Big "Hillary" Book Controversy...

Drudge reports that this expose on Hillary Clinton is so scorching to the NY Senator that the big mucky-mucks at Penguin Books are arguing amongst themselves about the future of its publication.

The Amazon link for the book: "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, And How Far She'll Go To Become President".

A modest proposal:
1) Go to the link
2) Ad it to your "wishlist"
3) If you don't already have an Amazon account, create one & go to steps 1 & 2

Drive this book up the Amazon rankings and put the pressure on Penguin. Don't let this be another "Swift Vets" situation where the powers that be try to surpress free speech.

UPDATE: 11:49am
HOLD OFF ON THAT IDEA a minute. After reading Stephen Green, I'm not so sure that isn't exactly what Penguin books and even Hillary wants. More machinations by the Sith Lord?

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Yet Another Reason Why We Need John Bolton As UN Ambassador...

My asshat Senator - Christopher Dodd (D) of CT - hates him. Quoted in a WSJ piece today, Dodd made a baseless charge against Bolton that there is "credible evidence" that Bolton attempted to arrange the firing of two intelligence analysts because they raised objections to a speech he made on Cuba at the Heritage Foundation.

But the article notes:

As it happens, the Senate has also investigated these allegations. The Intelligence Committee issued a report last July exonerating Mr. Bolton and other government officials of trying to manipulate intelligence for political purposes. None of the intelligence analysts it interviewed, the report says, "provided any information to the Committee which showed that policymakers had attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their analysis or that any intelligence analysts had changed their intelligence judgments as a result of political pressure."

So Senate Democrats, led by a man with a penchant for coddling Latin American dictators, will try to use the old allegation in an attempt to smear Bolton at his confirmation hearing today. Dodd is nothing more than a partisan hack. But his actions hardly surprise me at this point.

Here's the nut of the opposition to John Bolton:

All of this, in short, is political smoke designed to disguise what is really a policy dispute. Mr. Bolton's opponents don't want to promote a blunt-spoken supporter of Mr. Bush's foreign policy to help reform an obviously dysfunctional United Nations. They prefer someone who'll subjugate U.S. interests to the "multilateralism" that is their, and the U.N.'s, dominant ethic. Democrats who vote against Mr. Bolton will be saying they want an Ambassador to the U.N. who represents Kofi Annan, not America.

UPDATE: 10:40am
Peter Brookes in the NY Post has an editorial making the case for John Bolton.

The United Nations is a mess, rocked by scandals and failure. The president picked Bolton because America needs a firm, outspoken statesman at Turtle Bay — someone who can advance American interests and drive U.N. reform.

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Oh, and by the way. The Mets finally won...

A sweet 6-1 victory too, over the hated Atlanta Braves. Avoiding yet another sweep. Nice going guys. Now let's see if you can make this a habit.

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Even More AL TV...

Raven at "And Rightly So" has a terrific faux-TV guide cover graphic that goofs on Al Gore and his new venture "Current", the new Independant "Public Access" Network. Check it out here.

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Will The Left Start Calling Bush "The Emperor"?

I just finished the novelization of the upcoming "Star Wars" movie, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. First let me say that the movie is going to be awesome. And the people who bitched about the last two won't be disappointed again. But that is the subject for another post.

I'm going under the assumption that most of the dialog in the novel is pretty much verbatim as it will be in the film. And if this is the case, there will be lots of material for the moonbat, conspiracy-theory, "Bush Lied" crew to use as analogy for the current President. Stay with me on this one. Here's a couple of examples:

• "[His] constant, cynical, ruthless maneuvering for power - he carves away chunks of our freedom and bandages the wounds with tiny scraps of security. And for what?"
• "All I know is that things are going wrong here. Our government is headed in exactly the wrong direction."

Sounds like something you'd read at DemocraticUnderground. And here's a good one:

• "...a new day has begun! It is morning in the Republic!"

A not-so-subtle dig at Reagan? Who knows? I know Lucas is a San Fran liberal but I'm not sure if the whole "dark power manipulating things according to a grand plan" thing is pointed at current events or if it's just a general warning against complacency in a democray.

But mark my words, I guaranty that when this movie comes out, there will be people on the Left who will seize upon some of its themes and try to concoct an analogy for the War on Terror, the Patriot Act and the popularity of Bush among the "dopes" in fly-over country - as well as the current "evil" Republican majority in the "Senate".

It's kind of funny considering the Left's inability to decide whether the President is a dope being used by a Karl Rove and Dick Cheney led cabal of power brokers or an actual mad genius creating profits for his oil buddies. In the coming months, they might just lean toward the latter. It wouldn't surprise me if some Liberal columnist actually took the plunge and started referring to Bush as "Darth Sidious". I'm serious.

The real irony is that when you really read about the political manipulation and subterfuge in the story, it sounds a lot more like a certain Senator we all know. Someone who puts on one false face to the public and the media, all the while acting as a "puppet master" within her party to create the ideal situation for her ascending to power and using loyal supporters as her proxies to do most of her dirty work.

And on that topic, apparently there is a controversy brewing over at Penguin Books regarding a book about that same Senator. Drudge has the scoop. Will this book - if released - implicate her as a kind of Sith Lord (or Lady, I guess)? Stay tuned.

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Democrat Party Leaving the Faithful Behind...

History Professor Kevin Starr (no relation to Kenneth that I am aware of) posts an editorial in the LA Times pointing out how the modern Democrat Party is leaving behind its roots of Judeo-Christian values.

"Something most of us on the Right noticed a long time ago. Baffled by such rejection, an ostracized faith community shows every sign of realigning itself politically. Although a few astute politicians such as Hillary Clinton are trying to find a way out of this breach, there is no clear path. Democrats should be reading Jacques Maritain — a social democrat and cultural moderate — or even studying the progressive policies and programs of the Eisenhower and (yes!) the Nixon years. Instead, social democrats, once anchored in the deepest imperatives of religion and culture, substitute sloganeering and sound bites for thought — as when party Chairman Howard Dean describes Republican Americans as pure evil, no two ways about it.

Faith and traditional values get shred in the ideological crossfire, and the sustaining, healing power of American culture is lost."

Today's Democrat leadership is leading the party away from mainstream America at their own electoral peril.

Hat Tip: RealClearPolitics

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Dean Picks Targets Among the Red States...

DNC Chairman and Grand Poo-bah Moonbat Howard Dean has publicly announced he plans to actually spend some money on the State party machines of four States that Bush carried last November.

The States in question are Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota and West Virginia. Interesting considering Missouri was once considered a bellwether "toss-up" and West Virginia had been firmly in Democrat hands since...well since there have been Democrats.

Looks to me more like they're trying to stop the bleeding. While North Carolina does have a lot of transplanted Blue Staters, I'd say it's still a tall order to turn that one Blue. And North Dakota? Forget it.

"This is just the beginning," Dean told state Democratic chairs at a meeting of their association in Little Rock, Ark. "We will announce additional investments in the weeks ahead."

The announced investment in the State parties is $465,000, a pretty paltry sum in the grand scheme of things. I find it curious that the number isn't higher. Perhaps it's just dipping the toe in the water and it wouldn't represent a huge loss if the venture fails.

I suppose it makes sense to Dean, though. Spend some money to build up the grass roots organization, so they can better get their message out: that anything Bush supports is bad. And that Republicans "are mean" and "not nice people".

Sounds like a winner to me.

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Diane Lane Photo of the Week...

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Late-Night Round-up...

Stories I'd LOVE to comment on but I'm too damn tired. And the F*$%ing Mets have blown another one. So I'm in a foul mood. If I had dog, I'd kick him. (just kidding).

DJ Drummond at Polipundit says it's time to stop trying to play nice with Congressional Democrats and proposes a SIOP (Single Integrated Operational Plan). And I for one whole-heartily agree. The Republican caucus in both the House and the Senate need to stop acting like PUSSIES and start acting like leaders.

Powerline reminds us that anyone who has a GOP Senator representing them needs to pick up the phone or fire up their email and SLAM these buggers with as much support for the "constitutional option" that they can muster. The time is coming...soon.

When I read this post at RedState I couldn't believe the big guns that those opposed to John Bolton as UN Ambassador have assembled. This is going to be a bigger fight than most expected. And the opposition is funded by the LEFTEST of the left. Even more reason to overlook the fact that he looks like Captain Kangaroo. Bolton MUST BE CONFIRMED. Bring it on baby!!! Also, this very well may be the most researched piece of writing I have ever read.

On a lighter note, Stephen Green has posted some beautiful pictures from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

Maybe I wasn't as tired as I thought. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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New To The Blogroll...

Under "Right-Thinking Blogs":

• Cao's Blog (a good friend of "And Rightly So")
• Jackson's Junction (lots of good video)

A New "New Englandah":

• Matt Margolis

And I've put this blog under "Humor/Diversions" because frankly it didn't fit under any other category, but it is damn funny.

Description: "Caption This! In which photos of Politics, Current Events, and what-have-you are re-captioned with innuendo and fart jokes." That says it all.

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My Pet Moonbat...

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Ace of Spades is killing me here...

Just read his "who might be gay" post. I still have tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard. But then it has been a long day. My personal favorite:

Boba Fett

Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Why He Might Be Gay: Wears a cape; carries around a lot of futuristic BDS&M equipment; calls his ship, which is shaped like an iron, the Slave One; collects funky metal sculptures of handsome men; is known to be a "dedicated bachelor."

Why He Might Not Be Gay: If you watch the eyeslits of his helmet, he occasionally looks at Princess Leia's metal bikini on Jabba's pleasure-barge.

But I don't know how to interpret that Is he thinking, "Tight little unit, there," or is he thinking, "She thinks she's all Little Miss Thing, but she ain't"?

It's a hard one to call.

Go read the whole thing, it'll make your day.

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Light Blogging Today...

Updated my Norton Antivirus and I've had to keep scanning, deleting, re-scanning through my system to get rid of a bunch of Adware crap. Tenacious little buggers.

NEVER download the "Smiley Central" toolbar. That thing skewers your whole hardrive with spyware. Just make the manual smileys.

:-P

More creative anyway.

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Arguments Against ANWR = All Wet.

The Seattle Times has a column today by Bruce Ramsey titled "My Last Word (Yeah Right) On ANWR Oil Drilling". In it, Ramsey takes to task the e-mails he has lately received from some of his readers trying to make the case against the recent Congressional authorization to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

One of them reflects a similar argument that I've heard before. His response really gets to the heart of the matter.

"One response was that Americans may need the oil, but won't get it. "The bulk of this oil will go to China, Korea and Japan," one reader wrote. "Regular U.S. citizens (and taxpayers) get nothing from this." Assume the oil goes to Asia. The conclusion does not follow. From ANWR oil, Americans would get taxes, royalties and jobs. Also we would get some slack in the oil market, because if China buys more oil from Alaska, it buys less from someplace else.

The oil market is global, which means that supply from anywhere benefits consumers everywhere. Demand from anywhere is felt everywhere. Indeed, the most commonly given reason for gas rising above $2 in the United States is increased demand in China.

It's simple economics. Obviously these people have never read Thomas Sowell.

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An Excellent Example of Why I Love Reading Rachel Lucas...

Verbally bitch-slapping the idiots who whine about the price of gas - as only she can.

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"Grocery Brigade" strikes again...

Another group of food-mongers makes the news as Wes Roth links the story: Former Liberal-turned-Conservative Activist and outspoken critic of academic bias, David Horowitz, was hit by a pie while giving a speech at Butler University.

Will this madness never end? I recently warned Conservative speakers to be on guard against these Leftist ruffians. And naturally, as in the past, the little turds ran away like French soldiers.

Horowitz's supporters followed the assailants out of the hall, and confronted them with what a witness called "pushing and shoving." However, the attackers got away.

"There's a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I'd call fascists opposing conservatives," Horowitz said. "It's one step from that to injury."

I guess if you can't win on ideas, desperate measures are called for. Oh the humanity!

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The Hillary-Meter...

Pollster Scott Rasmussen has a "Hillary-Meter", the results of which are featured on his website. The Meter, which combines recent polling on the NY Senators favorables, including how she fares in the Red States, is designed to gauge her viability in 2008 as to how she is perceived by voters.

Currently, the percentage of voters polled who see her as politically "moderate" has increased from 27% to 34%. 43% perceive her as "liberal".

Also, 32% say they would "definitely vote for" her, while 37% say they would "definitely NOT vote for" her. As of now, she still has a long way to go. Should be interesting to watch, though.

Thanks to: NY Post

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UK Election Poll Tracker...

The BBC News has a site that has been tracking the polls for the British Parliamentary Election scheduled for May 5. The tracking poll, which started January 24th, also has a feature that lets you view a listing of the events that may have had an influence on the results of each poll since its inception two and half months ago. Anyone who is remotely interested in how these events unfold will find the site interesting. I'm not familiar with any bias a poll from the BBC would have so take the results for what they are.

I have also added it to the top of the NEWS/INFO SITES section in the right sidebar and will keep it there until after the results of the election.

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Real Men are in, Metrosexuals are out...

A new Harris poll shows that a majority of women prefer "manly" men over the well-manicured girlie-men that Hollywood tends to idolize. The results speak volumes about the attempts in the last twenty to thirty years to try to "feminize" men.

"It just shows that there are some things that you can't change and that, while feminism for a long time has been pushing us towards androgyny with little girls with trucks and guys with dolls, women tend to have feministic traits and guys the opposite," says Carrie Lukas, director of policy with the Independent Women's Forum. "If anything, it shows what feminism hasn't been able to accomplish."

Among the findings of the poll:

• 75 percent of women said their ideal man buys his grooming products at a grocery store or drugstore, not a salon
• 72 percent of women said their ideal man spends his free time doing home-improvement projects.
• 41 percent of women said their ideal man spends his time watching sports (one of my personal favorites)
• 47 percent of women said their ideal man spends his money on electronics, compared with 9 percent who answered "designer clothes
• 90 percent of women said they prefer low-maintenance, easygoing guys.

So what's wrong with a guy spending hundreds of dollars getting facials and pedicures and who's favorite store in the mall is Abercrombie & Fitch? F. Carolyn Graglia, author of "Domestic Tranquility, sums it up nicely: they're too wrapped up in themselves to give a woman what she really wants.

Mrs. Graglia sees the "fashionable man" celebrated by pop culture as an emblem of selfishness. Men being more concerned about how they look than how dependable they are, she says, is a sign of the times. "So many men are like that -- so narcissistic, so self-centered. They are really afraid of growing up," she says. "To me, a man who would look down on [being manly] isn't a real man and isn't in touch with the real things in life."

It must be pretty frustrating for a woman when your man spends more time in the bathroom than you do.

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More on AL TV

Country Store has a funny post on the Al Gore network "Current".

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