A Death in the Family by Christopher Hitchens

I was having an oppressively normal morning a few months ago, flicking through the banality of quotidian e-mail traffic, when I idly clicked on a message from a friend headed "Seen This?" The attached item turned out to be a very well-written story by Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times. It described the death, in Mosul, Iraq, of a young soldier from Irvine, California, named Mark Jennings Daily, and the unusual degree of emotion that his community was undergoing as a consequence. The emotion derived from a very moving statement that the boy had left behind, stating his reasons for having become a volunteer and bravely facing the prospect that his words might have to be read posthumously. In a way, the story was almost too perfect: this handsome lad had been born on the Fourth of July, was a registered Democrat and self-described agnostic, a U.C.L.A. honors graduate, and during his college days had fairly decided reservations about the war in Iraq. I read on, and actually printed the story out, and was turning a page when I saw the following:

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Stop the Flight 93 Murdoch Terrorist Memorial :: Cao's Blog

Pennsylvania Newspapers Pretend There is No Direction to Mecca

In September 2005, a half dozen different bloggers verified that a person facing into what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 would be facing almost exactly at Mecca. Some surrounding trees have been added to the design, but the giant central crescent remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign:

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Sign the Petition Stand with Rush

One failure after another, Washington Democrats have built a record of legislative failure; one disappointment after another, Washington Democrats have failed to deliver results to the people who got them there.

This must be why, just nine months into their tenure, the Democrat-led Congress hit an 11% approval rating – that is the lowest in recorded history. Facing their record of failure, Washington Democrats decided to try and distract – and so they took a man’s words out of context, then they went on the attack.

It is at moments like these when we need to band together as conservatives and fight back. That is exactly what the Red State community and so many other conservatives around the country have been doing.

Click Here for Petition

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What's Left of a Mind :: Colonel Robert Neville

"Fascist!"

Wouldn’t it be useful and kind of nice to have a fairly concise point list so you can recognise the Modus Operandi of the Left Mindset? A kind of ‘Cliff Notes’ about those who invariably go over the intellectual and moral cliff. So now you can!
Here’s my 39 points that you can whip out as your favourite Left, Liberal or Radical twerp rolls out their entirely predictable default positions of back dated mediocrity. It’ll be like being a Biologist, an Anthropologist or a vet! "Down Penn, down boy!" Good luck on your Identification Safari into the Dark Continent that is the 'Mental Illness of Leftism'.

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Hillary Clinton: Still socialist after all these years By DEROY MURDOCK

With her intimidating lead in the polls, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential juggernaut looks increasingly unstoppable. This may have emboldened the New York Democrat to stop masquerading as a moderate and instead flaunt her full-throated, left-wing radicalism.

With a Sept. 27-30 ABC News/Washington Post poll showing her eclipsing Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 53 percent to his 20, the ever-calculating Clinton now may feel free to peddle higher-octane liberalism.

Consider her Sept. 28 pitch to a Congressional Black Caucus symposium:

"I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18, if they (sic) have finished high school, they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that down payment on their first home."

 

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Does John Edwards Wear a Skirt? :: Big Dogs Weblog

Elizabeth Edwards has made her views known regarding Rush Limbaugh only she took a different approach than attacking him for what he did not say about our soldiers. Instead, she attacked Limbaugh’s draft status, which was 1-Y (changed to 4-F when 1-Y was done away with) in order to indirectly say that Limbaugh should not call anyone a phony soldier when he had what Edwards views as a phony deferment. I will not discuss what Limbaugh said because everyone with a brain knows exactly what he said and what was meant by it. The Democrats are using this non issue to make something out of nothing. The old saying goes that if you tell a lie long enough it is accepted as true. That is why Global Warming is a “settled” issue.

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Line Drawn in the Sand :: Gates of Vienna

I left this comment in the thread of a post yesterday by the Baron about the video of an angry Army veteran. He cut the American flag down from its place under the Mexican flag and walked off with it, obviously angry. The Hispanic-looking restaurant owner or manager who had run the flags up the standard with the Mexican flag on top watched without comment. When addressed by the interviewer, he retreated into the restaurant.

The Baron requested that I put up my comment as a post, so here it is. I will not pretend to some idealized objectivity in my attitude toward this man’s actions. Illegal Mexicans have stomped one of my sons and attempted to rape my daughter. That does not mean I blame all Mexicans, just the ones with a bad case of supremacy. You can read my positive account here of an encounter with a Mexican mason, an incident that happened after my daughter’s assault.

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Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 3 By Fjordman

Here is the third and final part of Fjordman's essay on Islam and the Greek heritage. Part two is here, and part one is here. Says Fjordman: "Anybody who wants to can republish any of my essays on his own website as much as he wants to, as long as I am credited as the author. It would be nice, though, if a link was provided to the website where it was first published."

The great British expert on Chinese science history Joseph Needham has written about how the "four great inventions of China," the compass, printing, papermaking and gunpowder, were exported to the rest of the world. Although Needham is good at writing about technology, he doesn't always provide sufficient evidence of transmission for these inventions. Only one of them, paper, can be said with absolute certainty to have reached the West as a fully developed product. According to Professor T.F. Carter, "Back of the invention of printing lies the use of paper, which is the most certain and the most complete of China's inventions."

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Dobson will elect Hillary at this rate :: Conservatism With Heart

I love and adore Dr. James Dobson and I always will. As I've said in the past I consider him to be a spiritual and political mentor. Yet, it pains me to see the path that he is headed down. He is buying into the "all or nothing" mentality that I have talked about in the past. He is going to end up with nothing because he is upset about not finding the "perfect" candidate. First, he rejected and said he couldn't support McCain and Rudy. Then he expressed displeasure with Fred Thompson and now there is talk that he may go looking for a 3rd party candidate.

I am pretty disturbed by all of this because if Dobson supports a 3rd candidate and enough people follow, Hillary Clinton is sure to be our next President. I will hold Dobson and the other Christian leaders partially responsible for electing Hillary. Bill Clinton would never have won either of his presidential elections had it not been for Ross Perot.

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Has the United States already submitted to Islam? :: Foehammer's Anvil

I can barely bring myself to even post these reports. Thanks to Always On Watch for alerting me, Center for Vigilant Freedom, Eye on the World and Ace of Spades.

First we read what’s going on in Congress and then the Pentagon:

HRES 635 IH
110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. RES. 635
Recognizing the commencement of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal, and commending Muslims in the United States and throughout the world for their faith.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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Ozone Hole Shrinks by Nearly a Third By Jason Mick

After reaching a record high in 2006, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) reports that the ozone hole decreased by nearly a third in 2007.  The agency also warned that the decrease is not a sign of permanent recovery, based on their research.

Ozone (O₃) is a compound found in Earth's upper atmosphere.  It is found in high concentrations in the titular ozone layer which is part of the stratosphere.  The ozone layer, first recognized in 1985, provides the essential function of protecting the Earth from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. 

The global ozone layer has been thinning at a rate of 0.3% per year.  UV radiation causes genetic mutation in exposed tissues, which has led to an increased risk of cataracts and skin cancer as well as damage to marine life.

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Blackwater: Brickbats Or Bonuses? By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

A private U.S. contractor comes under attack for firing weapons in a war zone where terrorists hide as civilians and use them as human shields. And Democrats feign concern about the Iraqi civilians they want to abandon.

Democrats who want to make private security contractors in Iraq like Blackwater USA subject to U.S. criminal prosecution were not so concerned about Blackwater and its efforts to protect U.S. diplomatic personnel on March 31, 2004.

On that day, a convoy escorted by Blackwater personnel was ambushed. Four Blackwater employees were killed, and their charred bodies were hung from a Fallujah bridge. Gruesome photos of their mutilated bodies, like the one above, were printed in every major newspaper around the world and displayed on jihadist Web sites as a great victory against the Great Satan.

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Bill And Hil: Up To Their Old Tricks By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Politics And Money: Remember the rolling disclosures of the last presidency, when the Clintons would release just enough information after a scandal broke to placate the pliant media? Well, here they go again.

Only this time, they are telegraphing that they will keep certain things altogether secret should they return to the White House as co-presidents. And you thought they couldn't be more brazen.

Both Clintons, for example, have refused to disclose the names of donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation. Bill says he will remain mum about all past donors, though he didn't say that in so many words. As usual, you have to closely parse his words. Speaking of Hillary, he said, "If she gets elected president, I will disclose the contributions that people make from there going forward."

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CULTURAL SUICIDE IN THE EU--DISAPPEARING YOUTH POPULATION & ONE DIVORCE EVERY 30 SECONDS :: Real Clear Religion

A recent report released by the Institute for Family Policies, a nongovernmental organization which helps to promote family issues, reveals the shocking truth of the status of the family in the EU. Their findings are based on member states' and EU official statistics.

"There are currently more elderly people than children living in the EU, as Europe's young population has decreased by 21 percent - or 23 million – in 25 years, 10 percent of which in the last ten years alone."

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Our fragile First Amendment By Joseph Farah

I've resisted the strong temptation to stick up for my friend and colleague Rush Limbaugh as he is attacked by Democratic members of Congress.

Rush is a big boy. He's got plenty of clout and a large megaphone. He can take care of himself.

In fact, from my vantage point, he is making monkeys of Harry Reid and the Senate 41 who signed their names to a letter designed to intimidate Clear Channel, the network that carries the largest talk show in America.

But writing about this controversy I am. It's not Rush who needs defending. It's the First Amendment.

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Wake up, people! Muslims by definition cannot assimilate by Lawrence Auster

This is from Rod Dreher's important article on the Hirsi Ali interview with Reason (previously discussed here):

She says passing constitutional restrictions on Muslims is going to happen because the problem of Islamic extremism is not going to go away, and in fact is going to get worse--though sensibly, she acknowledges at length that there are some pretty strong reasons why America doesn't have the same problem as Europe (e.g., Muslim immigrants to America want to assimilate, there's not a welfare system for them to grow dependent on, white guilt is different in the US, etc.).

It's not clear whether the idea that, unlike Muslims in Europe, Muslims in America want to assimilate, comes from Ali or from Dreher. In any case it is a widely believed notion today and it cannot be allowed to pass.

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Ponnuru’s Complaint: Paleocons Keep Outing Him By Marcus Epstein

Ramesh Ponnuru and Jonah Goldberg have now felt obliged to post six times at the NRO’s Corner blog about my recent article National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru Instructs Us On The Right Way To Love Illegal Immigrants, a critique of Ponnuru’s attempt to finesse the immigration issue in a recent issue of the magazine.

My criticism of Ponnuru’s article was limited to the flaws in his analysis of immigration’s role in GOP politics—basically, he follows the conventional wisdom and ignores the white vote—and how it reflects a general pattern in his writing—advocating a “compromise” that effectively moves the immigration debate to the left Beltway consensus, while posing as a restrictionist. I argued that Ponnuru’s performance is, on balance, consistently negative to the patriotic immigration reform movement.

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More False Data Used for Global Warming by Warner Todd Huston

A few months ago, the blogosphere and talk radio were abuzz with the story of how the nation's various weather stations and temperature reading devices have been improperly located or badly constructed and how the data received from these improper devices must be suspected as inaccurate. Since global warming research often uses this suspect data that is gotten from these failed stations, it must therefore call into question the accuracy of the entire theory as its conclusions are derived from likely false data. Still, even as the blogosphere and talk radio blasted the news, the MSM ignores this explosive story.

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Liberals: A Puzzlement By Burt Prelutsky

I'll come right out and admit that I understand Islamic terrorists far better than I do American liberals.  After all, once you realize that young Muslims are taught by their religious leaders that our nation is militarily powerful and technologically advanced because we cut a deal with Satan, you can see where they'd be upset with us. 

But what is the deal with liberals?  How to explain their mushy heads?  Was it something weird in their baby formula?  Were they potty-trained when they were too young or, more likely, too old?  Or is it simply something in their DNA?  Are their chromosomes slightly out of whack?

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Canada's Border Officials Go by the Book By Pamela Meister

I never thought I'd be saying this, but I admire Canada for something. They're hanging tough when it comes to border security.

Anti-war protestors Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright were recently arrested when trying to enter Canada because their names popped up on a list maintained by the FBI, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). Why are they on a list "meant to track fugitives, potential terrorists, missing persons and violent felons"? 

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You might be Taliban IF: Theo Spark

...You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

...You own a $300 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.

...You have more wives than teeth.

...You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

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The War at Home By Christopher Orlet

Our nation has been blessed in many respects -- not least in its ability to assimilate so many bickering nationalities and faiths into a new people as if cut from whole cloth. While some multiculturalists may regard the melting pot as (in Philip Gleason's words) "some sort of waspish cauldron, which cannibalistically devoured the immigrant's past and his ethnic identity," it has nonetheless enabled people of various sects, tribes, clans, and ethnic groups -- or their children anyway -- to progress from clubbing each other over the proper way to dunk a convert in a creek, to clubbing each other over a parking space.

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A New 'New Majority' for GOP? By Patrick Buchanan

With President Bush reaching new lows in national polls, Christian conservatives threatening to bolt if Rudy is the nominee and the Iraq war bleeding support in Middle America, Republicans are in a funk about 2008.

And understandably and deservedly so.

The war, a product of hubris, born of the smashing triumph in Afghanistan, and ideology, a Wilsonian vision of democratizing the Middle East, has been a disaster for the country, and the party that plunged us into it. And the Bush amnesty for illegal aliens ignited a rebellion that dealt the establishment its worst thrashing in many moons.

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The Gang That Couldn't Slander Straight by Jim Bohannon

We certainly are hearing a lot about phony soldiers right now, and I agree -- there are some. They are the phony political soldiers of the left, who seem determined to seize defeat from the jaws of victory, or at the very least, seize insignificance from the jaws of consequence. How else to explain the current lease the Excellence In Broadcasting Network has with the Democratic majority in the Senate, for publicity. Tell syndicator Premiere Radio to slash their advertising budget. The Democrats will do it pro bono, or pro Rushbo. Maybe, in fairness, Rush should give the DNC a few commercial messages during his program.

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Praying for Defeat By Mark D. Tooley

Religious Left officials joined in a press conference on the lawn of the Methodist Building on Capitol Hill to unveil their umpteenth protest against the Iraq War. This time, it will be an interfaith “fast” to coincide both with Islam’s Ramadan season and, more specifically, with Columbus Day. The fasters prefer to call the later the “day of conquest.”
The locale, the cause, and the participants all combined to create a uniquely absurd spectacle. Participants included the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, which owns the Methodist Building, the National Council of Churches, liberal Jewish groups, some Buddhists, liberal Baptists and the Islamic Society of North America. The later is named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the ongoing terrorism trial involving the Holy Land Foundation.

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Corruption and the War on Terror By Douglas Farah

The disheartening story in the Washington Post today highlights one of the greatest vulnerabilities in fighting terrorism anywhere in the world-high tolerance for corruption and the disgust this fuels in the populations.

Having covered wars several continents, there has never been an armed conflict where those in rebellion did not have legitimate concerns, anger and frustration over the level of corruption and impunity for the corruption, in the regimes they were fighting.

The apparently rampant corruption in Iraq, mostly stealing U.S. taxpayer money, not only cheats us, but is one of the most helpful elements to all the different insurgencies operating in that country.

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General Clark's Orwellian Solution :: Rush Limbaugh

RUSH: As you know, Wesley Clark yesterday all over television lying through his teeth about me.  He was claiming that I have a long history of disrespecting and criticizing uniformed military personnel.  So I decided to hit back, call him on the lies, and then ask him again, "How are you sleeping at night, General, knowing you could have done something about the genocide of 800,000 Rwandans?"  I'm sleeping very well at night these days, thank you, how are you sleeping?  So last night on MSNBC, Tucker Carlson who's doing his best -- along with Scarborough now and then -- to hold up the right end on that network, interviewed Wesley Clark.  Our pet name for him here is Ashley Wilkes.  Tucker says to him, "Here's part of what you wrote in the Huffington Post.  You said this: 'Since Rush Limbaugh won't listen to us, we're going directly to Congress, which can prevent him from disrespecting and censoring the voices of our soldiers.'  Now, with all due respect, that's almost Orwellian, General.  You're accusing him of censorship and, at the same time, attempting to censor him by taking him off the air?"

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The Muslim Brotherhood: An Association for Jihadists By Frank Salvato |

One of the more clandestine groups in radical Islam is the Muslim Brotherhood.  Originating in Egypt in 1928, the group has been outlawed in Egypt, although its members hold seats in the Egyptian government.  So, what is the Muslim Brotherhood and why should every American be concerned about its activities both within the United States and around the world?

This radically fundamentalist Islamist group is the parent organization to some of the most violent terror groups operating today.  It thrives as a pseudo professional association for terrorists while feigning legitimacy as a political movement.  

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Prepare for Cooling, not Warming By Dr. Tim Ball

The world is cooling. Global temperatures have declined since 1998 and a growing number of climate experts expect this trend to continue until at least 2030. This, happening while carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise, is in complete contradiction to the theory of human-induced (anthropogenic) global warming (AGW). The CBC and other die-hard AGW proponents respond by publicizing selected glacial melts and the impact of dramatic but improbable sea level rises, the only warming issues that seem to grab public attention.

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'The Hill: GOP Protecting Talk Radio 'Profits"?' By Warner Todd Huston

Rush Limbaugh has done it again. He's driven the left mad. The lies about Limbaugh that Democrat Party House members are promulgating have rekindled talk of the dreaded Fairness Doctrine. And in a piece on the brewing battle between the anti-free speech Democrats and conservative talk radio supporters in the House of Representatives, the Washington newspaper 'The Hill' "continually mischaracterizes the debate at hand"(1), trying to make it seem that talk radio supporters are only out to guard radio station's "profits" when the issue is clearly being fought over free speech, not money. Why would 'The Hill' try to dismiss the conservative position as just about the cash? Why would 'The Hill' so slight the real issue of free speech and government oppression? Of course, the most probable reason is that writer Alexander Bolton's agenda is to discredit the drive to protect talk radio as much as he can without being too obvious about it. Bolton's former employer was the lefty journal, 'The Nation' magazine, so we must understand the ideological position from which he hails. But his jabs at talk radio supporters is more heavy handed than he imagines and not nearly as subtle and slick as he thinks it to be.

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Censure Hillary for Calling our Soldiers Pedophiles, Drug Addicts and Sociopaths By Bruce Walker

While Democrats and the drive by media focus relentless attention on the misquoted Rush Limbaugh referring to actual phony soldiers as real soldiers in Iraq exercising their constitutional right to disagree with the President on Iraq, Republicans ought to be focusing attention on Hillary Clinton referring to our combat soldiers in Iraq as pedophiles, drug addicts and sociopaths.
This sort of despicable comments about the soldiers who shed their blood to keep us free is beyond the pale. If Democrats are unwilling to censure her for those comments – if they are willing to go beyond that and even nominate Hillary – then any thinking American has to wonder whether or not it is possible to be a patriot and a Democrat.

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Liberals targeting radio hosts By Jennifer Harper :: The Washington Times

Liberal politicians have turned up the volume on their criticism of conservative talk-radio hosts.

Democrats on both coasts have authored official resolutions condemning Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh this week, turning partisan disagreements over content and style into a matter of public record and raising potential questions about First Amendment rights.

Mr. Savage irked the San Francisco Board of Supervisors after quipping on the air in July that students intent on drawing attention to immigration reform through a hunger strike "fast until they starve to death."

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SACRIFICING THE SOULS OF THE CHILDREN :: Dr. Sanity

Here's how a Hamas children's magazine glorifies jihad and martyrdom:

The 60th issue of Al-Fateh features a story about Sa'id Hassan Hutari from Qalqilya, who carried out the June 2001 suicide bombing at a disco near the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, killing 21 people, mostly teens. The magazine presents Hutari's last message, in which he says: "I shall turn my body into pieces and bombs that will pursue the sons of Zion, blow them up, and burn the remains [of their bodies]." He then addresses his parents, telling them not to weep over his death, saying, "There is nothing greater than to give one's soul for the sake of Allah on Palestinian soil. Mother, utter cries of joy; Father and brothers, hand out sweets. Your son is awaiting his betrothal to the Virgins of Paradise." [1]

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Catch a $5,000,000 Terrorist :: Blog @ MoreWhat

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT HOSTAGE TAKING RESULTING IN DEATH; HOSTAGE TAKING; MURDER OF A UNITED STATES NATIONAL OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; HOSTAGE TAKING RESULTING IN DEATH; CONSPIRACY TO USE AND CARRY A FIREARM DURING A CRIME OF VIOLENCE; USING AND CARRYING A FIREARM DURING A CRIME OF VIOLENCE; AIDING AND ABETTING AND CAUSING AN ACT TO BE DONE

ISNILON TOTONI HAPILON

Photograph taken in 2000

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Phoniness In and Out of Uniform By Ray Robison

So Rush Limbaugh called troops who oppose the war in Iraq "phony soldiers"? That's not what I heard, and I was listening to his program that day. To me it sounded like he was talking about seminar callers who pretend to be soldiers and people who barely served in the military and/or who slandered their fellow troops by creating phony accounts of their exploits in a scramble for the adoration of fringe left antiwar groups like Media Matters. Media Matters attempts to give loud voice to these phony soldiers in an effort to disgrace the military in order to turn the public against the war and consolidate Democratic political power.

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The Groupthink Global Initiative By Alvaro Vargas Llosa

One would expect some diversity of opinion at a gathering of heads of government, CEOs and nonprofit organizations from different sides of the political spectrum. That was not the case at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting last week, devoted mostly to climate change. From the CEO of Duke Energy Corp. to the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council to Al Gore, everyone agreed on the need for draconian limits on carbon emissions worldwide. The proposals varied from taxes on a carbon "cap and trade" system, but the assumptions on which they were all basing them were the same -- and they seem somewhat premature. No one was too concerned with the costs that a blanket limit on emissions worldwide could inflict on millions of desperate people trying to pull themselves out of poverty.

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Killing White People - Where is the Proof? By Daniel Muniz

Considering the PC of our time, I don't doubt that this former "professor" may have stood before an audience and spoke these very words. However:
1. Who wrote this article? D.W. doesn't lend itself to much credibility. What is his/her authority? How can I verify this speech? Who else heard these remarks?
2. When and where did Kambon speak?

The above comment is a question asked by a reader about the article, Kill All White People – Professor’s Call to Genocide, written by DW. And that is a pretty good question because Kamau Kambon, who is black, made some rather outrageous statements at a prestigious university explaining why white people must be exterminated. But more to the point, hardly anybody has ever heard of this guy because the mainstream media ignored it.

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The Heroic Richard Lindzen on Global Warming by Karen DeCoster

Richard Lindzen is one of the heroic challengers to the scientific establishment on the topic of global warming, yet you don't often hear about him. He is an an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When I picked up my October issue of Outside magazine, I was delighted to see the interview with him. Fortunately, the article is now online here.

Lindzen is a global warming doubter. As Outside notes, "With so many Americans searching for answers on climate change, an endowed MIT Professor with pithy quotes offers a level of assurance that few can rival."

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The Perils Of Fake History By Keith Windschuttle

The University of Colorado's dismissal of Ward Churchill for academic fraud was not only a welcome decision in support of scholarly standards, it will also go some way towards discrediting one of the most depressing tendencies of our era, the politicisation of history.

In Australia, Churchill has long been frequently cited by historians of Aboriginal affairs. In their introduction to a special "genocide" edition of the academic journal Aboriginal History in 2001, the editors supported Churchill's contentions that colonialism in America and the Pacific was worse than the Holocaust and that the British were the most murderous of Europe's imperial powers.

Thirty-five years ago, when academic fashions were quite different than today, one of Churchill's precursors in the history of American Indian affairs, Francis Prucha, put the traditional view of how scholars in the field should practice their trade:

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Hillary Clinton Promises Amnesty, Tax Dollars For Illegals + The "Uniting Families" Scam By John Hawkins

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as president she would push an immigration bill with a path to legalization that unites families.

"We've got to deal with immigration to be sure that we're going to get back to doing what is right and smart in America," she told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

"Yes, we need to strengthen borders, everyone agrees with that," the New York Democrat said. "We have to, though, remain faithful to our condition as a beacon for people around the world seeking a better life."

...Mrs. Clinton did not commit to passing immigration reform in her first term, a priority for the group, which works to educate new Hispanic leaders. She also did not directly answer all of the questions posed at the start of the forum, including how she would address anti-immigrant sentiment.

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CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film By Paul Detrick

CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Finally," in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to "American Morning," "it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies."

"There are definitely some inaccuracies," Marciano added. "The biggest thing I have a problem with is this implication that Katrina was caused by global warming."

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Unindicted co-conspirators in terror funding case rebuke radio host By Robert Spencer

Undaunted by being identified as an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and being named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding case, CAIR is at it again -- and once again with no regard for whether or not the remarks are true.

"Muslim group rebukes radio host: WLW's Cunningham not backing down," from the Cincinnati Enquirer:

The Cincinnati office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Ohio chapter called Tuesday for WLW-AM (700) to reprimand talk show host Bill Cunningham for what they call anti-Islamic remarks he made on the air Monday.

"The great war of this generation's time is the war against Islamic fascists," Cunningham said. "... They do not live for life, they live for death. Only through death can they believe they can be with those 72 virgins in heaven and have sex with children for eternity, which is the goal of that religion."

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Peter Pace for president By Joseph Farah

Don't you like a thoughtful straight shooter?

Wouldn't it be nice to have as a choice for president in 2008 a seasoned military man who says what he believes?

Don't you just have to love the candor and honesty of Gen. Peter Pace, the retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

I can tell you he shook up Washington last week when he repeated his view that homosexual acts are immoral, are "counter to God's law" and should not be condoned in the U.S. military.

"Bigot!" some spectators shouted at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which, ostensibly, was considering the Pentagon's 2008 war spending request.

It all came up when Sem Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said he found Pace's previous remarks on the subject "very hurtful" and "very demoralizing" to homosexuals serving in the military. Harkin said he wanted to give Pace a chance to amend his remarks in light of his imminent retirement.

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The good life in Germany does not include children. by Steven Ozment

A  saying from the German Middle Ages suggests that a couple who cannot have children may be more burdened than a couple who do have children.

Die Kinder machen Weh und Leid Zerstören offt der Elter Frewd, Kein Kindt/Kein Sorg/klag nit so sehr ob schon dein Weib nicht Kindbar wer. (Children bring grief and woe and often disturb parental peace: 'no child, no worry.' So do not complain so much just because your wife cannot bear a child.)

Historically, couples without children have, indeed, grieved. Although birth control has been practiced since antiquity, barren couples viewed themselves as truly cursed, like Hannah in the Bible (1 Sam. 1). Yet for almost a half-century a great many postwar European families have enthusiastically embraced either a "no-child" or a "no-more-than-one-child" family model.

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The conservative establishment has blacked out Hirsi Ali by Lawrence Auster

The mystery deepens. Three days after a Dutch news source reported that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has returned to the Netherlands, because the Dutch government wouldn't continue paying for her security in the U.S. and the U.S. government had declined to assume the responsibility, and I linked and discussed the story here, Jihad Watch still has no mention of it, either by her champion Robert Spencer or by her champion Hugh Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, as I pointed out yesterday, wrote an impassioned defense of her, but it was posted at New English Review in the form of a comment replying to Rebecca Bynum's blog entry, which in turn was based on my report. Why wouldn't Fitzgerald write about this at his own main website, Jihad Watch? The clear implication is that Spencer won't let him.

A correspondent suggested to me that because Ali in her Reason interview disagreed with Daniel Pipes by name, and Spencer is a friend of Pipes, Spencer has cut her off. But that seems impossible. For one thing, Spencer of course also disagrees with the Pipes position on moderate Islam, though he has never brought Pipes into the discussion by name. And Spencer, to repeat, has long been a booster of Ali's. It seems impossible that he would treat Ali as persona non grata simply for politely saying that she disagrees with Pipes's idea, as reported in Rod Dreher's excerpt of the Reason interview:

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Are Members of Congress Accountable for Anything? By Clarice Feldman

Are Congressmen above the law? The case of Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich against Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) tests this basic question.

Of course there are other reasons to ask the same question. In a year when Congressional committees see no limits to what they will subpoena from the executive branch or about what they will interrogate its officers and employees, they rushed to court to keep the Department of Justice from subpoenaing the records of a Congressman caught with tens of thousands of dollars in his freezer.

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Open Letter to Fred Thompson By Quin Hillyer

You, sir, have a serious responsibility to fulfill. When there were a number of other conservatives considering whether they should try to fill the void in the Republican presidential field, you stepped forward and said you were the one. You said you had the fire in the belly. You sucked all the air out of the atmosphere on the right. In doing so, you pledged to run a different kind of campaign.

But if you are going to be the big man on the right, you can't be lazy. Yet you have been so. You have a responsibility to bone up on basic local issues of national import. Any old moron should know, for instance, that you can't go into Florida without having at least thought about what you would say if asked about Terri Schiavo or about the Everglades.

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Soros-Funded Smear Effort Inspires Talk Radio's Foes :: Radio Equalizer

In the wake of highly- publicized smear campaigns against Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, left- wing talk radio foes across the country have been inspired to mount their own campaigns against the medium.
Suddenly, the floodgates have opened, while somewhere out there a beaming George Soros must be feeling his money has been well- spent. Can they succeed in eliminating viewpoints contrary to their own?
While that isn't yet clear, these self- appointed censors are certainly feeling emboldened.
Here's a tally of the latest moves against talk radio (if you know of others, send an email to address at the bottom of this site, we will update the list later):

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They Always Blame Reagan... By Paul Kengor

It has become a truism in liberal circles that Ronald Reagan brought us Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. The accusation could already be heard mere weeks after 9/11. Articles developing the "blowback" thesis metastasized around the Internet. Given the staying power of ideologically convenient misinformation, it is worth reviewing the facts of the Reagan administration's support for the mujahedeen, the fighters who resisted the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and their link with today's Islamic extremists.

The USSR, it will be recalled, invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979. The Soviets proceeded to brutalize a country that, though still very poor, had made surprising progress since the 1950s. How would the United States respond?

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When Islamists Get Caught By Steven Emerson

The Esam Omeish affair is the latest example of a "moderate," "peaceful" American Muslim leader done in by his own words, caught on tape.

Omeish, the president of the Muslim American Society (MAS), was forced to resign last week from his recently-appointed position on Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's immigration commission when videos featuring Omeish posted by Little Green Footballs and the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) were brought to the governor's attention.

Kaine asked for Omeish's resignation after observing one video featuring Omeish at a December 2000 rally praising Palestinians for "...you have learned the way, that you have known that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land."

Instead of owning up to his words, Omeish told reporters at a press conference Friday that he was taken out of context as part of a "smear campaign" based on"Islamophobia."

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CODEPINK antiwar protesters purple with rage to be banned from Canada By Judi McLeod

There was no welcome mat waiting n Canada for CODEPINK, the shrill arm of the latter day antiwar contingent, when they arrived for a visit yesterday, and it was all the fault of President George W. Bush.
..."CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired US Army Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright were denied entry into Canada today (Wednesday, October 3, dandelionsalad.wordpress). 

"The two women were headed to Toronto to discuss peace and security issues at the invitation of the Toronto Stop the War Coalition.  At the Buffalo-Niagara Falls Bridge they were detained, questioned and denied entry.”

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Richard Dawkins’s Selective Rationality By Arthur Waldron

I confess to being a bit puzzled by the current wave of attacks on religion. I am both a Ph.D. (with lots of science) and a regular church-goer, long under the impression that the alleged incompatibility of the two was a 19th century notion, associated with such organizations as The National Secular Society in England (to which Annie Besant devoted her estimable talents during the years before she helped found Theosophy), and perhaps best exemplified by vigorous period pieces, such as Andrew Dickson White’s massive two volumes, published in 1898, on The Warfare Between Science and Theology in Christendom. Over the last year or so, however, a powerful new wave of distinctly old-fashioned anti-religious campaigning has begun, with people like Christopher Hitchens and Professor Dawkins in the lead. I find myself asking why.

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Health Care Of the Canadian Rich and Famous By Heather Cook

Why do politicians who pay lip service to Canada’s socialized health care system travel to the United States for medical treatment? PJM correspondent Heather Cook points out the hypocrisy of pols who oppose a two-tiered system for everyone but themselves.

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Burma: Why the West Will Do Nothing By David Warren

Looking, through the dusk screen of the media, at the events in Burma, one feels a cold and pointless rage. The vicious regime that has long enslaved that country is again winning a struggle in which they have all the weapons. With the "subtle, malign cunning" (I am quoting Kenneth Denby, writing bravely for the Times of London, from Rangoon) that is possible only to a cat with a cornered mouse, the regime has watched the nation's Buddhist monks lead the people onto the streets. It allowed them nine days to vent their grievances, and is now cutting them down.

But the cutting down has been done with much greater efficiency than after the last demonstrations on this scale, that began August 8, 1988. Perhaps 3,000 were massacred in the course of snuffing out the flame of liberty on that occasion. In this latest reprisal of government against people, it seems only a few dozen have been killed -- including the Japanese press photographer, Kenji Nagai, shot down in cold blood to send a message to the other foreign reporters.

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The Historic Significance of Atlas Shrugged By Robert Tracinski

October 12 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand's classic novel Atlas Shrugged, so in the coming week we can expect to see a flurry of articles about the novel--many of which will, unfortunately, offer highly inaccurate descriptions of the novel's meaning and significance.

A recent New York Times article about the influence of Atlas Shrugged among businessmen and Fortune 500 CEOs, for example, contained one confused businesswoman's opinion that "Rand's idea of 'the virtue of selfishness' is a harsh phrase for the Buddhist idea that you have to take care of yourself." It is hard to see how Buddhism--a philosophy of mystical asceticism--can be seen as equivalent to a philosophy of rational self-interest.

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Secessionists Meeting in Tennessee By BILL POOVEY

In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions _ New England and the South _ are sitting down to talk.

Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully.

That sounds just fine to the League of the South, a conservative group that refuses to give up on Southern independence.

"We believe that an independent South, or Hawaii, Alaska, or Vermont would be better able to serve the interest of everybody, regardless of race or ethnicity," said Michael Hill of Killen, Ala., president of the League of the South.

Separated by hundreds of miles and divergent political philosophies, the Middlebury Institute and the League of the South are hosting a two-day Secessionist Convention starting Wednesday in Chattanooga.

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Theology, Repression, and Political Dictatorship: Part 2 :: Gates of Vienna

I wrote last week about the virtually universal political despotism that has accompanied Islamic societies wherever they appear, citing Paul Marshall’s editorial in The Washington Post and juxtaposing it with the furor raised by the Swedish artist Lars Vilks and his depictions of Mohammed as a Rondellhund.

Any country with an Islamic majority tend to be repressive towards religious minorities, and reduces their numbers through discrimination, harassment, and violence. The Koran contains explicit guidelines about the treatment of infidels within the Ummah, and the best they can hope for is to be barely tolerated as despised inferiors.

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Do liberals think they won't be harmed by national suicide? by Lawrence Auster

Thank you for this thought provoking thread, "Is it wrong for me to talk about race?" I'm relatively new to your site so you may have addressed this question before.

Given the scenario you paint of a vanishing Western white race/culture--the cynical rationale of those on the left, and the state of denial of those on the right--what's in it for leftists? Why would a people willingly, knowingly wish to commit suicide? Do the Clintons, Bushes, Blairs, and Wall Street Journal types, i.e. the elites of the world really think that their families will be spared the deluge in the long run?

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Miller: The beer of open-borders and S&M By Michelle Malkin

The NYSun’s Josh Gerstein follows up today on the Miller Lite/Folsom Street leather/bondage fiasco:

One of America’s largest beer brewers, Miller Brewing Co., is reviewing its marketing practices after Christian groups complained about the firm’s sponsorship of a raunchy San Francisco festival, the Folsom Street Fair.

“We regret that our failure to adhere with our own policy led to an inappropriate use of our trademark and apologize to anyone who was offended as a result, particularly members of the Christian community who have contacted us to express their concern,” a company spokesman, Julian Green, said in a written statement yesterday. “We are conducting an immediate audit of our procedures for approving local marketing and sales sponsorships to ensure that this does not happen again.”

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Phony Soldiers, Phony Outrage, and Phony Patriotism By Chrisopher G. Adamo

Smarting from the public relations disaster of the Betray us ad, a Soros-funded group, Media Matters, ginned up a fake scandal to demonstrate to those who rely on the mainstream media for their news, that "both sides do it."

Congressional and Senate Democrats, along with the entire liberal political cabal, have been in a staged uproar ever since last week when Limbaugh made reference to Jesse McBeth and Scott Thomas Beauchamp who, adorning themselves with fraudulent credentials as members in good standing of the United States military, have been caught in blatant fraud, as they seek to make a case against the war.Rush Limbaugh's attackers have intentionally mischaracterized his criticism of such individuals as an assault the U.S. armed forces, asserting that he derided any troops who oppose the war as "phony soldiers."

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The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade by Deborah Corey Barnes

Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain?

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Kos traffic numbers inflated by 60% by Patrick Ruffini

Yesterday, I had the good “fortune” of being frontpaged on Daily Kos. The post sat atop the site for two hours. According to Google Analytics, the link produced 1,164 visitors yesterday.

For the traffic behemoth Kos is portrayed as, that seems low, especially since he linked to two posts of mine. I went and looked at other notable traffic spikes this year, and this one isn’t really even close to some other blockbuster links. For instance,

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Homeland Security’s Islamist Payday By Joe Kaufman and Beila Rabinowitz

On September 28th, more than $24 million was distributed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to organizations considered to be at high risk of a terrorist attack. Each organization chosen received up to $100,000. While many of the groups could probably make the case for why they needed the DHS funds, one in particular is of interest, as it has a number of terrorism ties, itself. And because those ties have been exposed, the decision to award it with a grant is now officially under DHS review.

American Muslims for Emergency Relief (AMER) is a non-profit 501(c)3 based in South Florida that claims to be “operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.” According to its website, it has assisted in numerous disasters, both inside the U.S. and overseas. Someone without any knowledge of the origins of AMER could easily believe that the “charity” is a worthy cause. Evidently that was the case, when DHS decided to dump thousands of dollars in AMER’s lap – $70,000, to be exact. However, when one looks at the group from which AMER came from, he/she will find that the government’s decision was nothing more than a terrifying lapse in judgment.

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Two Peas in a Pod: Paul Krugman and Osama bin Laden By John W. Howard

So, Osama bin Laden is a Democrat. Who knew? Amid the “peace and blessings” in his latest rant was a manifesto worthy of Paul Krugman.

It starts with the assertion that neoconservatives, in thrall to big corporations, have ruined the Unites States’ international reputation and put the nation on the road to financial ruin by its misbegotten foreign policy initiatives. Where have we heard that before? Oh, yes. It was Paul Krugman writing in the New York Times on January 8, 2007, May 28, 2007 and July 6, 2007.

Osama goes on to say that the American media bears much of the blame for Bush’s Iraqi mis-adventure and for America’s plunging reputation. It has been the administration’s chief enabler from the very beginning and, in its unwavering support of the war effort, has shown itself no better than controlled media in squalid little dictatorships. So, too, has said Krugman in the New York Times on June 8, 2007 and September 3, 2007.

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STOP THE GLOBAL WARMING CAMPAIGN By Phil Brennan

In case you haven't noticed, there's a full scale campaign underway to impose a host of harsh restrictions on your way of life, the  economy, and the very future of the people of the United States.  

This headlong rush towards the establishment of a global Marxist system run by the United Nations and the federal government is based entirely upon a hoax perpetrated by power hungry politicians who couldn't sell  socialism to the American people any other way, scientists with their hands outstretched for billions of dollars in grants, and  a media elite which clandestinely worships at the altar of Karl Marx. 

In the guise of saving the planet from global warming, Washington lawmakers are already threatening to push through legislation that would impose tax increase and enact laws that would, step by step, slowly strangle our rights and our liberty. 

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The al-Dura Hoax By Nidra Poller

Daniel Seaman, chairman of Israel’s Government Press Office, declared today that the al-Dura news report was staged. This was the report filmed on September 30, 2000 at Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip by a Palestinian cameraman employed by state-owned French channel France 2, which purported to show the death of a Palestinian boy at the hands of the Israeli army. The news broke in the Israeli media this morning, is spreading in the United States, but has not pierced the firewall of mainstream media in France.

In the voice-over to the footage, France 2 Jerusalem bureau chief Charles Enderlin dramatically described the “death” of the twelve-year-old Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Dura, “target of gunfire from the Israeli position.” The 55-second video was immediately broadcast worldwide and assimilated by unsuspecting viewers. It functioned as a blood libel, justifying atrocities against Israelis and Jews.

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Sun still main force in climate change :: WorldNetDaily

Despite the claim of a heavily publicized recent study, the sun still appears to be the main agent in global climate change, according to new research by Danish scientists.

The study by the Danish National Space Center rebuts a July study by UK scientists who allege there has not been a solar-climate link in the past 20 years.

The Danish researchers, Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen, contend the UK study erroneously relies on surface air temperature, which, they say, "does not respond to the solar cycle."

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Many Democrats Are Anti-American By Richard Bentley

The Democrats have often said that they are "appalled" at President Bush's people either saying or implying that they are "anti-American."  I listen to the national scene with a very careful ear, and I have never heard President Bush or his colleagues refer to leading Democrats as "anti-American."  Much like everything else they do, the Democrat leaders lie about what Republicans say.

 We have seen it from Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Joe Wilson, and Valerie Plame.  Then, Senators Edward Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and others have joined in.  Despite these individuals demonstrating their expertise at using the Big Lie, the Republicans never call them on these obvious mistruths.  The facts are that everyone mentioned in the preceding paragraph is a liar; and they are indeed anti-American.

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The UN's big power grab :: CSP

If Americans have learned anything about the United Nations over the past fifty years, it is that that "world body" is, at best, riddled with corruption and incompetence.  At worst, its bureaucracy, agencies and membership are overwhelmingly hostile to the United States and other freedom-loving nations, most especially Israel.

So why on earth would the United States Senate possibly consider putting the UN on steroids by assenting to its control of seven-tenths of the world's surface?  

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Sleepwalking Toward DD-Day By George F. Will

Last Thursday was 96 days before DD-Day, the day the Demographic Deluge begins. That is Jan. 1, when the first of 78 million baby boomers reach 62, the age at which a majority of Social Security recipients begin to receive that entitlement. Social Security is unsustainable as currently configured, but is a picture of health compared with another middle-class entitlement, Medicare.

On Thursday, the Senate, following the House, voted to create another open-ended middle-class entitlement. Congress is not inhibited by the Law of Holes, which is: When you are in a hole, quit digging.

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Laura Ingraham Smacks Down CNN's Toobin on Thomas's 'Rage' By Tim Graham

On Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin unspooled a wild, unsubstantiated theory that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is "furious all the time" and when Cooper asked if his "hatred of the media" started with the Anita Hill charges, Toobin said that event sent his rage into "the stratosphere." Toobin also criticized CBS for not cross-examining Thomas on sexual harassment on 60 Minutes, when "subsequent evidence" (books by liberal reporters) "generally favors Anita Hill, not him, in what really happened between them."

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What Is Intelligence? by Thomas Sowell

One of the longest-running controversies in history has been that between those who believe intelligence to be inherited and those who see it as determined by environment.

If time has not resolved that question, it has at least led to sharper definitions of the question and a muting of some of the dogmatism among those on both sides of this issue.

The eugenics movement of the early 20th century was based on the fear that, since people of lower mental ability tended to have more children than people of higher mental ability, the average level of the nation's intelligence would tend to decline over time.

It is hard to escape the logic of that argument. But that logic could be its undoing.

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Liberals and the Woman Who Hates Them By Ann Coulter

Uttering lines that send liberals into paroxysms of rage, otherwise known as “citing facts,” is the spice of life. When I see the hot spittle flying from their mouths and the veins bulging and pulsing above their eyes, well, that’s when I feel truly alive. This happens, I dearly hope, once a week when my column is released. But the public gnashing of teeth that I incite occurs approximately every six to eight months, which is rather peculiar, since I believe I annoy liberals much more often than that.

Liberals’ response to unbridled right-wing speech makes the Muslims look laid back. Reacting with stupefied indignation whenever someone disagrees with them—especially in a way that makes people point and laugh at liberals—they seem to be in a constant state of outrage. Liberals, and the conservatives who fear them, have a look of perpetual outrage, kind of the way Nancy Pelosi has a look of perpetual surprise.

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Betrayal of the Civil Rights Struggle By Walter E. Williams

Five police "mini-stations" will be located in Detroit public schools this year, primarily due to the merging of students from several high schools on the city's west side. According to a Sept. 1 Detroit Free Press article, armed police officers will patrol the hallways in an effort to stem violence.

During the 2005-06 school year, officials issued 39,318 disciplinary referrals and filed 5,500 crime reports, and that's not including truancy and property damage. Uniformed and undercover police officers ride on city buses that transport students to and from school. As of last year, according to a June 2006 USA Today report, Detroit's public school graduation rate is only 21.7 percent, the lowest among the nation's 50 largest school districts.

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Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Importing Mexican Quarrels By Allan Wall

In a recent Memo from Mexico column, I reported that Mexico’s ruling PAN (National Action Party) had scheduled a convention in Los Angeles, California.

Not only was the convention held as scheduled last Sunday, September 30^th, but it was the scene of confrontations between PANistas and the party leadership, and between a former Mexican president and protestors.

In other words, not only is mass emigration bringing Mexican politics to the U.S.A., it is also bringing Mexican political quarrels.

The PAN get-together was called "Primer Encuentro Nacional del PAN en Estados Unidos"—"the First National Encounter of the PAN in the United States".

"First National Encounter" means they plan to have more.

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The primitive predators that inhabit America by Lawrence Auster

In Rotterdam, New York, two black women followed an 88 year old woman from a mall to her apartment. Then, according to police, they punched the woman and threw bleach in her eyes (I assume liquid bleach, but the story doesn't say), and took off with her credit card.

At Capital News 9, news story for once has photos of the bleach-throwing perpettes, who were arrested almost immediately afterward, using the victim's credit card to by $450 worth of clothing. No word yet on how the victim is doing.

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Rush Limbaugh Vs. The Real Phonies By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Macbeth, in this case, is not the name of a Shakespearean tragedy, but rather the name of one of the "phony soldiers" Limbaugh spoke of in a recent radio broadcast.

Jesse Adam Macbeth was a hero of leftist blogs after he claimed in 2005 to have been awarded a Purple Heart for his service in Iraq that he said included slaughtering innocent civilians in a Fallujah mosque.

Iraq Veterans Against The War and other leftist groups trumpeted his charges as proof we were no better than Saddam Hussein.

When his true discharge papers were released, they contradicted his story. They said Macbeth was kicked out of the Army after six weeks at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2003 because of his "entry-level performance and conduct." He didn't serve in Iraq. He didn't win a Purple Heart. And neither he nor any other U.S. soldier massacred civilians in a mosque.

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Blitzer Joins in Distorting Limbaugh, Advancing Far-Left Smear :: MRC

CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday night matched MSNBC in distorting the target of Rush Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comment as the 7pm EDT hour of The Situation Room devoted a full story to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's attack on Limbaugh based on a Friday hit job on Limbaugh by the far-left Media Matters. "It's an angry new shot in the dispute over the war in Iraq," Blitzer asserted before reporting that Limbaugh had charged "that some veterans who are criticizing the war are, in his words, quote, 'phony soldiers.'" In fact, on his show Friday and Monday, Limbaugh made clear he was referring to those who claimed to be soldiers, but never served, a point mentioned by reporter Dana Bash, but only after Blitzer's framed the story by adopting as fact the spin of the left wing attack group.

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Battle lines are drawn over conservative radio By Alexander Bolton

House Republicans are threatening to launch a discharge petition on legislation that would ensure the future prosperity of conservative radio talk-show hosts but is expected to face opposition from Democratic leaders. On Monday evening, Republicans filed a rule with the House Rules Committee laying the groundwork for a petition that would force action on protecting radio from government regulation later this fall.

The move comes at a time when Democrats have launched a coordinated attack on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, accusing him of disparaging American troops critical of the Iraq war as “phony soldiers.”

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Muslim World Needs Advocates for Freedom, Not Democracy by Zuhdi Jasser

This week’s freak show at the United Nations and Columbia University featuring the fascist Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought with it a flurry of valid criticism from Americans, who value freedom and the dignity of our nation, and were aghast at the disgrace that welcoming such a thug exemplifies. One couldn’t help but wonder where our nation’s collective bearings were, in tolerating the exploitation of our media and political bandwidth – not to mention Columbia’s students – by the Iranian propagandist and thug-in-chief.

History has shown that lying dictators never respond to debate or reason, and only become more emboldened by “leaders” who refuse to see or challenge self-evident lies. 

Family Security Matters carried the only panel in the media that included Americans of Middle Eastern descent who were willing to strongly condemn the invitation granted to the Iranian despot. There are actually droves of such individuals who choose not to live in the world of apologia and appeasement, in stark contrast to the perception that is constantly being put forth by Islamist (Political Islam) organizations in America, and by the American left.

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Prosecutors say Chicago jihadists sought to topple U.S. government in favor of Islamic regime :: Jihad Watch

Their goal may have been far-fetched, but authorities would do well to examine where that idea comes from, and how widely it is held.

An update on this story. "Prosecutors say Liberty City 7 sought to topple U.S. government," by Curt Anderson for the Associated Press:

MIAMI -- Narseal Batiste and six followers intended to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI buildings to ignite a chaotic guerrilla war that would overthrow the U.S. government and pave the way for an Islamic regime, federal prosecutors said Tuesday as trial opened for the seven men.

FBI audio and video recordings show that the so-called "Liberty City Seven" hoped to use street gangs as soldiers who would stage attacks, ranging from large-scale bombings of major buildings to poisoning salt shakers in restaurants, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Gregorie said in an opening statement.

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U.S. Ambivalence on Taiwan Risks Emboldening China By Manik Mehta

As the government of Taiwan revives its multifaceted push for recognition as an independent state, Washington faces a crucial test of its international credibility on the issue of democracy.

The Taiwan Straits is one of the world's deadliest flashpoints, with more than 900 Chinese missiles aimed at Taiwan, which the Chinese Communist Party calls a "renegade province." The United States is, perhaps understandably, wary of supporting Taiwan's desire to hold a referendum or seek independence, which it fears could trigger an armed conflict with China. But by failing to clearly voice its support for Taiwan, the United States risks emboldening China.

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Sunny, But Expensive Dreams By Alan Caruba

New Jersey has a multi-millionaire Governor, Jon Corzine, whose monthly energy bill is not a problem. That leaves the rest of the State’s citizens out in the cold because, as the largest daily newspaper recently noted, “New Jersey already is one of the most expensive states for business” and, may I add, for auto insurance, property taxes, and a sales tax.

So naturally, the Governor is all for a mandate to require more solar power with the aim of having at least two percent of the electricity consumed in New Jersey coming from solar panels by 2030.

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Are Iran, Russia, China behind dollar's free-fall? :: WorldNetDaily

The hottest selling book in China right now is called "Currency Wars," which makes the case that the U.S. Federal Reserve is a puppet of the Rothschilds banking dynasty and it has persuaded some top officials Beijing should resist America's demands to appreciate its own undervalued currency, the yuan.

This might not be news of concern to most Americans if the U.S. dollar were not in precipitous free-fall, having reached record laws against the euro yesterday.

What would it mean if China ever threw its economic weight around by dumping dollars in a major way?

Suffice it to say it is referred to in some quarters as China's financial "nuclear option," because it would be the economic equivalent of detonating a thermonuclear weapon in the world's financial markets.

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Ramesh Ponnuru Instructs Us On The Right Way To Love Illegal Immigrants By Marcus Epstein

The latest issue of National Review has an article by Ramesh Ponnuru [Getting Immigration Right: A headache and a half for the GOP, October 8, 2007 (Subscriber link)] in which he tries to expose, in his Olympian way, the flawed thinking of both the "comprehensivists"—whom he defines as supporters of a guest worker program, an amnesty with certain preconditions, and increased border security—and the "restrictionists"—whom he defines as supporters of an enforcement-only approach.

(Typical of the Establishment Right, Ponnuru’s belated awakening to what Peter Brimelow back in 1995 called “America’s immigration disaster” does not yet extend to legal immigration. On present form, maybe he’ll get around to that by 2019.)

Ponnuru [Send him mail] claims: "I’m not saying that immigration policy should be determined by the needs of the Republican Party". But clearly the thrust of his article is what policy will better serve the Stupid Party—and, of course, its media groupies, such as himself.

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Don't Trust Hillary's 'Christian' Ties by Grant Swank

There are those who state that Hillary Clinton has personal, well-treasured social and spiritual ties with biblical believers, even attending their Bible studies and prayer groups.

Bottom line: If this is so in that such ties change her theology from anti-Bible to pro-Bible, then Hillary would have changed her conclusions regarding such ethical issues as abortion.

If Hillary has been biblically influenced by these evangelical-types, then she would wed with biblical morality. Concerning abortion, it would mean that Hillary would change from pro-killing womb babies to defending womb babies.

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Next Time, Scream 'LIBRESCU!' By William R. Hartman

Ever since hearing of the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech last April, I have been deeply troubled by the number of people killed by a lone gunman wielding two hand guns in the midst of dozens of people.

Why was Seing-Hui Cho able to methodically move from classroom to classroom - four in total - killing 29 people and wounding at least 26 more, with so little effort to stop or to disarm him?

Why was the kill rate so high?

Why was there no offensive response by the overwhelming numbers being attacked?

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Columbia, Duke and the Media By Thomas Sowell

On page 28 of last Sunday's New York Times, right opposite the page where the obituaries were, at the very bottom was a news item almost exactly the size of a 3-by-5 card.

It was a fraction of an Associated Press dispatch about Richard Brodhead, president of Duke University, apologizing for "not having better supported" the Duke lacrosse players last year when they were accused of rape.

When this story first broke last year, it was big news not only on the front page of the New York Times but on the editorial page as well.

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How Russia lost the moon By Sergei Khrushchev

Fifty years ago, on October 4 1957, my father, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, was waiting for a call from Kazakhstan: the designer, Sergei Korolev, was due to report on the launch of the world's first satellite. My father was in Ukraine, on military business, and that evening he dined with Ukrainian leaders. I sat at the end of the table, not paying attention to their conversation. Around midnight my father was asked to take a phone call. When he came back, he was smiling: Sputnik's launch had been successful.

Soviet engineers began designing Sputnik in January 1956. The plan was to launch it with an intercontinental ballistic missile in development since 1954. But the rest of the world paid no attention to the vague pronouncements of a possible launch that had been appearing in the Soviet press; everybody outside the Soviet Union thought the US would launch the world's first satellite.

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The unspeakable American culture By Jonah Goldberg

In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States." From what I can tell, nobody among the journalistic swells bothered to ask, "Who isn't 'we,' Kemo Sabe?"

I don't want to revisit those supposedly Orwellian flag pins, which sat so heavily on so many journalistic lapels. But it's worth recalling that during World War II, civilian correspondent Walter Cronkite -- whose anchor job Couric now holds -- gladly wore a uniform, not just a pin, and subjected himself to military censors. He also used, I'm sure, the word "we" when referring to the United States.

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Bill Clinton’s oral culture :: Pundit review

Did you catch any of George “Stephy” Stephanopolous’ hard hitting interview with his former boss Bill Clinton this weekend? It was classic Clinton, and that’s no compliment. You don’t want to miss his laughable self-assessment of his presidency. The ego on this guy is just incredible.

At one point Stephy asked him to rate the GOP field of candidates, because we all know that Clinton has their best interests at heart. Clinton’s choice for the upset, fellow former Gov. of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee. And why is that?

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Lurching Toward Globalism By Erik Rush

Cliché, corny or trite, it can probably be said that most who occupy this globe, and certainly all Americans of sound mind would relish attaining that Holy Grail of “World Peace.” Unfortunately at present, from the perspective of the American voter, the parameters of our Constitution and history, there is an almost incomprehensible naïveté associated with accomplished individuals of power and influence from developed nations pursuing globalist visions, despite their accumulated salacious wisdom or experience.

I have maintained for years that a peaceful realization of this goal (as opposed to a totalitarian government or governments eliciting a population’s “behavior” under pain of death) would require such a leap of cultural evolution on the part of most societies that it is too far out of the influence of anyone living today to support current overtures in this area. 

Even given the coalition of a “unified” Europe, North America and Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Russia, India and even China – assuming such a federation could be peaceably maintained and with mutual trust – a significant number of the world’s remaining nations are retrograde, barbaric and culturally inassimilable as regards such a partnership – at least at present.

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Katie Couric: Profile of Female Privilege By Bernard Chapin

That women are oppressed is one of our nation’s greatest, and most cherished, beliefs. It also happens to be a myth. In contemporary America, to be a female is to live like a Spartan among helots. Edward Klein’s new biography, Katie: The Real Story, elucidates the nature of CBS’s grand dame of journalism, Katie Couric, while also documenting the way in which being a woman in our society opens widely the door of privilege.

Of course, the text itself tells only half the story. The media’s bizarre reaction to this work is the other half, and provides compelling proof of our culture’s bias in favor of the fairer sex. In light of the heated journalistic response, the first thing that struck me about this work was the sobriety of Mr. Klein’s narrative. The author’s interjections and opinions are seldom heard. The biographer allows, for the most part, those who know Ms. Couric to describe her and to reveal her psychology . . . which is how it should be.

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Norway: The Country of Peace Meets the Religion of Peace By Fjordman

Norwegian police have discovered that a large number of Pakistani taxi drivers, many of whom have already been charged with tax evasion in one of the worst cases of welfare fraud in the nation's history, have close contact with Pakistani gangs and operate as couriers of arms and drugs. In the city of Oslo it is documented that criminal Pakistani gangs also have close ties to Jihadist groups at home and abroad. This despite the fact that Norway, a nation of peace and home to the Nobel Peace Prize, should presumably get along just fine with Islam, which is, as we all know, a religion of peace.

Minister Bjarne Håkon Hanssen from the Labour Party has called for increased immigration from Pakistan because this would be good for the economy. The majority of Muslims voted for the Labour Party in the 2005 elections, which the left-wing coalition won by a very slim margin. Eighty-three percent of Muslims voted for Leftist parties, just as all over Western Europe. Kristin Halvorsen, the leader of the Socialist Left Party, began her election campaign in 2005 in the Pakistani countryside, praising all the "blood, sweat and tears Pakistanis in Norway have spent on building the country." She is now Norway's Minister of Finance.

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Matthew Yglesias' Islamo-Fascism Petition By David Horowitz

On October 8, we are officially launching a drive to obtain signatures on a petition condemning Islamo-fascism. Our campaign has already been attacked – before launch – by Atantic Monthly blogger, Matthew Yglesias. Yglesias should know better since he was a supporter of the war against Islamo-fascism in Iraq, although he has since turned his back on the effort.

In his blog Yglesias attacks us for having as a “main goal” the creation of a petition deliberately designed to be unlikely for Muslim groups to sign and then to use Muslim groups’ failure to sign the petition as evidence that they're on the side of ‘our terrorist adversaries.’”

Let’s stop right there, since Yglesias has already significantly distorted our position. Our main goal is to make people understand who the enemy is in the war on terror (since the White House has failed miserably to do so) and to expose people who 1) are on the other side of the war or 2) don’t understand what the war is about and therefore approach it with an appeasement mentality. Unfortunately, Yglesias seems to have slid in the direction of the latter position – otherwise why attack us?

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The Confrontation of Ideology and Culture By Adrian Morgan

On November 2, 1981, General Leopoldo Galtieri of Argentina addressed leading Republican Party members at a luncheon in Washington D.C. In his address, Galtieri said: "The First World War was a confrontation of armies. The second was a confrontation of nations. The third is a confrontation of ideologies."

Today, four years after Galtieri's death, those words have developed a wider resonance as significant as Samuel P. Huntingdon's now-famous phrase and thesis from 1993, "the Clash of CIvilizations."

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Arrest Mugabe By James Kirchick

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set African leaders astir with his ultima tum concerning an upcoming European Union/African Union conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Brown has laid down a simple condition for his attendance at the December conference: that Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe not attend. “We should not sit down at the same table as President Mugabe,” Brown told the Labour Party conference last week. He elaborated

We will play our part also in helping all those people who want to work together to make sure there is social and economic justice, and then political justice, also for the Zimbabwean people. We are ready to play our part in the reconstruction and in the building of a democracy…. There must be democracy restored to Zimbabwe.

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Scientist silenced by politician for his position on global warming :: Hot Air

The politician’s name is not George W. Bush. The scientist’s name is not James Hansen.

The University of Virginia’s climatology data center is seeking a lower profile after its former top official, the state climatologist, resigned this past summer amid questions over whether he should use the position to promote his doubts about theories on global warming…

The former state climatologist, Patrick J. Michaels, has been on sabbatical from the university for the past year, said Joseph C. Zieman, chairman of the school’s Department of Environmental Sciences, which houses the center. Zieman said Michaels resigned the post this summer and was replaced by U-Va. research scientist Jerry Stenger, who has been running the center without the formal state title. Stenger has worked at the center for more than 20 years…

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Banning Boyhood By Selwyn Duke

Huck Finn must be spinning in his literary grave. Just recently a Colorado Springs, Colo., elementary school banned tag during recess, joining other schools that have prohibited this childhood pastime. Upon hearing this, I thought about the movement to ban cops and robbers, musical chairs, steal the bacon, and the kill-joys’ most frequent target and this writer’s favorite childhood school game, dodge ball. Then there’s the more inane still, such as the decision by the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association to prohibit keeping score in kids’ tournament play.

There are many ways to describe this trend. One might say it’s a result of the left’s antipathy toward competition, the increasing litigiousness of the day, or the inordinate concern with self-esteem and hurt feelings. Then, if I am to speak only of my feelings, the word stupid comes to mind. Really, though, regardless of whether the motivations are good or ill or the reasoning sound or not, at the end of the day I find a conclusion inescapable. Slowly, incrementally, and perversely, boyhood is being banned.

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Ahmadinejhad’s visit reveals how Iraq Study Group gets it way By Lee Kaplan

As all the hoopla over Iran’s President Ahmadinejhad visiting Columbia University dies down, the mainstream media missed the real culprit in bringing the tin pot Hitler to an American university. To be sure, Columbia did the inviting and reaped worldwide attention to itself for it, but the real reason Ahmadinejhad was allowed to speak there was because of the US State Department.

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Folsom Street Fair Reminds U.S. of What “Gay Pride” Means By Frank Pastore

Quick! What’s the first image that jumps to mind when you hear the phrase “gay pride?”

For millions of Americans it might be a rainbow sticker on a rear window, or perhaps an image of a smartly-dressed gay couple at a social event, or maybe the snapshot of a polite and funny gay character from a comedy show.

Revellers attend the 'Folsom Europe' annual street festival in the German capital of Berlin September 2, 2006. Europe's leather-fetish scene on Saturday held the annual festival for the third time in Berlin. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY)

But, thanks to the most recent Folsom County Street Fair in San Francisco, it’s likely now an image of men doing in public what they’d get arrested for doing in a public restroom anywhere else in America. Only worse. Because not only did they not get arrested, they did “it”—numerous times and in every way and combination—under the protection of law enforcement and city leaders. And nothing happened.

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