Rush Limbaugh today read an article from the National Review Online concerning a possible outcome of the upcoming election. The article, Do You Know the U.S.A.?, discusses the feelings of an anonymous “longtime GOP operative” who basically argues that Bush will beat Kerry in a landslide based on our response to the terror threat. Rush’s commentary interested me when he read another article from the same site that quoted Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., current publisher at the New York Times. Sulzberger was asked by his dad during his anti-war protest days, “If a young American soldier comes upon a young North Vietnamese soldier, which one do you want to see get shot?” Sulzberger told his dad, “I would want to see the American get shot. It’s the other guy’s country; we shouldn’t be there.” Rush didn’t know Kurtz’s source of this quote when I heard him today, but I found an article in the New Yorker that seems to be the source. The connection has to be made between what people like Sulzberger and Kerry did in their youth and the attitudes they have today. Stanley Kurtz points this out in Something About Our Country Today in relation to the media. He points out that the people who made the most noise about the vietnam war and what they saw as the “evils” of that time are now in positions of importance in the media. Sulzberger is a good example of this. Rush made the point that these people hate Bush and his policies and sometimes it seems like they have no reason for this except to make sense to themselves of the protests they participated in during the 60’s and 70’s.
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My favorite quote from the Vice Presidential debate came when Vice President Dick Cheney addressed Senator John Edwards:
Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.
For a complete transcript of the debate please see Fox News.
It’s great to see that The Return of the King won 11 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. It now is tied for the record with Ben-Hur and Titanic. I had hoped in this final installment that Return of the King would finally win the Best Picture award.
Gary A. Mauser has published a study showing the effect that restrictive gun laws have had in Britain, Australia, and Canada. He says that ” . . . violent crime rates, and homicide rates in particular, have been falling in the United States. The drop in the American crime rate is even more impressive when compared with the rest of the world. In 18 of the 25 countries surveyed by the British Home Office, violent crime increased during the 1990s. This contrast should provoke thinking people to wonder what happened in those countries where they introduced increasingly restrictive firearm laws.” The media is very good at ignoring these kinds of facts. The Failed Experiment, which gives the details of the study appears to be helpful in showing that the United States should not follow the lead of Britain, Australia, and Canada.
The Washington Times has printed a letter to the editor, Bush and I were lieutenants, by one of the men who served with President Bush while he was in the Air National Guard. The article helps to clear up a lot of the misconceptions that are floating around in the media about Bush’s military service. Those on the extreme left will not let facts influence them, but this information will be helpful to others who are concerned.
There is also a second article at the Washington Times, Bush’s drills with the Alabama Guard confirmed, that gives more information from people who knew President Bush at the time.
NewsMax.com has an interesting article that may help some Americans decide whether John Kerry would make a good Commander in Chief.
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