by Joe Sobran – Sobran.com
Nowadays, in startling contrast to my youth, it’s very fashionable to claim to be a conservative. Back in the Sixties, conservatism was still rather a fugitive thing, and the fashion was liberalism or even radicalism. By the late Eighties, liberal had become “the L-word,” and liberals were looking for a less alarming euphemism, such as progressive. As I say, the change is startling. But have things really changed that much? Or is the change really superficial? I’m afraid the latter is the case. The airwaves are clogged with the clamorous voices of talk radio, or “squawk radio,” as I like to call it — people claiming to be conservative, though they don’t sound much like the great conservatives I grew up admiring: Bill Buckley, Frank Meyer, James Burnham, Russell Kirk, Willmoore Kendall, and Barry Goldwater, to name a few….

by Joe Murray – The Bulletin
So, does this mean the GOP is a lost cause? Absolutely not. It just means that the GOP needs to open its eyes and re-embrace the strategy that gave rise to Nixon and Reagan – it needs to rediscover the Southern Strategy. Just what is this Southern Strategy? Pat Buchanan answered this question in his book Death of the West. Buchanan writes: “For a quarter of a century… the Republican Party had a virtual lock on the presidency. The “New Majority,” created by Richard Nixon and replicated by Ronald Reagan, gave the GOP five victories in six presidential elections. The key to victory was to append to the Republican base two Democratic blocs: Northern Catholic ethnic and Southern White Protestants… this was the Southern Strategy…

by Michael Graham – Boston Herald
Lake Superior State University just released its “32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.” Among the verbal bilge LSSU would like to dump overboard: “awesome” (for general overuse); “we’re pregnant” (biologically nonsensical) and the trendy combined celebrity names, like “Brangelina” and “Tomkat” (“so lame and pathetic that it’s ‘lamethetic,’ ” says one writer). Well, I can handle lame and can tolerate pathetic. What really twists my linguistic knickers is inaccuracy. So I was delighted when this year’s list also urged a ban on “undocumented alien,” a phrase comparable to describing drug dealers as “undocumented pharmacists.” People who migrate to America are aliens. If they come here without our consent, that’s called “illegal.” Illegal. Alien. What’s the problem? …

by Frosty Wooldridge
President George W. Bush, by violating his oath of office and by his disregard of Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, escalates a crime wave on American citizens unprecedented in 231 years of our republic. Every day, in the United States, thousands of illegal aliens unleash a reign of terror on Americans. Illegal alien migrants murder us, rape our wives and daughters, kill us on our highways, commit identity theft, smuggle drugs, forge documents, steal our cars, spread diseases and create a new benchmark of lawlessness in our country. Bush aids, abets and encourages illegal aliens to remain in our country by not enforcing our laws to deport them. In 2003, the Government Accountability Office reported 55,322 illegal aliens in federal prisons. Those criminals had been arrested 459,614 times, or eight times each. They committed 700,000 crimes, or 13 each. A third had been arrested five times each…