Jan Ireland column
Jan Ireland is a freelance writer whose work is widely posted on the internet. She receives mail at janireland@hushmail.com.
Jan Ireland
November 6, 2004
In trying ever more desperately to throw the 2004 presidential election to John Kerry, America's mainstream media blatantly revealed corruption and a hidden . . .
Jan Ireland
September 22, 2004
Missing from the major headlines today is the story of Foster Barton and a peace protestor. Perhaps the mainstream media is reluctant to examine the subject. . . .
Jan Ireland
September 9, 2004
Democrats are doing with stem cell research, what they often do just before elections — slickly presenting an emotional, poorly understood issue to make . . .
Jan Ireland
September 3, 2004
Not so long ago Tom Daschle took every opportunity to label President George Bush a "miserable failure." With big blue boards and little regard for accuracy . . .
Jan Ireland
September 2, 2004
Kerry supporters have strained credulity, not to mention the First Amendment, in the entire last year with unrelenting attacks on President George Bush, . . .
Jan Ireland
August 14, 2004
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Barack Obama's keynote speech at the Democrat national convention recently was the crest of a wave. A judge's decision to make his former . . .
Jan Ireland
August 9, 2004
Teresa Heinz Kerry married astronomical wealth, and less than a decade ago John Kerry married her.
They are now trying to buy the presidency of the United . . .
Jan Ireland
July 29, 2004
In the funny papers, the Peanuts strip character Pig Pen goes from frame to frame with a dark cloud hanging over his head.
For several months the John Kerry . . .
Jan Ireland
July 23, 2004
Many Democrats say the Republican Party has nothing to offer blacks in America. They are either misinformed or deliberately lying.
Black Republican Vernon . . .
Jan Ireland
July 15, 2004
The world thought communism had heard its death knell in 1987 when President Ronald Reagan exhorted "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Communism as the world . . .
Jan Ireland
July 6, 2004
The Bush tax cuts enabled America to climb out of the Clinton recession despite the financial devastations of 9/11 and stock market downturns. Ten straight . . .
Jan Ireland
June 23, 2004
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," warned philosopher George Santayana.
Islamic jihad or terrorism occurred a thousand years ago, . . .
Jan Ireland
June 15, 2004
Michael Moore has found distributors for his film Fahrenheit 9/11 after Disney declined to allow their Miramax Division to handle it. Lions Gate Films and IFC . . .
Jan Ireland
June 5, 2004
"Leadership is a great burden. We grow weary of it at times. ...But if we are not to shoulder the burdens of leadership in the free world, then who will? The . . .
Jan Ireland
June 4, 2004
The Pew survey of American journalists recently publicly revealed a liberal bias in much of the nation's media. That bias has been apparent for decades to many . . .
Jan Ireland
May 20, 2004
We've all used the "I never got your email" excuse, or the "I don't reveal where I live" security dodge. To avoid hurt feelings, we've trashed unwanted emails, . . .
Jan Ireland
May 15, 2004
After a few surreal weeks of waiting, we now know that the United States Supreme Court will not contravene clerks in Massachusetts from issuing marriage . . .
Jan Ireland
May 14, 2004
"Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire."
Dweeb. Acquisitor. Celebrity-fawner. Revenge-seeker. Motive-hider. Dirt-spreader. Bill Clinton-protector. Bill Clinton . . .
Jan Ireland
May 13, 2004
Unspeakable.
Muslim extremists in the Middle East use "Allah Akhbar" (God is Great) as the phrase of choice when beheading in the name of God in public — as in . . .
Jan Ireland
April 30, 2004
Words so often reveal more than the writer intends, and truth can find its way out of the craftiest planted propaganda.
Puerto Rico and the University of . . .
Jan Ireland
April 20, 2004
Children are the least among us, and unborn children the least of those.
To continue abortion in America, liberals must be willing to deny or forget that . . .
Jan Ireland
March 31, 2004
Yet another mother is on trial for killing her children. Again in Texas a woman who gave birth to and nurtured her children for a time has become their killer. . . .
Jan Ireland
March 28, 2004
Democrats have come to expect that Republicans will "wimp out" in directly confronting lies and obfuscations.
Richard Clarke, nominal Republican but Democrat . . .
Jan Ireland
March 26, 2004
Self defense is a right given to humanity by God. Because it is a right, it cannot be taken away by man, state, country, or the United Nations. But it can be . . .
Jan Ireland
March 22, 2004
Clinton administration officials are fighting tooth and nail to fashion history's view of their handling of the terrorism threat for eight years. But with . . .
Jan Ireland
March 21, 2004
For years conservatives have been urged to write Letters to the Editor to counteract the bias printed every week in local newspapers across America. But only . . .
Jan Ireland
March 19, 2004
When the British government took away all guns from law abiding citizens in 1997, they said it was for a safer England. The preceding first step of gun . . .
Jan Ireland
March 4, 2004
Half a million Californians have to overcome the feeling that there is no hope left for sanity in their state.
That's the number of additional verifiable . . .
Jan Ireland
March 2, 2004
Black History Month 2004 has just passed. I looked all month for national recognition of conservative blacks. I found very little.
Secretary of State Colin . . .
Jan Ireland
February 20, 2004
A beautiful wrenching poem, composed by a writer friend, was posted in what should have been friendly territory. Someone who called herself a Republican posted . . .
Jan Ireland
February 18, 2004
A tiny little situation in Indiana right now brings up an unresolved question. Do democrats mind the law? Depends on what the definition of "mind" is.
There . . .
Jan Ireland
February 12, 2004
The Drudge Report is reporting that John F. Kerry, democrat presidential candidate flavor of the moment, allegedly had a recent affair with a young intern. . . .
Jan Ireland
February 9, 2004
Freedom took it on the chin in Wisconsin recently when democrat state legislator Gary Sherman switched his vote at the last minute. Set to break a 130 year ban . . .
Jan Ireland
January 30, 2004
Liberals fear schoolchildren in America reciting the Pledge of Allegiance each day. They say they object to the under God phrase, the jingoistic nationalism, . . .
Jan Ireland
January 19, 2004
A lot of readers let me know by email that they objected to being called RINOs. Of course, they must not have realized they were self-identifying by doing so, . . .
Jan Ireland
January 13, 2004
The idea that the Constitution requires a separation of church and state has reached urban myth status in America. Democrats, liberals, atheists, secular . . .
Jan Ireland
January 12, 2004
Our government is literally unable to tell us how many illegal aliens are in our country at this moment. More than two years after 9-11, our borders are still . . .
Jan Ireland
January 3, 2004
God has been a problem for marxists, communists, socialists, and atheists for millennia, but especially so since the founding of America. These liberals have . . .
Jan Ireland
December 30, 2003
Those who can, write. Many who wish they could write, but cannot, blog. A lot of liberals blog. And many of those, like teenagers pushing parental limits, . . .
Jan Ireland
December 19, 2003
First you feel the rumble. It's far off and indistinct, but it gets your attention. It's out of the ordinary. Experience tells you that it's likely to become . . .
Jan Ireland
December 18, 2003
Porcupine RINOs swish their tails a bit, if you do something irritating. But heaven help you if you actually make them mad, because they're apt to shoot the . . .
Jan Ireland
December 12, 2003
There are Baby RINOs and Bold RINOs, and their bites range from nippy to gnarly. These Republicans in Name Only periodically attach themselves to groups within . . .
Jan Ireland
December 8, 2003
To launch the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known, America's Founding Fathers must have possessed freedom in their very DNA. But nature . . .
Jan Ireland
December 5, 2003
Trying to listen to their own voice as they speak gives them away. Trying to think, if someone gets them off-script, shoots them down. These Babes salivate at . . .
Jan Ireland
December 4, 2003
They are soldiers, though not in the conventional sense. Immediately identifiable, they are not. The façade is just like you, but they are really the enemy at . . .
Jan Ireland
November 26, 2003
What do you do if everything you stand for is a lie, and that gets found out? Anti-gun organizations often just rename themselves, and declare they're . . .
Jan Ireland
November 24, 2003
In a sort of reverse number logic, it is the Second Amendment that actually provides for the First Amendment and all other freedoms that Americans enjoy. Gun . . .
Jan Ireland
November 20, 2003
Democrat gun control advocates have, pardon the pun, shot themselves in the foot at the polls many times, by trying to foist dangerous and ineffective gun laws . . .
Jan Ireland
November 19, 2003
Were the subject matter not so serious, I would freely admit that I've enjoyed some mighty chuckles recently, occasioned by the veritably cascading leaks coming . . .
Jan Ireland
November 16, 2003
Spin is a word that used to have to do with a top. The strongest workout it got was from a child who wanted to make the top more exciting by blending its . . .
Jan Ireland
November 10, 2003
Decades separated the two events that caused the world to utter the words 'Never Again.'
Six million Jews unimaginably persecuted and murdered, occasioned the . . .
Jan Ireland
October 24, 2003
How did an organization whose very name suggests a moral stance, come to hire as its director a woman like Patricia Ireland? The YWCA knew that she was . . .
Jan Ireland
October 16, 2003
Increasingly overreaching rulings from activist judges in recent years, suggests that public schools are inadequately teaching the constitutional makeup of our . . .
Jan Ireland
October 5, 2003
Liberals are approaching the Constitution of the United States as if it were a menu item. They want to order a la carte (do please pardon the French reference) . . .
Jan Ireland
September 29, 2003
I visualize the ACLU lawyers sputtering, as soon as they read that title. Like a vampire reacting to the Cross, I'd expect them to shield themselves from the . . .
Jan Ireland
September 25, 2003
Congressman Bill Young (R-Florida) informed his House colleagues early in September about certain Americans receiving bills for food they ate while they were in . . .
Jan Ireland
September 22, 2003
Though he is ignominiously gone from the physical building, it seems the New York Times may still be channeling Jayson Blair. The fired reporter's manipulation . . .
Jan Ireland
September 17, 2003
Like the snake in the Garden of Eden, political correctness has its wily defenses. It isn't considered politically correct to challenge the origins or efficacy . . .
Jan Ireland
September 14, 2003
Socialist Linda Averill said potential government surveillance or harassment by anti-socialists necessitated keeping her political donors secret. The Federal . . .
Jan Ireland
September 9, 2003
Ogres are after America's children. There are several — outwardly pleasant, almost-earnest to a fault, clothed in the guise of liberal progressive thinking. . . .
Jan Ireland
September 4, 2003
What do American convicted murderer Paul Hill and Islamic bomber-murderer Raed Abdel-Hamed Masq have in common? There is the obvious, that both are murderers, . . .
Jan Ireland
September 2, 2003
Much of the country needs a constitutional lesson, and they need it quickly. The state of Alabama has become ground zero for a constitutional fight, the . . .
Jan Ireland
August 26, 2003
Watch out for a couple of lulus of bad news events in the near future, because the first of what is said to always come in threes just sidled in unexpectedly on . . .
