Living The American Dream

Although John Kerry says we are re-living the Great Depression, living the American Dream and owning your own piece of this great country seems to be at record levels:

Sales of new, single-family homes soared in May, despite higher mortgage rates that are expected to slow the housing market eventually. Separately, the manufacturing sector hit a speed bump as durable-goods orders slipped, and jobless claims ticked up slightly.

Economists pointed to rising employment, increasing personal income and continued low interest rates as strong contributing factors to the new-home sales data, as well as a rush by fence-sitters to buy before mortgage rates rose more.

I blame the Bush tax cuts!
- posted by KP @ Friday, June 25, 2004     |     

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Democrats "Business As Usual" is Apparently Shady Campaign Finance

Looks like the Clinton's illegal fundraising from Asian Americans is part of the John Kerry playbook for this election campaign. As you read this you will see that until the press revealed this the Kerry campaign was fine with the money. Also, this guy was a known Democrat fundraiser from a famous family:

John Kerry's campaign collected a maximum $2,000 check from the recently arrested son of South Korea's disgraced former president, and some of its fund-raisers met several times with a South Korean government official who was trying to organize a Korean-American political group.

The Kerry campaign said it did not know about the $2,000 donation from Chun Jae-yong or his background until informed by The Associated Press and has decided to return the money to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

"We are sending the check back," spokesman Michael Meehan said.

South Korean government officials told the AP that a top official in its Los Angeles consulate office returned home last month amid "speculation" he had engaged in Democratic politics, but they do not believe any laws were broken.

Chun Jae-yong was arrested in February by South Korean authorities on charges of evading taxes on $14 million in inheritance money. His father, former president Chun Dooh-hwan, was convicted in 1997 on bribery charges.

Chun Jae-yong was business partners last year with Rick Yi, one of Kerry's major fund-raisers in the Asian-American community. Yi acknowledged soliciting the donation from Chun last summer before learning of his legal problems.

"I didn't think anything wrong of it," said Yi, who has raised more than $500,000 for Kerry, the Democratic presidential challenger, and Democratic causes. Yi is listed as one of the campaign's fund-raising vice chairmen. "If I had known who he was at the time I probably would not have taken the money," he said.

Yi, a former military attache in the Clinton White House, said he was business partners with Chun for about six months last year in a Duluth, Ga., company called OR Solutions Inc. When making his donation Aug. 11, Chun listed himself as the company's president and chief operating officer.

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Kerry has been forced on several occasions to answer questions or return donations after media reports that he accepted money from donors with unsavory backgrounds.

For instance, Kerry received $10,000 in donations in the 1990s through controversial Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung after his Senate office arranged a tour for Chung at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Johnny Chung later pleaded guilty to making illegal straw donations, including some to Kerry.

How far are we from renting of the White House Lincoln Bedroom? Hopefully, if we all do our part we'll never have to answer that question.
- posted by KP @ Sunday, June 20, 2004     |     

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Vote for Laura Bush!

Family Circle is running their election year poll for the best cookies by the wife of the candidates for President.This poll has been the correct predictor of the last 3 Presidential elections:




We all know that Laura Bush probably baked her share of cookies in her day while Theresa Heinze likely had her French maid do her dirty work, Do your part today and vote for Laura Bush!


- posted by KP @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004     |     

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Those Darn Tax Cuts Keep Creating Jobs...

I blame President Bush:

Inflation modest, hiring strong, Fed says By Rex Nutting
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - U.S. consumer prices are rising modestly as the economy continues to expand in most areas of the country, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday in its Beige Book. Hiring increased "at a faster pace," in most regions, the report on the current economic outlook said. Wages were growing slowly. "Reports from the Federal Reserve Banks indicate that economic activity in April and May continued to expand across the nation," the Beige Book summary said. All sectors of the economy were reported to be healthy and growing. "Consumer price increases were generally modest, but most districts reporting increasing input prices, particularly of energy-related products, building materials, and steel," the report said.

- posted by KP @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004     |     

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I went to DC and arrived on the Mall at 11:30pm; waited in line for 7 hours with thousands of great people and went through the rotunda around 6:30am. I paid my respects to the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln and it was worth every minute.

I also attended a reception for "Reagan Alumni" even though I never served in the White House. I met Ed Meese, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Bud McFarland, Jack Kemp, Ed Rollins and many others. It was first class all the way.

What a way to send off the greatest man of the last century!
- posted by KP @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004     |     

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On my way to the Reagan memorial on Capitol Hill. Hopefully back with photos tomorrow.
- posted by KP @ Thursday, June 10, 2004     |     

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Let Freedom Ring

Natan Sharansky expresses a sentiment that is hard to imagine in a world today where freedom is the norm and repressive regimes (North Korea, Iran, etc) are the exception:

In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an 'evil empire.' Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan's "provocation" quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth – a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us.

I still get chills thinking about fighting the Cold War and the will of President Reagan and his allies in support of freedom within the Soviet Union, Poland and elsewhere.
- posted by KP @ Monday, June 07, 2004     |     

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Ronald Reagan 1911-2004



We shall not look upon his like again...
- posted by KP @ Sunday, June 06, 2004     |     

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Is The Anti-War Movement Dead?

With John Kerry's rhetoric heating up to mimic Bill Clinton's foreign policy of "Speak Loudly but Carry a Small Stick," the anti-war movement doesn't seem to have a dog in this election fight. Well Ann Coultour identifies the death knell for that band of subversives who seem often more anti-USA than anti-war:

Before the war, Democrats were carping about the Bush administration's inability to predict the future and tell us everything that would happen in Iraq after the war. On MSNBC in September 2002, for example, Robert Menendez, D-N.J., was complaining that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld "didn't have an answer for what happens in a post-Saddam Iraq." But now liberals are acting as if the Bush administration said they knew exactly what would happen after liberating a country from a 30-year barbaric dictatorship – and got it wrong.

The good news is: Liberals' anti-war hysteria seems to have run its course. I base this conclusion on Al Gore's lunatic anti-war speech last week. Gore always comes out swinging just as an issue is about to go south. He's the stereotypical white guy always clapping on the wrong beat. Gore switched from being a pro-defense Democrat to a lefty peacenik – just before the 9-11 attack. He grew a beard – just in time for an attack on the nation by fundamentalist Muslims. He endorsed Howard Dean – just as the orange-capped Deaniacs were punching themselves out. Gore even went out and got really fat – just before America officially gave up carbs. This guy is always leaping into the mosh pit at the precise moment the crowd parts. Mark my words: Now that good old Al has come lunging in, the anti-war movement is dead.

There is always moving to France for that bunch!
- posted by KP @ Thursday, June 03, 2004     |     

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