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Posted here for: 12-20-04.
From "Jimmy Carter Says American Revolution Was 'Unnecessary'," NewsMax.com (the magazine), December 2004, page 8. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"Recently we described Jimmy Carter as the worst president of the past 100 years. We apologize. He's the worst president ever."
-- NewsMax.



Posted here for: 12-13-04.
From "The Enemy Is Us," by Don Wildmon, founder and chairman, American Family Association, American Family Association Journal, November/December 2004, page 3. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
"There is a move, a massive move, afoot in our society to eliminate the influence of Christianity. It is fueled not only by people who are apathetic to the Christian faith, but by many who are hostile to the Christian faith."
-- Don Wildmon.



Posted here for: 12-6-04.
From "The Individual Is Everything," Resource Roundup, November 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
-- Ayn Rand.



Posted here for: 11-29-04.
From "What They Said," Middle America News, October 2004, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
-- Thomas Jefferson.



Posted here for: 11-22-04.
From an e-mail dated 11-15-04. Thanks, Bill.
"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
-- Ronald Reagan.



Posted here for: 11-15-04.
From "Match These Quotes," Resource Roundup, October 2004, page 8. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
-- Groucho Marx.



Posted here for: 11-8-04.
From "Arnold and Maria," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 25-31, 2004, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Well, there was no sex for 14 days."
-- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, explaining the reaction of his wife (Maria Shriver, whose uncle was President John F. Kennedy) to his speech backing President Bush at the Republican convention in August.



Posted here for: 11-1-04.
From "Cowboy Boots In, Flip-Flops Out," by Ann Coulter, Human Events, October 18, 2004, page 6. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"Republicans will shoot, burn and bury the terrorists. Kerry will give them a speech."
-- Ann Coulter.



Posted here for: 10-25-04.
From a letter to the editor from Fritz Gosalvez, Auburn, California, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 11-17, 2004, page 39. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"CBS must retire the first letter from its call letters as long as so-called reporters and producers like Dan Rather and Mary Mapes remain with the network. . . ."
-- Fritz Gosalvez.



Posted here for: 10-18-04.
From "Ailes: CNN 'Hates' America," by NewsMax, NewsMax.com (the magazine), September 2004, page 50. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
-- Fox News Channel Chairman Rogers Ailes.



Posted here for: 10-11-04.
From "Ha-Ha," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 27 - October 3, 2004, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"On Wednesday, for example, three severed heads were found by the side of the road outside of Baghdad. Hey, memo to the Iraqi people: severed-head pickup is Tuesday. Look, if you want to sleep late, roll them out on Monday night. . ."
-- Comedian Bill Maher, during his monologue for the September 17 episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO.



Posted here for: 10-4-04.
From "How Democrats Steal Elections," by David Kupelian and Jon Dougherty, Whistleblower, May 2004, page 17. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"You get me within 100 votes and I can steal any election."
-- Attorney Tim Downs, who reportedly admitted to stealing elections from Republicans. He allegedly said, "I've taken several seats from you [Republicans] across the United States."



Posted here for: 9-27-04.
From "'Sampan Incident' Belies a Heroic Image," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 30 - September 5, 2004, page 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Kerry seemed to believe that there were no rules in a free-fire zone, and you were supposed to kill everyone." "[T]he only baby killer I knew in Vietnam was John F. Kerry."
-- Swift Boat veteran William E. Franke of Costal Division 11.



Posted here for: 9-20-04.
From "Change the Culture," by Joel Belz, from his article, "Breaking the (Election) Cycle," in the August 1 issue of World, as quoted in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 9-15, 2004, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"If politics seems rotten, it's because the culture that supports the political system is rotten itself. It's the people who have lost all sense of supernatural standards, of transcendent values, and of lasting commitments. Politicians, eager to reflect the people, end up just as empty."
-- Joel Belz.



Posted here for: 9-13-04.
From "Condi: The Antidote to Hillary," by Dick Morris, NewsMax.com (the magazine), August 2004, page 19. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"With African-American and Hispanic immigration increasing the minority share of the American electorate by about one-half of 1 percent each year, America is becoming a country of Democrats. Since Bush lost the popular vote to Gore by one-half of 1 percent in 2000, America has gained 2 percent more Democrats due to immigration. BY 2008, that number will be 4 percent more and by 1012, 6 percent. Add to these margins Nader's 3 percent of the vote in the 2000 election and we see how Bush has to run up the down escalator just to stay even."
-- Dick Morris.



Posted here for: 9-6-04.
From "'Live' with TAE," The American Enterprise, September 2004, page 16. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"Walter Williams figured out some years ago that the amount of money needed to move the poor out of poverty would be trivial compared to the amount of money that's spent on these damn programs that are supposed to help the poor but usually don't. But the poor are being used as human shields in the political battle. You put the poor up in front of you as you march across the battlefield and enemy troops won't fire, so you can expand your power, and raise taxes, and so forth."
-- Thomas Sowell.



Posted here for: 8-30-04.
From "Match the Quotes," Resource Roundup, July/August 2004, page 8. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Modern liberalism seems to have forgotten the fact that if America hadn't paid the price, blood, sweat and hard work and the financial burden, we wouldn't have freedom in the world."
-- Sean Hannity.



Posted here for: 8-23-04.
From "Morality Matters," by Steve Bonta, The New American, December 15, 2003, page 10. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"If America continues to shed the values of her Judeo-Christian heritage, she will surely follow ancient Rome into bondage. Freedom cannot long coexist with moral depravity."
-- Steve Bonta.



Posted here for: 8-2-04.
From: "Mr. President, We Salute You," Human Events, June 14, 2004, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"He looks like a fat little Dutchman. But who knows, he might grow up to be President some day."
-- Ronald Reagan's father, after taking one look at his new-born son.



Posted here for: 7-26-04.
From: a C-SPAN broadcast, June 21, 2004.
"I believe that Hillary Clinton deeply and sincerely loved Bill, and I believe that Bill deeply and sincerely loved Bill."
-- Dick Morris.



Posted here for: 7-19-04.
From: "Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy," by Grunt.com and FrontPageMag.com, as reported in Whistleblower, May 2004, page 29. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
(In answer to the question: How did Hanoi intend to defeat the Americans?) "We don't need to win military victories, we only need to hit them until they give up and get out."

(In answer to the question: Was the American antiwar movement [supported by John Kerry] important to Hanoi's victory?) "It was essential to our strategy. . . Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us." [Come November, you can vote for a man who aided in our defeat in Vietnam.]

-- Bui Tin, former colonel in the North Vietnamese army who served on the general staff of the army, from an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, August 3, 1995.



Posted here for: 7-12-04.
From: "Terrorists Cheer Kerry's Rhetoric," by J. Michael Waller, Whistleblower, May 2004, page 23. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"Weakness is when America's leaders compare Iraq to Vietnam, announcing to the world a faltering resolve to see our mission through." "To our allies in the Middle East and beyond, these predictions of defeat send a clear and chilling message to hedge their bets, because the United States cannot be counted on. And to our enemies, they can send an equally clear message: You can win."
-- Former Senator Fred Thompson, in a recent Washington Post commentary.



Posted here for: 6-28-04.
From: "USA: Based on Individual Rights," Resource Roundup, June 2004, page 10. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
-- Ayn Rand, author.
"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."
-- Nikita Khrushchev, February 1956.
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
-- Hillary Clinton, 1993.
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . ."
-- President Bill Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993.



Posted here for: 6-21-04.
From: "Campus Closet," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 17-23, 2004, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"We would never have hired you if we'd known you were a Republican."
-- A remark made by a colleague of Laura Freberg. Ms. Freberg was hired as a psychology professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but had remained silent about her political beliefs until her husband ran for the local Republican Central Committee.



Posted here for: 6-14-04.
From: "Hannity Says America Cannot Appease Evil," by Carl Limbacher, NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2004, page 16. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"Indeed, the greatest threat to our resolve today in the War on Terror is the political liberalism -- and selfish opportunism -- of the Democrats."
-- Sean Hannity, in his book, Deliver Us from Evil.



Posted here for: 6-7-04.
From: "Democrats for Defeat?" The American Enterprise, June 2004, pages 12-13. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"By invoking Vietnam, they are in effect predicting a U.S. defeat and pullout. Even as they give lip service to winning, they foment a sense of despair instead of offering a strategy for victory. Let's be blunt here: For many of the President's critics, there is a domestic constituency to be won from failure abroad. They are campaigning on defeat."
-- Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson.
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From: "Media Exploit U.S. War Dean," AIM Report, May 28, 2004, page 1. Address: Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.
"The deaths in Iraq are . . . helpful to the media in their campaign to defeat George Bush. Deaths that do not serve media purposes are, of course, irrelevant and unreported."
-- Dr. Arthur B. Robinson, Research Professor at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, while noting that the number of deaths per month from the use of all-terrain vehicles, ATVs, had been about the same as Marine and Army deaths in combat in Iraq.



Posted here for: 5-31-04.
From: "The 60 Minutes Deception" video tape, Citizens for Honest Government, 1997.
"You don't like to lie baldly, but I have. It depends on your motive." [So, I guess it's okay to lie if you have good motives.]
-- Mike Wallace.



Posted here for: 5-24-04.
From: "Whose Side Are They On?" The American Enterprise, June 2004, page 12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"The extremists have faith in our weakness just as they have faith in their own religious fanaticism. And the weaker we are, the more they will come after us."
-- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in mid-April.



Posted here for: 5-17-04.
From: "The Media Research Center's Annual Gala and Dishonors Awards," News Flash, March/April 2004, page 4. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.
"Our greatest accomplishment as a profession is the development since World War II of a news reporting craft that is truly non-partisan, and non-ideological . . . ." [Oh yes, and Castro is a pink kangaroo.]
-- Howell Raines, former New York Times Executive Editor.



Posted here for: 5-10-04.
From: "Confronting the Campus Leftists," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2004, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"Most students probably graduate without ever having a class taught by a professor with a conservative viewpoint."
-- Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA). (The article states that a survey of 32 colleges and universities shows that the overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans in theses institutions is ten to one.)



Posted here for: 5-3-04.
From: a C-SPAN 2 broadcast 4-18-04 of Michael Deaver discussing his new book, "Nancy: A Portrait of My Years with Nancy Reagan," at the Reagan Library 3-31-04.
"Politics is the art of never saying what you really mean."
-- Michael Deaver.



Posted here for: 4-26-04.
From: "Tiny Marriage Destroyer," Culture, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 22-28, 2004, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Sex, childbearing and marriage now have no necessary connection to one another, because the biological connection between sex and childbearing is controllable. The fundamental basis for marriage has thus been technologically obviated. Pair that development with rampant, easy divorce without social stigma, and talk in 2004 of 'saving marriage' is pretty specious. There's little there left to save."
-- Rev. Donald Sensing, of Franklin, Tennessee, writing on "Save Marriage? It's Too Late," on March 15 in the Wall Street Journal.



Posted here for: 4-19-04.
From: "Match These Quotes!" Resource Roundup, March 2004, page 8. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties."
-- Bob Hope.



Posted here for: 4-12-04.
From: "Minibits," News Flash, February/March 2004, page 5. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.
"Where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester'."
-- John Stossel, in comments to CNSNews.com.



Posted here for: 4-5-04.
From: "Match the Quotes," from Resource Roundup, December 2003, page 8. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"At the core of modern liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
-- P.J. O'Rourke, syndicated columnist and author.



Posted here for: 3-29-04.
From: "Brotherly Love," from the Philadelphia Inquirer, as quoted in American Renaissance, March 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"We don't want them living in our neighborhoods. We don't want our children going to school with theirs. We don't want our daughters and sons marrying their sons and daughters. No thanks . . . we don't want or need social integration. We want economic and political integration . . . . We don't have to pretend we like one another to have good relations. We only need to integrate with the two friends we have in common, Pol and Bill -- politics and the almighty dollar."
-- Comments from a black reader responding to an article, "Do You Live a Segregated Life?" in the January 6 Philadelphia Inquirer.



Posted here for: 3-22-04.
From an e-mail dated 2-15-04. Thanks, Jay.
"I wonder if Kerry has ever stood in front of the Vietnam War Memorial and wondered how many names are up there because of the work that he and Jane Fonda did."
-- Not known.



Posted here for: 3-15-04.
Spoken during a conversation with Rush Limbaugh on his radio program February 27, 2004.
"It's none of my business what other people think of me."
-- Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus Christ in "The Passion of the Christ".



Posted here for: 3-8-04.
From "Emotional Choices," by Joli Jensen, Reason, April 2004, page 35. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"I'll remain wary of the long-term effects of drugs that are invented and marketed to treat conditions that I think are just convenient and self-interested renamings of the human condition." [The drug Ritalin comes to mind.]
-- Joli Jensen.



Posted here for: 3-1-04.
From a friend during a recent phone conversation. Thanks, Peter.
"Definition of a bureaucrat: Someone who sees the light at the end of the tunnel . . . and wishes there was more tunnel."
-- Not known.



Posted here for: 2-23-04.
From "Blacks Have Too Many 'Friends'," by Thomas Sowell, Midnight Messenger, November - December 2003, page 6. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website.
"Everybody has asked the question, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!"
-- Frederick Douglas.



Posted here for: 2-16-04.
From "Marriage Must Be Protected from the Judges," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, December 2003, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"Marriage must not be changed to mean merely two consenting persons agreeing to share quarters and start applying to the government and to employers for economic benefits. Marriage must continue to be recognized as the essential unit of a stable society wherein husbands and wives provide a home and role models for the rearing of children."
-- Phyllis Schlafly.



Posted here for: 2-9-04.
From "Hollywood Hit with BDS [Bush Derangement Syndrome]," NewsMax.com (the magazine), February 2004, page 14. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"I would rather stick needles in my eyes than be a Republican."
-- Cher.



Posted here for: 2-2-04.
From an e-mail dated 1-10-04. Thanks, Dave.
"Strange, isn't it? While we spend men and money to fight for freedom in other lands, the courts and Congress continue to nibble away at it here at home."
-- Lyn Nofziger.



Posted here for: 1-26-04.
From "Letters to the Editor," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 29 - January 4 2004, page 39. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"If you want to find out where the WMD are hidden, have Saddam interrogated by Lt. Col. Allen B. West."
-- Leonard Bloom, Baltimore, Maryland.



Posted here for: 1-19-04.
From Savage Nation, by Michael Savage, 2002, page 205. Publisher: WND Books, a division of Thomas Nelson, Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee. Website.
"The antitrust laws in America make it illegal to charge more than the competition. It's called price gouging. But you can't charge less, either, because that would be undercutting your competitors. And if you charge the same, then you're guilty of collusion."
-- Michael Savage.



Posted here for: 1-12-04.
From "Man of the Year: Roy Moore," by Ann Coulter, Human Events, December 22, 2003, page 8. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"Conservatives keep trying to play fair in the faint hope that, someday, liberals will play fair too. Note to conservatives: That will never happen."
-- Ann Coulter.



Posted here for: 1-5-04.
From AIM Report, #19, September 11, 2003, insert. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. E-mail. Website.
"Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within five years there will be no majority race in our largest state, California. In a little more than 50 years there will be no majority race in the United States. No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time."
-- President Bill Clinton, on June 13, 1998, to students at Portland State University. The students applauded his remarks. [It remains to be seen if the nation can survive such change. My guess is it can't.]






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