“Conservatives Left Behind” By Kathryn Jean Lopez

I know someone in the White House has Internet access — because Nicholas Thompson and Kerrie Rushton from the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives have been e-mailing back and forth in response to Corner posts about the Bush-Kennedy immigration deal for weeks now. Do they not talk to Tony Snow? Does no one talk to the president? Does the president just not care what his conservative allies on so many issues think?

I know I’m not the only one who sometimes suspects the latter.

On May 28, the president said: “If you want to kill the bill, if you don’t want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it, you can use it to frighten people. Or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all.”
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Real Clear Religion :: A CULTURE NEARING AN END

"If you are not yet convinced that the battle to save Europe is NOW-- and not in the year 2050 when the demographics have inalterably taken hold of the continent, then here is a bit more information to bring any skeptics up to speed.

A recent report shows that Germany's birth rate continued to decline in 2006. The government's socialistic incentives designed to increase baby-making have failed, and the upbeat predictions of a baby boom are now bust. There were more deaths than births which means that Germans failed to replace themselves. There are now widespread reports of a loss of workers to do menial labor throughout Europe. Without native born workers Europe is left with no choice but to liberalize immigration laws in order to sustain its economy. This is a quandry since many fear that a liberalization of immigration laws may bring terrorism, or worse yet, the creation of Eurabia. "

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JFK Plot: The Herculean Approach to Combating Terrorism By Michael Tanji

"The passage of time allows for a more thorough and insightful analysis of related events, but at this stage time is at something of a premium. To that end your author undertakes a more substantial if premature effort to elaborate on earlier points made about the JFK plot. This is no means a comprehensive list of the broader implications of this plot, nor is the analysis exhaustive, it merely serves to reinforce lessons-learned and highlight certain fallacies that impede our ability to effectively face this threat.
The Battleground is Everywhere

It makes for a nice slogan – fighting them “there” so we won’t have to fight them “here” – but that was never a realistic strategy. The 9/11 hijackers were from over-there but they plotted and practiced here. Subsequent plots uncovered since 9/11, not to mention the various dry runs that have occurred, demonstrate that there is no shortage of domestic threats."

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The United States at a Crossroads toward Third World Status by E. Ralph Hostetter

"It is axiomatic that an uncontrolled influx of immigrants, as now exists at the Mexican Border, and legal immigration through presently accepted chain-immigration policies, with no language requirements or assimilation into the culture, will change the status of the host nation to that of the immigrants. In other words, if America kept its doors open, as at present, the
Third World would continue to send its millions to the United States until a balance were reached when America would join the Third World itself.

Family reunification permits a newly naturalized citizen to bring members of his extended family to the host country. For each naturalization chain immigration gives us a bonus of three. It’s the gift that keeps on giving."

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Time for conservatives again to split the blanket By PAT BUCHANAN

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.'

So said Jefferson. It would appear to be time again for a little rebellion in the Grand Old Party - this time against George II.

For President Bush has attacked his own loyalists for a lack of patriotism. 'If you don't want to do what's right for America,' he said of opponents of the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill, 'if you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill's an amnesty bill. That's empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our citizens.'

But if the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens are instantly legalized, what other term is there to describe that than amnesty?"

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Education at Its Finest By Henry P. Wickham, Jr.

"In a bygone era, a child sent to study the humanities was expected to drink deeply from the collected wisdom of the finest writers and artists, emerging with a heightened sense of mankind's potential for greatness as well the flaws inherent in human nature. But today, the forces of the left reign supreme, and agendas have pushed aside the deep truths of the human predicatment.

To get a better picture of the contemporary humanities, one can read books such as Alvin Kernan's The Death of Literature, John M. Ellis's Literature Lost, R. V. Young's At War With the Word, and Who Killed Homer? by Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath, to name only a few among many."

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Who's to Blame for the Sellout? by Henry Lamb

"The nation’s transportation experts have identified the top three priorities: a national freight network; urban congestion; and connecting new urban centers with the interstate system. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, meeting in national conference last month, heard futurists predict that the cost of meeting the transportation needs would be $3.1 trillion over the next 25 years. State and local governments are turning to 'public-private partnerships' (PPP) to produce the funding.

The City of Chicago was happy to partner with a Spanish-Australian group that paid $1.83 billion for a 99-year lease to operate the Chicago Skyway. The same outfit paid Indiana $3.85 billion to operate the Indiana Tollway for 75 years. The same Spanish company has partnered with a Texas firm to give the state of Texas $7.2 billion to build and operate the first leg of the Trans-Texas Corridor. And Pennsylvania’s Governor Rendell is expecting a bid of between $15- $18 billion for the Pennsylvania turnpike.

Most states have already enacted, or are considering, legislation to authorize this PPP financing of public infrastructure.

Public opposition to PPP financing encouraged the Texas legislature to adopt a two-year moratorium on the state’s PPP projects. The governor’s veto, however, along with threats from the U.S. Department of Transportation, forced the legislature to pass a watered-down compromise bill that blocks only future PPP projects, but allows the current Trans-Texas Corridor to go forward."

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Michael Moore: A Criminal Profile by Paul A. Ibbetson

"There is little doubt that Michael Moore is one of the most public anti-American propagandists of modern times. Without fail, his lengthy lists of so called documentary works have all encompassed his varying visions of the shortcomings of the United States. What many Americans take issue with Moore, is the deceptive means by which he collects his information and the even more deceptive way he portrays this information to the public.

When lamenting about Moore’s last work Fahrenheit 9/11, Christopher Hitchens would say, “To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental…Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of “dissenting” bravery.” (Hitchens, 2004, ¶3).

The Hitchens observation is important to the profiling of Moore for two reasons. First, it encapsulates a general feeling of many Americans, and more importantly, it shows that even the most godless among us realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with Michael Moore. Dave Kopel, of the Independence Institute, who appears in the Michael Moore rebuttal film Fahrenhype 9/11, has chronicled fifty- nine falsehoods within Moore’s documentary."

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Melanie Phillips :: Liberalism v Islamism

"First of all, let me define my terms and say what I mean by Islamism and liberalism. Islamism is the politicised version of Islam which mandates jihad, or holy war against the infidel and conquest of the non-Islamic world for Islam. I’m well aware of the argument that there’s no difference between Islamism and Islam: that’s a theological argument for others to have.

By liberalism I mean the commitment to a free society, founded above all on the separation of secular government from religious worship — from which follow the concepts of equal respect for all people, freedom of conscience, tolerance and the rule of law.
These two concepts, Islamism and liberalism, are currently engaged in a fight to the death. My argument is that liberalism is in danger of losing this fight because it has so badly undermined itself and departed from its own core concepts that it is now paralysed by moral and intellectual muddle.

Liberalism is the creed of modernity. The driving force behind the Islamic jihad is the fight against liberalism and modernity. All the iconic conflicts — Iraq, Israel, Kashmir, Chechnya, Sudan —are secondary to the fundamental aim of the jihad to prevent liberalism and modernity from destroying Islam. "

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The deep crisis of the West By Ole Jørgen Anfindsen

"Sometimes we make things too complicated. This article is an attempt at explaining, using as few words as possible, why Europe in particular, and the entire Western world in general, is in a deep crisis. This explanation will be followed by a brief discussion of some possible objections, after which several sobering facts and quotes are provided. The article is wrapped up with some concluding thoughts and remarks.

My pessimism on behalf of the Western civilization rests on the following simple observation: Somewhere, somehow, there has to be a limit to the amount of diversity a society can handle without becoming dysfunctional.

I am not pretending to know exactly where this limit is; I am merely claiming that such a limit must necessarily exist. With this as our basic assumption, we may reason as follows."

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Dr. Sanity: COPING WITH LOSS...ON THE POLITICAL LEFT

"On some level, both Europe and the political left in this country know the end is near for their utopian dreams. I imagine this is quite distressing to them, having invested all their psychological and spiritual energy into bringing forth a socialist paradise for so long....

But all you have to do is to consider the wars of the last century and you will begin to appreciate the destruction and devastation their dream has wrought. Where it has not killed outright the people it was intended to help, it has instead sucked the motivation and life out of all those who have had the misfortune to dwell within the confines of societies which implemented socialist/utopian policies."

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Dr. Sanity: A VISION OF THINGS TO COME, Part II

"For those who may have forgotten or never known, let me remind you that Iranian clerics have already issued a fatwa approving the use of nuclear weapons against the enemies of Islam.

Of course, we are told by the left that, 'Iran is only seeking peace!' and that the U.S. is by far the greater threat (see the Cox and Forkum cartoon at the end of this post). 'Hand's Off Iran', they chant at their peace marches.

If they really cared about peace, it might be more useful for them to march in Tehran. Somehow, I can't see them doing anything of the sort ,when they live in the same utopian fantasyland as the jihadists they tacitly enable.

Here are the words of one of Iran's 'moderates' on the subject of nuclear weapons:"

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Jailhouse Stripes for Thoughts?::By Ken Blackwell

"For those who commit physical crimes against others based on race, religion, or sexual orientation I have no sympathy. But the notion that government can punish thoughts and opinions, even offensive ones, is frightening.

A bill making it illegal for people of various faiths to freely hold and profess their respective religion's teaching on sexual morality is working its way through Congress. Regardless of your politics, every American who cares about free speech and religious liberty should tell their U.S. senators to oppose this legislation. This bill has already passed the House of Representatives on a largely party-line vote with a Democrat majority. It is now pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and is expected to be voted on by the entire Senate in a month."

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The Incredible Judicial Disparity: Berger v. Libby by Frank Salvato

"If you needed any more proof that the American judicial system is completely and alarmingly subjective – beyond Paris Hilton's early release – look no further than the disparity between the sentences imposed on Sandy Berger and I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. In Washington DC’s version of The Peoples’ Court, it would seem that the deciding factors in how severe a sentence one gets depends on political party affiliation, the severity of the crime be damned.

This past Tuesday US District Judge Reggie B. Walton, a Bush 43 appointee, sentenced former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby to 30 months in prison and fined him $250,000 for obstruction of justice and lying to a federal agent. Walton said he saw no good reason to allow Libby to remain free pending appeal. Walton also required Libby to serve two years probation upon release from prison.

Libby’s conviction stems from an overly aggressive investigation into the alleged “leaking” of a covert CIA agent’s name, Valerie Plame. Plame, the wife of the irritatingly smug Joseph Wilson, had sent him on a non-White House sanctioned exploratory mission to Niger, which, as Christopher Hitchens aptly points out, inadvertently validated President Bush’s claim that Saddam Hussein had been shopping for yellowcake uranium in Niger, a point the agenda-driven media dropped at the Wilson’s allegation of Plame’s outing."

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Wake Up, America! Wake Up Judeo-Christians! Wake Up Western Civilization! By Peter Feaman

"Mark Steyn writes, “Permanence is the illusion of every age. In 1913 no one thought the Russian, Austrian, German and Turkish empires would be gone within half a decade. Seventy years ago, all those who dismissed Reagan as an “amiable dunce” assured us that the Soviet Union was likewise here to stay. In 1987, there were no experts predicting the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall, the Warsaw pact countries or the U.S.S.R. itself. And yet, all those things happened and supposedly nobody saw it coming. The clash of civilizations described in this book is coming and it’s been on the march for some time."

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Whether Vanes :: Investor's Business Daily

"Climate Change: The NASA administrator who strayed from the true path on global warming has recanted his skepticism. Is the debate really over, or are those who question warming orthodoxy the ones being silenced?"

In a moment of candor that must have had Al Gore grasping for the antacid, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on May 30 told National Public Radio listeners he wasn't sure that global warming was really a problem or that man could or should do much about it.

"I have no doubt that . . . a trend of global warming exists," he said. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.

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New “Security & Prosperity Partnership” Records Reveal Proposal for U.S.-Canadian Funded Grants for Mexico :: Judicial Watch

"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, concerning the agency’s involvement with the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.

A 10-page partnership “Work Plan for the Financial Services Working Group” is included (somewhat incongruously) among the Health and Human Service records. The “work plan” details 24 specific “deliverables” by officials from the U.S. Treasury, Finance Canada, BANXICO, the Federal Reserve Board – Atlanta, and regulatory agencies from all three countries. The deliverables include “cross-border” cooperation in the areas of car insurance, Social Security totalization for Mexico, banking, and Federal Reserve’s “Directo a Mexico” remittance program."

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Ethanol Bust By Daniel Muniz

"Ethanol has certainly lost its luster these days. Once touted as the cure for America’s addiction to oil and the solution to the world’s problems, corn-based ethanol is now being scorned by many segments of our economy who once embraced it. Even the media whose infatuation with global warming help prompt this surge toward biofuels is now quietly downplaying the shockwaves that are reverberating across the country and around the world.

Today, there is a growing backlash amongst an increasing number of grumbling politicians."

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Apologists For Disaster, or How The LA Times Spins Yesterday's Loss :: Hamilton, Madison, and Jay

"It was literally only a matterof time before one of the MSM outlets decided to spin the cloture vote yesterday, and couple it to the spin of the legislation itself. I was expecting a bigger outlet, such as the New York Times or the WaPo to do it. But I suppose the LA Times will suffice as a beating post for right now. They say that we are stuck on immigration. Au contraire, the Times is stuck on stupid:"

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Factoring in Fred Thompson By Marie Jon'

"Fred Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee is in the race for the presidency of these United States. The charismatic Thompson will officially announce his candidacy on the Fourth of July. He is a conservative's conservative. He most definitely has the political pedigree. Thompson has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations.

He is a lawyer who served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1980-1981.

The presidential hopeful was a former member of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a member of the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, which does research for our national security."

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Chuck Baldwin -- Not Our Fathers' America

"Every country goes through changes. However, stable countries are able to maintain their basic culture, identity, language, and heritage throughout the various gradations of societal evolution. Hence, through major wars, minor conflicts, turmoil, depression, and dissension, America, for the most part, has been able to maintain the fundamental underpinnings that made our country unique. But, Ladies and Gentlemen, those underpinnings are very quickly disappearing.

In a very real sense, this is not our fathers' America. And by that, I am not referring to our modern conveniences, our advanced technologies, or our avant-garde styles of dress and forms of entertainment. I am talking about the principles and values that cut to the very core of who and what we are as a nation. We are fast losing the substance of what it means to be American. "

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The Lighthouse: Science: Waking Up to the Forces of Darkness

"After the series on transnational progressivism - a futuristic, Utopian, totalitarian, world view that will eliminate wars, pestilence, revolutions, borders, plurality voting, democracy as we know it, autonomy and nationalities, a vista that has attracted proponents left, right and centre, among whom, if I am not gravely mistaken, quite a few royals - it is perhaps useful to add a few words on the other enemies of the nation-state, the postmoderns, be it that they hate the status quo for entirely different reasons. But the objectives coincide, perhaps fatally so.

Radical Objectivist philosopher Stephen Hicks has written the book on postmodernism. He uses an insightful classification: not Left, and certainly not Right, but Counter-Enlightenment. In view of the Liberal moral bankruptcy and rampant degeneracy that - at particularly vulnerable times - makes radical Islam seem almost preferable, one can easily see that Liberalism has had its day and is over the hill. But putting 'paid' to all blessings of Reason altogether, is like throwing the baby away with the bath water."

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Hitchens Is Not Great By Karl Reitz

"Religion has been under more fire than usual lately. Daniel Dennett wrote 'Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon', Sam Harris wrote 'The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason', Richard Dawkins wrote 'The God Delusion', and Christopher Hitchens wrote 'God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything', to name just a few attacks.

Most reviews of these books and interviews with the authors have raised the not-so-hot record of atheistic societies. The authors, of course, promptly dismiss these concerns. As The Economist review of Mr. Hitchens 'God is not Great' puts it:

'To the objection that irreligious fascists and communists found plenty of non-religious reasons for murder in the 20th century, Mr Hitchens retorts that these beliefs were types of secularised religion, and as such do not count.'

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West Part Four (of Four) By Adrian Morgan

"In Britain in 1997, the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB). This group claims to be moderate, and promotes missionary (dawah) work among the young. Its founder, Kamal Tawfik Helbawy, was at that time the Brotherhood's European spokesman. Born in Egypt in 1939, he had been a member of the Brotherhood since the age of 12. He co-founded the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) in Saudi Arabia in 1972 with Abdullah bin Laden, Osama's nephew. WAMY is an organization which has been accused of funding terrorist organizations, including Hamas. Kamal Helbawy was WAMY's first president.

In November 1997, in the same year that he had founded MAB, Helbawy helped to found the Muslim Council for Britain (MCB), which was officially inaugurated on March 1, 1998. As Helbawy stated in a 2005 interview: 'I played a role in the establishment of the MCB. Our objective was that the MCB should remain independent and its primary function should be to represent and protect the interests of Muslims.' "

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Climate Alarmists Lose Another Piece of Evidence By Dennis Avery

"Don't look now, but another big chunk of the 'evidence' for man-made global warming suddenly disappeared. Poof! Researchers just reported that the world's most recent case of 'abrupt climate change' - which occurred a mere 12,000 years ago - was probably due to a comet strike, not to 'climate sensitivity.'

The Younger Dryas occurred as an Ice Age was ending. As the climate began to warm, a huge and sudden rush of fresh meltwater broke out from the Great Lakes and swept out to sea. The water surge was monumental enough that the meltwater lowered the salinity of the ocean, shut down the Atlantic conveyor currents, which disperse the planet’s heat, and threw the northern hemisphere back into another thousand years of Ice Age. It raised temperatures near Greenland by a startling 15 degrees C, even as it doubled annual rainfall.

Modern climatologists have savored the Younger Dryas event as massive evidence of what comes when we push the planet’s climate too close to a “tipping point.” Further human-driven warming, they say, will make such abrupt climate changes more likely, with searing droughts, torrential rainfall, and extreme heat."

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With CAIR, ISNA as Unindicted Co-Conspirators in Terrorism Case, Will USG Policy Toward them Change? By Douglas Farah

"How many organizations designated as uninindicted co-conspirators in terrorism-related cases still get invited not only to participate, but to play lead roles in major U.S. government events?

Not many, but there seems to be an exception for the Islamist-Muslim Brotherhood groups, who stand front and center in upcoming Department of Justice events and recent events with the Department of Defense.

It is hard to believe the word has not gotten out in government circles, but maybe is hasn't.

In an event that past largely unnoticed, the U.S. government, in open court filings, for the first time named several of the most prominent Islamist groups in the country, (including CAIR and ISNA) as unindicted co-conspirators in the upcoming prosecutions of those associated with the Holy Land Foundation (itself as specially designated terrorist entity by the U.S. government)."

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British magazine looks forward to an Islamic London by Lawrence Auster

"I wrote in January 2006 ('Western liberals' ultimate embrace of Islam') that if the day comes when Islam takes over Europe, the European elites will positively welcome it, because 'they literally do not want our civilization to continue, it's too guilty, too powerful, and its guilt and its power are too much of a burden for them.' I said they would be happier as functionaries of a European Caliphate.

In June 2007 the British website Time Out writes:

Is London's future Islamic?

It's the capital's fastest growing religion, based on noble traditions and compassionate principles, yet Islam can still be tainted by mistrust and misunderstanding. Here Time Out argues that an Islamic London would be a better place.
The rest of the article catalogs the ways that Muslim domination would improve London and Britain--better health (Muslims wash their hands five times a day, and Muslims don't drink), better education (at Islamic schools), better race relations (Muslims consider all people to be one--uh, excuse me, they consider all Muslims to be one). At times you start to think it's a parody, but as a whole it does not read like a parody and, as appalling as this is, I don't think it is one."

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Troubling Roots by Stephen Schwartz

"ONE OF the most disturbing aspects of the JFK terror plot is its Caribbean roots.
The four men named in the case don't come from the Middle East or any other majority-Muslim area. Rather, they are products of Muslim minorities in the Caribbean: one lived in Trinidad, an island off the coast of Venezuela that was the alleged center for their planning; three are from Guyana, on the mainland nearby.

Guyana and Trinidad each have around a million people. By official estimates, Trinidad's Muslim population is 6 percent; Guyana's, 10 percent. Both are poor, unstable societies outside the mainstream of countries with Muslim minorities. The whole region is known for strange combinations of radical politics and radical religion--most famously, the Rastafarians."

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Hitchens? No Way::By Mike Gallagher

"Isn’t it odd how there is a vicious, slimy pundit who has managed to figure out a way to sell a lot of books by somehow becoming endearing or interesting to other pundits of opposite ideologies?

Christopher Hitchens is the poster boy for horrific behavior earning a seat at many tables. This creep makes Michael Moore look like a dignified elder statesman, and yet there seems to be no shortage of conservative radio and TV hosts who enjoy giving him a platform to spew his foul venom in the direction of any God-fearing, Bible-believing individual in his way. "

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The Right Lessons To Learn From Viet Nam By Rick Moran

"Peter Rodman, one of the architects of our military and political policy in Iraq and William Shawcross, liberal hawk now branded traitor by the left for his support of the Iraq War, have written what I believe to be an extremely important op-ed in the New York Times on why walking away in defeat from Iraq would be an unmitigated disaster:

'SOME opponents of the Iraq war are toying with the idea of American defeat. A number of them are simply predicting it, while others advocate measures that would make it more likely. Lending intellectual respectability to all this is an argument that takes a strange comfort from the outcome of the Vietnam War. The defeat of the American enterprise in Indochina, it is said, turned out not to be as bad as expected. The United States recovered, and no lasting price was paid. "

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The Victims of Communism Memorial By Quin Hillyer

"Historian Robert Conquest, one of the first Westerners to use painstaking research to lift the veil on the terrors of the Great Terror and other murderous purges in the Soviet Union, got the essential nature of Communism exactly right. Brutality, terror, and murder are, and always have been, essential components of Communism. And Communism proved extremely effective with those components. Worldwide, some 100 million victims have died from Communist terror, purges, forced relocations and famines -- and that number doesn't even include all those Americans and other freedom-loving people who died in noble wars (Korea, Vietnam, etc.) trying to keep Communism from spreading.

Those numbers, by the way, come not from any right-wing organization. They come from 1999's The Black Book of Communism, written by six leftist French intellectuals and published by Harvard University Press. They are numbers that stagger the imagination. And they are not just numbers but souls, 100 million human souls, whose lives and sufferings deserve commemoration."

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Malice in Leftist Land by Gabriel Garnica

"A few weeks ago I was stopped at an intersection waiting for the light to change when the car next to me suddenly went in reverse. For a split second I freaked out, thinking that I was lurching forward into the intersection and an accident. Obviously, I quickly realized that I was not moving forward but that my foolish neighbor on the street was moving backward. From what I can tell, this sensory illusion or, should I say, delusion, has happened to more people than we might realize. As I observed the other car backing into a parking space, I felt a bit foolish myself for having lost it for a second.

Unfortunately, it has become increasingly obvious that conservatives are nowhere near moving forward as much as liberals are going in reverse. Conservatives are not becoming any more rational, logical, patriotic, pragmatic or American as much as liberals are increasingly becoming less so. Simply put, conservatives are no closer to getting a clue as much as liberals are becoming increasingly clueless."

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The Democratic-Iranian Plan for Iraq by Andrew Walden

"With the Congressional reauthorization of funding for Iraqi operations just days old, Democrats, their media, and Iran are already beginning a summer offensive aimed at achieving Islamist victory in Iraq by the only means possible—turning American public opinion towards surrender.

A May 25 AP article by Anne Flaherty explains the Democrat strategy:
In the months ahead, lawmakers will vote repeatedly on whether U.S. troops should stay and whether Bush has the authority to continue the war. The Democratic strategy is intended to ratchet up pressure on the president, as well as on moderate Republicans who have grown tired of defending Bush administration policy in a deeply unpopular war. ‘I feel a direction change in the air,’ said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House panel that oversees military funding.

Parallel to the Democrat strategy, the May 22 UK Guardian reports Iran is also planning a summer offensive."

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POPULATION REPLACEMENT... TRAITOR JORGE W. BOOSH By: Alan Stang

"The term “conspiracy for world government” is fast becoming a misnomer. The “conspirators” already have so much power that they apparently believe they no longer need to dissemble. They are implementing their goal of totalitarian dictatorship almost without bothering to conceal it. Everywhere you look, you can see their tentacles. Maybe this is just a function of the fact that the closer they come, the more obvious it will be, and the harder it will be to conceal.

Right wing Communist talk radio is aghast. Because of the near universal fury among all kinds of Americans about Communist world government traitor Jorge W. Boosh’s proposed illegal alien amnesty, Republicrud spinmeisters are denouncing it; if they don’t, they would lose what remains of their tattered credibility. They are even starting to recognize that the approaching amnesty is Jorge’s idea."

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The HILL Chronicles :: We have come to the end of the road

"This is the most powerful analysis to date. It is spoken truth on the written page. Cale Hahn writes this and I decided to run the whole article for you here. This is a must read - do not pass this by. (h/t: Atlas Shrugs)

The War’s Upon Us

“We hoped for peace, but no good has come. A time of healing, but there was only terror.” (Yirmiyahu 8:15)

We have come to the end of the road. No more initiatives. No more recycling under different names the same failed formula for Middle East peace. The end of the road is conflagration, not coexistence.

The peace process is dead. The time of wars has begun. Israel has been sufficiently weakened for the Muslim world to once again attempt annihilation of the Jewish state. The facade of Muslim desires for peace is lowered, and behind the curtain looms a violent and murderous religion that brooks no opposition.

Islamic peace is: no god on earth but Allah. Islamic honor may only be restored by the destruction of the Jewish nation. Hence, their nakba is the “catastrophe” of Israel’s birth."

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Classical Values :: Climate Change Porn

"There seems to be a lot of global warming porn going around. We have examples of porn addicts publicly confessing and swearing off their addiction.

And others can't get enough. A confirmed 'CO2 is rising and we are all doomed' fellow cites the following articles on the drastic consequences of man's interference with the air.
First off we are going to be missing a lot of Birds.

Second off whole species will be Extinct by 2050 according to National Geographic. Or they will be on their way to extiction by then. Millions of species. How exciting. I used to get my porn from National Geographic when I was young. It appears not much has changed.

But wait. I have a few thoughts on the extinction report. The opening from the National Geographic piece. Bolding mine:

By 2050, rising temperatures exacerbated by human-induced belches of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could send more than a million of Earth's land-dwelling plants and animals down the road to extinction, according to a recent study.

It could happen."

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Resisting 21st Century Communism Fjordman :: Gates of Vienna

"The Greek blogger Phanari has expanded upon my essays about 21st century Communism. According to American writer John Fonte, “Transnationalism is the next stage of the multicultural ideology.” It is implemented at a snail’s pace as a long-term project, to minimize opposition to it.

As always, Norway and Sweden are at the forefront of enlightened Socialism. According to Karita Bekkemellem, government Minister from the Norwegian Labor Party, female directors must make up at least 40 percent of all new shareholder-owned companies’ boards of directors: “This is all about sharing power and influence and it is intervention in private ownership, but it was overdue.” Violation of the rules will be penalized with forced dissolution of the company. Magdalena Andersson, who chairs the women’s group in Sweden’s “conservative” Moderate Party, demands that female members should have 40 percent of the top positions in the party by 2010."

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The Islamic States of America – circa 2039 By Peter Feaman

"The U.N. General Assembly rose in unison to applaud the announcement by the Ambassador to the U.N.from the Islamic States of America (I.S.A.) that the “Bible Belt Rebellion,” as the uprising had been dubbed, was finally subdued after three years of violence. The I.S.A.’s ambassador to the U.N. gave a brief history of the conflict when he made his announcement. "

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Another Act Of War :: Investor's Business Daily

"Iran has been caught — again — sending arms to terrorists and insurgents who are trying to kill American soldiers. At some point, a line is drawn in the sand, and we either say 'enough' or 'we give up.'
It's hard to tell whether Iran's repeated provocations are an attempt to shame the U.S., which so far has done little to stop them, or just another bad terrorist habit they can't break.

NATO says Iran has been shipping arms to its one-time enemy, Afghanistan's Taliban, those nice fundamentalist fellows who cut off fingers and hands, stoned women to death and murdered their foes for over a half a decade before being ousted by the U.S. in late 2001."

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European Parliament Urged to Support the Traditional Family By Samantha Singson

"The Madrid-based Institute for Family Policies (IFP) has issued a report to the European Parliament warning about “the deterioration of the family panorama.” Citing demographic, sociological and economic evidence from a team of experts, IFP called on EU delegations to make the family a policy priority and promote the traditional family as an institution, recognize the fundamental right of parents to educate their children and to adopt policies that support the development and well-being of the family.

Entitled “The Evolution of the Family in Europe 2007,” IFP presented the document with alarming indicators regarding population, birth rates, marriage and divorce rates to members of the European Parliament, the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, journalists and members of civil society."

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How Do You Spell Liberal Bias? By Gabriel Garnica

"It should come as no shock to anyone that the liberal media completely ignored the fact that our newly crowned National Spelling Bee Champion, Evan O’Dorney of California, is home schooled. What should bring a tear to the eye, both of sadness and of laughter, are the contortions and distortions that said media made in an effort to spin its usual tale of rubbish its way."

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Public Middle School parents angered over field trip to Islamic & Hindu places of worship | Northeast Intelligence Network

"The Williamsville, NY Public School District has angered a number of parents of Mill Middle School students and stirred controversy by scheduling a field trip to a local Mosque and Islamic Center as well as a Hindu Temple. A letter obtained Tuesday by talk radio host Tom Bauerle of the Tom Bauerle Show on WBEN AM 930 (below) was sent home with the permission slips to be signed by the students’ parents on Monday, granting the students permission to attend Wednesday’s excursion to the Muslim mosque and Islamic Center and Hindu religious institutions to provide the students “a broader understanding of these religious beliefs and worship practices.”"

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The most dangerous worldview :: Vox Popoli

I find it amusing that so many atheists, who are presumably rational materalists dedicated to the concept of truth determined by empirical evidence, immediately turn to making logic-based philosophical arguments as if they were medieval theologians in answer to this question instead of simply examining the relevant and readily available historical evidence. Aren't atheists were all about science, not ontological assertions?

Here's the evidence: Christians have held positions of government power for 1,700 years. The religious wars they have waged account for just under 3 percent of the wars in recorded human history. Muslims have been in power for around 1300 years and are similarly responsible for about 4 percent of the wars in human history. Atheists have been in power for around 100 years and are responsible for around 2 percent of the wars in history.

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West: Part Three (of Four) By Adrian Morgan

Last year, on July 30, Mohammed Mahdi Akef (Akif), the current "guide general" of the Muslim Brotherhood, spoke on Al Jazeera television. He warned the Egyptian government: "These ignorants who rule Egypt with force and with security agencies - I call upon them to fear Allah, to return to Allah, and to reach out to this people, which attributes power and honor to you. Otherwise, the people will soon trample you underfoot, Allah willing."

Akif also had harsh words for the West: "This American Satan claims to be a messenger of divine guidance. Divine guidance never commands anything but truth, justice, and freedom, things that have nothing to do with him. I salute all the honorable Americans who stand up to this Satan, who wants to set the entire world on fire, not just the Arab and Islamic nation. I go back to the issue of Jihad. Jihad is an individual duty incumbent upon every Muslim, male and female, if any inch of the land of Islam and the Muslims is occupied."

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Somebody had to say it By Carolyn Hileman

Having heard my fill for the second year in a row that there are jobs that we in America can't fill and that is why we need to bring in people from other countries, I have decided that since they won't say it I will, if as they say we have a shortage of skilled workers that shortage falls on those who would spend their time trying to coddle leaders of other countries rather than address the fact that while we are prepared to pay $32 trillion dollars over the next ten years to make sure our new citizens are happy, there has never been and never will be a bill on the house floor that will give our children the ability to gain that training.

This is nothing more than a failure of education, a failure of leaders and a failure of the people for not demanding that our children be given equal opportunity in our own country. Many of these high skilled visas they are handing out are in careers in nursing, x-ray,tech. and other fields that our children would be interested in however, most of them simply cannot afford an education. There is help for those who are underprivileged, help for those who are minority, help those who are here illegally, but help a child whose parents work and pay taxes, nah, we wouldn’t want to do that.

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Defending Dixie By Bob Cheeks

The learned Professor Eric Voegelin in his essay, "Why Philosophize? To Recapture Reality!", wrote, “One of the typical phenomenon of the twentieth century is the event of spiritually energetic people breaking out of the dominant intellectual group in order to find that reality that has been lost.”

Voegelin’s identification of this group of intellectuals willing to challenge the distortions inherent in modernity explain why the West, in general, and the United States, in particular, has yet to succumb to the continuing philosophical derailment endemic in Western culture. It is good, I think, when we are able to identify one of those who replenish the “reservoirs of reality” because in reading their corpus we are able to acquire the knowledge, both intellectually and spiritually, to strengthen our own resolve. One intellectual whose work is defined by this spiritual breakout is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Dr. Clyde N. Wilson. His new book, Defending Dixie, is an eclectic collection of essays and book reviews.

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Democrats, Iran Partner for Summer Offensive By Andrew Walden

US Democrats and Iran have turned their attention toward turning American public opinion towards surrender.


With the Congressional reauthorization of funding for Iraqi operations just days old, Democrats, their media, and Iran are already beginning a summer offensive aimed at achieving Islamist victory in Iraq by the only means possible — turning American public opinion towards surrender. A May 25 AP article by Anne Flaherty explains the Democrat strategy:

In the months ahead, lawmakers will vote repeatedly on whether U.S. troops should stay and whether Bush has the authority to continue the war. The Democratic strategy is intended to ratchet up pressure on the President, as well as on moderate Republicans who have grown tired of defending Bush administration policy in a deeply unpopular war. ‘I feel a direction change in the air,’ said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House panel that oversees military funding.

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Hugo & The Media Kings by Thor Halvorssen

June 6, 2007 -- ON our TV screens in America, we see Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his army of thugs cracking down on the hundreds of thousands of students protesting the shutdown of the nation's last truly independent TV station. Yet, inside the story of "the dictator vs. the forces of freedom," is a tale of two Venezuelan media kings - one heroic, one craven.

Chavez's shutdown of RCTV late last month (by refusing to renew its broadcast license) was meant to be the final move in his drive to shut down all independent voices.

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No Amnesty for Senators :: NRO Editorial

John McCain dismisses critics of the immigration bill by saying that what we have today is a “de facto amnesty.” He’s right. The status quo reflects Washington’s decades-long unwillingness to enforce the immigration laws. It is that track record that has made the public justifiably skeptical about politicians’ latest round of promises about border and workplace enforcement. According to a Rasmussen poll taken earlier this week, by a three to one margin voters think that the government should enforce its current laws before considering new ones.

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The Democrats' starless wars By Joseph Farah

Watching the Democratic presidential debate this week on CNN, I was reminded of the famous line spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars" when he approached the Mos Eisley Spaceport with young Luke Skywalker and two droids.

"You won't ever find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy," he said.

There they were: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson – clueless, shameless, principle-less, truthless.

The contest within this hive of scum and villainy is of modest interest to Americans only because the current occupant of the White House has done almost nothing right in eight years – including the way he has waged the war in Iraq.

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Kyoto and the G8: A Day Late and a Euro Short By Marc Sheppard

Later this year, China will overtake the United States as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). At that time, some of the pressure to accept egregious UN-based Kyoto-style protocols will shift eastward from Washington to Beijing.

It is that impending inversion which distinguishes this week's G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, as the EU alarmists' last-gasp effort to impose their flawed and failing cap-and-trade policies on America, and ultimately, the entire world.
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The Neglected Truths of the Immigration Debate By Thomas Lifson

Most of the public debate over the immigration bill has taken place in a fantasy world where certain fairly immutable truths are blithely ignored. The vast gulf between the political elites and the bulk of the electorate is matched by the vast gulf between the announced intentions of "comprehensive immigration reform" and the inevitable results of their proposals.

Common sense is being strikingly disregarded. And most of the politically correct media are loath to puncture the fantasies of the reformistas. The result is that a majority of the discussion is pointless, and unusually few people have been either informed or persuaded by all the public discourse. The scandalous immigration crisis has been joined by the scandalous immigration bill debate.

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Huckabee, Darwin, and Democracy By Hunter Baker

The MSNBC debate last month took presidential debates to a place they've never been before when the Republican candidates were asked for a show of hands if they believed in evolution. Mike Huckabee did not raise his hand that evening in South Carolina, so perhaps it is unsurprising that he was asked Tuesday night in New Hampshire just what exactly he believes about human origins. Sensibly, Huckabee wondered aloud what the relevance of the question was to his ability to do the job of president of the United States. Nevertheless, it was clear enough that he had practiced his answer when he won the applause of the crowd by stating that he viewed the bald question as one of whether he believes in God and believes God created man. Taking that as the question, he stated his belief in "a God who knows us and loves us and created us for His own purpose."

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What if the Normandy invasion had occurred on June 6th, 2007?

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The Immigration Reform Act for Dummies II By Bob Parks

According to a recent and stupid Washington Post/ABC News poll, more people would be for legalizing illegal aliens if they pay a fine for their violation of our border and law. What the Washington Post and ABC News failed to tell those in the poll was that the compassionate, tolerant, inclusive left are already trying to find politicians to lessen or strike altogether the fine because they're too punitive on the poor illegals.

It's abundantly clear that the people responding to the poll, as President Bush has pointed out many times, don't know what they're talking about.

We continue on our refresher on what's in this bill so we can make a much more informed evaluation of the Ted Kennedy (again) Bush amnesty bill.

Authorizes the Secretary of State to award a grant to a U.S. land grant university to establish a university-based Mexican rural poverty mitigation program.

Why…?

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) additional DHS and Department of Justice immigration personnel; and (2) the Board of Immigration Appeals.

More government workers.

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Americans Right to Set Limits by Mac Johnson

Despite all the hype raging in Washington about the need for “immigration reform” in response to the illegal alien flood, the simple fact is that we do not have a broken immigration system. What we actually have is a broken immigration enforcement system.

America admits more legal immigrants than any country on Earth -- there isn’t even a close second place in this regard. Why? Because if you want freedom and opportunity, where else are you going to go? And America is more accepting of immigrants than any other nation. The problem is that, regardless of how high our limits for legal immigration are, the world is capable of exceeding those limits -- and there exists a constituency of corrupt businesses and politicians within our country that is willing to aid and abet the violation of any limit for their own gain. Yet the proponents of the so-called immigration reform bill would have us believe that the problem is not illegal immigration -- it’s the fact that there exists any limit at all on legal immigration.

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America's Insidious Descent Toward the Third World By Christopher Adamo

Somewhere in the dark recesses of their souls, an increasing number of Americans fear the eventuality of an ultimate confrontation with Mexico over the disputed territories, formerly known as the Southwestern United States. But visions of the affair as a horde of brass-buttoned soldiers, marching on San Jacinto with bayoneted muskets to retake it, are woefully mistaken.

Were that the case, the overt threat would be obvious and recognizable. America could certainly rally and respond with sufficient force to decisively win the battle. But no such events are taking place. In their stead, a much less dramatic scenario promises far greater detriment to the country, though its protracted nature renders it less shocking, and therefore more likely to succeed. In fact, in many respects, it already has.

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Planned Protection for Predators by Nathan Tabor

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion operation, claims to be a trusted source of health information and medical care for young women. However, there is mounting evidence that the organization has failed miserably when it comes to protecting minor girls from sexual predators.

The latest example of this comes from Ohio, where a girl who was sexually abused by her father has filed suit against Planned Parenthood in Cincinnati. The girl says that Planned Parenthood failed to report the abuse she underwent when her father forced her into having an abortion. Following the abortion, the abuse continued for more than a year, according to a report by the Associated Press.

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China exports lead poisoning :: WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – In the wake of scandals involving tainted food and toothpaste from China comes word of a new concern from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as the Food and Drug Administration – toys, makeup, glazed pottery and other products that contain significant amounts of lead.

While lead poisoning among children was once mainly caused by old paint, U.S. manufacturers long ago banned the ingredient. Today, a new rash of high lead levels in the bloodstreams of American kids is being caused by foreign products – mainly from China.

So serious is the resurgence of lead poisoning among U.S. children that the Iowa Department of Public Health is working on writing a new law to require mandatory testing of those entering school for the first time.

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A Legacy of Losing By Jeffrey Lord

The line is from the first Pirates of the Caribbean spectacular, blurted aloud by an uneasy sailor aboard a ship of the British Navy. The seaman voices a nautical fear that the presence of a woman on board (in this case the young Elizabeth Swann) is bad luck.

John Edwards may be dubbed the "Breck Girl" by Rush Limbaugh, but his real problem -- the problem Democrats should be thinking about even if they can't bring themselves to just say it -- is the real world political legacy of Edwards' brisk sail towards abject surrender in the War on Terror. Even more terrifying for the dwindling ban of FDR, Truman, and JFK followers should be the enthusiasm of all the other Democratic candidates as they elbow each other aside in their frantic quest to climb aboard the Democratic ship as the leading anti-war candidate for 2008.

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Bush's America: Roach Motel by Ann Coulter

Republicans' defense of President Bush's immigration bill is more enraging than their defense of Harriet Miers. Back then, Bush's conservative base was accused of being sexist for opposing an unqualified woman's nomination to the highest court in the land. Now we're racists for not wanting to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

I don't know why conservatives like Linda Chavez have to argue like liberals by smearing their opponents as racists. Oh wait, now I remember! Their arguments are as strong as liberals' arguments usually are.

Apart from abortion, no subject produces so much disingenuousness as America's immigration policy, both legal and illegal. For nearly 50 years, Americans have been intentionally lied to about our immigration laws.

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Al Gore's Hell on Earth By Maggie Gallagher

Al Gore calls it, "The Assault on Reason," but his brand of environmentalism sounds a lot more like a new form of faith.

In his book "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore confesses that global warming: "offers us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing: a generational mission ; the exhilaration of a compelling moral purpose ; a shared and unifying cause ; the thrill of being forced by circumstances to put aside the pettiness and conflict that so often stifle the restless human need for transcendence; the opportunity to rise ...

"When we do rise, it will fill our spirits and bind us together. Those who are now suffocating in cynicism and despair will be able to breathe freely. Those who are now suffering from a loss of meaning in their lives will find hope." When we rise, "we will experience an epiphany as we discover that this crisis is not really about politics at all. It is a moral and spiritual challenge."


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The Liberal Suicide Pact BY JAMES TARANTO

It seems we weren't the only one to notice that the New York Times buried news of a foiled terror plot against John F. Kennedy International Airport on page 37. A pair of Times readers submitted questions about this to Suzanne Daley, the paper's national editor, who is doing a "Talk to the Newsroom" question-and-answer series this week. Here is Daley's explanation:

Here's the basic thinking on the J.F.K. story: In the years since 9/11, there have been quite a few interrupted terrorist plots. It now seems possible to exercise some judgment about their gravity. Not all plots are the same. In this case, law enforcement officials said that J.F.K. was never in immediate danger. The plotters had yet to lay out plans. They had no financing. Nor did they have any explosives. It is with all that in mind, that the editors in charge this weekend did not put this story on the front page.

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The Republicans’ Hispanic Delusion By Heather Mac Donald

George Bush’s political strategists have long promoted amnesty for illegal aliens as a device for increasing the Republican vote among Hispanics. They also warn that denying rights to illegal aliens will hurt the GOP. A Hispanic backlash in California after Proposition 187 (the 1994 voter initiative that denied illegal aliens many publicly funded services) turned the state from red to blue, they claim; a similar rout awaits the party if it does not embrace liberal immigration policies.

There is scant evidence for either of these ideas. The 1986 amnesty signed by President Reagan did not trigger a Latino surge into the Republican Party. And California’s Hispanics leaned as strongly Democratic before Prop. 187 as after it. Hispanic voting patterns in California have held steady since 1988—they vote approximately two-to-one for Democratic presidential candidates. California’s shift from red to blue would have happened with or without Prop. 187, as defense-industry whites left the state, replaced by liberal high-tech professionals, and as the Hispanic portion of the electorate tripled from 7 percent to 21 percent.


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Israel is Doomed (Again)::By Paul Greenberg

"Hillel Halkin, the prolific commentator on all things Israeli, let the cat out of the bag - make that the tiger - in the current issue of Commentary.
In a dispatch that would have made Jeremiah look like a cock-eyed optimist, Mr. Halkin went down the list of existential threats facing the Jewish state and the conclusion was inescapable:

Israel is doomed.

By the end of his article - "If Israel Ceased to Exist" - it's clear there's not much "if" about it.

In addition to all the usual clear and increasingly present dangers to Israel's existence, there now looms Iran's steadily developing nuclear program. Iran's president, the incessant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has made his policy toward Israel perfectly clear: Wipe it off the map.

And soon enough, if the world keeps dithering, he'll have the nuclear means to do it. Let this much be said for Iran's firebrand-in-chief: He's an open book, namely Mein Kampf.

But won't Israel's nuclear arsenal deter him?"

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Forgotten By Amb. Richard Carlson

"Three US military contractors are still alive after being kidnapped by leftwing Columbian rebels years ago.

That word came from a Columbian policeman who had been held hostage by the FARC in the jungle for eight years.

Jhon Frank Pinchao said he had been with the three Americans for years. At night he was connected to one of them by a wire wrapped around his neck.
Pinchao said the Americans were alive but suffering.

They are: Keith Stansell of Georgia, who is now 43 years old. Tom Howes of Merritt Island, Florida, now 54 and Marc Gonsalves of Bristol, Connecticut."

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The Lighthouse: The Mill Paradigm

"The secret that the West is a Liberal dictatorship still isn't out. For the penny to drop it needs some distance, like it needs an outsider to make you aware you've developed a nasty habit. I have long been reluctant to make this statement: to Classical Liberals/Libertarians it is an oxymoron, an impossibility given the mutual exclusivity; today even the ultra Left Dutch Greens appreciate that Liberalism stands for freedom, so how can it possibly constitute a dictatorship?

The problem is that Liberal morality is cast into laws - to the point of even becoming 'human rights' - and foisted onto the world at large, thereby criminalizing rejectionists; whether they're hapless grannies objecting to being mooned by gays for homophobia, or gays protesting against imams who call for them be cast from minarets for Islamophobia, or priests criminalized on both counts."

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Scrap Migrant Bill By Fred Thompson

"Most Americans know that we have an illegal immigration problem in this country, with perhaps as many as 20 million people residing here unlawfully. And I think most Americans have a pretty good idea about how to at least start solving the problem – secure our nation’s borders.

But there’s an old saying in Washington that, in dealing with any tough issue, half the politicians hope that citizens don’t understand it while the other half fear that people actually do. This kind of thinking was apparent with the “comprehensive” immigration reform bill that the U.S. Senate and the White House negotiated yesterday.
I’d tell you what was in the legislation, but 24 hours after the politicians agreed the bill looked good, the Senate lawyers were still writing what may turn out to be a one thousand page document. In fact, a final version of the bill most likely will not be made available to the public until after the legislation is passed. That may come five days from now. That’s like trying to digest an eight-course meal on a fifteen-minute lunch break. "

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Children Of Jihad vs. Children Of The West -- Michelle Malkin

"What is your most lofty aspiration? Death for the sake of Allah!'

That is the charming verse kindergarteners in a Hamas classroom chanted last week during their graduation ceremony. The girls dressed in butterfly costumes. The boys donned camouflage, black masks, green bandanas and toy semi-automatic rifles. The video aired by the Middle East Media Research Institute (web site) features the children wielding swords and guns while mimicking paramilitary exercises.

And how are we preparing the children of the West to defend themselves against these little soldiers of Allah?

Scene 1: In New York City, one nursery school dragged 3-year-old toddlers to the office of Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx/Westchester/Rockland), where they sang 'It's a Small World' around a 12-foot 'Tree of Peace.' The New York Press reported last week:"

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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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Media blackout buries NASA chief's comments on global warming By Jim Brown

"The mainstream news media are being accused of ignoring the many scientists who share NASA administrator Michael Griffin's skepticism of whether manmade global warming is a real threat to the planet.

The NASA chief recently drew criticism for telling National Public Radio he doubted global warming is "a problem we must wrestle with" and argued it is "arrogant" to believe we know how to control the climate and what the optimal climate would be. Robert Ferguson, executive director of the Science and Public Policy Institute, says a number of reputable climatologists, geologists, and physicists are backing Griffin's comments -- but one would never learn that from the mainstream media."

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West: Part Two (of Four)

"The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, declared his support for the virulent anti-Semite Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who was then the 'Mufti of Jerusalem'. The British High Commissioner of Palestine, Herbert Samuel, had bestowed this title upon Husseini on May 8, 1921, even though he had organized anti-Jewish riots on April 4, 1920, in which five Jews had been killed. Husseini was expected to maintain order in the region, but continued to enact pogroms against Jews in the region in 1921, 1929 and 1936. Samuel sacked Husseini in 1936 after he led a general strike and instigated a revolt against British rule. After the British tried to arrest him in July 1937, the 'Mufti' went into hiding and in October disguised himself as a woman and fled to Lebanon. "

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Michael Moore: A Criminal Profile By Paul A. Ibbetson

"There is little doubt that Michael Moore is one of the most public anti-American propagandists of modern times. Without fail, his lengthy lists of so called documentary works have all encompassed his varying visions of the shortcomings of the United States. What many Americans take issue with Moore, is the deceptive means by which he collects his information and the even more deceptive way he portrays this information to the public. When lamenting about Moore’s last work Fairenheit 9/11, Christopher Hitchens would say, “To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental...Fairenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of “dissenting” bravery” (Hitchens, 2004, 3). The Hitchens observation is important to the profiling of Moore for two reasons. First, it encapsulates a general feeling of many Americans, and more importantly, it shows that even the most godless among us realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with Michael Moore. Dave Kopel, of the Independence Institute, who appears in the Michael Moore rebuttal film Farenhype 9/11, has chronicled fifty- nine falsehoods within Moore’s documentary. "

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Before Granting Kosovo Independence, Consider its Nazi Past By Julia Gorin

"During World War II and the Holocaust, Kosovar Albanians killed 10,000 Kosovo Serbs and expelled 100,000. Kosovo-Metohija was made a part of a Greater Albania by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Hitler and Mussolini realized the Greater Albania ideology established by the 1878 League of Prizren. Albanian-settled areas of the Balkans — Kosovo-Metohija, western Macedonia, southern Montenegro — were incorporated in a Greater Albania. The Greater Albania Kosovar Albanian nationalist movement murdered Kosovo Serb civilians and took over their lands and houses. Kosovo Serb women were raped. Kosovo Serb Orthodox priests were arrested, tortured, and murdered. Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries were attacked and destroyed. Serbian monuments, cemeteries, and gravestones were desecrated and demolished."

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Echoes of 1919 By Caroline Glick

"Both critics and supporters of US President George W. Bush's post-September 11 vision of a new, freedom-loving Middle East have noted the strong similarities between the president and his predecessor Woodrow Wilson.

In 1917, the 28th president introduced US forces into World War I with the promise that an allied victory against Germany and its allies would make the world 'safe for democracy.' Wilson's vision of a postwar world was a bit out of place in the war being fought on the killing fields of Belgium and France. Neither the Allies nor the Central Powers were fighting the war for ideological gain. Rather, the war was being fought to restore or upset the balance of power between European empires in Europe and beyond."

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Why Muslims Think They Are Superior by David Watkins

"While living in Indonesia for an extended period of time in an all-Muslim neighborhood, I took it upon myself to learn about the culture, the language, and most importantly, to learn about the teachings of Islam. One of the first things I did was to hire a language teacher that just happened to be a devout Muslim. Hence, not only did I take language lessons 7 days a week from my Indonesian teacher, he taught me why he believed Islam was the only true religion in the world and why I should convert to Islam.

What I discovered from my language teacher really did amaze me because according to Muslims, every soul on this earth is a Muslim whether they know it or not because Islam was created by God while all other religions were created by man. Let me repeat that so I make myself clear. Muslims believe Islam was created by God; Muhammad was the messenger of God while Jesus never even spoke to God, much less was the son of God. Hence, Islam was founded by God while Jesus, a simple man, founded a man-made religion. "

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The Future of Warfare by Mark Silverberg

"In a recent posting in Newsday, a reference that may have passed unnoticed was made to an incident occurring in the small Baltic nation of Estonia, once under the control of the Soviet Union. For three weeks this past April, the Russians engineered a massive cyber-attack on Estonia’s computer systems and web sites in retaliation for the removal of a World War II-era Soviet war memorial from downtown Tallinn, Estonia's capital. Russia’s massive state-controlled telecommunications companies paralyzed Estonian web sites by sending more than 5,000 hits a second of bogus requests for information. It was cyber-warfare in the form of computer sabotage and it shook the NATO alliance of which Estonia is now a member."

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Fred Thompson: The Phantom of the Debate by Ericka Andersen

"A phantom stood behind an invisible podium in the New Hampshire Republican debates last night. But unlike the first two debates, no one tried to pretend former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson wasn’t a key player in the 2008 presidential race. It was another Thompson who introduced Fred to the audience by saying he was, “Thompson -- Tommy -- not the other one.”

Some say the stalling to officially announce a candidacy could be crippling to fundraising while others insist it is downright smart. Nevertheless, the silence was a golden emphasis of Fred Thompson’s near-prominence in the race last night. "

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Moyers Indoctrinates College Students by Mark D. Tooley

"Former Lyndon Johnson aid Bill Moyers long ago strayed from his Southern Baptist roots before becoming the self-styled political prophet in residence at PBS. Last week he delivered his latest jeremiad against America, in the form of a commencement speech, to the graduating class of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas.

Moyers darkly warned against an American 'empire' and decried all threats to the welfare state that he helped erect 40 years ago.

'America is a great promise, but it is a broken promise,' Moyers sanctimoniously intoned. He insisted that America's calling is 'not as an empire. Or a superpower. Not a place where the strong take what they can and the weak what they must.'"

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FrontPage magazine.com :: Islamists in the Courtroom by Daniel Pipes

"The decision last week by the Islamic Society of Boston to drop its lawsuit against 17 defendants, including counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson, gives reason to step back to consider radical Islam's legal ambitions.

The lawsuit came about because, soon after ground was broken in November 2002 for the ISB's $22 million Islamic center, the media and several non-profits began asking questions about three main topics: why the ISB paid the city of Boston less than half the appraised value of the land it acquired; why a city of Boston employee, who is also an ISB board member, fund raised on the Boston taxpayer's tab for the center while traveling in the Middle East; and the ISB's connections to radical Islam.
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Resurrecting Yugoslavia by Julia Gorin

"Western powers led by the United States went to great lengths to abolish a pluralistic society called Yugoslavia, encouraging its component ethnicities to assert their identities and vie for their own little slice of land based on those separate identities.

Yet as soon as one of those separate identities that we’ve buttressed misbehaves, suddenly we bring Yugoslavia back from the dead. Witness the strategic and ubiquitous use of the word “Yugoslav” in virtually every media report describing the four Albanian suspects in the recently foiled Fort Dix plot."

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The Demise of the Republican Party? By Alan Caruba

"The firestorm of public outcry against the proposed immigration bill is testimony enough that the Senate and the House need to be reminded that selling out the nation is a very bad idea. There are very good reasons why nations have borders.

The bill is just one more way the Republican Party demonstrated that it has been steadily abandoning its fundamental principles. In essence, the party has stood for sovereignty, the free market, fiscal prudence, private property, and small government. It was a party that historically has been reluctant to be drawn into foreign wars."

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What's Ahead for America When the Third Worlders Dominate? By Selwyn Duke

"When Thomas Jefferson said that “people get the government they deserve,” it was more than just a clever turn of phrase. It also was not an isolated insight but a timeless truth, one expressed by many. William Cowper said, “When was public virtue to be found when private was not?”

Benjamin Franklin stated, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

If truth be known, I could probably fill a book with the words of wise ones who have spoken in kind. But, you know, I understand this principle well. I know that people get the government they deserve; what bothers me is that I’m going to get the government they deserve."

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Lou Dobbs 06.04.07 - Senate Returns to Debate 'SCAMNESTY'

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Gates of Vienna: Freedom of Speech, the Rule of Law, and Democracy

"When I was in Copenhagen this past April, it was my privilege to meet the Danish philosopher Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is a member of SIAD — “Stop the Islamisation of Denmark” — and acts as a “house philosopher” for the group. His philosophy has a Nordic focus, and looks to Scandinavian traditions as well as those of Greece, Rome, and the European Enlightenment.

The nom de plume “Yggdrasil” refers to the World Tree of ancient Norse mythology, whose roots were in Hel, whose branches reached to Asgard, and whose trunk contained Middle Earth. Yggdrasil was the axle on which the cosmos turned."

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West Bank and Gaza: Fairy Tales and the Media

"The failure by editors of supposedly impartial and respected newspapers to correct inaccuracies in media articles regarding the West Bank and Gaza prior to their publication, gives continuing credence to total Arab denial of any Jewish rights in those areas - and also seriously misleads and misinforms their trusting readers as to the nature of the conflict that is taking place.

Letters written to the editors requesting corrections are usually consigned to the waste paper basket and even if printed, are too late to undo the damage - allowing gross distortion of facts to be perpetuated and in many cases repeated by the same and other journalists.

A classic case in point is the article - 'War over, but the fight goes on' - written by Ed O'Loughlin, which appeared in two of Australia's most respected newspapers - the Sydney Morning Herald and the Brisbane Times - on 2 June 2007 to mark the 40 th Anniversary of the Six Day War in 1967. "

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Preliminary Observations About A Fred D. Thompson Presidential Race by Paul M. Weyrich

"Ever since Ronald Reagan passed away, when even liberals seemed to appreciate him and his role in history, there has been a demand among rank-and-file conservatives that we find another Ronald Reagan. It goes back to the time when George H. W. Bush broke his pledge, “Read my lips: No new taxes.” It was more of a wish than a demand and confined more toward the politically conscious. What was a wish had become a demand since even liberal commentators found it in their hearts to say kind things about Reagan upon his death, leaving it to the far-left ideologues to trash him.
Ordinarily decent second-tier candidates such as former Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin or Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas might have been able to surpass a weak first-tier, which has a lot of problems. "

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Who, Me? by William Kristol

"I FEEL TERRIBLE for Scooter Libby's family. Millions of Americans feel terrible for Scooter Libby's family. But we can't do anything about the injustice that has been done. Nor can we do anything to avert a further injustice looming on the horizon--Judge Reggie Walton seems inclined not to let Libby remain free pending appeal.

Unlike the rest of us, however, George W. Bush is president. Article II, Section Two of the Constitution gives him the pardon power. George W. Bush can do something to begin to make up for the injustice a prosecutor appointed by his own administration brought down on Scooter Libby. And he can do something to avert the further injustice of a prison term."

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Fred Night By John Tabin

"At last night's debate in New Hampshire, all three of the top-tier candidates were in good form. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney were all crisp, assertive, and even presidential. And none of it mattered, as they were all overshadowed by an elephant in the corner.

Fred Thompson hasn't entered the race yet, but he has confirmed that he almost certainly will. It took less than a minute before he was mentioned last night, as the candidates were asked to introduce themselves. 'My name is Thompson -- Tommy Thompson. The candidate, not the actor,' said the former Wisconsin governor and secretary of Heath and Human Services. It was a bad joke, and like most of what comes out of Tommy Thompson's mouth it made one wonder if he's actually delusional enough to think he can be president, but it's understandable that the topic of 'the actor' would be on Gov. Thompson's mind; political observers can hardly talk about anything else. And it wasn't the last time Fred Thompson would come up."

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Towards a 21st Century Governing Majority by Newt Gingrich - HUMAN EVENTS

"I am giving a speech at the American Enterprise Institute this Friday that is so central to where America needs to go if we're going to win the future for our children and grandchildren that I wanted to preview it for you today. I also want to urge you to find out more at the AEI website and to watch it at American Solutions, where you can sign up to get an e-mail reminder here.

We are still more than 500 days from the 2008 elections, but one thing is clear: There will be a future governing majority, and its three key principles can already be defined. What is not clear, however, is whether this next governing majority will be led by Republicans or Democrats."

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The Critical Mass: Factor 3 by Erik Rush

"Never before has there been a more poignant case than presently exists for the current level of disillusionment and cynicism amongst Americans or reason for their fundamental misgivings concerning the legitimacy of the Federal government as a whole.
Unlike ideologues and the less informed among us, I have always attempted to give the benefit of the doubt to politicians inside whose minds I am unable to psychically probe and whose actions have not yet given sufficient indication to which side of the line they fall regarding dedication to the United States of America versus vainglory and self-aggrandizement. Obviously, many politicians on both sides of the aisle tend toward inscrutability in this area, strongly suggesting that they are consummate prostitutes at heart who fall on the latter sign of the line.

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West By Adrian Morgan

"The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 in Egypt by a schoolteacher, Hassan al-Banna. He had been born in Mahmudiyya near Cairo on October 14, 1906, the eldest son of a watch-repairer, Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Banna. Though the family was never wealthy, it upheld a long tradition of Islamic scholarship. Al-Banna senior was an imam who had graduated from Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the largest Sunni seminary in the world. Ahmad spent 40 years of his life compiling and cataloguing an estimated 45,000 reports of the sayings and deeds of the prophet Mohammed. The most respected collector of such hadith, Bukhari (810 to 870 AD), included only 2,062 of these quotations in his collection which he considered to be 'sahih' or authentic. "

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The Immigration Reform Act For Dummies Part 1 of 2 By Bob Parks

"Unfortunately the very same President George W. Bush, with whom many of us have defended against the routine attacks of the left for years, has publicly inferred that we all just don’t know what we’re talking about regarding the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

Instead of filling us all in, the Republican elite just denigrates us, just as liberals do, and if you were to listen to them, we just don’t know what we’re talking about and that’s that.

“This bill isn’t amnesty. For those who call it amnesty, they’re just trying to, in my judgment, frighten people about the bill. This bill is one that says we recognize that you’re here illegally and there’s a consequence for it. We can argue about the consequences, but you can’t argue about the fact that there are consequences in this bill for people who have broken our law.”

We’ll get to those “consequences” directly."

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Preparations for "Homegrown Jihad" in the U.S.? By Douglas Hagmann

"An article published by John Mazor and and Murray Weiss in the New York Post yesterday provided more media coverage into the Islamic encampment in New York state that this agency has been reporting on for the last 18 months - Islamberg. According to the report in the New York Post, 'reports of gunfire and military-style physical training at the camp have led some investigators to believe that the group's members are preparing for homegrown jihad.' An admission by one members of the enclave was interesting, considering the background of many of the residents: 'We got guns up here just like everyone else got guns.'"

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An Epidemic of Meddling - The totalitarian implications of public health By Jacob Sullum

"In February, upon introducing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said the legislation “would give FDA broad powers to regulate tobacco products and protect public health.”

In 2004 Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) urged us to think about children’s entertainment “from a public health perspective.” In that light, she said, “exposing our children to so much of this unchecked media is a kind of contagion,” a “silent epidemic” that threatens “long-term public health damage to many, many children and therefore to society.”

In 2003 Surgeon General Richard Carmona, declaring that “obesity has reached epidemic proportions,” offered “a simple prescription that can end America’s obesity epidemic”: “Every American needs to eat healthy food in healthy portions and be physically active every day.”"

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Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq

"The United States can usually win even postmodern wars abroad if it can play to its strengths — which are marshaling our enormous material, intelligence, and technological advantages to defeat the enemy before he inflicts enough casualties to convince an affluent and comfortable public at home that such losses are simply not worth the envisioned aims."

So how are we doing?

As expected, many of our traditional advantages are being nullified.

How can Americans use air superiority against an enemy that hides among civilians and dares them to destroy infrastructure essential to our friends?

We create sophisticated communications at great cost and investment; the parasitical terrorists simply bore into them and use them at no cost and sometimes with greater effect than do their inventors (e.g., Why are not jihadist websites deemed as dangerous as IEDs, but not attacked in similar fashion?).

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World at War: In Depth Part Two by Minta Marie Morze :: A Few Shiny Pebbles

"In “World at War: In Depth Part One”, I pointed out my belief that we are engaged in an ideological World War being fought by several ideologies against each other, and that this is the first time that a war on this scale, literally involving the entire world, could take place. There were indications in one form or another before this that these forces were building, but like most other people I didn’t recognize it."

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Failure Is Not An Option By Jeffrey Epstein

Our current state of affairs certainly begs the question as to whether we can really afford to ignore costly lessons from history. One would think that we learned something from the murderous attack launched against us during the predawn hours of December 7th, 1941.

The first wave of 181 warplanes departed from six Japanese carriers to strike our fleet at Pearl Harbor and surrounding military airfields. At 7:00AM, the incoming squadrons appeared on the screens of the Army radar station at Opana. News of the steady-bearing “contacts” was immediately relayed up through the chain of command. However, senior officers falsely attributed those sightings to the anticipated echoes of returning American planes and never sounded the appropriate alarms – a costly assumption that contributed to the death toll of some 2400 servicemen.

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A 9/11 Father, Lifelong Republican, Says: Time To Impeach Bush Over Immigration By Peter Gadiel :: VDare

My son was one of the nearly 3000 people murdered on September 11, 2001 by nineteen illegal aliens.

It was easy for the 19 monsters who committed these acts to get into our country and, once in, to remain here unchallenged and at their leisure plan, rehearse, finance and carry out their mass murder. The 9/11 attacks, the murder of my son and thousands of others, were made possible, even inevitable, by the open borders policies instigated by the likes of Ted Kennedy, Charles Schumer, John McCain and others who are in the pockets of the Open Borders Lobby.

They share in the responsibility for those deaths.

It was to oppose the Open Borders Lobby that a dozen 9/11 family members founded 9/11 Families for a Secure America in 2003. As one of the officers of that organization, it has been a necessary but very painful part of my work to meet hundreds of others who lost beloved family members in the 9/11 attacks.

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What Roosevelt Didn't Know By Arnold Kling

The U.S. economy survived the dotcom bubble and crash of 1999-2000 much better than it survived the stock market bubble and crash of 1929. One reason is that President Bush did a better job of sifting through economic advice than did President Roosevelt. (My early evaluation of the Bush record from a macro perspective still stands.)

One of the legends of the Great Depression is that no one knew what to do about it until John Maynard Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936. One comes away from The Forgotten Man less convinced that the state of the art in economics was inadequate. Instead, it seems that Hoover and Roosevelt were not paying attention to the better economists of the day. Had there been a Council of Economic Advisers in 1930, the Great Depression might have been avoided, even though no member of the Council would have known Keynesian terminology. My current view is that The General Theory included more ideas than were necessary to diagnose and treat the problem of the 1930's.

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Biblical worldview cited as critical to survival of Christian faith in America Allie Martin

The founder of the Center for Moral Clarity says Christians in America must be equipped to stand against secular humanist worldviews and choose to get involved in the culture war. Otherwise, says Rod Parsley, the United States could look like post-Christian Europe within a single generation.

In his new book Culturally Incorrect; How Clashing Worldviews Affect Your Future, Pastor Rod Parsley says decades of liberalism and post-modern thinking have crippled America. It is vital, he says for Christians to have a biblical worldview.

"If we don't engage in this fight, [in one generation] we are going to ... look like post-Christian Europe," Parsley warns. He cites an example. "In Austria, scientists appealed to the government of Austria to give apes human rights, since [they believe] we are descendants of apes," he says.

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Christophobes – The New American Bullies by Rev. Michael Bresciani

Space travel may be hindered by distance but the blogs are not, there are probably more of them than stars. Spurred on by the polemics of Dawkins, the arrogance of Hitchens, the fall of Haggard, the illness of Dr. James Kennedy and the death of Jerry Falwell, the articles and blogs have waxed resplendent with anti-Christian hype.

The day of thinking that the internet draws only a few social misfits from the fringes of society who cloister to search out controversies no one else knew existed are over. Commerce is not alone on the internet. Newspapers, political parties, presidential candidates, universities, social groups and churches now appeal to millions in a way far more personal and effective than television or print media ever dreamed possible.

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Breaking the Hillary Code By Joseph Farah

Hillary Rodham Clinton is speaking in code.

Because I learned this code as a youngster, I thought it would be a public service for me to translate for Americans who may not understand exactly what she is saying and exactly what she means.

The presidential candidate says it's time to replace our "ownership society," which she calls an "on your own society," with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

"I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society," she said. "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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Our Founders' views on the Bible in public schools By Chuck Norris

As young people around the nation graduate from academic institutions of all types, I espouse that we all graduate in our understanding of what our Founders wanted for public education.

A while ago, I read a few blogs in which skeptics were taking issue with information I presented in my column on our Founders' endorsement of the Bible being taught in public schools, which is even now happening in 373 school districts in 37 states, including my home state of Texas.

Because my wife, Gena, and I are on the board of the National Council of Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, I'm hand delivering the coup de grace to any opposition of our Founders' educative intent of the good book – in their own words. Granted space doesn't permit an exhaustive treatment, but the following select citations should suffice all but those who remain defiant to historical fact.

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The Bumper-Sticker War By Bill Murchison

So all that divides the Democratic presidential candidates -- vide their debate in New Hampshire last Sunday -- is who hates the war worst; because, as all Americans supposedly agree, the whole thing is a shambles attributable to the ego of George W. Bush; and it remains only to see who can stick Bush hardest and most lastingly with the shame, the reprobation, the...

There comes a time when you don't want even to parody words such as the Democratic candidates swapped with each other, because the effect is so soul-sapping.

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Clinton: "Something Has to be Taken Away from Some People" By Amanda Carpenter

During a nationally broadcast forum Monday evening on faith and politics Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) attacked the free market and told listeners in that order to attain energy independence and provide universal health coverage, it would be necessary to “take away from some people.”

“An uninsured person who goes to the hospital is more likely to die than an insured person,” Clinton said. “I mean, that is a fact. So what do we do? We have to build a political consensus. And that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.”

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