have no tolerance for corruption and cronyism, even in our own party.

Moore: And we promise you we will go after the corrupt politicians on our side FIRST.
Me: ESPECIALLY in our own party.

Moore:We will never, ever, call you “unpatriotic” simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us.
Me: We will never tell you that you are unpatriotic. We will never tell you that your opinion doesn’t count.

Moore: When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring your sons and daughters home, too. They deserve to live. We promise never to send your kids off to war based on either a mistake or a lie.
Me: We will never waste your lives for power.

Moore: We will go after any elected leader who puts him or herself ahead of the people.
Me: We will hold our leaders to a high ethical standard and when they succumb to lust for power, WE WILL HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.

Moore: If we fail to do this, we need you to call us on it.
Me: If we forget this, please, please, please, remind us.

Moore: You are every bit as American as we are.
Me: We need you to do this. You are America as much as we are. Let’s go.

Why does this come as any surprise? It’s not like Michael Moore has had an original thought since the last time he was able to see his own toes, anyway.

From the AP:

A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.

I’m sure it’s just for peaceful purposes.

The Detroit Free Press adds:

Authorities said Sisayehiticha Dinssa, a U.S. citizen who was born in Ethiopia, was arrested after getting off an airline flight from Amsterdam. They said he had spent four months in Nigeria on unspecified business.

Maybe Joe Wilson sent him?

Jack Abramoff has implicated Senate Majority Leader-to-be, Harry Reid in engaging in illegal activities with the disgraced former lobbyist and the MSM is eerily silent on the story. The only story I could find when searching Yahoo or Google news was this one… and it’s on the back pages of ABCnew’s blog.

If Abramoff were implicating a Republican, do you think the coverage would be a little different?

And about that election fraud that was finally solved by a Democrat win. Here’s a good article about the “catastrophe that wasn’t.”

On the crime front, look at the trend Don Singleton uncovered relating to the “most dangerous cities in America.” Don’t expect to see some hard-hitting exposé on 60 Minutes about such an ominous trend.

About the weather… while NOAA is reporting America saw below-average temperatures that for the second straight month and what happened to the wrath of hurricanes we were supposed to experience given that the destructive 2005 season was signaling the result of global warming?

To recap, the MSM kept telling us that the Abramoff scandal was a “Republican scandal”, the the elections would be stolen by various methods of fraud, disenfranchisement and electronic machine irregularities, and we were all doomed by another terrible hurricane season caused the effects of global warming.

And here we are near the end of hurricane season with barely a peep from the Atlantic, a week after elections in which Democrats won and almost no word on widespread voting problems and conspiracies and hardly a mention about a convicted lobbyist implicating the Senate Majority Leader for engaging in criminal activities.

What media bias?

You read that right. While we have men and women in harm’s way, actively engaged in combat on foreign soil, Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich has called for cutting off funding of the Iraq war.

“But cut off funds, we must. That’s the ultimate power of the Congress, the power of the purse. That’s how we’ll end this war, and that’s the only way we’re going to end this war.”

Think this statement is irrelevant because Kucinich is just a powerless, dopey Congressman with little or no influence on the matter?

Think again.

With Democrats winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-10, is in a position to become chairman of the powerful Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations.

Kucinich, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee where foreign policy legislation is generated, is likely to play a much larger role on everything from the nation’s policies on fighting terrorism to the war in Iraq.

Lord help us all.