http://blog.thevanguard.org Official Blog of America's Conservative Movement Online Fri, 02 May 2008 17:14:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     It looks like the New York Times, America's paper of liberal record, has been caught with its pants down again.  Check this out from the federal Department of Homeland Security's blog:   An Op-ed the New York Times Editorial Page Refused to Run When it comes to illegal immigration, the American people are tired ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/470/new-york-times-v-rule-of-law/ Happy Easter, everyone. And if you don't really know what Easter is about, or why the Resurrection matters, click here. http://blog.thevanguard.org/467/he-is-risen-he-is-lord/ We keep hearing about a tipping point in the global warming mess, a point of no return at which the Earth will simply be on fire. But last week, the leftists using global warming propaganda to push their socialist agenda hit a tipping point of their own, when one ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/469/the-global-warming-tipping-point/ ...not that that's shocking. But for Democrats to claim that his telling Republicans to go vote for Hillary in the Democrat primary is "ungentlemanly" or "a perversion of the process" is the height of hypocrisy. This is not just because the Dems and their media allies have been glowing (for ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/466/rush-is-right/ Well, you shouldn't have. As I've been telling anyone who would listen for weeks now, Hillary Clinton isn't going anywhere. And why would she? Everyone keeps saying it's mathematically impossible for her to win the nomination on elected delegates, but the same is very much true for Obama (and was before Ohio ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/465/so-you-thought-she-was-out-did-you/ He ran a great race for President, one that only a handful of people (like me) imagined that such an underfunded, unknown former preacher could run. But now it's over. So what's a newly famous term-limited ex-governor to do? Well, he could certainly wait around to be picked for Vice President. ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/464/mike-huckabee-for-us-senate/ So says Hillary. To which we can only ask, why not win both? No good reason judging by her comments, which were extremely hard core on Afghanistan (maybe there's something about that completely landlocked mountainous country which devoured an entire Soviet army that makes it an easier win?). It's ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/463/hillary-weve-got-two-wars-weve-got-to-end-one-weve-got-to-win-the-other/ ...which might be excessive, but given last week's revelation that 2007's global temperature drops completely wiped out all the global warming of the entire past century, one does have to wonder: will Gore have to give back his Oscar? Or his Nobel Prize? Hmmm. http://blog.thevanguard.org/454/weather-channel-founder-advocates-suing-al-gore-to-expose-warming-fraud/ My friend Mark Hyman writes in The American Spectator on why it makes absolutely no sense for Hillary to drop out, regardless of tomorrow's results. (And oh by the way, weren't a lot of the same people saying she needs to drop out "for the good of the party" telling Bill ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/456/the-coming-brokered-democratic-convention/ Bill Richardson's promise of government-mandated universal health care may well have foundered on "fiscal and economic reality" (as National Review puts it), but it's another aspect of the debacle which ought to be a wake-up call for everyone: And what did that proposal include? First and foremost, it targeted doctors for ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/459/richardson%e2%80%99s-universal-health-disaster/ London's Daily Telegraph dubs Matt Drudge the "world's most powerful journalist" in yet another testament to how the internet is sweeping the old world away. http://blog.thevanguard.org/461/matt-drudge-worlds-most-powerful-journalist/ Michelle Obama, who used to work for one of the most prestigious law firms in America, told a group of young supporters at a local day-care center they should avoid the professions and "corporate America" and instead pursue careers as social workers and so forth. More leftist "do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do" of course, ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/458/michelle-obama-discourages-black-achievement/ Here's a really insightful piece -- a three-page essay for the leftist Time magazine -- by George Bush's most unlikely fan, Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof. Geldof and pal Bono are among the world's most dedicated activists in the cause of relieving African suffering, and both take the view ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/455/geldof-on-bush/ The "virtual fence" isn't working. Perhaps they should build a real one? Story from page A-1 of the Washington Post. UPDATE: Very interesting piece by Buchanan on this. Worth a look. http://blog.thevanguard.org/457/virtual-fence-along-border-to-be-delayed/ William F. Buckley's passing today surprised everyone, and greatly saddened millions who have been touched by his life. Perhaps the greatest sadness in this -- for Buckley is surely with his Lord this day -- is that it is mere millions and not billions who will miss him; for surely the ... http://blog.thevanguard.org/453/the-passing-of-a-great-man/