“[I]t is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about [the President’s] acts… To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.” – Teddy Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918.
FAKED: I mentioned a while back that the photos of alleged abuse by British soldiers published by the fanatically anti-American Daily Mirror were deemed fakes. Now we know they were. For true schadenfreude, check out the Mirror’s deadly rival, the Sun. The editor, Piers Morgan, refused even yesterday to resign or acknowledge that he had published a falsehood. He had to be walked out of his office by security, after telling a television interviewer: “All I want to say is we published the truth. We have revealed a can of worms. If the government chooses to ignore that, it is entirely a matter for them.” So far in the Iraq war battle, two major anti-war media outlets, the BBC and the Mirror, have been rocked. Tony Blair is still in office.
DERBYSHIRE AWARD NOMINEE: “Barring a miracle, the family as it has been known for more than five millennia will crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is a time for concerted prayer, divine wisdom and greater courage than we have ever been called upon to exercise. For more than 40 years, the homosexual activist movement has sought to implement a master plan that has had as its centerpiece the utter destruction of the family. The institution of marriage, along with an often weakened and impotent Church, is all that stands in the way of its achievement of every coveted aspiration. Those goals include universal acceptance of the gay lifestyle, discrediting of Scriptures that condemn homosexuality, muzzling of the clergy and Christian media, granting of special privileges and rights in the law, overturning laws prohibiting pedophilia, indoctrinating children and future generations through public education, and securing all the legal benefits of marriage for any two or more people who claim to have homosexual tendencies.” – James Dobson, in his latest newsletter. This is simply unhinged.
CORRECTION: Zarqawi is not al Qaeda’s number two. I should not blog when I’m traveling. My bad. I was thinking of Zawahiri. I also meant Jacksonian, not Jeffersonian. I should also not blog when exhausted in a hotel lobby at 11 pm.
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