Freedom Freaks Speak Out

This story from the NY Times discusses Bush's goal for jobs:

But on one recent Thursday, Terry Holt, Mr. Bush's campaign press secretary, called in to "The Marc Bernier Show," at 1150 and 1490 on the AM dial here, to talk extensively about how the president wanted to help orange growers and would not be satisfied until "every American who wants a job can have a job."

I can't be the only one that remembers that line about everyone who wants a job getting one from 1993's Dave....

The radical proposal of a "regular guy liberal" in 1993 is the same proposal of a "right-wing" Republican President in 2003. More anecdotal evidence of how the country is still being dragged hard to the left.

Happy atheist Gift Exchange Day!
Here's a piece from Leonard Peikoff on what Christmas should celebrate.
Favorite quote:
"Santa implicitly rejected the whole Christian ethics. He did not denounce the rich and demand that they give everything to the poor; on the contrary, he gave gifts to rich and poor children alike. Nor is Santa a champion of Christian mercy or unconditional love. On the contrary, he is for justice --Santa gives only to good children, not to bad ones."

LOL, I'd quote more, but he's funny about copyrights.

You'll have to bear with me while I figure out this blog system, too...Well, here's a surprise...Mr Mugabe appears on a "watchdog's list of 'predators' of press freedom."
Tyrants hate free anything, and free press has got to go...here's the article from Ciar Byrne on Mugabe's treatment of the country's Daily News

Bloodshed, brutality and tyranny are still bloodshed, brutality and tyranny--no matter what skin color the perpetrators happen to have. To cling to support of Mugabe because his pretense for tryranny was ending racial inequality in Zimbabwe is to subrogate human rights for "black rights." Zimbabwe's crises, which include famine, rape and other egregious violations of individual rights, now transcend racial injustices. Mugabe is not a supporter of individual rights, which are color-blind and for all people. Like any good irrationalist dictator, he is gnashing his teeth at anyone anti-Mugabe, black or white. You cannot support Mugabe and individual rights...

...Even the other African leaders are starting to realize this. From the Christian Science Monitor (and for the record, I am not Christian), African criticism of Mugabe rises

"With half of Zimbabwe's 12 million people facing hunger, inflation over 600 percent, and state-sponsored torture a common tool, hints of criticism by regional leaders that began showing up last month have now started to expand.

Everyone from Nigeria's President Olesegun Obasanjo to Archbishop Desmond Tutu has distanced themselves from Mugabe. Even South African President Thabo Mbeki, his chief regional supporter, met last week for the first time with Zimbabwe's main opposition party. It may all portend greater desire to resolve southern Africa's biggest political crisis, and it could hasten the end of the Mugabe regime."

Yes!

Also on the show last week, local radio host Tom Becka called in to defend France. I tried to explain that their problem was basing their policy on trying to being a counter-balance to us, but I wish I'd had this wonderful piece by Amer Taheri showing that even their own pro-government media are questioning their approach to foreign policy decisions.
Money quote:
"The French have seen Saddam Hussein’s capture on television and found him not worthy of the efforts that their government deployed to prolong his rule."

I need to learn to indent. Any help would be welcome.

Here the first one:
Mugabe men 'use rape as revenge'

Sick.

That last post was from me, Rich. I'm still learning the group blog dynamic.
For any of you that may not know, I host a radio show every Saturday night (Sunday morning) from 1-5am on 90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City (no internet streaming yet, but it'll be linked here first!)
This past weekend, I had two African-American callers separately praise the murdering dictator, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. I've seen numerous stories about his torture and killing of black people that supported the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party.
One called him a "saint", and the other said that the black people in the MDC were really tools of ex-Colonizer Britain, and were more like house slaves (the slur hurled at all black people in this country that aren't liberal.)
The implication that I called him out on was clear; since they supported the same party that white people did, they deserved to be tortured and killed by Mugabe. There's obviously no way that the MDC could think that Mugabe wasn't a good leader just because people are starving now, they must be tools of the white man.
Anyhoo, where I'm going with this is... I'm going to be looking for, and posting articles all week on Mugabe's atrocities to have a record of them in one place so that when I have a wi-fi laptop, I can have these stories handy if the subject comes up again. It came up right at the end of the show last week, so I plan to start with it this coming week, barring some huge news.
Allison, the story about Dean turning Green will still be coming too. (I think people will like seeing this type of private conversation between bloggers (like that (and that (and that )))). Ok, I'll stop now. Blogging is fun!

Oops. Apparently changing my name on the first page changes the name of all of the posters. I'll go back and change them all to Allison. (this is Rich)

Here is a wonderful column by Ralph Peters on Poland

As with the U.S. and Israel, underappreciated for being effective and betrayed by an opportunistic France.

Coming soon...

Can the Middle East Modernize Without Westernizing?
Jefferson's Words on the Second Amendment
Will Dean Go Green?

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