I haven't written in quite some time, but I heard this on the radio today and it made so much sense, I thought I would share it with you.

Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels was the master of the "big lie" tactic in which a lie, no matter how outrageous, is repeated often enough that it will eventually be accepted as truth. Goebbels explained

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

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Despite 149 Democrats voting against it, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 861 .

This is exactly why we need to support the Republicans in the GWOT by getting out the vote in November 2006. Without our support, the Dems might actually take control of Congress. Democrat defeatism will not make us safer here at home. The following is the text of the Resolution :HRES 861 EH

H. Res. 861

In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

June 16, 2006.

Whereas the United States and its allies are engaged in a Global War on Terror, a long and demanding struggle against an adversary that is driven by hatred of American values and that is committed to imposing, by the use of terror, its repressive ideology throughout the world;

Whereas for the (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)

This is the Democrat's idea of an energy plan.

In other words, they don't have one! So why would you vote for them in November?

(HT to Pat Cleary at Redstate .)

(Cartoon by Glenn McCoy at Slate .)

I haven't written much politically for a while, so I thought I would do something creative to try and get back into the swing of things.

Hugh Hewitt has written a new book, Painting the Map Red , and I have entered the contest at Radio Blogger to try to come up with the most creative graphic to promote it.

The following is my entry:

So go. Buy the book. Read it, and help Spread Freedom Throughout the Land.

I usually try to class myself as one of those who tries to keep up with current events as they happen, but this story completely slipped under my radar screen. If I have not heard or read about it, chances are you haven’t either. All of us could ask the question, “Why hasn’t the MSM been all over it?”, but we all know the answer. If this report ever sees the light of day, Senator Hillary Clinton’s chances of getting elected President are about as good as Howard Dean’s are, and that’s not very good.

Imagine my surprise when I read the following article written by Tony Snow for Town Hall yesterday. This will get you started:

“By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)

Leon H at Red State has written some of the best reasoning against abortion I have ever read in his article, Abortion By the Numbers. He begins by quoting Joseph Stalin, and Jesse Jackson from 1977. Here’s a taste:

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” -Josef Stalin

“That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us by calling us ‘n*****s’. It was part of the dehumanizing process. The first step was to distort the image of us as human beings in order to justify that which they wanted to do and not even feel like they had done anything wrong. Those advocates of taking life prior to birth do not call it killing or murder, they call it abortion. They further never talk about aborting a baby because that would imply something human. Rather they talk about aborting the fetus. Fetus sounds less than human and therefore abortion can be justified…

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Abortion is black genocide. What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?”

Go read the rest!

If you have been out of touch over the last couple of weeks, much has been written about President Bush’s choice to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court. Conservatives have banged away at each other with verbal volleys, one side for, the other side against Bush’s pick.

In Fact so much has been written, Howard Fineman wrote an article a few days ago entitled, Conservative Crackup, where he states:

“The “movement” —that began 50 years ago with the founding of Bill Buckley’s National Review; that had its coming of age in the Reagan Years; that reached its zenith with Bush’s victory in 2000—is falling apart at the seams.”

Unfortunately for Mr. Fineman, Rush Limbaugh has dissected his piece, and wrote on Monday in the Opinion Journal Online, There’s a crackdown over Miers, not a “crackup.”. Using logic and reasoning against (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)

Patrick Ruffini’s September GOP primary straw poll is now ready for you to cast your vote.

In August, over 17,000 votes were cast. Each poll becomes increasingly more accurate, and will soon be on a par with other polling ventures.

This poll offers a field where you can describe yourself politically and see how others with your viewpoint voted.

Are you a pro-life Christian interested in abortion and cultural issues? Then type: pro-life, conservative, church/state, — and see how others like you voted! Tired of poll questions that don’t ask you about the stuff YOU care about? Then tag your vote and tell everyone what you think.

Be sure to cast your vote today, by simply clicking here.

The August Straw Poll we participated in this week was a huge success. Over 16,000 blog readers cast their ballots.

You can check out the results, and peruse the objective behind the polls. Just click here, and see for yourself.

Patrick Ruffini is holding another online straw poll for the Presidential contenders in the 2008 election. He is seriously attempting to build scientific polling data that could eventually become better than slanted MSM polls.

It is important that you cast your vote for your favorite candidate. Just click on his headline, August Straw Poll: The Big One, and cast your ballot. The instructions are on his voting page.

By clicking from here, you will be helping to spread the PCB Blog, so thanks for voting.

Dan Patrick of KSEV 700 talk radio in Houston guest hosted the Laura Ingraham show this morning. During the course of the show, he made a prediciton concerning the 2008 Presidental election.

His prediction is that we would see Senator Hillary Clinton as the Democrat nominee, and she would be running against former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as the Republican nominee. If his prediction holds true, it would certainly put a little excitement into the race.

Newt Gingrich besides being a former Congressman from Georgia’s Sixth District, was also the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. He has a great mind, is a gifted speaker, and a great author. His latest book, Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, is about the “five threats that could undermine, if not eliminate, the United States if immediate steps are not taken to correct them”.

Dan Patrick is also author of The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read.

Just a thought to toss around for 2008.

Is there a possible crack forming in Senator Clinton’s support from her newly acquired home state of New York?

The Washing Post, is running an AP story, Pirro Will Challenge Clinton for New York Senate seat in the 2006 election.

Finally, the people of New York are getting tired of Hillary using their Senate seat for nothing more than a springboard for her political ambitions. Here is a portion:

“ALBANY, N.Y. — Jeanine Pirro, a high-profile prosecutor from the New York City area, said Monday she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in her bid for re-election next year.

“I am running against Hillary Clinton because New York state deserves a senator who will give her all to the people of New York for a full term, who will not miss votes to campaign in (presidential) primaries,” Pirro said in a statement.

“When Mrs. Clinton first came to us and said she wanted to be a New Yorker, she asked New York to put out a welcome mat and we did,” the Westchester County district attorney added. “But now she wants us to re-elect her even though she won’t promise to serve out her term and wants to use us as a springboard to the presidency. She’s asking us to become her doormat. I believe we deserve better.”

Read the whole story. (HT to Drudge, registration required)

We wish you success Ms. Pirro!

Patrick Ruffini is holding a straw poll of 5 candidates for the 2008 election. Cast your vote here, and see who is in the lead. The candidates are, George Allen, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Frist, John McCain, Mitt Romney.

Make your voice known by voting now. (HT to Hugh Hewitt)

Chief Presidential adviser Karl Rove was vindicated of disclosing the name of a covert CIA operative of which he has been accused by every MSM news outlet, every left-wing idealogue, and most of the Democrats in Congress. According to this story entitled, Rove Learned CIA Agent’s Name From Novak, it was Rove who learned the identity of the operative from reporters, not the other way around. Here is a portion:

“WASHINGTON (AP) – Chief presidential adviser Karl Rove testified to a grand jury that he talked with two journalists before they divulged the identity of an undercover CIA officer but that he originally learned about the operative from the news media and not government sources, according to a person briefed on the testimony.

The person, who works in the legal profession and spoke only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, told The Associated Press that (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)

You gotta love it when someone has the audacity to actually tell the truth where they can be heard and quoted for the whole world to see. Such is the audacity of Karl Rove. In a speech delivered yesterday afternoon in Manhattan to a crowd of hundreds, this is what he said according to the New York Times, this morning in an article by Patrick D. Healy, Rove Criticizes Liberals on 9/11.

“Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Mr. Rove, the senior political adviser to President Bush, said at a fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State.

Citing calls by progressive groups to respond carefully to the attacks, Mr. Rove said to the (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)