"First They Came for the Jews" :: Wake up America

"I am not sure how old you are, how much history you are aware of, therefore I do not know how much you know about the Holocaust, so in order to understand fully the points I am going to make, do a little reading about the holocaust, I have a post called 'How Much Do YOU Know About The Holocaust', it is part of my featured posts on the left sidebar as well as 'Never Forget'.

Only by understanding the past can we truly appreciate the situation that Israel is now in and only then can we see that we are letting history repeat itself in front of the whole world.

Hitler declared his intentions towards the Jewish people, clearly and publicly and no one raised a finger to stop him until millions of Jews, Gypsy's, sick, disabled or simply elderly had been experimented on and killed."

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It's Obvious; Our Sovereignty Threatened by Felicia Benamon

"To the hardworking American citizens, your country is about to be swept from underneath you. Our sovereignty is unraveling. I say this because of the various agreements to privatize and lease our nation's interstates and highways to foreign companies. And without Congressional approval or approval of the people. This is happening across the country as well. The Trans Texas Corridor is planned to be under the control of Spain's Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte. And locally in Tennessee, a proposed toll road to be installed near Knoxville caught my attention. I wonder what's to become of that highway project. As it is implemented, will it be sold to foreign companies?

Our nation's sovereignty is being erased and most Americans know nothing about it. This reeks of an effort by some politicians to sneak in and implement the Superhighway, which is connected with the North American Union effort."

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China arming terrorists By Bill Gertz

"New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.

U.S. government appeals to China to check some of the arms shipments in advance were met with stonewalling by Beijing, which insisted it knew nothing about the shipments and asked for additional intelligence on the transfers. The ploy has been used in the past by China to hide its arms-proliferation activities from the United States, according to U.S. officials with access to the intelligence reports.

Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms."

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Religion of Peace Strikes Again All Over the World :: Little Green Footballs

"MANILA, Philippines - Bombs went off on buses just a few minutes apart in the southern Philippines on Friday, killing eight people and wounding at least 14 others, police said.
All of the fatalities were on a bus that had just left the terminal in Bansalan, in Davao del Sur province, said Chief Superintendent Andres G. Caro II, the regional police director.
The second bomb went off at roughly the same time on a bus that had just released its passengers after arriving in Cotabato, police spokesman Wally Casuyo said. The explosives were under a seat behind the driver and caused only a small fire that was quickly extinguished without injury, he said."

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How your Senators will Lie to you about their Immigration Vote :: stikNstein

"YES VIRGINIA……..THEY THINK YOU’RE STUPID….
If you haven’t called your Senator this week and next week is the time….You may not get another opportunity.

Reid has agreed to re introduce the immigration Amnesty bill next week. He’s not waiting. Republicans have told him they believe they have the votes to pass Cloture. The agreement to appropriate money up front is a sham…..Do you know where it is going to come from?
IN THE WORDS OF ONE OF OUR BLOGGERS ( Freedom of Philadelphia ) It’s horrific and misleading. It’s being funded by the cost of the z-visas, which means that money from the visas that could of gone to help offset the costs of health care, education, or crime from the illegal tsunami we’ve been swamped by!"

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Islamist Outrages and Our Dangerous Silence By Adrian Morgan

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

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

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Resisting 21st Century Communism By Fjordman :: Global Politician

"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 usual, 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.

Quotas and employment based on sex, religion, race or any criteria other than meritocracy, the rule of merit, where individuals are chosen through competition on the basis of demonstrated ability and competence, interfere with private property rights. This violates basic human rights of the employer. Historical experience indicates that respect for private property, along with respect for freedom of speech, are the hallmarks of true liberty. Abandoning these principles inhibits the creation of wealth."

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The ACLU Never Forgets Its Pro-Communist Roots::By Alan Sears

"Just as a leopard cannot change its spots, nor a zebra its stripes, an organization whose founder admired the “ideals” of the hammer and sickle can never really abandon those destructive beginnings.

More than a quarter-century after his death, the “legacy” of American Civil Liberties Union founder Roger Baldwin – a self-professed fan of Soviet communism and of Joseph Stalin – is still going strong. With the collapse of the Soviet empire, current ACLU leaders have thrown more of their support to one of the last remaining bastions of the Soviet ideal: Cuba."

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Fred Thompson and Plain Speaking By Ray Robison

"Fred Thompson is a small town guy who made it from the agricultural communes of south-central Tennessee to Capitol Hill and our TV sets. And while we admire the accomplishments of this distinguished lawyer, Senator and actor, we admire the man even more for seeming to remain grounded to his roots.

Faced with a media establishment that has heightened its opposition to presenting news that makes Republicans look good, Fred Thompson has that rare and invaluable quality of speaking directly to ordinary Americans, saying what needs to be said. "

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Hillary, Barack & Their 233% Income Tax Increase by Dick McDonald

"The greatest human tragedies of the last century were all done in the name of righting social and economic wrongs. Hundreds of millions were murdered to force citizens to correct perceived social and economic injustices. As a result of Karl Marx’s ideology and his utopian nightmare to enslave individuals at the altar of the state, hundreds of millions of lives were sacrificed.

Today the world still suffers from the irrationality of his “collectivist” thought and the subjugation of the individual to the state. The latest protestations of Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama are merely the same collectivist rhetoric as all these totalitarian tyrants used to subjugate the masses – righting social and economic injustices. Granted these latter-day Marxists are more sophisticated – they use taxation as their tool of choice to right perceived social and economic injustices. It is not as lethal but it is just as devastating to the hopes and dreams of free individuals."

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Reagan's other words in Berlin By Terence P. Jeffrey

"Western leaders searching for a long-term strategy to defend our civilization from fundamentalist Islam ought to reread the speech President Reagan delivered at the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this month.

It was neither democracy nor capitalism Mr. Reagan foresaw bringing down the wall. It was Christianity.

Mr. Reagan's demand that Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the wall was the defining sound-bite of that speech, but it was another passage that defined the core meaning of the Cold War. "

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The Democratic War Against Prosperity Marches On By Lawrence Kudlow

"Democrats in Congress and on the presidential trail are intensifying their high-tax war against prosperity and the so-called rich. Their latest salvo includes more tax penalties on successful investors and entrepreneurs, such as a proposed 4.3 percent surtax on high-income earners and a tax assault on the private-equity buyout industry.
The surtax allegedly would raise sufficient revenues to exempt middle-class folks from paying the alternative minimum tax. But the income threshold for this surtax has been alternatively suggested at $500,000, $200,000 or as low as $75,000 to $100,000, depending on the amount of new spending and earmarking envisioned by the Democratic Congress."

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Harry Reid: Professional menace By David limbaugh

Professional poll-watcher and persistent president-slanderer Harry Reid, who also moonlights as Senate majority leader, is proving himself to be a menace and a brutish boor.

Reid joined House speaker and fellow president-slanderer Nancy Pelosi in sending a letter to President Bush berating him for not listening to the will of the American people on Iraq. If Reid were truly interested in deferring to the will of the American people, he would tender his resignation today – not to mention get off the amnesty bandwagon.

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We'll guard that border, after it's gone; or, Bush admits the whole thing is a fraud By Lawrence Auster

Critics of the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill have been saying that the supposed enforcement triggers that must occur before illegal aliens are legalized are a fraud, for several reasons: (1) The illegals get the provisional Z visa instantly, and once they are legalized it is inconceivable they will be "illegalized" again; (2) the enforcement triggers don't represent actual numbers of illegal aliens apprehended, but only increased spending, increased Border Patrol agents, new fences, and other facilities, in other words, the triggers are only intentions, not achievements; and (3) after the legalization has occurred, the enforcement measures, such as they are, will be inevitably neglected, as has happened with the 1986 amnesty; and this is even more surely the case in the event a Democrat is elected in 2008.
All that is very bad. But it's worse than that. Much worse.

In a statement last Saturday at a briefing on the immigration bill, President Bush made it clear that he has no intention to secure the border prior to legalizing all present illegals as well as all future prospective illegals. I realize that sounds like a paradoxical statement, but be patient while I explain. First, here is what Bush said:

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Syro-Iranian massacre of politicians in Lebanon By Walid Phares

With the assassination of Lebanese MP Jebran Tueni in December 2006, months after the murder of political leaders George Hawi and Samir Qassir during the summer, the Syro-Iranian terror war room had opened a bloody hunt against the democratically elected Lebanese Parliament. After the withdrawal of regular Syrian forces from Lebanon in April 2005, Bashar Assad and his allies in Tehran designed a counter offensive (which we described then and later) aiming at crumbling the Cedars Revolution. One of the main components of this strategy was (and remain) to use all intelligence and security assets of Syria and Iran in Lebanon in order to “reduce” the number of deputies who form the anti-Syrian majority in the Parliament. As simple as that: assassinate as many members as needed to flip the quantitative majority in the Legislative Assembly. And when that is done, the Seniora Government collapses and a Hezbollah-led cabinet forms. In addition, if the Terror war kills about 8 legislators, the remnant of the Parliament can elect a new President of the Republic who will move the country under the tutelage of the Assad regime.

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CAIR’s Islamism Revealed By M. Zuhdi Jasser

The Washington Times printed a report by Audrey Hudson this week, “CAIR Membership falls 90% since 9/11”, discussing CAIR’s (Council on American Islamic Relations) membership numbers as disclosed on CAIR’s own 990Tax returns. Within hours, CAIR described the report as a ‘hit-piece’ in a hate-filled rant of a press release and action alert. A review of the Times piece reveals simple reporting of data from CAIR tax forms on their dwindling membership numbers, donor numbers, and yet increasing funds.

The piece quotes Parvez Ahmed, CAIR Chairman, on the countervailing increase in the number of CAIR chapters around the country during the same period post 9/11. It also cites the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) listing of CAIR as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) HAMAS fundraising case. The DOJ refers therein to CAIR’s leadership and origins as, “members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organization.” For all CAIR’s objections, there was no refutation of any of this.

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Virginia's Revolt, Not a Revolution - Yet By James Atticus Bowden

In Feudal Europe the peasants would rise up, occasionally, against particularly oppressive lords. After a bit of looting, killing and drunken revelry the 'Jacquerie' would be suppressed by all the neighboring lords with a fair measure of atrocities to send the proper message. Keep your place, Peasants. Your pitchforks are no match for our armed, heavy horsemen.

In our politically fertile, but as yet, futile Virginia the peasants are rising here and there. It's not clear if their efforts will be as ephemeral as a Jacquerie or more like the 1775 rising for the Rights of Englishmen in America.

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Radical Islam's "End-Game" By Frank Salvato

A friend of mine said recently, “We shouldn’t even be there. Let them kill each other. I mean, that would solve the problem. Right?” I thought about that statement as I read the news coming out of the Gaza Strip. As Hamas and al-Fatah literally battle to the death for supremacy in their region, it is crucial that we take the time – right now – to understand what it is they’re fighting about. The truth is our lives depend on it.

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Part II: Senate Continues to Bypass We-The-People By Sher Zieve

Still unconcerned with supporting the will of the American people, our globalist US Senators are again meeting behind closed doors in order to twist arms for the pro-illegals’ Amnesty Bill. Members of Congress and the President of the United States have, apparently, made the conscious, irresponsible and incongruous decision to—again—go behind the backs of we-the-people in order to affect another end run around us.

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A Refresher Course in Democracy By DONALD KIRK

The songs of the democratic movement echo through Seoul this month as Korean celebrate the 20th anniversary of the "democracy constitution" under which they've elected the last four presidents to five-year terms.

The idealism of the movement was clear in a two-day conference of foreign correspondents who had covered much of that dramatic period. Correspondents, including this one, recalled clandestine interviews with dissidents, harassment by government operatives, and the sense of the triumph of good over evil after years of military-dominated rule.

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The Dishonor of Tying Border Security to Amnesty :: Maggie's Notebook

Tonight (Thursday), we learn that the Senate Comprehensive Immigration Bill, once dead but now revived, will be up for debate on the Senate floor next week. This seems to indicate that some Republican Senators are now willing to support the legalization of some 12-20 million illegal aliens.

Hat tip to: StikNStein has no mercy...
Here's what the Coalition Against Illegal Immigration believes to be the scenario ahead:

*Sixty (60) votes will be available to close the debate (Cloture)
*Republicans have indicated that they have the necessary votes to close the debate
*If the debate closes, it likely means the bill passes
*Sixty votes needed for Cloture, only a simple majority needed to pass the bill

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Our rights were won at Runnymede: the Magna Carta :: Vanishing American

On June 15, 1215, the historic document called the Magna Carta
was signed by King John at Runnymede, Essex.

The National Archives page on the Magna Carta and its American legacy tells how that document inspired our Founding Fathers, and laid out many of the basic ideas which were later enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights

"Before penning the Declaration of Independence--the first of the American Charters of Freedom--in 1776, the Founding Fathers searched for a historical precedent for asserting their rightful liberties from King George III and the English Parliament. They found it in a gathering that took place 561 years earlier on the plains of Runnymede, not far from where Windsor Castle stands today. There, on June 15, 1215, an assembly of barons confronted a despotic and cash-strapped King John and demanded that traditional rights be recognized, written down, confirmed with the royal seal, and sent to each of the counties to be read to all freemen. The result was Magna Carta--a momentous achievement for the English barons and, nearly six centuries later, an inspiration for angry American colonists.''

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Bush Sides With Mexican Killers Against U.S. By Cliff Kincaid

The State Department's top legal adviser told international lawyers on June 6 that President Bush is so committed to the primacy of international law that he has taken his home state of Texas to court on behalf of a group of Mexican killers. The Mexicans had been sentenced to death for murdering U.S. citizens, including young children.

John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, cited the case, Mexico v. United States of America, in trying to convince the attorneys that the administration is doing what it can to enforce international law in U.S. courts.

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Gates of Vienna: Conversion Experiences

"Pastorius, from IBA and CUANAS, invited us to be on his radio show last night.

He was a genial and ingenuous interviewer, and we enjoyed our discussion, which ranged from the Infidels’ responsibility in the face of Islam to Pastorius’ own 9/11 conversion: he was a liberal on 9/10 and a conservative from the morning of September 11th till he draws his last breath. His was an instant conversion and an irrevocable one.

At one point during his old liberal days, when sitting in a bookstore, he would grab a text of Chomsky off the shelves and sit pretending to read it hoping to impress some girl walking by. I’m not sure it ever worked, but what a charming story.

What is interesting in his conversion is that the narrative follows closely that of Neo-Neocon, Shrinkwrapped, Roger Simon, and many others. They simply turned away from “all that” and toward a harsh reality. As the Towers went up in flames, so did their intellectually fashionable and secure membership in the Liberal Club."

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Hot Air :: “How to Take a Life”

"MM: Allahpundit’s post on the New York Times’ article about the jihadi’s guide to etiquette inspired me to rewrite The Fray’s “How to Save A Life.” Bryan did the rock-star solo vocals. I’m on keyboard. Here are the lyrics. Sing along:"

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Going Down with the Ship by Michael Reagan

"The S.S. GOP is sinking fast, and it looks like Skipper Bush is going down with his ship.
That’s only fair -- after all, he’s the one who torpedoed his own ship with the immigration-reform-bill warhead. Not fair is the fact that he’s taking his party down with him.

I can understand his stubbornness in sticking with this insane program that doesn’t do a damned thing to plug the leaking borders that are allowing the United States to be flooded with all manner and shapes of illegal aliens, some of them terrorists who want to kill large numbers of Americans -- he really has nothing to lose."

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POLICE-STATE ASSAULT... WHERE IS OUR SENSE OF OUTRAGE? By: Tom Rose

"As I write, there is an on-going tragedy taking place. Heavily armed, camouflaged federal marshals, state police, and local police are laying siege on the home of Ed and Elaine Brown in Plainfield, New Hampshire.

A number of thoughts cross my mind:

Is this a microcosm replay of the mass police-state murder by the FBI at Waco, Texas (1993)? or of a similar Federal assault on Randy and Vicki Weaver’s home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho (1992) in which Vicki was murdered? Or both? What is the real reason behind this assault? Is it true that Ed and Elaine Brown are really law breakers, as the Feds claim? Should they peacefully surrender as the federal marshal demands? Or, are Ed and Elaine bravely engaging in a battle for freedom that every red-blooded American should also be actively participating in? "

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Who's Winning the Immigration Battle?::By William Rusher

"The defeat of the so-called immigration 'reform' bill in the Senate last week was a stunning blow to the powerful coalition backing it, but opponents had better not break out the champagne just yet. The odds are better than even that the coalition will simply regroup, try again, and this time roll over the opposition like a Sherman tank."

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Predictions Wrong on Global Warming and Climate Change By Tom DeWeese

"Global warming alarmists are a clever bunch. They have very carefully changed the issue from 'global warming' to 'climate change.' Now any change in weather, be it mild winters or cool summers can be attributed to 'climate change.' Whatever the weather, the news is very bad.

One claim threatens massive storms thrashing our communities. Such a threat was an easy sell in 2005 as Katrina was blamed for nearly destroying New Orleans in a hurricane season that seemed without end. Surely it could not be denied that climate change Armageddon was upon us."

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The West is Losing Because It Thinks Itself The Enemy By Prof. Barry Rubin

Why is the West losing the battle against radical Islamist and other forces in the Middle East? Simple, because it has people like Alvaro de Soto running things. De Soto, if you hadn’t notices, was a veteran UN official whose last job was as the organization’s top Middle East envoy. De Soto wrote a 52-page secret report on retiring and, duly leaked, it now explains to us that the fault for Hamas’s victory in the Gaza Strip—and no doubt just about everything else in the region—lies with the United States and Israel. It is people like de Soto--dare I say over-dressed, over-paid ignoramuses?—who had no idea what they are doing and no understanding of who they are dealing with.

And of course his arguments are published prominently in the mainstream media thus poisoning yet more minds, published for example uncritically in the June 14 Washington Post for an audience ready to believe anything bad about the current administration.

What does de Soto say? That the UN, United States, and Israel “radicalized” Hamas by trying to isolate it. This, de Soto explains, “hampered” peace efforts.

Let us summarize. According to de Soto:

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Terrorists’ Bill of Rights By Amil Imani

The Constitution of the United States is one of the most glorious documents promoting individual liberty ever written. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is also the first section of the Bill of Rights. It is arguably the most important part of the U.S. Constitution. It reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

The framers of the Constitution were acutely aware of the danger of religious infringement in the affairs of the State or the State’s sponsorship of a particular faith. Recalling the tragic clashes of the two in Europe, the founding fathers aimed to guard against either religion or the State transgressing in the purview of the other.

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Driver's Licenses to Illegals: Threat to National Security By Joe Armendariz

Californians are getting ready for another debate over illegal Mexican immigration, including the most recent fight over demands that driver's licenses be issued to illegal immigrants. Because of the power of the Mexican lobby in California and the support they get from liberal Democrats, anything can happen now that California's state legislature is back in session.

Illegal immigration and the issuance of driver's licenses to unlawful aliens is a quintessential taxpayer issue. Thus, who take offense at the thought of local taxpayer organizations delving into this issue are either stakeholders in the status-quo, in which case they are part of the problem and it should surprise no one that they're offended, or else they are too naive to understand how their reckless obsession with political correctness has brought the nation in danger, both on security and economic fronts.

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Aztlan - End Of The American Dream By Fjordman

In March 2005, US President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox announced the establishment of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.” This was meant to implement a common border-facilitation strategy to improve the “flow of people and cargo at our shared borders.”

As next steps were mentioned: “We will establish Ministerial-led working groups that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working groups will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals. They will identify concrete steps that our governments can take to meet these goals, and set implementation dates that will permit a rolling harvest of accomplishments. (…) Because the Partnership will be an ongoing process of cooperation, new items will be added to the work agenda by mutual agreement as circumstances warrant.”

I had just read about the workings of the European Union, and was struck by some similarities with this North American “partnership.” It involves a sustained, ongoing process of ever-closer cooperation, back-room deals by ministers where important decisions are taken outside of the public view and hidden behind a cloud of bureaucratic wording. I was accused of paranoia by some Americans when I pointed this out, but as I later discovered, Mexican President Vicente Fox in 2002 in a speech in Madrid made his goals with and his inspirations for this North American cooperation quite clear:

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Blind To Reality :: Investor's Business Daily

The Dow had just pierced 13,000, but TV news anchors couldn't fathom why. All the data, they noted, showed the economy doing worse, not better. But therein lies a problem with media market analysis.

Now, we'll gladly stipulate that knowing why the stock market is acting the way it is on any given day is difficult, if not impossible. Yes, you can guess, as many do, but no one knows for sure. The real reason doesn't usually become clear until months later.

But that's the point. Daily market action usually doesn't reflect current conditions, let alone old government data. Investors are buying or selling based on their perception of conditions six to nine months in the future, not where the GDP was last quarter, the CPI was last month or bond yields are this week.

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Leaders In Defeat :: Investor's Business Daily

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid calls America's top brass "incompetent," one wonders if he's not really using what psychologists call "projection" — attributing to others what you most fear about yourself.

'Incompetent" is how Reid, talking to liberal bloggers on Tuesday, described outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and Marine Gen. Peter Pace. He should talk.

What Reid seems to be criticizing is the U.S. military's inability to socially re-engineer and rebuild Iraq to the Democrats' liking in only four years, despite winning the actual war in just two weeks.

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It's Obvious, Our Sovereignty Is Threatened Daily By Felicia Benamon

To the hardworking American citizens, your country is about to be swept from underneath you. Our sovereignty is unraveling. I say this because of the various agreements to privatize and lease our nation's interstates and highways to foreign companies. And without Congressional approval or approval of the people. This is happening across the country as well. The Trans Texas Corridor is planned to be under the control of Spain's Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte. And locally in Tennessee, a proposed toll road to be installed near Knoxville caught my attention. I wonder what's to become of that highway project. As it is implemented, will it be sold to foreign companies?

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Dershowitz applauds DePaul Univ. for tenure denial By Jim Brown

An outspoken anti-Israel professor has been denied tenure at the country’s largest Catholic university. Attorney Alan Dershowitz sees that as a good sign for academia.

DePaul University in Chicago has denied tenure to political science professor Norman Finkelstein, citing his "deliberately hurtful scholarship." Finkelstein has called American Jewish leaders "Holocaust mongers," and in a recent book argues that Israel uses the outcry over perceived anti-Semitism as a weapon to stifle criticism.

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CAIR attacks SANE (and the Washington Times) for Mapping Shari'a

CAIR: Washington Times Promotes Hate Group That Would Outlaw Islam

What follows is a press release issued by the infamous PR Jihad group, CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CAIR is upset with the Washington Times for covering the Mapping Shari’a press conference and even more upset with SANE for sponsoring the Mapping Shari’a in America Project.

CAIR found SANE’s SANE Immigration Proposal, which calls for the outlawing of “Adherence to Islam”, outrageous. Now what CAIR doesn’t tell you in this press conference is two things:

One, the definition of “Adherence to Islam” is defined carefully as follows:

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All that needs to be said about Islam By Douglas J. Hagmann

ROBERTSON: The question would be, ladies and gentlemen, if a million Christians want to go to Saudi Arabia and say, "We want to pray," you can’t pray in Saudi Arabia. You can’t have religious literature in Saudi Arabia. You can’t get together in Bible study groups in Saudi Arabia. As far as having special places for foot-washing and all that, no way. You will abide by Sharia law because they’re in control.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have to recognize that Islam is not a religion.
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Cruel Britannia::By Cal Thomas

"Portstewart, Northern Ireland - There are two ways to destroy a nation. One is from without by an invading military force. The other is from within when the people of the nation no longer embrace and promote the history, language and culture that brought it to prominence and power. Britain has chosen the second option, which is national suicide.
In addition to its indefensible immigration policy, which is rapidly diluting British culture, the nation's public schools are giving up classical teaching in history, science and English literature in favor of trendy things to make the subject matter more 'popular.' It isn't working. Students increasingly find the new curriculum as unpalatable as school lunches."

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Food Before Fuel By Iain Murray & William Yeatman

"Feel like you're getting squeezed by prices at the gas pump? Get ready to experience that same feeling at the grocery store. As ABC News reported recently, average food retail prices of across the United States have risen by 4 percent during the past year alone. Beleaguered American consumers must now pay record gas prices to get to the grocery store, where they again meet sticker shock. And who is to blame? Not grocery stores or food producers, but Congress.

Food prices today are rising steeply because Congress decided to link the price of food with the price of oil. As a result, now whenever the price of oil increases, food prices follow. Worse still, Congress is currently contemplating further tightening this link. Let us explain."

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Home-Invader Program? By Thomas Sowell

"People who are pushing for a “guest worker” program show not the slightest interest in what has been happening under guest-worker programs in Europe. Facts are apparently irrelevant.

So is logic. Guests are people you invite to your home. Gate crashers are people who come without being invited. Home invaders are people who break in, despite doors that have been shut to keep them out.

If the discussion of immigration laws respected either logic or honesty, we would be talking about a program to legalize home invaders instead of a guest-worker program.

As for facts, guest workers from third-world countries have created centers of crime and violence in Europe, and some guest-worker communities have become breeding grounds for terrorists. "

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Freedom, not climate, is at risk By Vaclav Klaus

"We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now.

In the past year, Al Gore’s so-called “documentary” film was shown in cinemas worldwide, Britain’s – more or less Tony Blair’s – Stern report was published, the fourth report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was put together and the Group of Eight summit announced ambitions to do something about the weather. Rational and freedom-loving people have to respond. The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced."

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Violent Crime on the Rise in United States By Nathan Tabor

"An alarming statistic splashed across the Internet the other day: violent crime is on the rise in the United States for the second straight year.

The stats show that homicides increased in eight of the country's largest cities: Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Diego. As a result, the murder rate in cities with populations of more than one million jumped 6.7 percent.

The FBI's assistant director, Ken Kaiser, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying: 'Am I happy with the increase in violent crime? Absolutely not. I'd have to be a fool to say I was. But I would tell you I think (police) are working very hard out there.' "

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The Soccer Gold Cup, Aztlan, Illegal Immigration, and G. W. Bush By Rene Guerra

"As the massive demonstrations by illegals on international communism day (May Day) last year were a mark of the irredentist mexicanization of America, so are soccer games played at some locations by the men's national team in the ongoing CONCACAF Gold Cup race (www.CONCACAF.com/gold-cup/).

Yesterday, USA men's national team (MNT) members made public statements of relief at the fact that they will at last play at a location with friendly crowds. The MNT will be playing a series of games at Gillette stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts."

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Transnational Progressivism :: The Lighthouse

The Transnational Progressivism Alerts for today are for the Central European areas and the Balkan peninsula, as well as for the whole of Northern America and parts of Meso-America, and - oh .... what thee eck ... make that for the whole of planet Earth and the surrounding areas!

Foehammer's Anvil, in "Bush dismembers Serbia" is on to the consequences of the impending Kosovo precedent. In instalment number 5 on the transnational state in the series "Neo-Totalitarianism" we have already seen that " ... it is certain that diplomatically and politically something is afoot. The U.N. does not have the legal power to declare countries independent; nevertheless, if Security Council member and Serb ally Russia doesn't veto ... the U.N. will have done exactly that. It will provide for any other area in the world with separatist aspirations or with an axe to grind, to go the same route".

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JUST COMMITTING THE FELONIES AMERICANS WONT COMMIT :: stikNstein

Bush wants the Senate to bring back the Immigration Bill……Remember the amendment to ban Illegal Immigrant felons from getting Amnesty?…..It didn’t pass. Don’t be fooled into thinking they will be any tougher this time.

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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North American Union Isn't Going Away by George Mason

Michael Medved has now published a second tirade on the issue of North American integration, this time attacking both Joseph Farah and me by name. John Hawkins has also responded briefly on his blog, taking the opportunity to issue yet another ad hominem attack, this time calling me “crazy.” Neither gentleman has yet responded to the substantive arguments or evidence that many of us have produced, demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that North American integration is proceeding full speed ahead in the Bush Administration.

Maybe Medved and Hawkins should include the Wall Street Journal in their list of those at whom they cast a flurry of personal abuse and invective. As early as July 2, 2001, Robert L. Bartley, then-editor of the Wall Street Journal, directly supported the idea of creating a North American Union in no uncertain terms, writing an editorial titled, “Open Nafta Borders? Why Not.” Bartley wrote:


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Bush Wrong on Kosovo Independence by Craig Chamberlain

Perhaps it was because he was greeted with a hero's welcome, or perhaps his sympathy for illegal immigrants is great all over the world, President Bush thinks that Kosovo should be an independent state. President Bush made this statement while in Albania, while being greeted with cheers instead of black masked thugs who compare him to Hitler.

During the Clinton administration we bombed Serbia for 78 days in order to support the ethnic Albanian majority of Kosovo. It sounds like we were, once again, standing up for the underdog. Here's the problem: Kosovo belongs to the Serbs, it always has. It is considered the heartland of Serbia. The Albanians who were fighting for Kosovo's independence belonged to the KLA, a group with ties to Usama Bin Laden, and a group recognized by our own state department as a terrorist group. That is until President Clinton found them a useful poster boy for a group of freedom fighters and had them removed from the terrorist list in 1999.

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Climate Alarmists Lose Again 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.

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Dreaming of a world without God By Benjamin Shapiro

There is a curious void in the modern American left. That void is the empty spot where God should be. The American left – and the Democratic Party, as its political representative – has worked tirelessly over the course of decades to cast God from the public square, all the time disclaiming their mission by invoking "tolerance" for all beliefs.

But now the cat is out of the bag. In the aftermath of John Kerry's electoral defeat in 2004, Democrats explained that they wished to re-enter the arena of moral values. During the two Democratic presidential debates, God was mentioned just once, by scurrilous panderer John Edwards; ethics was mentioned once, by Barack Obama, who was disclaiming his association with a lobbyist; morality was mentioned only in the context of America's international "immorality"; values were invoked only by Joe Biden (ironically enough, in touting Roe v. Wade). When Democrats talk about moral values, they mean the Planned Parenthood brochure.

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Barometer of American Values By Marc H. Rudov

Paris Hilton isn’t the problem; she’s just a barometer of American values. A highschool dropout with a GED and lots of plastic surgery, she is nothing more than the creation of a shallow, aimless society in search of itself: the real problem. America’s endless obsession with this professional attention-whore is more evidence (remember Britney, Lindsay, Rosie, and Anna Nicole?) that its priorities are screwed up.

People who seriously care whether Paris should have gone to jail, how she might be surviving in jail, what Aunt Kyle thinks, what sister Nicky thinks, or what Rick and Kathy are planning for their daughter’s getting-out-of-jail party in Las Vegas should be examining the meaning of their own lives -- if that’s possible.

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To defeat terrorism, first uproot the hate culture By Dr. Sami Alrabaa

The majority of Westerners, mostly Europeans, the mainstream media, and think-tanks, on the one hand, and Islamists, a minority of radical Muslims, on the other, are exaggerating the impact and clout of Islam and Muslims. The "Westerners", are convinced that they are waging a great "war on terror", in self-defense, and the Islamists accuse their enemies of suffering from Islamophabia.

A kind of bloody ideological conflict between Westerners and Islamists (including conservative Muslims) is developing and day after day it is becoming fiercer and more aggressive; Western values and Western culture and politics are confronting a radical, dogmatic rigid version of Islam, propagated as the only "Will of Allah". All this is reminiscent of the confrontation between capitalism and socialism/communism in the 1960s and 1970s.

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“Unacceptable” :: NRO

Speaking to Republican senators yesterday, President Bush argued that they should support the immigration bill because “doing nothing is unacceptable.” That’s odd: It has seemed pretty acceptable to him for most of his time in office. He is right that the status quo features porous borders, widespread flouting of the law, and more than 12 million illegal aliens. But it is the very status quo over which he has presided — and which the bill he favors would probably make worse.

The grand compromise bill assumes that critical improvements in border security and interior enforcement can be made in 18 months. Of course, whether any improvements are realized or not, legal status would have been conferred on millions of illegal aliens within months of the bill becoming law. As Senator Jim DeMint explains, “There is no excuse for anyone to believe that what’s in this bill is going to happen, except for the amnesty.”

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Does Watching TV Damage Character? By Brian Fitzpatrick

"Couch potatoes, beware -- someday you might be saying “the TV made me do it.”

A new special report by the Culture and Media Institute (CMI) indicates that watching too much television could be hazardous to your moral health.

The report, The Media Assault on American Values, reveals that media messages appear to be undermining the pillars of America’s cultural edifice: strength of character, sexual morality and respect for God. The report is based on findings of a major scientific survey commissioned by CMI, a division of the Media Research Center."

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'No Drug Smuggler Left Behind!' by Ann Coulter

"President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship, provided they learn Spanish. The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most Albanians haven't broken any U.S. laws.

Bush keeps claiming he's dying to enforce the border, but he just can't do it unless we immediately grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens. I wonder if that worked on Laura Bush:"

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Tom DeWeese: Global Warming and its Evil Twin 'Climate Change' Predictions Wrong on Both Counts

"Global warming alarmists are a clever bunch. They have very carefully changed the issue from 'global warming' to 'climate change.' Now any change in weather, be it mild winters or cool summers can be attributed to 'climate change.' Whatever the weather, the news is very bad.

One claim threatens massive storms thrashing our communities. Such a threat was an easy sell in 2005 as Katrina was blamed for nearly destroying New Orleans in a hurricane season that seemed without end. Surely it could not be denied that climate change Armageddon was upon us."

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Give it a rest, Mr. President By Lou Dobbs

"NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush is building his legacy, adding another unfortunate line of hollow bravado to his rhetorical repertoire. To 'Mission accomplished,' 'Bring it on,' 'Wanted: Dead or alive,' and of course, 'I earned ... political capital, and now I intend to spend it,' he has added 'I'll see you at the bill signing,' referring to his own ill-considered push for so-called comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Bush emerged from a midday meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill to declare, 'We've got to convince the American people this bill is the best way to enforce our border.'"

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Diktat vs Liberty by Thomas Brewton

"Rising hysteria about the alleged greenhouse-gas role in global warming will predictably bring about a new miasma of self-contradictory and harmful regulations.

Socialism, the secular religion of liberals and Progressives, preaches that only intellectual councils, led by Al Gore, are smart enough to see clearly how everyone else must behave and to impose the necessary regulations. Universal, bitter experience demonstrates, however, that regulatory agencies cannot possibly foresee all the effects of their actions.

The free-market adjustment of millions of people can and does uncover a wealth of alternatives beyond the ken of any state-planning group and makes gradual adjustments without the unsettling abruptness of one-size-fits-all Federal regulation."

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Cuba, Tourism, Castro, communism, Stalinist, Today Show, Matt Lauer, NBC by Humberto Fontova

"Exactly three weeks ago Cuba's Stalinist regime held a 'tourism fair' in Havana to kick-off an ambitious plan to boost the Cuban military's tourist booty. To entice and swindle foreign investors, Cuba's propaganda ministry publishes a magazine titled Opciones where Cuba's 'Minister of Tourism,' Manuel Marrero, boasted of a bold $170 million outlay to upgrade Cuba's tourist facilities from golf courses to yacht clubs to theme parks.

Exactly one week ago ( by some peculiar coincidence) NBC's 'Today Show' decided to broadcast from Havana amidst smiling, clapping, dancing tourists while Matt Lauer advised viewers on how to legally vacation in Cuba. No doubt Matt Lauer has studied Katie Couric's post-Today Show career with keen interest and mounting trepidation. But all who watched his performance from Havana can reassure him: "

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The Obamanation of Unions Robert Klein Engler

"Kara Scannell, writing in The Wall Street Journal, claims that 'Illinois Sen. Barack Obama sent a letter today asking Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, a rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, to hold a hearing on executive pay.'

According to Senator Barack Hussein Obama's letter, 'S. 1181 would require a nonbinding shareholder vote on executive compensation packages. I believe public discussion and debate over executive compensation packages would force corporate boards to think twice before signing over millions of dollars to CEOs.'

We have to wonder what is the motive for this letter and its request for a hearing? Could it be that there are fewer executive voters than there are union voters?"

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Hawks for Thompson by Stephen F. Hayes

"FRED THOMPSON IS adding more big-name policy talent as his testing-the-waters committee continues to grow into a real presidential campaign. Among the new additions: Mark Esper, national security adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Joel Shin, a top policy staffer on Bush-Cheney 2000; and Elizabeth Cheney, a former top official in the State Department's Near East and South Asia department."

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Jihad Watch: Immigration & Jihad :: Robert Spencer

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Who Are CAIR's Paymasters? :: Investor's Business Daily

"Islamofascism: Recent tax filings reveal an Islamist group that claims to speak for millions of Muslims in America actually boasts just 1,700 members. So whose interests does it really represent?

There's been surprisingly little transparency about the financing of the top Muslim lobby in Washington — the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Until recently, few in the media have bothered to investigate.

Since spinning off from Hamas front group Islamic Association for Palestine in 1994, CAIR has maintained it's a "grass-roots organization" — a "Muslim NAACP" — supported by members who pay dues. It repeatedly has denied receiving foreign funding."

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The Western delusion about Islam, still in the driver's seat by Lawrence Auster

"We need to recognize the terrifying reality that there is not a single person in a leadership position in the contemporary West who is capable of thinking truthfully and coherently about the facts of human existence--and particularly about that part of human existence called Islam. This is because Western elites are, to a man and woman, liberals. It doesn't matter whether they're Democrat or Republican, Tory or New Labor, UMP or Socialist. They're all liberals, meaning that they believe in universal human equality as the fundamental reality of this world, which, if it is not manifested at this moment, is nevertheless readily achievable by human action. Therefore they believe that there are no differences between human groups that really matter. If some foreign or minority group has an irreconcilable difference with us, the elites will not see it. They will believe the difference stems from some factor that is extrinsic to the group itself, and thus fixable, not from a factor that intrinsic to the group and thus not fixable. "

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It ain't over 'til the alien wins By Michelle Malkin

"As you follow the debate over the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill, keep this cardinal rule in mind: 99.99 percent of the lawmakers who promise you that they'll ensure the deportation of anyone who doesn't follow their new 'guest-worker' regulations are either A) lying or B) completely clueless.

Rule No. 2: Anyone who plays the Enforcement equals Kicking-Down-Doors-And-Depriving-Babies-of-Mother's-Milk card (yes, that's you, Geraldo Rivera) is either A) lying or B) completely clueless. "

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Michael Medved Loses His Cool Over NAU by George Mason

"Film critic and talk show host Michael Medved has decided to put in print on Townhall.com the attack he has frequently broadcast on radio against those of us who are opposing the North American integration being pursued by the Bush Administration activity under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. "

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The Regime Against the Nation by Patrick J. Buchanan

"Last week, in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment.

The Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens, and for the businesses that have hired them -- a bill backed by La Raza and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post -- went down to crushing defeat.

Majority Leader Harry Reid fell 15 votes short (45 to 50) of shutting off debate. Like the rout of the Dubai ports deal, the victory was achieved by a firestorm of public protest, reflected in millions of phone calls and e-mails, and citizens marching to town meetings. "

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Trail of Blood :: The Brussels Journal

"Muslim leaders have robustly criticized a forthright “position papier” [issued by the Lutheran churches in Germany]. Ayyub Axel Koehler, chairman of the Council of Muslims, [a German who converted to Islam in 1963] told the church-people that Europe should be ashamed of the “trail of blood” that it had left throughout the world down the centuries.

Comment from Fjordman: It would be interesting to see Muslims deal with the trail of blood they have left behind on several continents, from Thailand via India to Armenia, during more than 1300 years. To quote Paul Fregosi’s book Jihad in the West:"

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James Baker's disciples By Caroline Glick

"Ahead of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's trip to the White House on June 19, the Bush administration is pressuring Israel to endanger itself on at least two fronts.

First, the Americans are pressuring the Olmert government to agree to Palestinian Authority and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas's request to bring millions of bullets, thousands of Kalashnikov assault rifles, RPGs, antitank missiles and armored personnel carriers into Gaza from Egypt. "

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WorldNetDaily: The growing threat of fascism By Joseph Farah

"I've believed for some time now that the greatest threat to America's freedoms is not specifically from socialism or communism but rather an 'ism' you seldom hear much about these days – fascism.

To understand what I mean, most people need to rethink their notions about the political spectrum. At the left end, most people agree, you have communism – total government control over the means of production and property. It's at the other end of the spectrum that many get confused. "

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Eurabia: 'Conspiracy' or Policy? By Andrew G. Bostom

"America must reckon with the reality of a long term project to create a Euro-Arab alliance based on far-reaching cultural integration measures. Yet some dismiss the warnings of those who speak of the dangers for America as the ravings of conspiracy theorists.

Phillip Jenkins, in his recently released book God's Continent makes the following statement:"

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Vote-Fraud Demagogues By John Fund on the Trail

"Appointments to the Federal Election Commission rarely draw attention. But at a confirmation hearing today, there's likely to be some fireworks over Hans von Spakovsky.
Mr. von Spakovsky has already amassed an 18-month long, largely uncontroversial record at the FEC as a recess appointment. But that's not likely to stop Senate Democrats from grilling him about his time at the Justice Department during President Bush's first term. The aim will be to portray him as a partisan who mishandled voting rights cases. Exhibit A will be his support for state voter ID laws. "

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Folly to Folly, Reid Blunders On By George Will

"Harry Reid, the Senate's majority leader and resident Uriah Heep, affected 'umble and syrupy sadness about the Senate's inability to pass the immigration bill that he pulled from the floor last Thursday evening for a transparently meretricious reason. Saying the Senate's time was too precious to expend on what would have been limited debate on a limited number of Republican amendments to the bill, Reid vowed: 'Everyone that's been home, there are two issues that are foremost in their minds: Number one is the Iraq War and number two are gas prices. We're going to deal with that as soon as we finish with this immigration legislation.'' "

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Dennis Miller unloads on Harry Reid

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Monument to Murder::By Cal Thomas

"Should anyone remain at the real end of history to chronicle a list of humanity's worst systems for the benefit of any left to read it, the legacy of communism is sure to be at, or near, the top.

That's why it is especially appropriate that in Washington, D.C., this week a Victims of Communism Memorial will be dedicated. "

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Vanishing American: Whatever happened to the free press?

"“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” -Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson said that long ago, and it is more true now than at any time in our country's history.
But at what point did our press go so badly wrong?

The American Society of Newspaper Editors, in 1922, established their 'Canons of Journalism' spelling out what they considered to be the standards by which journalists operated, and the ideals to which the journalistic profession adhered. The ideals included the upholding of freedom of the press and thus the encouragement of the free debate which is essential in a democratic republic.

At their 16th annual meeting in 1938, the ASNE felt compelled, in view of developments in the world (this was on the eve of World War II, with the rise of totalitarian governments in Europe, of course) to reaffirm their principles."

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‘Undocumented Americans' By MARK STEYN

"I forget where I was when I first heard the phrase 'undocumented worker.' Possibly it was after swimming the Rio Grande and emerging dripping on the northern shore to be handed a fake Social Security number and a driver's license. But I assumed, reasonably enough, that this linguistic sleight of hand was simply too ridiculous to fly even with the American media. I underestimated my colleagues, alas.
The 'undocumented' are, as it happens, brimming with sufficient documents to open bank accounts or, on the other hand, rent a Ryder truck, as Mohammad Salameh did in 1993 when he and his pals bombed the World Trade Center first time round. Being 'undocumented' means being documented up to the hilt as far as everyone else is concerned but 'undocumented' only to the US government. Which, when you think about it, is a very advantageous status to have."

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The Ideology of the Professionals :: The Realist

"In “Why the ‘Whites As Cancer’ Myth?,” I used the early political career of John Kerry to demonstrate why anti-white slanders have proven so popular to a large segment of the American public. Kerry used unsubstantiated tales of atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam to slander not only his fellow soldiers, but also his country and his race. Nevertheless, his activism made him a hero to many Americans and was the beginning of a successful political career.

I argued that anti-white slanders were attractive because they were a demonstration that the slanderer had overcome ethnocentric bias. What better way for whites to demonstrate they were free of the pre-fascist inclinations of the masses than to constantly harp on the evils America had committed, real or imaginary? Besides, the critical spirit that enabled them to realize the evils of their own people made them smarter and more sophisticated than others. Consequently, Kerry’s campaign of fraud made him courageous, heroic, intellectual, sensitive, and “hip” in the eyes of many."

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Town Commons: FBI Director Says Only Matter of Time Before Terrorists Acquire Nuclear Weapons; The MSM Buries The Warning

"A sizeable portion of the one billion Muslims in this world believe the United States and the West are enemies to be destroyed by any means. We know that a handful of these suicidal zealots can cause immense destruction. Thus, the nightmare scenario is that any of these terrorist organizations may gain access to nuclear weapons. And apparently, this nightmare scenario is inevitable. In remarks made yesterday before the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, FBI Director Robert Mueller made the dire warning that it was 'only a matter of time and economics before terrorists will be able to purchase nuclear weapons . . .': "

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Gates of Vienna: Why Transnational Multiculturalism is a Totalitarian Ideology

"Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre recently participated in a conference with editors and journalists from all over the world on how to “report diversity” in a non-offensive manner, with Arab News from Saudi Arabia as one of the moderators. The Cartoon Jihad the year before had prompted Indonesia and Norway to join forces and promote a Global Inter-Media Dialogue. In June 2007 this was held in Oslo."

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What is Kyl up to? by Lawrence Auster

"Four hours away from President Bush's luncheon meeting with Republican senators at the Capitol, a luncheon at which they may be the meal, I find at VDare a disturbing statement by Sen. Jon Kyl on all it would take to get the immigration bill moving again:

All we have to do on the Republican side is sit down with those who have amendments, get those amendments in a reasonable package, not too many, but enough so all of the members can say they had their chance.

Gosh, after the events of the last month, Kyl still wants this bill? I don't get it. Kyl's excuse for having participated in the drafting of the disastrous S.1348 was that the Democrats had the votes to pass amnesty in any case, so he might as well be a part of the process to get as much enforcement into the bill as possible. "

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American Political Vampires: Part II by John R. Marshall

"'I agree with your analysis of current situation, but you stopped short (as many conservative writers do) of spelling out just exactly what can be done about it. What do you propose? – dlosey”

I propose reviewing options and consequences to identify two issues and one question.
THE OPTIONS: There are three types of political tactics.
I) Nonviolent: voting for most or least qualified candidate, seeking office through election or appointment, lobbying, trades, demonstrations, strikes, civil disobedience, bribery, black mall, extortion threats, coup d'état and other methods."

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My choice for president By Joseph Farah

"Everywhere I go and in every interview I do, people ask me who I am supporting for president in 2008.

In my book 'Taking America Back,' I explain in great detail why I don't get consumed with who will be our next president. I explain the limitations on the powers of presidents. I explain how unlikely and difficult it is for them to change the direction of the country in a positive way. I explain how there are so many more important issues for Americans to be concerned with in their daily lives. I explain that we make choices every day that are profoundly more important than the choice we make when we vote for president. "

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The Democrats' Betrayal By James Lewis

"The Democrats and their media poodles have proudly and publicly sabotaged the Iraq War effort since the beginning. This is not just a guess, but a clear and visible fact, openly celebrated by the Left.

The Left ululates noisily over every American death --- though not over the thousands of innocent civilians who are regularly blown up by Al Qaida in Iraq. But they never bother to ask, 'What was that US Soldier risking his life for?' They don't want us to be reminded. They want us to think US Soldiers are fools. "

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No Grand Schemes By Thomas Lifson

"President Bush is threatening to revive the failed comprehensive immigration bill in 'improved' form. He is wasting his and our time. No amount of improving can make the comprehensive approach the best path for America to solve its immigration woes. Instead of a big bang approach to immigration reform, we need to adopt a different sort of change strategy for America, a step-by-step, or iterative approach, learning as we go, passing reforms in a logical sequence, and learning from mistakes along the way.

Immigration affects every aspect of life, and the ramifications of even minor changes can take a long time to make themselves known. It is foolish in the extreme to believe that we can scope out the entire problem and choose the right course for years to come, all at once in a deal hammered out by horse-trading pols."

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Bipartisan Betrayal By Thomas Sowell

"With immigration, as with other issues, the most important decision is: Who is to make the decision?

It should be too obvious for words that decisions about who is to come into the United States and live among Americans should be made in the United States by Americans.
In reality, however, for years that decision has been made in Mexico by Mexicans and by others who chose to cross the border from Mexico into the United States with impunity, knowing that even if they were caught, they would at worst be turned back -- and could try again.

Many would not even have to face that. They would be released within the United States, with instructions to report back to the authorities for legal proceedings. "

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A Goddess for Victims by John J. Miller on National Review / Digital

"A dozen years ago, Lev Dobriansky and Lee Edwards met with National Park Service official John Parsons to learn what it takes to build a public memorial in Washington, D.C. Parsons gave them a document that outlined a 24-step program — a long march that included congressional permission, site selection, design approval, financial commitments, and actual construction. The ordeal required the involvement of three federal panels and a D.C. neighborhood board. As if the point weren’t obvious, Parsons gave his visitors a crystal-clear warning as they headed for the door: “This is going to take longer than you think.”

Today, Dobriansky and Edwards are about to complete the 24th step: At a dedication ceremony on June 12, the Victims of Communism Memorial finally will become a reality. It intends to honor the more than 100 million people who died in a terrible ideology’s revolutions, wars, and purges — and it immediately will earn a spot on the must-see list of any conservative tourist who comes to the nation’s capital. "

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Putin Tries to Pull the Missile Rug From Under the U.S. by Robert Maginnis

"Munich, Germany -- The Russian president’s slick used car deal for America’s missile defense in Europe reminds me of Ronald Reagan’s jab at President Carter, “There you go again.”

In 1980, then-presidential candidate Reagan was debating President Carter about Medicare. Quickly Reagan realized Carter really wanted socialized medicine and not the Medicare bill then being considered by Congress. Reagan smiled, looked at Carter and adlibbed that now famous phrase, “There you go again.”"

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MCCAIN: ENEMY OF THE POWS By: John LeBoutillier

"With the publication just two weeks ago of the New York Times bestseller - AN ENORMOUS CRIME; The Definitive Account of US POWs Abandoned in SE Asia - it is inevitable that the role in the POW issue of Senator - and former POW - John McCain now be examined.

Having known McCain since June 7, 1974, I have often written of his sarcastic, arrogant and condescending attitude toward those who disagree with him - on any issue. His temper is legendary - and we all just heard of his latest outburst directed at fellow GOP Senator John Cornyn of Texas over McCain’s immigration bill.

Everyone in the political world - both in DC and in Arizona - knows of this mean-spirited, cruel side of John McCain.

But on no issue has John McCain been meaner and more vicious than the question of the hundreds of US POWs who did not come home in 1973 when McCain came home."

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Hillary's Vision of America's Future By Henry Lamb

"In a recent speech, Hillary Clinton described the Bush administration as a 'government of the few, by the few, and for the few.' She's wrong; the Bush government is bigger than the Clinton government. Nevertheless, the government she described might be the government that Thomas Paine had in mind when he observed: 'That government is best which governs least.'

Hillary doesn't agree with Paine's observation. She says she prefers a 'we're all in it together' society where 'government can once again work for all Americans,' with 'opportunity for all and special privilege for none.' "

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From the King James Bible to Samuel Johnson (1600 - 1750) By Fred Hutchison

Historically, Europe enjoyed three periods of rapid cultural advance: 1) 1050–1250 A.D.; 2) 1375–1520; and 3) 1600–1750. During this seven-century developmental period, Western culture was vigorously advancing two-thirds of the time, and the culture was consolidating and preparing for the next advance one-third of the time.

This is the third installment of A Brief History of Conservatism, which tracks the third spike of European cultural development (1600–1750), which is commonly called the Baroque era.

In this essay, our story begins with the King James Bible in 1611 and ends in 1750 with the world of Samuel Johnson, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklin.

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Art and Degeneration By Thomas E. Brewton

Art historically expressed the highest aspirations of society. In the 20th century art reversed field.

Several months ago I had the pleasure of viewing an exhibition of three-dimensional photo collages by Renee Kahn, who has an unerring eye for the artistic aspects of reality. Her subject was "Urban Dreamscapes: Stamford as a Work of Art."

The occasion was a discussion panel (an artist, an art critic, a film historian-columnist) limning the 20th century setting of art and film as background for Renee's work.

I was forcibly struck by recurrent themes in their presentations, some intended, some paradoxical.

A dominant theme was art, including movies, as recorder of the degeneration of life quality in the great cities.

What came across, however, was the presenters' disdain for the source of order that historically had prevented that degeneration before the 20th century.

In the presentations there was more than a whiff of liberal-Progressive-socialist theory, which asserts that crime and other forms of aggression are caused by the existence of private property and by disparities between top and bottom rung incomes. Free-market capitalism, in the artists' view, is apparently the villain in degeneration of the great cities.

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Israel: It’s Payback Time Against Iran By Amil Imani

Once again, the unelected, illegitimate clown puppet of the thugs of the Iranian Islamic regime, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “The Monkey” to Iranians, has spewed some outrageous statements against the State of Israel. In a fiery speech delivered on Sunday, on the 18th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the godfather of today's Islamic terrorism, said that “Allah willing, in the future we will witness the destruction” of Israel.

No sooner did President Ahmadinejad emerge from obscurity and assume his new role as the head of the Executive Branch of the Islamic regime in Iran than he unleashed a torrent of venomous rhetoric against the United States and Israel. This is contrary to the sentiments of the majority of Iranians.

Ahmadinejad does not represent the Iranian people any more than his turbaned-colleagues presently ruling Iran do. What needs to be understood is that in fact Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs, above all else, are true Muslims and despise anything “Iranian” and its ancient “pre-Islamic” heritage.

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Terror Threat During Spring 2007 By Ryan Mauro

Eric Edelman, the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, has criticized the Pentagon report that attacked Doug Feith. Feith has published an extraordinary response to it on his own web site, www.dougfeith.com. Edelman claims that one of the vehicles Mohammed Atta used to travel to Prague was registered to an agent of the Abu Nidal Organization, who was being harbored and sponsored by Iraq. It was at this Prague meeting that some have alleged that Atta met with the Iraqi Counsel Al-Ani. The CIA no longer believes this meeting ever took place, but the Czechs who originally reported the meeting and subsequently deported al-Ani, still believe it occurred.

Edelman claims that in 1998, Osama bin Laden actually met with Abu Nidal (Nidal was in Iraq at that time, but Edelman does not say if the meeting occurred there). At the meeting, bin Laden agreed to finance the Abu Nidal Organization “in return for unspecified assistance to Al-Qaeda.” Edelman states that Abu Nidal’s group was likely a liaison with bin Laden, as the organization responded to Iraqi government directives.

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Republican Failure By John D. Turner

As the dust of the 2006 elections settles, the analysis begins. Both parties will sit down in formerly smoke-filled rooms to go over “lessons learned” and adjust strategy for their 2008 campaigns. It will be interesting to see exactly what they come up with. For the Republicans, will the lessons they take away from this debacle push them back to the conservative principles stated in their party platform, or will they decide that conservatism is dead and shift more to the left. For Democrats, will they understand why the electorate voted as they did, or will they see it as a big referendum for a broad-spectrum Liberal agenda.

Taking a look at the big picture, we see that the Democrats made big gains in the House, enough gains in the Senate to assume control there, and a gain of six Governorships, giving them the State House lead, 28-21, reversing Republican control there as well.

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Affairs of War: Part I: Is there a viable military strategy for disarming Iran? By Colonel Thomas Snodgrass (USAF retired)

In this part I, Colonel Snodgrass begins to apply his strategic critique of Limited War in an affirmative manner to address the problem of Iran. While it is meant as a starting place for a serious discussion, it is light years beyond anything available and will quickly become the text against which others will be judged.

Why are we at war?

To answer that question during World War II, the US Army Signal Corps produced a series of seven films under the supervision of Frank Capra (director of the post–war Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”) entitled “Why We Fight.” The film series explained with graphics and newsreel footage the issues, strategies, and consequences involved in our war to the death with the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. While the presentations in these films would be considered “dated” and “unsophisticated” by today’s standards, they were effective in their time to unite the American public behind the US war effort on the homefront as well as overseas.

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The Age of Cynicism By Rich Lowry

In five years, we built the Hoover Dam. From 1931 to 1936, the Colorado River was diverted with tunnels blasted into the Black Canyon walls, a town was built to house a small army of workers laboring in the desert, and 3 1/4 million cubic yards of concrete were poured into a dam reaching 726 1/2 feet high -- two years ahead of schedule.

It's hard to look back at this monumental effort without a feeling of envy. The dam was completed on the backs of desperate men during the Great Depression, but from this remove, it looks like an apotheosis of the can-do spirit. Who believes we could do something similar today, that political bickering, governmental bungling, Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, lawsuits and environmental objections wouldn't make such a project all but impossible?

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Putin's state of mind By Arnaud de Borchgrave

The reasons behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's increasingly hostile attitude toward the Bush administration are becoming clearer. To understand them in their proper context, imagine the United States and its allies had lost the Cold War. NATO has collapsed.
Next thing we know capitalism collapses, along with America's two political parties. In their place springs a one-party system, known as USA, which now stands for United Socialists of America.
As we lick our military, diplomatic and psychological wounds, Canada and Mexico follow our former European allies into the Warsaw Pact. France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain and the Benelux countries join COMECON, the Warsaw Pact equivalent of the now defunct European Economic Community. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) folds and is replaced by INTER-ARTA (Inter-American Regulated Trade Association). Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela become charter members.

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Grassroots Politics While Immigration Activists Regroup by Martha Zoller

On Thursday, the Senate “Immigration Reform” bill went on life support. The Senate voted 50-45 against limiting debate. That was the second vote that day to invoke cloture and go to an overall vote in the U.S. Senate on the bill. Sen. Harry Reid, (D.-N.V.), after the vote and the “shelving” of the bill blamed Republican opponents of the bill for its collapse, even though 11 Democrats voted against cloture. He went on to say, “There's lots of support for this bill on the outside," he said. "The problem is inside the Senate chamber."

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The Immigration Conflagration Is Not Yet Extinguished by Newt Gingrich

When Washington quit work last week, it looked as though the disastrous Bush-McCain-Kennedy immigration bill was dead.

As I write this, however, it is now clear that the Bush Administration is determined to force it through with raw power, despite the fact that a large and increasingly vocal majority of Americans oppose it.

Every recent survey has indicated that the American people think it is better to drop this bill and start over. But the power brokers and special interests in Washington feel otherwise.

The White House press statement Sunday trumpeted: "This Bill Is Alive and Well"


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Poll: Thompson Shakes Up GOP Race By ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fred Thompson's expected entry into the tight Republican presidential race is drawing crucial strength from conservatives and older men, vaulting him into the thick of the nomination fight, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll says.

The survey shows the top Democratic contender, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has twice the support from women as her nearest rival, Barack Obama, but dwindling strength among men. Her margin over the Illinois senator has eroded slightly since the last AP-Ipsos poll, in March.

Thompson, who has sandwiched an acting career around a largely anonymous eight years as Tennessee senator, has not formally entered the race. But he already has impressed many people. One in four of his supporters cites his strong character, more than any other GOP candidate.

''He can be kind of Reaganesque in his engaging with people,'' said Ronald Coppinger, 47, a carpenter from Indianapolis, describing a plainspoken style like the late President Reagan's. ''I think that's important.''

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Echoes of the Future By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Kyle Dabruzzi

THE FACE OF TERROR is constantly evolving as terrorist tactics, and even the foot soldiers trying to attack America, change. When authorities announced last weekend that they had foiled a plot designed to blow up New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, its fuel tanks, and a jet fuel artery, the conspiracy, on the surface, seemed like more of the same. Although perhaps a bit more ambitious than the usual scheme, the JFK plot was consistent with past attempts in its targeting of a major economic artery and effort to attain maximum symbolic value. But a look at the details contained in the 33-page criminal complaint suggests a change in the modes of operation of America's enemies.

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Blogs For Borders -- Emergency Amnesty Edition! 060907

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Born Too Soon :: Gates Of Vienna

All this time I thought I was an autocrat - or maybe an authoritarian fascist, according to various former relatives - and here it turns out I really am a conservative after all. Who’da thunk? Obviously not certain of my friends, who will never wring the truth out of me with their lily-white liberal hands.

Read Russell Kirk’s Ten Signs You Might Be a Conservative. Moses knew what he was doing: all good lists need ten items. Thus, Kirk’s decalogue.

I won’t quote all of them. Instead I chose my foremost principle from his list. Your own most singularly important directive may be different, but for me it is number Six:

conservatives are chastened by their principle of imperfectability

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Looking for the Moderate Muslim David Yerushalmi

Any serious student of Islam – of historical, traditional, and authoritative Islam – understands that Islam is as much a political ideology with hegemonic designs as it is a monotheistic religion. All major legal schools of Islam take the same view of the non-Muslim world: it must be converted through peaceful means, and if that is not possible, subdued through coercion, and if that is not successful, conquered militarily through war and the death (i.e., murder) of the infidels. Strategies and emphasis on active Jihad (i.e., offensive vs. defensive Jihad) differ, but the goal of all major Islamic sects -- of their legal rulings and of their faithful followers -- is quite focused and directed.

And, it is also true that Islam’s war against the Christian West, which began soon after Mohammed’s death by his successors, has continued unabated to this day although it remained dormant as long as Christian Europe was prepared to fight back and the ruling Caliphate was weak. Such was the case during the decline and ultimate breakup of the Ottoman Empire, but the political and theological teachings, exhortations, and jurisprudence demanding Jihad against the infidel nations of the West have remained a central aspect of Islam.

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Gonzales, Yes; Libby, No By Robert Novak

Just when it seemed George W. Bush's sinking prestige with his Republican base had bottomed out, his stock there hit new lows last week. The president's seeming indifference to the sentencing of Scooter Libby was bad enough. It coincided with Bush's apparent determination to retain his friend Alberto Gonzales as attorney general against congressional pressure to depose him.

Prevailing opinion of the Republican Party's officeholders, contributors and activists could not differ more from President Bush's posture. They regard Libby as a valuable public servant who faces serious prison time, thanks to prosecutorial abuse made possible by Bush administration decisions, with no imminent presidential pardon. They see Gonzales as an embarrassment to the party who presides over a hollow Justice Department, while presidential staffers search for Senate votes to block a no-confidence motion.
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Trilogy of Terror: al Qaeda, Jihad and Islam By Randy Taylor

remember as a child in school, the discussion of perpetual motion. For this editorial, I’ll stand by my belief that all motion has to have a starting point. True, it applies to objects but it also applies here as once this thing called Jihad was set into motion, it hasn’t stopped. It hasn’t even slowed down. Like unwanted weeds it is choking the lawn of freedom and democracy and squeezing the life out of what is good. But unlike weeds, this is going to be hard if not impossible to do away with.

Why? It’s because we refuse to identify the root cause of this Islamic terrorism problem.

In 2001 most Americans received their first real wake up call to the Jihad, were finally introduced in a most savage manner to al Qaeda and since have been repeatedly attacked by Islam. I mention all three because they are the Trilogy of Terror known as Islam, al Qaeda and the Jihad. One cannot survive without the other two. They are one.

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Federal authorities urged to shut down radical Islamic compounds

One of the United States' foremost critics of Islam believes federal officials should take action to shut down several radical Muslim paramilitary compounds that have sprung up around the country.

Several reports have been published about the suspicious activities in the village of Islamberg in upstate New York. It is reportedly one of about a dozen radical Muslim compounds that have sprung up all over the country. National defense analyst Bob Maginnis says its members are apparently involved in paramilitary activities.

"They are constantly firing. They don't allow outsiders in. They adhere strictly to Islamic law. They are mostly populated with former inmates who had become Islamic [while in prison]. And they carry weapons and they're constantly exploding things on the terrain," says Maginnis.

Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, believes Islamberg and the other compounds need to be shut down.

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The Inevitable Consequences Of Illegal Immigration By Ivy Scarborough

The negligence – even recklessness – in the discharge of their duties to the nation by the President and Congress in permitting illegal immigration to continue, and their support of legislation which would encourage illegal immigrants to stay in this country or prompt others to enter in defiance of our laws are disgraceful. Such strong language is warranted and more.

I am in a better position than most to judge the impact of illegal immigration. My background is in international studies and international law, which I taught for years at a local university. I have provided briefings for the military on the subjects of terrorism and Afghanistan. More importantly, I have spent a great deal of time in Muslim countries (6 so far) and was with the mujahadeen in Afghanistan in 1985 during the war with the Soviet Union. I gained insight from those experiences into what we might expect from radical Islam. As a result, in a commentary published in a Nashville newspaper in 1996, I predicted a catastrophic attack on the United States in the foreseeable future and added that the "earlier World Trade Center bombing would be a pinprick rehearsal for what would follow".

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The First Annual Open Borders Oscar Awards :: Michelle Malkin

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Cultural takeover By Diana West

As Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares to leave 10 Downing Street, "Mohammad" is the second most popular name in Britain.

As President Bush is finally deserted by his long-suffering conservative base, "Jose" is not the second-most popular name in the United States. But Spanish, as yet unofficially, is America's second language.

Such developments represent two obviously different phenomena — the impact of Muslims and Hispanics on societies once aptly summed up as English-speaking peoples. What is similar is the phenomena's transformative effect: Britain is increasingly defined by its accommodation of a tiny (3 percent) Islamic minority; the United States is increasingly defined by its accommodation of a large Hispanic minority (14.8 percent), some considerable number of whom are here illegally.

Is this a shocking turn of events? You bet. Of course, to anyone who remembers the "Behead Those Who Insult Islam" posters displayed in London last year, the Islamization of Britain may seem long obvious. But that doesn't mean it isn't startling to see, quantified, in a government tally of baby names, a reliable indicator of the increasingly Muslim future of Britain.

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Fool me thrice By Vox Day

I was not writing this column during the campaign prior to the 2000 election, but I did follow the battles for the Republican nomination with some interest. I found it hard to believe after eight years of the William Jefferson Clinton circus, the American people would wish for symbolic continuation of his presidency.

Unfortunately, the Republican candidates on offer were a lightweight collection of conservative no-hopers, moderate Republican establishment figures and one popular governor of a large Southern state. That governor, George W. Bush, understandably looked like the only reasonable choice, and if his conspicuously non-ideological language was suspiciously protean, it made it easy for Conservatives to see in him whatever they wanted to see. (I didn't buy it and did not vote for him. But I understand why many people did.)

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Bush disqualified from border debate

President Bush insists if we just shut up, blindly listen to him and support his so-called "comprehensive immigration reform plan," we can solve the problem "once and for all."

I have a better idea.

Since Bush has, for nearly seven years, deliberately, consciously and overtly refused to uphold his sworn constitutional duty to execute and administer the duly enacted border and immigration laws already on the books, he should be disqualified from participating in any further negotiations regarding new border and immigration laws.

Doesn't that make sense?

Why would we turn to a scofflaw president, one who, out of some misguided ideological conviction, habitually and repeatedly reneged on his oath of office, with regard to immigration issues, to solve a problem he himself exacerbated beyond anyone's ability to imagine or comprehend?

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Advice to my nephew on becoming a man By W. Thomas Smith, Jr

Watching you grow into a man has been nothing less than humbling: joyous in ways almost impossible to describe, yet somehow wishing you were still the little boy who once traipsed with me through the woods and was content to draw pictures or listen to my simple versions of stories about the great people of history.

You always listened eagerly, asked lots of questions, and took heed when I explained some of the things of this world you needed to be aware of: The things you should prepare for. The realities you might expect. And what it would take for you to succeed in whatever you chose to do.

Now that you have graduated from high school and are beginning college and Naval ROTC, I hope you will listen to me again in the same way you did as a boy.

The advice I am about to give you is the same as I’ve always given in the sense that it is freely given from an uncle and a godfather who truly loves you like a son. But it is different in that it is specifically meant for you at 18, and about to take your rightful place in the world … and in the company of men.

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