Turning the screws on Chavez

U.S. ties Hugo Chavez to Hezbollah aid.

When we catch bin Laden

When we catch bin Laden, we can be assured that America is doing the right thing by offering him all of the same legal protections afforded ‘merican citizens. I mean, we gotta restore America’s prestige among the world, right?

(Guess who thinks this is is good thing).

Next up: Foreigners should be allowed to buy your land, vote, and forcibly marry your daughters.

By all means, let’s learn more from our past.

Coming to your local revisionist bookstore soon: Aside from all of the atrocities you’re already familiar with, World War II was also a spiteful land grab by the Allies and was entirely avoidable! Churchill and Roosevelt were bloodthirsty warmongers who did more to provoke the conflict than previously believed. Oh, and Lefties — perhaps unintentionally– may finally be starting to exhibit some intellectual curiosity about the true nature of their ideological forefathers:

The most visible proponent of the unnecessary war theory is the novelist Nicholson Baker, an accomplished, gentle and entirely civilized man, whose book “Human Smoke” has made him a darling of leftist critics of the American role in the world.

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“Baker shows, step by step, how an alliance dominated by leaders who were bigoted, far more opposed to Communism than to fascism, obsessed with arms sales and itching for a fight coerced the world into war,” Mark Kurlansky. . . . wrote in a review of “Human Smoke” that appeared in the entirely mainstream Los Angeles Times Book Review.

The Allies (the Americans, at least) were far less opposed to fascism because they were fascists. How existential. Jonah Goldberg is smiling somewhere!

More true now than even two days ago

Documents confirm that Hugo Chavez had big plans for assisting FARC, a group considered to be a terrorist organzation by the Colombian government, the United States, Canada and the European Union.

Foot Soldiers of the Savior

Who would’ve thunk?  Hoaxter who tipped federal authorities to Texan compound is a delegate for Barack Obama.  The Army of the Messiah will change our world, one act of defiance at a time.

Do ‘bitter’ Americans turn to ‘God and Religion’ when the economy turns south or . .

. . do they take to donning purple street garb, organizing bus caravans, and violently intimidating dissenting union members?  I guess Americans respond to stimuli in different ways.

The excuse for such street fascism open debate?

“At a time when the economy is in a downward spiral, when income inequality and economic uncertainty are at record levels and when only 12.1 percent of the U.S. workforce has union representation, we simply can not abide by union-busting and member poaching between unions. Unions must stand united for the interests of working people.

“The more than 800 SEIU members who traveled to Dearborn from all parts of the country tonight would much rather be at home: holding their local state and national representatives accountable; going door to door to elect pro-worker candidates; and helping security officers, janitors, healthcare workers, and other service workers unite to attain a voice on the job [ed--and mailing $20 donations to the Obama campaign]. But CNA’s recent actions threaten the future of the labor movement for all workers—and we cannot remain silent. [ed-so let's bust'em up????]

“Open debate [ed - read: physical intimidation] serves an important role as we work to strengthen our movement. The Labor Notes Conference is the right time and place to discuss our differences. Emergency room hallways and days before contentious union elections are not.

Chinese street fascism

Were Chinese agent provacateurs disguised as Tibetan activists attacking Olympic torchbearers? Some photographic evidence.

Wait, lemme check. . .

Yep. Living in Cuba must still suck.

Don’t these people understand they’re leaving some great healthcare behind?

Clueless, sitting in for Nicholas Kristof

An absolutely struggling Roger Cohen looks to the bright side of the Venezuelan strongman’s gracious acknowledgement of his recent electoral defeat. For all of Chavez’s faults–and Cohen lists many–our (presumably) elected leaders could stand to learn so much from him, this humble servant of democracy!

Venezuelan dictator turns his back on Massachusett’s cash-strapped

Bantam little showcock Hugo Chavez throws doubt on any sustained effort to help America’s poor.

Paging Congressman Delahunt to get this straightened out!

Getting nervous about your polling?

You’ll be Dear Leader in less than a week, but you’re getting an uneasy feeling that your aura of inevitability is showing some holes. What can you do to boost your positives? Cry foul while making foul, and sever diplomatic ties with your neighbor, your largest trading partner in the region.

Gateway Pundit on Hugo Boss Chavez.

Next for Sheehan: A Venezuelan Paradise

Sheehan quits as face of US anti-war fight:

“I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican party,” she wrote. “However, when I started to hold the Democratic party to the same standards that I held the Republican party, support for my cause started to erode, and the left started labelling (sic) me with the same slurs that the right used.”

I feel for this woman and the loss she suffered–I really do. But does she really think she wouldn’t have been used as a tool by partisans scrambling to consolidate any nascent anti-war murmurs in 2004?

Suggesting America isn’t truly for her anymore, Sheehan might be implying that a move abroad could potentially be in her future. She’s already laid the groundwork with Boss Chavez–is she going to move to Caracas? That would be positively entertaining and so utterly predictable. Venezuela–a country that honors the right to dissent!