The Hijacking of America By Judi McLeod

Patriots beware: Coming your way soon, 'The Hijacking of America'.

Seamless and unfolding as this is being written, The Hijacking of America is two-prong in nature, the pandemic hysteria of global warming combined with an American market flooded by cars manufactured by the Peoples' Republic of China.

The total Hijacking of America is happening without the firing of a single shot and seems to have been perfected by a nondescript, 77-year-old, Canadian-born diplomat called Maurice Strong. A high school dropout with more university degrees than the most celebrated scholar, UN poster boy and New Ager, Strong has got the United States of America—coming and going. The architect of the Kyoto Protocol is also the brains behind the deal that will flood the USA with econo-box cars from Communist China. The fix is in.

Strong, who no one but Kofi Annan and former Canadian Premier Paul Martin ever paid much attention to, has his media hound Al Gore, out in the field spreading the most important message of the day to the chattering classes: Global Warming will destroy mankind. Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, now curriculum in some British secondary schools, has been nominated for an Oscar at the February 25 Academy Awards.

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Empires and Barbarians by Jakub Grygiel

Much has been said over the past few years about the novelty of the security challenges now facing the United States. In what is still the most popular version of events, history started on 9/11, when “everything changed.” The global jihadist movement is an unexpected offshoot of the encounter between Western-driven modernization processes, now of global scale in the 21st century, and an Islamic world still struggling with the legacy of the 20th. One result of this encounter is a decentralized web of mobile, marauding Islamist terrorist organizations capable of complex attacks, highly adaptable in structure, often indistinguishable from the broader Muslim communities that succor or tolerate them, and reasonably skilled at public relations (at least with regard to those communities). In the worst scenario, al-Qaeda or one of its affiliates may use weapons of mass destruction against the United States or its allies, marking the only time since Westphalia that a substate actor can credibly threaten the vital interests of not only a state, but of the strongest state in the international system. If that’s not novelty, nothing is.

That there is something new about this threat is undeniable. Substate actors with global reach and the technical skill of modern apocalyptical terrorists bear almost no resemblance to the main challenges to international security during the past several centuries, which were characterized by more or less rule-based competition among well-defined states. Another difference stands out, too: The modern state system enforced a separation of church and state on the international level with its doctrine of cuius regio, eius religio. Its 17th-century founders learned the lessons of the Thirty Years War and determined not to let the passions of religious disagreement inflame the necessities of political order. Today’s salafi warriors mean to destroy that separation utterly, a separation that even the Ottoman Empire, the seat of the Caliphate, came to accept in practice over time.

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GOP's Lack of Will by Robert Novak

The Senate Republican leadership met behind closed doors this week to ponder Majority Leader Harry Reid's audacious power grab on the massive catchall appropriations bill. They decided they could not filibuster the bill for fear of being blamed for closing down the government, but they still wanted enough votes opposing cloture to make an impression. That would seem a formula for defeat, and indeed it was.
The cloture vote to end debate on the bill Tuesday was 71 to 26, with 23 Republicans -- including the party's two leaders -- voting with Reid. The GOP was accepting a bill that perpetuates earmarks, masks additional domestic spending under the disguise of fiscal responsibility, and establishes a precedent of prohibiting the opposition party from amending an appropriations bill.

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CHRISTOPHOBIA by Richard Davis

If you were a foreigner learning about the United States through our books and media you would think American culture was dominated by Christianity and that the country was virtually in the hands of Christian hardliners. If you then moved to America, even to a primordial red state, you’d soon be left wondering what in God’s name those writers and journalists were talking about. Good question.

While Christian bashing is at an all time high, Christianity’s societal influence couldn’t be lower. Christianity has virtually disappeared from the public arena. You can barely find it in mainline churches anymore. Its major holiday, Christmas, has been cleansed of all non-consumer relevance. The mainstream media, the fonts of our common culture, aren’t remotely Christian or even Christian-friendly. They’ve been trashing religious believers mercilessly for 40 years.

And look at America. Our biggest industry is porn. Our biggest cash crop is marijuana. Greed and lust are the national pastimes. Television is a cultural sewer. Ethics, morality and public decency are completely shot. The death of a drugged-out former stripper becomes a national tragedy. Our politicians, teachers and priests are routinely exposed as sex addicts and child abusers. What a hold these Christofascists have on us!

So what’s explains the torrent of anti-Christian screeds such as “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,” or “Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right,” or “Theocons: Secular America Under Siege,” or “The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plan for The Rest of Us“? That’s a short list, and it doesn’t include the daily barrage of attacks on the web and elsewhere.

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Robert J. Samuelson - Welfare State Stasis - Washington Post

Spend a moment studying the adjacent table. It illuminates why another of our annual budget battles -- begun last week, when President Bush submitted his fiscal 2008 proposal -- seems so fruitless and (yes) repetitious. Every year we hear complaints about accounting gimmicks and unrealistic assumptions. There's a ferocious crossfire of charges and countercharges. Hardly anything ever gets resolved. Budgets almost always remain in deficit (41 out of 47 years since 1960).
The table shows the rise of the American welfare state. In 1956, defense dominated the budget; the Cold War buildup was in full swing. The welfare state, which is what 'payments to individuals' signifies, was modest. Now everything is reversed. Despite the war in Iraq, defense spending is only a fifth of the budget; so-called entitlement payments to individuals are almost 60 percent -- and rising. In fiscal 2006, the federal government spent almost $2.7 trillion. Social Security ($544 billion), Medicare ($374 billion) and Medicaid ($181 billion) dominated. There was $199 billion more for payments to the poor, including the earned-income tax credit and food stamps.

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The Left's identification with murderous aggressors by James Lewis

Psychiatry is familiar with an odd syndrome called 'identification with the aggressor.' It's sometimes called the Stockholm Syndrome, after the behavior of air passengers taken hostage by PLO terrorists at the Stockholm Airport in 1973, who, when they were rescued, came out singing the praises of their murderous captors.

Recently we saw the same human oddity when two Fox News reporters were kidnapped in Gaza, and forced to convert to Islam at the point of a gun. After his freedom was bought (at a reported cost of millions of dollars), reporter Steve Centanni told the world that:
'I hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story because the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kind hearted. The world needs to know more about them. Don't be discouraged.'
'Kind-hearted' and 'beautiful' are not the first words that come to mind to describe kidnappers who were quite ready to murder Steve Centanni only a day before. In psychiatric thinking the reporters 'identified with the aggressors' --- the terrorist kidnappers --- in a mental flip that allowed them to push away their realistic fear of dying to a distant imaginary cause. They no longer thought of themselves as helpless victims, having adopted the kidnappers' point of view.
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What is to be done about Islam by Lawrence Auster

Last November, two other writers and I worked briefly on a manifesto on what is to be done about Islam in America, and, by extension, in the West and in non-Islamic countries generally. The original draft made jihad the practical focus of the problem. Subsequent drafts included sharia—the Islamic law—as well, based on the understanding that jihad is not the end of Islam but the instrument by which the end of Islam, which is the rule of Islamic law over the whole earth, is to be achieved. At that point we left the statement aside. Then this past week, in light of new insights and discoveries, namely that even a prominent opponent of jihad like Ayaan Hirsi Ali has no “problem” with the spread of sharia if it is pursued by democratic and respectful means, I went back to the draft and expanded it further. It’s possible that the resulting version is too long and detailed for its purpose, and perhaps the earlier, simpler version that focused only on jihad would be better. I am posting the latest draft now to invite criticisms and ideas.

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Jihad U by Patrick Poole

From the East Coast through the American Heartland to the West Coast, a rapidly growing and extremely popular Islamic studies program is bringing Wahhabi extremism and Muslim Brotherhood activism into mosques and Muslim student groups throughout North America. The Al-Maghrib Institute features motivational-style speakers, aggressive marketing, savvy use of the Internet and slick multi-media presentations as part of their for-college-credit courses leading to an Islamic Studies degree offered at mosques in at least thirteen cities:

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American Thinker: New Testament Manuscripts: The Basic Facts

This article is the first in a four-part series on New Testament textual criticism. It provides the basics on this science and art, answering such questions as these:

o After the original inspired New TestamentD authors wrote their documents, Scribes later transcribed them Did the scribes make errors as they copied down holy Writ?
o If so, what kind of errors are they?
o Why wouldn't God protect his Word from such errors?
o What's the goal of the science and art of textual criticism?
o Should we even engage in criticism of the Bible? Isn't that blasphemous?
o Should I trust the New Testament?
These questions and more are explored in a basic Question and Answer format, for ease of understanding.

The ultimate goal in this four-part series is to provide a foundation for the readers' knowledge; then we will understand the critics who often mislead the general public about the complete reliability of the Bible.

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American Thinker: Modernity and Western Values In the Clutches of Islamization

Muslim reformers of the past century - such as Mohammed Abdu, Refaa Al-Tahtawi, Taha Hussein, Ali Abdel-Razik and others - sought and unfortunately failed to modernize Islam. The militants, led by Hassan Al-Banna and his partisans, won this battle, and forced their vision to 'Islamize' modernity on the people. They created a certain pattern - a mindset and a lifestyle - and promoted it as 'The Valid Islam,' Al Islam al-Sahih.

They resorted to seduction and fear to impose this pattern on their societies, and made sure to attach an 'Islamic' label to each and every aspect, with the clear implication that other patterns were deemed non-Muslim and illegitimate. An increasingly wide array of things fall under this valid pattern: the Islamic dress, the Islamic banks, the Islamic economy, the Islamic education, the islamization of science, media and the judiciary system, the application and enforcement of Islamic laws, the widespread dissemination of the fundamentalist culture, the promotion of Islamic medicine and the Prophet's medicine, the expansion of Islamic organizations, the marginalization of the national identity of the state in favor of Islamic nationalism, and the islamization of daily vocabulary and political terms ([1]mobayaa, welaya, shura, thawabet al-oma, etc..).

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Tom DeLay: The Message or the Machine?

For years, the media -- either out of ignorance or mendacity -- perpetuated the myth that elections basically came down to Republican money (because all conservatives are rich) versus Democrat shoe leather (because liberals are all passionate and hard-working).
Like most stereotypes, the media got it exactly backwards. For most of the post-Watergate campaign finance era, Republicans won their victories thanks to strong grass-roots organizing and Democrats did their best thanks to a smaller but preposterously wealthy donor base.

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Gates of Vienna: Running Scared in Red House

As I reported on Wednesday, the Christian Action Network is planning a demonstration on February 20th in Charlotte Court House against the “Sheikh Gilani Lane” road sign at the Muslims of America (a.k.a. Jamaat ul-Fuqra) compound in Red House, Virginia.

But CAN is having ploblems attracting local Charlotte County people to the demonstration. Folks will be coming in from the adjacent counties and Lynchburg, but not from right there in Charlotte County. As Martin Mawyer, the president of Christian Action Network, told me, “The people over there are scared of those guys. They have to live next to them all the time, and they know that there are some bad people down there at the Red House compound. So they just don’t want to get involved.”

I have an acquaintance — I’ll call him Ray — who lives in southern Appomattox County, which is just to the north of Charlotte County. He in turn has a friend in Red House who lives on Rolling Hill Road, a short distance away from the JF compound.
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Immigration Debate Turns Right As Hard Data Confirm Anecdotes by Victor Davis Hanson

In the spring of 2002, I wrote an essay about growing up in California's San Joaquin Valley and witnessing firsthand, especially over the last 20 years, the ill effects of illegal immigration. Controversy over my blunt assessment of the disaster of illegal immigration from Mexico led to an expanded memoir, 'Mexifornia,' published the following year.
'Mexifornia' came out during the ultimately successful campaign to recall California Gov. Gray Davis in autumn 2003.
A popular public gripe was that the embattled governor had appeased both employers and the more radical Hispanic politicians of the California Legislature on illegal immigration. And indeed Davis had signed legislation allowing driver's licenses for illegal aliens that both houses of state government had passed.
So it was no wonder that the book sometimes found its way into both the low and high forms of the political debate.
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