I love reading the Blogs that I monitor everyday, but sometimes it’s good to go back to what got me interested in political commentary in the first place, Townhall.com. Checking out the columnists’ articles for the past week brings to the front these gems:

In Michelle Malkin’s article at Townhall.com she comments on the fall of Michael Jackson and the rise of Snoop Dog.

Every one of Snoop’s albums during the last 13 years has gone platinum. He has been nominated for two Grammy awards this month and is currently on a nationwide concert tour. The gang-banging, crack-dealing, pot-smoking ex-convict has graduated from making gangsta rap and porn videos to video games, MTV specials, a best-selling autobiography, several cameo movie appearances and executive producing and starring in his own family-oriented feature film (“Coach Snoop”).

Snoop’s got his own youth football league. On Saturday, the first youth league “Snooperbowl” is scheduled in Jacksonville, Fla. (The last time Snoop made news with youths was when he settled out of court with two teenage girls who claimed he broke a promise not to use a photo of them baring their breasts for his “Girls Gone Wild” porn flick.) He’s even got his own 12-inch doll, “Snoopafly,” which is “loved by everyone from the kids on the scene to the grandmas.”

Only in America could a cop-hating former crack dealer transmogrify into an intergenerational plastic party toy (complete with “Doggystyle” clothes). And only in America would a music reporter fawn over that lovable figure’s lyrics threatening to kill police officers. …

The lesson of Jacko and Snoop Dogg’s America is not that this nation is too intolerant, but that it is not nearly intolerant enough.

Dennis Prager gives his take on those that can, and cannot distinguish between “good and evil”.

“Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing.” — Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005

It took a Polish rescuer of Jews in the Holocaust, cited this week 60 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and death camp, to best describe those people who cannot or refuse to know the difference between good and evil. They are “worth nothing.” …

Since the 1960s, with few exceptions, on the greatest questions of good and evil, the Left has either been neutral toward or actively supported evil. The Left could not identify communism as evil; has been neutral toward or actually supported the anti-democratic pro-terrorist Palestinians against the liberal democracy called Israel; and has found it impossible to support the war for democracy and against an Arab/Muslim enemy in Iraq as evil as any fascist the Left ever claimed to hate. …”

Mark Tapscott gives chilling insight into government practices of letting illegal aliens that have been convicted of serious crimes go after they have served their time.

By law, illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes — rape, murder, child molestation — are to be deported once they’ve served their jail terms. But lately, thousands of them have simply been let go. And Justice Department officials have refused to release a government database that could help journalists and private citizens find these aliens.

No one knows exactly how many of these criminals there are nationwide, but Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau journalists Eliot Jaspin and Julia Malone examined Georgia state prison records in 2002 and found numerous cases like convicted pedophile Miguel Angel Gordoba. He served a four-year sentence for molesting a 2-year-old girl in Alma, Ga., then disappeared following his release.

Suzanne Fields writes about Hillary Clinton:

Hillary Clinton changes images with the quickness of Madonna. Like the Queen of Pop, she provokes and reacts, rethinks and reforms, pushes at hot buttons and then cools off with a dip in the mainstream.

Madonna moved from “Like a Virgin” to “Married With Children,” and began writing children’s books. Hillary went from high-octane lawyer in Little Rock who didn’t want to stay home to bake cookies to being a first lady sharing her recipe for chocolate chip cookies. She went from standing by her man in a way that Tammy Wynette might have sung about, to standing up for New York in the United States Senate.

Both Madonna and Hillary have made a lot of stops that women understand. Madonna, who was born Catholic, now seeks meaning in the Jewish mysticism of the Kabala, and has even taken a Jewish name: Esther. Hillary never abandoned the Methodist social gospel, and now she’s making noises that fall lightly on the ears of the evangelical swing voters who were turned off by John Kerry’s tinny attempt to talk about “values.” … “

And to wrap it up tonight, there is always Doug Giles with a hard-core Christian’s viewpoint on whatever he happens to be commenting on, today that would be the 2nd Amendment guaranteed “Right to Bear Arms”!

Our Constitution is currently under a greater threat than a teenaged boy at a Michael Jackson sleepover. Yes, this rock solid foundational document, a major cause of our country’s amazing success, is undergoing some serious thrashing by judges, bureaucrats, politicians, prosecutors and police. I don’t know about you … but I do not like the fact that the very people who should uphold our rights are stretching them thinner than Fiona Apple on a rack.

One of the basic human rights that constantly has to be defended is the right to keep and bear arms. Why did the original founders of this great American experiment toss this given, no-duh, entitlement into the Constitution? Well … it wasn’t so that we would be guaranteed that we could hunt squirrels and woodchucks without serving time, as great as that is. It was for the purpose of defending ourselves against perps when the cops are running a little late, and for the purpose of protecting ourselves against the government should the system go south. …

Listen … Pollyanna … it’s a bad bad day and the potential beginning of a serious nightmare when the government forbids you to buy, or tries to take from you, your weapon. …

I’m ready for the lion to lay down with the lamb; however, in this waiting period between now and when Xanadu actually manifests, I’m not giving up my right to keep and bear arms while looking solely to the government to cover my back. Our framers got it right: armed people are free people. As much as I laud, appreciate, and look to our Constitution-honoring soldiers and law enforcers to serve and protect me and my house, I also know it is my right and my duty to be packed, stacked and ready to whack just in case things get loopy. “

Conservative thought is diverse, alive and well. Conservatives believe in the individual, and the power of freedom. Long live the “Power of Freedom!” (db)

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