More WMDs have been found in Iraq, in addition to the ones previously reported. Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, did not give many details about the additional WMD material found in recent months, but he said he expected more to be found. Here is the Reuters article.

Naturally, liberals are trying to downplay the significance of these findings, after telling us for three years that Iraqi WMDs didn't exist. They claim that because these weapons were produced before the first Gulf War in '91, they are of degraded quality and were not an imminent threat. But, in the words of Rep. Curt Weldon (R, Pa):

For those who claim that these weapons are not the weapons of mass destruction that the United States went to war over, I would refer them to 17 United Nations Security Council resolutions that Saddam Hussein violated. It didn't say pre-'91 chemical weapons. It didn't say post-'91 chemical weapons. It said chemical weapons.

From the people who brought you eminent domain...the Supreme Court today ruled that the military tribunal system set up to try Guantanamo prisoners is illegal. The Reuters story is here.

Of course, the decision was made 5-3 by the five liberal judges on the Court including the so-called "moderate conservative" Anthony Kennedy. I wish at least one of them would retire. Bring on the next Supreme Court vacancy.

This decision is dismaying. The Court seems to be granting the same rights to foreign terrorists that American criminals have. It's bad enough that domestic criminals seem to have more rights than law-abiding citizens do. Are we now extending these rights to the Taliban?

The court claims that the tribunals violated the Geneva Conventions and U.S. military rules. When foreign terrorists take Americans prisoner, do they act according to the Geneva Conventions? No. They torture and behead people, sometimes on videotape. Nothing like that is going on at Guantanamo, I assure you. Our prisoners there are treated very well considering that they are Taliban lowlife.

Of course, leftist groups like the ACLU and Amnesty International are overjoyed about the Court's decision. They are increasingly calling for the Guantanamo prison to be closed.

But what are we to do with the terrorists who are imprisoned there? Are we supposed to turn them loose so that they can kill more Americans, either here or abroad?

I know that liberals refuse to understand this, but I will try to explain it anyway. The War on Terror is not a game. It is a war. The people who are imprisoned at Guantanamo are people who want to kill us. They are terrorists. They fought against American soldiers who toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban is merged with al Qaeda, the organization that killed over 3,000 Americans on September 11th, 2001, and continues to kill more Americans in Iraq. The prisoners at Guantanamo are not American citizens. They are foreign terrorists who hate America and want to destroy it.

What part of the above paragraph don't liberals understand?

Economy Zips Ahead Faster Than Expected. In the first quarter of 2006, the U.S. economy grew at a rate of 5.6%, the fastest pace in 2 1/2 years. It was stronger than the previous estimate of 5.3%. Here is the AP story:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-06-29-08-45-40

The article points out that, in the current quarter, economic growth has probably slowed to a rate of 2.5 to 3 percent. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

The bottom line: this is boom time. Don't believe the constant negativity that the media keeps feeding us about the economy.

Cardinal fears Church could face court on abortion. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, criticized several Western countries for allowing abortion and introducing gay marriage and civil unions. Here is the Reuters article.

The Cardinal says:

I fear that faced with current legislation, speaking in defense of life, of the rights of the family, is becoming in some societies a crime against the state, a form of disobedience of the government, a discrimination against women. The Church risks being brought in front of some international court, if the debate gets any more tense, if the most radical opinions are heeded.

The Cardinal also said that gay marriage is "absolute nothingness". He said:

Civil unions are a legal fiction, two people who promise each other nothing, who promise nothing to their children nor to the state but want the same rights as marriage.

The countries he singled out for his concerns included Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Nordic countries. If American liberals get their way, these teachings could also become "crimes against the state" in the States. As Ann Coulter says, liberalism is entrenched as the state religion of this country, and liberals are intolerant of any challenges to their secular religion.

Katrina looters get 15 years in prison. A Louisiana judge apparently disagrees with Celine Dion's "Let them touch those things" philosophy. Three people who were convicted of looting liquor from a grocery store after Hurricane Katrina were sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison by a Kenner judge. Here's the CNN story.

The attorneys for the three defendents intend to appeal the conviction and the sentencing, saying that the punishment is "excessive". Liberals will probably take their side, just like they took the side of people who looted during the L.A. riots in '92.

AP incorrectly claims that scientists praise Gore's movie. It isn't news to me that the Associated Press is liberal biased, or that it is typically biased in favor of Al Gore. But it's nice to see a United States Senate Committee acknowledge as much. Here is a press release from the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which criticizes the AP for ignoring scientists who question the science in Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth.

http://www.epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=257909

Don't believe the hype: global warming is a myth. You've surely heard some of the glowing praise that Al Gore's filmed slideshow An Inconvenient Truth has been receiving from the media. It seems that the media will never cease in its efforts to brainwash everyone into believing that the planet is heating up, and that mankind (especially Americans) are to blame for it.

I will never understand how people fall for this. What makes people think that we/they have any control over Earth's climate? And, really, what makes them think that the planet is in the process of overheating? Every time winter comes around, especially when we experience record low temperatures on certain days, I wonder how people can go on believing in global warming. I have haunting memories of some Philadelphia winters. In 1994, my area was plagued with a long cold winter of icy roads and heavy snowfall. My area experienced full-blown blizzards in 1996 and in 2003. In the winter of 2004, the temperatures were so cold that I caught a mild case of pneumonia just by taking a walk around my neighborhood. Throughout all of the years that these things have taken place, Al Gore and his ilk have continued to preach about the impending horrors of global warming.

Now, some scientists are claiming that temperatures are higher now than they have been in 2,000 years! They say it's hotter now than it ever has been since the time of Jesus Christ. Here's an article about that:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/22/D8IDK16G0.html

I believe the left is truly going off the deep end with this theory. How in the world can a claim like this be proven? The "proxy" evidence described in the article doesn't prove a thing to me, but the media seems to be reporting this wild theory as if it is a proven fact.

A new National Academy of Sciences report titled "Surface Temperature Reconstructions For The Last 2000 Years" refutes this theory. Here is an article.

Of course, Al Gore is slamming scientists who disagree with his global warming theories. Here is what he said to Charlie Rose last Monday:

"The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.”

"The debate's over"? I think not, Al. Many credible scientists have issues with the "international consensus". Here is an article with quotes by some of them:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/6/20/134405.shtml?s=et

Here is what famed Oxford professor David Bellamy has to say:

"It has been estimated that the cost of cutting fossil fuel emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol would be [$1.3 trillion]. Little wonder, then, that world leaders are worried. So should we all be. If we signed up to these scaremongers, we could be about to waste a gargantuan amount of money on a problem that doesn't exist – money that could be used in umpteen better ways: Fighting world hunger, providing clean water, developing alternative energy sources, improving our environment, creating jobs. The link between the burning of fossil fuels and global warming is a myth. It is time the world's leaders, their scientific advisers and many environmental pressure groups woke up to the fact."

John Murtha is an embarrassment to Democrats, and to Pennsylvanians. Did you hear about the prominent Democratic congressman's appearance on NBC's Meet The Press last Sunday? Murtha, who has been getting plenty of media attention in recent months for his anti-war stance, told Tim Russert that troops in Iraq should be redeployed to a nearby country, so that they will be removed from Iraq but can go back in if needed. What would be the point of that? Murtha became even more illogical, saying that one place that the troops could be redeployed to is Okinawa, Japan -- which is about 5,000 miles from Iraq!

Murtha now rivals Republican Senator Arlen Specter for the Most Embarrassing Legislator From Pennsylvania award. I'm glad Murtha is not from my district -- his district is in western PA -- but I almost wish that he was, so that I could cast a vote against him in November.

I am now learning that Murtha has a skeleton in his closet: he was involved in the Abscam scandal. Here is Robert Novak's commentary on the subject:

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200606/COM20060622a.html

WMDs have been found in Iraq, but the media doesn't want to report it. Senators Rick Santorum (R, Pa) and Pete Hoekstra (R, Mi) said on Wednesday that 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agents have been found in Iraq since 2003, and that more WMDs are assessed to exist. Here is the story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html

This is major news, isn't it? Haven't people been saying for three years that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Why won't the media now widely report the information about these findings?

The simple answer is because they don't want people to know about it. The media has been brainwashing the public for the past three years with "Bush lied, people died" propaganda, and this news proves them wrong -- and, as far as I'm concerned, proves them to be gross liars who put their politics ahead of our national security.

I applaud Senators Santorum (who is from my state) and Hoekstra for having the courage to present the unpopular truth to us. I have a feeling that both of them will be made to pay a price for doing so.

Zowie! Zarqawi went POWWIE! He won't spend no more weekends in Bali! Pardon my rapping; it's my Philadelphia localese coming out. I guess you've heard the splendid news by now. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda of Iraq and the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, was killed in a U.S. military air strike on Wednesday. Here is the Reuters story.

What a great day for the world. And what a bad week for liberals! First they lost a House race in California, and now we get great news in the war on terror that not even they can dampen (although I'm sure they'll try their best). November isn't looking like the sure thing you've been thinking it is, is it, Dems?