Kudos to MediaMan 3000 and Adrion Baird for being the first to comment on my new Blog. Thank you both.

To MediaMan:
Yes, obviously Bush will want to continue his administration's current policies by implanting a like-minded clone, but who do you think it will be? Frist and Delay both look too tainted to try, so who does that leave?

To Adrion:
Specter made his pronouncement in reference to the Democrats' incessant complaining about the NSA's domestic spying initiative. As in, "Well, then do something about it, implement impeachment hearings. Just quit all your whining." It didn't get a lot of coverage outside the DC area although the McLaughlin Group did discuss it. Acording to John McLaughlin, Specter did it so as to say, "Well, if I can't be at the head of the NSA investigations, then I'm out here, free to comment as I wish."

Today's Mack Attack is aimed at The Bruin Alumni Association, a neo-conservative Republican group, who according to the Los Angeles Times, was offering students of UCLA payments of up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are "abusive, one-sided or off-topic" in advocating political ideologies, i.e left-leaning sermonizers.
The year-old Bruin Alumni Assn. says its "Exposing UCLA's Radical Professors" initiative takes aim at faculty "actively proselytizing their extreme views in the classroom, whether or not the commentary is relevant to the class topic." Although the group says it is concerned about radical professors of any political stripe, it has named an initial "Dirty 30" list of teachers it identifies with left-wing or liberal causes. College professors are being spied upon to make sure what they are saying fits into a regimented, agreed-upon criteria. If not, they are being "listed."
Although today's (1-24-06) LA Times says that BAA claims the payments will stop because they have now become a "distraction to the real problem" because of media attention, 24-year-old Andrew Jones--the group's founder and President-- says his group will continue, using volunteers.
Now I ask you, is this not the clearest example of "Big-Brotherism" meets "HUAC-ism" that you have heard in a while? That is to say, outside of our own government's activities since 2001?
The way I see it, the two are inextricably linked. When respected entities such as the government of the United States can get away with one human rights violation after another to satisfy its own agenda, surely others will take notice and feel free to try and do the same for their own twisted agendas.
Is it just me, or is the very fabric of our liberties and freedoms unraveling before our eyes?
Is this a slippery slope that is gaining momentum?
Let's hear what you have to say.