Contributed by Warren Mowry
Fox News is reporting today that Vice President Biden is declaring today that al Qaeda in Iraq has “utterly failed” and that Iraqis are ready to take charge of their own country as US troops withdraw. Given Biden’s almost unerring wrongheadedness on Iraq, this claim might be of considerable concern to most Americans. Let’s review the last 20 years or so of Joe Biden on Iraq for proof.
First, in 1990, Biden voted against the First Gulf War (with a Republican in the White House), even though Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait, his second incursion against a neighbor in barely a decade.
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Have you ever noticed that there is no toleration for the “open exchange of ideas within the Muslim community?” Want to test my hypothesis? All you have to do is go to Saudi Arabia with 50 copies of the Holy Bible in your carryon bag, and see what happens. If you even make it through airport security, head out to the town square, and start handing these Bibles out, while reciting your favorite Billy Graham sermon. Let me tell you brother, there’s room at the cross for you, and you’ll soon meet Jesus ~ possibly in the very town square you began your sermon. 
Though it’s still WAY too early to even contemplate a victory lap barely 80 days from the November elections, in mid-August it’s undeniably better to be a Republican than a Democrat. Reduced to personal attacks (so much for calls to end the “politics of personal destruction”), Democrats are in a shambles nationwide. Democrats are fleeing from Obama and his policies. 
With all the heated debates and arguments about abortion the true meaning of being pro-life seems to get lost in the emotions. I thought I would write an article about why I am pro-life and what that means.
I just watched a You Tube video of two parents giving their baby his first taste of Pop Rocks. It made me wonder if I’m the only parent who, when her first baby was born, considered the idea of never giving her child anything but all-natural, whole, organic foods.
Thumbing through this month’s issue of Greater Columbia Business Monthly, I came across an interesting little one-page article all about Joe Mellet, the “leader, spokesman and visionary” for a new “Bicycle Only” subdivision in Lexington County. The basic idea is, automobiles would be restricted to parking lots on the periphery of the neighborhood so that only non-motorized vehicles of the two-wheeled sort would be found within the 140-acre development. Service roads for emergency vehicles would of course be provided, but residences in this “high-minded scheme” would be occupied by bicycle enthusiasts only. 
So . . . apparently it’s not just conservatives anymore. It’s Michael Dukakis’ campaign manager. (
One of the most ridiculous and mean-spirited insults that Senator Lindsey Graham has had foisted upon him recently is the charge that he is gay. Now come on, there are numerous issues that we could debate with our representative, there are several questionable votes for which we could criticize him, but his sexual orientation? As with race in this country, I thought we were supposed to have moved past this sort of thing! 
What is the magic age? This is the question I find the hardest to understand. Is it an age of enlightenment when a child becomes an adult and is given the great responsibility of casting a vote? Whether the vote is for school board or the president, what a great weight this young American bears. Or is this the magical age when that same American is old enough to walk in to the corner market and purchase a cold beer and a smoke? Do not misunderstand me, the age that we choose is not as important to me as the inconsistency of these ages, “as long as it is not made 55.”
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