Politics » Acme Anvil Co.

1st April 2008

Mind-Boggling — Senator Harry Reid Claims Federal Income Tax is Voluntary

Senator Harry Reid, (D-Uranus) claims that even though you may have to pay fines and interest, or even go to prison, if you don't pay income tax, "it's a voluntary system."

His primary argument that income tax isn't paid upon threat of force? Because "other countries" don't allow deductions. I'm not sure what keeps his ears from slapping together, but it ain't his brains.

posted in Politics | 0 Comments

12th March 2008

Dogs Know…

Have you ever heard that a dog "knows" when an earthquake is about to hit?

Have you ever heard that a dog can "sense" when a tornado is stirring up, even twenty miles away?

Do you remember hearing that, before the December tsunami struck Southeast Asia, dogs started running frantically away from the seashore, at breakneck speed?

Do you know that dogs can detect cancer and other serious illnesses and danger of fire?

Somehow they always know when they can "go for a ride" before you even ask and how do those dogs and cats get home from hundreds of miles away?

I'm a firm believer that animals - and especially dogs - have keen insights into the Truth.

And you can't tell me that dogs can't sense a potentially terrible disaster well in advance.

Simply said, a good ol' hound dog just KNOWS when something isn't right… when impending doom is upon us…

posted in Humor, Politics | 0 Comments

20th February 2008

Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder

From acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Lyle Rossiter's book, The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness:

Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded.

. . .

The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.

Read the review

Buy the book

posted in Politics | 3 Comments

9th February 2008

Ron Paul Scales Back to Concentrate on House Run

Fox News reports that “Ron Paul says he’s still in the presidential race but is moving to scale back his staff and shift focus to his own re-election campaign for his Texas congressional seat. ‘If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas. I cannot and will not let that happen.’”

While Huckabee has an uphill battle, needing 977 of the remaining 1150 uncommitted delegates (disregarding Romney’s 286 delegates), Paul would need ALL the remaining delegates PLUS some of Romney’s to get the nomination.

Ron Paul supporters – please visit here.

posted in Politics | 0 Comments

7th February 2008

Romney Leaves Race

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney left the presidential race today, saying he didn't want to hurt the party or the country. Pundits immediately wondered if Huckabee would make a similar "magnanimous" gesture, but of course there is a major difference between the two campaigns — Romney outspent Huckabee 12:1 but only had a few more delegates to show for his investment suggesting that either Romney's message was inferior, or that he just didn't connect with voters. Or both.

Mitt Romney supporters – please visit here.

posted in Politics | 0 Comments

4th February 2008

Mike Huckabee - the Only True Conservative in the Race

Gregg Jackson explains why he's voting for Mike Huckabee.

Jackson examines the record on:

Abortion
Marriage
Immigration
Foreign Policy/National Security
2nd Amendment
Taxes and Spending
Special Rights for Homosexuals

… and concludes "that when $100 million dollars of GOP campaign propaganda is set aside, Mike Huckabee is the only real across-the-board (social and fiscal) conservative among the three front runners."

Mike Huckabee — the only true conservative in the race.

posted in Politics | 1 Comment

4th February 2008

Huckabee Pardoned Over 1000 Criminals… So What?

I was reading Sandy Rios' excellent article supporting Mike Huckabee - A Candidate We Could Get Excited About—if Only the Pundits Would Let Us - and she makes a good point about the argument that Huckabee pardoned over a thousand criminals while governor of Arkansas, including one man who went on to commit murder.

At least he was willing to make the tough decisions, evaluating every one of the 8000 requests for pardon that came across his desk. Maybe he got some wrong, but that's why our judicial system is based upon the idea of "reasonable doubt" — as a society, we agree that it's better to have a few more guilty people walk free, than to put an innocent man behind bars.

In addition, it bears repeating that Romney was more concerned about his shallow record of "no pardons issued." Romney's hometown paper, the Boston Globe, explains it:

Anthony Circosta, a decorated Iraq War veteran from Agawam, needed a gun permit in Massachusetts to get a promotion at his security guard job and to pursue a possible career as a police officer. But first he needed to have his record cleared of a childhood felony - shooting a classmate in the shoulder with a BB gun when he was 13.

The Massachusetts clemency board investigated Circosta's case and twice recommended pardoning him. But then-Governor Mitt Romney refused, preserving a record of rejecting every clemency request that crossed his desk.

That is a perfect example of putting ambition before principle — the primary reason people don't like Mitt Romney.

I recommend Mike Huckabee — a true conservative.

posted in Politics | 0 Comments

3rd February 2008

This Guy Doesn't Like McCain At All

To The Point News details How the Clintons Will Destroy John McCain, with some pretty startling allegations, which you can read there. He closes with:

I would not in any circumstances vote for John McCain, not if either Hillary or Obama were the alternative. Evil is safer than crazy. Leftie amateur inexperience is safer than crazy.

. . .

How in the world can the Republican Party get saddled with a nutcase whack-job who knows nothing about economics, is so anti-capitalist he uses "profit" as a term of derision, has never run a business or had any job outside of government, will raise taxes, is so stupid that he believes "stopping global warming" is worth destroying the American economy, won't drill ANWR, won't appoint strict constructionist justices, won't protect marriage, will give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens, is beloved by the New York Times, and lives in a delusionary world of vanity and rage?

Of course, I recommend Mike Huckabee — a true conservative, not a nutcase whack-job.

posted in Politics | 0 Comments

3rd February 2008

Reasons Not to Vote for Mitt Romney

Including:

Thinking his sons working to get him elected equates to servicemen and women fighting in Iraq and Afganistan
Sticking his dog inside a cage on top of his car for a 12-hour ride across country, hosing the dog's diarrhea off the car and off the dog at a rest stop, and then resuming the trip (wet dog + 55mph wind?)
Does anyone think he'd get nearly as much attention if he weren't so darned pretty and willing to spend so much of his own money? (at least $35 million through December)

WuzzaDem has the breakdown.

I recommend Mike Huckabee — a true conservative.

posted in Politics | 1 Comment

1st February 2008

Benedict Arnold Was a War Hero, Too

Thomas Sowell dismantles the "Straight Talk Express:"

When confronted with any of his misdeeds, Senator McCain tends to fall back on his record as a war hero in Vietnam.

Let's talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that did not exempt him from condemnation for his later betrayal.

Being a war hero is not a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. And becoming President of the United States is not a matter of rewarding an individual for past services.

Read the rest at Townhall.com.

I recommend Mike Huckabee — a true conservative.

posted in Politics | 2 Comments

24th January 2008

"Freedom of Speech Is Too Important to Not Hurt Those Who Abuse It"

This quote might be Frank J's greatest single contribution to mankind.

Read it in context so you can explain it to liberals:

IMAO: The Country Needs a Punch to the Face

posted in Politics, Quotes | 1 Comment

24th January 2008

GOP Candidates Aren't Perfect - Just Like Reagan

The Anchoress takes all you whiny "XXX isn't a true conservative" babies to the woodshed:

If Ronald Reagan were alive right now, watching the GOP split into these tantrum-throwing factions (whereby “perfection” is duly defined as “pro-life, pro-gun, pro-free-market, pro-worship, pro-Bush-doctrine, pro-tax-cut, pro-ship-back-all-illegals” and then, as each less-than-perfect candidate’s failure on one or more issues is noted, each are thus deemed unworthy of the support of the pristine and uncompromising “base”) I think he’d be disgusted with the lot of you.

. . .

If I am reading my mail right - and I believe I am - every candidate running for president on the GOP side is - gasp! - flawed in some way. This guy’s too religious, this guy’s a flip-flopper, this guy’s too John McCain, this guy is a tantalizing “almost perfect” flirt who doesn’t want to put out, this guy is too soft on illegals, this guy is too hard on assault rifles, this guy is great on security but he wears a dress!

Oh, boo-hoo, people. Get a grip. The truth is the GOP had produced several reasonable candidates for the presidential nomination. None are “perfect,” but neither are you. A vote for any of them will require from you an end to the thrust-lip tantrum. You’re going to have to wipe your little eyes, haul up your drawers and - egad - do what Reagan would have done; he would have looked for the candidate who he felt was - taken all-in-all - best for the whole nation, not just for some little one-issue subgroup; he would not simply vote for his comfort zone.

Read the whole thing:
Attn GOP: Meet the Woodshed | The Anchoress

posted in Politics | 1 Comment

18th January 2008

The Real McCain Record

There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter.

Is Mormonism Christianity?

My cousin Craig does the research so we don't have to.

Read the article at:

Is Mormonism Christianity? TQFD 18.01.2008

posted in Religion, Politics | 3 Comments

6th January 2008

Goodbye, Fred

"I forgot to run."

I recommend Mike Huckabee — a true conservative.

posted in Politics | 0 Comments

3rd January 2008

"I Always Supported Huckabee"

That's what we'll hear tomorrow, from a lot of conservative pundits who have spent a lot of time bashing Huckabee right up until they saw him win in Iowa.

He gave them a great "out" with his victory speech; it was very Reagan-esque, with strong imagery of a better America - "I wasn't sure how I felt about Huckabee, until I heard that speech. I gotta say, he sure addressed a lot of my concerns with him right then."

Personally, I've been worried about how all the big name pundits would handle it if Huckabee became the front-runner, but I think he solved it with that speech.

posted in Politics | 0 Comments

24th December 2007

Dallas Morning News Endorses Mike Huckabee

Link

Many Republican voters are dissatisfied with the GOP presidential candidates this year. We share that frustration. But one of these men is going to be the party's nominee. Of this field, Mike Huckabee is the best choice.

It was a hard decision. In most respects, Mr. Huckabee, who governed Arkansas as a pragmatic, compassionate conservative, is not dramatically different from his main GOP competitors. He is somewhat better on energy and the environment, and though none of the Republicans are as forward-thinking about Iraq as they should be, Mr. Huckabee's emphasis on diplomatic engagement in the Middle East is fresh and welcome.

Mr. Huckabee established a respectable record of fiscal responsibility in Arkansas. Rather than run up deficits, he backed raising taxes to pay for needed infrastructure, health care and education. That's called prudence, and it was once a Republican virtue.

Mr. Huckabee is not an ideal candidate. Once a Bush-style Republican on immigration, his recent hard-right turn smells of opportunism. He too often wings it on foreign policy. But Govs. Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also took office without foreign-policy experience. Much depends on the quality of a president's advisers. A chief executive's core foreign-policy convictions matter most, and on those, Mr. Huckabee is a standard conservative.

His religious conservatism, particularly his past rhetoric on women and gays, can be alarming. But religious conservatives aren't easily pigeonholed. A liberal Arkansas professor told The New York Times Magazine that Mr. Huckabee was a good governor. "When he first came to office, people like me were worried about the religious aspect," she said. "And he is very orthodox on gays, guns and God. But he knows there's more than just these issues."

Indeed. Mr. Huckabee has a stout heart for working families and the poor, which as governor got him crossways with some Republicans. Though his strident criticism of free trade is misguided, the economically moderate Mr. Huckabee seems particularly attuned to the anxieties ordinary Americans face in this era of rapid change.

And he is one social conservative who's acutely aware of the call to racial healing. In 1997, when Little Rock Central High commemorated integration's 40th anniversary, Gov. Huckabee delivered a magnificent speech about race, justice and reconciliation that left many in the audience weeping.

It was a profound and profoundly moving address, and it revealed an unusual gift for leadership. Plain-spoken and eloquent, Mr. Huckabee strikes us as decent, principled and empathetic to the views and concerns of others – an antidote to the power-mad partisanship that has led U.S. politics to a dispiriting st