GOP Sellout By Brian Darling

"“Sellout.” It may be harsh, but it’s the most accurate and succinct way to sum up how conservatives feel right now about President Bush and Senate Republicans, who have cut a deal that would grant amnesty to the estimated 12 million illegal aliens living in the
U.S.—not to mention the parents, spouses, and children of these illegals.
Title VI of a draft copy of the bill breaks down amnesty visas into three categories:

Z-1 — Illegal aliens present and working in the United States up to Jan. 1, 2007.
Z-2 — Parents and spouses of illegal aliens qualifying under the Z-1 category.
Z-3 — Children of illegal aliens qualifying under the Z-1 category.

These “Z Visa” holders can stay in the “Z” status indefinitely, which means they never have to pursue “a pathway to citizenship.” They also would be able to get Social Security numbers and benefit from some welfare programs. Shockingly, there is no cap on the numbers of amnesty recipients in the draft language. The only thing the Z Visa holder can’t do is vote—until, that is, a liberal judge declares this limitation unconstitutional or until a liberal president can railroad through a “technical corrections” bill. "

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Like a fox, in equality (Part 1) By Takuan Seiyo

"Of all bedrock Americana, none has caused me more intellectual malaise and emotional bewilderment than the phrase, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
What does it mean, 'All men are created equal'? It reads like one of those slogans where every single word is a lie, and the whole adds up to a larger lie. Why 'all men,' when Negro slaves and Indians were excluded? Why only 'men' but not women? Why 'created,' when people are unequal already at conception, let alone at birth? Why 'equal' at all, when 'men' are not equal, have never been, and, judging by the fate of past utopian egalitarian societies, can never be?
And how do you deal with the man who wrote these words: a slave-owning, natural aristocrat of good breeding and elitist predilections; a bon vivant connoisseur of fine wines, bespoke haberdashery and all that's exquisite ranging from china to book bindings? How do you place these words and this man in the context of his times, when most of his compatriots ate barley from earthenware pots and didn't know their Seneca from their snake oil peddler's pamphlet? "

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Tens of Thousands of Criminal Aliens Invade US; The Immigration Reform Lie by Jim Kouri

"It's old news that Presidente Vicente Fox exported Mexico's poorest citizens into the United States for a number of reasons: It relieved him of the responsibility of providing social and healthcare services for them; it provides his country's economy with an influx of US cash when these illegal workers send money the earn in the US back home; and it defuses problems with far-left groups who are usually successful in using the poor to advance their political agenda.

So Presidente Fox gave his poor the 'bum's rush' out of Mexico: 'Here's your sombrero, here's a map, here's a bottle of water, now get out!'"

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Russell Kirk: Conservatism's Ten Principles by Bonnie Alba

"You claim to be a conservative. I, too, claim to be a conservative. But what is a conservative? Americans pick up labels easily yet most of us lack a classical history education which would determine if we are true conservatives. We also have a difficult time determining the conservative thinking of our leaders or political candidates and are often misled.

We could blame the liberal, dumbed-down public education system. If you attempt to find undistorted history or conservative writers, you will not readily find them in our public schools and universities. "

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Muslim Fanatics at the University of California, Irvine :: By Luke Sheahan

"Nearly every week I write on the sickness pervading every aspect of our universities. Sometimes the inner rot is nuanced and needs explanation. But sometimes the filth encountered on university campuses is so apparent all I need do is report.

At the University of California, Irvine (UCI), a disturbing series of events is taking place. Last week, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) held a sick and twisted version of “Holocaust Memorial Week.” If you’re thinking of that little incident a half century ago with the Nazis and the Jews in Germany, you’re thinking a little narrow for the fellas in MSA. "

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Sher Zieve: Senate Placing USA One Step Closer to Oblivion

"Today, US senators are proud of themselves—very proud. They have affected something that the vast majority of legal voters in the United States didn’t want and have warned their representatives against. But, these senators are the US’ ruling elite—and what they want is all that really matters. And, they want the illegal immigrant vote. So these same senators have come to what they are calling a “bi-partisan agreement” on the revised McCain-Kennedy bill that—make no mistake—provides amnesty for the 12 million+ illegals already in the US and encourages more to continue their entry across our nevermore-to-be-protected southern border. The senate amnesty bill provides immediate legal status to the millions of illegal aliens in our country—placing them above current US law as well as ahead of immigrants seeking legal immigration. In other words, the US Senate is telling us that breaking US law has both tremendous appeal to current and potential lawbreakers and provides exceptional rewards to criminals. President Bush, who despite protests to the contrary strongly appears to favor the illegals’ entry to the US, applauded the senate bill and said it provides a solution “without amnesty but, without animosity.” Of course it’s amnesty! "

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The immigration debate features magical thinking By Al Knight

"The U.S. Senate, under the leadership of Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., embarks today on an exercise in magical thinking.
Reid and his Democratic allies - including Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo. - will attempt to convince the American people that the U.S. Senate is about to adopt 'comprehensive immigration reform' that is (pick your favorite adjective) tough, practical, sensible, realistic and humane.
These words have been carefully chosen since last year when the Senate adopted a measure that was roundly rejected by the then much more conservative House.
Salazar, presumably because he is one of the few Hispanic members of the Senate, has been recruited to take part in this exercise. In an announcement the other day, the Colorado senator said, 'We need to deal in a realistic and humane way with the 12 million people who are here and who are very much a part of the work force.'
For those unfamiliar with the immigration debate lingo, that means we need to find a way to let them stay. "

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The war that IS lost By Joseph Farah :: WorldNetDaily

"Jose Nemesio Lugo Felix was appointed last month as head of a drug intelligence unit in Mexico's attorney general's office.

Less than 30 days later, he was shot and killed in a sophisticated street ambush that is being characterized as a 'planned execution' – another assassination presumably by one of the Mexican drug cartels.

He hadn't even finished unpacking boxes in his new office.
The list of atrocities of this kind in Mexico grows on a daily basis: "

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WorldNetDaily: 'La Raza' has virtual veto over bill

"Controversial Latino groups, including the National Council of La Raza, were granted virtual veto power over the immigration bill hammered out yesterday by Senate Republicans, Democrats and the White House, the Washington Post reported.

A number of prominent Republicans have rejected the bill – which still has not been issued in its final form – as 'amnesty' for millions of people who came to the U.S. illegally.
The National Council of La Raza, or 'The Race,' was condemned last year by Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., as a radical 'pro-illegal immigration lobbying organization that supports racist groups calling for the secession of the western United States as a Hispanic-only homeland.' "

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Call Me an Islamaphob::By Michael McBride

"Phobia, as described by Webster... “an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation.”
Foxnews.com picked up on an Arab News story coming out of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday that describes Islamaphobia as “the worst form of terrorism” and the OIC was asking for steps world wide to curb it.

The OIC describes Islamaphobia as the “deliberate defamation of Islam and discrimination and intolerance of Muslims.” The OIC alludes to Islamaphobia as a concern well before 9/11…“Islamophobia became a source of concern, especially after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but the phenomenon was already there in Western societies in one form or the other…” They offer no specific examples."

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Mark Steyn, legal immigrant, on the Senate's new immigration "compromise" :: Hugh Hewitt

"HH: It’s Hugh Hewitt on a dark day for the country and the Republican Party, May 17th, 2007, the unveiling of a disastrous immigration “compromise.” It’s really amnesty lite, force fed, tastes terrible. Here to talk about it, Mark Steyn, Columnist to the World. Mark, we don’t have many details, but every one that we have, every one, is bad news. What do you think of this “compromise?”
MS: Yes, I don’t think it is a compromise, because I think essentially, the political class in this country are at odds with the vast majority of voters. This has become one of those things, in the same way that the European issue is in the United Kingdom, where both parties have decided that they know better than the electorate. And the electorate would like secure borders, and the electorate would like controlled, legal immigration, but the political class have decided they know best."

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Perpetuation of Puerile Politics & Poisonous Propaganda By Lee Ellis

"A letter in my local newspaper starts with 'Shame on Representative Mary Bono for defying the demands of the American people to end the Iraq disaster.'

Disaster?

I always thought that we had created a success in Iraq by having our armed forces in the heart of the Middle East with a new giant embassy loaded with all kinds of listening devices, thus helping to prevent further attacks on the United States. In addition to creating this island of Freedom in the Middle East, we were also able to rid the world of a corrupt despot who had used WMDs on his own people and had paid each suicide bomber’s family an award of $25,000. If Saddam Hussein were still in charge, I would hate to think of where his WMDs would be landing today instead of being secretly hidden in Syria, about which many officials have logically speculated. Saddam’s secret financing of terrorism would have doubled the amount now financed by Iran and Syria. "

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Academic Thuggery by Sonny Bunch

"IRONICALLY ENOUGH, aspiring conservative documentarian Evan Coyne Maloney received his inspiration from Michael Moore, the left-wing firebrand responsible for the anti-gun polemic Bowling for Columbine and the anti-Bush screed Fahrenheit 9/11. This isn't to say that Moore inspired him figuratively: Maloney literally stopped Moore on the street, interviewed him, and left with some helpful knowledge. When Maloney confronted the Oscar winner about the liberal slant of most Hollywood-produced documentaries, Moore responded thusly:
'I agree with you. I think this art form should be open to people of all political persuasions and not just be people who are liberal or left of center or whatever. . . . You want to encourage all voices to be heard because that's the best way to have, to come up with the best decisions in a free society. You don't want just one voice or one stream of thought being put out there. . . . Make your movies and then the people will respond, or not respond, to them.'"

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At War With the House Republicans by Erick Erickson

"After the voters slaughtered House Republicans this past November, most people expected some period of introspection and house cleaning among the GOP. Having seen Duke Cunningham (R.-Ca.), Tom DeLay (R.-Tx), and Mark Foley (R.-Fl.) resign over various indictments and accusations, people thought the Grand Old Party had lost its way.

When campaigning to become Minority Leader, John Boehner appeared to recognize this problem. In his campaign manifesto he wrote, “In 1994 we made it clear we wouldn't tolerate such activity, and showed our differences with the Democrats, by changing our rules to deny prime leadership and committee positions from any Member who had been indicted. The problem is that this isn't good enough any more. Voters correctly expect more from us, and we should expect more from each other.”"

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The Great PC Train Robbery By Lloyd Billingsley

On April 16, a Monday, passengers aboard the last Amtrak train of the day back from the Bay Area wondered why the engine ground to a stop as it approached the I Street bridge over the Sacramento River. They didn’t know that five people stood on the tracks, gang members among them, throwing rocks at the engineer, who stopped the train. The attackers dragged him out, demanded his wallet and cell phone, then beat him senseless with a bottle and a fire extinguisher. They also attacked the train's conductor. The engineer, with head and internal injuries, was taken to hospital. The train finally crossed the river to the Sacramento station under the control of a student conductor.

Train robberies were common in the wild west but are now practically unknown. By any journalistic standard this one was Big News, page-one material, especially with the gang involvement. The attack happened at about 10:15 pm, plenty of time for next-day coverage in the Sacramento Bee, the only daily in California's capital. A lot of people ride Amtrak too and would certainly want to know if gang members had robbed a train and nearly killed the engineer.

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The Cruelty of Cowards By Ralph Kinney Bennett

"Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
-- Montaigne
'The beheadings are still happening, but we have an order not to broadcast them. Everything is videotaped but we can't broadcast them. We do seek to capture and imprison American soldiers, but you have to understand that it is very difficult to do so because they patrol in groups, at least 15 soldiers at a time. We hope and pray to capture them.'
-- Al-Qaida fighter Abu Adam al-Maqdisi, interviewed on a radical Islamic website, April 27, 2007.
Even as we pray for those three missing American soldiers we are prepared for the worst.
They are not prisoners of war; that is, their capture was not a happenstance of battle.
They were the very object of the action that left their comrades dead and burned near Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad.
They were kidnapped, sought out as Americans for the purpose of embarrassment, humiliation, torture, and finally death and mutilation as a horrific lesson to the 'Crusaders' and to the world."

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Cultural War by Proxy By Wolfgang Bruno

"In our clash with Islam, our opponents have at least one major advantage over us: At the beginning of the 21st century, the West has indeed lost its way and sense of purpose. We want to defend “Western civilization”, but are we even sure what that is anymore, or was it lost in the multicultural fog somewhere? Is the West primarily defined by its Judeo-Christian religious heritage, or is it something else?

The Western Left has a clear goal: The destruction of the society that vanquished its dreams fifteen years ago. But it does not have, as in the old days of the Soviet Union, the hard power to accomplish this by itself. Their bets are now on Islam. Religious people in the West tend to view secularists as anti-Christian hypocrites, and not without some justification. Devout Catholic Italian Rocco Buttiglione was rejected as the European Union’s justice commissioner because of his conservative, religious views. At the same time, the EU has extensive relations with the brutal theocracy in Iran, and few Islamic organizations, not even terrorist group Hamas, ever seem to be too extremist for the EU to cooperate with them. In the USA, the ACLU makes sure that prayer in public schools is just fine for Muslims, but banned for everybody else."

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Fred Thompson's Message to Pajamas Media

"So, I hear you all have been talking about me.

It seems that I ought to respond, at least briefly, to all those who have expressed confidence in me — both here and in other forums. I do not take that confidence lightly.
The Pajamas Media poll is certainly good news, especially when, for a lot of politicians, encouragement to run from three relatives and an unemployed campaign consultant is considered an unstoppable groundswell. When people are saying nice things about me, I try to remember the proverb that compares flattery to a net at your feet. To be sure, the Pajamas poll results are very flattering, so let me return the favor and throw a net at your feet.

Whether or not the Internet can elect any particular candidate in any particular race, it’s clear that all of you and our many friends across the blogosphere and the Web are part of a true information revolution. That’s why so much of my effort has been focused on talking to Americans through this medium. By empowering individuals and building communities, the Internet provides a way of going around the inside-the-beltway crowd to reach people in numbers unheard of not that long ago. "

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The Fatherhood Movement, Professionalism and Progress By Glenn Sacks

"One of the many problems the fatherhood movement has is its fairly widespread distaste for professionalism. Somehow it's seen as dirty if a fathers' or shared parenting group tries to raise money for its activism. Some groups even (gasp) charge a membership fee. God forbid fathers should contribute and help finance the people and groups who fight for them.
Somehow we're supposed to take on the very well-funded women's groups which oppose shared parenting and fatherhood with a rag tag, under-funded force. What many in this movement don't seem to understand is that to win we need to do the same things the feminist groups do. We need lobbyists, we need media people, we need a presence in Washington DC and in every state capitol, and the only way you get that is by raising money. And until we have it, don't count on us winning very often."

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Rudy, Mitt and McCain Prove (Again) They're not Conservatives by Jed Babbin

"Though otherwise almost perfectly valueless, the South Carolina debate did prove one thing: three of the top four candidates -- Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain and Gov. Mitt Romney -- are not conservatives by any reasonable definition. The debate was within reach of any of the three to win, and each nearly lost it. After the first Republican candidates’ encounter, in which Mayor Giuliani famously blew it on the issue of overturning Roe v. Wade, he had his big chance in Columbia last night. Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked him how he -- a pro-choice, pro-gun control Republican who once supported liberal Democrat Mario Cuomo for governor of New York -- could claim to be a conservative. "

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Maggie's Notebook - Call For Justice UPDATE

"[Update Below and VERY disturbing] 'Knox Blacks Celebrate Carjacking Rapists in 'Party', scroll below for the update on this. [End Update]

On May 12, 2007, we posted 'A Call For Justice', asking for help to get the word out about the brutal, sadistic killing of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, details are at the link above.

I have noticed that finally this story is getting some traction among blogs, but still not much from our media, and I do look for it every day to follow up.

Today I see this:

Knoxville (WVLT) - Four people, charged with the deaths of a local couple were back in a Knoxville courtroom this morning.

A judge set trial dates for Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, Vanessa Coleman and George Thomas.

Volunteer TV’s Gordon Boyd was in the courtroom, during this morning's emotional hearing.

The silence inside the courtroom couldn't have been more tense. Victim's families and family members of two of the accused sat on opposite sides with deputies between; nine uniformed deputies and the sheriff himself standing watch."

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U.S. Health Freedom on Verge of Collapse By Byron J. Richards

"A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA’s dysfunctional management and legal team – meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.

S1082 is a Trojan Horse bill that pretends to address safety issues. Unbelievably, the bill turns the FDA into a drug development company that will expose Americans to new and dangerous biological drugs that have little testing to prove safety or effectiveness. And to top it off, the bill gives broad new regulatory powers to the FDA that can be used to frivolously attack dietary supplements and forward the FDA management’s anti-American globalization agenda. "

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Understanding the Worth of Our Nation By Frank Salvato

"It is difficult to value something when its worth is unknown. The adage of one child being given a toy only to leave it out in the rain to rust, never understanding the toy’s worth, while another child - made to earn the same toy - is found to take care of it, valuing its worth, is a fitting analogy. This basic truth applies to our American heritage and the continued welfare of our nation.

Most of us have never had to take up arms to protect our freedoms, our liberties, our rights as guaranteed under The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, our Charters of Freedom. In most cases these gifts have been bequeathed to us from those of generations past who did have to serve, to protect and defend our nation and by those who valiantly volunteer to serve today. What is asked of us in return for this legacy of freedom is loyalty to the covenant between citizen and government, loyalty to our nation."

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THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF SOCIALISM THAT FUELS DEMOGRAPHIC DOOM :: Real Clear Religion

"Europe has attempted to halt a demographic crash through socialistic legislation designed to stave off the muslim onslaught and increase its native population. Germany and other countries have begun paying women to have children and also provide nationalized child care. Although well intentioned, wisdom is lacking as to the source and solution. Because these laws are based upon a socialistic agenda, rather than bringing about lasting and necessary changes in the hearts and mind of its people --they will instead deepen the problem. "

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The Senate's Rotten Deal::By Rich Lowry

"The U.S. has now constructed .286 percent of the 700 miles of fencing on the southern border provided for in 2006's Secure Fence Act. That is sufficient for a bipartisan group of senators to want to effectively declare this brief national experiment with immigration enforcement effectively over.
Enough with the harsh exclusionary measures! Two miles of fencing out of 700 passed by Congress on a border stretching 1,952 miles is a milestone that should mark our departure to the next phase of immigration policy -- a sweeping amnesty of illegals and an increase in legal immigration. Thus, another confirmation of the iron rule of the nation's immigration politics: No matter how discontented the public is with our broken immigration system, the political elite's answer is always higher levels of immigration. "

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Fred Thompson isn't yet running, but he's running a great campaign. By Peggy Noonan

"Having watched the second Republican debate the other night, it's clear to me the subject today is Fred Thompson, the man who wasn't there. While the other candidates bang away earnestly in a frozen format, Thompson continues to sneak up from the creek and steal their underwear--boxers, briefs and temple garments.
He is running a great campaign. It's just not a declared campaign. It's a guerrilla campaign whose informality is meant to obscure his intent. It has been going on for months and is aimed at the major pleasure zones of the Republican brain. In a series of pointed columns, commentaries and podcasts, Mr. Thompson has been talking about things conservatives actually talk about. Shouldn't homeowners have the right to own a gun? Isn't it bad that colleges don't teach military history? How about that Sarkozy--good news, isn't it? Did you see Tenet on Russert? His book sounds shallow, tell-all-y. "

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Thank You Sgt. Padgett by Lance Fairchok

"Sgt Timothy P. Padgett, 28, came home today, in a flag draped casket, his life given like so many before him, to the eternal struggle of light against the darkness. He was coming home to a small town in the Florida panhandle, a town that remembers him as a volunteer firefighter who had his Mom drive him to fires before he got his license in high school. He understood at a young age what citizenship means. He was the youngest of three, and his mother calls him her baby. Her heart is broken, yet she respects his decision to serve, and in that heartrending sadness, she is proud of his bravery, his dedication and his desire to help others.
Killed in a firefight in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Sgt Padgett was a Special Forces medic. He almost certainly spent more time helping remote villages and their children than he did the wounded in combat. That is what the Green Berets do; that is what Americans do. I knew all this, yet I was utterly unprepared for the sight that greeted me at the Air Force Base when Sgt Padgett’s casket passed through on his was home."

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Immigrants Already Displacing Americans At Record Rate—Even Before Senate Sellout By Edwin S. Rubenstein

"The Bush White House and the Senate leadership returned to their the vomit today, essentially reviving last year's Bush-Kennedy Immigration Acceleration Act,
As it happens, even without any help from the Senate, just released tables from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the number of foreign born persons working in the U.S. increased nearly 6 percent in 2006.

Not since 2002, when post 9/11 security measures prompted many temporary and seasonal workers to stay in the country rather than risk apprehension at the border, has the immigrant workforce grown so rapidly. (Table 1.)

From 2000 to 2006 the foreign-born workforce grew by 5.3 million, or 31 percent. Over the same period the number of U.S.-born workers rose by 3.9 million, or 3.3 percent. About 57 of every 100 jobs created during these six years went to an immigrant."

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Michelle Malkin: It's here: The Bush-Kennedy amnestyReport: Potential cost = $2.5 trillionUpdated with GOP reax

"The amnesty sellout arrives. Background at this post.
Lie of the day from Arlen 'Illegal Alien Gold Card' Specter: 'This will restore the rule of law.'

Second biggest lie of the day:
Bush called it 'a much-needed solution to the problem of illegal immigration in this country' and said, if approved, the proposal 'delivers an immigration system that is secure, productive, orderly and fair.'

Update: Reax from Sen. Jim DeMint...
“I hope we don't take a thousand page bill written in secret and try to ram it through the Senate in a few days. This is a very important issue for America and we need time to debate it.”
“But the little we do know about the bill is troubling. According to reports, the bill contains a new 'Z-visa' that allows those who entered our country illegally to stay here permanently without ever returning home. This rewards people who broke the law with permanent legal status, and puts them ahead of millions of law-abiding immigrants waiting to come to America. I don't care how you try to spin it, this is amnesty.”
Via Kate O'Beirne, Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector estimates the bill's pricetag at a potential $2.5 trillion with a 't:'"

Michelle Malkin: It's here: The Bush-Kennedy amnesty
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Islamic Evil: Sharia Honor Killing by Kurds in Iraq « Foehammer’s Anvil

"Be warned. This video footage is NOT CENSORED. You can find enough watered-down video on CNN and the like. I am sick to death of all the softball tossing. Here is the real evil of Islam in action for you to bear witness to. Don’t turn away. This poor girl is owed some respect. I want you to see this pack of dogs that deem themselves men surround this teenage girl, molest her and stone her to death in the name of Allah. I want you to understand what I came to understand so many years ago, when I first witnessed footage of an American being beheaded by jihadi scum"

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Gates of Vienna: The Cult of Science and Fire-Worship

"For those who lived under communist rule — like the author of this piece — it is obvious that science played the central role in their ideology. Starting with Marx, communists claimed that their ideology was based completely upon rational scientific calculation, as opposed to traditional faith. They claimed that science can account for not only the material world, but also the world of ideas and social behavior. That explains why communists always paid great attention to economics and sociology. The failure of those pseudo-scientific disciplines could itself be a topic for a paper. However, here I am only discussing one interesting feature of the scientific cult — its close relation to fire-worship."

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Stupidity Without Borders — The Alliance of Utopias By Fjordman

"The 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries have witnessed the most spectacular population growth in human history, most of it in Third World countries. The world’s population, estimated at 6.4 billion in 2006, grows by more than 70 million people per year. In sixty years, Brazil’s population has increased by 318 per cent; Ethiopia’s by 503 per cent. There are now 73 million people in Ethiopia — more than the population of Britain or France.

At the same time, many of the most economically successful countries, both in the East and in the West, have problems with ageing or declining populations. At its peak around 1910, one-quarter of the world’s population lived in Europe or North America. Today the percentage has probably declined to about one-eighth. South Korea’s birthrate has dropped to the point where the average Korean woman is expected to have only one child throughout her life. The U.S. still has a birthrate of more than two, while the U.K. saw births inch up from 1.63 to 1.74 and Germany from 1.34 to 1.37 in the same period. The low birthrate problem in Asia is rooted in women’s rising social and economic standing. Japan’s birthrate was 1.28, comparable to Taiwan’s 1.22, and Hong Kong’s 0.94."

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Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Christian Just War Doctrine, Is it Feasible Against Islam? By Tom Snodgrass

"The world civilization historians Will and Ariel Durant in their 1968 book, The Lessons of History, wrote: “In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.” Looking at the 39 years since 1968, it is safe to say that the 268 number still stands. Since only 8% of recorded human history has been war-free by the Durant count, it is not surprising that mankind has attempted with very limited success to regulate the frequency of war and its conduct. What is surprising however are the huge numbers of people in Western Civilization who continually attempt to deny the reality of war. Whether or not war is an integral component to human existence (see my essays On War, Part I and Part II), war’s frequency attests to its unavoidability in human history when politico-religious entities reach irreconcilable impasse.

Since war is an undeniable reality in human life, and war in the guise of Islamic Jihad is currently erupting in every corner of the globe, I propose to analyze whether a viable moral approach to the war against Islam and it’s Jihad exists from a military man’s point of view. In order to do so, I would like to look at the morality of war-making in historical context, and then use that historical framework to examine the conflict between the US and the those who carry out Jihad to install Shari’a in Dar al-Harb (the “Land of War” or the territory where the Shari’a is not the dominant politico-legal system – or put simply, “the West”)."

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The "Worldbankers" stage a hostile takeover By Pablo Pardo

"EXACTLY TWO YEARS AGO, at a cocktail party, a staff member of the World Bank told me: 'I think he is a murderer.' 'He' was Paul Wolfowitz, then just a week away from taking the helm at the world's biggest development agency. Many at the Bank thought the same way as my friend, who said some of his colleagues had hung newspaper articles calling for the trial of Paul Wolfowitz as a 'war criminal' from their office doors.
Now, Wolfowitz is gone, and the bureaucracy is safe again. It has been a perfect coup. "

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You’re Listening to Radio Free Congress::By Fred Thompson

"I had planned on talking a bit today about Venezuela. The president there doesn't like the way his media is covering him, so he's doing away with the free press. He's established rules on what he thinks is fair, and he’s denying licenses to television and radio stations that don't play by government rules.
I can't criticize him now, though. After all, how would it seem for me to complain about another country, when our own congressional leadership is trying to put the same sort of rules in place here? To do so, they're pulling the Fairness Doctrine out of the dustbin of history.

The Fairness Doctrine is an artifact from the days when there were only a handful of television channels and radio stations on our dials. Then, there might have been something to the fear that somebody might get control of all the media outlets in an area -- so equal time rules were put in place. "

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The Mystic Who Set Europe On Fire By James Lewis

"One of Aldous Huxley's best novels, Grey Eminence, is devoted to Father Joseph, the mystical power-politician who helped set Europe on fire during the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648).

Father Joseph believed zealously in bringing Paradise on earth through God's own representative, the Most Holy King Louis XIII of France. God was on the side of the King of France, and war was the means to make Catholic France the supreme power in Europe.

Father Joseph's story is directly relevant to our lives today because he closely resembles Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad, who proudly celebrated 'Nuclear Day' recently in Tehran. Both were mystical visionaries, convinced they were divinely called to bring hellfire to God's enemies on earth. Both served as soldiers, zealously promoting violent campaigns against infidel peoples. Both lived personal lives of austerity, combined with an absolute dedication to power. They tortured themselves, the better to torture others. "

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A plea to save Russia from an enemy within By Vladimir Ryzhkov

"Moscow - The more Russian leaders pontificate about the importance of democracy and the more they swear to protect democratic values and principles, the less democracy is left in real Russian life. When Moscow bade farewell to the outstanding Russian democrat and reformer Boris Yeltsin last month, many ordinary people told me it was not just Yeltsin who was being buried in the Novodevichy cemetery but Russian freedom itself.
Young Russian democracy, which the Russian people seized from the hands of the Communists, has been almost completely destroyed under President Vladimir Putin. It has been exterminated gradually, by small lethal injections to its weakening body.
How freedom was lost
Why have Russians so easily parted with their freedom and constitutional rights? Have we thrown away our freedom like a boring toy or was it stolen from us one long winter night? "

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The Peoples Cube :: Official May Day Address 2007

"Annual Transmission to Toiling Masses on occasion of May 1st International Workers' Solidarity Day
Delivered by Laika the Space Dog, Member of Politburo, Friend of Progressive People
Workers, peasants, and the unwashed toiling intelligentsia! < prolonged applause >
Congratulations on surviving another glorious year of Revolution! This year we witnessed the collapse of the Republican Capitalist voting system! For the first time since 1994 no voting irregularities were reported in the mainstream media. The record turnout of dead voters, whom we like to call 'necro-proxies of progress' has given the Democratic Socialists an absolute mandate to do whatever they damn well please in both The House of Representatives and The Senate. The absolutist rule of the Democratic majority shall bury the silly idea of a 'republic' once and for all. Oh yes! We will bury you!
< Slams podium with shoe >"

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Hundreds of Illegals Have Registered to Vote in Bexar County By Jim Forsyth

"Hundreds of illegal immigrants have registered to vote in Bexar County in recent years and dozens of them have actually cast ballots, canceling out the votes of U.S. citizens, 1200 WOAI news will report Thursday morning.

Figures obtained by 1200 WOAI news shows 303 illegals successfully registered to vote, and at least 41 cast ballots in various elections.

Bexar County Elections Administrator Jackie Callanan confirmed the figures, but she says a new form of voter registration card, which requires people to swear they are citizens when they register, should help cut the problem, because people who vote illegally can be charged with perjury.

And the county has some sly ways to catch them."

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Beheading Nations: The Islamization of Europe’s Cities By Fjordman

"We have seen videos on TV of Muslim Jihadis beheading infidel hostages. Less attention has been paid to the fact that Muslims are beheading entire nation states. Although this is happening in slow motion, it is no less dramatic. Historically, the major cities have constituted a country’s “head,” the seat of most of its political institutions and the largest concentration of its cultural brainpower. What happens when this “head” is cut off from the rest of the body?

In many countries across Western Europe, Muslim immigrants tend to settle in major cities, with the native population retreating to minor cities or into the countryside. Previously, Europeans or non-Europeans could travel between countries and visit new cities, each with its own, distinctive character and peculiarities. Soon, you will travel from London to Paris, Amsterdam or Stockholm and find that you have left one city dominated by burkas and sharia to find… yet another city dominated by burkas and sharia."

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SENATOR INHOFE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC RELEASE OF “SKEPTIC’S GUIDE TO DEBUNKING GLOBAL WARMING”

"Washington D.C. - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the outgoing Chairman of Environment & Public Works Committee, is pleased to announce the public release of the Senate Committee published booklet entitled “A Skeptic’s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming.”
Click here to download the 'Skeptic's Guide'

The color glossy 64 page booklet -- previously was only available in hardcopy to the media and policy makers -- includes speeches, graphs, press releases and scientific articles refuting catastrophe climate fears presented by the media, the United Nations, Hollywood and former Vice President turned-foreign-lobbyist Al Gore.
The “Skeptic’s Guide” includes a copy of Senator Inhofe’s 50 minute Senate floor speech delivered on September 25, 2006 challenging the media to improve its reporting. "

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Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics by Marc Morano

"Following the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, and the media driven “consensus” on man-made global warming.
The list below is just the tip of the iceberg. A more detailed and comprehensive sampling of scientists who have only recently spoken out against climate hysteria will be forthcoming in a soon to be released U.S. Senate report. Please stay tuned to this website, as this new government report is set to redefine the current climate debate. "

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Iran Crosses the Red Line by Kenneth Timmerman

"Iran has officially crossed the “red line” in its nuclear weapons development. That is the conclusion a team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors reached after a surprise inspection of Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz this past Sunday.
The inspectors gave the Iranians just two hours notice before they arrived on the scene, not enough time for the Iranians to hide suspicious or illicit activities.
Nor was it enough time, according to diplomats familiar with what the inspectors saw, for the Iranians to fake the 1,300 enrichment centrifuges humming away."

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The Democrats' Big Lie by Ben Shapiro

"The Democratic Party, we are led to believe, is the party of live-and-let-live, you-do-your-thing-I'll-do-mine, let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom morality. Part and parcel of the Democratic commitment to tolerance, we are told, is their commitment to religious and political diversity.
At the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan 2005, Rep. Nancy Pelosi explained, 'We must continue to work to promote religious tolerance; our diversity as a nation is one of our greatest strengths.' In April 2005, Sen. Hillary Clinton stated, 'Religious liberty is one of the most important issues on the world's agenda today.' Today, Barack Obama warns that Democrats must not 'equate tolerance with secularism and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning.'"

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Vindicating the Islamists By Gregory Faulkner

"One of the tenets of radical Islam's strategy is that the United States is weak-willed, and will do little more than equivocate or vacillate in the face of threats. The Islamists are confident that they can, quite literally, get away with murder. ‘Don't worry,' they say to themselves, ‘the Americans have no staying power; they grow war-weary after a few years and will beat the quickest path home.'
This attitude is addressed by famed Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis in an op-ed for Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, in which the author details the contempt that many Arabs have for American might:"

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New Penance Doesn't Offset Much By Victor Davis Hanson

"What do leftist, mostly secular elites share with medieval sinners?
They feel bad that the way they live sometimes doesn't quite match their professed dogma.
Many in the medieval church were criticized by internal reformers and the public at large for their controversial granting of penance, especially to the wealthy and influential. Clergy increasingly offered absolution of sins by ordering the guilty to confess. Better yet, sometimes the well-heeled sinners were told to pay money to the church, or to do good works that could then be banked to offset their bad.
Of course, critics of the practice argued that serial confessions simply encouraged serial sinning. The calculating sinner would do good things in one place to offset his premeditated bad in another. The corruption surrounding these cynical penances and indulgences helped anger Martin Luther and cause the Reformation."

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Acting Like Christians by Paul R. Hollrah

"If you’re as fed up as I am with all the petty little incidents that appear to offend Muslim religious sensibilities, then you’ll agree that it’s time we put a stop to it.
I mean, really! Are the people who run the taxpayer supported Minneapolis Community and Technical College going to bow to Muslim demands and install ritual foot-washing facilities? And if they do, are the people of Minnesota going to let them keep their jobs? Better yet, are plans being made to strip them naked, tar and feather them, and parade them through the streets of Minneapolis in the dead of winter? If not, why not?
It was at the Minneapolis airport several months ago that a group of six Imams attempted to stir controversy by purposely acting like a bunch of hijackers. Other passengers became frightened and had them tossed off the US Airways flight. Now they’re suing the airline and several of the passengers who complained. Good luck! And when I give the word, Imams, please take a deep breath and hold it! "

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No to Bush-Kennedy :: NRO

"“The fight over legalization, or ‘amnesty,’ is all but over,” exults the Manhattan Institute’s Tamar Jacoby, and the “yahoos” who oppose it have been routed. She is right about who has won, at least as far as the Senate is concerned. The Bush-Kennedy immigration “reform,” which is now expected to win broad bipartisan support in that chamber, provides legal status for an estimated 12 million illegal aliens. In exchange for the massive, unpopular amnesty, Senator Kennedy is willing to engage in a little “border dressing” that purports to beef up enforcement of current laws barring illegal entry and the employment of illegal workers. As in the past, supporters of border and workplace enforcement will get the rhetoric, illegal aliens the prize, and taxpayers the huge tab."

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Onward, Christian Soldiers – The Jerry Falwell Legacy by Michael Reagan

"While giving him credit (or in their secularist eyes, mostly the blame) for the rebirth of Christian political activism, most of the media commentary about the late Jerry Falwell centered around his so-called “controversial” remarks.

Putting aside the fact that those remarks were solidly rooted in the Holy Bible and Judeo-Christian tradition, all of the emphasis should have been on his astonishing success in giving new meaning to that great old marching song “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” Jerry Falwell was the marchers’ chief recruiting sergeant."

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Marxists and Radical Muslims of the World Unite! by Stephen Brown

"Forget the proletariat! Now it is Marxists and radical Muslims of the world unite!
If any doubt still existed regarding bonds being formed between the hardcore left and elements within Islam, one needed to look no further than the leftist “Festival of Resistence” conference held at the University of Toronto last weekend for confirmation.

As indicated by the causes they represented, the contemporary Marxists gathered there seem to have given up on the Western proletariat ever becoming revolutionary and placed their hopes elsewhere in their unending, hate-filled struggle to destroy capitalism. In the audience were members from such stimulating groups as the environment, First Nations, the anti-war movement and the transgendered (Was Marx a cross dresser?). But while diverse in nature, the one commonality they all possessed, one can be assured, was hatred of capitalism, Israel, the United States and of Western civilization. "

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A Memorial to the Victims of Communism, and My Tribute to Lee Edwards By Paul Weyrich

"As regular readers of this commentary know, thanks to the late Dr. Robert Krieble, I had the great opportunity to train thousands of people all over the Soviet Union in how to participate in the political process. I did this before the fall of the Berlin Wall but while there still was a Soviet Union although after the fall of the Soviet Empire. It was a remarkable opportunity.

Everywhere I went I heard about the victims of communism. In Sverdlovsk, which I visited in April 1990, I decided that Boris Yeltsin was okay because he permitted young people in his home jurisdiction to build a memorial to the victims of communism. Mind you, this was while the Soviet Union still was in existence. The youth of that country calculated that the communists had killed 70 million people. Imagine that they said this while no one could believe at that point that the Soviet Union would disintegrate. That memorial had been constructed for some years before we saw it. "

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The Black and White of 'Ho' Culture::By Kathleen Parker

"In a new twist in American race relations, a federal court has ruled that a white teacher in a predominantly African-American school was subjected to a racially hostile workplace.
The case concerned Elizabeth Kandrac, who was routinely verbally abused by black students at Brentwood Middle School in North Charleston. Their slurs make shock jock Don Imus look like a church deacon.
Nevertheless, despite frequent complaints, school officials did nothing to intervene on Kandrac's behalf, arguing that the racially charged profanity was simply part of the students' culture. If Kandrac couldn't handle cursing, school officials told her, she was in the wrong school. "

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CAIR labels terrorism expert Steve Emerson a "crusader" by Dan Meisler

"Terrorism expert Steven Emerson warned a luncheon audience in Genoa Township on Monday that militant Muslims are using 'strategic deception' to enter the mainstream political debate in America and advance their terrorist agenda.
But his comments drew denials and denouncement from a local Muslim group.
Talking as a part of Cleary University's Livingston Economic Club Speaker Series, Emerson said groups with harmless-sounding names like the Benevolence International Foundation or the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, are really front groups for Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists."

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Gates of Vienna: A Report From Islamberg

"Ever since last Friday people have been sending me links to Dr. Paul Williams’ story about the headquarters of the Muslims of America and Jamaat ul-Fuqra near Hancock, NY. I haven’t written about it until now for three reasons: 1) I’ve been too busy with my real job; 2) I have a mile-long backup of blog posts waiting to come out; and 3) There was no new information in the story.

Nonetheless, Dr. Williams’ story is a good summary of the available material on Islamberg. For more information on Jamaat ul-Fuqra look on our left sidebar and follow the links there, or visit The Politics of CP, which has the most exhaustive store of information on JF available on the internet."

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'Indoctrinate U' Exposes Leftist Agenda in American Universities by Ericka Andersen

"The war in Iraq was a regular hot topic in English class when I was in school. But why -- when it had no relevance to writing analyses’, breaking down prose, or fine-tuning style? When I heard about an unapologetic independent film production that uncovered illegitimate classroom agendas at public universities, I knew my school (Indiana University) was part of a larger problem.

“I’ve been learning in geography class that gender is socially constructed,” said a student from the University of Tennessee in the revealing documentary. “Indoctrinate U” exposes the liberally biased agenda of professors and administrators whose practices are like the Wizard of Oz -- behind a curtain no one has dared to lift until now. "

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Rudy, Mitt and McCain Prove (Again) They're not Conservatives by Jed Babbin

"Though otherwise almost perfectly valueless, the South Carolina debate did prove one thing: three of the top four candidates -- Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain and Gov. Mitt Romney -- are not conservatives by any reasonable definition. The debate was within reach of any of the three to win, and each nearly lost it. After the first Republican candidates’ encounter, in which Mayor Giuliani famously blew it on the issue of overturning Roe v. Wade, he had his big chance in Columbia last night. Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked him how he -- a pro-choice, pro-gun control Republican who once supported liberal Democrat Mario Cuomo for governor of New York -- could claim to be a conservative. "

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TYING THE KNOT OF OUR OWN NOOSE... SOMEBODY WAKE ME WHEN THIS IS OVER! By: David Brownlow

"A friend of mine recently shed his corporate handcuffs, sold everything he owns, and moved to a small island in the Caribbean. His parting words as he left were, 'Man, I am so outta here!'
There are mornings when I wake up wondering how much more of this I can take. Between watching our burgeoning police state expand at an exponential rate, to having my oldest son getting his butt shot off in some Iraqi hellhole - it is tempting to think of packing this all in and hightailing off to some remote corner of the world.
However, as much as I would rather be lounging on some white sandy beach with my lovely wife, I feel compelled to stay here and fight this one out. This happened on our watch, and we cannot leave this mess for our kids to clean up."

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Was Osama Right? BY BERNARD LEWIS

"During the Cold War, two things came to be known and generally recognized in the Middle East concerning the two rival superpowers. If you did anything to annoy the Russians, punishment would be swift and dire. If you said or did anything against the Americans, not only would there be no punishment; there might even be some possibility of reward, as the usual anxious procession of diplomats and politicians, journalists and scholars and miscellaneous others came with their usual pleading inquiries: 'What have we done to offend you? What can we do to put it right?'
A few examples may suffice. During the troubles in Lebanon in the 1970s and '80s, there were many attacks on American installations and individuals--notably the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, followed by a prompt withdrawal, and a whole series of kidnappings of Americans, both official and private, as well as of Europeans. There was only one attack on Soviet citizens, when one diplomat was killed and several others kidnapped. The Soviet response through their local agents was swift, and directed against the family of the leader of the kidnappers. The kidnapped Russians were promptly released, and after that there were no attacks on Soviet citizens or installations throughout the period of the Lebanese troubles."

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Near-term threat assessment for coordinated terrorist attack: "Extremely high" by Douglas Hagmann

"The threat of a “coordinated, al Qaeda sponsored terrorist attack” against and within the United States is “extremely high,” stated one intelligence source interviewed yesterday by the Northeast Intelligence Network. In particular, there is a “higher than average concern right now, for the time period through the end of May,” including but not specific to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. The threat is for planned attacks “possibly like those we saw in the Madrid and London attacks,” a reference to the coordinated terrorist bomb blasts that hit Madrid’s commuter train system on March 11, 2004 and London's public transportation system on July 7, 2005 respectively."

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Armed With Knowledge By David Hogberg

"As the shock from the massacre at Virginia Tech wears off, it appears the political fallout will be minimal. While there were a few calls for more gun control in the wake of the tragedy, they have gained no steam in Congress. Perhaps members of Congress are wary of the voting habits of gun owners. Or perhaps the public, in general, no longer views gun control as the proper response to the latest psycho who opens fire.

Whatever the reason, it may be time to consider gun policies that moves us in the opposite direction: arming ourselves."

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The New World Order GOP By Patrick Buchanan

"A federal program, Ronald Reagan used to say, is the closest thing to eternal life here on earth. Even the Gipper conceded he failed to get control of the federal behemoth.
At least he tried. But what can be said for the conservative movement today, as one witnesses the Wall Street Journal battle to save the $400,000-a-year tax-free sinecure of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, imperiled because Wolfie parked his World Bank squeeze over at State at a fatter salary than Condi Rice's?
There was a time when the Republican Party would have seized on this scandal to try to defund this 63-year-old relic. No more.
Yet, what is the purpose of keeping the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and its agencies, and NATO, all of which date to an era long gone? "

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Now Serving America’s Greatest Threat: The Triple-Decker Illegal Immigrant Terrorist Shield Sandwich By Gabriel Garnica

"I remember when a good sandwich consisted of cold cuts, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo or mustard and your favorite kind of bread. Nothing hits the spot like a good sandwich and, apparently, nothing threatens our national security, sovereignty, integrity and future like a sandwich as well.

The latter sandwich is nothing less than a triple-decker illegal immigrant terrorist shield sandwich, and you need to go get pen and paper so you can copy down this Leftist recipe."

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The price is too high for imported food::By Phyllis Schlafly

"The vast production of food in the United States is one of the greatest achievements of American free enterprise society of a superior system of patents that encourages the invention of fantastically efficient farm machinery. In one of America's favorite patriotic songs, we wax lyrical about our 'amber waves of grain.'
The Clinton administration conned American farmers into being the principal lobbyists in 2000 for passage of Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China, which gave Chinese goods unconditional access to U.S. markets.
Former President Bill Clinton promised in his State of the Union address that Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China would be a win-win for American agriculture because 'this agreement will open China's market to us.' The Department of Agriculture under Clinton predicted that the average annual value of U.S. agricultural exports to China would increase by $1.5 billion."

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The Future of the Republican Party By Richard Bentley

"In order to provide the leadership that the country needs, the Republican Party must attract and support candidates who are willing to fight the ten biggest threats to the American way of life. Those ten threats to the United States as we know and love it are the following:
1. Islamo-Fascism--the war to save the Western World
2. Global Warming Nazis
3. Socialist media bias
4. Empowered Socialist politicians (like Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Teddy Kennedy, etc.)
5. Lack of free speech on college campuses
6. Poltical power unionism
7. The lack of unfettered freedom of religion
8. The size of government
9. Over-taxation for some, and 'Representation without taxation' for others
10. American sovereignty "

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Uplift Our Troops As Heroes, Support Their Cause! - Felicia (Fee) Benamon

"Why has the war become a political football? Why do we have leaders in Congress who are determined to push benchmarks on an Iraq withdrawal when clearly our enemies are watching every move the Congress makes? Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's number 2 man recently mocked the bill Congress passed giving a time of withdrawal. In an internet video, he said the bill 'reflects American failure and frustration.' Why give our enemies the satisfaction of seeing our Congress in opposition against the President as he fights to win the War on Terror? We are surely showing weakness when we include a timetable to withdraw from Iraq. "

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Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State - Dave Gibson

"Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15's, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk.

No less than 70 percent of U.S. cities now have SWAT teams. In cities with a population of 50,000 or more, 90 percent now have SWAT teams.

Eastern Kentucky University professor Peter Kraska told the Washington Post last year that SWAT teams are currently sent out 40,000 times a year in the U.S. During the 1980's, SWAT teams were only used 3,000 times a year. Most of the time, SWAT teams are being sent out to simply serve warrants on non-violent drug offenders."

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Getting Our Minds Right: Multicultural Revolution For The West By Baron Bodissey :: Gates of Vienna

"Fjordman has coined the term “Glossocracy” for the systematic alteration and debasement of language by the Marxist and Multicultural ideologues who control most of the public institutions in the West. When you make it difficult to describe the world except in terms that are ideologically pre-defined, you also make it difficult to think in any other way.

At the same time, ordinary citizens are conditioned not to publicly express their unacceptable ideas. When “hate speech” can cause you to lose your career, or your pension, or even land you in jail, you become very careful of what you say.

It doesn’t require the full repressive apparatus of a totalitarian state to effect these conditions. What Fjordman calls a “soft totalitarianism” will do just as well. Soft totalitarianism has already come to maturity in the European Union, and it is well underway here in the United States."

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Why Western Art is Unique, and Why Muslim Immigration Threatens It By Fjordman :: The Brussels Journal

"I’d like to dwell on one aspect of Western culture that tends to be downplayed, but is quite important: We are the only culture in the history of mankind to develop realistic, faithful depictions of beings and matter in our paintings and sculptures, rather than merely stylized depictions. We are also the only culture to invent a way to depict three-dimensional subjects in a two-dimensional format. A similar perspective was lacking in all other types of early art, be that Chinese or Japanese, Indian, Mesoamerican, African or Middle Eastern. This could conceivably be because the Western man has perceived space and spatial relationships in a different way than other men. Westerners are different, from a very long time back."

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Michael Medved: Take a chill pill By Joseph Farah :: WorldNetDaily

"Michael Medved is fighting mad.
What is the talk-show host angry about?
What would stir him to attack old friends? What would rile him up to bear false witness? What would cause him to hurl invectives and smear good people and colleagues?
I've known Medved for many years. Right now, he is madder at WND than at anything in the 20 years or so I've observed him.
Why?
Because WND has been reporting on a subject few other news outlets will touch – globalism, the trend toward big regional governments, international 'trade' agreements that chip away at America's sovereignty, exploitation of people by greedy elites, usurpation of the Constitution's limits on government power and the ability of the people to shape their own destiny. "

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The Coming Great Divide in American Political Culture By J.R. Dunn

"Michael Barone's occasional forays into sociology are always a pleasure to come across. Like the rest of his work, they are concise, well-researched, original, and always marked by clarity. Barone goes where the data takes him, and never seems to have an agenda or an ideological ax to grind.

All this is true of his latest such piece, 'The Realignment of America' which appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, May 8. While going through recent census estimates, Barone discovered a pattern until now overlooked: the old coastal cities, or 'Coastal Megalopolises' are steadily becoming dominated by immigrants, while at the same time native Americans are repopulating the thriving heartland cities. "

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George Soros and the Future of the World Bank By Ed Lasky

"As Paul Wolfowitz struggles to retain his post as President of the World Bank in the face of a trumped up faux scandal engineered by his opponents (the outlines of which have been the subject of various Wall Street Journal exposes (here, here, and here), a grim scenario becomes possible, should he be forced from his position.

Wolfowitz has never been a favorite of the mandarins in the elite diplomatic corps. He will be forever associated and never forgiven for his involvement in the Iraq War. His resolute attitude - a zero-tolerance attitude - toward the corruption that has wasted billions of aid dollars has ruffled too many who have adopted a laissez faire attitude toward bribery and cronyism and indifference to bleak future of those who never see the aid that is channeled to overseas bank accounts."

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Londonistan Calling By Christopher Hitchens

"They say that the past is another country, but let me tell you that it's much more unsettling to find that the present has become another country, too. In my lost youth I lived in Finsbury Park, a shabby area of North London, roughly between the old Arsenal football ground and the Seven Sisters Road. It was a working-class neighborhood, with a good number of Irish and Cypriot immigrants. Your food choices were the inevitable fish-and-chips, plus the curry joint, plus a strong pitch from the Greek and Turkish kebab sellers. There was never much 'bother,' as the British say, in Finsbury Park. Greeks and Turks might be fighting in Cyprus, but they never lifted a hand to one another in London. Many of the Irish had republican allegiances, but they didn't take that out on the local Protestants. And, even though both Cyprus and Ireland had all the grievances of partitioned former British colonies, it would have seemed inconceivable—unimaginable—that any of their sons would put a bomb on the bus their neighbors used."

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Selling Out America by JB Williams

"According to liberal Democrats, their loyal press and their mindless minions across the country, none of whom care about the facts, they were “elected” by Americans in 2006 for the purpose of “saving America” from those corrupt Republicans who have been busy “selling America” to lobbyists and foreign interests.
The problem with their story is, according to official Federal Election Commission reports, it isn’t supported by the hard facts. During the study years running from 1990 through 2006, here are the real facts concerning who is selling America for political contributions…"

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The Lawless Abortionists by David Kirby

"Following an outbreak of lawsuits that Planned Parenthood is illegally concealing the age of minors and failing to report incidents of statutory rape, the nation’s largest abortion provider has threatened civil action of its own against an 18-year-old female student at UCLA.
Student reporter Lisa Rose, posing as a pregnant 15-year-old, visited the Santa Monica Planned Parenthood, expressing her interest in an abortion and introducing her 23-year-old boyfriend. With the entire exchange caught on film, the employee warns Rose that the company is required to report cases of statutory rape to the police, but encourages Rose to conceal her age to avoid these reports.
“Just figure out a birth date that works,” the employee told Rose. “And I don’t know anything.” "

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A LOST Presidency? by Frank J Gaffney Jr.

"Any minute now, President Bush is going to make a fateful mistake. He will announce that his administration will make a concerted effort to secure the prompt ratification of a deeply flawed multilateral accord universally known by its acronym – LOST, as in the Law of the Sea Treaty.
When it comes to LOST, of course, prompt is a relative thing. It was first opened to signature and ratification in the early 1980s, but Ronald Reagan rejected it. In the mid-1990s, Bill Clinton resuscitated and negotiated a side-deal designed to fix, or at least obscure, what Mr. Reagan found objectionable.
Then, in 2004, the Bush administration decided to embrace the Law of the Sea Treaty. The argument seemed principally to be that, in the aftermath of the bruising fight over Iraq, doing so would demonstrate that the United States could still play well with its allies and other nations. Most were parties to LOST and are slavishly devoted to this and other treaties on the agenda of the Transnational Progressives (or Transies, for short)."

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Multiculturalism – Tribalism Recycled By Wolfgang Bruno

"The bombings in London have finally put the multicultural ideal under closer scrutiny. As Mark Steyn points out, you can't assimilate with a nullity. Helmut Schmidt, the former German chancellor, asserted that multiculturalism can only work under authoritarian regimes, not in democratic ones. At its deepest level, multiculturalism represents a denial of all Western claims to truth. The purpose of multiculturalism is to extirpate the truly free cultures by asserting that they are equivalent to primitive, Islamic cultures. The idea is kept alive by repeating myths about the “tolerant” Islamic rule in Spain. If all cultures and religions are equally worthy of respect, why didn’t the West remain in the age when we burned witches and held slaves? We progressed and left Islam behind because we possessed the ability to criticize ourselves and move on. The only cultures worthy of respect are those who can withstand scrutiny. If yours is too weak to survive this treatment, then you do not belong in a Western society."

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Some Advice for Three Leading Republicans By David Frum

"Walking on a beach shortly after leaving the White House, former Bush aide Karen Hughes looked up and spotted a little plane towing an advertising banner. The banner said, approximately: 'Jill, please come back. I am nothing without you. Jack.' She thought: 'Wrong message. It's too much about you, not enough about her.'
A shrewd observation, and one that sums up pretty much everything that is going wrong with the 2008 Republican presidential candidates. Republicans are talking about what excites them. But what about the rest of the country?
Yet each Republican candidates has a powerful national message available to him. They just are not using it. My suggestions: "

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The Anger Of The Left By Thomas Sowell

"That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred.
Particular issues can arouse passions here and there for anyone with any political views. But, for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life.
How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all?
The source of the anger of liberals, 'progressives' or radicals is by no means readily apparent. The targets of their anger have included people who are non-confrontational or even genial, such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. "

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Israel's Real Threat Is Demography, Not Damascus By: Joe Murray

"'If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster,' quipped famed Russian writer Isaac Asimov. And with the latest population surveys being released across the globe, it is clear that the peoples of the West better start typing faster.
The West - its people, its culture, its history, and yes, even its faith, is dying. Diagnosed with a secular tumor that feeds off of a selfish, if not perverse, sense of hedonism, the civilization that has bestowed to the world all of its greatest advancements is preparing to take out its obituary.
Western nations are no longer reproducing. The nations of Europe, once the core of Christendom and the heartbeat of the West, have become cultural cemeteries - both literally and figuratively. Not one European nation, save Muslim Albania, has a birthrate higher than 2.1 children per woman, the rate that is needed to sustain a civilization.
Spain has an anemic birthrate of 1.07 and Germany is not far behind with a rate of 1.3. Italy, the nation that surrounds the Vatican and birthed a number of Popes, is struggling with a rate of 1.2. "

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The Evening of Our Constitution - James T. Moore

"Of all the ideas and innovations of the human spirit which have been translated into physical life in a way that man, in his present level of evolution, can understand, the U.S. Constitution towers high above all other codes of law and government systems.

It was man’s first struggling steps out of the stultifying abyss of serfdom, royal subservience, and insufferable tyranny into the light of self-government and individual freedom; freedom from oppression, freedom to think, to speak, to read, to worship, and most importantly, freedom to walk our own path and reach for our own dream, so long as it did not interfere with the dreams of others.

It is, therefore, an act of idiocy and self-destruction when we ignore, alter, or in any way undermine the Constitution to the point where its original intent becomes obscure and unsustainable, thereby putting its precepts and ideals in danger of being lost. Like precisely what’s happening in our government today."

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Cutting the Grass - John Fund on the Trail

"A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows 6 in 10 Americans think the Democratic Congress 'hasn't brought much change.' Eager to change this impression, the Democrats are frantically trying to pass legislation before Memorial Day. First on the agenda is a bill restricting lobbying, which is heading for the House floor with lightning speed. The House Judiciary Committee is expected to pass it tomorrow, sending it to the full House for a final vote next Tuesday or Wednesday.
When a bill moves that quickly, you can bet an someone will try to make some last-minute mischief. Hardly anyone objects to the legislation's requirement that former lawmakers wait two years instead of one before lobbying Congress. Ditto with bans on lobbying by congressional spouses and restrictions on sitting members of Congress negotiating contracts with private entities for future employment. "

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Fort Dix Six, 9/11 and Muslims By Frosty Wooldridge

"The 'Fort Dix Six' creates a catchy phrase to add to our lexicon. The carnage that group planned proves anything but catchy.
How about a national memory-refresher?
Do you remember Bobby Kennedy being shot to death in 1968? Who is Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin? Where did he come from?
How about the U.S. Marine Corps barracks blown up in Beirut in 1983? Does anyone remember the London subway bombings? How about the Madrid, Spain commuter-train bombings?
What about those 1993 World Trade Center detonations? Remember the U.S. embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania? How about the 2005 fire-bombing of thousands of cars in the Paris, France riots. How about relentless rapes by immigrants in Sweden and Norway?
Who remembers Muhammed Atta on 9/11/2001? How about Malvo the car trunk sniper?
How about Dutchman Theo Van Gogh's murder for making a 15 minute movie? How about a death sentence on Dutch Somalian Hirsi Ali?"

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The Two Great Mistakes of the Bush Administration By Robert Klein Engler

"How will the Bush administration be judged by history, if there is a judgment that can extract itself from politics? Certainly, many feel the Bush administration has made mistakes, but all administrations do, so how are these mistakes any different from other past presidents and their failures?

It is possible that future historians will see the two great mistakes made by the Bush administration stem from the same source. The Bush administration was mistaken about the importance of culture and civilization in shaping national and international events. In short, Bush and his advisers were bad anthropologists. Bad anthropology fools us into believing that American values will be readily accepted abroad or that foreigners will readily assimilate to American values when they live in the United States."

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The Grand Delusion Islam :: By Amil Imani

"“We are our beliefs,” it is said. Beliefs steer people in life. Some beliefs are harmless, some are the motive force for good, and yet others are delusional, misguided, and even outright dangerous. Every version of the belief called “Islam” ranges from the delusional to the dangerous.

Islam is a Grand Delusion, birthed by Muhammad’s hallucination he relayed to his first wife and employer, Khadija. Greatly frightened, he told Khadija that he was visited by jinn (devil) in the Hira cave. Khadija comforted the distraught man by assuring him that the episode was Allah’s way of choosing him as his messenger. Muhammad believed his rich wife-employer who was 15 years his senior and the delusion became a belief—Islam.

Remarkably enough, under the early tutelage of Khadija, Muhammad succeeded in attracting a number of influential followers. Before long, the movement gathered more and more power through violent campaigns and the faith was taken to new people and alien lands. This grand delusion, Islam, presently has in its stranglehold over a billion humans, posing an existential threat to all non-Muslims."

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Appeasing the Ayatollahs and the Perils of Ignoring History By Dr. Majid Sadeghpour

"It was June 8, 2000; the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) was the venue. “Iran is still the most egregious state-sponsor of terrorism, despite the election of a reformist president. Elements of the Iranian Government use terrorism as a policy tool, assassinating Iranian dissidents at home and abroad and giving money, weapons and training to terrorists fighting against peace in the Middle East.”, said Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, III Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism.

Analogous to its more infamous distant cousin (the Iraq Study Group, ISG), the commission’s findings highlight both the facts and fallacies of our understanding and thus our Iran policy.
Thankfully, both commissions appropriately identify the threat. It is widely accepted that the findings provide a realistic assessment of Iran’s pivotal role, and hence it’s devastating deeds both then and now. Iran’s direct responsibility in harboring and supporting international terrorism is no longer seriously disputed. It’s predatory and destructive role in Iraq has also been well established and confirmed by the Department of Defense, Multi-national Forces in Iraq, and via reliable intelligence from the main Iranian dissident organization (Reuters, March 20, 2007)."

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Immigration Day - Illegal Aliens and the Media March Together By Nicholas Stix

"They want your job, your property, and your country. And they have powerful accomplices. On May 1, Americans again saw thousands – but at least this time, not millions – of federal criminals take to the streets, demanding recognition of their “right” to continue committing crimes. The criminals were supposedly also simultaneously “boycotting America,” though they had a most peculiar way of going about a boycott.

I am speaking, of course, of illegal immigrants, a.k.a. undocumented immigrants, aka undocumented workers, aka unauthorized migrants, a.k.a. Mexican nationals, whose number may be as high as 30 million – 22 million adults who have invaded this country since the previous mass amnesty in 1986, and as many as eight million children whom female illegal aliens have borne here during that time, and which have been improperly defined by the federal courts, in an incorrect interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, as “American citizens.”"

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Kosovo, Albania and Jihad By Ray Robison

"I don't know Patrick but I read his AT article 'Kosovo and Antijihad Bigotry' and I have to say, he is spot on. I deployed to Kosovo with the 101st on Valentine's Day, 2000 as part of the first unit rotation in country after the initial US deployment. I read the book Balkan Ghosts to prepare myself somewhat for the deployment. (On a side note, just as liberals complain the US army is sending people to Iraq unprepared because they have just arrived at a unit and had no regional training, so it is that I went to Kosovo under 'Clinton's Army' but with much less mission-specific training. It's a war, not a college curriculum.) After reading the book about the history of the region and its multicultural warring, I was completely surprised at the Kosovo that awaited me. "

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Giuliani Opposed Welfare Reform in Order to Protect Illegals by Amanda B. Carpenter

"Rudy Giuliani’s record as a pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage New York City mayor is well known, but his willingness to shelter illegal aliens from federal immigration laws in the Big Apple should also give conservatives pause.

Under his control, the New York City Corp. lost a lawsuit against the federal government over Republican-crafted welfare reform legislation that required state and local authorities to report illegal aliens to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The law stipulated that only citizens and certain legal immigrants were to receive food stamps and imposed financial penalties on states that did not verify the legal status of those applying for the stamps."

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Another American Killed by Iran by Jeff Emanuel

During the all-too-brief time that I was fortunate enough to spend embedded with the 1-4 Cavalry in Baghdad, I met a number of truly great men. One of these was Robert Dixon, a 27-year-old Private First Class from Minneapolis with just over twenty months in the army. Private Dixon, like so many of the other young men in the Quarter Cav, was on his first combat deployment of any kind, having departed from Fort Riley, Kansas in February of 2007.

The first few months of this deployment have had their share of successes for the newly formed unit. But the cost has been high: the Quarter Cav has also suffered some devastating losses. Within the span of a week in April three men were lost in separate incidents – one to a sniper, and two to individual Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

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Balkanize Islamia - Bruce Walker

"It seems unlikely that the sort of pluralistic, free, tolerant democracy that we in the civilized West have wanted can exist in Islamia. It was not an unrealistic expectation that it could. Japan has long been a functioning democracy, and both South Korea and Taiwan have been as well. India is the largest democracy in the world. Although Latin American states have had their share of juntas and strong men, Latin America also has a strong tradition of democracy in nations like Costa Rico and free elections have been the norm, not the exception, for decades now south of the Rio Grande.

On the other hand, those lands that have a strong Moslem majority seem always to descend into something other than free tolerant democracies. Lebanon was long the flower of the Middle East, but whether after the long exodus of Lebanese Christians it can flower again appears very unlikely. Iran was friendly, relatively free and peaceful, but that was not under democracy but rather under the pro-American Shah. Turkey has been the single flicker of hope, but Turkey is really ruled by the army and overtly Muslim parties are inching toward control of the once very secular Turkish nation. "

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Fortress America's gate is open :: Mark Steyn

"Most terrorists seem like bumbling losers if they're caught before the act: That's certainly true of the Fort Dix jihadists who took their terrorist training DVD to the local audio store to be copied. It was also true of the Islamists arrested in Toronto last year for plotting to behead the prime minister, one of whose cell members had a bride who wanted him to sign a prenup committing him to jihad. The Heathrow plotters arrested while planning to blow up U.S.-bound airliners included a Muslim convert who'd started out as the son of a British Conservative Party official with a P. G. Wodehouse double-barreled name and a sister who was a Victoria's Secret model and ex-wife of tennis champ Yanick Noah.
But then Mohammed Atta and the 9/11 gang would have seemed pretty funny if you'd run into them in that lap-dance club they went to before the big day where the girls remembered them only as very small tippers. Most terrorists are jokes until the bomb goes off."

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The Federal Reserve - Who Needs It? How Panama Has Thrived Without A Central Bank - Robin Good

"The Federal Reserve is America's Central Bank, owned by an unnamed corporate cartel, given a license to print money, and holding significant sway over the national government and economy. If it were dissolved tomorrow, the average tax-payer would doubtless be a lot better off. But we couldn't do that, could we?"

The Republic of Panama has managed just fine without a Central Bank for over a hundred years, and in actual fact, if you compare the rate of inflation between Panama and the USA over the last twenty years, Panama comes out a lot better off every step of the way.

Without the ability to conjure money out of thin air, to suit the needs of private investors, Panama has instead relied on a 100% market-driven money supply. Money is directly tied to the production of real, tangible products and services.

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Liberalism "Rots the Soul of the Nation" :: Global Conservative

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Liberalism, filled fat hysterical ranting Ginsbergs.
America may someday soon join the ranks with other great nations that fell prey to their own ignorance, and complacent gluttony. The enemies are at the gates, the enemies are also within. Nietzsche’s Zarathustra states:”With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to deaf and dormant senses.” Let us listen then to the words of Cicero;
'A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
'For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.'
Two thousand years later and these words are true as fresh fallen snow."

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Gates of Vienna: The Submission Train

"As I sit here typing on my Dell laptop, I can hear that lonesome whistle blow: the Dell Corporation’s plant in Tennessee has begun its CAIR-ification process:

Muslim contract employees at the Dell Inc. plant in Nashville reached a settlement with the company on issues related to a dispute over prayer in the workplace, a national Islamic civil rights advocacy group announced yesterday in Washington.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the 31 Muslim employees, who left work last month in a disagreement over Islamic prayers, will be reinstated, receive back pay, and be granted religious accommodation. Managers also will also receive additional training on existing religious accommodation policies and practices. [emphasis added — D]

Negotiations included meetings for managers, classes where they will get their minds right trained."

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