We have no clue as to why the blog was down for the past few hours. We apologise and thank you for your patience. Resume the argument... UPDATE: The problem had to do with some outage at our webhost, Hosting Matters. Apparently, all blogs using them were effected, including Captain's...
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs...
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January 29, 2007
Robert Drinan, RIP
By Mark Noonan at
10:26 PM
Well, he's gone to God, and is now fully aware of whether he was right or wrong. Fr. Drinan was, of course, the leftwing priest who served in Congress from Massacusetts until the Pope, correctly, ordered all priests to leave public office. It wasn't a matter of separation fo Church...
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January 22, 2007
Webb to Deliver Rebuttal to State of the Union
By Princella Smith at
05:35 PM
Tomorrow, President Bush will deliver the State of the Union address to a majority democratic congress for the first time. Selected to deliver the rebuttal is the newly elected senator of Virginia, Jim Webb (D). Wow. In the so-called spirit of bi-partisanship and unity, what a choice by the democrats...
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January 18, 2007
Look Mom, I'm A Lobbyist
By Matt Margolis at
09:52 AM
Something totally uncool is going on... "Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress the same as the big...
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January 09, 2007
Widescreen iPod... iPhone...
By Matt Margolis at
12:48 PM
I know this is totally off topic for typical blogging here... But this is exciting... As a loyal Mac user, I've been aware of rumors of a widescreen iPod in development.. Well, according to some liveblogging of the MacWorld San Francisco 2007 Keynote at MacRumorsLive.com, they have unveiled the new...
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January 07, 2007
Gay marriage and the slippery slope?
By Leo Pusateri at
10:59 PM
Andy at Residual Forces has the details. Opponents of legalizing gay marriage have long argued that it would blur the institution of marriage, and that it would lead to polygamy being recognized. Of course, the liberals poo-poohed such a notion. Folks, it won't be long until the slippery slope, currently...
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January 05, 2007
Note to Readers
By Mark Noonan at
01:23 AM
We here at Blogs for Bush like to encourage lively debate - we believe in the free and fair give and take because we know that conservative Republican ideas will always beat liberal Democratic ideas in such a debate. In service of this goal, we try to be as flexible...
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Thanks for the Prayers and Kind Words
By Mark Noonan at
12:57 AM
Thanks be to God, the surgery went well and Cheryl is groggy but on the mend - she'll be at the hospital for at least three or four more days, so I'll be a rather irregular blogger for a bit. It is like a load of bricks off the back,...
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January 04, 2007
A Request for Prayer
By Mark Noonan at
12:00 AM
My wife, Cheryl, will be undergoing surgery later today - it is non-emergency; we scheduled it a month ago, but it is still major, and therefor worrisome. The prognosis is good and we hope to have the Mrs home within five days. Still, I am deeply concerned as my wife...
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January 02, 2007
Some New Year Thoughts
By Mark Noonan at
01:54 AM
One of the problems we're having with our upcoming book, Caucus of Corruption, is figuring out what not to put in it. Just too much material! And more and more coming out each day! Lots of fun, to be sure, but a bit of a headache... From now forward, I'm...
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January 01, 2007
Happy New Years!
By Mark Noonan at
12:00 AM
We here at Blogs for Bush wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2007!...
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December 31, 2006
Open Thread: New Year's Eve
By Mark Noonan at
07:08 PM
Well, my San Diego Chargers are 14-2, number one seed, first round bye and home field advantage throughout the playoffs....in our world, the fact that the road to the Super Bowl goes through San Diego is proof that (a) there is a God and (b) that this has been one...
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December 29, 2006
Blogger Cookbook
By Matt Margolis at
05:23 PM
I'm pleased to inform our readers of the release of Blogalicious: A Cookbook of Favorite Recipes from the Blogosphere, editted by Deborah Uhler. A while back I was asked to submit a recipe for the book... If you want to know what the recipe is for, you'll have to buy...
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December 28, 2006
Who is Admired?
By Mark Noonan at
01:42 AM
Two intereseting things in this bit over at NRO's The Corner: Gallup has just released a poll of the most admired (living) world figures. George W. Bush is the most admired, named so by 13 percent of respondents. (In December 2001, that number was 39 percent.) Bush is followed by...
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December 27, 2006
Gerald Ford, RIP
By Mark Noonan at
12:36 AM
So passes a good man, and a great American: LOS ANGELES - Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93. "My family joins me...
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December 25, 2006
Goodbye, Godfather of Soul
By Mark Noonan at
12:45 PM
You really can't be sad - an interesting life; the only prayer I have is that he's with Our Lord now: ATLANTA - James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a giant of R&B and an inspiration for rap, funk and...
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December 24, 2006
Full Disclosure
By Mark Noonan at
09:21 AM
Saw this over at Dean's World, and it looked like a bit of fun. Please rest assured that anyone insulting anyone who decides to participate in this will be deleted and banned - this is supposed to be Christmas fun stuff, so drop all the political arguments for this thread....
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December 20, 2006
Mark Noonan, Injured in the Blog of Duty
By Mark Noonan at
09:05 PM
Which means Ive got a pinched ulnar nerve...the funnybone, as it were. Oddest dratted thing - I was happily typing away today when my left hand started to twitch uncontrollably (figures the left would be my nemesis); a trip to the doctor later and I'm banned from typing with my...
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December 18, 2006
Open Thread: Ready for the Holidays?
By Mark Noonan at
09:14 AM
So, are you all set to go? Got all the shopping done? House cleaned up? Heck, I'm so prepared for it that I've even already done the floors. Feel free to relate any stories you have of this holiday season - any nightmares you've experienced, any acts of love and...
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December 07, 2006
Pearl Harbor Day
By Mark Noonan at
09:31 PM
Real Clear Politics has an excellent round up of stories and interviews about Pearl Harbor - and notes this: No one knows how just many Pearl Harbor survivors are still left among us, but there aren't many. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 70,000 sailors and soldiers stationed at...
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December 05, 2006
Open Thread: New York City Bans Fat
By Mark Noonan at
08:15 PM
Or, at least, so I've heard - that they've actually enacted a ban on trans fat in the city of New York. Has the Nanny State gone too far? Also, if fat is banned, what will they do with Al Sharpton? What will liberals think with? Matt and I wish...
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November 26, 2006
First Result of the 2006 Vote
By Mark Noonan at
06:55 AM
From Rasmussen: Forty-one percent (41%) of Americans believe that our nation’s best days remain ahead of us. A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 Likely Voters found that 42% disagree and say that our best days have already come and gone. That’s a far less optimistic assessment than we found in...
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November 19, 2006
Two Score and Two Years Ago
By Mark Noonan at
12:00 AM
Yep, another birthday for Mark - 42 years old. It is good, from time to time, to pause at milestones and take stock. With Thanksgiving coming this week, it is doubly appropriate. I am rather sheepish about describing my life to others these days - things are just going so...
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November 17, 2006
He's in Mesquite, Nevada - a wonderful town about 75 miles north of Las Vegas - having a little weekend off with the Mrs - so, not much blogging for a couple days: be kind to Matt and Leo while I'm away. Hope you all have a great weeked -...
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Conservatives Are More Generous Than Liberals
By Matt Margolis at
01:34 PM
So, for all the Democrats rhetoric about helping the little guy and blasting Republicans for not caring about the less fortunate, it turns out there's proof that conservatives give more than liberals.Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks is about to become the darling of the religious right in America --...
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November 02, 2006
Mobile Election Results
By Matt Margolis at
01:34 PM
For those of you who have Blackberries, Treos or other mobile devices (like me, I have a Treo 650), I've been alerted by the folks at the Associated Press that they are looking for beta testers for its Mobile Election Results product. It's a Mobile website that will provide "timely...
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October 29, 2006
One Year Ago Today
By Mark Noonan at
06:45 AM
I was the most nervous I had ever been in my life - you see, October 29th, 2005 was the day I was married to my beautiful, charming, patient, kind and loving wife, Cheryl...and, man, was I a nervous wreck all that day. Well, I was up until I ordered...
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October 19, 2006
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October 17, 2006
300,000,000 Americans
By Mark Noonan at
02:46 AM
The US Census has a population clock which totes up one net new American every 11 seconds - as of this writing, it is sitting at 299,998,406 - a bit less than 5 hours before we have 300,000,000 Americans....
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October 07, 2006
How Partisan is Too Partisan?
By Matt Margolis at
05:43 AM
A while back I was invited to attend a National Press Club event featuring top bloggers alongside Michael Barone and Richard Miniter, among others. The topic of the event was "How Partisan is Too Partisan?" Unfortunately, I was unable to make it, but a podcast of the event was just...
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October 04, 2006
Meanwhile, in Other News...
By Mark Noonan at
04:29 PM
While the MSM is doing an All-Foley-All-The-Time circus and Demcorats rub their hands with glee over the prospect of winning power without having to state what they believe, there is other news going on...and, no, I don't mean GOPers wringing their hands and wetting their beds over the Foley issue....
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September 28, 2006
Be Sure to Shop at 7/11
By Mark Noonan at
08:46 AM
Because they are dumping Chavez' Citgo gasoline: DALLAS - 7-Eleven Inc. dropped Venezuela-owned Citgo as its gasoline supplier after more than 20 years as part of a previously announced plan by the convenience store operator to launch its own brand of fuel. 7-Eleven officials said Wednesday that the decision was...
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September 07, 2006
Fear and self-loathing in Australia...
By Leo Pusateri at
10:23 PM
If you think that America has a monopoly on the self-loathing, blame-their-own first, leftist mentality, think again: Steve Irwin had embarrassed millions of Australians, outspoken expatriate Australian academic Germaine Greer has said. And those who had mourned him with their tributes at the Irwin family's Australia Zoo in what the...
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America Weakly
By Matt Margolis at
10:04 AM
New site put out by the GOP... Check it out... Bookmark it....
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August 25, 2006
New 2008 GOP Primary Straw Poll
By Matt Margolis at
05:52 AM
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August 16, 2006
President Ford in the Hospital
By Mark Noonan at
01:42 AM
We here at Blogs for Bush wish this fine man and great American a speedy return home: MINNEAPOLIS - Former President Ford was admitted Tuesday to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for "testing and evaluation," his office said in a statement. The statement gave no details about why the 93-year-old...
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August 15, 2006
A Bit of Perspective on These Times
By Mark Noonan at
01:00 AM
From Logic Times: How would today’s doomsayers react to the "idyllic" 1950s? Michael Savage would have jumped – off the Golden Gate Bridge probably – certain that communism spelled the end of Western civilization. Glenn Beck would be speechless with fear (no small task) after hearing Eisenhower declare that the...
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August 03, 2006
Those Really Thoughtful Hate Mails
By Matt Margolis at
02:40 AM
Got this in my inbox yesterday:you are all demented extremistsThe author of this hate mail did not provide a name or an email address. I'm so hurt....
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August 02, 2006
Limbaugh Listeners More KnowledgableThan NPR, NewsHour, C-Span Fans
By Mark Noonan at
03:10 AM
So says a Pew Survey that Rush has up on his website - only Weekly Standard and New Republic readers scored higher on knowledge tests than Rush's fans. So much for the concept that we conservatives don't know things - just another liberal/left myth which never had a basis in...
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July 28, 2006
Bush Signs Bill To Monitor Sex Offenders...
By Matt Margolis at
02:14 PM
Yesterday Bush signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which child advocates call "most sweeping sex offender legislation to target pedophiles in years." You can read President Bush's remarks during the signing here....
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Keeping Things Civil
By Matt Margolis at
04:52 AM
i'd like to expand upon Mark's post yesterday about the "meanness" of liberals... particularly the ones that come on this site and express themselves. While I've never had a problem with diverse opinions being expressed here, over the course of several months, I've gotten several complaints from regular visitors who...
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July 24, 2006
William F. Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative
By Matt Margolis at
06:57 PM
While William F. Buckley "praises [Bush] as a decisive leader" he "admonishes [him] for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy." I'm curious about what my fellow conservatives think....
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July 23, 2006
GOP Bloggers 2008 GOP Primary Straw Poll, July 2006
By Matt Margolis at
08:12 AM
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July 21, 2006
Heading for the hills for a couple days, dear readers. Up to Pioche, Nevada to do some fishing with some friends (yeah, we Republicans have friends...honest!). Keep patient with the blog, as this means there's one less person to monitor comments and post content....
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July 20, 2006
62 Years Ago Today
By Mark Noonan at
03:23 AM
Some German generals tried to use a bomb to assasinate Hitler. Coincidently, Jewish military personnel will today drop some bombs on Hitler's spiritual successors. History does repeat itself, I guess....
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July 19, 2006
Your Thoughts and Prayers (Updated & Bumped)
By Matt Margolis at
02:52 PM
While I normally don't make requests like these, I feel now is a good time to start. Tomorrow, my girlfriend Beth will be undergoing Chiari decompression surgery to treat what is called a Chiari malformation. Unfortunately, I can't be with her in Pennsylvania (where she'll be having the surgery) but...
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