Recommended links:

Annette R. Hall's response to Ben Stein's "Iraq is a quagmire" speech of 10/29/06.
(http://www.i-served.com/BenStein/BenStein.htm)

CIA REPORT: The Vietnam Collection (http://www.foia.cia.gov/nic_vietnam_collection.asp).
Over 170 estimative products on Vietnam have been declassified and were released in April, 2005. This collection, the largest such release to date and the first exclusively on Vietnam, covers the period 1948-1975. This collection of declassified estimative products is the first such release by the Central Intelligence Agency of documents exclusively on the Vietnam war. The National Intelligence Council (NIC) commissioned Lloyd Gardner, the renowned American scholar on the Vietnam war, to prepare an introductory essay providing historical context for the documents. This is the second such collection of declassified documents published by the National Intelligence Council. In October 2004 the Council published, Tracking the Dragon: National Intelligence Estimates on China During the Era of Mao, 1948-1976.

ChuckMuth.com (http://www.chuckmuth.com)

"Political action with an attitude." The good, the bad & the ugly. Liberal excesses. Conservative successes. Clowns to the Left. Jokers to the Right. Read all about it in Chuck Muth's FREE hard-hitting, no B.S., daily e-newsletter of current events and political goings-on you won't find in the "mainstream press."

Ann Coulter (http://www.anncoulter.com)

An outspoken and politically incorrect conservative, you'll either love her or hate her. She's the author of the best-selling books "Slander" and "Treason."

The Patriot Post (http://patriotpost.us/about/)

The Patriot Postis a highly acclaimed Internet-based journal advocating individual liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values.

FrontPage Magazine (http://www.frontpagemag.com/)

FrontPage features daily bulletins, columns by David Horowitz and Larry Elder, and constant updates on the ongoing crises of our day. David Horowitz's odyssey from '60s radical to cultural conservative is described in his autobiography, "Radical Son." He is the president of the conservative Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles and the editor of FrontPage Magazine. Larry Elder is the author of the newly-released The Ten Things You Can't Say in America. He is a libertarian talk show host, on the air from 3-7 pm Pacific time, on KABC Talk radio in Los Angeles.

Henry Holzer and Erika Holzer (http://www.henrymarkholzer.com)

The Holzer's book, "Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam," is a MUST READ. During the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda journeyed to Hanoi where she met with senior Communist civilian and military officials, held press conferences, toured sites of alleged bombing, "interviewed" American prisoners of war and, most important, made a series of propaganda broadcasts (tapes of which were incessantly played to our POWs). By examining Fonda's childhood motivations, her radicalization, her POW "audience," her activities in North Vietnam, and through a detailed analysis of the American law of treason, "Aid and Comfort" makes the case that more than sufficient evidence existed to indict and convict Jane Fonda for the crime of treason.

The Holzers' latest book, "Fake Warriors," is recommended reading. It reveals the true extent of, and damage caused by, the fake veteran problem in America. Veterans organizations are infested with these fakers. They show up everywhere, bragging about their made-up exploits, claiming awards and honors they never earned. They even fool their families. The Holzers explain the problem in detail, giving example after example, and describe how to expose these fakers and go after them using existing laws.

Rush Limbaugh (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com)
The king of talk radio.

Michelle Malkin (http://www.michellemalkin.com/) - check her website daily for important news and commentary!
Michelle Malkin began her career in newspaper journalism a decade ago as an editorial writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News. She continued at the Seattle Times in 1996. Her column, now syndicated by Creators Syndicate, appears in about 100 papers nationwide. Malkin has appeared on The McLaughlin Group, Hannity and Colmes, The O'Reilly Factor, and 20/20. She is currently a FOX News commentator. She is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Every American who cares about the safety and security of this country needs to read this book, and then put pressure on our elected officials. Our very survival is at stake.

Her latest book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror, "provides a radical departure from the predominant literature of civil liberties absolutism. It offers a defense of the most reviled wartime policies in American history: the evacuation, relocation, and internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II (three separate actions which are commonly lumped under the umbrella term "internment"). My book is also a defense of racial, ethnic, religious, and nationality profiling (widely differing measures that are commonly lumped under the umbrella term "racial profiling") now being taken or contemplated during today's War on Terror. I was compelled to write this book after watching ethnic activists, historians, and politicians repeatedly play the World War II internment card after the September 11 attacks. The Bush Administration's critics have equated every reasonable measure to interrogate, track, detain, and deport potential terrorists with the "racist" and "unjustified" World War II internment policies of President Roosevelt. To make amends for this "shameful blot" on our history, both Japanese-American and Arab/Muslim-American activists argue against any and all uses of race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion in shaping current homeland security policies. Misguided guilt about the past continues to hamper our ability to prevent future terrorist attacks."

National Rifle Association (www.nra.org)

"The right of the people to keep and bear … arms shall not be infringed. A well-regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country …" - James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789)

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samuel Adams, Founding Father

Overlawyered.com. (http://overlawyered.com)

Overlawyered.com explores an American legal system that too often turns litigation into a weapon against guilty and innocent alike, erodes individual responsibility, rewards sharp practice, enriches its participants at the public's expense, and resists even modest efforts at reform and accountability.

Partial Birth Abortion (http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/index.html)

If you want to make an informed decision about where you stand on this issue, but don't know exactly what a partial birth abortion procedure actually consists of. then visit this website.

Are you anti-abortion or pro-abortion?  (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929622/posts).

Read this article to affirm your choice. Note: just to be clear, Pro-choice means you approve of on-demand abortion.

Buzz Patterson (http://www.buzzpatterson.com)

Buzz Patterson is the author of the "New York Times" best-selling book "Dereliction of Duty: An Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security." He hopes that his new web site will be a vehicle for conservatives and those Americans keenly interested in our national security.

Sound Politics (http://www.soundpolitics.com)

Sound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound, and Washington State.

Swift Boat Vets for Truth (http://www.swiftvets.com)

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was formed to counter the false "war crimes" charges John Kerry repeatedly made against Vietnam veterans who served in our units and elsewhere, and to accurately portray Kerry's brief tour in Vietnam as a junior grade Lieutenant. We speak from personal experience -- our group includes men who served beside Kerry in combat as well as his commanders. Though we come from different backgrounds and hold varying political opinions, we agree on one thing: John Kerry misrepresented his record and ours in Vietnam and therefore exhibits serious flaws in character and lacks the potential to lead.

Thomas Sowell (http://www.tsowell.com/)

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. He writes on economics, history, social policy, ethnicity, and the history of ideas. His excellent and enlightening book, "The Vision of the Anointed," explains the difference between liberal and conservative thinking, and the consequences when either view dictates policy for society at large. If you want to know which one you truly are, read this book. Also highly recommended is his book, "Conquests and Cultures."

Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform (http://www.v-v-a-r.org)

Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform is a leading organization in the call for reform in higher and secondary education against speech codes, political correctness, multiculturalism, gender feminism, dormitory re-education, misinformation about the Vietnam War, and other instruments of academic oppression. Leonard Magruder is the Founder/President.

War on Terror: MAPS from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/)

All kinds of maps--country, city, detailed, thematic, historical, etc., all produced by the CIA. Fantastic reference source. Includes Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq. The site is updated regularly to reflect current events.

Walter Williams (http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/index.html)

Dr. Williams is a nationally syndicated columnist, author, teacher, speaker and social critic. His columns are renowned for their wit, clarity, and hard-hitting anti-statism. He is famous to millions of radio listeners as a popular substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh show. Books include, "The State Against Blacks: A Minority Viewpoint"; "All It Takes is Guts" (a collection of his columns); and "South Africa: The War Against Capitalism." He's also had numerous articles published in scholarly and popular journals. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, and is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

More Quotes:

"As long as I hold this office, I will never risk the lives of American citizens by assuming the good will of dangerous enemies." --President George W. Bush.

"...[T]he prewar debate [about the Iraq war] wasn't about whether Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapon, but how to keep him from getting one. He didn't. Mission accomplished.  It's no surprise that only circumstantial evidence of other weapons of mass destruction -- the chemical and biological kind -- have been found so far in Iraq. As Colin Powell told the United Nations back in February, Saddam's weapons programs were deliberately designed to avoid detection. Of course, they haven't been easy to detect. But it's not just George W. Bush that his critics are unhappy with. They're disappointed in the American people -- who don't seem much bothered by this president's decision to go to war and his determination to win it in short order. Any more than they blamed Franklin Roosevelt for developing a terrible weapon, or Harry Truman for using it. Even if, as it turned out, the threat of Hitler's having an atomic bomb was never imminent. Maybe the American people intuitively understand some things that reflexive critics of American presidents don't. Like the need to confront a growing danger before it becomes an imminent threat.... The administration's critics can't offer any realistic alternative to its worldwide offensive against terror. All they can propose is drift under some other name -- containment, multilateralism. Any high-sounding euphemism for inaction will do. They invite a devastation and call it peace. Once again the straw men multiply, arguing for drift over mastery, doubt over faith, for anything but action, risk, sacrifice, for anything but a forward strategy that takes this war to the enemy. Instead, the straw men just rustle in the wind." --Paul Greenberg (quote courtesy of The Federalist)

"In order for you and me to receive Social Security benefits, we have to pay taxes into the system for 10 years or 40 quarters. Those who come here from India on H-1B visas are allowed to work here for three years and get one three-year extension, for a total of six years -- but that's not 10 years! 'Totalization' is the bureaucratic buzzword to describe executive agreements to give foreigners employed in the United States Social Security benefits to which they are not entitled. A similar 'totalization' plan is now cooking in our State Department to give Social Security benefits to Mexican aliens, even if they are in our country illegally. Totalization makes sense only if you understand that the goal is to force U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the scandalous practice whereby multinational corporations hire cheap foreign labor to replace American workers.  This makes even better sense when you understand that the big contributors to politicians are corporations and their executives, not U.S. workers who are laid off... President Bush and members of Congress, are you listening?" --Phyllis Schlafly (quote courtesy of The Federalist.)

"You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing is worth dying for, when did this begin...? ...Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs?  Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain!"--Ronald Reagan.

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