No More Tears

No more tears for Hillary Clinton after pulling off a win in the New Hampshire Primary, narrowly defeating Barack Obama. She says she found her own voice. She cried before the primary, some say because of the defeat at the hands of Obama in Iowa, and some say because she is seriously fearful of a direction this country may take if the White House is once again in the hands of the Republicans. Question is, did she truly win? People forget that it's all about the delegates, and even though Hillary won the percentage of the vote, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton walked away from New Hampshire with the same number of delegates: 9.

No more tears for Fred Thompson supporters after tonight's GOP debate in South Carolina. Thompson was the clear winner, acting for the first time during his candidacy as if this election needs to be won with fire and animated conviction. A wrap up of tonight's debate, with me on the panel of bloggers and blog talk radio hosts, is archived on Ed Morrissey's (of Captains Quarters Blog) Debate Central Radio Show.

No more tears for the Palestinians as President Bush continues to call for Israel to make deals with terrorists (specifically Hamas). Bush has called for painful political concessions by Israel in order to allow the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state that would, of course, be nothing less than yet another hostile neighboring state to Israel. How many times must Israel give up land in search of peace that will never occur?

No more tears for Iran as they have once again gotten away with testing the U.S. military without repercussions. The recent confrontation between five speed boats of Iranian origin, and U.S. Navy vessels brought to mind memories of the USS Cole attack on October 12, 2000. Next time, the harassing boats may be loaded down with explosives.

No more tears from the Mitt Romney camp if he pulls off a win in the Michigan primary on January 15th. But should Romney be worried? Is his campaign in trouble if he loses this early in the quest for delegates? People, let us not forget that this is not just about the states, but the primaries and caucuses are also about delegates. Even with only one win out of the first three states Romney holds the lead for the most delegates, and it is the number of delegates that is important to win the bid for representing the Republican Party in the 2008 election for president. This sudden worry that seems to be going around about Mitt needing to win is a media influenced idea that fails to realize that Mitt Romney, or any other candidate, is not dead until the final pitch in the ninth inning, or at least after the onslaught of 25 primaries and caucuses on Super Tuesday (February 5, 2008). However, though Michigan, or any other state may not make or break Romney's candidacy due to the point I just made, South Carolina on January 26th seems to be very important in ways nobody understands - after all, no Republican has ever won his party’s nomination without carrying South Carolina.

No more tears for gun owners in San Francisco after the National Rifle Association won a case in the California State Court of Appeals. The court announced today that it will overturn one of the most restrictive bans in the country following a legal battle that is now a big win for law-abiding citizens who privately own weapons.

No more tears for those that will be adversely affected by Global Warming because, whether it is man-made or not, the warming trend is over. That's right, among all of the other erroneous predictions made by Al Gore and his Church of Global Warming, a researcher at Russia's oceanology institute says that global warming has peaked, and now Earth is heading into a cooling period. Makes me wonder about Gore's possible next film: An Inconvenient Snow Job.

No more tears for Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Mount Everest, because today he died. He was 88 years of age.


And finally, if you missed the last two episodes of Political Pistachio Radio, check out the archives. The shows were about The Separation of Church and State (or at least that's how the show began) with guest Caday5 (a commenter on my Townhall Site), and tonight's show was about the U.S. Constitution with fellow bloggers and BTR hosts Loki and Brian (the Uncooperative Blogger) Bonner.