Conservative Donnybrook

Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to Harvard University and MIT. Like the home city of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Cambridge is commonly referred to as the “People’s Republic” for the far left policy city government officials espouse. Cambridge lived up to this billing recently when it forbade the local Boy Scouts from placing boxes saying “Support Our Troops” at polling stations and asking for donations of toiletries and other creature comforts for soldiers in Iraq. Cambridge claims that the drive amounts to a political statement at a polling station and is against Massachusetts law.

The left (and far right for that matter) has a fit anytime anyone labels them as unpatriotic when it comes to not supporting the war in Iraq. They always play the card that they do not have to support the war to be patriotic because they support the troops. The left seemingly coined the phrase support the troops and now a hotbed of liberalism is preventing Boy Scouts from raising donations for soldiers because supporting our troops is a political statement? Next thing you know boxes that say support democracy and give out copies of the U.S. Constitution at polling stations won’t be allowed.

Perhaps what is most irksome about this stupidity is something brought up by Laura Ingram, that it’s clear that had the box solicited donations for AIDS research or gave out condoms to promote safe sex Cambridge would have no problem with putting the box at polling places. Some people are beyond help.

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President Bush will be welcoming back former Vice President Al Gore to the White House on November 26th to congratulate him on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. My question is why? Mr. Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, which won him the award is full of errors and the overall premise of the film is being proven wrong every day. The far-left Nobel Peace Prize Committee predictably gave him the award but President Bush does not have to laud the accomplishment. Mr. Gore is chasing the specter of global warming (manbearpig? you have to watch it to get it), periodically taking a break to criticize President Bush and resurrect the 2000 election controversy. Why should President Bush even deal with the man?

This is a continuation of a trend where President Bush seemingly attempts to smooth over relations with the faces of the Democratic party. First it was pairing his father, former President H.W. Bush with former President Bill Clinton to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims and now it’s bringing in Mr. Gore. All this country needs is for Mr. Gore and Mr. Clinton to have more face time. All this does is whip the mainstream media into a frenzy remembering the “good ole Clinton years” and makes me want to puke.

I doubt either Mr. Clinton or Mr. Gore would invite a conservative to the White House who won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then again they won’t have to worry about a conservative winning that one for a long time.

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The Guardian reports that although attacks on British troops in Shiite Basra have precipitously declined, locals report that other Shiite-on-Shiite violence has increased (or at least continues unabated). Maliki sent a couple of “no-nonsense” generals to oversee Iraqi forces there and give them a swift kick of sorts, but it may still be too early to tell what the effect — and the effectiveness of the Iraqization — will be. (As an aside, one wonders what the backgrounds of the “no-nonsense” generals are?)

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Thanks to The Corner. 

It’s official.  The International Atomic Energy Agnecy has confirmed that Iran has 3,000 operating nuclear centrifuges, the number considered necessary to foster nuclear weapon production. Iran would obviously have to work out any techincal problems before they can get these centrifuges working at nuclear fuel-grade capacity, but it’s estimated that a nuclear weapon could be manufactured in 12-18 months.

The IAEA is further reporting that Iran is preventing inspecters from gathering other critical information regarding their nuclear ambitions.

Iran insists that they are only exploring nuclear power as a means to meet the energy demands of the nation’s rapidly-growing population, as can be seen by this graph. 

Oddly though, Iran hasn’t cultivated its hydro-electric sources, nor has it erected gas-fired power plants that would come at much lesser cost, instead focusing its energies on a decades long nuclear program that has been defined by sercecy and evasiveness.

Thank goodness for international treaties, however.  As signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty, we can rest assured that Iran has absolutely no intentions of using their nuclear power for other than domestic purposes.  The fact that they support Hezbollah, sponsor Iraqi insurgency, and would like to see Israel wiped off the map should be of no concern to us.  After all, obtaining a nuclear weapon doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to drop Fat Man or Little Boy within a week’s time.  They’ll save it for a rainy day.

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I am happy to see that C.S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters is in pre-production!  The book was fantastic, I eagerly await the movie.

Rumor also has it that The Great Divorce is also under consideration for production.

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