January 19, 2009 – While I do not trust the news media to tell me the truth about anything, I do often get ideas to write from the things I see and hear on their broadcasts. Therefore, the other night I was watching NBC Nightly News, and they were reporting on the historic arrival of Barack Obama into Washington D.C. for his inauguration.

Lester Holt was reporting on the train ride Barack Obama took as he made his way towards our nation’s capital.

January 19, 2009 – In case you have not noticed… Americans are arming themselves. Sales of those rifles the liberals like to refer to as “assault rifles” are so brisk, nationwide, that they are back-ordered for weeks and, in some cases, even months.  (In the event you are unfamiliar with the term “Assault Rifle”…  the common definition, by liberals and “gun-grabbers” of an assault rifle, is… a rifle that One: Looks scary” and Two: Holds more than five rounds!)

January 18, 2009 – As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently ‘extract’ Hezbollah from the South as a fighting force, and to undermine it as a rising political movement, capable of disrupting, if not overshadowing the ‘friendly’ and ‘moderate’ political regime in Beirut.

As Israeli bombs fell, and with them hundreds of Lebanese civilians, and much of the country’s infrastructure, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sprung into action. She too had one major objective: to delay a ceasefire, which the rest of the international community, save the US and Britain, desperately demanded. Rice, who is merely, but faithfully reiterating the Bush Administration’s policy, hoped that the Israeli bombs would succeed in achieving what her government’s grand policies failed to achieve, namely a New Middle East.