Switzerland, next target? By Olivier Guitta

I just wrote an article for The Weekly Standard on Switzerland and Radical Islam. To read it in full, please click here.
Here is an excerpt:
As jihadist plots continue to be uncovered from Glasgow to New Jersey, it is plain that no place can be considered entirely safe. That includes placid, would-be neutral Switzerland, where a series of incidents and controversies in recent months points to a small but untiring Saudi-sponsored Islamist presence--and to a growing determination to resist its excesses on the part of some Swiss citizens and the Swiss authorities.

Switzerland has more than 300,000 Muslims--some 4.3 percent of the population--few of whom are of Arab descent. Most came as migrants or refugees from the former Yugoslavia (57 percent) or Turkey (20 percent). Yet the small minority who are Arabs (5 percent) have made their mark.

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NBC Promotes Toxic Chinese Light Bulbs Cliff Kincaid, Andy Selepak

The Alliance for Climate Protection, which is part of Al Gore’s Live Earth campaign, tells people that by using compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, they can save energy, save money and live longer. But they fail to mention that the bulbs are made in communist China and are potentially hazardous to human health.

Proceeds from this weekend’s Live Earth concerts will go to the Alliance for Climate Protection, chaired by Gore.

GE-owned networks, MSNBC-TV, CNBC and NBC, are extensively covering the concerts. But GE is under fire by its own workers for promoting the CFL bulbs while making them in China. The website www.screwthatbulb.org tells the story of how GE is plugging into the green bulb movement while moving American jobs overseas.

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AP/L.A.Times Don't Mention Thompson Abortion Lobbying Claims Made by Hillary Supporters By Warner Todd Huston

The AP, taking their cue from the new because-she-said-so story offered by the L.A.Times, has run with a short clip on a story that claims Fred Thompson was working as a lobbyist for an abortion agency in 1991, giving the hearsay evidence against him but not offering the meat of his against the claim. The result is that the AP offers more “evidence” against Thompson than it does ‘for’ him making it too easy to conclude he is “guilty” of the charge of lobbying for an abortion advocacy organization.

The AP did a wonderful job making this story seem more cut and dried than it really is, of course, but the fact is, this claim of Thompson’s supposed lobbying for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association is nothing but an unproven (and maybe unprovable) claim against Thompson made by people who are well-known, far left activists and heavy contributors to the Hillary Clinton for President campaign. Naturally, neither the AP nor the L.A.Times wastes any time to detail the history of those making these claims against Thompson, leaving their relevant backgrounds completely out of the story.

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Exploring Islam's 'Death Cult' By Michael Hirsh

It is the question at the back of many people's minds as they absorb the frightening details of the terror plot in Britain. Yes, we understand that many Muslims are angry—about the Iraq War, about Israeli policy toward the Palestinians and the usual list of grievances. But there are many people, in many different societies and cultures, who are angry about many things. Would any other culture or religion produce a group of doctors and professionals who apparently deemed it morally correct to kill innocent people in large numbers? Has something gone wrong with Islam itself, or at least the culture it has produced?

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We are on a collective Animal Farm By Victor Davis Hanson

In the last two months, lunatic Islamic radicals have failed at weird mass murder plots at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and JFK Airport in New York. And now in Great Britain, more incompetent jihadists were foiled again — thanks to their inability to ignite flammable gas canisters.

Spanish tourists about the same time were butchered in Yemen by a suicide bomber. And, of course, al Qaeda and the Taliban daily try to kill as many Westerners as they can in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I’m sure next week there will be more stories of some poor Westerner or Middle East reformer butchered somewhere by some suicide bomber yelling in extremis “Allah Akbar.” That will be followed almost immediately by a warning from a Western minister not to assume such killing is in anyway connected to Islam.

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Hillary Attacks Bush Clemency For Libby by Fulton Lewis

Hillary Clinton was out campaigning in Iowa this week and for the first time she brought her husband Bill along. She wasted no time in lashing out at President Bush’s decision to commute the sentence of “Scooter” Libby saying: “Today’s decision is yet another example that this Administration simply considers itself above the law. …This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.” Standing behind her, Bill clapped along with the audience, but without too much enthusiasm.

Surely, the former President realized that some journalist like me would dig back into the record of pardons and clemency granted when he was in the White House. It was so rampant and so corrupt that, at one point, it was labeled “Pardongate,” and was the subject of an investigation by Federal prosecutors.

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Al Qaeda's No. 2 says end of West imminent

In a newly released videotaped message similar to a "fireside chat," al Qaeda's second-in-command issues advice and directives for the Muslim world, terrorism expert Laura Mansfield said Wednesday.

Alman al-Zawahiri urges Muslims around the world to continue their fight against the West.

In the one-hour, 34-minute video, titled "The Advice of One Concerned," Ayman al-Zawahiri includes clips from other videos and news broadcasts, including one from al-Furqan, the video production arm of the Islamic State of Iraq, according to Mansfield, who obtained the video.

Al-Zawahiri says in the message that the defeat of the West is imminent, and that "the enemy" is trying to forestall the inevitable, Mansfield said.

"The good omens of the new dawn of victory have begun to loom on the horizon, with Allah's permission and will," he says.

"And the stage preceding victory is normally, in the history of nations, the stage in which there is most seen an increase in conspiracies, plots and inciting of discord in an attempt by the enemy, who has begun to see his defeat approach, to push back and delay the defeat as much as he can."

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Making Jihad Go Away::By Diana West

"Q: Who is winning the really important war of ideas -- the one between the West and itself?

A: Not the side that understands jihad as a foundational Islamic institution."

This is nothing new. From 9/11 forward, the yeoman effort of elites has been to wrench "Islam" away from all acts of jihad. But now, particularly after the London and Glasgow attacks, their efforts have achieved a deeper level of denial and worse, broader consensus.

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Why Do The Iraqis Hate the Terrorists? By Michael Ledeen

At first, he said, they would only target Shia, but over time the new al Qaeda directed attacks against Sunni, and then anyone who thought differently. The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11 years old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man’s words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, “What did he say?” Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family.

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Canadian Climatologist Says Sun Causing Global Warming By Dennis Avery

Another scientist has added his voice to the Global Warming debate. Canadian climatologist Tim Patterson says the sun drives the earth's climate changes - and Earth's current global warming is a direct result of a long, moderate 1,500-year cycle in the sun's irradiance.
Patterson says he learned of the 1,500-year climate cycle while studying cycles in fish numbers on Canada’s West Coast. Since the Canadian West had no long-term written fishery records, Patterson’s research team drilled sediment cores in the deep local fjords to get 5,000-year climate profiles from the mud. The mud showed the past climate conditions: Warm summers left layers thick with one-celled fossils and fish scales. Cold, wet periods showed dark sediments, mostly dirt washed from the surrounding land.
Patterson’s fishing profiles clearly revealed the sun’s 87 and 210-year solar cycles—and the longer, 1500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles found since the 1980s in ice cores, tree rings, and fossil pollen.

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Bush officials don the hijab by Bryan :: Hot Air

We’ve arrived at yet another teachable moment in the war. The West has been distracted for years by the leftwing shibboleth that poverty and adverse conditions, as opposed to a religion and an ideology, are at the roots of terrorism. Those doctors who plotted to blow up London and the Glasgow airport provide powerful evidence to the contrary: It’s not the poverty, stupid. A savvy administration that actually knows how to lead could have used this moment to remind us all that it’s the ideology that drives the enemy in this war, and that the doctors are just the latest in a long string of evidence to that effect. Starting with millionaire Osama bin Laden and working through Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri to several of the 9-11 hijackers and on to these doctors, an awful lot of terrorists come from middle class or better backgrounds, and are professionals. They’re not poor in anything but their humanity. But what did the Bush administration do instead? Agh. It dispatched several of its top lights off to the nearest mosque. I realize, not in direct response to anything in particular, but it just doesn’t look good. And after seeing this, I need a vacation.

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Fireworks Or Fortitude By Steve Schippert

In a village on the outskirts of Baqubah, the animals of al-Qaeda destroyed everything in sight and slaughtered that which possessed life, including the people and even the livestock. As Michael Yon describes in Bless the Beasts and Children, “The village had the apparent misfortune of being located near a main road—about 3.5 miles from FOB Warhorse—that al Qaeda liked to bomb. Al Qaeda had taken over the village.” They did not just kill the villagers, they mutilated them and beheaded the children in a horror that stretched over time. The bodies were at various stages of decomposition and decay.

This is our enemy. He is in Iraq, his self declared ‘central front’ against America and the “Jews and Crusaders” named in al-Qaeda’s 1998 declaration of war. He is in Pakistan. He is in Afghanistan. He is in Iran and Lebanon. He is in Indonesia and the Philippines. He is in Somalia, Algeria, Mali and Sudan. And he is in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Canada and the United States. He is wherever concealment or hospitality provides.

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Jihad Denial By Bruce Thornton

The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman is right on the mark most of the time in his analysis of the dysfunctions troubling the Muslim world and of our own failures in confronting them. Particularly important is his frequent criticism of our feckless disregard of our dependence on fossil fuels. As Friedman argues, we should all be doing more about the fact that our oil consumption subsidizes the terrorists who want to blow us up.

But even Friedman has a blind spot that compromises his otherwise sensible analyses.

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Blacks Join the Immigration Reform Fray—At Last! By Joe Guzzardi

I’d like to thank President George W. Bush and Senator Edward M. Kennedy. And while I’m at it, I’ll thank Senators Arlen Specter, Lindsey Graham, John Kyl and the rest of the dunces who drafted or supported S. 1639.

Because of their insistence, in the face of all logic, that the proposed amnesty immigration acceleration legislation was good for America blacks—long-time fence-sitters regarding illegal immigration—have joined the fray. We welcome them as allies to our cause.

Black conservative talk show hosts have hammered away at illegal immigration for sometime with modest success. They are aware of the danger posed to blacks by the illegal alien invasion.

Several years ago, I had lunch with Tony Brown, the host of Tony Brown’s Journal. Brown told me that unless something was done to end illegal immigration, black Americans would be “finished.”

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What We Face By James Simpson

It is time to recognize exactly what we are up against and the concerted effort that will be required to save our country from the rampaging Left. The failed immigration bill was but one issue. There will be many, many more of equal or greater importance before the elections of 2008.

Democrats play a tough game. This has always been true, but the immigration bill is perhaps one of the most poignant examples. Democrats could care less what floods of illegal immigrants do to undermine our legal system, overwhelm welfare and medical services, fracture society and destroy our culture. The best of them recognize most of these illegals represent potential new Democrat voters.

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Is Hillary an Un-indicted Felon? Videotape Screams, 'YES' By Ben Barrack

Is there something more than arrogance that would cause someone to commit a serious crime and not only expect to get away with it but to successfully insist upon it; something more pragmatically important? You’d be talking impunity if not immunity and if you listen to Peter Franklin Paul, that’s exactly how Hillary Rodham Clinton has conducted herself. Before you label him a partisan hack or someone with an axe to grind, consider the signs. Oh, and take a look at the videotape of Hillary committing “several felonies under Federal election law for which she will almost certainly never be prosecuted”, according to long time U.S. Supreme Court Attorney, John Armor. However, being convicted in the court of public opinion could be another story if...

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The Value of Anger Paul A. By Ibbetson

We have always been taught that anger is a bad thing that should be hidden, suppressed, bottled up, and generally denied expression by any means necessary. To mention the possibility that there may be a time and place where anger may be of value, if not of necessity, is to place oneself in direct jeopardy of being labeled a “hate monger” or something worse.

However, I believe there is a very distinct delineation of the displays of anger that may change the minds of some on this contentious emotion, and none too soon. If we look carefully, we can see there are three forms of anger: directionless anger, negative anger, and righteous anger. Bear with me.

First, we observe directionless anger which has been the hallmark of liberals and is aptly displayed in the “Anybody but Bush” emotional tantrums which offer no new ideas, or courses of action, but simply a display of anger for anger’s sake.

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The "No Fairness Left" Doctrine By Don Feder

Could the Left be any clearer about its intensions? Why don't liberals just put on brown shirts and arm bands and march around bonfires, consigning radios to the flames, to the rousing strains of "Hillary Uber Alles"?

Since the Left can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, it wants to shut it down.

The aborted push to revive the misnamed Fairness Doctrine, and apply it to talk radio, is but the latest example of liberalism's drive to gag the opposition.

Late last week, the House of Representatives -- Nancy Pelosi's House -- voted 309-115 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from using federal funds to impose the Fairness Doctrine on stations that carry Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, et. al.

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Al-Arian’s Wife and Her Troubling Connections By Joe Kaufman

In the middle of this month, a trial is scheduled to begin, linking a number of groups and individuals to the financing of terrorism abroad. At the same time, a woman, also related to overseas terror financing, is planning on leaving the country for Egypt. Whether that’s coincidence or not should be determined by law enforcement. However, this woman’s involvement in a terror front is undeniable. The following will lay the groundwork for why this woman, Sami Al-Arian’s wife, Nahla Al-Arian, should be held back from going anywhere.

In 1979, Sami Al-Arian found himself in Cairo, Egypt. He had just earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical Sciences and Systems Engineering at Southern Illinois University, and he would soon head back to America to complete a graduate program in computer engineering at N.C. State. But before ending his short stay in the Motherland, Al-Arian would witness two major events in his life, his marriage and the founding of one of the worst terrorist organizations known to man, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

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Gates of Vienna: The Revised Text of Bat Ye’or’s Speech in Toronto

"A week ago Bat Ye’or gave a speech at a conference in Toronto. Thanks to the Flygirls, who videotaped and transcribed the speech, we were able to post a transcript the following day.

Transcribing from a tape is a difficult job at best. Depending on the quality of the audio, it can be all but impossible to make an accurate transcription of every word.

Fortunately for all of us, Ms. Ye’or has gone through the transcript to revise and correct any mistakes, and has kindly made the results available for Gates of Vienna readers."

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Call it like it is By Diana West

"Q: Who is winning the really important war of ideas — the one between the West and itself? A: Not the side that understands jihad as a foundational Islamic institution.

This is nothing new. From September 11 onward, the yeoman effort of elites has been to wrench 'Islam' away from all acts of jihad. But now, particularly after the London and Glasgow attacks, their efforts have achieved a deeper level of denial, and, worse, broader consensus.

The new British prime minister, Gordon Brown, has directed ministers to omit 'Muslim' when discussing (Muslim) terrorism. And forget the generic 'war on terror'; even that pathetic phrase is off limits. (This has absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Brown's unctuously stated goal to make Britain 'the gateway for Islamic finance.') The new Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith (love that 'i' ending) refers to British Muslims as 'communities' — maybe a prelude to not mentioning them at all. Both have done the 'perversion of a great faith' dance to enlightened applause, taking cues from the unpublished 'EU Lexicon,' which reportedly nixes such 'offensive' phrases as 'Islamic terrorism.'"

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Confessions of a Closet Republican: Rage Boy vs Paul Potts or the difference between the East and West

"Kathleen Parker wrote a great commentary about the 2 latest Internet phenomenons- Paul Potts and 'Rage Boy, or as she pegs them: 'Beauty and the Beast'. The Kashmiri rent-a-protester (better known as 'Rage Boy') who has been photographed at every protest photo-op in the area, from the Danish Cartoon protests to the recent brouhaha re. Salman Rushdie, was popularized by Christopher Hitchens and snappedshot.com. The latter website has an hilarious series of photos of 'Rage Boy', in various locales, all with the same gaping fish mouth look.

On the other hand, an unassuming, nebbish salesman, Paul Potts,' took the world by storm when he won 'Britain's Got Talent' with his surprisingly lovely operatic voice. Parker likens the two in as much as they are both '...mostly recognizable by their mouths --' but adds that they: "

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Dr. David Gratzer, Canadian Physician: Michael Moore is a Marxist Sicko « Flaggman’s Canada

"Winnipeg-born-and-raised David Gratzer, a 30-something physician licensed to practice in both Canada and the US, has become America’s most trusted voice in the conservative fight against socialized medicine. With Michael Moore’s latest fraudumentary “Sicko” opening in theatres, and with all Democratic 2008 presidential candidates promising universal health care in some form, this is sure to become the hot-button issue of the next few months.
Gratzer was commissioned to counter Michael Moore by the Wall Street Journal on the opening day of Moore’s film. Read it here,"

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The Democratic Party's Stealth War On Black Americans::By John Hawkins

"If you look back through American history and find a black American being enslaved, lynched, railroaded, or persecuted, 99 times out of a hundred, you'll find a Democrat behind it. The hated and feared KKK? Throughout most of its history, it was little more than a hooded, thuggish arm of the Democratic Party.

But in the 1960s, when the Democrats’ overt racism became untenable, they switched to a strategy they've used all the way until the present day. Instead of persecuting black Americans because they thought they were inferior, they decided to 'help' black Americans because they thought they were inferior. Unfortunately for black Americans, the 'help' they get from the Democratic Party is almost always perversely damaging. "

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Al Gore's Live Earth: Has Global Warming Hysteria 'Jumped the Shark' By John Berlau

"This weekend, rock stars will jet around the world, cars and buses will clog traffic, and elaborate sound stages will be set up to burn massive amounts of fuel to send the message to fans at home that they had better conserve their energy or face the allegedly dire threat of global warming.

The Live Earth concerts, which start this Saturday, July 7, are also one last chance for Baby Boomers to relive the 'flower power' activism of the '60s. In a recent interview in Rolling Stone, former Vice President Al Gore invoked music icon Bob Dylan to promote the importance of these concerts. Citing Dylan's '60 anthem 'The Times They Are A-Changin''. Gore rambled: 'What's the old Bob Dylan line? 'Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call/Rattle your windows' - what's the rest of it? - 'for the times they are a-changin'.'"

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Pelosi, Reid Bank on America's Sitcom Attention Span by Frank Salvato

"It’s becoming quite the gamble. Once again, Democrats in Congress – led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – are betting that the Sitcom Attention Span (SAS) of the American people will save their hides, this time from their dismal performance during the first six-month in control of the House and Senate. But as the old adage goes, fool me once, shame on you. . .

The list of accomplishments the Democrats have racked has been anything but what they promised during the 2006 election. They failed to end the Iraq War. They failed to reform the earmark process. Instead of “draining the swamp of corruption” they seem to have taken to bathing in it. They failed to produce meaningful immigration reform. They failed in securing the nation’s borders in a post-9/11 world. Oh wait, these aren’t accomplishments, are they?"

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Muzzling Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer

"I began getting the emails several days ago: Jihad Watch readers telling me that they had been accustomed to reading the site at work, but now their employer had blocked access to the Jihad Watch site on company computers. Many reported that the ban on Jihad Watch was explained with the assertion that Jihad Watch contained “hate speech.” This was true even in Federal Government offices. And it wasn’t only the Feds. Jihad Watch was blocked, readers informed me, on the computers of the State of Connecticut; the City of Chicago; Bank of America; Fidelity Investments; Site Coach; GE IT; JPMorgan Chase; Defense Finance and Accounting Services; Johnson Controls, Inc. IT; Boeing; Tenet Hospitals in North Carolina; Provisio; the Sabre Group TSG; Wachovia bank; and others: several people have written in to tell me that as of this week they can no longer access Jihad Watch at work, but haven’t told me where they work. "

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The Cost of Failure By Cal Thomas

"If you believe the Bush presidency is a failure, what then? Do you delight in whacking him like a piñata for the next 18 months with your only objective a Democratic blowout victory in the 2008 election? If that is your strategy, do you ask yourself what kind of country a Democratic president will inherit and whether he (or she) will have the ability to quickly turn things around after months of pummeling a weakened president?

Or, if you are a Democrat, do you - could you - rise above the partisanship and gain enormous amounts of goodwill and even greater political capital by putting the country's health ahead of your political agenda? Suppose this 18-month period of weakness emboldens our enemies and leads to another terrorist attack. Surely even the most partisan among us would not rejoice over that."

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Pussyfooting Around The Terrorists :: IBD

"Failure to recognize the nature of the war we're in and who the enemy is seems to be a theme of the government of newly instated British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In words reminiscent of Bill Clinton's treatment of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, 10 Downing Street seems to think the latest terrorist plot is strictly a law enforcement matter.

As the London Daily Express reports, Brown has instructed his ministers, including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, to avoid using the word 'Muslims' in connection with the current crisis. And indeed, in a BBC-TV interview last Sunday Brown did not refer to Muslims or Islam once — not even to say, as is often said here in the U.S., that a great religion of peace had been hijacked once again. "

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Bush Got It Right... Unlike Mr. Clinton By Jack Kelly

"'Scooter' Libby will serve as much time in prison for lying under oath to a federal grand jury as Bill Clinton served for lying under oath to a federal grand jury.

Mr. Libby, who was chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted in March of lying about from whom he learned that Valerie Plame Wilson worked at the CIA. Last month Judge Reggie Walton sentenced him to 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine.

On Monday, President Bush commuted the prison sentence. His conviction still stands, and Mr. Libby still must pay the fine."

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Iran's Proxy War BY JOSEPH LIEBERMAN

Earlier this week, the U.S. military made public new and disturbing information about the proxy war that Iran is waging against American soldiers and our allies in Iraq.

According to Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, the Iranian government has been using the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah to train and organize Iraqi extremists, who are responsible in turn for the murder of American service members.

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'The War is Here - Are You Ready?' By Mark R. And Renee E. Taylor

In a style reminiscent of the vehicle born incendiary explosive devices (VBIED) used in Iraq and by terrorists worldwide, two Mercedes were found in London this weekend packed with gasoline, gas canisters and nails. The bombs were to be exploded using cell phones as remote detonators, another favorite tactic of those terrorists who do not wish to die themselves. Had the plan been successful, potentially hundreds of innocent civilians would have been brutally murdered either by the explosions or by the deadly projectiles that the nails would have become. London was saved by alert citizens who noticed something was amiss and took swift action.

The United States, because of lax border security and an inability to enforce its own immigration laws, will be next. Over the past few months, our news has been consumed with debate on an amnesty bill that would give legal status to millions of illegal aliens who have crossed the US/Mexico border. A red-faced, shrill Ted Kennedy would have us believe that these illegals are all here to pick lettuce. President Bush, who was adamant after September 11, 2001, that he would do all he could do to keep Americans safe, attempted to feed the American public the same false bill of goods. With the focus on the senorita cleaning motel rooms or the senor waiting outside Home Depot for a day labor job, Washington has forgotten that we are at war. We are at war with a sly, evasive enemy who preys on our unwillingness to secure our homeland. It should come as no surprise that the enemy is among us, waiting to strike. You have been warned.

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Illegal Immigrant Rapes 15 Year Old Girl — Hours After Being Released From Jail by: Michael Illions

This story begs so many questions.  Number 1 - Why wasn’t he DEPORTED instead of being let back on the street, he’s ILLEGAL. Number 2 - Don’t you wonder what job he had that an American won’t do:

COLUMBIA, Tenn. - Maury County deputies and federal agents are looking for a man who is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl only hours after being released from jail.

Juan Villa, 24, has been in the Maury County Jail 11 times since 2001 on charges of assault, public intoxication, driving without a license and contempt of court.

He was released from jail on $1,000 bail on Friday at about 9:45 p.m. and is suspected of raping the 15-year-old shortly after midnight. During the investigation, a 13-year-old girl also told deputies she was raped by Villa, Sheriff Enoch George said.

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Tanveer Ahmed: Islam must face its uncomfortable truths

THE latest attack in Britain shows how the Islamist threat is being driven by something much grander than mere foreign policy or feelings of grievance. The perpetrators believe they are soldiers in the perceived historical battle between good and evil.

The methods of attack are becoming more brazen, amateurish and desperate, illustrated most profoundly by the burning terrorist at Glasgow airport shouting "Allah" while struggling with a policeman, but the ideological roots are unchanged.

As a commentator on Muslim affairs and home-grown terrorism, I am often asked whether there is something in Islam itself that is contributing to terrorist acts. As someone who is not a theological expert, I shy away from strong pronouncements on the issue, preferring to discuss the sociological roots of alienation and the modern symbol of protest that Islam has become.

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For Liberals, It’s Divide and Lump and Send National Security To The Dump By Gabriel Garnica

Few bothering to read this piece will be shocked by the notion that liberals see our national security as some asinine word game wherein one lumps or distinguishes groups of people as needed and always oblivious to the truth. If you think about it, both strategies serve to diffuse and obscure real threats to America’s future while furthering the liberal agenda. Two prime examples of this tactic are found with respect to terrorism and illegal immigration.

Divide and Deceive

Every time we turn around another liberal media source or biased politician informs us that this or that group was responsible for this or that massacre, atrocity or bombing. We are bombarded with so many terrorist organizations that sometimes I feel as though I am reading a menu at a UN restaurant serving a million dishes from twice that many places. Now, one may wonder what is the purpose of this hyper-detail on the part of our beloved liberal media and their darling liberal politician heroes and, as so often happens, one need not wonder for very long.

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The Dangers of the Liberal-Islamist Connection (Conclusion of Four Part Series) By David J. Jonsson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In considering relations with Turkey, the West must remember that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend and ally. In a departure from its traditional foreign policy, which has gone largely unnoticed, Turkey is now becoming an important player in the Middle East. See: Turkey Rediscovers the Middle East, Foreign Affairs July/August 2007 and The city where Turkey’s republic lost its way, Financial Times June 26, 2007

Turkey’s growing concern over Kurdish nationalism has brought Ankara closer to the governments of Iran and Syria, which also contend with restive Kurds at home. The shift is also accompanied by the gradual Islamization of the country led by the ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (known as the AKP), headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has managed to tap into rising popular nationalism by fusing it with Islam.

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The Quranic Concept of War By Lt.-Colonel Joseph C. Myers

“The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military... The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.”
— Majid Khadduri2

Political and military leaders are notoriously averse to theory, but if there is a theorist about war who matters, it remains Carl von Clausewitz, whose Vom Kriege (On War) has shaped Western views about war since the middle of the nineteenth century.”3 Both points are likely true and problematic since we find ourselves engaged in war with people not solely imbued with western ideas and values or followers of western military theorists. The Hoover Institution’s Paul Sperry recently stated, “Four years into the war on terror, US intelligence officials tell me there are no baseline studies of the Muslim prophet Muhammad or his ideological or military doctrine found at either the CIA or Defense Intelligence Agency, or even the war colleges.”4

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World Hunger Is Political Rather Than Economic By Bhuwan Thapaliya

An American biologist named Paul Ehrlich had predicted in 1969: “The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.” That never happened, but what he wrote and predicted resembled Thomas Malthus’s prediction.

An early 19th century English economist named Thomas Malthus predicted that people would multiply beyond their capacity to feed themselves. Both of these predictions have repeatedly proved wrong. The world’s population grew much as Malthus expected, but food output more than kept pace. So what actually lead to the food output?

By one estimate, though dubious, the credit goes to the green revolution. According to some experts, as reported by the Economist, Green revolution swept the developing world during the 1960s and 1970s and it saved a billion people from starvation. But that is in itself a paradox given the deteriorating post green revolution agricultural production and its dire effect on the environment.

But according to some researchers, Green Revolution cannot be completely ignored because of the Green Revolution, millions of farmers started using higher yielding hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and weed-killers. The results were breathtaking and it shocked even Paul Ehrlich and his followers, according to the reports.

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Will Get Fooled Again :: IBD

Will Al Gore's "Live Earth" concerts to remind us of the global warming bogeyman be acoustic affairs played without lights and amplification? No? Then why not call them the Live Hypocrisy concerts?

As many as 2 billion of us are expected to watch more than 150 pop and rock acts Saturday at various locations across the world. Gore sees the extravaganza as the "beginning of a three-year campaign worldwide to deliver information about how we solve the climate crisis."

But there's no crisis here except for a crisis of credibility — and not just that of Gore, whose credibility has been in question for decades. The credibility that's on the line is that of the global warming movement, which is already questionable. The event's organizers, promoters, celebrities and participants are engaging in one of most monumental acts of hypocrisy in memory.

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The Redcoats Are Already Here By Lee Duigon

Just in time for the 233rd anniversary of our nation's independence, we have come to understand that many of our leaders want to take away our freedom.

In response to abuses far less ambitious than those leveled at us today, our forefathers declared their independence from Great Britain and fought a war to make it stick. But it took some time, as it has taken us some time, for the colonists to realize that King George III and Parliament were out to get them.

Last week's "comprehensive immigration reform" fiasco was our wakeup call. Let no one make the mistake of thinking that this bill was the only dagger pointed at our nation's throat, and its sponsors in the White House and the Senate the only assassins.

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MUSLIM DOCTORS: HOW MANY PATIENTS MURDERED? By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Did the Brit doctors planning blowing up the innocents heretofore murder innocent patients under their care in the hospital?

That very well could be.

After all, when a mind is so convinced of a cultic tenet as to murder, that murder may take place once or repeatedly.

The doctors planning the carnage missed may have had rehearsals in the hospital in which they succeeded in putting to death those who otherwise might be alive right now.

After all, this is an imperfect world and those overseeing the work of those doctors just may have missed something crucial in daily proceedings. Anything is possible.

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LEFT WANTS TO SHUT DOWN MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS By Don Feder

Could the left be any clearer about its intensions? Why don't liberals just put on brown shirts and arm bands and march around bonfires, consigning radios to the flames, to the rousing strains of "Hillary Uber Alles"?

Since the left can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, it wants to shut it down.

The aborted push to revive the misnamed Fairness Doctrine, and apply it to talk radio, is but the latest example of liberalism's drive to gag the opposition.

Late last week, the House of Representatives -- Nancy Pelosi's House -- voted 309-115 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from using federal funds to impose the Fairness Doctrine


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Maggie's Notebook: How Democracies Respond to International Terrorism

"This speech given by a Democrat Senator in 1979 could be considered 'fresh material' for America today. While the Soviet Union is a focus, Senator Jackson also addresses Islamic terrorism around the world. Of particular interest to me is his comment about the United Nations.

Wishing everyone a blessed Independence Day, lots of hot dogs and burgers, and some time set aside to reflect on America's abundant blessings and our Military's commitment to protecting our right to live freely every minute of each and every day.

It's a holiday - many will not have time for reading, so I have highlighted in red the spirit and focus of Jackson's insightful words."

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The Lighthouse: The Marxist Revival (1): the Lie at the Bottom

"While to some Libertarians politics at times may seem an exciting game for adults, to the Collective Left the Cause of the Oppressed is never a relative matter: to them it's a deadly serious affair, quite literately so.

Since Communism failed, the words are heard no more. Only rarely apologetics abound, as are belated memorials to the approximate 110 million victims, whereas trivialization is never far off. Occasionally common roots are laid bare.

De-Marxification isn't common practice in the sense that de-Nazification and de-Baathification were; there is an euphemistic term: 'lustrations', taunted by crypto adherents and hapless MSM as 'pogroms' or 'witch hunts' in a way that prosecution of Nazis and the Pinochets of this world, would be unthinkable. Clearly a case of double standard, but then who would be mad enough to speak up for the Collective Socialist Right? It doesn't earn points with the usefuls like the defense of the Leftist variety."

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The Revolt on Illegal Immigration By Victor Davis Hanson

After the utter collapse in the Senate last week of a comprehensive immigration bill, Washington insiders are blaming everyone and everything.

Supposedly, talk-radio hysteria killed the bill. Or was it the purported racism of yokels? Or did most of us fail to appreciate the hidden benefits of open borders so clear only to those in Washington?

In reality, the 1,000-page bill failed because millions of Americans opposed it, believing, among other things, that it provided virtual amnesty to illegal aliens. Through the "Z visa," the bill offered illegal aliens legal worker status - along with a ticket to eventual citizenship - after only a precursory background check.

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Who Believes Michael Chertoff? :: Hot Air

Michelle takes on the Homeland Security chief who smeared conservatives and now isn’t asking for the $4.4 billion “emergency” spending to secure the border.

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Clinton and Race By STAR PARKER

Senator Clinton scored big with the Howard University audience at a PBS hosted presidential debate on Sunday when she suggested that racism is at play in the preponderance of HIV/AIDS in the black community.

In response to a question from National Public Radio's Michelle Martin about how "to stop" the spread of HIV/AIDS among black teenagers, Senator Clinton led off with, "If HIV/AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country."

The spontaneous outburst of applause the senator got may have given her and her campaign staff warm fuzzies that she told the mostly black audience what they wanted to hear.

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A Remembrance Of Pardons Past :: IBD

Those who criticize President Bush's decision to commute Scooter Libby's 30-month prison sentence should remember: The punishment should fit the crime. And in this case, there wasn't one.

Yet, that hasn't stopped Bush's foes from going into high dudgeon about Bush letting Libby avoid jail.

The New York Times editorialized that Bush, rather than showing basic decency, "sounded like a man worried about what a former loyalist might say when actually staring into a prison cell."

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For Liberals, It’s Divide and Lump By Gabriel Garnica

Few bothering to read this piece will be shocked by the notion that liberals see our national security as some asinine word game wherein one lumps or distinguishes groups of people as needed and always oblivious to the truth. If you think about it, both strategies serve to diffuse and obscure real threats to America’s future while furthering the liberal agenda. Two prime examples of this tactic are found with respect to terrorism and illegal immigration.

Divide and Deceive

Every time we turn around another liberal media source or biased politician informs us that this or that group was responsible for this or that massacre, atrocity or bombing. We are bombarded with so many terrorist organizations that sometimes I feel as though I am reading a menu at a UN restaurant serving a million dishes from twice that many places. Now, one may wonder what is the purpose of this hyper-detail on the part of our beloved liberal media and their darling liberal politician heroes and, as so often happens, one need not wonder for very long.


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Hating Humanity by Joe O'Connell

Several months ago, after I published my four part article series on global warming, I recall regretting certain parts that I edited out due to normal editing procedures. Most regretfully, I edited out two predictions I made that are already being fulfilled by the environmental alarmists.

I made a statement that if Greenpeace and their ilk win the battle between their tyranny and our freedom that they would not be satisfied with ending coal fired plants and vehicle emissions. That as time progressed they would take up arms against mankind for harvesting solar energy and that they would rail against wind-farms for threatening to devastatingly alter the wind patterns of the planet.

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Medicine At Gunpoint: The Sicko Crowd's Deadly Rx For America By Peter Barry Chowka

The disparate forces that have come together to make, promote, and use Michael Moore's film Sicko share an old and bankrupt collectivist agenda. But all of a sudden in 2007, their blueprint is hotter than ever and is being hyped as the final solution to the widely reported problems with American medicine.

In recent years, the dual operating systems for running health care delivery in the U.S.-an incompatible mix of the traditional for-profit private sector and the increasingly influential, federally-funded and -dominated bureaucratic model-have developed strategies and techniques that might serve to pave the road towards total government-run "universal health care" in the near future.

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Islam's Global War against Christianity By Patrick Poole

From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new Holocaust. This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust aren't wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs.

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Control Freaks By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

WASHINGTON -- At first the liberal Democrats were coy about reports that they wanted to impose government control on talk radio. When it was reported that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had discussed the matter with Senator Barbara Boxer, both denied it. That is characteristic. They lied to the public. Now the Democrats admit to this assault on the First Amendment. There was no point in continuing to lie when it was time to take action against the Rush Limbaughs of this world. Washington's energetic newspaper covering the federal government, the Hill, has quoted Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin as saying "It's time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine. I have this old-fashioned attitude that when Americans hear both sides of the story, they're in a better position to make a decision."

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Saudi Takeover of GE Plastics Flies Under Radar By Diane M. Grassi

The announcement on May 21, 2007 that the largest public company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a division of the world’s second-largest corporation, by market value, and based in the United States, could not have been any less publicized. But in the world of corporate governance, the largest transaction ever completed in the Persian Gulf, seemingly trumps all laws of reason.

However, there is little precedence established for a foreign owned totalitarian government controlled corporation acquiring a corporate entity in the U.S. Such brings us to the General Electric Co. and the sale of its GE Plastics, based in Pittsfield, MA. It has been one of its most successful divisions for over half a century. It includes numerous U.S.-based manufacturing plants and research and development offices, with additional locations spanning 20 countries. Employees total nearly 11,000 worldwide, with several thousand located in the U.S. New operational control, however, will be via offices in Saudi Arabia.

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Silent Amnesty by Marcus Epstein

One of the Orwellian slogans promoted by the amnesty advocates lobby in the latest debate over immigration was that opponents of the Senate bill were supporting a “silent amnesty.” Their logic was that the illegals are here, no one is going to do anything about it, so unless you support whatever the President wants, you are advocating a “silent amnesty.”

But that was an obvious strawman. The choice was not only between the status quo and the Bush-McKennedy amnesty bill. President Bush could enforce the laws and/ and the Senate could pass a border security bill that does not include an amnesty.

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Annie Get Your Gun by Melanie Morgan

Ronald Reagan often used the line that political candidates claim when they look at Washington, all they see is a cesspool. But once they get elected on the promise of changing Washington, Big Government seduces them, and suddenly, it feels more like a hot tub.

People laughed at funny jokes back then. Unfortunately, liberals have lost their sense of humor and want to lynch conservative columnist Ann Coulter for being downright funny at their expense.

An example: Ann Coulter’s comments about presidential candidate John Edwards at this year’s CPAC convention.

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Clinton, Reid and Obama: Segregationists by Jed Babbin

A 5 year-old boy was not allowed to attend his neighborhood school because of his race. And it was 2002, not 1954. The most remarkable thing about last week’s Supreme Court decision was that it had to be decided by the Court at all. Contrary to the Constitutional principle of equal rights under the law, the Jefferson County Kentucky Board of Education, a federal district court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals all agreed that Joshua McDonald should be compelled to go to a school across town despite the fact that there were open seats at his neighborhood school simply to maintain racial quotas in Louisville’s decades-old busing plan.

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Ceding the Fall of Pakistan By Steve Schippert

The nature of the conflict before us is about to change significantly in both nature and, potentially, scope. The question is not a matter of if, but when. For absent in any analysis of the situation in Pakistan is any discussion whatsoever of how President Pervez Musharraf can or will defeat (or enable the defeat of) al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And Musharraf is the only known trustworthy custodian of Pakistan's nuclear weapons arsenal.

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Immigration and Independence Day By Jacob Laksin

It is among the odder ironies of modern political life that the Fourth of July, a holiday set aside to celebrate American exceptionalism, has become an occasion to proclaim multicultural pieties.

For a vivid demonstration of this tendency, look no further than the habit of our high-minded commentators to lecture every Independence Day that “we are a nation of immigrants.” In in its most extreme incarnation, this claim holds not only that America has been “a nation of immigrants from its very inception” – an observation equal parts true and misleading – but that any reflection on the American character that fails to pay proper homage to immigration is itself a kind of intellectual treason. Historian Oscar Handlin, aptly summing up the view, has written that “immigrants were American history.”

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What it means to be an American By John D. Turner

"I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
- Military Code of Conduct, Article I

Familiar words to those of us who serve, or have served in the military forces of the United States. Twenty-seven words which pretty much describe what service in our armed forces is all about. A tie that binds together all who wear the uniform; active duty, reserve, and guard. A reminder that military service is more than just a job; it is a commitment to serve and, if necessary, die, to protect those we love and the freedoms we cherish.

I feel the same way concerning citizenship in this great nation we call the United States of America. Whether we are born to citizenship, or came here from somewhere else, we need some common thread to tie us all together. What does it mean to be an American? When (if ever) was the last time you stopped to reflect on this question?
What makes America great? "

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Pundit Review » How a National Gay Rights Leader Became Straight

"Many have asserted that homosexuality is “normal” in some people- that certain people are genetically predisposed. Of course as I document fully in my book “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies” there is no such documented scientific homosexual linked gene. I used to be of the opinion in college that homosexuals were born that way. I wondered why anybody would “choose” to be marginalized by society. After college I moved to San Francisco and lived among many open homosexuals for just about a decade. Some of my friends and aqauintances through work and through my wife’s work were gay and really didn’t give much thought to it. "

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CBS: Attacks An Al-Qaeda Sleeper Operation | Captain's Quarters | onublog.com

"CBS News reports this morning that the attacks in Britain started with a proposal by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to infiltrate the West. At least one of the attackers got their training in Zarqawi's organization, and the use of doctors was a deliberate part of the deception:

British intelligence services increasingly believe that the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow bare the fingerprints of al Qaeda in Iraq, CBS News has learned.
Intelligence sources tell CBS News that the people behind the attempts were directly recruited by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the present leader of the terror group's Iraq franchise. ..."

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Forced Busing’s Cheerleaders By John Perazzo

"Under the righteous-sounding banners of “equal opportunity,” “inclusion,” and “diversity,” the political Left embraces racial discrimination as legitimate public policy—so long as the discrimination is practiced on behalf of the minorities that the Left axiomatically considers victims of an irredeemably oppressive America.

Thus the Left reacted apoplectically to last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that public school systems may not achieve or preserve racial integration through measures that take explicit account of students’ racial backgrounds. Specifically, the Court’s split decision invalidated programs in Seattle and Louisville (Kentucky) that sought to maintain “diversity” in local schools by factoring race into decisions about which students could be admitted to any particular school, or which students could be allowed to transfer from one school to another. Both the Seattle and Louisville programs were representative of similar plans in hundreds of other school districts nationwide."

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The "Fairness Doctrine" Power Grab By Christopher Adamo

"When the Soviet Union was at its pinnacle, one might think that the greatest fear among its leaders was the nuclear capabilities of the United States. But this was not the case. While the Soviets recognized the formidable war-making abilities of the Americans as an obstacle to be overcome, they feared, and thus diligently hunted and eliminated the presence of something much more threatening to their existence: the printing press.

For the biggest danger to their continued facade of power and success lay in the possibility that some little person, needing neither the horrific power of an atom bomb nor the massive resources to develop and deliver it, could nonetheless shine the light of truth on them and thereby prove to be their undoing."

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We Can Do It By George H. Wittman

"Terrorism as an abstract concept can be defined in many ways. The first step is to separate out those who participate -- terrorists -- from what is done -- terrorist acts. The problem is that terrorism in the abstract is quite benign; it doesn't do anything. As in war, there has to be destruction or intimidation of some sort before the concept of war attains reality. The need, therefore, is to attack effectively the reality of terrorism. "

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Declaration of Independence (From Liberals) By Lisa Fabrizio

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident -- yea, even in the Year of our Lord 2007 -- that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, and not from judicial activists who serve at their pleasure. "

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Perseverance and fortitude | Chicago Tribune Editorial

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but 'to bind us in all cases whatsoever' and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God."

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The Summer of Drugs BY TED NUGENT

"This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the so-called Summer of Love. Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.
Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to 'turn on, tune in, and drop out,' which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco."

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Tyranny Rears Its Head In the Birthplace of Liberty By Gregg Jackson

Founding father John Adams thought America would last about 200 years. Well, perhaps he was off by about 31 years, but a sign appeared a few weeks ago in America's Cradle of Liberty (Massachusetts) that might make him a prophet after all.

The lawmakers' vote in the birthplace of American Democracy to redefine morality – i.e. to legitimize homosexual marriage in the Puritan State – may signal the end of American Democracy. The vote is a new Declaration of Independence – not against a tyrannical imperial king – but against the Creator, who founded America.

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Happy Fourth of July! :: Ironic Surrealism

Oh say! Can you see, by the dawns early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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The Stars And Stripes Forever By Ben Shapiro

On June 14, 1777, as the campaign for American freedom ground grimly forward, the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution. "Resolved," it read, "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The resolution was adopted. So was born the first official flag of the fledgling United States. But would this audacious Flag Act, establishing a new standard for a new people, stand up to the firepower of the mighty British Empire?

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The Return of the Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster

"On May 22 Patrick Buchanan wrote an article on immigration entitled 'Path to National Suicide,' using (without credit) the title of my 1990 booklet, The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism. And on June 5 WorldNetDaily had a piece called: 'National Suicide: How the government's immigration policies are destroying America.' WND's Whistleblower magazine had a special issue named 'National Suicide,' which featured Buchanan's 'Path to National Suicide' article. A reader, sending me the WND pieces, commented that the phrase 'national suicide' is becoming a part of our vocabulary 17 years after the publication of my booklet.

I first came upon the expression 'national suicide' in the bound volume of the Senate's hearings and debates on the 1965 Immigration Act, which I read in the New York Public Library in the mid 1980s. One of the opposition witnesses before the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, chaired by Edward Kennedy, had told the senators that to pass the Act would be to commit national suicide. The way he put it was poignant and it made a strong impression on me, and I later used it as the basis for my title. (I'll have to dig through my notebooks to find the witness's exact quote.) "

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The path to ? By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

"In the wake of this weekend's spate of actual and attempted car-bombings in the U.K., I watched the uncut version of 'The Path to 9/11' – ABC's dramatic portrayal of the events that contributed to, and culminated in, the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil to date. As the brilliantly crafted segments (written by Cyrus Nowrasteh) rolled by – showing addled thinking, failed policies and missed opportunities to prevent those attacks, I kept thinking: What mistakes are being made today that will form the backdrop to the next, possibly far more horrific, terrorist strikes in this country?

When they occur, the official investigation will doubtless chronicle similar sorts of problems. Warnings that were ignored or not acted upon in time. Failures by government agencies to learn from past mistakes and take corrective action. Decisions by the perpetrators, by those trying to defeat them and by innocent victims that produced tragedies, potentially on an unimaginable scale.

My guess is that the single most important contributor to our vulnerability to future attacks, however, will prove to be the result of a systematic failure by our government to understand the nature of our enemies, and to deal with these foes appropriately. A case in point was President Bush's visit to the Saudi-underwritten Washington Islamic Center last week."

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The meaning of independence By Joseph Farah

"That's why some of us – too few, really – call the holiday we commemorate today 'Independence Day.' That is, indeed, the actual name of the holiday.

It's not just the Fourth of July. It's not just the day we shoot off Chinese-made fireworks. It's not just the day we barbecue burgers. It's not just the day we go to the beach. It's Independence Day – so named because on or about this date in 1776, a group of courageous men risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for a dream of freedom and sweet autonomy from an imperial power.

By the way, it wasn't just the birth date of American freedom. It was the birth date of freedom around the world. That's why the French called George Washington not just the founding father of the American Revolution, but 'the father of freedom.' He was truly the inspiration for freedom fighters everywhere. "

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Patriotism By Cal Thomas

"Washington, Indiana - It's a long way from Washington, D.C., to Washington, Ind., where my father was born a century ago next January and where I am attending a Thomas family reunion. On the drive from Indianapolis, one passes towns that could fill a Norman Rockwell album. My favorite is named Freedom because, though the town has only a single flashing caution light, it displays many flags. If I don't slow down, I will miss both.

Driving past miles of cornfields, listening to local radio stations that still play music, not syndicated political talk, and carry commercials for farm equipment and feed, I ponder what it means to be patriotic and to love America. "

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Ending the Balkan Quagmire at American Thinker By Julia Gorin

"For the past eight years, I've been in a lonely place politically. I don't mean the kind of lonely that conservatives generally find themselves in. I'm talking about utter desolation, for there are just as few conservatives as liberals where I've been. One of the only non-Serbian Americans to do so, I watched with steady interest for the better part of a decade the clockwork predictability of the fallout from our forgotten Kosovo intervention, a bombing campaign against an emerging post-Communist democracy rooted in Judeo-Christian values--on behalf of tribalistic, blood-code-following nominal Muslims claiming oppression and no less than genocide and ethnic cleansing. "

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Time to act on threats to U.S. and Britain James P. Pinkerton

"The recent terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom need to be considered alongside the controversies in the United States over homeland security and immigration.

To put it bluntly, two great countries are under threat. Some people want to do something about the threat, others want to do nothing.

Let's start with the attempted car-bombings across the Atlantic. All the suspects in the case appear to be Muslim; at least one is named "Mohammed." As the "7/7" bombings - which killed 52 innocent transit riders almost exactly two years ago - demonstrated, a critical/lethal mass of Muslims residing in the United Kingdom hate the society in which they live."

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Pardon Hillary By Michael Goodwin

"One of the weaknesses of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign is that imagining her in the Oval Office brings to mind the scandals that marked her husband's time as President. Especially now, when she is trotting old Bubba out to rev up the faithful, the sordid past undermines her and boosts Barack Obama's promise for a different kind of politics.

The list of investigations, allegations and a few convictions during the Clinton administration was so long and tangled that the cases now morph into a fog. Distinctions among Travelgate and Whitewater and FileGate and GiftGate and the $100,000 commodities windfall get lost, with only Monica and the stained blue dress forever vivid."

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This country’s survival is not automatic. What we do will determine that. By Thomas Sowell

"When my research assistant and her husband took my wife and me to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, I was impressed when I heard her for the first time speak Chinese as she ordered food.

My assistant was born and raised in China, so I should have been impressed that she spoke English. But I took that for granted because she always spoke English to me.

We all have a tendency to take for granted what we are used to, and to regard it as somehow natural or automatic — and to be unduly impressed by what is unusual.

Too many Americans take the United States for granted and are too easily impressed by what people in other countries say and do. "

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Studies Show: Felons Smarter Than Liberals by Ann Coulter

"Just in time for the Fourth of July, John Lott, author of the groundbreaking 1998 book More Guns, Less Crime, has released another amazing book: Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't. This book provides studies and analysis proving that your every right-wing instinct is based on sound economic analysis.

To wit:

-- Women shouldn't vote: 'What changed ... that explains the growth of government? The answer is women's suffrage.'

-- Fox News Channel isn't conservative: "Even employees of Fox News, which is widely regarded as a conservative channel, donate 81 percent of their contributions to Democrats."

-- Public schools are government re-education camps: "(P)ublic education was actually designed to spread government-approved values."

-- Nothing good has come from abortion: "(A)bortion, in fact, increases crime."

-- Felons vote Democrat: "Remarkably, it looks as if virtually all felons are Democrats."
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Fact or “Islamophobia”? by Robert Spencer

"When he spoke this week at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Islamic Center of Washington, President Bush said: “In the Middle East, we have seen instead the rise of a group of extremists who seek to use religion as a path to power and a means of domination. This self-appointed vanguard presumes to speak for Muslims. They do not.”

There we are again. The Administration and the mainstream media (both Left and Right) take it as axiomatic that the jihad we see all over the world today represents a perversion of Islam, repudiated by the vast majority of Muslims. The American Muslim advocacy industry, chiefly the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has recently been named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case, has quite successfully portrayed any exploration of the elements of Islam that give rise to and justify jihad violence and Islamic supremacism as a manifestation of “hatred,” “bigotry,” “Islamophobia.” Those who do not accept the iron dogma that Islam contains nothing within it that can reasonably be used to justify terrorism are vilified and marginalized."

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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY... ARE WE FIT TO BE FREE? By: Phil Brennan

"Today we tend to think of the Fourth of July as a day off from work, an occasion for shooting off fireworks, having a backyard barbecue, or climbing in our cars and visiting distant friends and relatives. Hardly anybody harks back to that momentous day, what it meant, or how it affects us down to this very day.

What we mark on July Fourth is the signing of the Declaration of Independence, an astonishing event when a handful of men of different backgrounds and different colonies with no organized armed force at their disposal, came together and wrote a document that in effect, told the mighty British empire to bug off and leave them and their colonies alone.

It was what must be seen as a foolhardy act. They defied a monarch and his government with the finest and most powerful army on the face of the earth, knowing full well what the consequences would be if they failed in achieving independence from Britain. With Adams they understood the 'Toil and Blood and Treasure,' it would cost them 'to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. ' "

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Conservative syndicated columnist and author Cal Thomas is under fire for comments deemed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to express "Islamophobic attitudes." Discussing the weekend’s UK terror plots, Thomas compared some Muslims to a “slow spreading cancer.” CNS reports that CAIR is urging supporters to call DC radio station WTOP-AM to “express your concerns.” CAIR described the Thomas comments as “incitement.” The message included the name and work number of a radio station executive.

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Islamic Glacier Update: Muslims and Prayer in Public Schools :: Foehammer's Anvil

Michelle Malkin has some updates on a story that I first brought attention to here on the Anvil on June 14th:

A San Diego public school has become part of a national debate over religion in schools ever since a substitute teacher publicly condemned an Arabic language program that gives Muslim students time for prayer during school hours.
Carver Elementary in Oak Park added Arabic to its curriculum in September when it suddenly absorbed more than 100 students from a defunct charter school that had served mostly Somali Muslims.

After subbing at Carver, the teacher claimed that religious indoctrination was taking place and said that a school aide had led Muslim students in prayer.

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Amnesty: Kicking Butt and Taking Names By Matt Parrott

The American people pummeled the amnesty bill last week. The full weight of the executive office, the big business lobby, the hispanic lobby, the Republican leadership, the mainstream media, and even Fox News was orchestrated behind a historically unprecedented putsch. Never have the special interests been so visible and direct in the pursuit of their anti-American agenda. The saying goes "kicking butt and taking names". We just did the butt-kicking, but we also have to follow through by taking names.

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The Ladies Night of Terror By Bob Parks

Last year, I got in trouble with YouTube for trying to air one of my television show segments that included the videotaped beheading of an American captured by Iraqi insurgents. That video was aired all around the Islamic world, yet was kept off our televisions because that was considered "inappropriate content". They figured we just couldn't handle the truth.

Earlier this week, I read a story in the UK Sun; a story that we have yet to hear in America. You see, last Thursday night, Friday morning's terror bomb attempt in London was aimed at killing women.

The silver Mercedes was parked in front of a nightclub called "Tiger Tiger" and was supposed to go off around 2am as patrons were leaving and milling about. Last Thursday night was "Ladies Night."

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NBC’s Emotional Terrorism :: Hot Air

On May 17, NBC reported a blockbuster exclusive report on the superiority of Dragon Skin body armor over Interceptor, the body armor that the US Army issues to soldiers in combat zones. But NBC’s story has a major flaw: It’s wrong about nearly everything.

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Now That The Amnesty/Immigration Surge Bill Is Dead, What's Next? By Marcus Epstein

I once debated the Cato Institute’s Dan Griswold on immigration. He ended his remarks by comparing Ronald Reagan to Pat Buchanan. Reagan, he told us, was ever the optimist with his "Morning in America" campaign and accordingly welcomed immigrants and won in a landslide. Pat Buchanan was a pessimist and accordingly hated immigrants and lost in a landslide.

Griswold’s logic aside, it is generally true that those of us who are sounding alarms about immigration don’t always put on a cheerful face. This doesn’t make us any less right. Jeremiah never preached about "Morning in Jerusalem."

I will admit to being a pessimist when it came to the prospects of immigration control. Until last Thursday, I was certain that the Senate would ignore the American people and pass the Bush/Kennedy Amnesty/Immigration Surge bill. Naturally I was elated at this rare demonstration of democracy.

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Independence Day And Democracy by Kamala Sarup

On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress, the informal governing body among the 13 rebellious British colonies, approved a "Resolution of Independence" introduced on June 7 by delegate Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. At this time, from the American point of view, the 13 colonies ceased to exist; that is, they were then 13 independent (sovereign) nations. However, Great Britain continued to view them asrebellious colonies and attempted unsuccessfully during the next five years to subdue them with force.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved a formal Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson and other committee members. This is the first document representing some unity among The United States of America (the first time this name is formally used) and July 4, is the traditional date for celebrating the independence of the U.S.A.

Trick question: When did the American colonists become independent from Great Britain? Answer would be 3/1/81 when Articles of Confederation were approved by the 13 states.

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July 4th, For Those Who Remember it by Warner Todd Huston

The day of celebration of the independence of our great country is once again at hand... for those of us who can remember what it's all about, that is. As former Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, William Bennett, has commented, this country is on the verge of a national amnesia about our own history. He warns that we are becoming a country who’s citizens are born as aliens a fact that will, in the end, make it impossible for our young Americans to sign up and fight for our country. After all, they won't understand why this country is a "way of life worthy of their own lives" if they do not know its history. And that is a dangerous thing.

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Decapitating the Truth by Bob Owens

On Thursday, June 28, The Associated Press—and to a lesser extent, Reuters, and a small independent Iraqi news agency—ran stories claiming that 20 decapitated bodies had been found on or near the banks of the Tigris River in Um al-Abeed, a village near Salman Pak, southeast of Baghdad.

By 8:10, Thursday morning, I’d fired off the first of a series of queries to Multi-National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I) Public Affairs and current and former liaisons with the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior Civilian Police Assistance Training Team (CPATT) Public Affairs Office, asking what they knew of this claim. I was immediately suspect because of the dubious sourcing prominently noted in one version of the original Associated Press story:

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Race-Baiting Dem Candidates Twist Court Decision By David Limbaugh

Based on their consistent behavior in recent years, and specifically again in their presidential debate last Thursday, it is fair to ask whether there is any race-sensitive situation Democrats will not exploit for political purposes.

The Supreme Court's decision last week involving the public schools' use of race to achieve diversity was just too tempting to pass up. The respective candidates' reactions spawned a grotesque competition among them to see which was the best demagogue.

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'Live Earth' in Hamburg -- Going Kaputt

From Die Welt, the Hamburg-based national daily.

Continued weak demand for the singing saviors of climate change
With the worldwide "Live Earth" concert on July 7, Hamburg wants to protect the climate and take its place next to other metropolitan venues such as London, Tokyo and Sydney. But only half of the tickets have been sold. Hamburg tourist officials are giving away the tickets in promotional packages.
Five days before the concert, just 22,000 of the show's 45,000 available tickets have been sold, Die Welt reports. Frank Erich, spokesman for the Comtent Agency, sees little cause for alarm: "We're assuming that the ticket sales will increase dramatically in the last few days before the concert," he said. And there's a surprise guest expected on stage!

Still...

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'Scepticism' over climate claims :: BBC

The public believes the effects of global warming on the climate are not as bad as politicians and scientists claim, a poll has suggested.
The Ipsos Mori poll of 2,032 adults - interviewed between 14 and 20 June - found 56% believed scientists were still questioning climate change.

There was a feeling the problem was exaggerated to make money, it found.

The Royal Society said most climate scientists believed humans were having an "unprecedented" effect on climate.

The survey suggested that terrorism, graffiti, crime and dog mess were all of more concern than climate change.

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Gates of Vienna: Muslim Violence

"In Denmark, Muslims are attacking the Inuit people, the indigenous people of Greenland, who have been a part of the Kingdom of Denmark for centuries. Whenever Muslims target non-Muslims with violence, this is blamed by the media on past legacy of colonialism, US foreign policy, Israeli aggression etc.

Well, Muslims are now attacking… Greenlanders.

And we all know they are evil, Zionist Crusaders with a long history of colonial aggression in the Middle East, right? Here’s a Scandinavian post on the subject, with my translations.Apparently, some Arabs feel that Greenlanders don’t belong in Denmark and should go back home where they came from (my translation):"

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Shoeless George Bush by Daniel Pipes

"When Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicated the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., in June 1957, his 500-word talk effused good will ('Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements') even as the American president embarrassingly bumbled (Muslims in the United States, he declared, have the right to their 'own church'). Conspicuously, he included nary a word about policy.

Exactly fifty years later, standing shoeless, George W. Bush rededicated the center last week. His 1,600-word speech also praised medieval Islamic culture ('We come to express our appreciation for a faith that has enriched civilization for centuries'), but he knew a mosque from a church – and he had more on the agenda than flattery."

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Ignorance, Not Bliss By Max Boot

"During the cold war, the American public often recoiled from the possibility that the Soviet Union might be behind some outrage too horrific to ignore. A lot of people understandably didn’t want to know if the KGB was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy or the attempted assassination of the Pope. (Note to conspiracy-mongers: I am not saying that the Soviet secret service was responsible for either dastardly deed, but there was certainly a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing that way, at least in the latter case.) After all, if the Soviets were to blame, what were we prepared to do about it? If the answer was nothing, perhaps ignorance was a rational choice.

That seems to be the dominant American attitude these days toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ever since 1979, the radical mullahs who control Tehran have been waging covert war on the United States and our allies, and we have scarcely responded. Especially now, when we are mired deep in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, most Americans and especially most of our politicians would seemingly prefer not to focus on actions that might embroil us with war on another front."

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The Oddity of Liberals Expounding on Christianity By Dennis Campbell

"Listening to a liberal politician expound on Christianity brings to mind the comment by 18th Century British author Samuel Johnson upon hearing a woman preach. He likened it to 'a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.'

The comment seems apropos to Sen. Barack Obama's recent remarks to members of the United Church of Christ.

Obama, seeking to represent Democrats in the 2008 presidential election, said, 'Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart. Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us.

'I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version.'"

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Mel Martinez Should Resign as RNC Chairman By Robert Klein Engler

"The issue is a simple one. If Senator Mel Martinez does not understand the danger posed by illegal immigration, one of the fundamental political issues of our time, then he should step down as chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Chairman Martinez demonstrated his lack of understanding in a speech that he gave after the immigration bill failed in the U. S. Senate. Speaking to a group of Hispanic officials at Disney World, Martinez seemed to not have read any of the arguments why the bill was bad for America. "

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Chip McLean: A Republic, If We Can Keep It

"It was close, entirely too close. By a vote of 53-46, the U.S Senate refused to limit debate and effectively kept the Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill from going to the floor for passage.

It could easily have gone the other way, and undoubtedly would have were it not for the efforts of talk radio, the blogosphere - and thousands upon thousands of everyday Americans. All across our nation, concerned citizens called their senators and told them no – no to amnesty, no to rewarding lawbreakers, no to “z-visas” and no to being told they didn’t matter. Ultimately, several wavering lawmakers listened to their constituents and said no as well."

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The Dangers of the Liberal-Islamist Connection By David J. Jonsson

"According to the Financial Times, a new report from the Institute of International Finance states, “The Gulf states have passed China! Six Persian Gulf States now have almost $1.6 trillion in foreign assets, dwarfing even China’s mammoth $1.1 trillion of foreign reserves.” These Gulf States are all members of the so-called Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). They are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

There are massive piles of wealth growing in the GCC. The report continues: “Along with China and other countries, the GCC is increasingly setting aside more and more of these funds to invest abroad -- in stocks, real estate and private businesses. What they buy could have a huge impact on market prices -- and your investments.” See my article: Nationalization: A Plan for World Domination?"

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DUTCH REJECT DEBAUCHERY AND "ANYTHING GOES" CULTURE :: Real Clear Religion

"It seems nihilism and hedonism are not all they are cracked up to be. They not only take an ugly toll on the human soul but also on a society.

'People in high political circles are saying it can't be good to have a society so liberal that everything is allowed,' said Kranendonk, editor of Reformist Daily and an increasingly influential voice that resonates in the shifting mainstream of Dutch public opinion.

'People are saying we should have values; people are asking for more and more rules in society.' "

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Terrorism is not the West's fault :: Washington Times Editorial

"The notion that, somehow, the cause of Islamist terrorism is 'us,' the West, persists. And so this weekend's thwarted United Kingdom car bombings have prompted yet another 'Why do they hate us?' moment. The West's own preferred answer, it seems, must always be some offense we have committed. London Mayor Ken Livingstone thinks Iraq is driving 'disaffected young Muslims' to murderous self-immolation, in apparent ignorance or disregard that three of the suspects are medical doctors. The New York Times refers to a 'disenfranchised South Asian population' — this, in one of the world's free democracies. Others finger Salman Rushdie's knighthood as an incitement of Muslim outrage. Still others say Israel-Palestine. Others, poverty."

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Clinton Gang Rides Again by Tom Fitton

"The Washington Post ran an article focusing on the female members of the Clinton presidential campaign team reassembled from the 1990s with the goal of once again running the White House and the country: “Fifteen years after Clinton first brought these women together at the White House, the ‘board’ has officially reconvened to help map her unprecedented effort to follow in her husband's footsteps. They are acutely aware their work is making history. Once seen as a tight little sorority, today the group -- happily self-described as ‘Hillaryland’-- is at the center of a front-running presidential campaign.”"

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