Over the past several weeks, tens of thousands of you have helped us fax, call and write Congress to stop the Pelosi-Murtha Preemptive Surrender Bill.

Well, yesterday you won.  And so did America.

In the face of all your opposition, Democrats blinked, selling out their MoveOn buddies.  Senate and House leaders caved to reality, pulled Pelosi’s “Preemptive Surrender Bill”, and (continue reading post »)

Senate leaders agreed today that they would wait until June to act on the bipartisan “immigration reform” compromise which is quickly unraveling before everyone’s eyes.

What Rush Limbaugh has termed the “Comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Bill” is even getting jeers from people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, showing that these western state Congresscritters are all too happy to help Republicans throw themselves under the bus.

The sad thing is, we need to reform immigration: the current system is a mess. But we need border security more. And until the latter is a reality, the former is a dead letter, no matter what form it may take.

And this form is just not gonna fly.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Rudy Giuliani has an obvious problem: Since he has refused to move away from his radical-left position on abortion, his only path to the nomination is to be tougher than tough on the war on terror. Yet it took Ron Paul’s blaming America for 9/11 to get Rudy any traction in the second presidential debate on what was supposed to be his number-one issue. Worse, at the end of the debate, it was Mitt Romney and Duncan Hunter who had the most authentically strong responses to the questioner’s asking what the candidates would do in the event of a series of terrorist attacks on shopping malls.

Most GOP primary voters will be tough on terror and pro-life…..That leads to the obvious question: If one is pro-life, why vote for Rudy when you can vote for others who are pro-life and at least equally tough on terror?

Such is Rudy’s dilemma.

According to an aide, the Reverend Jerry Falwell went home to be with his Lord moments ago.

Falwell was instrumental — yea, pioneering — in bringing Christians back into public life in America, after an absence stretching across most of the 20th Century. His work in missions, in education and in a host of other endeavors was equally impressive if not quite so influential, at least as the world would count it; and he was a friend to many of us, one greatly to be missed.

His suffering has now ended; his journey has just begun; and we are all better for his sojourn among us.

Our mainstream media doesn’t seem to like the idea of this story, and yet it’s true. The two loudest anti-American “allies” — France and Germany — have now, in their very first elections following the Iraq War, elected explicitly pro-American leaders.

And it’s not that they lacked choices: both Merkel and Sarkozy faced opponents almost as virulently anti-American as Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore. Their people — whom we are told daily “hate” us — had plenty of opportunity to smack the victors for being “lapdogs to the imperialist power”.

And yet they didn’t. Which makes you wonder. Or it should.

Socialists errupt in riots across France because their candidate lost, and while she’s now calling for calm, she threatened and instigated it in the first place. Next, we’re sure, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be demanding a recount.

Because after all, the left is always the party of the people, so any defeat must be corrupt and must necessitate “direct action”. Just ask them.

Unfortunately for them, whenever the people experience the left’s tender mercies in office very long, they figure out the truth. Let’s just say there’s a reason Sarkozy won.

At 6:10pm, George W. Bush vetoed the Congressional Left’s preemptive surrender bill.

It’s time to step up. We need to support his courage, our troops, and our country. Our forces have actually been without funding authorization since April 16: every day that passes without a clean bill is compromising national security, diverting resources from bases around the world, and emboldening a foe that is otherwise turning on itself (see the earlier post on that topic here).

It’s time for everyone to stand for their country. Help us now.

Always nice when a liberal tells the truth about the current conflict. All the more so these days, when the entire mainstream media is doing its level best to make one of both Bill Clinton’s and George Bush’s biggest mistakes into a brilliant sage.

Read Christopher Hitchens’ analysis of George Tenet’s dishonest, self-serving book here.

The Surge is working, not least in its stiffening of the resolve of even the most intransigent native Iraqi’s to make a go of their country instead of helping al Qaeda create chaos. It’s a difficult process, but every day we see more fruit, as evidenced by today’s reports that the most recent leader of al Qaeda in Iraq to get himself killed — Abu Ayyub al-Masri — was killed today by native Sunni insurgents.

According to Reuters:

There has been growing friction between Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and other Sunni Arab insurgent groups over al Qaeda’s indiscriminate killing of civilians and its imposition of an austere brand of Islam in the areas where it holds sway.

If true, the death of Abu Ayyub al-Masri would signal a deepening split at a time when the Shi’ite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is trying to woo some insurgent groups into the political process.

This has been a growing trend since January, and once which could be the fatal blow for the enemy if we’ll pursue it to its logical conclusion. Surrender (which Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid now demand) makes as much sense today as it did when their Democrat predecessors called for it in the election of 1864, after the fall of Atlanta (and just six months before Appomattox). We have to start saying so, loudly.

Why is the U.S. taxpayer subsidizing broadcasts throughout the Middle East which support terror groups and deny the Holocaust? Well, we weren’t, until a former CNN producer took over America’s broadcast efforts in the region. Read about Larry Register, the personification of all that’s wrong with the left-wing media in this country and its efforts to humiliate and undermine us throughout the world.