"The federal government owns nearly 33 percent of all the land in the United States.... Socialists, progressives...and environmental organizations have no problem with federal ownership of land. In fact, in recent years, they have sponsored legislation and programs to buy more and more private property to expand the federal inventory. These people forgot, or choose to reject, a fundamental principle recognized by America's founders: prosperity arises from private enterprise, and private enterprise arises from private property. This nation's prosperity is tied directly to private enterprise. As the misguided policy of government ownership and control of land expands, prosperity, inevitably, must diminish. Even more important is the loss of individual freedom, as government expands the scope of its control. ... There is nothing the federal government does with its land that could not be done better by the states, or by private owners within the states. It's time for Uncle Sam to get out of the real estate business, and return its land to the states, and to the private owners who hold the key to our nation's future." --Henry Lamb

"John Kerry is too strange to be president. I don't mean 'strange' in the way of his predecessor, Al Gore, the first Android-American to run for president.... [W]ith Kerry, even before any gaffes or scandals, the official narrative makes no sense. He's publicly opposed to the Vietnam War. But he volunteers for it. Then he comes back disgusted with his experience in war, publicly hurls his medals away (or someone else's: that story keeps changing), denounces his fellow veterans as war criminals, torturers and rapists, and claims that he personally committed atrocities. But then he decides to run for president and suddenly Jane Fonda morphs into John Wayne and all those war criminals are war heroes he wants at every rally and he's got his medals back and his disgust at his wartime experience has mysteriously turned into pride in his wartime experience to the exclusion of all else. If Steven Spielberg...got a script like that, [he]'d send it to rewrite. Either that or [he]'d figure [he]'d got an early, rejected draft of the new Manchurian Candidate. That's what people mean when they talk about how 'complex' and 'nuanced' Kerry is. They don't mean his positions on the great questions of the day are complex and nuanced. Quite the contrary. ... If Kerry had exhibited the slightest trace of any interestingly complex view of any policy matter, you can be sure we'd have heard about it. But he hasn't. So the only 'complex' aspect of the Kerry campaign is the man himself, who's complex in ways that don't seem entirely healthy." --Mark Steyn

"After listening to John Kerry's acceptance address...I did a little experiment. ... I edited out phony religiosity and pointless political platitudes of the sort that could be used by any politician in any situation, including Hitler (i.e., "We're the optimists"). I also chopped out all gratuitous flag-waving all forced and hollow tough-talking, and all draping of the clearly unworthy self in the ill-fitting cloak of the great figures of history. Further down the line were the intellectual crimes. Lies went out right away, but I also cut out things that were not lies exactly, but mere words. Also banished were the many species of literary fraud -- from facile generalizations to redundancies to such crass, hypersentimental, factory-generated cliches as 'trees [are] the cathedrals of nature.' There were also many shades of disingenuousness to deal with, most of which came into play when Kerry levied attacks against George Bush. ... When I was done cutting, there were only two lines left. 'I was born in Colorado. America can do better. Amen'. " --Matt Taibbi

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"What MTV is selling, besides music, movies, and soft drinks, is a socially liberal worldview in which personal autonomy, especially in sexual matters, is the highest good. And it's in a unique position to succeed in its mission because, as Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone has written, MTV has been 'handed endless generations of young people who are blank slates.' Of course, kids are not supposed to be 'blank slates.' Parents, communities, and churches are supposed to teach them what they need to know and believe. MTV's success is proof of how the Church...has failed in its most basic mission. It's also a challenge to all of us as Christian parents. We need to know who we're up against. We need to know what our kids are being taught during school and after school. The lessons go far beyond how to spend their disposable income; they go all the way to 'how now shall we live?'" -

Any thoughts?

May God Bless ya more,

GMm