Accord

With the shift in global alliances, we have a situation that is both fluid and basic in its nature. Countries only have interests. Friends are better found in pets. If the contention is that Bush blow a deal, who ever said there was a pact to be made? Russia has emerged after the terror of the better part of a century as a country who needs friends more than additional enemies. The reason that Russia will cozy up to the West is that they have no where else to turn. Their geography dictates that her borders can never be secure from the threat of what is perceived as Islamic fundamentalism and Chinese expansionism.

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Surplus

When government policy is based upon projections of future income from tax revenue, the consequences of reality will always disrupt the best of plans. With the downturn of the economy over that last several months, and the tragic events of 911, we have entered into a new dimension of fiscal retraction. Should anyone be surprised that promises of 'milk and honey' from politicians always come up short? The disease of excess expectations is non partisan. It consumes all parties and in most cases, afflicts every ideology. The reason is simple! Politicians need to appeal to the public for support.

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Stimulate

At the core of the undisguised advocacy of dependency, you have beggars who can't prosper on their own guile and wits. Without the patronage of their 'Big Brother', they are relegated into a condition of insecurity. Economic reality is reducible in the willingness to buy and sell. Confidence is a state of mind and expectation that if you spend today, you will be able to earn more tomorrow. For folks like the 'bad seed', they interpret this axiom as being assured that the post office will be able to deliver their welfare check. Who said that there was no benefit to the government's growth industry, IPO; inspection powder operation?

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Media

We all heard that the first causality in war is truth. So why should we be surprised that the coverage of the Afghan 'police action' is being told from the podium of government press conferences? Where is Dan Rather, crawling on his stomach in local garb? Yes we are watching those video camera spots that look like a bad edit after an all night party. But are we really getting the real story? Of course not is the answer that you can always rely upon, when in doubt. 

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Airports

Well, here we go again! Invoking the Interstate Commerce Act as authority to create another incompetent federal agency is like giving candy to the FAA diabetic. Never met a Union I didn't love is the motto of the 'bad seed'. Remember PATCO, Jimmie? That stellar example of collective bargaining that got fined, $34 million, out of existence. Or is your memory confined just to counting sick and personal days in your union contract? 

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Zionism

It is acknowledged by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise that Zionism is a national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland. Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel is the goal, leaving open the tangible, as well as, spiritual aims. Grounds for opposing this vision are claims that Zionism is a secular non-Jewish movement or that it is not true to the teaching of the Torah. With this as background, it should be taken as a given that Zionism is not a substitute term for Jews, as individuals or as a people. It is a movement with a political goal, that takes the form of Israeli Policy. 

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Ostrich

An authentic Conservative does NOT want to maintain this status quo. Becoming a radical revolutionary is a virtue, if the means are moral and the goal is just. The evil that you fear abroad, is less dangerous than that which will follow when you willingly relinquish your rights and their few remaining protections. When all the dust settles, the only victor will be the tyrant. That superstate which uses that nuclear option, might just be your own. The madness in this row is on the verge of becoming uncontrollable. 

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