Tomorrow (Wednesday, August 8, 2007) is a special mid-week edition of Political Pistachio Radio.  Our guest will be John Kanaley.  John is an Iraq War Veteran that actually voluntarily extended his tour so that he may serve in Baghdad.  In 2003 he served for Central Command in Qatar and Iraq; in 2004 John served with the Theater Support Command in Kuwait with additional assignments in Iraq; In 2005 he served in Baghdad with the Civil-Military Operations to assist with the Iraqi elections as well as serving as a Team Chief for future plans in Strategy, Plans, and Assessments (SPA) with Multi-National Forces, Iraq (MNFI).  His second tour ended in October 2006.  The seat in the 37th Congressional District in California is vacant due to the death of Juanita Millernder-McDonald, who lost her battle with cancer in April.  John Kanaley is campaigning as a Republican for the seat which will be decided by special election on August 21.  In addition to his military career he has also served in the Long Beach Police Department with 16 years of service.  His Army career spans over 22 years as active military, National Guard, and Reserves.  In the Army he is a Lieutenant Colonel.  His purpose for running for Congress, according to his site, is to add support in Congress for the War on Terror from somebody who served in Iraq, support the GOP in its effort to regain control of Congress in 2008, ensure the concerns of Long Beach, California are heard in Congress, make the tax cuts permanent, and promote business at all levels throughout his district.

Then on Saturday the wild and crazy (and great) Atlas Shrugs will grace us with her presence!  We will talk with her about her V-logs, her experiences with past guests on her Blog Talk Radio show (such as Mark Steyn, Tom DeLay, Robert Spencer, and so on), and about the War on Terror!  It will prove to be a fantastic broadcast - don’t miss Political Pistachio when Atlas Shrugs pays us a visit!

Governor Romney isn’t letting any moss grow beneath his PR feet.  Nicely done.

Isn’t this the kind of thing Ready Freddie was doing not all that long ago?

Hayley Elizabeth Petit, 1989-2007
Michaela Rose Petit, 1995-2007
Jennifer Lynn Hawke-Petit, 1958-2007
Dr. William Petit Jr.

“The two savages who broke into the home of a prominent physician and his family in Connecticut should never have been walking loose in a civilized society.

Doctor William Petit, a prominent endocrinologist, was brutally beaten with a baseball bat, tied up and thrown into the basement of the home while the burglars sexually assaulted his wife and 2 daughters.

Early the next morning, the doctor’s wife was forced to withdraw money from a local bank. When the animal got her back home the rape-torture continued. Ultimately, the wife was strangled and the daughters, who had been tied to their beds, were doused with gasoline and the house was torched.”

So writes Bob Weir in American Thinker, an online daily internet publication. Weir is a former detective sergeant in the New York City Police Department. He is the executive editor of The News Connection in Highland Village, Texas.

He joins us tonight on “A Conversation with Andrea and…” at 9 ET on Blog Talk Radio to explore why, when two men had been arrested more than 20 times for burglary, the justice system did not find a place to incarcerate them for the rest of their lives.

It’s a question that gets to the heart of anyone one of us. Could we be the next victims of criminals who are released because of overcrowded jails and a justice system with no teeth?

Join me tonight. Participate in the conversation in the LIVE CHAT ROOM. Click here to listen:

Just when he was starting to rebuild some momentum on fooling the GOP base, “America’s mayor” brick-spat this gaffe:

Do I have any plans on killing McCain Feingold? (laughter) Gee, why don’t you ask Senator McCain that? He knows more about McCain-Feingold… Let me tell you a few things. This is not personal at all, because I happen to be a very big admirer of Senator McCain. And I can tell you quite honestly that if I weren’t running for president, I would be here supporting him. In fact, if for some reason I made a decision not to run, he’d be my candidate. I really admire the man tremendously.

Anybody who’s surprised by this, stand on your head.  J-Ger is having nightmare (to me) visions of a Giuliani-McCain ticket if the former hornswaggles his way to the nomination.  This would be the most left-leaning GOP duo since Nixon-Agnew, and would, between the two of them, be on the wrong side of federal judge selection, abortion, free speech, gay rights, environmentalism, tax policy, war policy (i.e. jihadi prisoner interrogation) and immigration.

I rather doubt that McCain would settle for the veepancy, and I think Rudy would be shrewder than to thumb in the eye the base that just handed him the Party standard.  But then I would have thought him more discrete than to publicly flaunt such personal RINO sentiments, too.

The increasingly undeniable trend of left-wing autocracy that is driving the Democrat Party is emerging out into the open more than ever.  Is anybody outside the Collective taking note?

Woe unto a Western civilization unwilling, and increasingly unable, to defend itself if that prostration stampedes “moderate” Muslims into fully embracing the core tenets of their faith.

How excruciatingly ironic is it that George W. Bush is laying one of Armageddon’s cornerstones?

First question - where is Ezra Klein?

The news is out - Scott Beauchamp has declared himself a liar and a traitor. He admitted to lying about scenes that he wrote out for The New Republic detailing atrocious acts by war ravaged soldiers. He is a traitor because he took the honor of the soldiers around him and sold it for personal fame and international shame. And never doubt he meant to shame the military he was in - a double agent of sorts was he - dressed in fatigues so he could better mock the men and women around him.

But he is not alone - the left has a disturbing record of offering for the anti-war movement frauds and cowards - most of them earning their uniforms through the thrift store check out line. Remember Jimmy Massey? He wrote a book detailing American atrocities, replete with stories about trailers stuffed with Iraqi civilians and children murdered execution style. Journalists lapped it up, and America’s reputation was bloodied with unabashed glee replacing journalistic integrity. By the time he was proven to be a liar so much damage had already been done.

But then Cindy Sheehan arrived - prostituting the heroism of her son for ideological fame and ill fortune. Standing by her was special forces hero turned war protester Jesse Macbeth. He had come out with a movie that would “change your life.” The bodies piled up, a trail of blood leading to American boots and the senseless militarism that drove them. He stood on stage tearfully recounting the horrors he participated in, murdering and raping.

The left just knows that America is the villain in this otherwise peaceful world - look at the way they are framing the tragedy of Pat Tillman. They see no lunacy in the concept that George Bush would want to execute a man who might have a different opinion about the war than him. They assign the most depraved of motives to their ideological enemies, that’s why it was so easy for them to believe every one of these frauds. They want it to be true - they need it to be true.

But they can believe it all they want. All that can really be proven is that the left has become synonymous with fraud.

Ezra Klein - where are you?

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Political Vindication

EXTRA: Andrew Sullivan wrote on July 27 “First-person war-stories are always hard to verify beyond a shadow of a doubt, no? But if Malkin can’t dredge up something and fling it by now, no one can.”

PATHETIC: Franklin Foer from TNR said Friday “My magazine this last week has been subject of basically a smear job by the Weekly Standard and a lot of the conservative blogosphere over a piece that we published from a soldier in Iraq, which we have gone back and re-reported and it turned out to be aside from one mistake to be the case and I just wish that there was, and this sounds like a trite mainstream media criticism, but that those in the blogosphere who kind of move from one reckless allegation to another reckless allegation for once apologize when they get something wrong.”