Denial is supposed to be a river that runs through Egypt; now-a-days, it has supplanted the Potomac and is flowing right through the U.S. Capitol.

Mrs. Clinton’s burgeoning fundraising scandals are like a trip down memory lane; and their endgame will probably be a re-run as well.

Wanna see true stories about our men & women in harm’s way (i.e. tales that don’t depict them as brainless children or murderous psychopaths)?  The path starts here.

Evidently, the Democrats’ slavish devotion to civil liberties ends where their universal health care ambitions begin.  Will the same jackboot be trod upon captured jihadis?  Oh, right, silly me, they’ll have turned them all loose - which, come to think of it, won’t be very conducive to Americans’ health.

Unions are obsolete, which is why their power continues to wane.  Unions are also hard-left, which is why Big Labor is relentlessly trying to regain that power, by any means necessary.

  Does anyone else have a problem with Fred Thompson announcing his candidacy for president on the Jay Leno Tonight Show? Rush Limbaugh today said it seems like we degrade the presidency by making such an announcement part of the pop culture. I agree. Do you?

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Tonight on “A Conversation with Andrea and…” (streamed on the internet at Blog Talk Radio at 9 p.m. ET) I’ll be talking with Cliff Kincaid, veteran journalist and president of America’s Survival, Inc. He also edits the Accuracy in Media Report.

We’ll be talking about the controversial United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) treaty.

With the U.S. Senate set to consider the “stealth treaty” in September, opposition is growing.

Kincaid contends that the treaty constitutes a historic transfer of American sovereignty to the United Nations that will cause irreparable harm to American interests. He’s leading a grassroots movement to educate citizens about the dangers of this treaty with hopes of persuading the U.S. Senate to reject the treaty.

“The Law of the Sea Treaty will make American sovereignty obsolete, undermine America’s ability to compete for precious natural resources, impose an international tax on Americans, and transfers military duties to the United Nations. This treaty will sell out American interests. The Senate had better give this treaty a second look before it’s too late,” Kincaid says. Hit the button below to listen. Chat Room here.

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Our friends at Move America Forward are on the road with a cross country “Fight For Victory” caravan taking them from the West Coast, culminating at the huge “Let Our Troops Win” pro-troop rally set for Saturday, 9/15 in Washington, DC. Thousands are expected to participate in that event, including our nation’s veterans — true Eagles.

Day One of Move America Forward’s Fight for Victory pro-troop road trip began yesterday in Carson City, NV with a rally that featured California Congressman and Presidential Candidate Duncan Hunter (who joined us on The Andrea Shea King Show last Sunday night and the Sunday before) delivering the kick-off speech.

MAF chairman Melanie Morgan and vice chairman Buzz Patterson spoke, as did Blue Star Mom Deborah Johns and Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee. There’s a terrific blog with pics about the morning’s event at Move America Forward’s website, where a daily log about the great adventure will be posted.

Today they roll into Modesto CA before heading on to pro-troop rally stops in Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego. The complete route includes 27 planned rallies as the caravan travels across, up, and east to DC.

We’ll be watching the caravan’s progress this week. This Sunday night on my radio program, we’ll get a progress report from the “Let Our Troops Win” Rally organizer Kristinn Taylor, who’s likely juggling a fire extinguisher in one hand and a cell phone in the other as he puts the final touches on the Sept. 15th event. So much to do, so little time. American patriots all. Speaking of patriots, here are the ruminations of another one.

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So Hillary and her two-headed Washington Generals have signed on to “punish” the Michigan and Florida Democrat Parties by promising not to campaign there if they stampede their primaries to before the birth of Christ on the Gregorian campaign calendar against the direct orders of the DNC.

Well, I gotta say, I still don’t understand from whence cometh all the fuss about being first.  I thought the race was for the presidential nominations, not to see which state can be first to turn the two-year presidential election marathon into an unbearable perpetual media treadmill (akin to George Jetson’s) that will start making a return to the British monarchy look attractive.  I’ve read all the prooffered reasons and it still makes no sense to me.  Kind of like junior high school boys locker room shower “contests”.  Like we needed to turn the nominating process into a fusillade of competing state elbow drops to put over the axiom that puerility and rationality are rarely seen in the same zip code.

So why did the Big One and her two tomato cans do it?  Two wedded reasons: (1) Hillary needs Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina before she needs Michigan and Florida; and (2) by the time she does need Michigan and Florida, this several-state slapfest will have long disappeared from the rear-view mirror.

Really, are Dems in those crucial swing states actually going to take a walk on their nominee next November because she didn’t sign off on their civic penis-envy ten months earlier?

Besides, if this primary chaos has gotten so bad as to trigger divine intervention, well….If you can’t trust a level-headed, down-to-Earth fellow like Bill Richardson, who CAN you trust?

Color me skeptical that the purchase of a thirty-second ad spot during tomorrow’s GOP primary debate in New Hampshire is going to be the “shrewd move” that Ed thinks it’ll be.  The time for clever-but-evasive gimmickry as efficacious campaign strategy has passed.  Two months ago FDT would have overshadowed a GOP debate with this sort of thing (like he did with that video backhanding Michael Moore).  Now the likely reaction will be, “So what?  He wasn’t at the debate.  That’s all that matters.”

If the Thompson proto-campaign were a pro wrestling match, the protagonists would still be circling each other waiting to hook up five minutes after the bell, and the crowd would be chanting “BORING!  BORING!”  Enough, already. 

To borrow another analogy, let’s see more strip and less tease.  That’s why, as far as Fred is concerned, Thursday and thereafter will matter far more than his cameo tomorrow night.

UPDATE: Yes, I saw Ed’s follow-up post.  I heartily agree that these so-called “debates” are little more than the political equivalent of “reality TV”.  My dissent from the “shrewd move” argument has nothing to do with the debasement of political discourse by the moronification of popular culture, and everything to do with the galloping staleness of “Ready Freddie’s” distended coyness.

To employ still another aphorism, one can only take so much foreplay before consummation capability begins to wane.  Whether the latter includes the donning of a chicken head with antlers is irrelevant.