Enemies foreign and domestic...

I don't have a lot of time to post today, but there are two topics that I want to cover in what time I do have.

First, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez's speech to the UN General Assembly. Only a small part of the Communist dictator's words made it through the press' filters...of course, the most absurd part, wherein Chavez calls President Bush "the devil." But the liberal media largely ignored the rest of Chavez's address. Why? Perhaps because it sounds so similar to what US Democrats have been saying about President Bush and America. Liberal blogs have been cheering Chavez's words, while big media has largely been silent as to the substance of the speech. But Chavez's attacks did not stop with the GA.

After that speech, Chavez gave another speech, this one at a college in New York City, where his anti-Bush tirade continued. He accused the President of committing genocide in Iraq and said the President should be tried for war crimes. Sound familiar? Chave's ramblings sound suspiciously similar to the lies that Howard Dean, John Murtha, Dick Durban, and many other Democratic Congressmen (and Michael Moore and MoveOn.org) have been spreading about President Bush for years.

After his speech, Chavez was given a standing ovation.

In World War II, America and England allied themselves with France and Russia to fight was was known as the "Axis Powers" - namely, Germany, Italy and Japan. Now a new Axis is forming, and it is very much more dangerous than its predecessor, because the heads of this hydra know well how to play the game of American politics. This new Axis consists of Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba...and there is some evidence to show that they are being supported by Russia and China, and have the support of the United Nations. Venezuela and Iran are now very closely tied together. They have numerous treaties, including one that stipulates that any action taken by the US to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capability will be considered an attack on Iran, and, hence, an attack on their ally, Venezuela. Moreover, Hugo Chavez has been forming very close ties between his nation and Cuba - not only does Chavez provide lots of oil to Cuba, but the majority of Chavez's cabinet comes from Cuba (a new law in Venezuela making it illegal to publicly or privately criticize the President allowed Chavez to get rid of most of his original cabinet).

The great danger here is that both Chavez and Ahmadenijad know how to play American political games. While Chavez will likely receive some criticism from US Democrats, they cannot help but agree with his words - the same words they have been saying for some time now. The only reason he will be criticized is that US politicians have to play to moderates in order to get elected. Ahmadenijad looks great in the American press, primarily because the American press tends to only report on the interviews that he does with American reporters - they conveniently leave out interviews with foreign media, where he makes much more outrageous statements than he ever would here (denials of the Holocaust, his belief that Israel should be wiped out or moved out of the Middle East, his belief that Iran has a divine right to nuclear weapons, his belief that it is his religious duty to bring about the apocalypse to herald the arrival of the 12th Imam).

For more about the insanity and danger that we face, I strongly recommend listening to Glenn Beck and/or watching his television show on CNN Headline News. He is the only person in the media that I know of that sees the big picture when it comes to the gathering threats to America.


The other topic I want to address is the Democrats' opposition to an ID requirement for voting. Recently, a Georgia judge struck down a state law requiring voters to show valid ID before voting. Now, the House of Representatives has passed (over the protestations of Democrats) a bill requiring voters to show ID before being allowed to vote in federal elections.

Democrats claim that requiring ID is tantamount to instituting a poll tax. But let's face it: Democrats are also the ones who whine and complain the loudest about voter fraud after they lose elections. If we truly want to prevent voter fraud, an identification requirement is the thing that makes sense. But, then, Democrats also want to position themselves to get the votes of illegal aliens (it's important to note: for all their talk about disenfranchisement of minorities, it is impossible to disenfranchise a group that is not enfranchised in the first place, such as non-citizens). For starters, ID is not that expensive. For another thing, if Democrats truly wanted to prevent voter fraud, they would be all for this. The truth is that not only would requiring ID hamper the Democrats' stuffing of ballot boxes, it would significantly hamper their efforts to get illegal aliens out and voting. All told, it is another step in the right direction that the Democratic Party is trying to block.