I’ll refrain from calling them Demofiends for a second or two (not that they’re not that; they are), but having Democrats in power for a while is a nice counterbalance to Republican rule.  Let’s face it:  There’s a huge moralistic movement within the GOPers, and I don’t always agree with that agenda.

Outside of politics (which the Dems know in their hearts that only they understand and thus everyone else should be silenced) and religion (which the Donkeys basically deny as the “opiate of the people”), the Democrats by their lax judicial and social standards do free up some tensions in society.

Think about it:  You can produce and watch all the porn you want, and you can change your dress, sex, gender or you name it at will and still enjoy the same rights as everyone else in society.

The Libertarian in me says that’s just fine.  On everything else, these masters of the universe, self-proclaimed, are still Demofiends.

As the European Union rethinks its energy policy with the primary goal of severing its dependence on Russia for energy supplies, France is finally looking like the sage of the world.

Reason?

Actually, I should say color, for there is just one–yellow, as in gutless (Ann Coulter used the “f” word to describe John Edwards’ lack of genitals but I won’t go there).

Gutless is one way to describe the Demofiends’ 17th plan so far this year to force Bush to withdraw the troops from Iraq.  The real word is “embarrassed.”  The liberals of America are just pathetically embarrassed that people overseas don’t approve of our effort in the Middle East (or anywhere unless we’re spending our money in their shops or restaurants; then that’s perfectly acceptable).

One liberal friend bemoaned the “fact” that Americans can’t travel  overseas anymore because of the opposition and embarrassment we encounter under Bush.

They weren’t embarrassed when Bill Clinton was stuffing a cigar up a woman’s private parts in the White House?  Nah, everyone is entitled to a little playtime, right?

When I listen to these people and their ridiculous plans based on hate-America, despise-American-power embarrassment, I can only wish that the lot of them can be the focus of the next great terrorist attack on our soil.

Let’s see them glad-hand and talk themselves out of that one.

We now have conclusive evidence that saying anything can be fatal to one’s freedom.  That is, of course, if you say this anything to federal investigators, who then turn to federal grand juries to indict you for perjury.

First Martha Stewart and now Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, have succumbed to the “open-mouth, insert-prison-term” syndrome initiated by the cooking maven.

Had Libby just invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions, he a) would’ve been excoriated by the media (who contributed lavishly to his conviction anyway) and b) would probably be a free man today.  It was mainly by testimony from reporters and newspeople that the prosecution was able to pain Libby as a perjurer in his remarks about the underlying incident.

The irony of all this is that the underlying “crime”–of “outting” a secret CIA agent named Valerie Plame–had nothing to do with this conviction and will no doubt never be prosecuted.  The further irony is that the husband of Ms. Plame, Joseph Wilson, himself has been painted by several news organizations, even the liberal bastion of the Washingont Post, as a complete liar.

And who gets a prison term but the man who couldn’t say “Fifth Amendment” to federal investigators?

The Martha Stewart Syndrome at work.

Coutesy Strategic Forecasting Inc. www.stratfor.com

By Peter Zeihan

The commander of Russia’s strategic bomber force, Lt. Gen. Igor Khvorov, said March 5 that his forces could easily disrupt or destroy any missile defense infrastructure in Poland and the Czech Republic — where the United States is preparing to set up parts of a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system. Khvorov was hardly the first Russian official to make such a threat: On Feb. 19, statements by Strategic Rocket Forces commander Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov left little doubt that Moscow would target U.S. BMD sites with its nuclear arsenal if Washington pushes ahead with its plans.

Exactly why missile defense — a technology that has received little publicity since the Cold War — should be a source of increasingly obvious tension between the United States and Russia is an interesting question. An equally interesting question: Why are the Russians threatening once again to target NATO countries — a tactic Moscow abandoned 15 years ago?

The answer is rooted not only in the history of BMD, but in the myriad ways the European theater has changed — from both the U.S. and European points of view — since the end of the Cold War.

Hollywood and the far-left left (most of the Demofiend party) is now worshipping at the altar of global warming.  It sure beats trying to live up to a real religion since all you have to do is act angry, buy a hybrid vehicle (but drive your Mercedes when there are no TV cameras around), and best of all, burn up all the natural resources you like–so long as you buy the modern-day equivalent of indulgences in the form of carbon emission offsets.

Indulences and carbon offsets?

Imagine this–it’s been an entire week (and probably more) since my hometown liberal rag/propaganda sheet, the Los Angeles Times, has been unable to run a body count story as its page one banner because there’s so little violence in Iraq.

Does this mean the left-hated and House-censured “surge” is actually working?  No self-defeating, er, self-respecting liberal sheet of lies would ever admit that anything George Bush could do might ever work, so I’m sure the editorial folk are in complete denial, just waiting for the next explosion of violence in Iraq.

Sadly, it must be pretty boring for the L.A. Times people to have to write about local news so much.  Maybe they can blame problems here on the Bush Administration.

Oh, I forgot, they already did that.  Children can’t learn?  Why, of course, it’s because Bush didn’t nationalize public education.  Anyway, you get the idea.