The Muslim Brotherhood New International Economic Order By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld

The origins of all Islamic economic and financial regulatory organizations, date back to the 1920s invention of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) founder Hassan Al-Banna, who designed political, economic, and financial infrastructures to enable Muslims to fulfill a key form of jihad mandated by the Koran (Al Jihad bi-al-Mal — financial jihad) “you… should strive for the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives....” – 61:10-11.

He viewed finance as a critical weapon to undermine the infidels — and “work towards establishing an Islamic rule on earth.” To do that, he understood that Muslims must create an independent Islamic financial system to parallel and later supersede the Western economy.

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Vincente Fox Implicates President Bush in a Plot to Form a North American Union By Larry Fester

Former Mexican President Vincente Fox making the tours of U.S. talk shows to push his new book implicated President Bush in a plot to form a North American Union.

Fox advocated unfettered immigration and erasing U.S. borders with Mexico and said he hoped for a North American Union on Comedy Central.

President Bush has recently claimed that a North American Union was a conspiracy theory.
Fox then tells Larry King that he and President Bush were working on a North American currency until derailed by leftist Hugo Chavez. King asked Fox if he meant like the Euro Dollar and Fox said yes.

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'Mom' and 'Dad' banished by California :: WorldNetDaily

"Mom and Dad" as well as "husband and wife" have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose.

"We are shocked and appalled that the governor has blatantly attacked traditional family values in California," said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute.

"With this decision, Gov. Schwarzenegger has told parents that their values are irrelevant. Many parents will have no choice but to pull their children out of the public schools that have now become sexualized indoctrination centers."

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Joe To Dubya: Use ICE Agents Against Illegal Alien Coddler Eliot Spitzer By Joe Guzzardi

Last week, I filed my second column in as many weeks (read them here and here) about New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and his edict that illegal aliens will, effective December 1^st, qualify for driver’s licenses.

I told myself that I had written all that I had to say about the subject.

But I was wrong. After I monitored the explosive story for one more week, spoke to Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola who is bucking Spitzer by refusing to give licenses to aliens and consulted with VDARE.COM’s “Anonymous Attorney”, I realized that there is much more to report. [Lawmakers Debate Driver’s License Plan, By Kenneth C. Crowe II and Paul Nelson, Albany Times Union, October 8, 2007]

After analyzing all the information, I have come to the somewhat surprising conclusion that, whatever the ultimate outcome may be in New York, Spitzer’s treasonous behavior represents a win—and a huge one—for patriotic immigration reformers.

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My Opinion on Ann Coulter's Opinion of the Jews By Kyle-Anne Shiver

I'm no more an expert theologian than Ann Coulter is, but I have been a Christian nearly all of my life and have logged in more than 40 years of personal and formal Bible study.  So, even though I'm not a lawyer or a best-selling author, I'm compelled to put in my "two cents" on Ann's recent comments about converting all the Jews, so they will be "perfected" like we Christians are.  [Please don't anyone throw a Bible at me until I have stated my opinion.] 

I remember being positively dumfounded -- exactly the way I am at Ann's declaration -- when I was watching a Phil Donahue show in the early 80's and heard with my own ears as Reverend Jerry Falwell made a similar proclamation on network television.  Phil asked Jerry whether he believed all Jews who refused to convert to Christianity were going to hell.  Without so much as the blink of an eye, or a moment to consider, the Reverend boldly proclaimed that "Yes!" indeed the Jews are bound for hell.  Phil Donahue was as shocked by the statement as I was, but he had neither the knowledge of Scripture nor the Christian experience to debate him, and so the statement just stood there --  un-debunked.  A pity.

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U.S. Continues to Islamicize Europe By Julia Gorin

Since an open hearing on Kosovo’s status in April, when Tom Lantos assured the world that the U.S. “stands foursquare for the creation of an overwhelmingly Muslim country in the very heart of Europe,” the U.S. has been the same busy bee it has been for the past decade, in feeding the Balkans to the caliphate. And this has been just another typical week toward that effort:

U.S. officials persistently obstruct New York agreement:

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Hillary and The Mother of All Cover Ups By Peter F. Paul

After six years of sleepwalking through the biggest maze of corruption, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power ever witnessed by a jaded government “insider,” the clouds parted and a thunderous realization struck this observer’s consciousness. What has been glaring on the face of the public record – mirrored in a kaleidoscope of witnesses, investigations, and evidence – suddenly revealed itself in a "Where is Waldo" epiphany.

The Justice Department, in tandem with a federal judge appointed by the Clintons, as well as defense counsel directed by Clinton alter egos, used the Clinti-Vellian indictment and prosecution of Hillary's low-level campaign functionary – with the high falutin’ title of “National Finance Director” – to “immunize” the Clintons from legal and public accountability for egregious violations of the law that were orchestrated in plain view of Democrat political leaders, an A-list of Hollywood luminaries, and the American media.

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Some Inconvenient Truths For Gore By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Junk Science: Al Gore's documentary on climate disaster has been ruled a work of fiction by a British judge. In legal terms, his global warming hysteria has been assuming facts not in evidence.

Gore has long insisted that the debate over disastrous and imminent climate change induced by man-made global warming is over. A unanimous scientific "consensus" had formed, and the only doubters were "deniers" who also believe the moon landings were filmed on a movie lot in Arizona.

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Think tank: Withdraw Gore film's Oscar :: WorldNetDaily

On the eve of Al Gore's award of the Nobel Peace Prize, a think tank wrote the president of the Academy Awards asking that the Oscar given to his film "An Inconvenient Truth" be taken back in response to a British High Court ruling that found 11 serious inaccuracies in the documentary.

Dr. Muriel Newman, director of the New Zealand Centre for Political Research, told Academy President Sid Ganis and Executive Director Bruce Davis "the situation is not unlike that confronting sports bodies when their sports stars are found to be drug cheats."

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War Is Hell, Including Evil And Those Fighting Evil by AJStrata

War is a tragic exercise. But when fighting an enemy willing to massacre their own people, especially children, to destroy us then war is inevitable and cannot be avoided. The Islamo Fascists know no bounds in their fight for world domination. They are a cancer of humanity which must be destroyed.

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George W. Bush, Globalist By Patrick Buchanan

Have the Bush Republicans ceased to be reliable custodians of American sovereignty? So it would seem.

President George W. Bush began well. He rejected the Kyoto Protocol on global warming negotiated by Vice President Al Gore as both injurious to the economy and rooted in questionable science. He refused to allow the armed forces and diplomats of the United States to be brought under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

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What has Al Gore done for world peace? By Damian Thompson

So Al Gore is the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Admittedly, he has to share it with the United Nations’ climate change panel - but, even so, I think we need to declare an international smugness alert.

Damian Thompson: Cheap stunt by Muslims is rumbled

Damian Thompson: I declare a jihad

News: Al Gore's 'nine Inconvenient Untruths'

Your View: Should Al Gore's film be banned from schools?

The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. Can you imagine what he'll be like now that the Norwegian Nobel committee has given him the prize?

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Fred Thompson- Judge Him for Yourself :: Pundit Review

I will admit that Fred Thompson looked pretty tired and at some points nervous during the debate this week and I said so in numerous interviews when I was asked for my opinion on him this week. We are a year out but I believe that he is the closest the GOP has to wearing the Reagan mantle. And as I said many months ago, I believe he will win the nomination and beat Hillary next Novemeber. Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint. If you have not heard Senator Thompson speak check this speech out last month in Michigan. Judge for yourself. Having heard the other candidates speak numerous times, I believe that Thompson articulates the main objectives of conservatism the best- preserving America from totalitarian Islamic Jihadists intent on destroying America and Western Civilization and preserving American sovereignty from Democrat-Socialists who seek to transform our nation into a Socialist nation and drag us into world government. This guy doesn’t “sugar coat” his message. Exactly the right type of leadership at just the right time in America. I will continue to watch and listen. But I like what I hear from him so far.

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Hamas: Coming to a School Board Near You? By Patrick Poole

Exactly how did a known Hamas operative obtain an interview with and almost get appointed to the Columbus, Ohio Public School Board, which oversees one of the largest school districts in the country? And what does this incident tell us about the domestic terror threat and the process of radicalization happening right now in the US?

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Slatecard: Growing Republican Netroots by Michelle Oddis

Democrats -- beginning with unsuccessful 2004 candidate Howard Dean -- have seized a huge lead over Republicans in online fundraising. Since 2004 ActBlue.com, an online PAC, has raised over $30 million for Democratic candidates and committees.

The Washington Post reported Oct. 5 that for the 2008 presidential election Republicans trail Democrats in fundraising by nearly $100 million “a gap that is unprecedented in 30 years.”

A new initiative -- Slatecard -- is trying to close that gap.

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The Leftroots' Frightening Vision for America By Dan Riehl

If the increasingly conventional wisdom that the Netroots movement is now the driving force behind today's Democrat Party is true, than a look into their actual agenda for America is something voters considering supporting Democrat politicians in 2008 might want to take a very close look at. It's posted by Chris Bowers at Open Left and looked at in plain terms, is substantial and should give conservatives and Libertarians cause for concern.

Below are just some bullet points from the larger plan.

You think the "Fairness Doctrine" is bad, you haven't seen anything yet:

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The United States Is Not Engaged in the War of Ideas By Frank Salvato

The United States and governments of the West must use every means available to combat Islamofascist aggression and expansion, both here in the West and in the Middle East.  One of the most critical aspects in the war against Islamofascism is the war of ideas.  This aspect represents the battle between the Wahhabi, Salafist, and radical factions of the Sunni and Shi’ite sects of Islam and the ideology of inalienable rights as embraced by Western Civilization.

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Denials Carry a Familiar Ring :: IPT News

With the resignation of Esam Omeish from a Virginia immigration panel last month, new questions emerged about the surgeon and the organization he leads.

Omeish, president of the Muslim American Society (MAS), was forced to resign after videos showed him at rallies defending Hizballah's actions during last year's violence with Israel and praising Palestinians for knowing that "the jihad way is the way to liberate your land."

His reference to jihad, he later explained, wasn't a call to violence, but for "exerting full effort" to liberate Palestine.

MAS' founders were Muslim Brotherhood members. And, as recently as 2004, MAS leadership acknowledged nearly half its members were part of the Brotherhood. In a news conference, Omeish acknowledged those roots but insisted it was all in the past.

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Berlin and Vienna Stand Against the West: European Divisions on the Iranian Bomb :: Matthias Küntzel

Toward the end of August, French President Nicolas Sarkozy ushered in a new phase in the diplomatic negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program by calling for tougher sanctions against Iran. In the event that the U.N. Security Council should prove incapable of taking action, Sarkozy demanded that the Europeans take action themselves: unilaterally. It is only by applying massive economic pressure, Sarkozy argued, that "a catastrophic alternative" could still be avoided: "either the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran." At the same time, Sarkozy pressured the French energy companies Total and Gaz de France to forego any further investments in Iran and he called upon French banks to freeze their business with Iran.

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Rule Of Illegals By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's kid brother, San Francisco U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, issued an order Wednesday blocking the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration from sending letters telling employers who have illegally hired illegal immigrants that they have 90 days to end the illegals' employment before facing punishment.

Breyer declared that the government's plans to mail 140,000 such notices would cause "irreparable harm to innocent workers and employers." But what of the irreparable harm the country is suffering because of the almost complete lack of a rule of law regarding illegal immigration?

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Appeal of torture-slaying conviction could set U.N. law over U.S. :: WorldNetDaily.com

What the U.S. government wants in the Medellin murder case, now being heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, is "bizarrely grotesque," according to the chief counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.

And the warning from ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull notes that the case, being pursued by President Bush through the Department of Justice, could result in U.S. laws being subjugated to U.N. resolutions and rules to the point that local police officers will have to spend more time studying international law than catching criminals.

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Diversity Is Strength!...But Not For Mexican Beauty Queens By Allan Wall

Americans are racist xenophobes while Mexicans are a mixed-race people who are therefore non-racist and tolerant, right?

We’ve all heard it.

But contrary to the self-congratulatory rhetoric, the plain fact is that Mexican society is highly stratified by race. It’s just that many Mexicans don’t want to admit it.

According to the CIA World Factbook, 60% of Mexico’s population is mestizo (European/Indigenous), 30% is indigenous, and 9% is white.

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Prepare for War :: The Brussels Journal

Reason: [When you say that Islam has to be defeated] Don’t you mean defeating radical Islam?

Hirsi Ali: No. Islam, period. Once it’s defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful. It’s very difficult to even talk about peace now. They’re not interested in peace.

Reason: We have to crush the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims under our boot? In concrete terms, what does that mean, “defeat Islam”?

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Why John Edwards Will Never Be President By Bill O'Reilly

Partisan politics bore me. I think all Americans should think for themselves and elect problem solvers, not ideologues to higher office. But sometimes we have to expose conduct that puts you in danger no matter where we find it.

John Edwards has no chance to become president because he's simply too far-left for most Americans, but the positions he holds are now acceptable to millions of voters and to much of the mainstream media. Let's run them down.

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The Counterjihad Calendar for 2008 :: Gates of Vienna

After four months of work, the Counterjihad Calendar for 2008 is finally done. You can buy it at our Café Press store, or go straight to the calendar page at this link.
The purpose of the calendar is twofold:

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To enhance a sense of community among the inhabitants of the countries of the West. We can show solidarity with one another even as we remain nationalists within our own countries. The West doesn’t require an artificial and corrupt empire like the EU or the UN to maintain its collective identity. There is something that binds us together, a common heritage that enables us to resist Islamization.

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Does America Need Hard Work/Thrift Tutoring from Pedro Zapeta? Satire By John W. Lillpop

Illegal Alien Pedro Zapeta Needs $49,000 to pay his Lawyer!

Pedro Zapeta is the illegal alien who invaded America nine years ago to pursue a career in dish washing. By adding tax evasion to his skills set, Pedro was able to amass $59,000 over that nine-year period.

But after nine stimulating years, Zapeta decided he needed less challenging work, so he decided to return to Guatemala.

According to rumors spread by loiters outside several Day Labor centers in Miami, Zapeta planned to use that hard-earned $59,000 to start a government consulting firm.

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Radical Islam's Willing Bloggers By Patrick Poole

The burgeoning left wing smear industry, set up to manufacture attacks on conservatives, has its own radical Islam sector. I know this by personal experience.

Earlier this week I reported that a known HAMAS operative was scheduled to speak at the Ohio State Capitol later this month (see Thomas Lifson's related blog entry). Within hours, a leftist attack blogger affiliated with the Ohio Democratic Party had published an ad hominem broadside in response parroting talking points prepared by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

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Hillary the Impostor By A.J. DiCintio

Whether it’s John Heilemann on “The Chris Matthews Show” or Bob Beckel on Fox News, Clintophants are dutifully spouting the latest Clinton talking point — that the “great” Hillary Clinton will destroy Rudy Giuliani in a debate. Of course, that assertion is as stupid as it is arrogant because it asks us to suspend our disbelief and accept as true the notion that it really is possible to make something out of nothing.

Regarding this instance of perfectly Clintonian arrogance, you can’t fail to notice that it borrows from Geraldine Ferraro, who claimed that Mr. Giuliani would be an historical “asterisk” if it weren’t for 9/11. You can’t miss, either, that in addition to turning an immutable law of life and physics on its head, Clintoshills who tout the Clintobull about Mrs. Clinton’s “vast” experience and equally “vast” intellect participate in that sine qua non of being a Clinton – spitting the Big Lie.

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Wake up America, We are a Nation at War By Wake up America, We are a Nation at War

Some of the most interesting experiences I have had during my travels to and from the war in Iraq involved the necessary fuel stops in other nations along the route that would take me to Kuwait, the jumping off point for military forces and equipment rotating into the Iraq Theater of Operations. Both political climate and public sentiment played crucial roles in determining the type of reception that American soldiers received upon landing, and I was struck by the differences among nations that were considered American “allies.”

To illustrate, allow me to provide a few examples. In Rome, Italy, we were not allowed to leave the plane during our stop. We remained parked on the tarmac and airport personnel brought out portable stairs so that smokers could descend to the bottom for a cigarette break. I stepped outside just so that I could enjoy a breath of fresh air, having been trapped inside our plane for the past 15 hours. We were told by some airline workers that we were restricted to the plane because of the Italian public’s opposition to the war, a notion I found somewhat strange considering the Italians had a respectable number of troops serving in Iraq and then-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was a staunch supporter of President Bush and the war.

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The Medellin case: What is Bush thinking? :: HotAir

He may be thinking that he’s the Presidente of Mexico. Or he may be thinking that world courts ought to be able to determine US criminal justice policy. Beats me what he’s thinking, but he’s wrong.

At the Supreme Court today, a dangerous principle is being asserted to help an odious man.

The odious man is José Ernesto Medellín, who is on death row in Texas for his role in the 1993 gang rape and murder of two teenage girls. The dangerous principle is that the president of the United States has the power to order state courts to set aside state law in the interest of his foreign policy.

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AIDS - Europe's New Plague By Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

The region which brought you the Black Death, communism and all-pervasive kleptocracy now presents: AIDS. The process of enlargement to the east may, unwittingly, open the European Union's doors to the two scourges of inordinately brutal organized crime and exceptionally lethal disease. As Newsweek noted, the threat is greater and nearer than any hysterically conjured act of terrorism.

The effective measure of quarantining the HIV-positive inhabitants of the blighted region to prevent a calamity of medieval proportions is proscribed by the latest vintage of politically correct liberalism. The West can only help them improve detection and treatment. But this is a tall order.

East European medicine harbors fantastic pretensions to west European standards of quality and service. But it is encumbered with African financing, German bureaucracy and Vietnamese infrastructure. Since the implosion of communism in 1989, deteriorating incomes, widespread unemployment and social disintegration plunged people into abject poverty, making it impossible to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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Palestinians Crucify the Holy Land By Robert Spencer

Last Saturday, Palestinian Christian Rami Ayyad was abducted and murdered. His body was found the next day. Six months ago, a bomb destroyed Ayyad’s Christian bookstore, the Holy Bible Society in Gaza City.

No group claimed responsibility for the murder of Ayyad, but the bombing of his bookstore was consistent with the pattern of bombings carried out by a jihadist group calling itself “The Righteous Swords of Islam.”

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Why President Bush Sided with Mexican Killers By Cliff Kincaid

The U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of the case, Medellin v. Texas, has reminded the American people of President Bush’s terrible tendency to put the foreign interests of Mexico above those of the United States. But the case, being heard on October 10^th, is significant for another reason. It demonstrates the dangers of passing global treaties and getting involved with international courts and tribunals. The Senate should remember this lesson as it ponders ratification of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, which creates an International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and various “dispute resolution panels” that will inevitably rule and act against the U.S. The Senate could vote on this treaty shortly and the odds are that it will pass unless the American people voice their objections immediately and vociferously.

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Illegal Immigration Spurs Constitutional Amendment by Joel S. Hirschhorn

Among the millions of Americans frustrated with the refusal by the federal government to forcefully control illegal immigration is South Carolina Senator Glenn McConnell. As President Pro Tempore of the Senate McConnell has explained why he is calling for the nation's first use of the US Constitution's Article V provision for a convention of state delegates to propose constitutional amendments.

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Bush Demotes Christ By J. Grant Swank Jr.

Mr. Bush said: " 'I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God. That's what I believe.

“’I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace.’”

President George W. Bush was interviewed by Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi.

Per the White House website, Mr. Bush was told by the reporter that “’in the Islamic world they think that President Bush is an enemy of Islam. . .that he wants to destroy their religion, what they believe in. Is that in any way true, Mr. President?’”

Mr. Bush answered: “’No, it's not. I've heard that, and it just shows [sic] to show a couple of things: One, that the radicals have done a good job of propagandizing.

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The Mainstream Press Is No Longer A Relevant Source For Information By Dave Gibson

At one time, the American press was well-respected throughout the world. They earned that respect with hard work, honesty, and by reporting on important stories. Unfortunately, the MSM has abandoned all of those principles which has rendered them completely irrelevant.

They now spend their time reporting on the latest drunken antics of celebri-sluts such as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. The press now seems obsessed with whether or not Lindsay Lohan is still in rehab. Their other obsession is with the unproven and unscientific reports of global warming. Of course, they will still take time out from these issues to fan the flames of racism or to belittle our men and women in uniform.

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Democrat goes to war over 'phony' Rush probe By Joe Kovacs

A top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives is angrily denying a report claiming he's investigating Rush Limbaugh and other conservative radio talk-show hosts, but the magazine which made the allegation is not issuing any retraction.

"The American Spectator report is completely false and was written without any documentation or attribution," said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

"There is not now nor has there ever been any investigation of this subject. The American Spectator should immediately retract its report and apologize for the confusion its fictitious report has caused."

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How neocons open the door to multiculturalism then deplore it by Lawrence Auster

An interesting-sounding article is summed up at Powerline:

Michael Barone surveys the disgraceful state of our major colleges and universities. Barone elegantly summarizes the problems--speech codes, racially discriminatory admissions policies, dishonest administrators, domination of humanities departments by leftist professors intent on portraying American society as evil--and shows how these phenomena are inter-related. Thus, speech codes protect the feelings of students admitted with relatively poor credentials pursuant to racial quotas. Meanwhile, administrators must insist that they aren't using racial quotas in admissions, so that to be an administrator at one of these elite institutions "you have to be willing to lie about what you consider one of your most important duties." But it isn't really lying because, as the humanities department has explained, "truth" is merely a construct of our racist, sexist, homophobic, and imperialistic society.

A reader writes:

I never thought Barone would be this direct. He says speech codes came when AA brought people in who were below the standard, so their feelings wouldn't be hurt, and also to free administrators from accusations of using preferential treatment.

Indeed. Here's the key Barone passage:

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A Democrat Ruminates On Ramadan: What Would Franklin Roosevelt Do? By Brenda Walker

Ramadan ends this year on Friday, October 12.

As a Democrat, I’d put this in the "How America Has Changed" file:

Imagine if we could transport President Franklin Roosevelt forward in time to preside over today's White House—the war against this generation's burden of fascism (the one in turbans) would be conducted quite differently. Of that we can be sure.

First and foremost, FDR would not be opening the White House to Islamist enemies in a masochistic effort to "reach out" to Muslims as George Bush has done. Roosevelt didn't engage in touchy-feely pleasantries with enemies because he was busy directing the armed forces to kill them.

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Anoint Him! By Jules Crittenden

An enthusiastic advocate of awarding Al Gore a Nobel Peace Prize, PJM columnist Jules Crittenden contends that anointing the “fiery prophet of global warming” would continue the Nobel’s committee’s grand tradition of honoring “empty, fraudulent or hypocritical gestures.”

Al Gore at long last stands to be recognized for his great efforts on behalf of humanity. The fiery prophet of warming is favored for the Nobel Peace Prize.

It makes sense. If you read the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners, you’ll see King Canute, king of England, Norway and other parts Nordic, is also on the list. It’s right there, posthumous, 1035 AD. Go ahead, have a look.

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Fred Sawyer and Huckabee Finn by Ann Coulter

Conservatives unhappy with our Republican presidential candidates seem to be drifting aimlessly toward Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee in the misguided belief that these candidates are more conservative than Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. This is like breaking up with Bobby Brown so you can date Phil Spector.

On illegal immigration, Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Tom Tancredo. He has compared illegal aliens to slaves brought here in chains from Africa, saying, "I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before."

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The Cycle of Wishful Thinking Lee Harris

THE AGE OF illusions is over," the historian Walter Laqueur wrote recently, referring to the illusions the West continues to entertain about the confrontation with radical Islam. Needless to say, Laqueur did not mean that we in the West no longer have any illusions on this subject; those still abound. He meant, rather, that we can no longer afford to harbor them and that the time has come to shed them. Yet human beings have great difficulty in freeing themselves from illusions — even quite dangerous ones — as long as they offer comfort and provide peace of mind. The best place to start the freeing process is by heeding those who are willing to tell us disturbing truths. Barry Rubin, the distinguished scholar of the Middle East, falls into this tiny minority. His brilliant and provocative new book, The Truth about Syria, not only challenges the illusions of those naturally inclined to prefer lovely daydream over harsh reality; it also challenges the illusions of those in the West who, by their own definition, are hard-nosed realists and wily pragmatists.

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The Age of White Masochism By Fjordman

Imagine if you planned a country’s economic future using calculations exclusively based on even numbers. For ideological reasons you excluded odd numbers because you declared that they represent bigotry and have divisive nature since they cannot be divided equally in half. Absolutely all calculations for the future would then end up being wrong. This sounds insane and improbable, but what we’re doing now in the Western world is exactly this naïve. In the name of Multiculturalism we completely ignore all ethnic, religious, cultural and, yes, racial differences, because we have decided that these things don’t matter. But in real life, ethnicity, culture, religion and race do matter. Doesn’t that mean that all our projections for the future by necessity will end up being wrong, since they fail to take important factors into account?

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‘Tis the Season…to Fight the ACLU Again :: Family Security Matters

Crimson, bright orange and lemon yellow leaves swirl around our heads against a blissful bright blue sky. A chill keeps us wrapped up in sweaters at night, as Halloween comes closer to our doorsteps; ghosts and goblins soon will thrill America’s children across the country. Later, the smell of pumpkin pie, turkey, roasted chestnuts and now even pumpkin lattes (thank you Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks!), all will announce the arrival of our most important federal holiday….Christmas…as a full 96 percent of American families nationwide prepare happily for this joyous and glorious occasion.

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Suicide Bombs Target Salahadin Awakening Leader By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Yesterday, two suicide truck bombs targeted a leader of the Salahadin Awakening Council. (The Awakening movements that have sprouted up across Iraq during the past year are based on the model that experienced great success in the Anbar province.) The Times of London reports: "Up to 22 people were killed and many more wounded when two suicide truck bombs exploded in a town in northern Iraq today, targeting a police chief and a tribal leader who had joined forces with the US military against al-Qaeda."

This is in line with al-Qaeda in Iraq's announced campaign of assassinations intended to coincide with Ramadan. As the MEMRI Blog reports, shortly after the assassination of Abdul Sattar al-Rishawi, an extremist web site published a list of names and photos titled "Pictures of the Infidels and Apostates Wanted by the Islamic State of Iraq." The accompanying message praised al-Rishawi's killing, and threatened other tribal leaders who opposed al-Qaeda:

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Caveat Emptor By Max Boot

Are there people out there who take Wikipedia seriously as a source of objective information? There shouldn’t be, but unfortunately there are. In fact, lots of students use it a source of first resort. It’s so popular, that whenever you type almost any subject into Google, the first hit is usually for a Wikipedia entry.

Yet disinformation abounds, often motivated by animus or prejudice. There is, for instance, the by-now famous story of a former assistant to Robert F. Kennedy who was brazenly—and completely without foundation—accused on Wikipedia of complicity in the assassinations of both JFK and RFK. (For this sorry tale, see his article.)

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Pakistani nightmare By Caroline Glick

As expected, after bending the Pakistani constitution like a pretzel, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf won his bid for reelection on Saturday. But Musharraf has not been strengthened by the race, to the contrary. In order to secure his reelection, he was forced to agree to stand down from his command over the Pakistani military. He was further forced to accept a role for other political forces - particularly the Pakistani People's Party led by exiled former prime minister Benazir Bhutto - in the governing of the country.

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America Occupied by 38 Million Illegal Aliens By John W. Lillpop

Most Americans were alarmed by the fact that 12 twelve million illegal aliens have invaded our nation and are occuping American soil.  What will the people think and do when they learn that the problem may actually be more than three times greater than the government admits?

A group called Californians for Population Stabilization has issued a report, which concludes that as many as 38 million illegal aliens are occupying America.
Go here: http://www.newsroomamerica.com/politics/story.phpid=394839

Thirty-eight million illegal aliens occuping American soil?   Rather than the twelve million reported by illegal alien friendly morons in the Bush administration and U.S. Congress.

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John Edwards, racist By Joseph Farah

I'm beginning to think John Edwards may be the dumbest human being ever to seek the office of the presidency.

I admit I am not familiar with many who have unsuccessfully sought the office prior to the 1960s. But I just can't imagine there could have been anyone so thoughtless and clueless as John Edwards.

I devoted two recent columns to his unfathomable answer to a question about whether he though second-graders should be forced to listen to stories about same-sex marriage and homosexuality.

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The Religious Quest of George Soros By Kyle-Anne Shiver

Tivadar Schwartz, George Soros' father, rejected his own Judaism in youth, but found another "religion" at some point in the First World War.  During his years as a Russian POW, Tivadar became enthralled with the obscure, synthetic language, Esperanto.  He acquired a rudimentary knowledge of it from his fellow POWs. 

Esperanto was devised by a Jewish physician in Warsaw during the 1880's.  But it wasn't (and still isn't) just a made-up language; it served as the embodiment of a cult formed around the ideas of "internationalism, anti-sectarianism and cosmopolitanism," in the words of Soros biographer Michael Kaufman. (p.12)

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The Problems of Victory By J.R. Dunn

We're closing in on victory in Iraq. (And, if Ray Robison is correct, perhaps at points east as well.) The Jihadis are nearing collapse across the country. With the exception of a few Ba'athist holdouts, the Sunni population is coming over in ever-greater numbers.

Scarcely a day goes by without another Al-Queda kingpin being bagged by the Coalition. (Last week it was a financier with no less than a hundred million to play with. That would pay for a lot of car bombs.)

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The Democrats' Unhealthy Poster Child Abuse By Michelle Malkin

A few weeks ago, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lured two young children to the public spotlight to help him pass a massive expansion of government health insurance. Gemma and Graeme Frost, 9 and 12 years old respectively, were severely injured in a car accident three years ago. Their parents obtained government health care through the non-means-tested Children's Health Insurance Program in Maryland. President Bush's veto doesn't change that -- and there's the rub.

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Weather Stations Giving Bad Global Warming Data: A Problem Ignored 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.

But, it is evident that the so-called scientific community has also ignored the arguments in this story as there has yet to be a weather station moved or its location and/or construction reevaluated.

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When Did Life, Liberty & Freedom Become An Extreme Right-Wing Idea? By JB Williams

So-called “right-wing conservatives” (the foundational base of the Republican Party) are prepared to grant Republican moderates who hijacked their party, their 2008 election wish.

You Want A Liberal? - We’ll Give You One!

Almost every political pundit in America is asking if hard-headed “Christian conservatives” are really prepared to defect from their Republican Party in ’08 if they can’t get a conservative nominee from the RNC. But my question is; when did respect for the “unalienable” right to Life, Liberty and Freedom, become an extreme right-wing ideal, held dear only by “Christian conservatives?”

Who told RINOs that Life, Liberty and Freedom are extreme ideas? Who told moderate Republicans that they belong to a secular socialist party? America already has a liberal party pushing secular socialist ideals in America. We don’t need two. Who is offering the nation a conservative alternative?

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Fabricating Hate Speech by Jason Mattera

Accusations of hate speech make great headlines for newspapers, even if those accusations turn out to be wrong -- or even worse -- contrived. Such is the case at The George Washington University (GWU). Administrators at GWU are on a rampage against a conservative group on campus for posting anti-Muslim fliers that the group had nothing to do with. The Young America’s Foundation chapter at GWU was blamed for disseminating fliers that read “Hate Muslims? So Do We!!” The flier went on to describe a “typical Muslim” as having “lasers in eyes,” “venom from mouth,” “hatred for women”, and a “suicide vest.”

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The Philosophy of the ‘Useless Eaters’ By Mike Smith

It is for normal people sometimes difficult to understand the wrongs in society. We see politicians messing up. We see uncontrollable illegal immigration into our countries. We see wars happening. We see genocides in Africa, Yugoslavia and South East Asia while the world debates how many deaths constitute genocide and does nothing to stop it.

We question out of control AIDS and the policies to curb it in Sub Saharan Africa.

We see idiotic policies created such as the Montréal and Kyoto Protocols and we do not understand. We see Westernized, sovereign and Christian nations such as Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa handed over to Communist terrorist through the scheming of Western Nations on the one hand and the backing by Communists on the other....and we do not understand. We ask ourselves, "Has the world gone mad?"

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Power to the Private Sector By Max Boot

Both the Washington Post and the New York Sun are reporting on a major snafu involving Osama bin Laden’s last videotape.

It seems that the SITE Intelligence Group—a private firm that tracks terrorist activities online and is headed by Ritz Katz, an Israeli citizen born in Iraq and now living in the U.S.—managed to get an advance copy of bin Laden’s rantings from an al Qaeda server. SITE shared its haul with the White House and the National Counterterrorism Center with the proviso that it was meant to be kept strictly confidential to protect SITE’s sources. Within hours the video leaked to the press, however, and apparently al Qaeda webmasters were able to shut down the anomaly that SITE had exploited to keep tabs on the terrorists.

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A Former Congresswoman Tries to Censor Islamo-Fascism Week By Patrick Poole

Since leaving Congress in shame in 1993 and her subsequent guilty plea on charges related to her role in the House checking scandal (where she had more than 200 overdrafts), Mary Rose Oakar has kept a low public profile. But now Oakar has waded back into the waters of controversy by encouraging higher education officials to suppress student free speech related to the upcoming Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

FrontPage has obtained a copy of a letter dated September 7^th by Oakar in her position as president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) to Columbus State Community College President Valeriana Moeller saying that Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IAW) events “should not be tolerated.” The letter is also signed by ADC Executive Director Kareem Shora.

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Who's Behind the Censorship of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week? By Ben Johnson

CALL IT THE LEFT’S VERSION OF PREEMPTIVE WAR. The three co-equal branches of the Unholy Alliance – Islamic radicals, far-Left activists, and academics – have returned to their usual level of discourse – intimidation, slander, ad hominem attacks – in an attempt to ban Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week from college campuses before it ever occurs. National “Muslim and Arab rights” organizations are pressuring college administrators to prevent students from holding the peaceful, educational seminars. Conservative students have been accused of “hate speech” actually manufactured in their name by radical campus leftists, and at least one conservative is being harassed although she is not in any way associated with Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

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Confirmation From Camarota: Immigration Moratorium Could Save Historic American Majority By Edwin S. Rubenstein

The Census Bureau recently announced that the number of non-white Americans has surpassed 100 million for the first time. It estimated that on July 1, 2006, minorities accounted for about one-third (33.6 percent) of the U.S. population, while non-Hispanic whites made up the remaining 66.4 percent.

As recently as 1990, three quarters (76 percent) of Americans called themselves non-Hispanic white. In 1965, nine-tenths (88 percent) of the American population was white. 

When I reported the 100 million milestone in May, I estimated that 2038 would be the first year in which present-day “minorities” would be in the majority. As early as 2011, I found, most births will be minority.

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Belgium: Europe's Canary in a Coal Mine By Jonah Goldberg

You probably don't realize it, but we are living in an unprecedented historical moment. For the first time, Belgium has managed to be interesting without getting invaded by Germany or abusing an African colony.

What's so interesting? In short: Belgium is coming apart at the seams. For four months, its 11 political parties have been unable to form a national government because the Dutch-speaking regions want greater autonomy, or even outright independence.

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The Scramble for America by Patrick J. Buchanan

What is it that distinguishes Bush Republicanism from the Coolidge, Taft, Eisenhower and Reagan varieties? Four major issues come to mind.

Bush is a "Big Government conservative" who repudiated the "government-is-the-problem" philosophy of Reagan. His No Child Left Behind program, doubling the size of the Department of Education, and his vast expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs so testify.

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Under Distant Stars By Michael Yon

In his book, Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield offers the following translation of the epitaph engraved on a commemorative stone placed on top of the burial mound of the Spartans at Thermopylae:

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

He was shot; four months ago—nearly to the day—in a stinging attack that caught the American soldiers driving Humvees through Mosul. But Command Sergeant Major James Pippin realized they were in a “nearside ambush,” and ordered his driver to assault directly into the RPG and machine gun fire. Riding the offensive momentum, the American soldiers dismounted their Humvees, moving into the attack, disorganizing the ambushers. Pippin shot one in the face. Then a bullet found him.

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Liberal professors have seen the enemy By Mark Bauerlein

And it is their conservative students. Liberals see debate as defiance.

"Reclaim Your Rights as a Liberal Educator." That's the title of a short essay in this month's Academe, organ of the American Association of University Professors.

The phrase has all the imagination of a slogan unfurled at countless marches, but what it lacks in wit it makes up for in fortitude of the uniquely academic kind. Author Julie Kilmer, women's studies and religion professor at Olivet College, sounds the standard "they're out to get us" call and rallies her brethren to take back the classroom.

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Young America’s Foundation smeared at George Washington University Updates: Seven, including Adam Kokesh, confess :: HotAir

Someone obviously faked a YAF flier to create a hate incident that would reflect badly on the conservative group, but university administrators are treating the flier like it was actually produced by YAF.

Leftist administrators at The George Washington University are on a rampage against a conservative group on campus for anti-Muslim fliers posted that the group had nothing to do with. Young America’s Foundation chapter at GWU did not disseminate fliers that read “Hate Muslims? So Do We!!” even though the flier purported to have the group’s moniker at the bottom. The flier went on to advertise an actual event on radical Islam that the group is sponsoring the end of October.

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A Forgery and a Hate Crime By David Horowitz

In a stratagem typical of the deceitful smear campaigns the left seems to favor, an obviously fake hate flyer has been posted all over the George Washington University campus with the intention of sabotaging Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (October 22-26), and smearing its sponsors the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Young America’s Foundation.

The flyer, which is headlined “Hate Muslims? So Do We” and masquerades as a publication by GW students now organizing Islamo Fascism Awareness Week activities, is itself a hate crime as well as a forgery. Its authors, cowering behind anonymity, are part of what has become a national movement to attack Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

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The Suicide Bomb Network: Why It Must be Dismantled By Douglas Farah

There has been much written recently about the inability to halt young suicide bombers because of their willingness to die for their cause. It is one of the greatest difficulties facing forces on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. But as the Times of London points out in graphic detail, the bombers are the end product of network of radicalization that includes the religious teachings of respected imams around the world.

It is true that it is virtually impossible to halt the actual suicide bomber on his mission. But there are vulnerabilities in the network that create these human weapons. These areas can be far more easily attacked than the final product.

As Bob Baer, formerly of the CIA, recently wrote, there is little defense against these “children of death.”

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The Great Ideological Divide Within Christendom By: Robert E. Meyer

The history of Christianity has been replete with examples of various theological disagreements and contrary schools of thought, even within the pale of orthodoxy.

Modern times have provided us no relieve from this syndrome, which speaks to the inherent imperfections of human discourse and understanding.

There is one concept, more than any other, which can account for the great religious polarization within the Christian community, as well as the blue/red divide so evident in the political realm.

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Scholars Explain President's Plan for North American Union By Phyllis Schlafly

Those who seek to understand what's behind the chatter about President George W. Bush's Security and Prosperity Partnership as a possible prelude to a North American Union, similar to the European Union, should read the 35-page White Paper published recently by the Hudson Institute called "Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership."

        The Washington, D.C., think tank is blunt and detailed in describing where the Security and Prosperity Partnership is heading.

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Coming for the Children :: Gates of Vienna

The Beslan school crisis three years ago, in which hundreds of Russian schoolchildren were held hostage, tortured, raped, and murdered by Islamic terrorists, was not the summit of Al Qaeda’s ambitions for actions against the kuffar. Horrific as it was, the Wahhabists would like to do much more extensive harm to the infidel. No one doubts Osama bin Laden’s intention to inflict even larger damage on the Great Satan, and that he considers our children to be legitimate — and appropriate — targets. He has said that he asked and received permission from Muslim theologians to murder up to two million American children, in what he considers to be a just reprisal for the supposed damage done to Muslim children by the United States.

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Colorado State University Shames Itself By Dennis Prager

On Sept. 21, 2007, the editorial board of the Colorado State University student newspaper decided to publish a four-word editorial. Apparently finding the traditional mode of expressing ideas -- arguing a case in a few hundred words -- too demanding, they instead wrote four words: "Taser this … F--- Bush." Needless to say, they spelled out the F word.

The "Taser" referred to the police using a stun gun on a student at the University of Florida who refused to relinquish the microphone to other students at a speech at the university given by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. (How George Bush is connected to the use of a Taser on a left-wing student interrupting a speech by a left-wing anti-Bush senator was never explained by the editor.)

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Hillary, Soros, Alinsky, and Rush By Kyle-Anne Shiver

For the past couple of months, I've been reading up on the Clinton/Soros connection into the wee hours of every night.  Ever since George Soros slipped through the backdoor to American political power at the tawdry invitation of Bill and Hillary Clinton, he has carpet-bagged his way to the Democrat Party inner circle and has become the "biggest political fat cat of all time."  With more than $7 billion in his little Hungarian carpetbag, he thinks he can buy the Presidency for Hillary Clinton and get back into the throne-room of worldly hegemony -- the Oval Office.

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The evidence for Neocommunism By James Lewis

There is a compelling factual case to be made that the contemporary radical Left can properly be called "Neocommunist." The Hard Left is grounded in Marxist vision of creating a "new man" under a system led by a vanguard that knows best what the rest of society needs. And Neocommies behave in patterns with startling parallels to Old Communist tactics.

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Lawless Lawmakers By By Ralph R. Reiland

Do a quick Google search of "Jefferson," for instance, and you go from the principal author of the Declaration of Independence -- a man of the Enlightenment who played a crucial role in shaping the U.S. Constitution -- to a Louisiana congressman with $90,000 in cash in his freezer, efficiently wrapped in aluminum foil in $10,000 increments and stuffed inside frozen-food packages.

The latter "public servant," Rep. William Jennings Jefferson, still in office and still not admitting that he did anything wrong, was videotaped by the FBI taking $100,000 out of an FBI informant's car on July 30, 2005, at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics By Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie

As you read this, Ayaan Hirsi Ali sits in a safe house with armed men guarding her door. She is one of the most poised, intelligent and compassionate advocates of freedom of speech and conscience alive today, and for this she is despised in Muslim communities throughout the world. The details of her story bear repeating, as they illustrate how poorly equipped we are to deal with the threat of Muslim extremism in the West.

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"Taking Out" the Big Guns By Erik Rush

Over the last few weeks, Americans have had the benefit of witnessing the far-Left at its most revealing; that is, base, juvenile, mendacious, opportunistic and currently, desperate.

“Bill O’Reilly’s a racist!”

I was asked to appear on a Denver area radio program last week to discuss the dynamics and ramifications of the uproar surrounding Fox News’ broadcaster Bill O’Reilly’s allegedly racist marks following his dinner with civil rights activist Al Sharpton at a restaurant in Harlem (the legendary and predominantly black district of New York City) three weeks ago. O’Reilly’s comments, as one might guess, were not racist but were interpreted as such by elements in the media, civil rights activists and poverty pimps across America. He was descended upon and excoriated by same and compelled to illustrate the demonization and calumny that is standard operating procedure for the far-Left.

The host of the show on which I appeared asked (for the sake of listeners; she already knew the answer) why O’Reilly was being targeted with such vitriol, doggedness and abandon.

“He’s a big gun,” I told my gracious host.

“Rush Limbaugh’s anti-military!”

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Women’s Studies Departments Ignore the Plight of Women in Islam By Sara Dogan

One of the central aims of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will feature events on more than 100 college campuses from October 22-26, is to highlight the brutal oppression of women by Islamic radicals and by the regimes they control such as Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Despite their vigilance in behalf of women’s rights in America and other Western nations, Women’s Studies Departments across the nation have been strangely passive in the face of the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic regimes. Numerous hours are spent in the classroom, dissecting the reasons for the ‘wage gap’ in America, violence against women and the ‘privileges’ accorded Caucasian males. But courses on the plight of women in Islamic regimes are strangely absent. Where there are a few courses that touch on Islamic women in Women’s Studies programs, the focus is often cultural and literary, while the abuses go unmentioned.

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President Hillary Clinton and the Future of Civilization By Raymond S. Kraft

I am listening to one of the courses from The Teaching Company these days, this one “The Wisdom of History” by Prof. J. Rufus Fears, the David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. He is absolutely the best speaker I have ever heard, both brilliant and eloquent. One of the points he keeps making is that the rise and fall of nations and empires very often hinges on the decisions, or indecisions, of one person – that history is not made by grand sweeping social forces so much as by the influence and force of character of specific individuals.

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A Navy LOST? By Caroline Glick

Irony of ironies: the principal champion of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is the United States Navy.  Yet, it is predictable that few organizations would suffer more than America's naval forces from a supranational government of the oceans empowered by U.S. accession to that treaty. 

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'Dialogue with Democrats Now Akin to Diplomacy with Terrorists?' By Sher Zieve

The problem with Islamic terrorists is that they say one thing with their lies to the appeasing West and the polar opposite to their own people. One only need listen to what Iranian President Ahmadinejad says in his speeches to the fawning leftist media and, then, follow up with his messages to the Iranian and Islamic world. From the Islamist point of view, everything and everyone non-Muslim needs to be irrevocably destroyed. The media avoids the truth of what is being said by this and other Islamo-fascist terrorist leaders, in favor of the feel-good lies. This is stupidity in its most grotesque and dangerous guise. These terrorists cannot be viably dealt with in a diplomatic manner. Diplomacy never has and never will work with those who have vowed to obliterate the diplomats and their countries of origin.

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Bald-Faced Lies About the U.N. By Cliff Kincaid

Do you think our "adversary press" is on the lookout for government lies? Consider the false testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on behalf of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This is a treaty that our media want passed by the Senate. So they are letting his lies go completely unchallenged.

One of the most audacious lies was that, despite the fact that the treaty carries the name "United Nations" in its title, it is not a U.N. treaty.

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AN ESSENTIAL STEP IN SAVING AMERICA By Neal Boortz

About 159 years ago someone named Karl Marx sat down to put his dream to words; his dream of a communist state that was to become a worker's paradise. Somehow it didn't work out all that well, but it certainly wasn't for a lack of effort. Tens of millions of people died in Russia, China and elsewhere to show what an incredibly bad idea Marx had.

It's ironic to me that the countries who suffered under the rule of Marx' worker's paradise have largely rejected so many of the tenants set forth in his Communist Manifesto, while the one country that held communism at bay for over 70 years and eventually destroyed it still embraces many of those ideas.

We've gone through this before, but once again (hey, there might be new Nuze readers!) let me tell you of just two of the essential elements of a communist society as set forth in Marx's work:

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The Destructive Class By The Realist

A number of articles on IW have argued that the reason for the success of the “whites as cancer” myth is that our culture associates anti-Western, pro-diversity attitudes with positive traits like intelligence and courage. This “anti-ethnocentric” snobbery emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and was particularly strong among the professional classes and those who aspired to join them. Anti-ethnocentrism proved an effective ideology for legitimating professionals’ class power. It made slandering whites appear to be a courageous act of resistance to the “pre-fascist” white majority.

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Why Did The Industrial Revolution Happen Where It Did? By Steve Sailer

An ambitious and provocative new book by University of California at Davis economic historian Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World attempts to explain two huge questions:

Why did one part of the human race finally break out of the "Malthusian trap"—in which growth in per capita income is washed away by subsequent population growth—namely England, at the end of the 18th Century, through rapid and sustained technological advance?

And why did the prosperity made possible by the Industrial Revolution successfully spread to some countries but not to others?

In the process, Clark offers a stunning rebuke to economists:

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CBS and Clarence Thomas By Joseph Farah

"You're black."

"Do you think of yourself as a black man?"

"You've been successful. You moved on. You don't care about people and your race."

These were a few of the questions posed to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on "60 Minutes" this week by reporter Steve Kroft.

You can and should watch it for yourself, or, at least, read CBS News' own version of the interview in a story headlined: "Clarence Thomas: The Justice Nobody Knows."

You might learn something about Clarence Thomas, but you will certainly learn more about the mindset at CBS News and Big Media.

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Bush backs Mexico, rapist-murderer :: WorldNetDaily.com

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday in which the Bush administration will seek to overturn the death penalty of a convicted rapist-murderer at the behest of the International Court of Justice.

Jose Medellin confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime.

Medellin and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row. A juvenile court sentenced Medellin's younger brother, who was 14 at the time, to 40 years in prison.

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Anything To Win By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

What does the Clinton campaign's use of convicted and disgraced Sandy Berger as an adviser say about the judgment of someone who wants to be president of the United States?

Berger's tie to Hillary through his service as national security adviser to husband Bill is not a compelling reason to seek his counsel. Neither is a Clinton friendship with Berger that goes back 35 years.

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London: Experts challenge Gore on global warming by Herbert London

On September 24th Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, addressed the U.N. General Assembly on global warming. This was a speech Al Gore probably received with alarm if he heard it at all.  For Klaus maintains that the essence of global warming is not understood and the campaign Gore has promoted is wildly inconsistent with the evidence.

President Klaus is not alone in his assessment. According to Fred Singer, professor emeritus of Climatology at the University of Virginia, there are 500 scientists who agree in one way or another with Klaus—notwithstanding the fact that one 60 Minutes reporter claimed that denying the reality of global warming is comparable to “Holocaust denial.”

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Hamas Indoctrinates Children…Again :: IPT News

The media arm of HAMAS, Al-Aqsa TV, once again is using the airwaves to indoctrinate Palestinian youth and glorify violent jihad. In recent months, HAMAS has drawn the ire of the international community with various programs aimed at filling the minds of the next generation of Palestinians with hate and violence. The underlying message of the videos has largely focused on Israeli aggression, though, in recent editions, has digressed into the fray of the Hamas-Fatah split.

A back-to-school program called "The Gifted" features a child, identified as a 2-year-old, skulking around in military garb and aiming an assault weapon "at the occupying terrorists."

"We'll wear the battle-vest of self sacrifice and follow the path of the Shahids," a child narrator says as the younger boy, his face hooded, stoops down with his weapon. Watch the video here:

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Inverted :: Wake Up America

We talk about Ayn Rand's works from time to time here because they're so visionary. Before 1950 she had given us a glimpse of sorts into the future (from her standpoint), a glimpse that ties in so well with the the world we live in today. In my mind, there is only one word that can truly describe what she saw, and the route we, as society, have chosen for ourselves today.

Inverted.

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When the Story's Got Children, Who Needs Facts? By Amy Menefee

It’s the perfect combination of sin taxes, nanny-statism and taxpayer-funded welfare – all in the name of the children.

And according to media reports, it’s President George W. Bush vs. Everyone Who Likes Children.

The story now is Bush’s October 3 veto of a massive expansion of the government-run State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The media couldn’t resist scripting the veto as a vote against children. What’s at stake, though, included a proposed $35-billion expansion of taxpayer-funded insurance made possible by a tax increase.

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Iran Plans to Checkmate America By Mark S. Hanna

Moscow, 1985. The world is riveted as the 24th and final game of the World Chess Championship begins with young Kasparov leading the contest 4 - 3. The chess prodigy needs only a draw against his older and more experienced opponent Anatoly Karpov to win his first world title and be crowned the youngest world champion in history.

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SEX WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES & THE DEATH OF THE WEST :: Real Clear Religion

Margaret Sanger, a founder of planned parenthood imagined a "paradise".    She did not live to see the fulfillment of this "paradise"-- but it has arrived.  Her "paradise" has taken a horrendous toll in terms of not only souls, but also lives lost.  It has led us down a path of cultural suicide and could eventually if not recognized, bring about the death of the West.  

Like the serpent's promise to Adam and Eve, Margaret Sanger visualized a world where sex reigned free of commitment and consequences. 

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The Darwinian Inquisition begins by Lawrence Auster

Ben W. sends more amazing material on the Council of Europe's campaign to suppress disagreement with Darwinism, based on the view that such disagreement is a threat to human rights. Which obviously implies that the next step will be to treat anti-Darwinism as "incitement to hatred" and punish it as a criminal offense.

Living in advanced liberal society is not for sissies.

Ben writes:

The EU finds creationism positively dangerous to the development of society:

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Media Dishonesty Matters By Randall Hoven

We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small.  It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace Prize winners.  It has been going on for a long time, sometimes by carelessness and sometimes by deliberate lying.  I have compiled a list of 101 such incidents.

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The World Dictatorship Treaty By Wes Vernon

Only three Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee knew what the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is, according to a recent survey. Only 3 out of the 12 GOP committee members. There was no known survey of Democrat members.

That reinforces this column's point last week ("What's the rush?" — Oct. 1, 2007) that there are 10 other Senate committees besides Foreign Relations (dominated by the bipartisan internationalist Biden-Lugar cabal) that need to hold open and (hopefully) well-publicized hearings of LOST to inform senators.

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Hillary Clinton Reigns as Queen of Federal Pork By Kevin Hassett

Democrats came into power this year promising meaningful earmark reform to a U.S. electorate that was rightly disgusted with Congress's free-spending habits. Today, earmarks continue to be out of control, and the predictable result is that the Democratic Congress is now even less popular in national polls than the Republican one before it.

There is an underappreciated angle to the story of how lawmakers steer federal funds toward their pet projects that may yet swing the next presidential election. Democrats have been so busy preparing the coronation of Hillary Clinton that they have failed to train a critical eye on her record.

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A Dutch Retreat on Speech? By Anne Applebaum

And now we come to what may be a truly fundamental test, maybe even a turning point, for that part of the world generally known as the West.

The test is this: Are prominent, articulate critics of radical Islam, critics who happen to be citizens of European countries or the United States, entitled to the same free speech rights enjoyed by other citizens of European countries and the United States?

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Fighting for Men's Rights By Helen Smith

Men are becoming increasingly concerned about finding justice in today’s legal system. PJM advice columnist Dr. Helen interviews expert Glenn Sacks and warns against “standing idly by while your rights are infringed, your freedoms are in question and your sex is used as a weapon against you.”

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Vaporizing Our American Culture by Frosty Wooldridge

We, as a nation, stand on the precipice of our own cultural disintegration.  Our culture stands in the crosshairs of clashing civilizations via importation of millions of immigrants from incompatible cultures.

This week, in Denver, Colorado, immigrants want Halloween celebrations taken out of the school systems.  Peter Boyles, talk jock of KHOW 630 AM said, “Next they will demand Thanksgiving be taken away from us.”

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HAMAS in the House By Patrick Poole

The Ohio State Capitol in Columbus will be the setting for a curious convocation later this month when it hosts an event featuring several well-known Islamic extremists as part of an “interfaith” conference entitled, “The Many Faces of Islam”. The conference, which is to be held in the atrium of the Statehouse on Sunday, October 28^th, will feature two well-known speakers with multiple connections to the HAMAS international terrorist organization, a host of convicted terrorist leaders, and colleagues who fled the US to avoid prosecution on terrorism-related charges. The event is sponsored by the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio.

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Al Gore, Ignoble Laureate By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Once a symbol of distinction, this honor has plumbed shameful depths in recent years. A county fair blue ribbon has more significance. Since 1990, winners include terrorist Yasser Arafat, fraud Rigoberto Menchu, foreign-policy incompetents Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan, unreconstructed communist Mikhail Gorbachev and the useless Mohamed ElBaradei.

Pulling the world apart, not together, with his global warming claims.

Each year, the Peace Prize committee has a chance to redeem itself, yet it never seems up to the task. It looks like 2007 will be no exception. Later this week, say reports, it will name as this year's co-winners Al Gore and Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian who has drawn attention to what she believes are climate change's effects on Arctic communities.

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Miller's queer beer By Vox Day

"Choose this day whom you will serve," Joshua once asked the people of Israel. The Miller Brewing Company, when asked to make a similar decision, preferred to serve alcohol to catamites instead of Catholics, as evidenced by their decision to sponsor the Folsom Street Fair in Sodom-by-the-Bay last week. It is, of course, perfectly legal for Miller to wave their Genuine Draft banner proudly over the scenes of bald men in leather whipping the bare bottoms of other bald men in leather; it seems Miller is determined to identify its product with a short-lived, disease-ridden, non-propagating minority who represent at most two percent of the population.

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Terrorists endorse Hillary in '08 :: WordNetDaily

With presidential primaries approaching and the race for the White House heating up, Muslim terrorist leaders in the Middle East have offered their endorsement for America's highest office, stating in a new book they hope Sen. Hillary Clinton is victorious in 2008.

"I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq," stated Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group.

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Clash of civilizations: Battle of Lepanto revisited By Mary Jo Anderson

Today, Christians quietly recall the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, Oct. 7, 1571. On that date the forces of Islam battled the Holy League in a crucial engagement at Lepanto, the modern day Gulf of Corinth. The date assumes larger significance in light of recent struggles between the West and Islamic jihad.

Sparked by the events like the Danish Cartoon Wars, Pope Benedict XVI's speech at Regensburg and the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, a firestorm of renewed debate about the nature of Islamic jihad fills Western magazines and newspapers. Some maintain that the "war on terror" is the result of the Bush administration's mishandling of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Others have revised their thinking after five years.

Jonathan Last, writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer Oct. 1 states, "It's the West vs. the Islamic world, a clash that has never abated. … It predates America itself. It is a clash between Western civilization and the Islamic world."

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Columbus Day—A Comanche's Philosophy By David Yeagley

Great men often suffer greatly. And where there is greatness, there is great error.  Columbus was no exception, by all accounts.

I consider Columbus one of the greatest men who ever lived, certainly since the time of Christ. I would therefore expect him to be demonized. Nevertheless, whether denounced by modern American Indian protesters paid by white liberals, or condemned by his own contemporary countrymen, the rage against Columbus has ever but slightly shadowed his true accomplishments.  Anger is a weak ideology. True greatness is untouchable and triumphant, even if it’s crucified along the way.

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Schumer-Rangel Tax Hike :: New York Sun Editorial

Senator Dole once quipped that "the most dangerous place in Washington is between Senator Schumer and a television camera," but it's starting to look like the most dangerous place is between Mr. Schumer and your back pocket. Mr. Schumer had been opposing a scheme percolating in the Senate to raise the 15% tax rate that applies to "carried interest" held by certain wealthy hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital tycoons because he feared it would single out so many big donors to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that he chairs. But it turns out — he announced this week — that he wants to rectify this attack on the leaders of the home town industry in New York by a tax hike that would "spread the pain" so that the higher tax would also be paid not only be big real estate investors but also by the energy tycoons in the corn-fields of one of the senators who started this nonsense, Charles Grassley.

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Pirating an Election by Brooks Mick

What's happening isn't what it appears to be. Hillary and Obama appear to be trading blows, fighting each other for the Democratic nomination. 'Taint so, however. Hillary and Obama have teamed up. Hillary and Bill and George Soros are crouching behind Obama, and one or all have their hands stuffed up his shirt and are operating him like a hand puppet.

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Ivory Tower Decay By Michael Barone

I am old enough to remember when America's colleges and universities seemed to be the most open-minded and intellectually rigorous institutions in our society. Today, something very much like the opposite is true: America's colleges and universities have become, and have been for some decades, the most closed-minded and intellectually dishonest institutions in our society.

Colleges and universities today almost universally have speech codes, which prohibit speech deemed hurtful by others, particularly those who are deemed to be minorities (including women, who are a majority on most campuses these days).

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Rebuild the American family, starting with mom and dad By Mort Zuckerman

You will hear a lot about the American family in the election campaign. For most of us, that calls up an image of a man and wife and two or three children.

Forget it. Predominant as the social pattern for several hundred years, that American family has lost its place. Households of unmarried couples and households without children outnumber "American family" households. And only about 20% of families fit into the traditional structure with father as the only breadwinner.

 

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The New York Times Covers Haditha By John Hinderaker

The New York Times had a lot invested in Haditha. Gateway Pundit reviews the Times' coverage of the sad story, culminating in the paper's mourning for an atrocity lost:

Last year, when accounts of the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha by a group of marines came to light, it seemed that the Iraq war had produced its defining atrocity, just as the conflict in Vietnam had spawned the My Lai massacre a generation ago.

That sentence led the paper's coverage of the collapse of the Haditha prosecutions:

[O]n Thursday, a senior military investigator recommended dropping murder charges against the ranking enlisted marine accused in the 2005 killings, just as he had done earlier in the cases of two other marines charged in the case. The recommendation may well have ended prosecutors’ chances of winning any murder convictions in the killings of the apparently unarmed men, women and children.

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Punishing Clarence Thomas By Ruben Navarrette

The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may be the ultimate Rorschach test. Americans look back at what transpired in that Senate hearing room in October 1991 and see what they want to see.

For those who believed Anita Hill's claims that Thomas - while serving as her boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - made advances and created a hostile work environment, the hearings were about sexual harassment.

In a recent interview tied to the release of his new book, "My Grandfather's Son," Thomas said the treatment he received was really about abortion and the lengths to which the pro-choice lobby will go to keep a pro-life justice off the court.

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Adopt-A-Bomb by Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Cultural Anthropomorphism — The term anthropomorphism is used to denote the assignation of human characteristics and values to non-human, inanimate and even spiritual objects.

For example, we routinely refer to pets as our ‘babies’ or ‘children.’ Some people name their cars or computers. We almost always assign to God human-like characteristics and values. By doing so, we attempt to create a ‘human’ relationship that come with a certain set of expectations on our part. We elevate our pets to ‘love’ and depend on us in the same way a human child loves us. We ‘love’ our machines and they in return ‘perform’ for us. We imagine God as a wise old man, dispensing ‘mercy’ and ‘forgiveness’ in the same way we do.

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Who Made Hillary Queen? By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Among so much about American politics that can impress or depress a friendly transatlantic observer, there's nothing more astonishing than this: Why on Earth should Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton be the front-runner for the presidency?

She has now pulled well ahead of Sen. Barack Obama, both in polls and in fundraising. If the Democrats can't win next year, they should give up for good, so she must be considered the clear favorite for the White House. But in all seriousness: What has she ever done to deserve this eminence? How could a country that prides itself on its spirit of equality and opportunity possibly be led by someone whose ascent owes more to her marriage than to her merits?

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AL QAEDA IN HADITHA: THE BATTLE THE MEDIA IGNORED By Nathaniel R. Helms

Buried in the mountain of exhibits attached to the once secret Haditha, Iraq murder inquiry prepared by US Army Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell is an obscure Marine Corps intelligence summary (see pdf) that says the deadly encounter was an intentional propaganda ploy planned and paid for by Al Qaeda foreign fighters. 

Veteran military defense attorney Gary Meyers said he never understood why the Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents leading the Haditha criminal investigation didn’t “examine the linkage” between Al Qaeda, the local insurgency and the events at Haditha. Meyers was an attorney on the defense team that successfully defended Justin Sharratt, a Marine infantryman accused of multiple murders at Haditha.

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3,000 square foot home, but cannot ‘afford’ health insurance? :: Don Surber Blog

Remember the Frost family of Baltimore? They had a bad traffic accident 3 years ago. Their medical bills were paid by the taxpayer-subsidized SCHIP. Democrats trotted out Graeme Frost, 12, to call the president mean for not expanding the program beyond what he was willing to expand it.

But all is not what it seems. Based a sympathetic Baltimore Sun story — reporters never question “victims” — a blogger did some snooping around.

Brutally Honest found that the Frosts (check out the kitchen) live in a 3,000-square-foot house in the Butchers Hill historic district of Baltimore.

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