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From WorldNetDaily: Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who became an anti-war activist after her son was killed in Iraq, was arrested today during a protest in front of the White House. Sheehan, 48, was with several dozen demonstrators who sat...

From Sibby's mailbag (This also applies to those on the left who think only conservatives should be fighting in Iraq): History Lesson History began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived...

Romney stands by comments about Muslims

A while back the Chief posted here about Governor Mit Romney (R-MA) calling for increased surveillance in radical mosques to nip terrorism in the bud.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts delivered a letter, which was co-signed by 21 other organizations, saying that Romney's comments characterized Muslims living in the U.S. as potential or actual terrorists.

Well, as expected the PC moonbat crowd from the ACLU to assorted Islamist groups got all hot and bothered and demanded retractions and an apology. So, what's a pol to do when faced with this sort of criticism? Back down? Waffle?

Usually so, but not in this case! In a more recent press conference:

Romney told reporters that he stood by his comments. "When it comes to protecting our citizens, there is no place for political correctness. We should be doing more in terms of intelligence and counterterrorism in the state to protect ourselves from terrorists. We spend a lot of our resources thinking about response, but response can't protect us. We have to be able to prevent attacks."

Talk about saying the unspeakable ut true!

Romney said that if U.S. intelligence officials have information that a person is "preaching messages of hate and terror," then there should be sufficient grounds to conduct surveillance on them in their places of worship. "Surely, we have to recognize that some of this has gone on in mosques in the past," Romney said. "Most mosques are teaching doctrines of love and consideration, but there have been places of extremism where certain teachers have been identified as having been involved in or led to terrorist attacks. Let's not pretend that's not the case."

This is really excellent, not only to highlight a potentially serious security issue, but then to NOT back down in the face of the usual barrage of politically correct complaints about having done so.

For those who want us to surrender to the terrorists in Iraq, take a look at what happened when Israel surrendered the Gaza strip: Israel has information al-Qaida-linked members likely infiltrated the Gaza Strip while its border with Egypt was...

The Rapid City Journal has a brief piece by Celeste Calvitto on Johnson's decision to support John Roberts.The individual he (Roberts) is going to replace was a very conservative member of the court, so his confirmation does not change the...

From today's The Hotline:NORTH DAKOTA: Karl's Roeven, Lookin' For A Candidate? ND GOP leaders say WH Dep. CoS Karl Rove's visit to ND provided a boost, no matter what happens after his scheduled meeting with Gov. John Hoeven (R). Rove...

Like I said in the post immediately before this one, Thursday nights are my time to relax. So I'm relaxing. And with this post, I'm relaxing a bit on the tight grip I've been trying to keep on the profanity...

And those caissons go rolling along

The Chief posted a comment yesterday, with a negative response to Bush's proposal to federalize the responsibility for rapid if not first response in case of disasters.

It seems that my concerns about the further erosion of states' soveriegnty have been noticed elsewhere. This DC Times OpEd by Tony Blankley goes further in exploring this issue. Check it out.

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