Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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8:59 AM
The Associated Press has got to be held accountable for the total mockery they are doing to true journalism, but more importantly they owe every American who believes in protecting our nation an apology. The more I have contemplated the impact of the recent story they filed equating those who believe in secure borders - as having begun a panic that is now driving people to join the KKK, the more angry I've become.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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11:02 PM
Having just spent some considerable face time with decent, conservative, strong values oriented voters this weekend. I can say with certainty, "Giuliani will doom himself with this kind of talk."
Rudy Giuliani addressed a potentially troublesome issue with conservative voters, saying his policies as mayor to get handguns off the street helped reduce crime in New York.
"I used gun control as mayor," he said at a news conference Saturday during a swing through California.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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10:20 PM
Irresponsible reporting from the Associated (with anything but the truth) Press. TRULY a despicable set of conclusions but what's worse - trying to tie them to anyone who opposes open borders.
Here's how the AP put this story together...
Someone looks at the fact that the KKK has increased the "number of chapters" in a state from 4 to say 8. Suddenly that represents a 100% increase in the number of "chapters" that an organization supposedly has. (Never mind that most of these chapters have a membership of like a guy in his basement hyped up on Jim Beam and his dog Spike whom he sometimes mistakenly takes for his wife.)
Next get one of these racist crazies to say, "its all 'bout them 'tupid Messicans."
Suddenly the AP now has "a source on the record" saying his KKK chapter "numbers" are growing like crazy and illegal immigration is the cause.
What this really is - turns out to be a discpicable slime that the AP can perpetrate across the board to label anyone who is speaking responsibly about immigration, and immigration reform - as a bigot.
I'm sure with Michelle's recurring themes on her hugely successful media ventures exposing the AP for what they are, coupled with the fact that she has been to date - the most cogent spokesperson in media PERIOD on the issue of illegal immigration - that the AP is just all-too-happy to let her be lumped in with the likes of "Cousin Virgil" and his companion/dog/wife.
If the AP allows this to pass for journalism then it is safe to say their days are truly numbered.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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2:03 PM
Both Hillary and Obama were in Iowa this weekend. At dueling events in the freezing cold - Obama turned out 15,000 to Hillary's 3,000. And this is Iowa - Obama's neighbor state - there is no "curiosity factor" playing into this one.
By my count that's 12,000 MORE recruited volunteers he now has the capacity to tell someone, get them excited, man a phone list, walk a district.
Right now (REMEMBER) it is not about nationalized polling...(Howard Dean was way ahead one year out in 2004.) What it is about is the excitement in the individual states and Iowa is a primary field of play at this stage.
(The "WHY OBAMA" disclaimer... I am officially on the record as having been the first person to predict that Obama will win the nomination and the presidency. I do so based on an extensive past of watching Obama up close in Illinois. It is also my GREAT DESIRE, that I am absolutely smashingly proven wrong.)
Monday, February 12, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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1:00 PM
So what do 5,000-7,000 happy conservatives gathered in one place look like? Watch the :60 second message below, sign up, and join us in Washington DC - March 1-3, 2007.
A fun little game: In the comment section below name the pundits as they appear in the video below. The first one to name them properly wins an autographed copy of my new book and $100 cash! The comment section timestamps the responses so who gets them all right - FIRST will be easy to verify. Play as many times as you like and we will update this post when the winner has been verified.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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3:34 PM
For all the hacks in Congress that told us we need to make raising the minimum wage a priority - you owe low income Americans an apology.
Remember this formula - and NEVER, EVER, forget it...
When you cut taxes, you create jobs and increase federal funds available for "safety net" programs...
When you raise the minimum wage - you are cutting jobs and forcing lay-offs...
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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1:40 PM
Believe it or not... yes! And for 40 years no less.
And today we begin with a pretty outstanding line-up...
2pm - David Keene of the American Conservative Union. (The title sponsor of next month's CPAC)
4pm - E.J. McMahon from the Manhattan Institute
4:30pm - Rich Lowry of National Review
5:00pm - John Faso, former GOP and Conservative candidate for NY Gov vs. Spitzer.
5:30pm - Me... On that whole how to use commonsense thinking thing I'm always harping on... I am also the featured book signing tonight.
If you're in the Albany area - head on over to the Holiday Inn Turf on Wolf Road. (518.458.7250) We'd love to see you tonight, shake your hand, sign a book and talk turkey.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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1:20 PM
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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12:20 AM
One thing that Hillary can not claim is that she can turn out "thousands" to hear the announcement in the near polar cold of a midwest deep freeze.
Barack Obama announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln's ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new generation.
"Let us transform this nation," he told thousands shivering in the cold at the campaign's kickoff.
Obama, 45, is the youngest candidate in the Democrats' 2008 primary field dominated by front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and filled with more experienced lawmakers. In an address from the state capital where he began his elective career 10 years ago, the first-term U.S. senator sought to distinguish himself as a staunch opponent of the Iraq war and a White House hopeful whose lack of political experience is an asset.
"I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change," Obama said to some of the loudest applause of his 20-minute speech.
Some things everyone should keep in mind. Obama's skill at triangulation will give him the oratorical upper hand against Hillary and Edwards. He comes off as both the true populist candidate (as opposed to photo-op Edwards.) And he is more true to the core of the democratic party given his war record, and natural sway he will have with black primary voters - than Hillary.
I don't care what the polls say, right now they are irrelevant - this is a state by state contest.
I know that many on the GOP side of things have taken to mocking Obama of late.
I still believe to do so is to underestimate him - and I believe THAT - could be the deadliest mistake of all.
Friday, February 09, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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1:11 PM
After my show was compeleted on my way home yesterday, I flipped over to Sean Hannity's radio show. Sean has been very kind to me in the New York market. He's used my columns on-air, and when we've been at events together - he's been a truly humble, nice, guy.
Having said that, I say this - with all due respect...
On his show yesterday, and his television broadcast last night he missed the major point of the Democrats' Imam. Sean kept pounding the issue of "occupation and oppression" from the Imam's prayer.
In Sean's defense that part of the Imam's prayer - could in fact be accurately translated to mean that he was referring to the one arena in which "occupation and oppression" are most mentioned in today's context. (Only from the political left mind you...) Iraq!
But to a larger degree the issue that is more disturbing is that the Imam prayed the prayer of conversion over the democratic faithful gathered, and that in doing so he invoked a request to Allah to destroy Christians and Jews.
Why no one is hitting the Imam harder for his religious intolerance/bigotry and comparatively what Christianity and Judaism have to say about it is beyond me. Come on... someone book Dr. Ergun Canor, or Robert Spencer for these segments...
Sean almost seems ill-equipped to handle a discussion of spiritual matters, even though he invokes the biblical passage, "let not your heart be troubled," all the time.
He had the same problem on Hannity and Colmes last night - see for yourself:
No one is arguing that Sean needs to become something that he's not. But when it comes to the matters of faith - put someone on that actually knows the theological viewpoint enough to present it with cogent, material substance.
That way everyone wins - and the real matter of the discussion moves the debate considerably forward.
But the Imam, hemmed, hawed, grinned, and lied away around Sean the entire time... I guess I was just hoping for more.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
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Kevin McCullough
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8:26 PM
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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10:32 AM
Poor Nancy!
The Pentagon has responded to her request to have the airliner equivalent of her own 757.
The response was... "uh... No!"
The poor girl's now going to have to put up with using a commuter plane that Dennis Hastert used (equal rights you know), and it might have to make a stop or two for fuel (funny thing that fuel - it seems to run out.)
A person who knows much about such things told me yesterday in private that the C-32 she had been pushing for would cost on average $300,000 per round trip. (And who could know what her Carbon footprint would be...)
Now she's not gonna be able to throw her big fancy parties on Air Force Three. Nope - with Nancy, she claims its all about "security."
But didn't anyone like my idea about the tank?
All she's "stuck" with now is her own commuter craft at tax-payer expense... poor baby.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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9:17 AM
The ante should be upped considerably on DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner. The DHS officials who, as it now appears, framed the two border patrol guardsmen deserve to be hung out to dry.
Congressman John Culberson of Texas agrees:
"Richard Skinner admitted yesterday under oath that his top deputies gave members of Congress false information painting Border Patrol agents as rogue cops who were not in fear for their lives and who were 'out to shoot Mexicans,'" Culberson said in a statement.
Culberson said he believes false information was given to congressmen to "throw us off the scent and cover up what appears to be an unjust criminal prosecution of two U.S. law enforcement officers whose job was protecting our country's borders from criminals and terrorists."
Here's what DHS was supposed to have had evidence on - that under inspection turned out not to be true:
- Confessed to knowingly shooting at an unarmed suspect.
- Stated during the interrogation they did not believe the suspect was a threat to them at the time of the shooting.
- Stated that day they "wanted to shoot a Mexican".
- Were belligerent to investigators.
- Destroyed evidence and lied to investigators.
- Failed to report the incident at the time of the shooting.
Turns out that DHS had no supporting documentation on ANY of this and in fact discovered they DID have evidence that proved one of the border guards had in fact reported the shooting immediately following the events.
Ramos and Compean just began their 12 year sentences one month ago... here's my idea. Free them, expunge their records, give them back their jobs... and throw the DHS slime into the brink - who refuse to secure our borders - and who slimed these two honorable officers. Allow the DHS officers who lied to serve the remainder of the two men's prison terms.
Now that would be justice!
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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8:48 AM
These two brave Latino Americans are paying the steepest price of all for their loyal service to our nation... And THIS is the best we can do?
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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10:11 PM
Just curious why this isn't being reported in U.S. news outlets today...
We already know that Iran is promising something big on February 11, 2007.
So what is all of this a sign of - four days out?
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test fired its new Russian defense missile system Wednesday near the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, state radio reported.
The two-day maneuvers are Iran's second since the United Nations Security Council approved economic sanctions against it Dec. 23, which ban selling to Iran materials and technology that it could use in its nuclear and missile programs.
As tensions rise over Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, the United States and Iran have pursued an escalating series of military moves, with Washington sending a second aircraft carrier battle group to the region and Iran responding with more frequent maneuvers.
The Revolutionary Guards' began the games Wednesday in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, which flank the strait, through which some 20 percent of the world's oil transits daily.
The goal of the maneuvers, dubbed Saegheh and Badr, is to improve the "defense, stamina and operation" of participating units, state radio reported. The first word of the games' name means lightening, while the second refers to a decisive battle in the early days of Islam.
The Revolutionary Guards is an elite military corps with more than 200,000 members and its own naval and air forces. It is independent of the regular armed forces and controlled directly by the supreme leader. It oversees vital interests such as oil and natural gas installations and the nation's missile arsenal.
Iran announced in January that it had received the Tor M-1 Russian air defense missile system, though it did not say when the weapons had arrived. Moscow had said previously it would supply 29 of the systems to Iran under a $700 million contract signed in December 2005.
Iran in January launched a three-day military maneuvers, including short-range missile tests on its mainland.
The United States and several of its Western allies believe that Iran is using the nuclear program to produce an atomic weapon — charges Iran denies, saying its aim is to generate electricity.
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