THE CLONING OF AMERICA By Dave Daubenmire

Our courts have ruined America. The lawyers and the judges have toiled in the fields rooting up the old established crops and have created a genetically-engineered legal system. By doing so, they have changed the DNA of America. The framework is the same, but our nation has become a modern-day Frankenstein. All of the physical features of America are in place, it looks like the same old country, but we are now a nation without a soul, without a conscience, and without justice. This is not the same country that we grew up in. America has been cloned.

Who were those mad scientists and how did they do it? Is it possible to rotate the crops, to turn the tide, to recover the fields? I don’t know, but first we must understand how the cloning took place.

All laws are made by Congress. That is the way the framers laid out the field. The courts were supposed to determine whether or not the seeds were sown properly. Instead, the courts have genetically-altered the seeds. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer exists. Today when the “people” choose the seed, the mad-scientists in black robes alter the DNA. How much longer can this nation survive legal experimentation?

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The Enlightenment: Anglo-American (Genesis) vs. Franco-Germanic (Anti-Genesis) - Linda Kimball

'9th Circuit Endorses Censoring Christians,' ruling declares 'family values,' 'natural family,' and 'marriage' constitutes hate speech. (WorldNetDaily, 3/8/07) - 'Walter Cronkite Endorses Campaign to Force Christianity Out of US Public Life,' LifeSiteNews, 2/28/07, Gudrun Schultz)

These are but two examples out of thousands that expose the Left’s brazenly relentless assault against America’s founding Christian-Judeo worldview and traditional culture. All too many Americans allow these attacks to occur because on one hand, they’ve been dumbed-down and deceived by the Leftist controlled education establishment and media, while on the other hand, they’ve been taken in by a myth.

The myth assures Americans that there was but one Enlightenment school of thought, that it is synonymous with American ideals and progress, and that religion---particularly Christianity---must be kept strictly separate from the state. Not only is all of this untrue, but these notions are invidious alien transplants to our shores.

In fact, a schism occurred among Enlightenment thinkers from which emerged two distinct and antithetical schools of thought. For ease of identification, Balint Vazsonyi refers to them in his book, “America’s 30 Years War” as the Anglo-American and the Franco-Germanic."

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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.

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The Scooter Libby Verdict: Justice Has Not Been Served - Chatterbox Chronicles

I am just livid about the verdict in the Scooter Libby case. David Boies (former Gore counsel) who is no conservative said last night on Hannity and Colmes that the trial was "criminalizing the political process." Rush talked about his blood boiling and for me that is putting it mildly.

Here are the facts:

1) Valerie Plame was not a covert CIA agent

2) Joe Wilson is the biggest liar in the whole saga

3) Richard Armitage is the actual leaker in the case. Not only was he not indicted but he was never even asked to testify.

This is what the liberal, Washington Post had to say about it all after it was discovered that Armitage was the leaker:

"Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming -- falsely, as it turned out -- that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush's closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously."

4) One of the jurors, Denis Collins, was not only a journalist who wrote for the Washington Post but he demonstrated in his statement that he didn't understand what the trial was really about. It now appears to be obvious to me that Collins himself lied about not being biased in this case from the get go. He seems to have had an agenda against the Bush administration from the very beginning by the fact that he is already commenting at The Huffington Post, completely despicable.

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A Road Rarely Traveled by Paul R. Hollrah

As we look forward to the presidential election of 2008, many pundits are already predicting that the Democrat tide will continue through 2010 or 2012. Even former House Majority Leader Tom Delay has predicted that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the next President of the United States.
I think he’s wrong…dead wrong…because a Gingrich-Rice ticket could easily trump a Clinton-Obama ticket. Imagine a flustered Hillary Rodham Clinton, who rarely says anything publicly that might limit her ability to flip-flop later, locked in debate with Newt Gingrich, who is more conversant on the issues, foreign and domestic, than any other major political figure of the past fifty years, and whose public pronouncements are invariably rooted in common sense, reason, and historic reality.
And imagine Barack Hussein Obama, the new schlickmeister of the Democratic Party, a literal neophyte in the world of international affairs, attempting to engage Condoleezza Rice in debate on contemporary world history and the consequences of American foreign policy. In either case, it would be like a cat toying with a cornered mouse.
For those who haven’t noticed, the former Speaker is following what appears to be a most unique path to the presidency, one which my limited knowledge of American politics tells me has never been tried before. Gingrich is heading an organization called American Solutions for Winning the Future. The organization’s web page tells us that it is “a unique non-partisan organization designed to rise above traditional gridlocked partisanship, to provide real, significant solutions to the most important issues facing our country.” What is unique about “American Solutions” is that it will focus on:

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A Conservative Who Can Win by Doug Patton

Three decades ago, two young lawyers worked behind the scenes, on opposite sides of the political aisle, to investigate the corruption and deceit that became known simply as “Watergate.” One, an ideologically liberal Democrat who had recently graduated from Yale Law School, served as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff advising the House Judiciary Committee during the scandal. The other, a wise-beyond-his-years conservative Republican Southerner with a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University, served as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. Little would anyone suspect in 1974 that these two could face each other for the presidency in 2008.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, these two politicos are, respectively, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Fred Dalton Thompson.

The fact that Hillary Clinton has been plotting her return to the White House since the day she and her impeached husband absconded with a goodly portion of the furniture has been the nation’s worst kept secret for the last six years. So intense is her hunger for presidential power that Republicans and Democrats alike are desperately seeking a credible alternative. An increasing number of Dems think they have found their party’s salvation in the very junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.

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Defending the Family By Senator Fred Smith

Throughout thousands of years of human history and every year of American history, people have recognized that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman. This view is now under attack across the country. Liberal judges in Massachusetts, New York, and California are legislating from the bench to rewrite their states' marriage laws, instead of upholding them. The New Jersey legislature, following the lead of Vermont and Connecticut, just passed legislation establishing civil unions between homosexual couples.

An overwhelming majority of North Carolinians support marriage as a sacred bond between one man and one woman, but our current laws are not enough to protect society's most important institution. While NC General Statutes 51-1 and 51-1.2 already define marriage as "between a man and a woman," a single Superior Court judge could overturn these North Carolina statutes protecting marriage. Also, these statutes can be overturned by any future General Assembly that wants to repeal our state's statutes protecting marriage.

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Bolton Says U.N. "Reform" Has Failed By Accuracy In Media: Cliff Kincaid

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton received a sustained standing ovation Thursday night, as he told a national conference of conservatives that “reform” of the United Nations had failed and that the U.S. has to assume a radically different approach to funding the world organization. He called for an end to “assessed contributions” to the U.N. and urged a completely voluntary system of paying for the activities of the world body. Bolton’s proposal leaves open the distinct possibility that an objective assessment would determine that it does not deserve one red cent in “voluntary” support from American taxpayers.



The out-of-control nature of the world organization is reflected in the fact that the U.N. pension fund has grown to a staggering $37 billion, and that John Kerry’s equally liberal sister Peggy still runs non-governmental organization (NGO) affairs at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Technically, Bolton, when he was U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., was her boss. But he couldn’t fire her because she is part of the permanent bureaucracy. Peggy Kerry has held the position of NGO liaison at the U.S. mission during the entire Bush Administration but took time off during the 2004 presidential campaign to solicit votes for her brother.


The situation is dire. Unknown to most Americans, because the major media treat the U.N. as a sacred cow deserving more money, an international tax on airline travel is being collected, under the guidance of Ira Magaziner of the Clinton Foundation, and a global carbon tax amounting to 35 cents a gallon of gas is coming. Senator James Inhofe has led efforts to withdraw U.S. funding to the world body if it continues advocating global tax schemes on the American people, but Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wants to provide even more money for U.N. peacekeeping operations.

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Kent State and Jihad-gate By Mike S. Adams

The association between Richard Nixon and Kent State has always revolved around the university’s inability to control war protestors with a proclivity towards violence. But the National Guard won’t have to be called out to remind people of Nixon after the recent Julio Pino controversy. Memories of Tricky Dick will flow naturally from Kent State’s completely unnecessary cover up of the rabid terrorism supporter – the one who prefers to be known as “Professor.”

In Kent State’s recent defense of Pino, the administration tried unsuccessfully to establish at least three important points. Below I have restated these three points and explained why they are all little more than camel poop in a desert of administrative obfuscation:

1. There is no evidence linking Julio Pino to the Jihadist “Global War” blog.

One of the problems Kent State had with the blanket denial of Pino’s involvement with “Global War” is that his department chair had already admitted that Pino had admitted to him that he “contributed” to the blog. While this information did not hit the mainstream media until the day after the Kent State denial, I already knew it. The $64,000 question is: “How could the Kent State administration not have known it?”

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Dumbing-Down of America by Patrick J. Buchanan

Fifty years ago this October, Americans were jolted by the news that Moscow, one year after drowning the Hungarian Revolution in blood, had put an 80-pound satellite into Earth orbit.

In December, the U.S. Navy tried to replicate the feat. Vanguard got four feet off the ground and exploded, incinerating its three-pound payload. America was humiliated. Khrushchev was Man of the Year. Some of us yet recall the Vanguard newsreels and the humiliating laughter.

Stunned, America went to work to improve education in math and science, and succeeded. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of high school seniors began to rise, reaching a high in 1964.

However, test scores for high school students have been falling now for 40 years. In 1984, the Reagan administration issued "A Nation at Risk," documenting the deterioration of American public education.

More trillions of dollars were thrown at the problem. And if one judged by the asserted toughening up of courses and rising grades of seniors, it appeared we had made marvelous progress. On March 4, The Washington Times reported:

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Coming Catastrophe: Four Mysteries of America and Iran by John Batchelor

As March winds blow, there are specific warnings of an imminent catastrophe in the confrontation between America and Iran. There is strong indication of this direction in several recent diplomatic surprises and reversals, and assembled below are four mysteries that illustrate the scale of the threat.

Why did the Bush Administration announce suddenly, and contrary to previous policy, that it would participate in upcoming meetings in Iraq with the unrepentant adversarial states of Iran and Syria? Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice did not provide an answer when she declared, "We are recommitting ourselves to the security and stability of the Gulf region."

Why did the Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia suddenly announce a visit by the Islamic Republic of Iran's President Ahmadinejad to Riyadh for a conference on the region with King Abdullah? Ahmadinejad, following his audience with the House of Saud, did not provide an answer when he declared, "Iran and Saudi Arabia oppose the dominance of enemies over the region and their conspiracies. During this trip, we tried to devise some measures to prevent the enemies from harming the Muslim world and to foil their plots."

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"Julio Pino Is A Traitor Who Should Be Shot At Dawn!"

"I'm an Iraqi war veteran who spent three years in the combat zone, and I have nothing but contempt for vile, degenerate traitors like Jihadist Julio Pino, a Kent State instructor, who pulls out his tiny little Islamic knife and stabs all patriotic Americans in the back in a time of war. If I were the local U.S. Attorney I would file charges of treason against this disgusting subhuman, which in the current state of war against Islam carries the death penalty. After his inevitable conviction I would have Traitor Pino sent to the nearest military base and executed like the mad dog he is at dawn before a military firing squad and the cameras of C-Span."

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Gates of Vienna: What a Day in the ’Hood

The title of this post is one commenter’s summation of Michael Yon’s latest news from Iraq.

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from him and in passing, Yon explains why.

There is, as usual, lots of meat in this latest epistle of his, entitled “Meanwhile”…

One subject he covers is his relations with the military as an embed journalist:

With the odometer running over many embeds, Mellinger [that’s Command Sergeant Major Jeffrey Mellinger, the real deal in Iraq — D] has taken me about 4,000 miles (total) up and down Iraqi roads, visiting units from north to south, east to west, showing that the military truly opens their doors to writers who will stick it out. They don’t even have to like you: my fights with the Army are well-known, yet they continue to open their doors. There’s a lesson in there. I wrote that Iraq was in a civil war shortly after covering the first elections. I wrote about commanders who did poorly, and ISF units that couldn’t shoot straight, and I wrote about the veneer of victory in Afghanistan cracking under the weight of a poppy-fueled Taliban resurgence. Yet they still let me in.

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Evil Fiction By Orson Scott Card

Let me tell you about an audiobook that I hated.

I didn't hate it because it was badly written -- it was mediocre in the way that mediocre thrillers usually are, and that means it would ordinarily have been tolerable.

No, the reason I stopped listening to Steve Berry's The Alexandria Link is that this book is evil.

I don't mean it's about evil. I don't even mean that it is evil-porn, like those horror books whose authors are pervertedly devoted to thinking up cool ways to torture and kill people.

I mean that this book, to the degree that it is read by people ignorant of history (i.e., practically everybody), will move us closer to a future in which our society permits or even approves of the murder of Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel.

Wait! This book is fiction! How could it have such an effect?

Well, it can't -- not all by itself. Its effect is incremental. But it's real.

Here's how it works.

At the beginning of the book, we are shown a Palestinian during the 1948 war over the creation of the state of Israel. The scene is about how this Palestinian has been torturing a man he captured in order to find out what he is doing; then he kills him. But the torture is not treated in the fiction as anything other than a regrettable necessity; later, the character does in fact regret his actions that day.

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Gore Funding Plan For “A New World Order” - Gates of Vienna

That is the title of Dan Riehl’s latest post. It may be the most important essay you’ll read this year.

Lefties will condemn it as paranoid. I wish they were right. But this phenomenon has been building for a long, long time. And now the nightmare he describes is coming into the daylight. It's hideous looking.

Dan is to be congratulated for a Herculean effort, one which will bring down the wrath and withering ridicule of those he exposes. However, our European friends will not be so quick to condemn what has become their reality.

I am not going to expand on his points. I simply ask you to read them so you will know where we’re headed. The signposts to Utopian Hell are well marked here.

As Dan says, he has connected the dots. Our Brit friends know what a fiend Soros is. We all know that Dean is unhinged at best - they keep him on a leash and let him loose at appropriate times.

NOTE: Dan rightly points out that these ideas are not original with him; they begin in - of all places - The New York Times in 2004.

And now, Dan Riehl:
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A call for separation of school and state By Jeff Jacoby

WHATEVER ELSE might be said about it, US District Judge Mark Wolf's decision in Parker v. Hurley is a model of clear English prose.

"The constitutional right of parents to raise their children does not include the right to restrict what a public school may teach their children," Wolf unambiguously wrote in dismissing a suit by two Lexington couples who objected to lessons the local elementary school was teaching their children. "Under the Constitution public schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy."

Entitled to teach anything. That means, the judge ruled, that parents have no authority to veto elements of a public-school curriculum they dislike. They have no right to be notified before those elements are presented in class. And the Constitution does not entitle them to opt their children out of such classes when the subject comes up.

As Wolf's straightforward language makes plain, it doesn't much matter what that subject might be. The parents in the Lexington case objected to "diversity" instruction that presented same-sex marriage and homosexual attraction as unobjectionable. That message contradicted the parents' "sincerely held religious beliefs that homosexuality is immoral and that marriage is necessarily . . . between a man and a woman."

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Anthropogenic Global Warming-The New Secular Religion

The governors of four Western states, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Kalifornia have declared their intent to lessen their respective state’s “carbon footprints” and reduce their consumption of oil. How exciting, another four fools buying into the greatest scam of the last 100 years, “anthropogenic global warming.”

This follows on the heels of Exxon/Mobil’s capitulation to the environmentalist extortion, and a bunch of “scientists,” from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who work for the UN, telling us that it is “very likely” that human activity is causing “global warming.”

At the UN they have to include the wiggle words “very likely,” because the truth is they don’t have a good enough case to prove their conclusion. Believe me they would have used the word “certain” if they could have justified it in any way. That they didn’t speaks volumes.

The capitulation of Exxon/Mobil to the pressures and extortion of politicians is disappointing, but completely understandable. Their board of directors is paid to maximize profit, not to make a stand based on principle. I pretty much saw this one coming when Senators Olympia Snowe (RINO-Me) and John Jay Rockefeller, IV (D-WV) issued their demands last October that Exxon/Mobil stop funding research, because:

“ExxonMobil’s extensive funding of an “echo chamber” of non-peer reviewed pseudo-science had unfortunately succeeded in raising questions about the legitimate scientific community’s virtually universal findings on the detrimental effects of global warming.”

Tell me another one Chicken Little.

Note the Senators’ choice of words “pseudo-science” and “legitimate scientific community.” That is a well established arguing technique of the Left; you summarily dismiss your opponents as “unqualified” and proclaim your supporters as the only “legitimate” source of information. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Joseph Goebbels all used this technique to good effect in promoting their agenda.

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Seven Steps To Hell by Paul R. Hollrah

The August 3, 1995 edition of the Wall Street Journal carried an interview with former North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, a member of the North Vietnamese general staff and the man who received the surrender of South Vietnam’s President Duong Van Minh on April 30, 1975. The interview was conducted by Stephen Young, a Minnesota human rights activist.

Colonel Tin described the military and political events of the war from his vantage point in Hanoi. What he described was the step-by-step defeat of U.S. forces, not on the battlefield, but in the White House, in the Halls of Congress, in the streets of America, and on our college and university campuses. Sound familiar?

As I read Col Tin’s recitation of how events played out in Vietnam – step-by-step-by-step – I couldn’t help but think of the motto embroidered across the shoulder patch that I wore during the last eighteen months of my military service. The shoulder patch was the insignia of the U.S. 7th Army, and the motto embroidered across the bottom read, “Seven Steps To Hell.”

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Says Scholar Whose Work Was Used in the Upcoming Jesus Tomb Documentary: "I think it's completely mishandled. I am angry."

In researching our special report on the upcoming Jesus Tomb documentary, fronted by James Cameron (of Titanic fame), I encountered more than a few angry scholars and archaeologists.

Of special note was Tal Ilan, whose Lexicon of Jewish Names was essential to the statistical calculation made by Andrey Feuerverger, the U. of Toronto professor of statistics and mathematics who is quoted in the documentary as saying that the odds that any family other than that of the historical Jesus family would have the same names as that family, and be buried in the Tomb the documentary covers, are 600 to 1. In other words, that number argues, the odds are slim that this isn't the tomb of Jesus.

You'd be forgiven for finding such claims far-fetched, and with the exception of the historian, James Tabor, who was consulted for the film, the professionals in the field appear to find these claims no less incredible.

In an interview I conducted this morning, the scholar Tal Ilan, without whose work these calculations would have been impossible, expressed outrage over the film and its use of her work--she's the source of the quotation in the headline of this post.

Jodi Magness, a professor of archaeology and Jewish history of that period at UNC Chapel Hill, had this to say in an interview conducted yesterday:

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