The Misnomer of Radical Islam: America’s Security Blunder :: Martel Sobieskey

"There is the erroneous assertion that Radical Islam is not connected with mainstream (moderate) Islam in any way, that the religion of Islam has been “hijacked by a few extremists” that the vast majority of Muslims do not agree with the Islamofascists. Such thinking is a terrible error and a grave threat to America’s national security, especially in this age of nuclear terrorism.

So what is Radical Islam and what should it be properly named? Radical Islam is actually the Islamic Military. The so-called radicals are not a fringe element; they are fully supported by the worldwide Islamic community (Ummah). If they were a fringe element, they would have been defeated long ago. The fight rages on because of strong support from the moderates both covertly and overtly. This means the Islamic Military (wrongly labeled radicals) is intimately connected with moderate Muslims who we have mistakenly labeled as innocent bystanders.

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Vanishing American:: More on our unsafe imported foods

"The tainted pet food story seems to grow and grow, although it is currently being soft-pedaled in the media. But here is a recent Washington Post piece which warns us that


It's Not Just Pet Food


'...It's not just pet owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide.

Essential ingredients, such as vitamins used in many packaged foods, arrive at U.S. ports from China and, as recent news reports have underscored, are shipped without inspection to food and beverage distributors and manufacturers. Although they are used in relatively small quantities, these ingredients carry enormous risks for American consumers. One pound of tainted wheat gluten could, if undetected, contaminate as much as a thousand pounds of food.
[...]We know, however, that alarms have been raised about hygiene and labor standards at many Chinese manufacturing facilities. In China, municipal water used in the manufacturing process is often contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides and other chemicals. Food ingredient production is particularly susceptible to environmental contamination."

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Pro-Justice ::The Chatterbox Chronicles

"My post on Bill Moyers' Propaganda piece on PBS caused quite a stir and I had a wide range of comments. One lady left a long comment with no link. It is your standard lecture with the theme of 'Can't we all just be nice and get along?' It always sounds so noble and impressive until you take a closer look. There are many people who think like her and I think her arguments need to be examined so we can think about what the real consequences are of this way of thinking. Her comments will be in the black writing and my responses will be in blue."

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Your Friendly, Gun-Free Police State::Captain's Quarters

"Ever wonder how liberals would implement a gun-free America? After incidents like the mass murder at Virginia Tech, arguments for total gun control appear faster than anyone can say Ismail Ax, but they never quite explain how to get from point A to point Z. Fortunately for us, Toledo Blade columnist Dan Simpson takes us step by step through the process. The retired diplomat assures us that he's no 'crazed liberal zealot' as he skips merrily down the path to a police state (via QandO).
It starts off quietly enough:
Now, how would one disarm the American population? First of all, federal or state laws would need to make it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in prison per weapon to possess a firearm. The population would then be given three months to turn in their guns, without penalty."

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There's science and then there's "science" :: Vox Popoli

And yet people wonder why we don't just blindly trust everything that anyone who claims to be a scientist says:

The current debate about global warming is "completely irrational," and people need to start taking a different approach, say two Ottawa scientists.

Carleton University science professor Tim Patterson said global warming will not bring about the downfall of life on the planet.

Patterson said much of the up-to-date research indicates that "changes in the brightness of the sun" are almost certainly the primary cause of the warming trend since the end of the "Little Ice Age" in the late 19th century. Huan emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the gas of concern in most plans to curb climate change, appear to have little effect on global climate, he said.

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Why democracy doesn't work::Joseph Farah

"It pains me when I hear President Bush – and so many others – talk about the need to spread democracy around the world.
America's founders knew what a rotten and corrupt system of government democracy was and did everything in their power to ensure our country would never become one.
Why is democracy rotten and corrupt?
'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. "

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Great Society Begets Bad Society By JOHN MCWHORTER

On “60 Minutes” last Sunday, rapper Cam’ron told Anderson Cooper that he would not inform the police if a serial killer were living next door to him, as it would alienate his fan base.

The “stop snitching” Zeitgeist has become a shibboleth of being “down with” your people in poor black neighborhoods and refusing to give the police information about a black-on-black homicide, even if you witnessed it. This version of black identity has become so entrenched over the past few years that it is making it ever harder for investigators to crack murder cases.

Using this technique as a means to stop racism is as misguided as it is easy. Police brutality was much worse in the past, and the war on drugs is old news. The current “stop snitching” notion is, quite simply, a subcultural fashion of the moment.

It is also a facet of a larger phenomenon: a sense among black teens and 20-somethings that being aggressive toward the opposition is the soul of being authentic. There has been this element in the black community since the 1960s, but these days, it is so deeply felt that it is tacitly approved to place anti-authoritarian sentiment over saving black lives.

I got an earful of this generation’s sense of self not long ago from an overheard conversation between three teens, a boy and two girls, on a subway. Our aggrieved musings over black people’s use of the N-word had no application: all three were using it twice a minute. The exchange kept wending back to the leitmotif of joys of breaking rules: one girl exclaimed how good it felt to jaywalk, the other celebrated the police’s inability to curb open drinking in Harlem.

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The real Axis of Evil By Fred Stakelbeck

"In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President George Bush used the term 'Axis of Evil' to describe the regimes of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, saying that all three countries were sponsoring terror and pursuing weapons of mass destruction. Since that groundbreaking speech, a new and potentially more dangerous 'Axis of Evil' has emerged - China, Russia and Iran - that increasingly pose not only a threat to U.S. national security interests, but world peace and global stability as well.
But don't blame President Bush for missing this important geopolitical shift. The new Axis of Evil has taken shape rapidly and somewhat unexpectedly. This Axis of Evil has surfaced not only as a result of the Iraq War and perceived U.S. hegemony, rather, its foundation has been built on a number of other important common-interest issues such as energy security, political ideology and a need reassert regional influence based upon historical precedent dating back almost two thousand years. Taken collectively, the continuing disruptive actions of China, Russia and Iran not only merit Washington's attention, but also an immediate, well fashioned and definitive response. "

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Ban on 'mom' and 'dad' considered – again By Bob Unruh

"A plan that has been launched in the California state Assembly – again – could be used to ban references to 'mom' and 'dad' in public schools statewide by prohibiting anything that would 'reflect adversely' on the homosexual lifestyle choice.
It's similar to a plan WND reported was approved by lawmakers last year, but fell by the wayside when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it.
'SB 777 forcibly thrusts young school children into dealing with sexual issues, requiring that homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality be taught in a favorable light,' according to an alert issued by the Capitol Resource Institute.
'Not only does SB 777 require that classroom instruction and materials promote and embrace controversial sexual practices, it also bans school-sponsored activities from 'reflecting adversely' on homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals,' the group said. "

WorldNetDaily: Ban on 'mom' and 'dad' considered – again

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Study rebuts 'family values' argument that favors immigration By Chad Groening and Jody Brown

"An immigration reform organization has released a study which it says refutes the premise that immigrants entering the U.S. bring along with them a commitment to traditional family values that is stronger than that found among the native-born population. The group points to a dramatic rise in illegitimate birth rates among Hispanic immigrants since 1980 as a prime example."
During a January 2005 news conference, President Bush -- in discussing his proposals for immigration reform -- stated he wanted to remind people that "family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River." The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) in Washington, DC, cites other sources who argue that immigrants to America bring with them "strong family structures and strong morals" as well as a "stronger sense of family" than Anglo-Americans.

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The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate By Andrew G. Bostom

"Writing in 1916, C. Snouck Hurgronje, the great Dutch Orientalist, underscored how the jihad doctrine of world conquest, and the re-creation of a supranational Islamic Caliphate remained a potent force among the Muslim masses:

...it would be a gross mistake to imagine that the idea of universal conquest may be considered as obliterated...the canonists and the vulgar still live in the illusion of the days of Islam's greatness. The legists continue to ground their appreciation of every actual political condition on the law of the holy war, which war ought never be allowed to cease entirely until all mankind is reduced to the authority of Islam-the heathen by conversion, the adherents of acknowledged Scripture [i.e., Jews and Christians] by submission. "

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The Real Jimmy Carter by Alan M. Dershowitz

"I have known Jimmy Carter for years. I first met him in the spring of 1976 when, as a relatively unknown candidate for president, he sent me a handwritten letter asking for my help in his campaign on issues of crime and justice. I had just published an article in The New York Times Magazine on sentencing reform, and he expressed interest in my ideas and asked me to come up with additional ones for his campaign. Shortly thereafter, my former student, Stuart Eisenstadt, brought Carter to Harvard to meet with some faculty members, me among them. I immediately liked Jimmy Carter and saw him as a man of integrity and principle. I signed on to his campaign and worked very hard for his election.

When Newsweek magazine asked his campaign for the names of people on whom Carter relied for advice, my name was among those given out. I continued to work for Carter over the years, most recently I met him in Jerusalem a year ago, and we briefly discussed the Mid-East. Though I disagreed with some of his points, I continued to believe that he was making them out of a deep commitment to principle and to human rights.

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American Christians Thrown to the Lions by Rev. Michael Bresciani

Among the organizations and groups fighting HR 1592 are For Faith and Family, Traditional Values Coalition, Faith2Action, The High Impact Coalition, Repent America, Focus on the Family, Americans for Justice, Exodus International and the Pacific Justice Institute. These are not the only organizations in the fight but they are perhaps the best ones to refer to if you are seeking a clear picture of the seriousness of and the dangers inherent in this bill.

Rev. Lou Sheldon of Traditional Values Coalition and Andrea Lafferty the CEO of the TVC sat in on the proceedings for some eleven hours both submitting material to counter the bill and monitoring the arguments and subsequent voting. While we can thank God for Christian soldiers like Sheldon and Lafferty and the groups aforementioned it seems the alarm has not filtered down sufficiently to the rank and file of the rest of Christendom.

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Hypocrisy, Betrayal and Lies By Lance Fairchok

It is no secret that the Democratic Party is opposed to the war in Iraq, which they had previously supported. They claim the Bush administration misled them. Despite access to the same intelligence, despite issuing bellicose warnings for years about Saddam’s weapons and despite a clear voting record, they claim they were scammed.

In a sane world, this would be seen as a remarkably transparent lie. If Republicans were in the same position, the clamor from the media would be deafening. The mainstream press, curiously lacking any desire to examine the Democratic Party hypocrisy, blathers on about peripheral issues handed to them as talking points and in the process finally puts paid to the claim of media impartiality as guarantors of truth. The only truths they know are the ones they choose to ignore. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, revealed the Democrat bottom line with his usual incomprehensible style:

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.”

“The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.” – Harry Reid, D-Nevada

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Somewhere Between 30%-70% Of Muslims Are Extremists? :: John Hawkins

This poll would seem to indicate that we've got a much bigger problem with the Islamic world than a few extremists at the fringes causing trouble (which is, let's face it, no big surprise to most people)

"More than 70 percent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world, a poll released on Tuesday showed.

...The face-to-face survey, of between 1,000 and 1,200 people in each country from December to February, also found about 30 percent approved of attacks on U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf.

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Aftermath of the 1960s? By Thomas Sowell

Someone recently said that mass shootings, such as those at Virginia Tech or Columbine High School, are largely a phenomenon of the 1960s and afterwards. If so, these tragedies can be added to the long list of disastrous consequences of the heady notions and extravagant rhetoric of that decade.

What was there in the 1960s vision of the world that could possibly lead anyone to consider it right to shoot at individuals who had done nothing to him?

Collective guilt is one of the legacies of the 1960s that is still with us. We are still seeing a guilt trip for slavery being laid on people who never owned a slave in their lives, and who would be repelled by the very idea of owning a slave.

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David S. Broder - The Democrats' Gonzales - washingtonpost.com

"Here's a Washington political riddle where you fill in the blanks: As Alberto Gonzales is to the Republicans, Blank Blank is to the Democrats -- a continuing embarrassment thanks to his amateurish performance.

If you answered ' Harry Reid,' give yourself an A. And join the long list of senators of both parties who are ready for these two springtime exhibitions of ineptitude to end."

President Bush's highly developed tolerance for egregious incompetence in his administration may have met its supreme test in Attorney General Gonzales, who at various times has taken complete responsibility for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and professed complete ignorance of the reasons for their dismissal. This demonstration of serial obfuscation so impressed the president that he rushed out to declare that Gonzales had "increased my confidence in his ability to do the job."

As if that were not mind-boggling enough, consider the mental gyrations performed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) as he rationalized the recent comment from his majority leader, Harry Reid, the leading light of Searchlight, Nev., that the war in Iraq "is lost."

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Rewriting History a Classroom at a Time::By Fred Thompson

"By now, we're used to people like Iranian President Ahmadinejad denying that the holocaust ever happened, even while he and his regime promise not only the destruction of Israel but the elimination of Jews internationally.
It's bad enough hearing from a distance about the bizarre anti-Semitic theories taught by heads of state as well as schools and religious leaders. Now, according to a study funded by the British government, we find out that some schools in Great Britain have stopped teaching history that is offensive to Muslim students. The topics that have been erased from the curriculum, the study found, include both the Nazi genocide and the Crusades. "

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The Establishment Rethinks Globalization William Greider

"The church of global free trade, which rules American politics with infallible pretensions, may have finally met its Martin Luther. An unlikely dissenter has come forward with a revised understanding of globalization that argues for thorough reformation. This man knows the global trading system from the inside because he is a respected veteran of multinational business. His ideas contain an explosive message: that what established authorities teach Americans about global trade is simply wrong--disastrously wrong for the United States.
Martin Luther was a rebellious priest challenging the dictates of a corrupt church hierarchy. Ralph Gomory, on the other hand, is a gentle-spoken technologist, trained as a mathematician and largely apolitical. He does not set out to overthrow the establishment but to correct its deeper fallacies. For many years Gomory was a senior vice president at IBM. He helped manage IBM's expanding global presence as jobs and high-tech production were being dispersed around the world."

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Democrats are taking ownership of a defeat in Iraq. :: Opinion Journal

"We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war. Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding.
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, April 12.
Gen. David Petraeus is in Washington this week, where on Monday he briefed President Bush on the progress of the new military strategy in Iraq. Today he will give similar briefings on Capitol Hill, but maybe he should save his breath. As fellow four-star Harry Reid recently informed America, the war Gen. Petraeus is fighting and trying to win is already 'lost.'
Mr. Reid has since tried to 'clarify' that remark, and in a speech Monday he laid out his own strategy for Iraq. But perhaps we ought to be grateful for his earlier candor in laying out the strategic judgment--and nakedly political rationale--that underlies the latest Congressional bid to force a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq starting this fall. By doing so, he and the Democrats are taking ownership of whatever ugly outcome follows a U.S. defeat in Iraq."

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Islamic Indoctrination in American Classrooms :: The HILL Chronicles Blog

"I received this distressing news via email from Brigitte Gabriel. Please read how Islam is being indoctrinated into our American classrooms. This should give you much pause for concern. After you read the following, please go and sign the petition[s] at Brigitte’s site here.
This issue is alarming and the lack of foresight by those that support this is hideous. Now please read about this atrocity going on in our schools and polluting our children.

Islamic Indoctrination in American Classrooms
By Adrian Morgan
The First Amendment to the US federal constitution was written in 1789, and was ratified by the States in 1791. It states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The interpretation of the First Amendment and in particular its first clause, referred to as the “Establishment of Religion” or “Establishment” clause, has a direct bearing on how federally- funded public schools can teach religion. Alan Brownstein, a constitutional law expert from the University of California at Davis’ School of Law states: “From a constitutional perspective, schools can’t teach the truth or falsity of religious belief, and atheism would fall in that parameter.” "

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Can We Challenge Their Patriotism Yet? By Ben Shapiro

"Democrats insist they are not seditious. “Democrats,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) claimed in January 2006, “are just a patriotic as Republicans.” John Edwards (D-North Carolina) won’t stand for anyone challenging his patriotism: “Patriotism is about refusing to support something you know is wrong and having the courage to speak out with strength and passion and backbone for something you know is right.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defends her patriotism by citing President Bush: “President Bush told House Democrats, ‘I welcome debate in a time of war. I do not believe that if you happen to agree with me you don’t share the same sense of patriotism I do,’ the president said.”

Let’s take the Democrats at their word: they want to be considered patriots. Fair enough. Patriotism, according to the Random House dictionary, means “devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country; national loyalty.”"

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Soda Jerks, Pop Tarts and Coke Heads: The Choices of a Purple Generation By Ilya Shapiro

Ever since the 2000 elections, Americans have been fascinated by maps showing the split of this country into two competing camps: Republican Red America and Democratic Blue America. Especially when viewed through the lens of the winner-take-all state-by-state electoral college. In 2004, for example, John Kerry won the entire Northeast and West coast, four states in the upper Midwest, and nothing else.

County-by-county (or district-by-district) representations refine our understanding of these political snapshots, showing that, rather than being a polarized 50-50 nation, most of the country is actually variations on Purple America. This column staked its claim early on to that blended descriptor, as a way of identifying a certain subset of the wide swath of citizenry uncomfortable with the emerging red-and-blue geographical labels.

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Where's The Republican War Room? by Carol Devine-Molin

For power-obsessed Democrats and their Left-leaning brethren, it's all about disseminating their propaganda, insuring defeat in Iraq and ruining Republicans. As to the latter, of course President Bush and members of his administration are at the top of the hit list. That being said, congressional Democrats are now orchestrating the most shameful political ploys in tandem with their current "politics of personal destruction" initiative. Moreover, these Leftists think nothing of manufacturing scandals, thwarting President Bush's role as commander-in-chief, and passing a blatantly anti-military bill. We're moving rapidly toward a constitutional crisis, if the Democrats continue down this path. Unconscionable, you say? For the sleazy political Left, the ends justify the means, even if it entails harming America and our troops in Iraq.

We're witnessing "Democrats Gone Wild", with congressional Democrats making good on their promise of unrelenting congressional hearings and subpoenas for the purpose of dragging Republicans up to Capitol Hill. What are Republicans to do? The embattled GOP is going to get thoroughly crushed in the realm of public opinion and at the voting booth if it doesn't develop a rapid response, damage control "war room" that systematically refutes the blatant smears and gross distortions of the Democrat Party and its chief surrogate, the liberal mainstream media (MSM). The GOP has a duty to tell the public what's really going on. But more about that later.

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THE ENEMY WITHIN by Timothy Rollins

"What a week in Washington! With what Evil Congressional Liberals have done, I, like many Americans, have become more afraid of Evil Congressional Liberals than of al-Qaeda and all terrorist groups combined. Evil Liberal Democrats clearly show themselves to be a far more insidious and dangerous enemy within our once-great Republic.
Anyone born before 1960 knows that had these anti-war measures come up in World War II, these people would have been charged with both treason and with lending aid and comfort to the enemy; tried, convicted and shot without 20 years of appeals. We fought World War II, won convincingly, and maintained a military presence in those countries while we helped these people rebuild their nations, and that is exactly what we're doing in Iraq now.
Through the Marshall Plan and other assistance over the years, Germany, Japan and South Korea went from rubble to economic powerhouses producing quality goods that meet and often exceed similar American-made items.
With all this talk about 'bringing the troops home', I have to ask where were the cries of bringing home troops stationed in Germany, Japan and South Korea were, and where we still - to this day - maintain a military presence. Contrary to what Liberals and mainstream media whores may think, America is not run by catchy sound bites on the six o'clock news."

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Crass and Class at George Mason University By Nicholas Provenzo

"Dr. John's Lewis' lecture last night at George Mason University on Islamic totalitarianism was one of the most surreal public experiences I have witnessed in all my years as an activist and advocate. It evidenced in no uncertain terms that rationality and common decency are under assault at even our most distinguished forums. Academic freedom means tolerating opposing views and countering them with reason and facts in an atmosphere of respect and civility. It is not an orgy of rude and abusive mindlessness—a description that defined the conduct of many in the audience that evening.

The philosophic theme of Lewis' talk was that individual freedom is a value and that the free have the right to protect themselves from the initiation of physical force. Lewis defended religious freedom on explicit grounds, including the freedom of those in attendance who stood up, turned their backs to him and attempted to shout him down to peacefully practice their respective creeds without fear of threats or physical coercion. Lewis contrasted the exercise of freedom in America with life in the totalitarian Islamic regimes, where there is no distinction between the power of the state and the practice of religion."

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The Defeatocrats' Cheer :: Michelle Malkin

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A Madrassa Grows in Brooklyn by Daniel Pipes

"Come September, an Arabic-language public secondary school is slated to open its doors in Brooklyn. The New York City Department of Education says the Khalil Gibran International Academy, serving grades six through 12, will boast a 'multicultural curriculum and intensive Arabic language instruction.'
This appears to be a marvelous idea, for New York and the country need native-born Arabic speakers. They have a role in the military, diplomacy, intelligence, the courts, the press, the academy, and many other institutions — and teaching languages to the young is the ideal route to polyglotism. As someone who spent years learning Arabic, I am enthusiastic in principle about the idea of this school, one of the first of its kind in the United States."

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Hot Air Video: O’Reilly catches Bill Moyers telling whoppers, Michelle comments

"This is good stuff: Bill O’Reilly nails, and perhaps goes as far as to pwn, leftwing documentarian and commentator Bill Moyers. Marvin Kalb and our own Michelle weigh in, Kalb for the defense and MM for the prosecution. It’s a longish segment, but worth your time. Note that the segment has been edited for brevity–on air it ran for about 12 minutes."

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National Council of Churches Supports the U.N. :: Maggie's Notebook

"When you and I attend the Sunday service at the church of our choice, how often do we contemplate the doctrine behind the church? My pastor is very conservative in thought and sticks to biblical teachings that I can confirm, within the Bible, for myself. From the pulpit, I implicitly trust him.

However, if you attend a church that is a member of the National Council of Churches or the the broader World Council of Churches, there are things to be aware of, issues to ponder and agendas to explore.

It's not as simple as the NCC agreeing with your philosophy...it's the matter of a percentage of the funds you give to your church being sent to the headquarters of your denomination and from there, likely, a donation made to the NCC. These figures are difficult to confirm, but the National Council of Churches must be funded in some manner. On the positive side, family.org reports that donations from mainstream churches have significantly declined, but have been replaced with funds from political-action groups - and numerous qualify as 'far-left' activism."

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Faultline USA: United Nations Entrenched Within Most Christian Denominations

"The left has been successfully mining the gullibility of American Christians for years. To prove just how successful the left has been in the infiltration of America’s Christian churches, take this little test.

Would you knowingly join, attend, support, or allow your children to be indoctrinated in a Christian church that . . .


*Promotes the moral equivalency of all forms of global spirituality
*Focuses on the creation of an earthly Utopia as opposed to “outmoded” notions of the Kingdom of Heaven
*Stresses “consensus” Christianity over sound theological foundations and Biblical authority.
*Teaches that all war is contrary to God’s will
*Is critical of capitalism and democracy
*Fosters the notion that American patriotism and sovereignty is akin to racism
*Accuses the U.S. of being the source of international poverty and unjust warfare
*Promotes a revolutionary leftist/Marxist social agenda often referred to as Liberation Theology
*Promotes multilateralism through international institutions where the UN and the International Court would overrule the U.S. Constitution
*Is actively working towards the implementation of a Global church and Global government overseen by the UN
Of course you wouldn’t knowingly be part of such a church unless you are a card-carrying leftist."

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April Twenty-Fourth By The Stiletto :: Political Mavens

"Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The Stiletto has been championing passage of H.Res.106/S.Res.106, which would bring the U.S. in line with other Western governments in recognizing the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-1917 by Ottoman Turks as a genocide. Some even believe that the genocidal campaign against Christian Armenians should be consdered the first Muslim jihad against a Christian population in modern history – a point of view that has gained currency in the wake of last week’s murder of three Christians by Turkish nationalists in Malatya.
But today is not a day for debate or rhetoric. Today belongs to the Christian martyrs and their families. To commemorate the 92nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, The Stiletto offers this powerful, haunting poem written after the Allied victory in World War II. The Stiletto is indebted to the translator who worked with her to recreate as faithful a rendition of the poet’s words and meaning as possible (the verses rhyme in the original Armenian)."

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Former German soldier traces Middle East crisis to Nazis By Chad Groening and Jody Brown

"Hilmar von Campe has written an autobiography called How Was it Possible?, which provides a insight into the relationship between Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime and Islam. The former Hitler youth says there was a very good relationship between the Jews and the Arabs before the war. 'The Arab leaders of that time invited the Jews back to Palestine and said together we can really make progress,' he shares.
But then, according to von Campe, Hitler invited a Muslim leader to come live in Berlin. 'It was a grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was a guest of Hitler from 1941 to 1945 in Berlin,' he states. The author says al-Husseini was provided a luxurious home by the Nazis and received the equivalent of $10,000 every month. 'And he plotted with Hitler how to destroy Israel and kill the Jews,' adds von Campe.
Al-Husseini assisted in the Holocaust, says the author, and helped spur hatred against the Jews in much of the Middle East. 'When he came back to Jerusalem, he turned the tide against the Jews and he launched the idea that the Jews have no right to the land on which they lived,' he says."

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Time for Harry Reid to Go By Mike Long

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid must go. He has crossed a rhetorical line that must not be crossed in public discourse. He has gone beyond sensible discussion among elected officials about strategy and tactics and into an area in which his judgment as a leader is now in doubt. One simply cannot hold a position of authority in the federal government and declare that soldiers in the field are fighting a battle that is already lost. If he believes this really is true–and I don’t believe he does–he has done double harm: First, he is betraying his duty as a leader by failing to unequivocally call for immediate–as in “this instant,” and not next year–withdrawal. Second, he has shown that he lacks the intellectual discretion to guard his words with respect to the impression he gives to our soldiers and the rest of the world.
Let’s talk plainly: Senator Reid put politics in front of the best interests of the nation. It shouldn’t be a mortal wound, but we are living in kill-or-be-killed political times. If Reid and his party want to live by the rhetorical sword they swing so carelessly at George Bush and the majority who elected him, Reid should go down by that same awful and unfair sword. "

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Why Must We Be Silent in the Face of Such Outrages? By Adrian Morgan

"The past week has seen three incidents demonstrating Islamists’ total hatred for Christianity and the values of the West. On Wednesday, April 18 in Malatya, central Turkey, three Christians were tied up, tortured for up to three hours, and then had their throats slit. Two of the victims, Ugur Yuksel amd Necati Aydin, were Turkish, and the other was a German national, Tilmann Geske. Their crime was to be Christians, working for Zirve, a publishing house which prints Bibles.

Four people were arrested at the scene. The suspected leader of the killers, 19-year old Emre Gunaydin, had thrown himself from a window to escape arrest, sustaining head injuries in the fall. On Saturday, Gunaydin’s girlfriend was also arrested. Malatya is the hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to murder Pope John Paul II in 1981. Even though both Turks who died on Wednesday had abandoned Islam and converted to Christianity, Ugur Yuksel was buried as a Muslim. "

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Terror's lobbyist :: Center For Security Policy

"This week, the Ohio Legislature will hold its second hearing on legislation designed to help the state make a real contribution to America's triumph in the War for the Free World. It would prevent investment by Ohio's public pension funds in companies that do business with the terrorism-sponsoring, nuclear weapons- and ballistic missile-building and genocide-threatening Islamic Republic of Iran.
Unfortunately, the Iranian regime and the corporations partnering with it (almost all of whom are foreign-owned and -operated, since American companies are prohibited from participating directly in such dealings and only a few circumvent that prohibition using off-shore subsidiaries) are being abetted by a well-heeled Washington lobby: the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC). Its president is William Reinsch and the effect of its lobbying at the moment would be to keep American taxpayers and pension fund beneficiaries underwriting our enemies through their institutional and personal investments."

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The making of a mass murderer-- In english class::By Mary Grabar

"If you were a student at Virginia Tech last fall and had a propensity for the gruesome and violent you could have satisfied your thirst for the bloody and course requirements by enrolling in Professor Brent Stevens’s English 3984 class, “Special Studies: Contemporary Horror.” And, as a plus, you wouldn’t have to read many books because some of the “texts”--as they increasingly are in English classes today--would be movies.
Guess who took that class that watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and explored in papers and a “fear journal” how “horror has become a masochistic pleasure,” according to the course description? Guess who read a graphic novel (a book with pictures, i.e., a comic book) titled From Hell by Alan Moore, presented by Professor Stevens as “one of the most popular and accomplished writers in the medium,” as well as the work of scholarly “criticism,” Men, Women and Chainsaws? Guess who was drawn to the course described by the professor with these words: “We are consuming horror on an unprecedented scale. But the rules have changed. Until recent years, lead characters could be counted on to survive the invasion of zombies/homicidal maniacs/vampires. But this margin of safety no longer exists; horror has become a masochistic pleasure”? Guess who said to himself, “Bingo! That’s the course I want!” to a course description that ended with the words, ‘WARNING: Not for the faint of heart.” "

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The Missing Moderate Muslims by Amil Imani

"“I am already against the next war,” read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I long to tell the driver: the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe and the “moderate Muslims” are either actively supporting them, placing the blame on the West, or simply looking the other way. This war aims to wipe out everything that free people cherish, including the right of expressing their sentiments. Banishing war has been the perennial dream of mankind’s best, while its worst have been frustrating its realization. To renounce war unilaterally and unconditionally is surrender and death.

Humanity has suffered horrific wars in the past. Yet, the present multi-form and multi-front war waged by Islamists has the potential of inflicting more suffering and destroying more lives than any before it. Ruthless Islamic forces are advancing rapidly in their conquests while those of freedom are acquiescing and retreating. Before long, Islamism is poised to achieve its Allah-mandated goal of cleansing the earth of all non-Muslims. Any and all means and weapons are to be enlisted in the service of this final holy war that aims to establish the Islamic Ummeh."

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Immigration Bill Advances North American Union - Cliff Kincaid

"Rep. Edward Royce, a high-ranking conservative California Republican, said over the weekend that a White House-backed amnesty plan for illegal aliens has provisions which undermine the national sovereignty of the U.S. and help facilitate development of a North American Union, much like the European Union that supersedes the sovereignty of 27 European countries.
He vowed to defy the White House and mobilize House Republicans against the bill, backed by what he called the “open borders lobby.”
Accuracy in Media has published several articles about the North American Union, the creation of which has been ignored by most of the media, except for Lou Dobbs of CNN and some conservative talk-radio hosts.
Speaking to the California Republican Assembly (CRA) on April 21, Royce, the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, warned the audience that the Bush Administration is failing to protect U.S. borders not only from entry by illegal aliens but from potential terrorists. He disclosed that Bush has complained to congressional Republicans that some of his friends are not happy with the building of a border fence between the U.S. and Mexico. But the building of such a barrier is the law, Royce emphasized."

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Aftermath of the 1960s?::By Thomas Sowell

"Someone recently said that mass shootings, such as those at Virginia Tech or Columbine High School, are largely a phenomenon of the 1960s and afterwards. If so, these tragedies can be added to the long list of disastrous consequences of the heady notions and extravagant rhetoric of that decade.

What was there in the 1960s vision of the world that could possibly lead anyone to consider it right to shoot at individuals who had done nothing to him? "
Collective guilt is one of the legacies of the 1960s that is still with us. We are still seeing a guilt trip for slavery being laid on people who never owned a slave in their lives, and who would be repelled by the very idea of owning a slave.

Back in the 1960s, it was considered Deep Stuff among the intelligentsia to say that American society -- all of us collectively -- were somehow responsible for the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King.

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The Adolescent Society By Christopher Chantrill

"Some people think that we have extended adolescence way too far into adulthood.

In rural society there is no such thing as adolescence. One day you are a child. The next day they conduct a coming-of-age ceremony and you are a man or a woman.

Not any more. Now you can live in the adolescent twilight zone between childhood and adulthood until way into your twenties. We talk, a generation after the liberating 1960s, about the responsibility of colleges in loco parentis for people who have already attained the age of majority. Today, college kids are treated more like children-except of course in their all-important 'sexual life'-than back in the good old days when students had to keep one foot on the floor.

So when a crazed kid, sorry an adult adolescent complete with reversed baseball cap, kills 32 people in a gun-free zone of a college campus even the Wall Street Journal starts busily editorializing about what the college woulda coulda shoulda done to stop it.

But surely the pundits should be marveling at how well colleges prevent student violence.

Young men, science tells us, are wired for violence. We bombard them constantly with the message that violence never solves anything. But we titillate them with all kinds of virtual violence in movies, music, videos, and first-person shooter video games. Then we humiliate them in our compulsory schools run, for the most part, by women with the assistance of mood-altering drugs."

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An Open Letter To Rush Limbaugh, Lucianne, Free Republic, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, & National Review. :: Right Wing News

"There has been a lot of discussion in the political wonk circles of late about why the left is outperforming the right in fund raising online.
Well, at the end of the 2006 election cycle, I created Rightroots, and with the help of some dedicated people (Mary Katharine Ham, Rob Bluey, Erick Erickson, Ed Morrissey, Patrick Hynes, & Lorie Byrd) we managed to raised north of $275k in about 3 months, even though we were trying to figure out what we were doing as we went along. After that, I can tell you exactly why the left raises more money than the right...
#1) They ask more.
#2) They have a bigger audience.
Now, let me break that down a bit.
When I say that they have a bigger audience, I mean that the left side of the blogosphere is a heck of a lot bigger than the right and the lefty blogs don't have a problem with asking their readers to contribute money to Democratic candidates. The Rightroots recruited bloggers started out smaller to begin with and percentage wise, a lot of the bigger blogs didn't want to ask their readers to contribute."

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'Choice grain into the wilderness': our British origins :: Vanishing American Blog

"As we watch from afar the apparent decline of the British people, it often occurs to me that most Americans are very cavalier about it; it's very popular among the 'mainstream' Republicans and self-described 'conservatives' who congregate on certain of the big web forums to sneer at the British, and to perversely cheer their setbacks. It's all very much of a piece with their Francophobia, and their general disdain for people across 'the pond'. After all, our ancestors were smart enough to get out of there, and to set up a 'democratic' government here, so why should we care what happens to the Euros? It's survival of the fittest, and if they're too weak, let them be conquered and overrun. Such is the attitude of some.

All this while, of course, we Americans are being conquered by stealth by Latinos and Moslems and whoever else can cross the finish line into our wide-open country.

But I often wonder why most Americans, even those of older generations who were taught actual history in school, are so blase about the fate of Europe, specifically Britain, which after all, is our mother country."

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Gates of Vienna: The Autonomer of William and Mary

"The Future Baron Bodissey had the misfortune to be born on Earth Day, so his annual family celebration always coincides with the Transcendent Gaia Green Moonbat Utopia Festival.

Yesterday was no exception. We went down to Williamsburg and took the future Baron out for his birthday dinner. Afterwards, while walking around the campus, we happened upon “Freetown”, a tent village set up in the Sunken Gardens behind the Wren Building."

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Muslim Charities: Moderate Non-Profits or Elaborate Deceptions? :: Judicial Watch

Today, some radical U.S. non-profit groups, pretending to be mainstream,humanitarian charities, are funding violent attacks against innocents, and the frightening thing is… the U.S.government surely knows about it.The money moves quietly, in discreet,nearly-untraceable forms. It can be carried,transferred and maneuvered until it mply “disappears.” According to the Washington Post, “Money can be handcarried abroad in small bundles. Cash
deposited in a U.S. bank can be withdrawn from ATMs in Israel, Egypt or Jordan. Stored-value cards are portable,while Internet banking allows fast and complex transfers. Fundraisers also use hawala, the ancient system of informal money transfers in which money moves among friends and relations.” 4 Using these and other financial tactics, front
organizations are funneling money to Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Middle East with ease.

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Intimidation: Radical Islam’s Attack on Democracy by Lance Fairchok

"The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has successfully lobbied for the United Nations to include language against blasphemy in the tenets of a new human rights body. At the end of March 2007, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council issued a resolution against the “defamation” of religion and requested member states to ban literature and other materials containing “racist or xenophobic ideas” that could encourage hostility toward religious groups. It urges nations 'to take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination of racist and xenophobic ideas and materials aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement and religious hatred, hostility or violence.'
Here are some highlights in the specific language from the IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 document dated 23 March 2007. The High Commissioner for Human Rights:"

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Cho Was a Terrorist! By Joan Swirsky

What’s the difference between Cho Seung-Hui and the many hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian and Islamic terrorists worldwide? It’s a three-word answer: choice of weapon.

Everything else is the same.

All of them planned their mass murders meticulously by preparing carefully loaded weapons (either cars or, in Cho’s case, guns) intended to produce maximum casualties.

All of them were duly deliberate, plotting their grisly massacres to result in a contagion of helplessness, fear and panic.

All of them had malice aforethought, anticipating that their acts would have the widest possible ripple effect, which they did – for the victims and their families, society-in-general, and their governments.

All of them left behind their own self-aggrandizing manifestos, photographs, videos, and tape-recorded statements, the better to provide an acid-in-the-wounds punctuation mark to their bloodthirsty deeds.

And all of them had identical rationalizations, blaming their acts on the “Big Satan” America or her ally, the “Little Satan” Israel.

What Is Not Similar?
The only difference between Cho’s terrorist act and those committed by fanatics in other countries is the way the media react to terrorism.
When Palestinians or Islamic fanatics massacre innocent people in pizza parlors, at weddings, and in the marketplace – in Israel, Spain, England, Russia, the list goes on and on – their hagiographies appear in the Arab media, their mothers applaud them as “heroes,” and terrorist countries like Syria and Iran renew both arms and money to like-minded murderers.

But in America, the predictable liberal media stick relentlessly to their tired themes, which they lard with code words, dissimulation and a numbingly repetitive politically correct agenda.

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Criminal Negligence at Virginia Tech by Henry Mark Holzer

"While South Korean 23-year-old mass murderer Cho Seung-hui goes into the record books, people are asking themselves who could have done what to prevent the slaughter of 32 innocent victims.
There is no need to detail here how many people at Virginia Tech and elsewhere knew that the future killer was deeply disturbed, probably even psychotic: teachers, classmates, staff, administrators, police, family, campus cops.
But some people, like some of those I dined with last night, wonder “what could have been done?” After all, “Cho hadn’t done anything.”
Let’s take a look at Title 37.2 of Virginia’s “Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services” law, Subtitle III “Admissions and Dispositions,” Chapter 8 “Emergency Custody and Voluntary and Involuntary Civil Admissions,” Section 37.2-808 “Emergency custody; issuance and execution of order,” and a few other sections.
The statute appears below. The italics are mine."

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Al-Qaeda ‘planning big British attack’-News-UK-TimesOnline

"AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.
Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West.
Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by Al-Qaeda planners as a “change in the head of the company”.
The report, produced earlier this month and seen by The Sunday Times, appears to provide evidence that Al-Qaeda is active in Iran and has ambitions far beyond the improvised attacks it has been waging against British and American soldiers in Iraq.
There is no evidence of a formal relationship between Al-Qaeda, a Sunni group, and the Shi’ite regime of President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad, but experts suggest that Iran’s leaders may be turning a blind eye to the terrorist organisation’s activities.
The intelligence report also makes it clear that senior Al-Qaeda figures in the region have been in recent contact with operatives in Britain. "

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Harry Reid, Loser by Jed Babbin - HUMAN EVENTS

"The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, believes the war in Iraq is lost. There is nothing about that conclusion that bothers Reid: He is as blasé as he is certain, as resolute in pursuit of defeat as Churchill was in pursuit of victory. Last November, the Democrats seized control of Congress on the pretense that they wanted to change our policy regarding Iraq but not -- as they, to a man (and a woman) insisted -- to merely cut and run. We knew they weren’t being truthful then, but too many people were taken in. Now all pretense is dispensed with: we can see the man behind the curtain.

On Thursday, Reid said: 'I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.' He said that in the middle of a week when some 146,000 Americans are serving in Iraq, and at least 6 have died. He said that at a time when the troop surge announced by President Bush has only managed to deliver three of five brigades -- about 60% of the planned 21,000 additional troops -- to Iraq. The fact that the surge hasn’t had a chance to work is much less important to Reid and the Dems than the political mileage they may gain from declaring it a failure."

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Speaking as a Former Fetus...::By Dinesh D'Souza

"Speaking as a former fetus, I welcome the Supreme Court's decision permitting regulation of partial birth abortion. Now there's lots of talk about a wider pro-life strategy to build on this victory. Such a strategy must be one of persuasion as much as legislation. I am not an expert on the abortion issue, but I have learned a great deal about it, strangely enough, by studying the Lincoln-Douglas debates. These debates were about slavery. But look at how closely the arguments parallel the abortion debate.
Douglas, the Democrat, took the pro-choice position. He said that each state should decide for itself whether or not it wanted slavery. Douglas denied that he was pro-slavery. In fact, at one time he professed to be 'personally opposed' to it. At the same time, Douglas was reluctant to impose his moral views on the new territories. Douglas affirmed the right of each state to choose. He invoked the great principle of freedom of choice. "

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The Followers of ISMAIL By David J. Jonsson

"In recent weeks we have seen resurgence in the followers of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam. Libyan leader Mu'ammar Qaddafi called, in a speech in Niger to Tuareg tribal leaders, for the establishment of a second Shi'ite Fatimid state in North Africa, after the model of the 10th-13th century empire that ruled North Africa, Egypt, and parts of the Fertile Crescent. It is worthwhile to review some of the background and origins of this sect and also to see how it may be impacting current events. The Ismailis are the followers of the seventh caliph Ismail and are know as seveners vs. the followers of the twelfth Imam or twelvers as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Ismaili Students' Association operates on many campuses."

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Why the Virginia Tech shooter was not committed. BY JONATHAN KELLERMAN

"I was in graduate school, studying clinical psychology when they began shutting down the asylums. The place was California, the time was the early 1970s, and 'they' were an unprecedented confederation of progressives, libertarians and fiscal conservatives.
From the left marched battalions of self-styled mental health 'liberation activists' steeped in the writings of Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Though he denied being opposed to his own profession, Laing's notion that madness could be a reasonable reaction to an unjust society, or even a vehicle for spiritual transformation, helped fuel the anti-psychiatry movement of the post Love-In era. The most radical of Laingians carried revisionism one step further: Not only wasn't psychosis a bad thing, it was evidence of a superior level of consciousness.
The libertarians were fueled by Thomas Szasz, an iconoclastic psychiatrist who was, and remains, an outspoken foe of virtually every aspect of his chosen specialty. Hungarian-born in 1920, and witness to vicious state exploitation of medical practice by the Nazis and the communists, Dr. Szasz pushed an absolutist dogma of individual choice, finding ready converts among members of the Do-Your-Own-Thing generation. Though his early essays offered much-needed critiques of the Orwellian nightmares that can result when autocracy corrupts health care, Dr. Szasz devolved into something of a psychiatric Flat-Earther, insisting in the face of mounting contrary evidence that mental illness simply does not exist. Currently, he serves on a commission, cofounded with the Church of Scientology, that purports to investigate human rights violations perpetrated by mental health professionals."

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Rationing hysteria among the panicked By Wesley pruden

"History unfolds with exquisite irony. The nation reels in bewildered disbelief at wholesale death on a placid university campus in bucolic Virginia, and hundreds of miles away the nation's highest court hands down a stay of execution for a number of innocents.
Everyone affects a pose of grief and lamentation, though some of the politicians act as if the massacre at Virginia Tech was a godsend to jump-start the debate over whether to repeal the Second Amendment. Some of those grieving loudest over wholesale death at Blacksburg decry the loudest at upholding the ban of a particularly gruesome and grisly method of aborting a live, fully developed child. "

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The lesson of Cho Seung-Hui::Vox Day - WorldNetDaily

"In retrospect, all things become predictable. Some things, however, are easily anticipated. It did not take an hour before ABC News was attempting to connect the VTU murders with the assault-weapons ban, despite the fact that the ''heavily-armed'' murderer, Cho Seung-Hui, was actually armed with two of the smallest firearms known to man. In fact, the only way to be less heavily armed and still qualify as armed would be to carry two .22 pop guns instead of only one.
Fortunately, after 20 years of similarly fraudulent anti-gun antics, the American people are no longer falling for such absurd tactics from those who wish to disarm them; ABC's own online poll was running more than 2-1 against the utility of additional gun control measures even as the body count was still ticking upward on the cable news shows. While the irony of the fact that Virginia Tech is a legally gun-free zone may have escaped the empty talking heads of the news media, it clearly was not beyond the notice of the average American.
This may come as shocking news to some, I know, but it is true nevertheless: criminals do not obey laws. "

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The Va Tech Shooting Should Serve As A Nationwide Call To Arms - Dave Gibson

"The shooting spree orchestrated by Seung Hui Cho and the incredible carnage wrought by that one man, was a tragedy that did not have to occur. Regardless of his motive, had one or two students or teachers been armed--his murderous orgy in Tech's Norris Hall could have been stopped before 32 innocent lives were lost.

Last year, a Va. Tech student was disciplined for carrying a gun on campus, even though he possessed a concealed weapons permit. Va. Tech officials were quick to point out that their school was a 'gun free zone.' That assertion has not only proven to be naive but deadly as well.

In January 2006, House Bill 1572 was introduced in the Virginia General assembly. The legislation would have allowed students who possess a concealed weapons permit to carry their guns anywhere on campus. Most schools in Virginia have policies against students and faculty carrying guns on campus, Va. Tech is of course one of those schools. Unfortunately, the bill failed to pass through the Committee on Militia, Police, and Public Safety.

Va. Tech Vice President Larry Hincker gave the following statement shortly after the aforementioned measure died in committee: 'I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty, and visitors feel safe on our campus.'"

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Let's be realistic about reality :: Mark Steyn

"Within hours of the Virginia Tech massacre, the New York Times had identified the problem: ''What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.''
According to the Canadian blogger Kate MacMillan, a caller to her local radio station went further and said she was teaching her children to ''fear guns.''
Overseas, meanwhile, the German network NTV was first to identify the perpetrator: To accompany their report on the shootings, they flashed up a picture of Charlton Heston touting his rifle at an NRA confab.
And at Yale, the dean of student affairs, Betty Trachtenberg, reacted to the Virginia Tech murders by taking decisive action: She banned all stage weapons from plays performed on campus. After protests from the drama department, she modified her decisive action to 'permit the use of obviously fake weapons' such as plastic swords."

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Are gun-free nations or "zones" safer?::By Mark M. Alexander

"Gun-free nations are safer -- at least for folks like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Castro, Pol Pot and Saddam, all of whom disarmed their detractors before slaughtering them by the tens of millions.
History records the consequences of disarming people, both in terms of protection, in their person and property, from tyrannical governments and from criminals. Regarding the latter, 'If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.'
Thomas Jefferson understood that maxim. In his Commonplace Book, Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, On Crimes and Punishment: 'Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.' "

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Earth Day: The Remix :: Classical Values Blog

September 14, 2006 A leading U.S. climate researcher says the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert catastrophe.
NASA scientist James Hansen, widely considered the doyen of American climate researchers, said governments must adopt an alternative scenario to keep carbon dioxide emission growth in check...

"I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most..."

I'm rather pressed for time these days, so I can't blog as much as I would like to.
Still, it is Earth Day, so I thought some gentle reminders are in order, time or no time. Thus, the remix.

Most of the following material has appeared on this blog before, but newer readers may have missed it, buried in the archives as it is. Look for "Ehrlich", "Rifkin", "Kunstler", or "Peak Oil", and it's all in there.

But honestly, who among them has the time? May they derive much enjoyment from these convenient re-runs.

This first one however, is entirely new to these pages. In 1970, Edwin Newman had this to say...

"By the end of the decade our rivers may have reached the boiling point. Three decades more, and they may evaporate. One of the causes of this thermal pollution is the spread of nuclear power across the land."
And he said it on national television! Thanks Ed. This one's a keeper!

Next up, a new scrap of Ehrlich, circa 1970...

"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish."

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Suicide & Islam: The connection to the slayings at Virginia Tech By Dave Gaubatz

"The murders at Virginia Tech by a young South Korean described as a loner -- a confused, depressed, and 'troubled' student -- and the non-response by the authorities to the first early morning attack converge to form a troubling pattern of thinking by law enforcement that is dangerous in the extreme. In their rush to avoid a motive of 'terror', law enforcement relax as soon as they think they are dealing with a lone madman or ugly domestic situation. This attitude must change.


Due to news coverage yesterday and today regarding the shootings at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, it was clear to me that this article was warranted and an important message to law enforcement personnel and the public. There has still been only limited information released by the authorities concerning the young man who decided to go on a murder spree. Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old South Korean who was in the US as a resident alien (i.e., “Green Card holder”) was also a senior majoring in English at Virginia Tech. He is now being described as a loner – a depressed and troubled young man.
How any state in the nation grants non-US citizens the privilege to carry arms is a whole discussion on its own, but not one I will focus on here. This article is entitled Suicide & Islam, not because of the murders by Seung-Hui at the university, but due to the rush by the authorities to determine after the initial shootings at 7:15am that the motive for the initial shooting-murders had nothing to do with terrorism or even to a potential mass murderer but instead was a “simple domestic murder” case. "

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The Virginia Tech Massacre, Immigration, the Peace Process, and Treason David Yerushalmi

"What can we learn from this horrific tale of murder and mayhem? Is the fact that the murderer was a resident alien and not an American relevant? What does it mean to be a 'citizen' as opposed to a 'resident alien'? Are you not a man like all others? Does any nation have the right to call you an immigrant -- legal or otherwise? What does this have to do with 32 murder victims, many of whom were Americans?

Treason. We have written extensively just recently on the act of treason dressed up as a Peace Process in the Middle East and as a peace process dressed up as Democracy-Building in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We now have treason on display in the Virginia Tech massacre as a peace process parading itself as an immigration policy. This immigration policy is based upon equality or Openness as in the Open Society or what we refer to here at SANE following Professor Robert J. Loewenberg’s term, Indiscriminacy. It is a Peace Process that always ends up sacrificing “victims” to prove that men, peoples, and the societies they form, are essentially no different one from the other. It is a Peace Process that, in the name of peace, seeks the World State."

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Why is it necessary to map Shari’a in America? By Dave Gaubatz :: SaneWorks

"The question has been asked of me, Why is it necessary to map Shari’a in America?
Implicitly this question is really two questions. Why would anyone need to map out all of the mosques and Islamic day schools in the US and assuming that this was a worthwhile project, why would a private non-profit organization such as SANE undertake this and not the FBI or some other division of the Homeland Security Administration?
The answer to the first question is based upon what I know to be true from my almost two decades working for the US Air Force (Office of Special Investigations) and the federal government (non-military) special agent specializing in intelligence and counter-terrorism, especially the Islamic variety. My professional career has required me to learn Arabic and to spend many years in the Middle East, developing human intelligence to learn who, what, where, and how the terrorists want to kill Americans and destroy our nation.
The first thing I learned was that the political ideology of winning over the West and the world for an Islamic Caliphate is NOT specific to some extremist group of Muslims. This is mainstream Islam and Shari’a. Historical, traditional and authoritative Islamic law mandates every Muslim to work to that end through personal development (or internalized Jihad), and outreach (or dawa), and external Jihad or war. "

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Al Sharpton: The Democrat's David Duke by Jeff Jacoby

"Among the earliest and clearest voices to condemn Trent Lott's benighted remarks last month were those of conservatives and Republicans, who were repelled by his nostalgia for segregation and quick to call for his ouster. When will liberals and Democrats show the same maturity and forcefully repudiate the noxious racial lout in their own tent, New York demagogue Al Sharpton?

And when will the media, which aggressively mined Lott's racial history and prominently reported the results, show a similar interest in digging into Sharpton's record -- a record far more shameful and egregious than anything Lott has to answer for.

This is a subject of more than idle interest. Al Sharpton says he is running for president. He has no hope of landing the White House, the Democratic nomination, or more than a handful of convention delegates, but that won't stop him from getting plenty of ink and air time. And maybe it shouldn't; presidential campaigns have often been enlivened and even enlightened by candidates who had no more chance of winning the presidency than they did of winning the Preakness."

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