tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52743682008-07-04T11:46:40.887-07:00The Nixatron Blog-Timesnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4494125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-19959814501501606842008-07-04T11:45:00.001-07:002008-07-04T11:46:40.970-07:00Happy Independence Day!nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-30125995336310036292008-07-04T02:46:00.002-07:002008-07-04T03:01:18.376-07:00A New Declaration of Independence by Tom Purcell In the course of human events it is necessary, now and again, to dissolve our political bands with the ninnies who keep abandoning our founding principles. It used to be self-evident that our government's role was primarily to protect certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-2881817797800666982008-07-04T02:44:00.000-07:002008-07-04T02:46:19.095-07:00Thomas Jefferson on Energy by Jerry Bowyer Do you ever wonder why America initiated and then dominated the oil exploration and discovery industry. Its because Thomas Jefferson decided that along with the monarchy, the aristocrats and landed titles, the American Revolution would also throw out the (literally) medieval notion that although a man could own his own land, what was under it belonged tonixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-87693272369139783182008-07-04T02:43:00.001-07:002008-07-04T02:44:41.975-07:00Who's to Blame for $4 Gas? Both Democrats and GOP by Mort Kondracke ...The history of U.S. energy policy is that Democrats have refused to increase supply and Republicans have refused to curtail demand. They are both to blame for $4 gasoline -- and they'd better get together to keep Americans from paying $200 a barrel to foreign oil producers...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-26907870259447916402008-07-03T03:16:00.001-07:002008-07-03T03:17:53.846-07:00Why I Support John McCain by Dennis Prager ...My bottom line is this: The gulf between John McCain and conservatives is miniscule compared to the gulf between John McCain and Barack Obama....However noble their intentions, conservatives who do not vote for John McCain will be morally complicit in what happens to America during an Obama presidency.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-87279105053250595642008-06-30T03:30:00.000-07:002008-06-30T03:31:23.569-07:00The Resistance Must Continue by David Warren ...The very notion that "your freedom ends when I begin to feel offended" must be shown for what it is: totalitarian flotsam in the foetid swamp of "politically correct thought."nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-60727188752176854272008-06-30T03:26:00.001-07:002008-06-30T03:29:10.717-07:00If Only Mugabe Were White by Nicholas D. Kristof Patson Chipiro, a democracy activist, wasn’t home when Robert Mugabe’s thugs showed up looking for him. So they grabbed his wife, Dadirai, and tormented her by chopping off one of her hands and both of her feet. Finally, they threw her into a hut, locked the door and burned it to the ground...For the sake of Zimbabweans, we should be just as nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-1417758882293650002008-06-29T00:37:00.001-07:002008-06-29T00:39:42.547-07:00Townhall.com Weekend Journal   Salem Radio Network Dr. James Dobson responds to an attack by Barack Obama; John McCain highlights Obama's naivete with Hugh Hewitt; Albert Mohler reports on a wacky liberal judge in Canada; Michael Medved defends our troops from NPR slander; and Dennis Prager deconstructs a weak political observation by actor Will Smith.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-9546913100959007442008-06-24T03:39:00.001-07:002008-06-24T03:41:59.708-07:00Why Are So Many Women Depressed? by Dennis Prager ...many women, untrained in subduing darker aspects of their natures, deprived of the female joy of femininity and increasingly deprived of men (as opposed to boys), are feeling the brunt of these losses. They call it depression.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-54844507073038053802008-06-19T02:27:00.001-07:002008-06-19T02:29:59.337-07:00When Young People Get Excited by Dennis Prager ...So, forgive me, but I for one am not encouraged by the ecstatic reaction of young people to Barack Obama. The track record of politically excited youth movements in modern Western history is not a good one. And I see no reason why this will prove to be the first major exception.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-60190810850082975592008-06-19T02:21:00.001-07:002008-06-19T02:24:44.167-07:00Haditha Marine Prepares to Sue Murtha Over Smear World Net Daily ...The filing of charges against Chessani was approved by Gen. James Mattis...[who] has been promoted to commander of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and commander of U.S. Joint Forces. "This is the most important case since Vietnam, if not before," Rooney said. "There's no doubt about it"...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-91997790077172160122008-06-19T02:18:00.001-07:002008-06-19T02:20:48.474-07:00Obama Promises Change -- But What Kind? by Victor Davis Hanson ...Overall, Obama's announced policies are sounding pretty much the same old, same old once promised by candidates like George McGovern, Mike Dukakis, Walter Mondale, Al Gore and John Kerry. Of course, a return to the standard big-government nostrums of the past may well be what the angry voters want after 20 years of the Bushes and nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-69717352591764314522008-06-16T03:12:00.002-07:002008-06-16T03:22:09.674-07:00George W Bush Meets Pope Amid Claims He Might Convert to Catholicism by Malcolm Moore ...However, it is thought unlikely that Mr Bush would convert until after he has left office. Jeb Bush, the president's brother, has already converted to Catholicism. Catholics have noted that during the contested election in 2000, Jeb Bush travelled to Mexico and prayed [before] the icon of Our Lady of nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-42704909843706715112008-06-15T02:53:00.001-07:002008-06-15T02:56:58.187-07:00Townhall.com Weekend Journal   Salem Radio Network Hugh Hewitt spoke with senior council Jordan Lawrence about gay marriage in California; Michael Medved talked politics with columnist George Will; Dennis Prager chimed in on AIDS in the heterosexual world; and Bill Bennett got the story straight about fathers with author Kathleen Parker. All this and more.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-40960069267656331992008-06-14T02:50:00.001-07:002008-06-14T02:52:59.522-07:00The United States Supreme Court Versus America: Awarding "The Privilege of Habeas Corpus To Terrorists" by Hugh Hewitt ...Only one thing is certain: Our terrorist enemies still at large must be amazed, amused and encouraged by the continued insistence by legal elites that they be treated like petty American criminals rather than fanatical killers eager for martyrdom...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-86825111408918373752008-06-14T02:44:00.000-07:002008-06-14T02:46:33.717-07:00Brave New World? by Peggy Noonan ...Old America: We have to have a government, but that doesn't mean I have to love it. New America: We have to have a government and I am desperate to love it. Old America: Politics is a duty. New America: Politics is life. The Old America: Religion is good. The New America: Religion is problematic...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-87200062119004444762008-06-12T01:33:00.001-07:002008-06-12T01:38:26.862-07:00Do the Right Thing: Start Drilling! by Victor Davis Hanson The other day in southwestern Fresno County, a poor part of Central California, I talked with a number of folks at a rural gas station. Most drove second- and third-hand pickups, large cast-off sedans or used SUVs. Their general complaint was twofold: They didn't have the cash to buy a new fuel-efficient Honda or Toyota. And they were nownixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-31126162837304208152008-06-12T01:28:00.005-07:002008-06-12T02:01:24.881-07:00Hate Speech or Free Speech? What Much of West Bans is Protected in U.S. by Adam Liptak "What we're learning here is really the bedrock difference between the United States and the countries that are in a broad sense its legal cousins," [Mark] Steyn added. "Western governments are becoming increasingly comfortable with the regulation of opinion. The First Amendment really does distinguish the U.S.nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-13415493606913395652008-06-11T01:24:00.000-07:002008-06-12T01:27:49.725-07:00When I Was a Boy, America Was a Better Place by Dennis Prager ...Can we return to the America of my youth? No. Can we return to the best values of that time? Yes. But not if both houses of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court move the country even further leftward. If that happens, many of the above noted changes will simply be accelerated...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-13151693401064443712008-06-08T02:01:00.001-07:002008-06-08T02:06:12.969-07:00Townhall.com Weekend Journal   The morning after Obama claimed the delegates needed to be the nominee, Bill Bennett addressed his radio audience. Hugh Hewitt talked to columnist and author Christopher Hitchens about the entertaining duo of Obama and Hillary. Dennis Prager examined the very crucial policies of the officially anointed Barack Obama; Bill Bennett spoke with former Speaker of the nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-62826648460448769962008-06-08T01:59:00.001-07:002008-06-08T02:01:39.563-07:00Thinking About America's Socialist Revival By Paul Hoffmeister ...Simply put, when good capitalism goes bad, voters choose good socialism. One must accept that while good capitalism is superior to the best socialism, good socialism can be better than really bad capitalism...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-7915077308164163482008-06-07T04:36:00.001-07:002008-06-07T04:39:57.121-07:00Show Trial by David Warren ...They have been persecuted, stripped of their livelihoods and savings, demonized among their neighbours, made to endure humiliating "re-education" programmes -- without lawyers, without assistance of any kind -- all for exercising rights that any Canadian would have taken for granted a mere generation ago. I want justice for Mark Steyn. But I also want justice for allnixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-67739093821576528972008-06-06T02:49:00.000-07:002008-06-06T02:50:54.116-07:00Vindication for Marine Charged in Haditha Cover-Up by Bob Owens Lt. Andrew Grayson has been acquitted of charges that he helped cover up the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha. With charges dropped against five of the eight Marines involved the incident and only two more trials to go — apologies may soon be in order...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-1579085718074532442008-06-05T03:37:00.001-07:002008-06-05T03:39:24.167-07:00Obama was Selected, Not Elected by Ann Coulter ...When Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election by half a percentage point, but lost the Electoral College -- or, for short, "the constitutionally prescribed method for choosing presidents" -- anyone who denied the sacred importance of the popular vote was either an idiot or a dangerous partisan. But now Hillary has won the popular vote in a nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5274368.post-2356670687945554362008-06-03T04:09:00.000-07:002008-06-03T04:12:15.731-07:00Liberalism and Victimhood by Dennis Prager ...If you want to understand the negative impact of feminism on women (and men) and, by extension, the destructive effects of liberal teachers, Democratic politics and liberal news media on African-Americans, here is Katie Couric last week on the CBS Evening News...nixatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236836244348625454noreply@blogger.com