John McCain: Person of the Week

Age: 71

Birthplace: Coco-Solo, Panama Canal Zone (then U.S. Territory)

Claim To Fame: senior U.S. Senator from Arizona

Why He's Person of the Week: for his emergence as the GOP primary front-runner which includes his surprising victory this past week in Florida, a state many so-called "experts" didn't give him a chance to win. Managing to overcome conservatives and right-wing pundits who've bashed him left and right for holding non-conservative positions on issues like campaign finance reform and global warming, McCain's tenacity and ability to appeal to moderates and independents is working wonders in the primaries (mind you, the only primaries that Mitt Romney has won were those where he went virtually unchallenged). And now with endorsements from both Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the McCain momentum doesn't seem to be derailing anytime soon. To think it was only a couple of months ago that McCain's campaign was barely being taken seriously and now even Billary and Barack are already laying claim that he'll be the Republican opponent come election time.

Tony Dungy: Person of the Week

Age: 52

Birthplace: Jackson, Michigan

Claim To Fame: Head coach of Indianapolis Colts

Why He's Person of the Week: for assertively making the proclamation that his faith played a huge role in his decision to return as football coach of the Indianapolis Colts Thursday. Said Dungy:

On Monday, the deeply religious Dungy, who has published a memoir on how his Christian faith has affected him on and off the field, said he felt coaching was the best pulpit for his message.

"I enjoy my job, the players, the staff we have here and Bill (Polian) and Jim," Dungy told reporters. "But it is a platform and that's something I talked to my wife and pastor about. I said 'I could stop and start a ministry, but I might not have a platform like this.'"

"I look at this as a job," he said, "but I also look at it as a ministry ... I might not have as effective a ministry as I have right now."

Dungy, a highly successful coach who just won a Super Bowl last year, has been derided in the past by the liberal press for his openly Christian views, but thank goodness that hasn't held back from expressing how he feels. Granted, even the recent hardship of losing his son hasn't dented Dungy's faith. And by teaching character, humility, giving thanks to God instead of themselves and the importance of family.to his players, Tony Dungy has proven to be a great leader that the Colts are very fortunate to have as their head coach for at least another year.

Person of the Week: Dianne Feinstein

Age: 74

Birthplace: San Francisco, CA

Claim To Fame: Democrat Senator from California since 1992, first & only female mayor of San Francisco

Why She's Person of the Week: for choosing common sense over anti-Bush, left-wing zealotry. In casting her vote in favor of Michael Mukasey as the new Attorney General, Feinstein took a big risk in turning her back to her party's "Bush is Evil" wing. Feinstein was one of two Democrats on the Judiciary committee to vote for Mukasey's nomination, a huge hurdle that would later clear the way for Mukasey to become the country's 81th Attorney General, filling a spot cowardly vacated by Alberto Gonzales.

Not that there should've been any debate about Mukasey's nomination in the first place, because he is certainly qualified for the position of AG and considering all how demoralized the U.S. Justice Department has been of late, its long been in dire need of a leader. But liberal Democrats beholden to groups with blind hatred for anything Bush, tried to use the issue of waterboarding as a means to vote against Mukasey. Not that Mukasey supports waterboarding (which he himself referred to as "repugnant"), just that he refused to say if it was illegal which was his right. Mind you, despite international bans on waterboarding as a torture tactic, the U.S. Congress itself hasn't even voted to say it it illegal, but idiot liberals like Ted Kennedy demanded that Mukasey condemn it.

Feinstein said she was voting for Mukasey because "Mukasey has forged an independent path as a lawyer and federal judge. He has presided over 1,600 cases in almost 19 years on the bench. He has extensive experience on national security cases — Judge Mukasey's answers to hundreds of questions were crisp and to the point, and reflected an independent mind. That's why I intend to vote to confirm him to be our next attorney general. I truly believe he will be a strong advocate for the American people." Good to see a Democrat putting the interests of our people first instead of the interests of the loony Left.

Person of the Week: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Age: 60

Birthplace: Thal bei Graz, Steiermark, Austria

Claim To Fame: actor, legendary bodybuilder and Governor of California

Why He's Person of the Week: for keeping his promise and vetoing yet another attempt by liberals to get a gay marriage bill passed in California. The Governor turned down a measure by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would have lifted the state's ban on same-sex marriages. Leno tried the same stunt in 2005 despite the fact that California voters, via Proposition 22, have long made it clear that they don't want same-sex marriage.

Schwarzenegger announced back in February that he would veto this year's version if it reached his desk and said last month that he would keep turning down such bills as long as lawmakers kept sending them to him. “It would be wrong for the people to vote for something and for me to then overturn it,” Schwarzenegger said in September, referring to voters' approval of Proposition 22 in 2000. “So they can send this bill down as many times as they want, I won't do it.”

Proposition 22 was intended to prevent California from recognizing gay marriages performed in other states or countries. Props to Governor Schwarzenegger for doing what's right and keeping his word, something pretty rare for a politician.

Person of the Week: Rob Marciano

Age: ----

Hometown: ----

Claim To Fame: News and weather anchor for CNN.

Why He's Person of the Week: For standing up to Al Gore's Global Terrorists this past week. Unlike Gore, Marciano is a real meteorologist, in other words, he's a professional student of weather who holds a bachelor's degree in meteorology from Cornell University and has the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval.

On Thursday, Marciano showed that he's not going to let some has-been, ex-VP tell him about his expertise. So after his network CNN reported that a British judge called Al Gore "An Inconvenient Truth" unfit for schools "because it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies and sentimental mush," Marciano responded with applause. First declaring "finally, finally," Marciano then commented sarcastically that "the Oscars, they give out awards for fictional films as well." Marciano also said that he objected in particular to "Inconvenient Truth"'s claim that global warming causes stronger hurricanes, noting that the current hurricane season has only been average. “There are definitely some inaccuracies,” Marciano added during the broadcast. “The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming.”

Thanks to the judge British schools may now have to preface any showing of Gore's film with a warning. Props to Marciano and the judge for showing some guts in the face of liberal global warming propaganda.

Person of the Week: Bob Barker

Age: 83

Birthplace: Darrington, Washington

Claim To Fame: longtime host of the longest running daytime game show in television history, "The Price Is Right"

Why He's This Week's Person of the Week: because after 35 years of hosting "The Price Is Right", today he's finally hanging up his skinny microphone for good. Yet, or me, this is sad news because as a kid I literally grew up on "The Price Is Right", a show that taught me more about finance and capitalism than anything I ever learned in elementary school. And the always dapper Bob Barker was one of my favorite teachers, expertly segueing from enthusiastically giving away another new car to consoling losers who just couldn't guess the right price on that box of Kraft Macaroni and Noodles. No one could do it better.

Yet, Barker’s achievements outside of "The Price Is Right" are just as impressive as his longtime tenure on the show. He went to Drury College on a basketball scholarship, graduated summa cum laude, served as a fighter pilot in the Navy during World War II, married his high-school sweetheart, has a black belt in martial arts, was a fervent supporter of animal rights, a vegetarian since 1979 and in 1987 he famously embraced his gray hair and stopped using hair dye (many years later Jeopardy host Alex Trebek would follow his lead). Granted, Barker was far from perfect (as the many lawsuits filed by a variety of "Barker Beauties" can attest), but he sure did look the part.

If you grew up a fan of "The Price Is Right" like I did then don't miss Barker's last show which will air in its usual spot during the daytime and later on in the evening. Word has it that CBS will also run a highlight show with Barker reminiscing about his past 35 years on the game show in the near future.

Person of the Week: Kristen Byrnes

Age: 16

Hometown: Portland, Maine

Claim To Fame: High-school student and science enthusiast who started her own website with the sole goal of rebutting Al "The Mad Scientist" Gore and other global warming terrorists.

Why She's Person of the Week: While most high-school students could probably care less about global warming, this hasn't stopped Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" from being shown in many high schools across America (you know how liberals love to exploit the innocent, young and precocious members of our species). Yet, for Kristen Byrnes, upon recently seeing Gore's hypefest, enough quickly became enough. Bothered, amongst other things, by the sloppy science in the movie, Kristen created her own Web site for her Earth Science class and goes on to rip the global-warming-caused-by-man theory to shreds, even taking on Dr. James Hansen, noted "father of global warming".

Kristen's website looks at global warming “without financial and political bias.” As she states, “I will demonstrate that the Earth’s warming climate is a result of natural variance and that man-made changes in the warming climate in the last 40 years are negligible at best. I will insert pieces of the puzzle from new scientific studies that were not available or were ignored in previous global warming studies.

“I add a possible piece of the puzzle, nuclear weapons testing in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, that may have made a small contribution to cooling at that time.After reviewing numerous scientific studies and observing data, it is clear that the theory that “man-made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are causing global warming” is not likely.” Good stuff! Indeed, with a liberal media being completely duped by Al Gore and his limousine liberal pals in Hollywood, it's good to see that even a 16-year-old can see past the bullshit and get down to the facts.

Person of the Week: President Bush

Age: 60

Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut

Claim To Fame: Leader of the Free World

Why He's Person Of The Week: for showing leadership by turning up the heat on the government of Sudan this week as he imposed new economic sanctions to pressure the Sudanese government to stop the killings in Darfur. The sanctions are aimed at government-run companies involved in Sudan's oil industry and three individuals. More than 200,000 have been killed in the last four years and more than two million others displaced. Said the President: ''My administration has called these actions by their rightful name, genocide. The world has a responsibility to help put an end to it.'' As expected Bush has gotten little to no credit from liberals for this act, but at the very least history will show that the Bush administration has done far more to help Africa than it's predecessor.

Person of the Week: Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Age: 29

Birthplace: Cranston, Rhode Island

Claim To Fame: the lone conservative co-host on ABC's "The View"

Why She's Person Of The Week: For finally showing some balls this week by putting fellow "co-host" and Left-wing extremist Rosie O'Donnell in her place this week on "The View". In a spat that made news all over the country, on Wednesday, Hasselbeck and O'Donnell got into in a 10-minute verbal joust after liberal co-host Joy Behar (aka mini-Rosie) read off a laundry list of what she viewed as President Bush's failings. After Behar and Hasselbeck went at it for 5 minutes, O'Donnell joined in the frey to double-team the conservative co-host as they usually attempt to do. Yet this time Hasselbeck was prepared.

Hasselbeck is often criticized in conservative circles for being "soft" and inarticulate with her views (to be fair I don't know how many female conservative pundits, not named Ann Coulter, could stand up, by themselves, on a daily basis, to a couple liberal co-hosts who play loose with facts and use bully tactics when debating issues), but that wasn't the case on Wednesday, as Hasselbeck was dead-on in attacking O'Donnell for being "obnoxious" as well as challenging her to defend her own insinuations concerning those in the media who've accused O'Donnell of calling our troops "terrorists".

O'Donnell, who has pretty much run "The View" (she controls the debates, makes all the announcements, commercials, segues and gives herself the most air time to voice of all of her insane, liberal lies) since Barbara Walters signed her on, seemed to be both shocked and angered that Hasselbeck was taking her on . . . and winning the heated debate. With only three weeks left before Rosie leaves "The View", Hasselbeck could just say little and count down the days down to when the "big, fat, lesbian" goes away, but instead she's speaking up and that's a very good thing for conservatives who get little say in the liberal mainstream press.

Person of the Week: President George W. Bush

Age: 66
Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut

Claim to Fame: If you didn't know already, he's the "Decider"

Why's He's Person of the Week: For reaching a deal with the Senate on the long contentious issue of immigration reform yesterday. By coming to terms with Democrats (even liberal asses like Ted Kennedy), Bush not only did what's best for the country, but he once again showed that he's not as stubborn as many make him out to be. The bipartisan agreement is a fair step in the right direction concerning a problem that's been going on long before Bush took office. And for those on the Right still crying about this amounting to nothing but "amnesty"?

Well, get over it!

To blame Bush for illegal immigration and act like he's just supposed to grab a net, scoop up every illegal immigrant in the country and toss 'em out is dumb. President Bush has done a lot to secure the borders and for yahoos like Michelle Malkin (always complaining, but rarely offering solutions) to continue to cry "Amnesty! Amnesty!" are just choosing to be ignorant of the facts.

Since Bush took office, funding for border security has increased immensely and the Border Patrol has been expanded to more than 12,000 agents, an increase of more than 2,700 agents, or nearly 30 percent. The President's FY07 budget funds another 1,500 new agents. Agents are being provided with cutting-edge technology like infrared cameras, vehicle barriers & fencing in urban areas, advanced motion sensors, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Plus, the administration's Border Security Strategy is getting results.

Since President Bush took office, agents have apprehended and sent home more than 6 million people entering the country illegally including more than 400,000 with criminal records. Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement are all working together and more than 600,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended through the Arizona Border Control Initiative last year - an increase of more than 50 percent increase over the previous year. Dare anyone come up with an administration that has a better record on handling illegal immigrants that of Bush's.

Person of the Week: Trent Lott

Age: 65

Birthplace: Grenada, Mississippi

Why He's Person of the Week: The idea that any American wary of the war in Iraq is unpatriotic is a dumb one because this feeling isn't just being felt by liberals, but by most Americans. As someone who agreed with the decision going after Saddam Hussien 4 years ago, I too have grown wary of a war that no one (including President Bush) thought would still going on today. I too have grown wary reading about our soldiers being killed everyday in Iraq, over 3,000 strong now. I too want to see more results in Iraq and that's why I totally agree with the honest remarks Trent Lott made this week regarding Bush's recent troop "surge": ""I do think this fall we have to see some significant changes on the ground, in Baghdad and other surrounding areas. By the time we get to September or October, members are going to want to know how well this is working, and if it isn't, what's Plan B."

This isn't about leaving Iraq. We made a promise to the Iraqi people to establish democracy, help them rebuild their country as well as assist them in the war on terrorism and we should keep it. We'd be hypocrites to promote democracy here while ignoring the threat to democracy that exists in other countries around the world. But the time has long past come for the Iraqi government and army to step up to the plate and take more responsibility for what's going on in their country. That some Republicans are demanding to see more results in Iraq isn't about going along with the "surrender" crowd, it's about common sense and our troops.

Person of the Week: Alberto Gonzales

Age: 51
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas

Claim To Fame: 80th Attorney General of the United States

Why He's Person of the Week: For refusing to back down in the face of enormous pressure by both Democrats and fair-weather Republicans to resign or be dismissed in lieu of doing nothing wrong regarding the firings of 8 federal attorney's. As Gonzales noted during yesterday's testimony before the Senate, all the attorney's had served their full four-year term, and were continuing to serve at the pleasure of the President -- and that pleasure was withdrawn, as is fully legal and proper.

And even when confronted by a fresh call for his resignation from a fellow Republican ("The best way to put this behind us is your resignation," Sen. Tom Coburn bluntly told Gonzales), Gonzales told Coburn that he didn't think resigning would put the controversy to rest. Of course, Gonzales was wrong on this count because resigning was exactly what Democrats wanted to be the result of their well-designed witch-hunt against Gonzales in the first place. But Gonzales stood his ground and President Bush's total support for him since the beginning of this non-scandal showed you that Bush wasn't about to let liberal minions like Chuck Schumer (who undoubtedly never brought up the fact that Bill Clinton fired 93 U.S. attorney's during his term during yesterday's testimony) bring down a trusted member of his inner circle.

"The moment I believe I can no longer be effective I will resign as attorney general," Gonzales said after first making it clear he did not believe it had come to that.

Other's Blogging: Slate, Politburo Diktat 2.0, STR: The Freedom Blog

Person Of The Week: Don Imus

Age: 66
Birthplace: Riverside, California

Claim To Fame: radio talk show host of the popular "Imus In The Morning"

Why He's Person of the Week: For going after Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer on his radio show this past week in lieu of the recent controversy regarding the Dept. of Veteran Affairs. Schumer was trying to pin the blame of the deplorable conditions and poor healthcare given to outpatient veterans at the Walter Reed Army Hospital Building on the "Bush Administration".

Yet, it was Imus who pointed out that both Democratic and Republicans had been ignoring the going-ons at Walter Reed long before Bush took office. Imus even noted that Schumer himself hadn't even visited the hospital in quite awhile. Said Imus: "Senator Schumer, you’re not suggesting to me that this is something that just happened under the Bush administration. This has been going on since Korea, since the second world war."

Other's Blogging: Iowa Voice, Say Anything, Right In A Left World