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Link to -- http://www.FederalistPatriot.com/FQD.asp For the real story on John Kerry and John Edwards, Link to -- http://Kerry-04.com/ CONTENTS: THE FOUNDATION INSIGHT IChThUS IMPRIMIS FAMILY CULTURE LIBERTY THE GIPPER OPINION IN BRIEF GOVERNMENT BUSH CAMPAIGN JOURNAL JFK DEMO-LITION DERBY RE: THE LEFT POLITICAL FUTURES FOR THE RECORD SELECT READER COMMENTS THE LAST WORD ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "That which seems to be the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next." --John Stuart Mill ______----********O********----______ IChThUS IMPRIMIS "The Christian faith has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." --G.K. Chesterton ______----********O********----______ FAMILY "[Thursday] the California Supreme Court fulfilled their duty by enforcing the law and nullifying the illegitimate marriage licenses handed out to thousands of same-sex couples exactly six months ago in San Francisco. Today's ruling reinforces once again that when one rogue mayor or any other elected official ignores the rule of law, they will be held accountable. Over sixty percent of Californians voted to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Today the Court upheld the law as it is written and has set a shining example for courts across the nation." --Tony Perkins ______----********O********----______ CULTURE "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?'" --Chuck Colson ______----********O********----______ LIBERTY "Every decent American ought to be thoroughly outraged by what has transpired in response to the ads being run by those Swift Boat veterans contesting John Kerry's accounts of his heroics during Vietnam. Rather than merely refute their claims, dark forces are working to suppress their efforts to speak out on this subject. Unfortunately, with too few Americans understanding the threat posed by those who would forcibly subdue others with whom they disagree, the reaction to this infuriating episode has been minimal. ... When was the notion established that free speech must pass some government test for accuracy in order to be permissible? Is it John McCain alone who should have the final say as to who can speak in public and who cannot, based solely on his arrogant assessment of the worthiness or accuracy of their statements? McCain's vindictiveness towards the veterans, based not on their real credibility but instead on their previous association with others who had worked to thwart his political ambitions, is indicative of the very seed of tyranny that the founders most feared. Clearly, the framers of the First Amendment crafted it in such a manner as to ensure that individuals such as John McCain would never have the prerogative to use the laws of an out-of-control government to subdue their opposition." --Christopher Adamo ______----********O********----______ THE GIPPER "One thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee...was a nation governed by professional politicians who had a vested interest in getting reelected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then looking...forward to getting back to the farm." --Ronald Reagan ______----********O********----______ OPINION IN BRIEF "How many times have we been told that George W. Bush 'squandered' the good will of the world 'community' after 9/11? The assumption behind all of this seemed to be that anything which cost America the support of allies like France or Germany was, in effect, too costly. In other words, the means -- 'strong alliances' -- are more important than the ends -- winning the war on terror, toppling Saddam, and so forth. Listening to these folks, one gets the sense that America's greatest foreign policy triumph was to get sucker-punched on 9/11 because it resulted in sympathetic newspaper headlines in Paris and Berlin. ... Now, there is one caveat to the Kerry Doctrine of international hand-holding. If America is attacked, he says he wouldn't hesitate to respond with force. That's nice, I guess. But what else is he going to say? 'If America is attacked, I promise to play Boggle in the Oval Office!' He makes it sound like he's the first President to have the courage to commit to a policy of retaliation to attacks. Has any president actually rejected such a policy? Kerry promises 'I will never give any nation or international institution a veto over our national security.' Again, great. But no major candidate has ever promised to do otherwise. More importantly, the UN wouldn't need to have a veto over our national security with a President Kerry in office, since no situation obviously meets his standards for force except a direct attack. ... [F]or Kerry, no goal is worth losing allies, because keeping allies is Kerry's only goal." --Jonah Goldberg ______----********O********----______ GOVERNMENT "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 ______----********O********----______ BUSH CAMPAIGN JOURNAL "There are times when, given the political climate in the country, President Bush must wonder why anyone would want the job as President. When things go wrong on his watch, of course he gets the blame and that is to be expected. Yet, when things go right, he hardly ever gets the credit. The mainstream media looks for any reason to discredit Bush and his capable administration. It is little wonder that half the country now gets much of their news from the Internet, talk radio and the Fox News Channel. At least the President gets a fair shake in these outlets. One can only wonder what the President's numbers would be like if the other half of the nation got information from media which was fair to the President. Maybe we would not be such a closely divided nation after all." --Paul M. Weyrich ______----********O********----______ JFK DEMO-LITION DERBY "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 ______----********O********----______ RE: THE LEFT "Now we can understand why Democrats spent the last year attacking the President as someone who lied to take America into an unnecessary war and destroy brave young American lives for his corporate friends in Texas. They did it to disarm and anesthetize us, to deconstruct the very idea of what truth is or what a fact is or what is is -- and prepare us for the most shameless charade in political memory, the phoniest convention for the phoniest party ever to mount an American electoral stage. ... This is a party that from the beginning to the end of its convention pretended to be what it is not. And that is because it fears that American people already know what it is." --David Horowitz ______----********O********----______ POLITICAL FUTURES "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 ______----********O********----______ FOR THE RECORD "What I wrote [in a previous column] is that '[Ilana Wexler] is a mere child, more foolish than most, in that she actually thinks she has earned the right to publicly ridicule the vice president of the United States.' I was simply asserting that before one mocks the American vice president at a national political convention, one ought to have earned the stature to do so, and I cannot imagine any 12-year-old who has. It is abundantly clear that the notion of earning stature is alien to many, probably most, liberals' thinking. Rights thinking so dominates the liberal mind that having the right to speech has to come to mean the same as always exercising it. Childhood is the time to be a child and to be imbued with the values that will enable one to be a politically wise adult. I have enormous interest in speaking with children, but I have little interest in their political views. But, hey, I'm not a contemporary liberal." --Dennis Prager ______----********O********----______ SELECT READER COMMENTS (Our servers automatically delete "Reply" messages to this e-mail. To submit comments for publication, link to -- http://Federalist.com/comments.asp Please hold your comments to 75 words if you want them posted. To view reader comments, link to -- http://Federalist.com/main/comments.asp ) "Al-Sadar may have suffered two shrapnel wounds. One more and he'll have enough purple hearts to go to Massachusetts!" --Charlotte, North Carolina "John Kerry says he's going to raise taxes on the wealthy and give tax incentives to manufacturers to stay in this country. Who does he think runs these companies, paupers? I guess he will give with one hand and take it back with the other." --Montgomery, Alabama "Any bets that the John John team implodes sometime in late September or early October? The monumental discrepancies are mounting up almost logarithmically. It should be quite a show -- Teresa will lead the way!" San Jose, California "Kerry now claims he was in Cambodia in January, 1969. Obviously he was a closet Russian Orthodox all those years and was celebrating Christmas according to their calendar. I am sure this will greatly increase his popularity with the Slavonic voting block." --Atlanta, Georgia "If Lynndie England is facing some 38 years in the clink for hazing the Abu Ghraib prisoners, shouldn't John Kerry still be doing time for atrocities that he himself admitted committing?" --Charleston, West Virginia "Kerry isn't just a divider; he's a liar too. He came to Colorado claiming to be a hunter and fisherman and to understand our issues. He doesn't. He voted for every gun ban the Demos trotted out. He wants to close federal wilderness areas to hunting and fishing. Sportsmen, don't be fooled. Kerry is NOT your friend. He doesn't understand. He is a dyed in the wool northeastern liberal who doesn't care about Western issues." -- Louisville Colorado "Now that the California Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the mayor of San Francisco broke the law when he authorized the issuance of marriage licenses to those who did not meet the legal requirements in that state, what will be the personal consequences of his actions? As a law-breaker he should be removed from office." -- Washington, New Hampshire "Well, now we know how Kerry plans to implement his 'more sensitive war.' He's going to appoint Jim McGreevey as Secretary of Defense! Then they can issue berets in rainbow pastels." --Niantic, Connecticut "Surprisingly, Nancy Pelosi has urged, 'no politics in intelligence,' while most Demos seem determined to keep intelligence out of politics." --Las Vegas, Nevada "The Federalist Patriot's perseverance and insight has inspired this young Marine 2nd Lt. to seek office once his time is done in the service. 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