Hillbilly White Trash: The last thin thread binding George W Bush to the conservative base has been cut

"What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--'At this point the break became final.' That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future."

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Global Defense Group - MPAC, CAIR, and Praising Osama bin Laden

"The Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations each have a problem. As perhaps the most prominent and effective Islamist organizations in the United States, they have distinct stylistic and ideological characteristics but work together effectively as a one-two punch. Their problem concerns two of their most prominent staffers, Edina Lekovic of MPAC and Hussam Ayloush of CAIR.

Lekovic, who serves as MPAC's communications director, appeared on CNBC's Kudlow & Company with counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson on May 23, where they discussed a Pew

Research Center poll on U.S. Muslim attitudes. The following exchange took place at the end of their segment (which can be viewed here):"

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Washington Times reporter on Flight 327 & continued government denials :: Northeast Intelligence Network

"The following is a 'must-see' clip of Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson who appeared on Fox News this week, summarizing her year-long investigative efforts to secure the OIG oversight report pertaining to Northwest Airlines Flight 327 - a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles on 29 June 2004 where 14 Syrian Muslim 'musicians' engaged in what appeared to be a 'dry run' on a domestic flight. (The complete story, link to the partially redacted OIG report, and the initial investigative report by author and investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen is at THIS LINK below. Listen to what Ms. Hudson has to say about the event and the subsequent investigation, reinforcing our contention that airlines remain the targets of terrorist probes and dry runs, while the majority within the government continue to remain either uninformed or adherent to 'politically correct' policies."

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The Coalition against Fred Thompson by David Mertens

"Let’s be clear about who Fred Thompson is running against. Fred Thompson is not running against the Republican front runners in the GOP primary.
The coalition already working against unannounced presidential candidate Fred Thompson include the Democratic Party, al Qaeda, 3rd world Fascists and Communists, the Anti war hippie movement (1972 all over again?), the Vegans, terrorists, apologists, gun grabbers, baby killers,..."

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The Islamists Are Coming! by Dean Barnett

"Bill Sapers doesn't much look like the kind of guy who would find himself staring down radical Islamists or their friends. A 79-year-old accountant, approximately five-foot-six, bespectacled and soft-spoken, Sapers personifies the 'distinguished gentleman.' But the Islamic Society of Boston, after vainly tussling with him in court for roughly 18 months, would probably dispute that characterization.

Until the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) sued Sapers in late 2005 and gave him a small and unwanted measure of fame, he was far from a public figure. Until then, Sapers had been an anonymous businessman who busied himself with civic activities in his spare time; he has worked with the Anti-Defamation League and is a member of the foundation for Boston's Roxbury Community College."

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Attacks on Immigration Bill Opponents Unwarranted::By David Limbaugh

"An anonymous White House official said that neither the people on the far left nor far right are going to get what they want on the immigration bill. Could have fooled me, since that farthest of far leftists, Sen. Ted Kennedy, said, 'This bill is our best chance to fix our broken system.' Go figure.

Truly, President Bush's immigration policy has always been mystifying, but even more troubling is his attitude toward its conservative opponents.

I don't suggest that President Bush has a duty to cater to conservatives on immigration because they have stood by him on the war. This isn't about conservatives or political reciprocation, but what's best for the nation. "

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Democrats and Immigration: The Real Agenda by A.J. DiCintio

"Despite the political spin, the story behind the Democratic “plan” for the nation’s border and immigration policy begins with the reality that politicians of the Western democracies have for half a century sucked up and centralized too much power, grubbed too much money, peddled far too many promises they can’t keep, and in general avoided truth and common sense as if it were the Plague.

However, as Lincoln observed, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Therefore, beginning in the Eighties, a popular tide has arisen to oppose the aforementioned politicians and their failed ideologies, a reality evident in the Reagan Revolution, the Thatcher Revolution, the American Political Earthquake of 1994, and the powerful tremors that have shaken Leftist hegemonies in Germany, Italy, and France. "

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Fiscal Consequences of the Immigration Bill by Mike Franc

"The debate over the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill has forced lawmakers to grapple with another contentious issue, namely: What exactly are the fiscal consequences of granting citizenship to the 12 to 15 million illegal immigrants living within our borders and the millions more who yearn to settle here?

Will they strive, like modern-day Horatio Algers, to surmount the abject poverty they experienced in their homelands? Will they bypass our dependency-inducing welfare state and raise their children within self-reliant, two-parent families? Will their offspring ascend the socioeconomic ladder, live the American Dream, and ultimately become tax payers rather than tax consumers? "

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The Black Hole Immigration Bill by Jed Babbin

"Sometimes the reaction is more significant than the statement that caused it. When Jimmy Carter said that George W. Bush may be the worst president ever, there was that miserable millisecond between, “oh,” and “oh, come on. Nobody but Hillary could possibly be worse than Carter.” Is it so bad that the mind interrupts itself?

But then Newt Gingrich said almost the same thing. The former House Speaker and possible presidential candidate said that the Bush administration was becoming a Republican version of the Carter White House when nothing went right. "

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Immigration Bill's Unnecessary Time Constraints by Rep. Tom Feeney

"Considering that it is the result of secret, closed door negotiations, it's not surprising that Sen. Ted Kennedy's new amnesty proposal was finished over a weekend and taken up by the Senate on Monday, giving the rest of the Senators and the rest of the world only one work day to read the fine print. This unrealistic timeframe is fairly representative of the whole plan, especially considering that this proposal requires only one business day each for a background check on the millions of current illegal immigrants before they must be given preliminary legal status. "

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It's Not Racist to Oppose Amnesty for Illegals By Sher Zieve

"Any bill that holds past criminal offenses as unimportant is one that proposes amnesty. Contrary to some stated opinion on both sides of the U.S. political aisle, being against a blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants is not a racist stance. Instead, it is a pro-American sovereignty position.

Those who still believe that the United States has the right to be a sovereign nation are meeting with increasing opposition. However, until Congress passes a law that states that the invasion of the United States via its borders is legal, it is still against the law. "

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Bush's Attack on Opponents of Amnesty By Chuck Muth

"When it comes to dealing with the illegal immigration issue, President Bush and his administration are their own worst enemies. On other issues, the president is sugar and spice when it comes to Democrat opponents. But when it comes to rule-of-law conservative opposition to his “amnesty” proposal, the preferred method of operation is akin to thwacking the hornet’s nest with a stick.

You may recall that when the Minutemen first brought this issue to major public attention a few years ago with their volunteer border patrols, President Bush called them “vigilantes.” And it’s been pretty much all downhill from there, leading to his big May 29 speech on the current immigration reform proposal at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Georgia."

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Bush and the Mexicanization of the United States By John Lillpop

"George W. Bush's intractable and wholly unholy obsession with the Mexicanization of the United States has bewildered, confounded, and infuriated conservatives and other patriotic Americans from all ideological backgrounds.

In particular, conservatives found the president's most recent verbal assault particularly galling because Bush resorted to blasphemy when he accused those who oppose amnesty of not wanting to 'do what is best for America.'"

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President Bush's New World Order Legacy By Cliff Kincaid

"With his record of defending American borders and national sovereignty in ruins, President Bush has decided to conclude his second term in office by making common cause with those who think America's future lies in appeasing the 'international community.' He apparently wants his 'legacy' to be that he cared for the rest of the world. Watch your wallets―and your freedom."

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As Europe Self-Destructs By Caroline Glick

"Wednesday's decision by Britain's University and College Union to call for a boycott of Israeli universities and colleges was not only hypocritical. It was suicidal.

It is not simply that the British prefer to boycott Israeli universities than say, Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iranian, Saudi and Jordanian universities where students are indoctrinated to seek the annihilation of the Jewish people and the subjugation of Christianity through the destruction of Western civilization.

It is not merely that they ignored the poor, brave Iranian students who just three weeks ago were brutally attacked by regime forces as they sought to hold elections for their pro-democracy campus organizations. "

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Hillary vs. The 'On Your Own' Society By Rich Lowry

"Hillary Clinton has identified a grievous flaw in the contemporary American economy: It leaves 'it all up to the individual.' This hateful individualism is allegedly driving income inequality and destroying the American Dream.

Clinton calls it 'the 'on your own' society,' displaying a liberal Democrat's curious aversion to people doing things on their own. In contrast, she offers a collectivist vision of 'shared responsibility for shared prosperity,' making the case for it based on a farrago of mistruths about the state of the economy. She actually is not interested in sharing anything, but instead hogging all the credit for economic growth in the 1990s for her husband and, by extension, herself."

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Classical Values :: Defeated By Pornography

"I have been hinting around about what our Grand Strategy should be in the War On Islamic Fascism. Some of the hints can be found at: Islam vs American Morality and In The Long Run Their Struggle Will Be Hopeless and The New Middle East. So what should our strategy be in plainer terms? We should be undermining Islamic fascist culture. How? There in lies a tail.
Let us start with the BBC.

Up to 70% of files exchanged between Saudi teenagers' mobile phones contain pornography, according to a study in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.
The study quoted in Arab News focussed on the phones of teenagers detained by religious police for harassing girls.

So who is winning the battle of mobiles?
'The flash memory of mobile phones taken from teenagers showed 69.7% of 1,470 files saved in them were pornographic and 8.6% were related to violence,' said report author Professor Abdullah al-Rasheed.

So sex is more popular than violence by a factor of better than 8 to 1. Excellent.
The Opinion Journal has some early news from the battle for Iraq.
In the giddy spirit of the day, nothing could quite top the wish list bellowed out by one man in the throng of people greeting American troops from the 101st Airborne Division who marched into town today.

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Why Islamic Militants Hate Women :: Strategy Page

"One reason for Islamic terrorism is there are too many Moslems. At least in the sense that the economies of Islamic countries cannot create enough jobs for all the young people coming of age. Consider that for the last fifty years, the population of all Moslem countries has tripled. That's population growth that is more than double the rate of the world as a whole, and about ten times the rate of Europe. It's about five times the rate in the United States. "

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CEOs and Jimmy Carter: Acne on the Face of America::By Burt Prelutsky

"The only two groups of people in America who actually get to decide how much money they’ll be paid are politicians and CEOs. As a result, all of them are paid far, far more than they deserve. It could honestly be said of politicians that anything over the minimum wage is excessive. After all, their main job is to decide how to spend the tax dollars of people who, unlike themselves, are productive members of society. "

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Focus on Al-Qaida in North Africa By Evan Kohlmann

"On May 9 and 10, Al-Qaida's Committee in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)--formerly known as the Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat--issued two significant new video releases, including a recorded speech from AQIM leader Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud and footage of its suicide bombing attacks on April 11 in the capital Algiers. In his message, Wadoud explained, 'we have decided from now on to execute suicide attacks as our strategic weapon in our confrontation with the enemies. Therefore, in order to carry out this decision, we have sent our orders to the various leaders across different regions, the commanders of our soldiers and the leaders of the brigades and fighting units, to open the door for those who wish to volunteer to become martyrs."

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American-born Muslim convert pleads for help in Omani custody case « Foehammer’s Anvil

"This is a classic case of what happens when an American woman marries a foreign Muslim man and converts to Islam (hat-tip: A_Plague_on_Both Houses). I’m afraid I have no sympathy at all for this woman. To me she is a traitor to her culture first, a traitor to her country second, and a traitor to her children third. To not see something like this coming is just to be ignorant of the religion she adopted as her own, and yet from her pain I can now at least alert would-be converts who might seek the same path — to think twice."

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Better Off Fred?::By Jonah Goldberg

"Here are just a few little-known facts about Fred Thompson:

- Every night before going to sleep, Osama bin Laden checks under his bed for Fred Thompson.

- Though Fred Thompson left the Senate in 2003, Harry Reid still hasn't stopped wetting his pants."

- Fred Thompson once ended a filibuster by ripping out a Senator's heart and showing it to him before he died.

- Only two things can kill Superman: Kryptonite and Fred Thompson.

- Fred Thompson once stood on our south border and glared at Mexico. There was no illegal immigration for a month.

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Immigration: A Privilege, Not A Right By Raymond S. Kraft

"'House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is 'not pleased' with the immigration bill now before the Senate and suggested today that it needs major changes before she can support it,' writes John Wildermuth in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 19, 2007.

'I agree it's a good first step,' said Pelosi, 'But I'm very concerned about what it says about family reunification . . . A point system for reunification undermines our family values that we espouse in our country . . . I don't know why we have to compromise on reunification of families, I really don't.'"

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The War Against Wal-Mart By Daniel Muniz

"Every generation has its share of Luddites. They are the people who rage against society about inevitable changes to life even if it means advancing civilization.
And every generation has some sort of technological change that drastically alters the cultural fabric of society.

Some changes are humorous such as the switch from audio cassette tapes to CDs or with VHS tapes to DVDs. Hardly anyone can defend the need to keep our tape players and VCRs and destroy our CD and DVD players.

In fact, technology revolutionizes our lifestyles so often that such changes are not only inevitable but they are expected. And the funny thing about technology is that in today's modern age, defending something that is outdated and obsolete makes the defender look as archaic and antiquated as to what he or she is defending. "

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Maryland taxpayers may be forced to subsidize homosexual lifestyle By Jim Brown

"Pro-family activist Matt Barber is warning Maryland taxpayers that they may soon be forced to support the homosexual lifestyle with their pocketbooks. Barber, policy director for cultural issues for Concerned Women for America, says Maryland appears on the fast track to becoming the 15th state to grant domestic partner benefits to homosexual state employees."

Affirming Barber's report, The Washington Blade, a homosexual advocacy newspaper, reported that a Maryland state senator has told the magazine that Gov. Martin O'Malley will support efforts to win domestic partner benefits for homosexual employees in the next state workers' union contract. Such a move by Maryland, says the activist, will amount to another government body offering its endorsement of an aberrant lifestyle.

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How Depressing Was the Depression? By Arnold Kling

"I would have thought that 1929 should have looked pretty good to people living in the depths of the Depression. But one of the many interesting lessons of Amity Shlaes' new history of the Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal is that many Americans, both inside and outside the Roosevelt Administration, thought of prosperity as an aberration. Instead, they saw hard times as the new norm."

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Senators Rebuke Joe Wilson Claims by Kenneth Timmerman

"In a rare rebuke of a public official by name, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee has issued a scathing report blasting former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV.
The report claims Wilson mislead the public and the intelligence committee about his trip to Niger in 2002 on behalf of the CIA to investigate claims that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium in Africa.

Best know as the husband of former CIA officer Valerie Plame, Ambassador Wilson was catapulted to the limelight after he published an Op-Ed in The New York Times on July 6, 2003, that accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war.

In his New York Times article, Wilson said that in February 2002 he was asked by the Central Intelligence Agency to travel to Niger to investigate 'a particular intelligence report' that documented the sale of uranium to Iraq by the Niger government."

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TSA “Spins” Out of Control - Says Flight Not a Threat » The Aviation Nation

"This morning, Annie Jacobsen appeared on Fox & Friends and was interviewed regarding her experience on Northwest Flight 327. The interview was followed by a TSA spokeswoman attempting to carry out political damage control, and she tried unsuccessfully to discredit the current and former Federal Air Marshals who publicly came forward to expose agency management incompetence and inaction. "

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Dylan DeSilva and Cape Cod Cares for Our Troops :: Pundit Review

"I had the pleasure of attending a Support The Troops rally in Hyannis this past Memorial Day weekend. This was no ordinary event. It was organized by 14-year old Dylan DeSilva, founder of Cape Cod Cares for Our Troops. Dylan is an inspirational young man. He was recently honored as a Hero Among Us by the Boston Celtics. As you can see from this event, which was attended by more than 500 people and raised well in excess of $10,000, he is very deserving of the recognition. Congratulations Dylan on another great event, and thank you for everything you are doing to support the troops."

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STUDENTS AT AMIRKABIR CHANTING "DOWN WITH DICTATORS"

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Looking for safety. :: Gateway Pundit

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More Gore-bull from the Goracle By RACHEL MARSDEN

Former U.S. Vice-President Al “The Goracle” Gore crash landed in Washington, DC, last week and spewed more hot air on the Gore-bull warming issue at a congressional hearing.

The Goracle said “the planet has a fever.” He continued: “If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.” He said all of this with a straight face — albeit barely.

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Air Marshal Goes on the Record Stating His Opinion That Flight 327 Was a Dry Run :: Patterico Pontifications

As most of you know, Audrey Hudson recently ran a piece in the Washington Times stating that current and former air marshals believed that Flight 327 (Annie Jacobsen’s “Terror in the Skies” flight) was a terrorist dry run. Some of my commenters complained that Ms. Hudson did not support this claim with a quote from a current air marshal, saying unequivocally that he thought Flight 327 was a terrorist dry run.

Today, in this post, current air marshal P. Jeffrey Black does exactly that.

Mr. Black is one of the current air marshals quoted in Ms. Hudson’s article:

Agency management was not only covering up numerous probes and dry-run encounters from Congress and other federal law-enforcement agencies, it was also hiding these incidents from their own flying air marshals,” said P. Jeffrey Black, an air marshal stationed in Las Vegas.

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President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder By PEGGY NOONAN

What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--"At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.

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Democrats and Immigration: The Real Agenda By A.J. DiCintio

Despite the political spin, the story behind the Democratic “plan” for the nation’s border and immigration policy begins with the reality that politicians of the Western democracies have for half a century sucked up and centralized too much power, grubbed too much money, peddled far too many promises they can’t keep, and in general avoided truth and common sense as if it were the Plague.

However, as Lincoln observed, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Therefore, beginning in the Eighties, a popular tide has arisen to oppose the aforementioned politicians and their failed ideologies, a reality evident in the Reagan Revolution, the Thatcher Revolution, the American Political Earthquake of 1994, and the powerful tremors that have shaken Leftist hegemonies in Germany, Italy, and France.

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Carter and Bush: Not So Different After All by Steve Chapman

Jimmy Carter has backtracked from his comment suggesting that George W. Bush is the worst president in history, and let's hope his gesture soothes relations between the two. Because if there is a place in the next world where unsuccessful presidents go to pay for their sins, Carter and Bush will be sharing a cell for a long, long time.

Bush had a Carteresque moment the other day when a bird left a calling card on his sleeve during an outdoor news conference. Like his predecessor's 1979 confrontation with a killer rabbit, it suggested the president is so unpopular that even lower species are turning against him.

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Keith Ellison’s Dangerous Liaisons By Joe Kaufman

Anti-Semitism and Keith Ellison seem to gravitate toward one another. It was the case throughout the 90’s, when he was heavily active in the Nation of Islam (NOI), and it was the case just last weekend, when he gave the keynote address at the 4th Annual Convention of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota. It’s a disturbing pattern from someone that purports to be a man of peace and, more importantly, someone sitting in the position of United States Congressman.

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Do We Need Religion? Part 1 Wolfgang Bruno

Ali Sina is the Iranian ex-Muslim behind the website www.faithfreedom.org. Along with other former Muslims such as Ibn Warraq, Sina is spearheading what may be the first organized movement of ex-Muslims in Islamic history, made possible during the past ten to fifteen years by Muslim immigration to the West and the growth of the Internet. Publishing rational criticism of Islam, reaching hundreds of thousands of people and potentially hundreds of millions of people across the world, has never been done before until a few years ago. This is also part of the inspiration for my own suggestion of creating an Online Infidel Library, with dozens of books critical of Islam being made available online. It is no exaggeration to say that if the likes of Ali Sina, Ibn Warraq and Wafa Sultan prevail in the face of the traditional death penalty for leaving Islam, then Islam will never again be the same. Ibn Warraq has estimated that 10- 15% of the Muslims in the UK are actually apostates. If that percentage reflects the Islamic world as a whole, we are talking about a number of people the equivalent of a country the size of Japan. Even half of this is a country the size of Britain. This is the soft underbelly of Islam.

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What is the Cause of Low Birth Rates? By Fjordman

What causes low birth rates? I have debated this issue at some length with blogger Conservative Swede. Among the reasons frequently cited are the welfare state, feminism and secularism. However, if you look closely at the statistics from various countries, the picture gets quite complex, and there doesn’t appear to be an automatic correlation between low birth rates and any one of these factors.

The United States has the highest birth rates in the West, but this is largely due to ethnic minorities. If you compare white Americans to white Europeans, the American birth rate is somewhat higher than those of the Scandinavian nanny states, but still lower than replacement level. Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden do have elaborate welfare states, high degrees of feminism and are not very religious, yet have some of the highest birth rates in the Western world (though still below replacement level.) They are certainly much higher than those in Catholic Poland, perhaps the most conservative religious country in Europe. And they are much higher than those of South Korea, which has more traditional sex roles and where Christianity is booming these days.

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High Noon With Iran by Kenneth Timmerman

If anyone still believes in the utility of talking to the Tehran regime, they should read the revealing comments made to the press by the Iranian and the U.S. ambassadors to Baghdad, just minutes after concluding what were billed as “historic” talks between the two governments on Monday.

While the talks had “proceeded positively,” U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told reporters that he had emphasized to the Iranians the need for concrete action on the ground.

"I laid out before the Iranians a number of our direct, specific concerns about their behavior in Iraq, their support for militias that are fighting both the Iraqi security forces and coalition forces," Crocker said.

"The fact (is) that a lot of the explosives and ammunitions that are used by these groups are coming in from Iran ... Such activities ... need to cease and ... we would be looking for results," he added.

Across the city, Iran’s ambassador Hassan Kazemi-Qomi just thumbed his nose. “We don’t take the American accusations seriously,” he said. It was the United States which bore “sore responsibility” for the violence in Iraq, he opined, noting that Iraq’s infrastructure had been “demolished by the American invaders.”


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Not America By Greg Crosby

One of the best columns I have read in recent memory is Ann Coulter’s column this week, “A Green Card in Every Pot.” Ann makes the point that when you bring tens of millions of Latin Americans into a country (US) that no longer makes any effort to assimilate its immigrants nor teach them any American history or traditional American values or American customs, then what you will wind up with is a country (US) that will become just another Latin American banana republic. It is true. So true that you could cry.

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Darwin, Science, and Society by Babu Ranganathan

In Darwin's world of the late 19th century society was ready for a naturalistic and mechanistic explanation for the origin of life and species without any resort to belief in the supernatural. There were many in society who wished to shed any moral and social limits or barriers to sexual and various other forms of gratification. The only way of doing this was to find a "rational" argument against belief in the existence of God and, particularly, against the kind of God that the Christian Scriptures portray. Darwin came on the scene just in time.

Darwin convinced the intellectual elite of society in his day of no need to believe in God because his theory of "natural selection" solved all naturalistic problems for explaining design and complexity in nature. Actually, other individuals wrote and published on the subject of natural selection before Darwin but that is another subject.

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Linda Chavez by Jeremy Meister

Linda Chavez you're a racist idiot. Your latest column proves it.

"Some people just don't like Mexicans — or anyone else from south of the border. They think Latinos are freeloaders and welfare cheats who are too lazy to learn English. They think Latinos have too many babies, and that Latino kids will dumb down our schools. They think Latinos are dirty, diseased, indolent and more prone to criminal behavior. They think Latinos are just too different from us ever to become real Americans."

Okay - making a gross generalization about Hispanics, Latinos and other people south of the border is racist. So what about making gross generalizations about people *north* of the border (for example, suggesting that they 'just don't like Mexicans'?) Oh right, whites aren't really a race and even if they were they have it coming so racial prejudice against them doesn't hurt anything.

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Damn American Culture, It's All About the 'Latino' Vote By Warner Todd Huston

Michael Gerson of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the one time "conscience of the White House", presents the perfect it's-all-about-winning stance that some Republicans of the Karl Rove wing of the GOP adheres to in this current amnesty for illegals conflict. The idea is that if the GOP is seen as responsible for letting illegals become automatic citizens with little impediment to their attaining that status this will make these immigrants grateful enough to vote Republican and secure a GOP electoral victory for the foreseeable future.

Gerson's rationale can be seen in his Washington Post article of May 25th, but, unfortunately, Gerson's is both a cynical and unsafe stance to take. Cynical because it reduces the whole episode to be about nothing but getting votes and unsafe because it is a self-destructive, society destroying move to make the argument into a mere vote mongering scheme.

Gerson's column starts off with a lament about "anti-immigrant sentiments" in 1882 and goes on to finger point at a current "certain kind of conservative" that we have today who he imagines must be just as racist as our hundred twenty-five year-old kin ostensibly were.

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JUDGES PROMOTE ANARCHY - PROVOKE REVOLUTION By: Alan Stang

Promoters of the conspiracy for world government routinely tell soreheads like you and me that if we don’t like what is happening in this country we should vote against it. Vote for your school board, says the party line, vote for your mayor and city council, for your county commissioners, for your state legislators, your governor and Members of Congress. If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain.

Because they worship the form of government the Founding Fathers feared and hated most, democracy, they have made the vote the most important element of government. In democracy, “majority rules” and decides everything, so if a majority votes to string you up or take your property it can. It’s called “lynching” or “eminent domain.”

In the system the Founding Fathers left us, some things are immune from the effects of a vote, even from a landslide, your life and property, for instance. It’s called a “limited republic.” However many people vote to string you up, they can’t, because you have “unalienable” rights that can’t be voted away. Of course, the conspiracy for world government has utterly perverted that system. Most Americans – victims of government school – don’t even remember what we had.

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Global Jihadists and American Spiritual Rearmament By Ken Blackwell

The merciless monsters who constitute Al Qaeda and its terrorist movement are equal opportunity killers.

They will use anyone — man, woman, pregnant mother, child — in acts of suicide to kill anyone: Spanish commuters, Sudanese Christians, Indian train travelers, London Tube-riders and tourists, or Americans working at their desks on a clear September morning.

They will kill by any means: videotaped beheadings, homemade bombs packed with nails, explosive chlorine tanks, and, of course, jetliners loaded with fuel — and people. Their terrorism is an asymmetric form of warfare that seeks to attack the human spirit.

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The HILL Chronicles :: Bush slapped our faces

"Amazingly arrogant and brazen - everything the left has said about President Bush appeared to be true on Tuesday, May 29 when he gave his worst speech ever on illegal immigration - insulting every American that ever voted for him let alone supported him all these years.

I listened to Bush attack critics of the immigration reform bill. Bush lacks courage yet had the gall to question American’s patriotism - the very same American’s that supported him, voted for him, and stood up for him when the left was pounding him from their bully
pulpit."

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Town Commons: Would Someone Tell al Qaeda's The Islamic State Of Iraq That Its Just a Civil War

"Just as Democrat after Democrat is claiming that Iraq is 'just a civil war,' the Islamic State of Iraq does their part to overreach and throw that carefully guarded Democratic canard into a bit of flux. The release of this jihadi video coming on the heels of the President's speech, the timing could not be worse for the Democrats - at least if it were to get any play in the MSM. The latest from the jihadis currently fighting the 'civil war' in Iraq:
Al Qaeda has a new opening graphic for its propaganda tapes: the U.S. Capitol under 'attack.'

'The Islamic State of Iraq...March Toward Washington' reads the headline in English superimposed over a digitally created scene of the U.S. Capitol under attack in the introductory sequence of one tape released on the Internet this week."

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The Sentinel: The global gay agenda...

"British Prime Minister Tony Blair celebrated the House of Lord's March 21 vote in favour of the controversial Sexual Orientation Regulations by attending an Equality fundraising dinner the following evening, put on by the UK's leading homosexual activist organization Stonewall. The SOR passed by a 168-122 vote in the House, ensuring the implementation of new 'anti-discrimination' policies beginning April 30.

In his speech at the Stonewall event, PM Blair said it was a 'real honour' to be in attendance and thanked members of Stonewall, saying 'we couldn't have done it without you.'
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The homosexual agenda, in common with the immigration agenda and all of the other associated components, occur with organised synchronicity globally throughout the western countries."

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Webloggin :: Medication as a Form of Discipline

"It’s no secret that more and more children are taking medications to control their behavior. Although I long ago stopped subscribing to Time and Newsweek, both those magazines had practically annual articles asking whether we’re medicating our children to death. In the magazines, the anti-medication consensus is always that the fault lies with lazy parents or teachers who just don’t want to deal with child energy. However, having dealt with a lot of child energy myself, I can understand that people would want a break from that. I therefore don’t think the issue is child energy. I think it’s the diminishing number of options parents feel that they have available to cope with the energy."

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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: NASA CHIEF: GLOBAL WARMING NOT NECESSARILY A PROBLEM, OR SOMETHING WE CAN CHANGE

"Michael Griffin NASA Administrator has told America's National Public Radio that while he has no doubt a trend of global warming exists 'I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.'

In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep that will air in Thursday's edition of NPR News' Morning Edition ...

INSKEEP: And I just wanted to make sure that I'm clear. Do you have any doubt that this is a problem that mankind has to wrestle with?"

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Evangelization for preserving Western lifestyle! :: hjmn4566 :: Blogger News Network

"Perhaps Benedict XVI is on the right track when he emphasizes the need for the contemporary Church to return to its missionary activities. In the 21st century the Catholic Church is deeply immersed in a struggle of dialectics, Judeo/Christianity versus Islamic fundamentalism. It appears that the old issues of the Crusades have popped up again and Catholics are called not only to defend their faith, but also protect their member’s allegiances.

In some cases, the call to Islam is drawing Catholic believers away from the faith of the Apostles to the faith of Mohammed. The teachings of ,the Christian Gospels, namely “love of God” and “Love of neighbor” is being undermined by the Islamic call to jihad against Judeo/Christian teachings. Islamic fundamentalism is attempting to replace Christian “love” with ongoing and constant political and theological upheaval in the endeavor to make the Koran the normative text of religious observation."

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Bush insults his most loyal supporters :: The Washington DC Examiner

President Bush wants Congress to approve an immigration compromise bill that will be supported mainly by Democrats.

He’s no longer worried about getting re-elected, so in his pushing for the bill’s passage, Bush has now told millions of voters to get lost. These are the people who have been his most loyal supporters on virtually every other issue.

Yet Bush now condemns them as unwilling to do “what’s right for America” and accuses their allies in Congress of using “empty rhetoric” to misrepresent the bill as a form of amnesty for illegal aliens. Bush appealed for “a chance to fix the problems in a comprehensive way that enforces our border and treats people with decency and respect.”


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Matriarchs, Pop Tarts, and Unparented Children By Carey Roberts

By my reckoning, the United States officially became a matriarchy on January 20, 1993. That's the day Hillary Clinton moved into the West Wing. Soon she prevailed on Bill to establish the President's Interagency Council on Women, the group that railroaded feminist-inspired policies and programs throughout the federal government.(1)

Matriarchy refers to a society in which feminist beliefs have become entrenched in the government, mass media, and other institutions. And the cornerstone of feminist belief is the dogma that patriarchy is an unrelenting, pervasive threat to women’s well-being.

That means wayward women always have a convenient excuse. Consider the recent escapades of the Hollywood pop-tart brigade.

Lindsay Lohan? Surely we can blame her father who caused her to flee to cocaine. Paris Hilton? The judge who sentenced her to 45 days in jail was only trying to make a name for himself. Britney Spears? We can blame her demise on her self-absorbed boyfriend, Kevin Federline.

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“Terror in the Skies”: One Woman's Persistence :: Gates Of Vienna

Today the Washington Times released the full report they promised on May 27th regarding the “dry run” Annie Jacobsen wrote about several years ago in both her columns and in her book, “Terror in the Skies”.

I waited until now to post on this because I wanted to see the full Homeland Security report which the Times obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The first time they tried to get it, all but two lines had been blacked out. Now most of it is contained in a pdf suppied by the Times.

Long-time Gates readers will remember that Ms. Jacobsen was called a hysterical woman by a number of otherwise astute bloggers; authorities refused to follow up on her disturbing information and she was pretty much considered unreliable and paranoid — just to use two terms that were floating around at the time.

I wonder how many of these people are bothering to say “mea culpa” now that Ms. Jacobsen’s paranoia has proved to be reality?

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Palestine: The New Myth And Reality By David Singer

Jordan's Prime Minister, Marouf al- Bakhit, has now added one new myth to the countless many concerning Palestine that have been invented by Arab propagandists. Speaking at a recent seminar marking the 61st anniversary of Jordan's independence, the Prime Minister asserted that everyone should realise that "this small country [Jordan] was not accidentally born nor was the outcome of deals,conferences or conspiracies." Jordan's history is well documented and totally contradicts the Prime Minister's amazing assertion.

It was accidentally born in 1921 - as the emirate of Transjordan. It then comprised 77% of the area designated by Britain and France as "Palestine" after the First World War - the land in which the Jewish National Home was intended to be reconstituted almost 2000 years after the Jews had lost their biblical and ancestral homeland to foreign invaders and occupiers.

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It’s Not Racist to Oppose Amnesty for Illegals By Sher Zieve

Contrary to some stated opinion on both sides of the US political aisle, being against a blanket amnesty (any bill that holds past criminal offenses as unimportant is one that proposes amnesty) for illegal immigrants is not a racist stance. Instead, it is a pro-American sovereignty position. Note: Those who still believe that the United States has the right to be a sovereign nation are meeting with increasing opposition. However, until Congress passes a law that state that the invasion of the US via its borders is legal, it is still against the law. The “immigration reform bill” currently in the US Senate again places those of Hispanic origin who cross the US southern border illegally above other races attempting to enter the US legally. And this proposed bill also discriminates against those individuals of Hispanic origins who entered, or are working to enter, this country legally. That’s the true racism—the bigotry and discriminatory practices in the mold of patently xenophobic groups such as La Raza (“The Race”), MEChA and the Mexica Movement.

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Hillaryism, Socialism, and Fascism by Brooks Mick

The evidence has always been clear that Hillary is an anti-individualistic, group-think socialist. Her "it takes a village" theme touted collectivism rather than individual responsibility. One of her statements made it clear that she (as do Democrats in general) wish to suppress individuality, individual responsibility, and create a huge central-planning bureaucracy, one which can take money from people and give it to others.

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."
--Hillary Clinton, 1993

Just a couple days ago, Hillary was giving even more evidence of her lack of faith in individual responsibility and her intention of creating more big-government programs to "help" people. The Bush administration, she said, touts an ownership society that really is an "on your own" society.

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NAFTA Highway and Privatization of Roads - Politicians Beware! By Paul Weyrich

One question has always eluded me as I have examined public policy questions these past four decades. That is why when propositions are presented to the public so many people are outraged yet the legislators who approve them have absolutely no clue.

The latest example of this is the Immigration Bill. Both Republicans and Democrats who negotiated it expressed utter shock at the public reaction. When many of us worked on the Panama Canal Treaty, Senators who unexpectedly were defeated in both 1978 and 1980 could not believe the public anger over their votes. I recall the statement of Senator Thomas J. McIntyre (D-NH) when confronted with outrage over his vote for the Panama Treaty. He allowed as how he was elected to use his judgment and he knew better than the voters of New Hampshire. An Allegheny Airlines co-pilot, Gordon J. Humphrey, who never had held office at any level in New Hampshire, became Senator Humphrey in the 1978 election.

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It Takes a Socialist Village By Cal Thomas

Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has unveiled her economic vision. Should she be given the power to implement it, we can say goodbye to the prosperity and opportunity we have enjoyed since the Reagan years.

In a speech at Manchester School of Technology in New Hampshire, Clinton said it's time to replace President Bush's "ownership society," which she called an "on your own" society, with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

Clinton said she prefers a "we're all in it together" society: "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."

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Is Demography Destiny? By Bernard Chapin

Mark Steyn earned his place in the pantheon of magnificent conservative writers due to his personal ability, skill, and God-given wit -- which turns out to be a highly unusual method for establishing oneself nowadays. After beginning as a theatre and film critic, he progressed to political commentary where he has become among the liveliest, most irreverent, and original of conservative voices. A former "Culture Vultures" columnist for The American Spectator and North American correspondent (and movie reviewer) for the Spectator of London, he now writes regularly for the Chicago Sun-Times and National Review. His books include the brilliantly original Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now (1999) and, most recently, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.

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A Conservative Elitist Backstab By Bob Parks

The International Relations Center describes Linda Chavez as “George W. Bush’s first choice for labor secretary, Linda Chavez is a right-wing pundit, anti-union demagogue, and foreign policy hawk. She has supported or worked for a string of rightist outfits, including the Manhattan Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, and the Center for Equal Opportunity.

Well, we can add traitor to that description.

On May 25, Linda Chavez wrote a piece called, “Latino Fear and Loathing.” Chavez also wrote a book called, “An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal.” From the words in her latest column, she may be reverting back, and is thus spitting on all who supported her before.

“Some people just don’t like Mexicans — or anyone else from south of the border. They think Latinos are freeloaders and welfare cheats who are too lazy to learn English. They think Latinos have too many babies, and that Latino kids will dumb down our schools. They think Latinos are dirty, diseased, indolent and more prone to criminal behavior. They think Latinos are just too different from us ever to become real Americans.”

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Islamists Threats in the US By Amil Imani

Throwing acid in the face of women who fail to don the hijab, flogging people for sporting non-Islamic haircuts, and stoning to death violators of sexual norms are only a few examples of a raft of daily barbaric acts of Islamists in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and many Islamic lands. Other forms of Islamic brutalities such as Honor Killing have already found their way to Germany and other European countries with the ever-burgeoning Muslim populations.

Wherever Islam goes, so goes its ethos.

Reading about these religiously-mandated horrific acts and even seeing them on television or the Internet may momentarily repulse, but does not terribly concern many Americans. After all, those things are happening on the other side of the world, and those people deserve each other; we are safe in fortress America, so goes the thinking.

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Comparative Torture 101 by Mac Johnson

Torture. The word has been constantly thrown about by the world press in harsh and constant critiques of the United States conduct in the War on Terror. Such never-ending harping and sniping, it is claimed, is motivated solely by the press’s concern for human rights, not at all by any virulent and deep seated anti-Americanism or a pathological political vendetta against George W. Bush.

In fact, the definition of torture seems to have undergone a remarkable and elastic expansion in the hands of a crusading press (not that the press would approve of being called “crusading,” which might be deemed offensive to non-Christians). Human rights are apparently quite precious indeed when defending them offers a chance to criticize the United States. And more than one observer has claimed that the United States use of “torture” has robbed her of any moral authority she had when the “so-called” War on Terror began. Allegedly, America is now little better than Al Qaeda.

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In Memoriam: American Muslim Hero, Tashbih Sayyed By Rachel Neuwirth

Dr. Tashbih Sayyed, 64, is no longer with us. Tashbih was laid to rest in peace at the Harbor Lawn Mount Olive Memorial Park, Costa Mesa, California, on May 28. American flags were on almost every grave. They also were hoisted high above the roadways. The wind was lightly blowing in a wonderful sparkling blue sky, typical of Southern California, as if to greet Tashbih in his last path. The hoisted American flags poignantly symbolized Dr. Tashbih Sayyed's core beliefs and spirit.

That his funeral came on Memorial Day of this year was sad, yet appropriate, because of his deep love for America, his adopted country, and its values and ideals.

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Destroying Our Culture By Fjordman

"One of the bloggers who read this essay stated that “Stuff like this makes me think the f***ing Jihadis ought to just destroy our culture.” OK, but what if that was the intention? I know there is some debate about just how influential radical Leftism and cultural Marxism are in weakening the West. Many observers believe this weakness is mainly caused by a general Western loss of self-confidence, an idea — widely shared even by many so-called right-wingers — that non-discrimination in all walks of life is not just the highest, but the only virtue, and finally, Western guilt for slavery, colonialism, global warming, declining numbers of rhinos — well, just about anything, really. And I sometimes agree with that."

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An Analysis of Conflicts Around The World By Saberi Roy

"If we try to provide an analysis of conflicts around the world, two patterns emerge. One relates to ethnicity, and the other relates to religion. Religion still forms the basis of major conflicts worldwide as in Israel-Palestine, although in case of India-Pakistan and Russia-Chechnya, the religious roots of such conflicts tend to have a close association with Islamic separatism. A clash of religious ideologies seems to be a common factor in such conflicts. But even if these ‘inter-religious’ conflicts have worldwide impact, ‘intra-religious’ conflicts as was seen in Northern Ireland or even Iraq can seriously question any analysis of conflicts that stresses on only religion per se. Is religion the ‘only’ basis of such conflicts in the world? Or is religion a tool to satisfy political motives? The fact that struggles ‘within religions’ can be sufficient to cause civil wars, undermine the explanation that a clash of different religious ideologies would be sufficient to cause ‘culture conflicts’. Religion is just an excuse and the best and most effective excuse. Religion seems to serve as a prop and a justification for most wars around the world and is even used to justify terrorism for that matter. Intra-religious and inter-religious conflicts as well as separatism/terrorism are all broadly ‘religious feuds’."

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The Global Immigration Problem By Victor Davis Hanson

"Thousands of aliens crossing our 2,000-mile border from an impoverished Mexico reflect a much larger global one-way traffic problem.

In Germany, Turkish workers - both legal and illegal - are desperate to find either permanent residence or citizenship.
'Londonstan' is slang for a new London of thousands of unassimilated Pakistani nationals.

In France, there were riots in 2005 because many children of North African immigrants are unemployed - and unhappy.

Albanians flock to Greece to do farm work, and then are regularly deported for doing so illegally.

The list could go on.

So why do millions of these border-crossers head to Europe, the United States or elsewhere in the West?"

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What does Congressman-elect Chris Carney (D-Pennsylvania) know about Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda? :: Regime of Terror

"Newly elected Pennsylvania Congressman, Democrat Chris Carney, a former Senior Terrorism and Intelligence Advisor at the Pentagon, has recently been quoted in a number of publications discussing his knowledge of and role in prewar Iraq intelligence, particularly on the issue Saddam Hussein’s links to al Qaeda. His views on the subject are a stark contrast to many in his party, particularly Senator Carl Levin, who has long expressed his belief that any link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda was a manufacture of the Bush administration. Carney's comments and experience on the issue may even put him in the cross-hairs of Sen. Levin's reported investigation into the matter in the coming months. What did Congressman Carney say? What does he know?

In a piece for the New Yorker, Jane Mayer spoke with Carney, also a reserve officer in the U.S. Navy, about his work at the Pentagon examining Saddam Hussein’s links to al Qaeda. "

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A Classic Bad Republican/Good Environmentalist Story - Despite Facts By: Warner Todd Houston

"Reuters wants us to know that Republican Senators who block honors for “environmentalist pioneers” are bad but they don’t want to just come right out and say so, of course. So, they write a story that presents the environut in question as akin to a saint and the Republican Senator as somehow “arbitrary” and mean. This particular story from Reuters is a classic example of advocacy on the sly by presenting the “wrong” side of the issue as the uninformed or mean protagonist to the innocent and well meaning good guys."

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Gates of Vienna: Youth Bulges, Violence, and the Fifth Village: “The Game is Over for Europe”

"Below is a translation of an interview by Lars Hedegaard of the German sociologist Gunnar Heinsohn, from the May issue of the online magazine Sappho. The article was translated from the Danish by Zonka, who deserves our thanks for undertaking such a Herculean task.

Dr. Heinsohn elaborates on a theme that Mark Steyn has made familiar: the impending demographic collapse of the West, particularly Europe, and the accompanying threat from a surplus of angry young Muslim males."

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The Thickening Fog of War :: Robert Spencer

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America’s Choice By Philip Atkinson

"In 1952 Professor Arnold Toynbee predicted that Western civilization would be attacked by barbarian war bands. His claim was based upon his observations, published in 'A Study Of History,' that all declining civilizations became subject to attacks by barbarian war bands, and as Western civilization was declining, it too would be attacked.

On the 11th September 2001 Toynbee was proved right as 2,752 people were killed in a deliberate suicidal attack by a barbarian war band that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.

What Toynbee did not explain was why a declining civilization is attacked by barbarian war bands. Toynbee did not know because he did not know what a civilization was, for this has only been revealed by the recent work 'A Study Of Our Decline', which explains both what a civilization is, and why it is attacked when it declines. "

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Jim Gilchrist of Minuteman Project on Immigration, Terror, Elections :: David Storobin, Esq

"Today I spoke to Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project. The most striking part of the interview was how mild his views on immigration truly were. The man has been vilified by most of the Left and even much of the Right, including the White House. He’s supposed to be an immigrant-hating vigilante who dreams of dead Mexicans at night. Instead, he’s an intelligent, mild-mannered person with very reasonable proposals that include supporting a limited H1b temporary visa program for skilled workers and about 200,000 legal immigrants annually. We also covered the War of Terror, U.S. Presidential elections, and the Minuteman Project dispute, among other issues."

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Climate change expert says Pelosi wants to 'embarrass' Bush on European visit By Jim Brown

"An energy policy analyst says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's global warming trip overseas is intended to embarrass President Bush and show Europe that she's committed to 'slowing economic growth' by limiting carbon dioxide emissions.

Speaker Pelosi and seven other members of the U.S. House of Representatives are holding meetings with scientists and politicians in Greenland, Germany, and Belgium to discuss ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Pelosi has criticized President Bush for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in industrialized countries."

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A Welcome Victory for Freedom of Expression and Thought By Douglas Farah

"Today brings the welcome news that the Islamic Society of Boston has folded its cards in the middle of the discovery process, and dropped its defamation lawsuit against Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project and several Boston-area news organizations.

Like CAIR and other groups before it who have brought law suits primarily aimed at silencing their critics through legal intimidation, the ISB found that, unlike Saudi Arabia and other Wahhabist/Salafist societies, there are still some principles underlying U.S. law that make bullying more difficult, whether the name of Allah is invoked or not."

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How to Get Politics Right Again By Quin Hillyer

"What's wrong with the right these days?

Allow, please, for some rambling, for something that is less a tightly crafted essay than some thinking out loud. Consider:

Here we are facing a leftist Democratic congressional leadership that is calling, in effect, for surrender in a foreign land -- and we can't gain much traction on the issue.

Here we are facing a leftist Democratic congressional leadership that badly porks up an 'emergency' defense spending bill with non-defense projects -- and we can't gain much traction."

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DID I HAPPEN TO MENTION THAT THERE WAS A WAR ON INDIVIDUALISM? By Nealz Bortz

"DID I HAPPEN TO MENTION THAT THERE WAS A WAR ON INDIVIDUALISM?
'Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position.'
[Mario Palmieri, 'The Philosophy of Fascism' 1936]
'We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.'
[Hillary Clinton, 1993]
'When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?'
[Henry David Thoreau]

Well .. there you go. A few different opinions on the value of the individual and individualism. This Thoreau character seemed to recognize the primacy of the individual. You really can't say the same for European fascists and our probable next president of the United States, the smartest woman in the world, Hillary Rodham."

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An Iraqi Tet Offensive? by Greg C. Reeson

"The Guardian (UK) reported in its May 22, 2007 edition that Iran is working to establish ties with al-Qaeda elements and Sunni insurgents in order to launch a major summer offensive against coalition forces in Iraq. The intent of such an operation, if the factional elements could pull it off, would be to undermine the President's security plan for Baghdad and al-Anbar Province, the so-called 'surge,' just as General David Petraeus was scheduled to return to Washington to brief the Congress on military and political progress in Iraq.

Let's suppose for a moment that the Iranians, Sunnis and al-Qaeda terrorists were able to come together in an organized assault against their common enemy, the United States, to launch the Iraqi version of the infamous Vietnam Tet Offensive. Just imagine the severity of the consequences, even if the offensive was only moderately successful. I suspect the sentiment in America would be much the same as it was in early 1968. "

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Russia’s Struggle for its Soul by Michael J. Economides

"From the outside it looks like that Russia is in an obvious tag of war between the conservative siloviki, that have apparently won almost all battles in the last few years and the “liberals” headed by the minister of trade and economic development, German Gref and, presumably, the tight-lipped man that would be president, Gazprom’s chairman Dmitry Medvedev. The struggle is not just because of the upcoming elections next year to replace President Vladimir Putin but what is at stake is Russia’s economic and civic soul. What country is Russia going to be?

Gref now calls for increasing investment from outside, assuring investors that their money is safe, that “property rights remain intact,” that his government will adhere to the liberal economic policies of the new Russia. "

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Qaeda warns of attacks 'worse than 9/11' :: Breitbart

"An American member of Al-Qaeda warned in an Internet video that US President George W. Bush should withdraw all his troops from Muslim land or face attacks worse than September 11.

Adam Gadahn, a convert to Islam who has been indicted for treason by a US jury, issued a list of demands and warned they were not up for negotiation.

'Your failure to heed our demands means that you and your people... will experience things that will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Virginia Tech,' he said in the video posted on Tuesday.

'You're losing on all fronts and losing big time,' said Gadahn, who is the English-language spokesman for Osama bin Laden's terror network. "

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Conservatism keeps its edge with a mantra of self-reliance By George Will

"Conservatism's recovery of its intellectual equilibrium requires a confident explanation of why America has two parties and why the conservative one is preferable.

Today's political argument involves perennial themes that give it more seriousness than many participants understand. The argument, like Western political philosophy generally, is about the meaning of, and the proper adjustment of the tension between, two important political goals — freedom and equality. "

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From the Land of the Free to North American Union? By Fjordman

"I mentioned earlier my theory that US authorities and politicians on both sides, including the Bush administration, are doing so little to uphold US border controls with Mexico because they have already decided that the border is scheduled for demolition anyway, in favor of a North American Union. I was accused of paranoia by some, but I am increasingly certain that this interpretation is correct after reading about the European Union. Many powerful elitists do in fact view the European bloc as a success, and are adopting similar tactics of gradually abandoning border controls by bureaucratic and administrative decisions, with little or no public debate.

Without effective border controls, there is no national sovereignty, and without national sovereignty there can be no effective democracy. What will be the future of the United States if this open border policy continues? My prediction is that it could mean the end of the USA as a superpower, perhaps the end of the USA as one country."

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No Americans Left in Washington DC by JB Williams

"When recently asked in an interview, who I thought won the first two Republican debates; I answered Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich. They’re the only two candidates conservative enough to not be in this stupid race yet… They’re not late, the others eager beavers are early!

They’re the only two not joining the chorus of ten, eager to demonstrate their lack of conservative credentials in a futile attempt to attract both conservative and liberal voters. As a result, they’re also the only candidates not losing supporters in the debates.
Like 'patriot', the moniker 'American' is not assigned to an individual simply on the basis of residency or job title. We have lots of folks living in this country, both legally and illegally, who could never qualify as 'Americans', including some who wouldn’t want to, even if they could.

Now we have a growing list of politicians in Washington DC that could never be accused of being 'Americans' either, working around the clock to destroy the country they were elected to protect and defend, pandering to the non-American vote since all real Americans are fed up beyond voting."

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La Raza La Radicals by Jim Simpson

"Outrages are coming so fast and furious these days that I am numb. It has become difficult to be outraged when practically everything politicians of both parties are doing is outrageous. But a recent proposal in Congress deserves mention. HR 1999, proposed in April by co-sponsors Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) and Rick Renzi (R-AZ), would provide $10 million a year to a radical immigration group, the National Council of La Raza (meaning “the Race”).

The bill offers funds for “community development and affordable housing projects and programs serving low-and moderate-income households,” for families of “Hispanic origin.” So giving immigrants the same free medical care, education, food, housing and income support available to all low income groups is not enough. Now we have to single them out for special treatment, empowering a radical organization in the process! And the bill does not discriminate between legal and illegal immigrants. I don’t need to tell you where most of the money will go. It is bad enough there are already programs that do this. The real dig is that NCLR gets to distribute the money, keeping them well endowed and cementing their position of influence within the immigrant community. "

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Help Create a New Patriotic Tradition by Newt Gingrich

"This week, you have an opportunity to help create a great new tradition of patriotism.
This week, you have the chance to show your commitment to the young men and women who are risking their lives for America.

This week, all of us in the Winning the Future community should contact our local radio stations with this message: Make June 6 -- the anniversary of D-Day -- a national day of prayer and commitment to our troops by playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt's extraordinary address to the nation hours after our troops stormed the beaches at Normandy. "

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HALTING WORLD GOVERNMENT... CAN IT BE STOPPED? By: Al Cronkrite

"Amid a retinue of internet exposes, the North American Union (NAU) is forging ahead, the amnesty bill is about to be codified, and Bush II has signed a Presidential Directive that grants him dictatorial powers in the event of an emergency.
Ultimately, it appears, the NAU will succeed in dragging the world’s most powerful nation down into an amalgam that will live under the new world mantra “be peaceful or we will kill you”. Individual freedom will be submerged into a cauldron of writhing humanity to be covered and homogenized over low heat.

This is all scheduled to take place under a nascent regime that Hitler himself would have envied. Local Ninja police forces equipped with heavy weaponry will ensure no citizen or group of citizens has the right to resist. Computerized databases will allow the government to examine every move of every citizen. Leaders of a rebellion may expect to disappear into a pit of torture and oblivion where hidden courts will execute secret sentences and no appeals will be allowed. "

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Limbaugh Nobel Peace Prize by John Berlau

"Early this year, two members of the parliament of Norway nominated former U.S. vice president Al Gore for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. One of the legislators in Norway -- where the Nobel Committee is based -- argued that Gore deserves the prize to be awarded this fall because Gore “has put climate change on the agenda” and “and uses his position to get politicians to understand.”

In response, the conservative Landmark Legal Foundation nominated another American political figure for the prize: syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh. In the letter nominating Limbaugh, Landmark President and fellow radio talk-show host Mark Levin, pressed the case that Limbaugh “gives voice to the values of democratic governance, individual opportunity and the just, equal application of the rule of law.”"

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Fred Thompson, candidate-in-waiting. by Stephen F. Hayes

"FRED THOMPSON IS RUNNING for the Republican presidential nomination. In a conference call Monday, Thompson addressed a group of more than 100 supporters and fundraisers whom the campaign has dubbed First Day Founders. He told them that he would be setting up an organization that will allow him to begin raising money and recruiting staff.

In official campaign finance parlance, the move represents a shift from 'giving serious consideration' to a presidential bid, as Thompson said he would do back in March, as a non-candidate, to a 'testing the waters' period where one is, in effect, a candidate-in-waiting with a campaign-in-preparation. Thompson advisers point out that the new testing-the-waters entity is not quite a campaign committee, though it will officially begin accepting contributions on June 4. On that day--the First Day, as it were--the campaign will take in donations that it can then tout as an impressive one-day haul. A corollary benefit will be that news reports about Thompson's non-entry entry will run on June 5, when the declared candidates will meet in New Hampshire for their third debate. (Thompson won't be required to disclose his donors and the amounts they give to the Federal Election Commission until September.) "

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Old Dead Presidents: Scientologists "Fair Game" in Action?

"Keith Henson grew up the son of a U.S. Army Lt. Colonel in Prescott, Arizona. He was a gifted student who became an electrical engineer, and writer who was published in Reason Magazine and once spoke before congress regarding Space Colonization. He is now sitting in an Arizona prison awaiting a trail that could land him in a California penitentiary where he has received numerous threats indicating that he won't survive his six month sentence.

Funny how life changes, eh?"

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John Edwards' Poor Scam By Jonah Goldberg

There's a little hustler in every politician. But sometimes there's a little politician in a hustler. Such is the case with John Edwards.

Just last week, we learned that Edwards received $55,000 to give a speech, "Poverty, the Great Moral Issue Facing America," at UC Davis. The poor students who attended were charged $17 a ticket. Earlier this month, it was reported that despite the fact he denounces "predatory lending" and sub-prime mortgages for the poor, Edwards made nearly $500,000 as a consultant to a hedge fund involved in that business.

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Pelsoi's Common Ground With Assad, Ahmadinejad By Jack Kelly

Jihadists affiliated with al Qaida have been entering Lebanon from Syria, and now constitute about half the fighters battling the Lebanese army in a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern city of Tripoli, the commander of Lebanon's internal security forces told the Washington Times.

"The head of Fatah al Islam, Shakir Absi, was in the Syrian air force before being released from a Syrian jail and sent to Lebanon by the Syrian military intelligence," sources in the Reform Party of Syria told the Middle Eastern News Line (MENL).

Syria's strategy is to distract and weaken the Lebanese army to make it possible for the terror group Hezbollah to seize control of Lebanon later this summer, said Lebanese-American Walid Phares in an analysis for the Counterterrorism Blog.

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The Hard Truth About Leaving Iraq By Ed Koch

To those who believe that when America leaves Iraq, Islamic terrorists will be satisfied and stop fighting, I say this: wake up. The hard truth is that if we leave Iraq, the terrorists will continue their attacks on Americans everywhere, including our homeland. And they will use Iraq as the new base of their terrorist regime.

In a May 28th New York Times article, reporters Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennet provided a chilling report on what the future holds. The article begins, "When Muhammad al-Darsi got out of prison in Libya last year after serving time for militant activities, he had one goal: killing Americans in Iraq. A recruiter...told him he was not needed in Iraq. Instead, he was drafted into the war that is seeping out of Iraq. A team of militants from Iraq had traveled to Jordan, where they were preparing attacks on Americans and Jews..."

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Media Finally Discovers Racially-Charged Knoxville Horror Case By Nicholas Stix

The mainstream media (MSM) is finally starting, ever so modestly, to report on Tennessee’s Knoxville Horror, even as far from the crime scene as Denver! (A tip o’ the hat to Modern Tribalist.) On May 17, Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner announced that the four defendants charged with having kidnapped, robbed, gang-raped, murdered, desecrated the corpses of, and stolen from Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, will each have a separate trial, each of which Judge Baumgartner foresees – perhaps a tad optimistically – as lasting two weeks. The state indictments can all be read here.

Newsom was anally gang-raped, and then murdered several hours after being kidnapped; Christian was vaginally, orally, and anally gang-raped, and murdered approximately 24 hours after the couple was kidnapped. At one point, one or more of the defendants allegedly also poured cleaning fluid down the presumably then still living Christian’s throat, but a false report by Michelle Malkin notwithstanding, none of the defendants has been charged with torture.

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John Edwards' Memorial Day Of Shame :: INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Dishonoring Heroes: Memorial Day is supposed to be above politics, a holiday dedicated to those who gave their lives for freedom. Now, thanks to opportunistic politicians, we can't even honor our war dead in peace.

John Edwards, former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate, really pulled out all the stops to turn this year's Memorial Day weekend into "Anti-Iraq War Day."

First, he called on Americans to take the day we solemnly remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and use it for anti-war demonstrations. He then actually set up a Web site — supportthetroopsendthewar.com — using funds from his presidential campaign to coordinate the peaceniks' protests.

Hundreds of postings on the site gave the particulars for anti-war demos throughout the country, and the anti-military sentiment was evident in a good deal of them. One referred to President Bush and his staff as "this evil man and his evil henchmen/women."

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A Feeble President :: INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Leadership: When men of strength are presented with difficult problems, their responses are firm and decisive. Jimmy Carter spent four years as president of the United States responding with weakness.

Carter's legacy is marked by a series of lame responses to historic challenges. His reputation as a failed president is well-deserved. From January 1977 to January 1981, Carter routinely let America down.

Economic malaise. The 1970s will not be remembered as America's greatest decade. Morale was low, inflation and unemployment were high, and the economy was ugly. When Carter took office, he had a chance to end the skid. He made it worse.

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Small Town USA vs Sanctuary City ::Foehammer's Anvil

Over the course of the past few weeks and this past Memorial Day weekend, I accumulated some experiences that have given me a fresh perspective on the present condition of the United States of America. This morning I’m going to share these insights with you, gentle readers.

Often people will ask me how difficult it is to preach outside the “choir” of the relatively safe fold of like-minded thinkers that tend to gravitate towards websites like my own. The answer to that is what you might expect — it isn’t easy. But it also always heavily depends on the immediate surroundings you find yourself in, and as you will come to understand quickly, the general nature of the community where you find yourself speaking to a few strangers about the threats of Islam and Sharia Law and Illegal Immigration. And yes, I have come to find that these three subjects are all so tightly tied to one another that any conversation about just one can easily swing to the others (and back) without so much as a finger-press of effort.

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Once More with Feeling: Making the Case for the Iraq War :: Gates of Vienna

One of our readers sent an email today, suggesting we look at an editorial by former Senator Bob Kerrey in Opinion Journal last week. Given the responses today in our comments section to Nibras Kazimi’s essay on the war in his home country, Iraq, Mr. Kerrey’s thoughts bear partial repeating here:


Let me restate the case for this Iraq war from the U.S. point of view.

The U.S. led an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein because Iraq was rightly seen as a threat following Sept. 11, 2001. For two decades we had suffered attacks by radical Islamic groups but were lulled into a false sense of complacency because all previous attacks were “over there.”

[…]

As for Saddam…[h]e could have complied with the Security Council resolutions with the greatest of ease. He chose not to because he was stealing and extorting billions of dollars from the U.N. Oil for Food program.

Not to mention the cynical EU nations who were in cahoots with his massive extortion. France, anyone?

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'We Are the Only People Preventing Them From Telling the Story' BY JAMES TARANTO

'We Are the Only People Preventing Them From Telling the Story'
In a Memorial Day column, David Carr of the New York Times complains about a U.S. military rule requiring that embedded reporters "obtain a signed consent from a wounded soldier before the image can be published. Images that put a face on the dead, that make them identifiable, are simply prohibited."

Why is it so important to show images of hurt and dead Americans? A fellow Timesman gives away the game:

James Glanz, a Baghdad correspondent who will become bureau chief for The New York Times next month, said that although he and others had many great experiences working with the rank-and-file soldiers, some military leaders seem determined to protect something besides the privacy of their troops.

"As the number of reporters there dwindles further and further because of the difficult conditions we work under, the kind of work they are able to publish becomes very important," Mr. Glanz said. "This tiny remaining corps of reporters becomes a greater and greater problem for the military brass because we are the only people preventing them from telling the story the way they want it told."

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Three Ex-Terrorists to Take Back UC Irvine By Lee Kaplan

Former PLO-terrorist-turned-peace-activist Walid Shoebat once told me that when he first came to America to attend Loop College in Chicago as a PLO organizer and counselor, and to learn from Jamal Said at the Bridgeview Mosque how to wage violent jihad within the U.S., that he was sitting with some Palestinian compatriots when a Jewish student walked by. Shoebat immediately suggested to his friends that they throw a rock at the “Zionist.” His friends intervened to stop him, not because it was wrong, but, as they explained to him, he was now in America, not the West Bank, and they put people in jail for such things. Shoebat told me that one day rocks would be thrown at Jews in America with the same normalcy as they are in the West Bank. Since that experience 20 years ago, Shoebat's prophecy has come true, especially at the University of California at Irvine.

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U.S. Selling Out Bosnian Christians to Muslims, Serb Leader Says by Kenneth Timmerman

"The man who helped overthrow Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic says the State Department is pressuring him to hand over Christian Bosnia to its powerful Muslim neighbor, threatening the delicate balance that ended the Bosnian War.

The Bosnian Serbian entity was created under the 1995 Dayton peace accords.
'At the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo, I was threatened that if I did not agree to these U.S. demands, I would have problems,' Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik told NewsMax in an exclusive interview."

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Information Warfare By John D. Turner

"One facet of information warfare, “psychological operations” or psyops, is all around you.
It is in the commercial advertisements you see when you drive your car, or watch TV. It’s on the network news you watch and in the newspapers and magazines you read. When you see a political ad, put out to convince you to vote for someone (or against them), that is information warfare. When we want to put a good face on it, we call it “public relations”. When we wish to demonize, we call it propaganda. It is the battle for the hearts and minds, in a positive or negative sense, of the target audience.

A big part of what we are trying to accomplish in Iraq is based on psychological operations; an attempt to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people and bring a stable democracy of some sort to that region. "

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American Muslims Ready to Attack USA? By: Sher Zieve

"I have waited for about a week to comment on a new Pew poll that queried over a thousand Muslims living in the United States. The reason I held back from commenting on the unnerving (some publications have called them hair-raising) results, is that I was waiting to see if ‘moderate’ Muslim leaders would officially comment. Sadly—as has become the norm—they have not done so in or with any large or even medium-sized numbers."

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The real hate speech By Janet Folger

"Just who are the haters? Here are some of the blog postings from homosexual activists following the death of one of the godliest men I have ever met, Dr. Jerry Falwell:
'What an absolutely putrid little excrescence of vomit he was.'
'R.I.P., and after watching Falwell I know know (sic) why the Romans threw the Christians to the lions.'
'Oh, thank non-god. One down, 28 percent to go.'
'I'd pee right on his corpse if I could.'
'Dance first, then pi-- …'
'I'm saving the real party for Jesse Helms's exit. I'll be dancing that day.'
No surprise – this is exactly how homosexual activists treated Rev. Falwell when he was alive. Homosexuals more than hated Jerry Falwell, whom they attacked, maligned, ridiculed and threatened. He didn't make it widely known, but homosexual activists even attempted to kill him. "

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Jack Murtha's Friends::By Robert D. Novak

"WASHINGTON -- Democrats controlling the House of Representatives demonstrated this month the hollowness of their claim that they have ended the corruption of 12 Republican years. Rep. John Murtha quietly slipped into the Intelligence authorization bill two earmarks costing taxpayers $5.5 million. The beneficiary was a contractor headquartered in Murtha's hometown of Johnstown, Pa., whose executives have been generous political contributors to the powerful 17-term congressman.

This scandalous conduct would be unknown except for reforms by the new Democratic majority. But the remodeled system is not sufficiently transparent to expose in a timely manner machinations of Murtha and fellow earmarkers to his colleagues, much less to the public. It took Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, the leading House earmark-buster, to discover the truth. "

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The American right is a cauldron of debate; the left isn't. BY PETER BERKOWITZ

"The left prides itself on, and frequently boasts of, its superior appreciation of the complexity and depth of moral and political life. But political debate in America today tells a different story.

On a variety of issues that currently divide the nation, those to the left of center seem to be converging, their ranks increasingly untroubled by debate or dissent, except on daily tactics and long-term strategy. Meanwhile, those to the right of center are engaged in an intense intra-party struggle to balance competing principles and goods."

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Sarkozy Cannot Save France by Stephanie Lapenna

"The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as new President of France caused an unprecedented wave of enthusiasm among many political analysts on the right, as they see him as a sort of 'French Thatcher or Reagan'. The same occurred with the election of current German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2005. I am sorry to say that, but any big hope on these new leaders is misplaced and exaggerate. While there is no doubt that they can contribute to heal some diplomatic wounds and strenghten transatlantic relations deteriorated under previous governments, as well as adopting a more credible foreign policy, the overall scenario is not the one some are expecting and hoping for."

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Foundations of Betrayal by Jamie Glazov

"Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Phil Kent, president of Phil Kent Consulting, Inc. He recently served as president of Southeastern Legal Foundation, a top conservative public interest law firm. He served as press secretary to the late U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond and appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and other national shows. An award-winning columnist, his work appears in the Washington Times, The Atlanta Constitution, Wall Street Journal, National Review, and other national publications. He is also a political pundit on a Sunday TV show, 'The Georgia Gang,' which airs on WAGA-TV, Atlanta. His first book, The Dark Side of Liberalism: Unchaining the Truth was released in 2003. He is the author of the new book, Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super Rich Undermine America."

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CAIR: Islamism Is Islam by Joe Kaufman

"Last month, the National Chairman of CAIR, Parvez Ahmed, took a trip to Qatar, where he was invited to speak at the 7th Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade. The message that he brought with him was duplicitous. On the one hand, he stated that the U.S. needs to “engage” with the religious elements of the Muslim world. On the other, he said that the U.S. must “engage” with Hamas. Was Ahmed saying that Hamas, a terrorist organization, was the equivalent of a legitimate Muslim religious body, the religious element he was speaking of? If his talks and writings, during and after the conference, are any indication, we are provided with no other conclusion but yes. "

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PRO-CRIMINAL AXIS PUSHES AMNESTY By: John Bender

"The pro-criminal axis pushing the Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty are all over the media spewing half truths, outright lies, and name calling because that’s all they have to defend this monstrosity.
One lie they repeat like a mantra is that this isn’t amnesty. Well, that’s like saying oral sex isn’t sex.
The day the Bush-Kennedy-McCain bill becomes law the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens here can apply for a “temporary” visa that allows them to live here, work here, obtain government services here, collect Social Security, etc. This “temporary” visa can be renewed forever.
The illegal aliens don’t have to pay a fine, or any other penalty, for their prior criminal acts. All they have to do to get this perpetually renewable “temporary” visa is show up and fill out the paperwork.

The pro-criminal axis claims that the bill requires a background check to get this visa. They never mention that it also requires that background check be completed in 24 hours and the visa be issued after 24 hours if the background check isn’t complete. They never explain how they are going to be able to conduct effective background checks on millions of illegal aliens when now they can’t even match Social Security numbers to employees. "

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Illegal Immigration and the U. S. Military :: Robert Klein Engler |

"At a Memorial Day barbecue where the issue of illegal immigration is an inevitable topic of discussion, I ask the woman sitting next to me at a garden table, 'How would you feel if the military took over the country?' She displays her liberal perspective and wit when she asks back, 'Haven't they, already?'

I sip my beer and decide to remain speechless. Nevertheless, two thoughts go through my mind: Is a military coup possible in our age of divisive politics, and would a military coup be accepted? When I return home and do more research, my answer to both these questions comes to be a reluctant, 'Yes!' "

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The Last Sunrise By Paul J. Cella III

"Five hundred and fifty-four years ago on this day the Roman Empire was at last extinguished. By then the Empire was, of course, Greek not Roman; Christian not pagan; and no longer strong but pitifully weak. Dispossessed of all its Anatolian and Asian province, and most of its European, all that remained was the great city of Constantinople, much of which was reduced by privation, disease, and depopulation to overgrown ruins. The Turks under a great conqueror, Mehmet II, besieged the city beginning in April, the day after Easter. They outnumbered the defenders at least 10 to 1; possibly the fell Janissaries alone outnumbered the defenders. A pious, brave and noble man, by grim irony named Constantine, was the last Byzantine Emperor: he led his small force of Greek and Italian soldiers with stoic dignity and courage. He died on the very walls of the city with which he shared a name."

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