El Rushbo Uses Letter from Useful Idiots to Help U.S. Troops By John W. Lillpop

Harry Reid and forty of the most fervently anti-American Democrats in the history of the U.S. Senate tried their level best to embarrass conservative talk show icon Rush Limbaugh, while simultaneously promoting themselves as guardian angels charged with protecting U.S. troops.

Democrats actually working on behalf of American troops? Absurd!

Remember that just last summer, Harry Reid declared the war in Iraq "lost."

Why in the world would a patriotic, intelligent leader who really gives a damn about U.S. troops concede defeat with 160,000 courageous Americans troops still on the ground and in harm's way?

El Rushbo Uses Letter from Useful Idiots to Help U.S. Troops

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Pelosi's Armenian Gambit By Charles Krauthammer

There are three relevant questions concerning the Armenian genocide.

(a) Did it happen?

(b) Should the U.S. House of Representatives be expressing itself on this now?

(c) Was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's determination to bring this to a vote, knowing that it risked provoking Turkey into withdrawing crucial assistance to American soldiers in Iraq, a conscious (columnist Thomas Sowell) or unconscious (blogger Mickey Kaus) attempt to sabotage the U.S. war effort?

The answers are:

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Election 2008: All About Bullsh*t

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

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Haditha “Massacre” by Jules Crittenden

A shameful pack of lies, distortions. WSJ: 

The incident at Haditha–or the massacre, as it is often called–is due for a wholesale rethinking. The allegations are that in 2005 U.S. Marines went on a killing spree and deliberately executed 24 Iraqi civilians. The casualties have drawn an extraordinary amount of political attention, becoming an emblem for everything critics say is wrong with the Iraq war–in the common telling, another My Lai.

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THE APOCALYPTIC VISION OF ISLAMIC FANATICS: A Sobering Reality :: Dr. Sanity

David Ignatius of the Washington Post--certainly no right wing shill-- has a sobering column at RealClearPolitics about Al Qaeda's quest for a nuclear weapon:

We've all had enough fear-mongering to last a lifetime. Indeed, we have become so frightened of terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, that we have begun doing the terrorists' job for them by undermining the legal framework of our democracy. And truly, I wish I could dismiss Mowatt-Larssen's analysis as the work of an overwrought former CIA officer with too many years in the trenches...

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Dallas Reporter Suspended After Controversial Report

KDFW reporter Rebecca Aguilar has been suspended in the wake of her controversial 'ambush' of a 70-year-old man.
Monday night, KDFW-Channel 4 ran a piece about 70-year-old James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in West Dallas, who, early Sunday morning, shot and killed and man trying to break into his business. What made Walton's story so extraordinary was that it was the second time he'd killed an intruder in three weeks. As it happens, Walton also lives at his place of business.
But today you will not find the Fox4 story on the station's Web site; there's a page for it, but no accompanying video. That's because Rebecca Aguilar's piece elicited a torrent of outrage, both on local blogs and from viewers who began deluging the station with angry calls Monday night and much of the day yesterday.

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Why America Needs President Hillary Clinton

Satire by John W. Lillpop

With the possible exception of blaspheming the Holy Ghost, the most egregious sin a conservative can commit is to knowingly express anything positive about the junior senator from New York, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Or to be more precise and less politically correct, Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton.
However, egregious sin is actually my favorite summer pastime. So herewith, an endorsement of the unlovable Lady Clinton.

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Analysis- Plot to form a North American Union mandates a federal investigation By Marty Eels

Former Mexican President, Vincente Fox, made comments recently on television shows promoting unfettered immigration from Mexico to the United States. Fox’s statements revealed that immigration may be being used as a tool of sedition.

Vincente Fox called for integrating North America and seemed to openly call for the end of the U.S. government by stating his long term support for a North American Union.

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We were misled by the press then and now. How many civilians did we kill using dumb bombs from 15,000 feet? By Marvin Olasky

With Hillary Clinton surging in the polls and Democrats knifing Bush’s foreign policy and praising Bill Clinton’s, it’s time for a reality check on a supposed triumph: Team Clinton oversimplified a complex situation in Bosnia and ended up aiding and abetting Muslim extremists.

That’s the conclusion of John Schindler, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a former National Security Agency analyst. In his new book, “Unholy Terror: Bosnia, al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad,” Schindler reappraises the 1992-1995 Bosnian war and America’s decision to come to the defense of Muslims in their conflict with Serbs.

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Super Values By Christopher Orlet

Europeans might have learned a valuable lesson after Western Civilization was nearly wrecked on the shoals of national socialism. Namely, nations unwilling to defend liberal democracy against those who would destroy it will not long have a democracy to defend. Sixty-two years later, many of their children and grandchildren remain reluctant to defend Western values if so doing gives the impression of cultural or racial superiority, which in today's society must be one the worst crimes imaginable.

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Bombs Away! TSA Fails to Find Mock Bombs—Again By Annie Jacobsen

USA Today obtained a classified, Department of Homeland Security report and on Thursday revealed that Transport Security Administration (TSA) federal screeners at the airport in Los Angeles had missed fake bombs—hidden in carry-ons and tucked inside clothing of undercover agents—a whopping 75 percent of the time. In Chicago, the slip-through rate was 60 percent. USA Today’s security experts told the paper they were “stunned” by the failure rates. These experts must not read newspapers or watch TV.

Just seven months ago, March of 2007, undercover Red Team agents at the airport in Denver, Colorado were able to sneak “90 percent of the simulated weapons [they carried] past checkpoint screeners.” By example, Channel 9 News reported that screeners caught “one explosive device that was packed in a suitcase,” but screeners “in the baggage area missed a book bomb,” according to sources.

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Israel Warns World War III May be Biblical War of Gog and Magog :: NIN

Sound like we've taken leave of our senses? Think again. It's not US saying this - there are NUMEROUS individuals who are in positions of political authority in the U.S. and overseas who are giving this "possibility" a deeper look.

US President George W. Bush said a nuclear Iran would mean World War III. Israeli newscasts featured Gog & Magog maps of the likely alignment of nations in that potential conflict.

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Showdown at Berkeley by Catherine Moy

A showdown between anti-war activists who last month defaced a Marine recruiting office and flag-carrying patriots took over a street in Berkeley on Wednesday with noise levels that reached a half-mile away at the University of California in town.

Berkeley police officers kept the Code Pink contingent of about 150 separated from the group of about 500 led by Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization. The incidents of abhorrent behavior were rare, but included an anti-war demonstrator trying to knife a pro-troop supporter and two code Pink followers burning flags.

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Hsu II? Hillary raking in cash from poor Chinese immigrants, many of whom can’t be located by Allahpundit

Sinfully delicious. Remember, Hsugate began not with Hsu himself but with the Paw family, who somehow churned out a cool $50K in contributions to the Cause — most of which coincided with Hsu’s own donations — even though they live in a small house near the San Fran airport. As far as I know, it’s still unexplained how they came up with the cash. Now comes the LA Times with allegations of a broad base of “poor” Chinese donors, some of whom seem to have scrounged up the money legitimately to get a photo op with the great lady, some of whom seem to have done so at the behest of “neighborhood associations” which exert “enormous influence” over recent immigrants, and some of whom — well, some of whom may not exist. Dummy businesses in Norman Hsu’s case, dummy donors here?

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Oxford Union Is Dead By Alan M. Dershowitz

This is an obituary for the Oxford Union, which claims to be, one of the most famous and distinguished debating societies in the world. The reality is that it is no longer a debating society at all; it has become a propaganda platform for extremist views, primarily of the hard-left. It is now stopped even pretending to present both sides of controversial issues. To be sure it puts forward a façade of balance, by presenting speakers who purport to represent both sides of an issue. But the Oxford Union has become a Potemkin village where a façade of fairness serves as a cover for the reality of bias. Consider for example a debate that is scheduled to take place at the Oxford Union on October, 23 2007 at 8:30pm. The proposition before the house is as follows: “This house believes that One State is the Only Solution to the Israel-Palestine Conflict”

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Vocabulary of War By David Horowitz

The Left is up in arms over the effort to hold an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on American college campuses. The goal of the Week is to alert Americans to the threat from Islamo-Fascism and to focus attention on the violent oppression of Muslim women under theocracies in Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and other Islamic states. It has been attacked as “Islamophobic” and “racist” by the Muslim Students Association, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and FoxNews Channel’s Alan Colmes.

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Islam and the Textbooks By Gilbert T. Sewall

The coverage of Islam in world history textbooks has expanded and in some respects improved, offering students a detailed look at the Muslim world through the centuries, one that explains its origins and tenets, including the difference between the Sunni and Shiite sects, and one that dwells on the splendors of Islamic art and architecture, learning and science, medicine and knowledge through the ages. But on significant Islam-related subjects, textbooks omit, flatter, embellish, and resort to happy talk, suspending criticism or harsh judgments that would raise provocative or even alarming questions.

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An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton By Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times

Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.

And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes.

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Seven Things To Know About the Clintons By Emmett Tyrrell

This week, it was reported in the authoritative Capitol Hill newspaper, The Hill, that Don Van Natta Jr. and Jeff Gerth included some unsavory news about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in "Her Way," their recent book about her. Hillary, during the 1992 presidential campaign, "listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics." Washington observers appeared shocked. Mein Gott, where have they been all these years? The Clintons have engaged in brute behavior for decades, much of it a matter of record. The Hill's report moves me to list seven issues every American should know about the Clintons before 2008. Journalists should be particularly interested, as well as Democrats intent on avoiding a repeat of the Clinton 1990s.

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KDFW-FOX4 forces YouTube to pull Video Evidence of ‘Ambush Journalism’ :: Texas Fred's

KDFW-FOX4 has forced YouTube to pull the video of Rebecca Aguilar accosting Mr. James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in West Dallas with what can only be construed as ‘Ambush Reporting’ as he was attempting to get in his car and leave Academy Sports and Outdoors where he had, according to his own statement, just made the purchase of a new shotgun, This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by KDFW FOX 4 TV

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Rebecca Aguilar's scandalous humiliation of an old man :: Instapundit

YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT AT WORK: "So much for bloggers stalking people in the news. Leave it to a real journalist to go over the top." But when they do it, it's a sign of professionalism.

KDFW has gotten the video -- previously embedded here -- pulled from YouTube, which suggests that they feel they have something to hide. But you can see the relevant segments as part of this commentary on Aguilar's journalistic ethics, at Breitbart.tv.

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Blowing the Whistle on U.N. Corruption By Cliff Kincaid

On the eve of a Senate vote on the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, a former senior staffer in one of the key institutions created by the treaty says that U.S. senators should have the complete and honest truth about mismanagement and financial corruption there. The International Seabed Authority, which is one of the main organizations created by the treaty, stands to receive millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars if the Senate ratifies the pact.

Nithi Sam-Thambiah says that he was fired by Satya Nandan, the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), for uncovering improper financial payments to top officials, including Nandan himself. Nandan is a veteran of the U.N. bureaucracy.

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The Democrats Hate Pregnant Women, Infants, and Mothers By Adam Graham

The above title is harsh, demagogic, and unkind. It fits perfectly with the conversation that's been started by National Democrats over SCHIP, and I do have an actual reason for this audacious title.

As has been reported by the Washington Times and other outlets, an anti-pork Amendment was actually passed by the US Senate. The Amendment (passed on Roll Call vote 377) eliminated $1 million that was supposed to fund a Woodstock museum in New York State. This greatly disappointed backers of the earmark who gave $29,000 in campaign contributions to New York Senators Clinton and Schumer and still failed to get the million dollar return on their money.

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Democrats and Media Sabotage War Effort by Nancy Morgan

Cemetery workers are the new victims in the war on terror. Oh, for the good old days when bodies were piling up and they could feed their families.

Last week saw a dramatic drop in Iraqi death rates, a clear sign the surge is working. America, the Iraqi people and the cause of freedom are prevailing against a foe that would have the world regress to the 6th century. How does the media report this spectacular news?

McClatchy newspapers on Tuesday reported:

As Violence Falls in Iraq, Cemetery Workers Feel The Pinch

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Class and Racial Liberalism By The Realist

One of the great mysteries of our age is why whites believe that racial diversity is a strength when all the evidence says that it is not. The last column on The Inverted World, “The Destructive Class,” examined a particularly flagrant example of this stubborn refusal to see the truth. In his books about the Creative Class, economist Richard Florida maintains that diversity of all kinds leads to a more creative, innovative society; his own empirical research, however, shows the contrary.

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The Congressional 'Peter' Principle By Steve Schippert

This picture of an index card placed at the Vietnam Memorial is worth well more than a thousand words. It is exemplary of the character of a Marine who, rather than face vociferous Congressional opposition based on political objectives grounded in little more than a domestic public relations war, was asked to and chose to spare the nation such anguish and retire before he was otherwise inclined to do so. General Peter Pace has years of capable and needed service left in him. They have, for unconscionable reasons, been sacrificed by others upon the altar of political ambition.

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Eight Problems with the Conservative Movement Right Now By John Hawkins

The conservative movement and the vehicle that we use to implement our ideas, the Republican Party, have a number of problems right now that need to be addressed. For example:

Taking Care Of The Base: The first rule of politics is to make sure that your base is reasonably happy and if they're not, find a way to change that. Unfortunately, too many Republican politicians have forgotten that most basic of rules and they've allowed their biggest supporters to become dispirited and angry with them. Even the beatings that the GOP took in the 2006 election only partially shook George Bush and the Republicans in the Senate out of their stupor (To the House's credit, it seems to have gotten the message). This anger/malaise is reflected in the lack of conservative activism right now, the querulousness of many conservatives, and the fundraising gap that has sprung up between Democrats and Republicans.

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WSJ Misses Fraud Behind Alien “Mortgage Boom” By Edwin S. Rubenstein

While the overall mortgage market is shrinking, one type of loan is bucking the trend: mortgages for illegal immigrants.

Known as ITIN mortgages because most illegals have individual taxpayer identification numbers instead of Social Security numbers, they’ve apparently escaped the sub prime meltdown.

A recent Wall Street Journal article, Unlikely Mortgage Winner [subscriber link, also here] October 9, 2007, by Miriam Jordan [email her], gloats: 

“For loans more than 90 days in arrears, ITIN mortgages have a delinquency rate of about 0.5%, according to independent estimates. That compares with 1% for prime mortgages and 9.3% for subprime mortgages extended to those with spotty credit histories.”

As to why illegals rarely default, claims Jordan:

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Germ Warfare By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

A Mexican national legally enters the U.S. 76 times and travels domestically with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis. What about those who enter illegally? Can we build the fence now?

We all know the case of Andrew Speaker, the 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer who contracted a highly infectious form of tuberculosis and was able to slip back into the U.S. from Europe via Canada, putting at risk those he flew and came in contact with.

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Al Qaeda in Iraq on the Run By Clifford D. May

Al Qaeda is on the horns of a dilemma. Last month, some 30 of its senior leaders in Iraq were killed or captured. Now, Osama bin Laden faces a tough decision: Send reinforcements to Iraq in an attempt to regain the initiative? That risks losing those combatants, too -- and that could seriously diminish his global organization. But the alternative is equally unappealing: accept defeat in Iraq, the battlefield bin Laden has called central to the struggle al Qaeda is waging against America and its allies.

Hard times for al Qaeda should be good news for America but you wouldn’t know it from the reaction of the antiwar movement and their sympathizers in Congress and the elite media. Many have been unwilling even to acknowledge that U.S. forces are fighting al Qaeda in Iraq. They claim we are merely refereeing a civil war and/or combating Iraqi “resistance” to American “occupation.”

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Gore gets a cold shoulder By Steve Lyttle :: The Sydney Morning Herald

One of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

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Islamist-Marxist Alliance :: Christian Action Network

In his latest video-taped message, Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden tried to lay the foundations for an alliance between radical Islamism and Western leftist “progressisim”.

He quoted with admiration a number of American and European leftists, including Noam Chomsky, the polemicist-cum-linguist who believes that the United States is a “rogue state” and the source of all evil on earth.

The dream of an Islamist-Marxist alliance, however, is not confined to Bin Laden and Al Qaida. It also plays a part in the overall strategy of Iran.

It is in the name of “a global progressist front”, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez are sponsoring a number of projects to underline “the ideological kinship of the left and revolutionary Islam”.

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The Constitution: It's a Loophole! :: Power Line

The love-fest between Senate Democrats and Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey drifted onto the rocks today, as Mukasey declined to join in the Judiciary Committee's bash-Bush agenda. Meanwhile, the mainstream media's appallingly bad coverage of the committee hearing continued. Here is how the Washington Post began its story, which was headlined "Mukasey Endorses Expansive Presidential Authority":

Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey suggested today that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his constitutional authority as commander in chief.

This is a non-controversial proposition. Of course the President can ignore a law that infringes on his constitutional authority, just as Congress can ignore an executive order that infringes on its powers. The Post continues:

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The Web is the Platform By Erick Schonfeld

The platform wars are over. Long live the Web. That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google’s vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago. His talk was nominally about widgets (which Google calls Gadgets).

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Barack Obama: You’re No Ronald Reagan-But You May Be Dick Cheney! Satire By John W. Lillpop

Barack Obama has learned a whole lot about who he is, and is not, over the past several days.

The wackiness started when Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani took Obama to task for promising to meet with terrorist leaders.

Resurrecting the legacy of Ronald Reagan and the Gipper’s adept handling of the communists, Giuliani reminded Obama of just whom he is not.

“I say this most respectfully: You’re not Ronald Reagan, you know?” America’s mayor said, chiding Obama on Tuesday.

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The Right Decision on SCHIP :: GOPublius

Today the House failed to generate enough votes to overturn President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP State Childrens Health Insurance Program)Amendments. Never was a Veto so proper.  The bill was unambiguously designed to be vetoed so that Democrats could call Bush a “baby-hater“. The Democrats never thought this bill would pass.
Despite the Democrats exploitation of 12 year old President Bush, once again, has shown that he is a capable leader and able to enforce his policies. This will not stop the Democrats attacks, however, as less than half a percent of the American population wrote Congress to oppose the veto:

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Gore's Inconvenient 9/11 Truth By Denis Keohane

Nobel laureate Al Gore, we are to believe, has the technical acumen to analyze complex data, assess risks, and identify the right countermeasures. He must be able to critically sift through mountains of data, distinguish between reliable and unreliable climate models, and astutely analyze volumes of esoteric scientific reports and studies to determine with something like crystal clarity what will most assuredly happen in the future. On an ongoing basis, as new data comes in.

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Affirmative Action Grading In Universities: Part 4 - Fighting City Hall By Nicholas Stix

"What do you call a black man with a Ph.D.?" Malcolm X famously asked, forty years ago. He answered, "A nigger!" What was once true of an educated black man, is today true in academia of an educated white man with the outcast status of adjunct professor. For in academia, caste rules.

Following the publication in the Spring 1998 issue of Academic Questions (AQ) of my expose on grade inflation, there was no response. It was odd that silence should reign regarding a major scholarly study of a topic supposedly near to the hearts of conservative academics. The closest I got to a response was a letter that appeared in AQ fifteen months later:

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Anxious for Dhimmitude By Mark D. Tooley

A large group of senior Islamic clerics and teachers has recently issued “A Common Word Between Us and You,” a statement addressed to churches urging greater comity between Muslims and Christians. The clerics unapologetically espouse Muslim teachings, while asserting there is common theological ground between the two faiths. The Vatican and some conservative Protestants have commented that the Muslim outreach merits a thoughtful response.

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Another Liberal Noose-ance By Ann Coulter

Liberals are so invigorated by the story about a noose being found on an obscure Columbia University professor's door that now nooses are popping up all over New York City. Liberals love to make believe the Night Riders are constantly at their doors.

I'll be shocked by a noose appearing on a college campus the day an actual racist does it.

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Treason Looks Pretty in Pink By Pam Meister

You may have heard that the “peace” activist group Code Pink recently defaced a Marine recruiting office in Berkeley, California. The office opened in Berkeley in the beginning of 2007, but no one seemed to take much notice of it until the local Code Pink chapter happened upon it and history, as they say, was made.

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Romney calls global body a 'failure' By JIM DAVENPORT

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. - Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney called the United Nations a failure on Thursday and said he would support a new coalition of the free nations of the world.

The former Massachusetts governor said the U.N. Human Rights Council has repeatedly condemned Israel while taking no action against nations with repressive regimes.

"The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. "We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council."

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A GOP Formula for Victory in 2008 By Christopher Adamo |

Despite the gloomy prognostications of Hillary’s inevitability as the next heir to the White House, she is no more “invincible” as a candidate than was her husband.  And here a reality check is in order.

Although the press would have us all believe that Bill Clinton was and is universally adored, attaining a status somewhere between that of a rock star and the savior of humanity, history tells a much different story.

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Now is the time to listen to climate scientists, not activists By Tom Harris

Listening to the Speech from the Throne Tuesday, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Conservatives were copying Stephane Dion’s leadership campaign tactics of 13 months ago. In Dion’s case, he took his climate change phraseology essentially verbatim from a David Suzuki report. In the case of the Harper government, they appear to have lifted most of their assertions from a wider selection of environmental groups, but the messages are equally unfounded nonethe-less.

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LOST justice? :: CSP Decision Brief

Now, I am not a lawyer.  But you don't need to be one to recognize a legal train-wreck in the making.  And that is what recent events portend if the U.S. Senate agrees to the ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty or LOST) in the next few weeks. 

Consider two ominous indicators of trouble ahead. 

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Remember Sgt. Henry Johnson And Weep By Dave Gibson

This year would mark the 110th birthday of WWI hero Sgt.Henry Lincoln Johnson. While most Americans have never heard of this man, his story is quite possibly the most compelling soldier's story you will ever hear and one which deserves to be told over and over again.

In the wee hours of May 14, 1918, a German raiding party of at least two dozen soldiers operating in the Argonne Forest, set out to capture American soldiers. The Germans came upon a post occupied by Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, and surprised the newly-armed Americans. Johnson was immediately wounded and Roberts was captured. Johnson then went after the German raiders, firing his Lebel rifle until it jammed, then using it to club the enemy until it broke in half.

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Sovereignty is NOT A Renewable Commodity . . . By William D. Bailey

Somewhere along the way we seem to have bought into the concept that sovereignty is a renewable commodity . . . that we can just keep giving it away or subordinating it to other agendas and that it will replenish itself. I don't believe that history (or common sense) will substantiate that concept.

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Join the Art Project! ::Gates of Vienna

Inspired by Knute at Every Kinda People, Conservative Swede conceived the idea of the Öland Modoggie Free Speech Flag, and asked for my help in executing it. As CS explains below, by doing this we become part of Lars Vilks’ grand art project.

This all came about because an angry Pakistani mob, thinking they were burning a Swedish flag, burned a green and yellow flag by mistake. Conservative Swede wrote to me about it the other day:

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An Anglosphere Future By Christopher Hitchens

How a shared tradition of ideas and values—not bloodlines—can be a force for liberty

Having devoured the Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy, I did what their author hoped and graduated to his much finer historical novels. The best of these, The White Company, appeared in 1890; it describes the recruitment and deployment of a detachment of Hampshire archers during the reign of King Edward III, a period that, as Arthur Conan Doyle phrased it, “constituted the greatest epoch in English History—an epoch when both the French and the Scottish kings were prisoners in London.”

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Their Seven Deadly Sins By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

This week it was reported in the authoritative Capitol Hill newspaper, The Hill, that Don Van Natta Jr. and Jeff Gerth included some unsavory news about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Her Way, their recent book on her. Hillary, during the 1992 presidential campaign, "listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics...." Washington observers appeared shocked. Mein Gott, where have they been all these years? The Clintons have engaged in brute behavior for decades, much of it a matter of record. The Hill's report moves me to now list seven issues every American should know about the Clintons before 2008. Journalists should be particularly interested, as well as Democrats intent on avoiding a repeat of the Clinton 1990s.

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Tissue of Lies: The Jihad Against History By Richard L. Cravatts

In one of those ironies of questionable scholarship, just as a battle over a Barnard scholar's book about Israeli archeology had inflamed her application for tenure, heavy equipment was tearing away at the ancient crown of Jerusalem's 36-acre Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. Nadia Abu El-Haj's book, Facts on the Ground: Archeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, originally a doctoral thesis, questions the historical existence of a Jewish link to Israel, and her provocative claims have caused her to become the center of a fractious debate about her qualifications for tenure as a Barnard professor of anthropology.

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Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory and Busted Sod By Rosslyn Smith

Anthropogenic theories of climate change have a neglected and tragic precedent of acceptance by consensus. Before Al Gore's Nobel prize for helping politicize the theory of Global Warming came the widely-believed theory that "Rain Follows the Plow."

Many of the sod busters who settled the American West (and parts of Australia) during the late 19th centuries believed that by plowing under native vegetation to grow crops, they would increase rainfall on their marginally arable land.  Studies by weather experts were said to prove this anthropogenic climate change theory. 

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Crime and Rhetoric by Thomas Sowell

Oakland, California, continues to suffer the high crime rate, and especially the high murder rate, which has long afflicted that city. Judging by a recent speech by its current mayor, long-time leftist Ron Dellums, it can look forward to a future all too much like its past.

Why is Oakland so crime-ridden? According to Mayor Dellums, "we have closed our eyes to the injustices and inequities, and now we are reaping the wild winds of that disregard for a whole range of people."

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Crooked Hillary By Quin Hillyer

If Barack Obama really wants to be president, then he's acting like a gutless wonder.

The same goes for John Edwards and Joe Biden and Bill Richardson and everybody else in the Democratic field.

If they really wanted to be president, then when they look at the polls and realize that Hillary Clinton is leaving them in her dust, they would vow to stop her with every fair and accurate tool at their disposal -- and the beauty is, they would legitimately be able to tell themselves they are doing it to save the United States from somebody so corrupt that she is "unfit for elective office."

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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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America's never been a multicultural society By Michael Medved

After 177 years of national existence, after building a vast (and brutal) African empire, after serving as a bloody battlefield in two world wars and after achieving a phenomenally privileged postwar standard of living, the nation of Belgium currently hovers on the verge of collapse and dissolution.

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi Turns The Homosexual-Transgender Movement Loose On 50 Democrats By Andrea S. Lafferty

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-MoveOn.org) has just worked out a deal with homosexual legislator Barney Frank (D-MoveOn.org) to gain passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

It has been drama-rama in Congress and in the Education Committee for the last three to four weeks. I have never seen this type of confusion in all my years working on the Hill; this is unprecedented. The Democrats know they don’t have the votes to pass ENDA out of the Committee or on the Floor. The Democrats kept scheduling and canceling the ENDA mark up (this a process of amending the bill and voting it out of the committee).

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The Legacy of Ayn Rand By Chuck Colson

In his new memoir, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan reminds us that author Ayn Rand is still influencing the world. He credits her with turning him into something more than a “math junkie.”

Greenspan is not alone. A 1991 Book-of-the-Month Club and Library of Congress survey asked members which book had most influenced their lives. As expected, the Bible finished first. Unexpectedly, Rand’s most famous book, the novel Atlas Shrugged, finished second.

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Leaping Before We Looked: The Clinton Administration's Bosnian Failure By Marvin Olasky

With Hillary Clinton surging in the polls and Democrats knifing Bush's foreign policy and praising Bill Clinton's, it's time for a reality check on a supposed triumph: Team Clinton oversimplified a complex situation in Bosnia and ended up aiding and abetting Muslim extremists.

That's the conclusion of John Schindler, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a former National Security Agency analyst. In his new book, "Unholy Terror: Bosnia, al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad," Schindler reappraises the 1992-1995 Bosnian war and America's decision to come to the defense of Muslims in their conflict with Serbs.

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Mentioning The Unmentionable About The Chinese “Model Minority” By Brenda Walker

These days, much reporting about China has to do with how they are poisoning us with toxic products.

But for a long time, China’s human exports have been considered to be beyond criticism.

Chinese immigrants are widely seen as a "model minority". Of course, unpleasant facts about Chinese (or any of our government-imported diverse cultures) don't advance the multicultural agenda of the elite MSM, so they get little attention. Instead we only hear cheerful achievement stories—as with Indians, another favored group. (See my VDARE.COM article "Dogs, Frogs and Dalits").

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California 'Mom,' 'Dad' ban garners international scorn :: WorldNetDaily.com

An international organization promoting families says California families have no choice but to abandon the public school system after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new "anti-discrimination" bill into law, effectively making terms like "mom" and dad" obsolete.

As WND has reported, some family advocates in California already had come to the same conclusion as that reached now by the World Congress of Families.

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Has Iran Heard The Silence? By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Even as more is revealed about Israel's September airstrike deep inside Syria, the world remains quiet. Not even a peep from the United Nations. What is the message behind the silence?

Could it be that the international community recognizes that a world with a nuclear-armed Syria is an alarmingly unstable and dangerous place? If so, Iran might want to rethink its nuclear ambitions.

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What does Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize have to do with the war now being waged by Militant Islamists By Clifford D. May

CHOOSE YOUR POISON: What does Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize have to do with the war now being waged by Militant Islamists against the world's free nations? Just this: Gore's argument, endorsed by the Nobel Committee and many others, is that global warming is the most pressing crisis of the contemporary era.
By clear implication, the war is a second tier issue.
Imagine if, in the 1930s, when Winston Churchill was trying to sound an alarm about the Nazis, his critics had responded by saying that the rise of Nazi power was less troubling than air pollution. (London had a lot of air pollution in the 1930s, you'll recall.)

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Omeish congratulates those who give up their lives. :: IPT

Esam Omeish, President of the Muslim American Society, claims he is the victim of a smear campaign. Omeish claims that he isn't condoning or calling for violence. Read about the controversy and watch this video. Decide for yourself.

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Did Saddam Hussein Qualify for 72 Virgins? by John W. Lillpop

One of the most appealing aspects of the Muslim faith is the promise that upon ascension to Islamic heaven, martyred men automatically inherit the company and pleasures of 72 virgins. This fringe benefit helps to explain why Muslims are always engaged in war and doing crazy things to get themselves killed.

Religious scholars throughout the middle east are debating the application of the “Rule of 72” to Saddam Hussein who was sent on his merry way at dawn on December 30.

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Global paradigm shift By Arnaud de Borchgrave

So far, watching the presidential predebate debates, no one has suggested how he/she wants the world to look like 15 to 20 years on the high road to the future. No one seems to have noticed, let alone mentioned, a new global paradigm: the newfound importance of rivers of capital that have displaced the flow of goods for measuring national wealth.

Also new actors on the global stage that defy accountability. There are some 3,000 hedge funds, sans code of conduct, with $1.7 trillion under management, which is expected to double in five years.

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A Perfect Storm of Evil By Jim Simpson

The Bible talks a great deal about sin, the popular notion being that through God’s vengeance we will burn for an eternity of Hell lest we repent and change. But I believe in the notion that we are punished not so much for our sins, but rather, by our sins. The ugly nature of politics today, and its probable outcome, provides an apt demonstration.

Few would argue, at least among those of us who believe there is such a thing as “morality,” that today’s popular culture is markedly degenerate. We glorify women who dress like tramps and lionize rap stars who treat them as though they were tramps. The magazine racks are obsessed with Brad and Angelina and their latest out-of-wedlock adoption. TV news shows showed more interest in Anna Nicole Smith’s sagas than the war in Iraq.

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Is Al Gore Campaigning for the Triple Crown? By John W. Lillpop

As of mid-October, 2007 has been a very good year for Albert Gore, former Vice President of the United States. And it may get even better before 2007 has ended.

Gore's winning streak started in February when loony elitists in Hollywood bestowed an Oscar upon the Veep for a flick that still has political professionals scratching their heads in bewilderment.

Politicians experienced in all types of dirty tricks and political shenanigans wonder: How was Gore able to get An Inconvenient Truth classified as a documentary?
In truth, Gore's masterpiece is nothing more than a political ad that lasts two hours and 31 minutes.

Yet the damn thing won an Oscar. And millions of unwashed sheep flocked to theaters all across America and voluntarily paid good money to be hoodwinked and brainwashed by liberal propaganda available in the mainstream media on a daily basis.

Act Two of Gore's triumph over science came from Oslo Norway, on October 12.
From that beautiful city came word that the Nobel Peace Prize was being dumbed down--even further.

That is not exactly how it was announced, but it is a fair rendition given the fact that the prize was awarded to Gore and a UN Panel for their combined efforts to embarrass George W. Bush and the United States.

After honoring Yasser Araft with 33 percent of the prize in 1994 and Jimmy Carter in 2002, one would have hoped that the folks in Oslo had reached bottom.

Apparently not, given Al Gore's thievery of 50 percent of the award in 2007.
So, what is next for Al Gore?

Shall the humble man from Tennessee retreat to his modest abode in Nashville and live in declusion until the next major award is thrust upon him?

After all, life is pretty sweet when you own a mansion with 20-rooms and eight baths spread out over 10,000 square feet, and when spending $30,000 a year to heat and cool said mansion is not even a slight concern.

Or, shall the former Veep continue to ignore his own "Think Green" admonishment by continuing to engage in incessant air travel, with the hideous carbon footprints that result, just to collect undeserved awards and to campaign for even more honors that defy science and discredit America?

With the end of 2007 almost upon us, it's a safe bet that Gore is plotting a full court strategy to seize the final award in the Triple Crown.

That would be the Time Magazine "Person of the Year."
It is also a safe bet that Gore will win that as well.

Pity there is no "Hypocrite of the Year" or "Carbon Polluter of the Year" award to recognize Al Gore for the inconvenient truth that is his extravagant lifestyle.

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Pence Pushing Freedom Forth With Media Laws by Ericka Andersen

Indiana Congressman Mike Pence is one of the strongest opponents of the Democrats’ attacks on free speech and especially their plans to kill conservative talk radio by re-instituting the so-called “fairness doctrine”, the unconstitutional regulation requiring government mandated, balanced political coverage. A former talk radio host himself, Pence is also fervent about “The Free Flow of Information Act”, to protect confidentiality between reporters and sources, which passed by a vote of 398-21 last evening.

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No Exit By Dr. Earl Tilford

In April 1972, with North Vietnamese forces advancing as part of their Nguyen Hue Offensive, Seventh Air Force Headquarters in Saigon began drawing up evacuation plans. Approximately 60,000 U.S. military personnel remained in South Vietnam along with many more thousands of civilian contractors, American reporters, missionaries, businessmen, State Department personnel and employees of other U.S. government agencies. The planners soon gave up. In 1972, if South Vietnam had fallen, there would have been no way to evacuate that many Americans. If the North Vietnamese and their communist Viet Cong cohorts in the South didn’t stop us, the South Vietnamese army would have. After all, they controlled the airports and seaports and without their cooperation, we would have to shoot our way out.

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Gore’s Nine Lies By Andrew Walden

There has been another election. A court has ruled. But this time it was the Nobel Committee voting, and Al Gore won.

Unlike the fictitious “autobiography” written by 1992 Peace Prize recipient Rigoberta Menchu, Al Gore’s fraud and falsehood were fully exposed prior to the award. A court ruling coming just one day before the Nobel Committee announcement labeled Al Gore’s global warming movie, An Inconvnenient Truth as “political indoctrination.” Stewart Dimmock, a Dover, England school Governor, had sued to halt use of An Inconvnenient Truth as scientifically valid teaching material in the United Kingdom. The so-called "documentary" had been distributed to every government-run school in the UK.

According to a statement released by the plaintiff’s supporters Gore’s nine falsehoods found by the Court are:

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Preventing Predators By Max Boot

The New York Times had a jarring report on Monday on jihadist bloggers. There is, of course, nothing particularly new about this phenomenon; al Qaeda’s mastery of the Internet is a familiar, if unfortunate, fact of modern life. What was jarring was that the prime example cited in the Times article—a blogger who extols the virtues of Osama bin Laden and decries the supposed depravity of the “United States of Losers”—lives right in the very country that he loathes. As the Times account notes:

It turns out he is a 21-year-old American named Samir Khan who produces his blog from his parents’ home in North Carolina, where he serves as a kind of Western relay station for the multimedia productions of violent Islamic groups.

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Anti-NAU Warriors Beginning to Move the Rock Uphill! By Tom DeWeese

Just a year ago most would have predicted that there was no way to stop the Security and Properity Partnership (SPP) which many believe will become a North American Union (NAU).  The proponents are rich, powerful, and determined.  From the White House to huge, wealthy international corporations, these proponents of the SPP are used to getting their way.  The little people back in their grassroots are just silly pawns to be manipulated or ignored.

But there are signs that the huge rock at the bottom of the hill that is the unmovable NAU is beginning to budge uphill as heroes are emerging in the fight.  Some close to the movers and shakers are beginning to hint at a concern that they just might not be able to implement the SPP because that darned opposition just won't go away.  At the same time, anti-NAU forces are beginning to see signs of progress as the movement is getting energized.  Victory is certainly not in sight, but now there is hope.

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Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Mugged By J. Grant Swank Jr.

Islamic and Arab conclaves are straining to mug Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week - October 22-26 - to be held on numerous American campuses.
They are working through flyer handouts as well as contacting persons in political and academic authority to shut down this freedom of expression attempt to inform the public concerning the truth regarding Islam World Rule agendas.
On the Terrorism Awareness Project website is the following: “During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.
“The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat.

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Unfit for Command by Patrick J. Buchanan

Observing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic House imperil a U.S.-Turkish alliance of 60 years -- by formally charging Turkey with genocide in a 1915 massacre of the Armenians -- the question comes to mind:

Does this generation have the maturity to lead America?

About the horrors visited on Armenians in 1915, that year of Turkish triumph over the Royal Navy in the Dardanelles, which led to the ouster of First Lord Winston Churchill, and of victory over the British-French-ANZAC invasion force on Gallipoli, there is no doubt.

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Famed Hurricane Forecaster Says Al Gore ‘Brainwashing Our Children’ By Noel Sheppard

As Atlantic tropical storm activity increased a few years ago, Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University was thrust into the limelight as one of the leading hurricane forecasters in the world.

On Friday, deliciously coincident with the Global Warmingist-in-Chief receiving likely the first of many Nobel Peace Prizes, Dr. Gray spoke to a group of meteorologists and students at the University of North Carolina telling the audience that the theory of manmade climate change is "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works."

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Black on trial for rape and murder of white co-ed by Lawrence Auster

Currently being shown on Court TV until 3 p.m. today is the trial of Orange Amir Taylor III, accused in the rape and murder of 22 year old Laura Dickinson in her dorm room at Eastern Michigan University last December. Dickinson was found naked with bruises on her neck and signs of rape, but the university and police said she had died of natural causes, and apparently the family believed this. But ten weeks later, Orange Amir Taylor, a black student at the university, who had previously broken into dorm rooms but not expelled or apparently even punished, was arrested and charged. Several top officials at the university were later fired for the cover-up. All the stories I've seen focus on the university having covered up the crime. There has not been a single mention of the police having covered up the crime. Apparently in our multicultural society, universities are now the legal authority overseeeing the investigation of rape and murder on the university campus. According to David B.:

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Medical Mistake By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

In our ongoing compilation of reasons why universal care would be a painful step backward for the U.S., we note today that the National Health Service is causing problems for businesses in the U.K.

Held up as a shining model of the type of system the U.S. should establish, the NHS is creating a mess that even its most ardent opponents probably never imagined.

How's this for an unintended consequence: NHS rules are causing businesses to "lose four times as many hours of productivity to doctor visits as they do to strikes," according to a story Tuesday by Bloomberg News.

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Terror Group Busted In Plot To Rob New York ATMs :: Homeland Security NTARC News

How did a man with a fake passport and ties to terrorist organizations not only get a security job at Newark Liberty International Airport but also pass several background checks, including one performed by the FBI? That’s what authorities are now trying to determine.

Authorities say Sivapalasri Velayuthampillai, a Sri Lankan was arrested along with a half-dozen other men for looting ATM machines in Manhattan. He worked at the airport for a company called Gateway Security.

Authorities say the suspects are part of a global identity theft ring linked to the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group. The group was apparently involved in a scheme to use stolen credit card numbers to steal $250,000 in New York and tens of millions from ATMs worldwide.

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Buried Victories By J.R. Dunn

A war's end has its necessary rituals. The defeated must bow their heads and acknowledge failure. The victors must have their triumph, plus the privilege of dictating the terms of peace as they see fit. If this process does not occur, then there is no closing, no climacteric. The war remains unended on the symbolic and psychological level, which means, for all practical purposes, that it hasn't ended at all.

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Crooked Hillary By Quin Hillyer

If Barack Obama really wants to be president, then he's acting like a gutless wonder.
The same goes for John Edwards and Joe Biden and Bill Richardson and everybody else in the Democratic field.
If they really wanted to be president, then when they look at the polls and realize that Hillary Clinton is leaving them in her dust, they would vow to stop her with every fair and accurate tool at their disposal -- and the beauty is, they would legitimately be able to tell themselves they are doing it to save the United States from somebody so corrupt that she is "unfit for elective office."

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The Clinton Crime Family By Kathryn Jean Lopez

When Bill and Hillary Clinton did their online Sopranos spoof the night after the HBO show’s finale, they may have been trying to tell us something more than we realized at the time. The Clintons, sans the New Jersey accent, subtly yet unmistakably, were announcing: “We and our posse are back. Burglars and all.”

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Basra’s quiet explained? Shiite sheikhs beg for help from creeping Iranian Islamism by Allahpundit

I knew it was too good to be true.

It usually is.

Shi’ite Islamist political parties are imposing strict Islamic rules in the oil-producing southern provinces of Iraq and using their armed wings to create a state of fear, a group of tribal Shi’ite leaders said.

The four tribal leaders approached Reuters on condition of anonymity, fearing assassination if their names or even their home provinces were made public.

“Fear rules the streets now,” said one of the sheikhs. “We cannot speak our minds, people are not allowed to oppose them. They would immediately disappear or get killed. The evidence of that is I am talking about it but cannot use my name.”…

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Leftist – Islamist Alliance Aligns Against Jerusalem By David J. Jonsson

The West has a worldview based on the analysis and actions influenced by looking through the lenses of politics and economics, whereas the Islamists looks at the world through the lens of ideology. It is time for the West to place importance on looking at events happening around the world through the lens of ideologies. In the case of the Muslims, their worldview and subsequent actions are shaped by their vision for world domination, the establishment of Islamic kingdom of God on Earth – the creation of worldwide Caliphate and the End Times.
An inability to understand the ideology behind political Islam could spell disaster for the West.

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When Ibrahim Met McCain By Don Feder

John McCain stumbled upon something significant in the course of a recent interview: that America was built on a foundation of Christian morality.

The presidential hopeful put his foot in it in an interview with the website Beliefnet (“it” being the increasingly shrill assertion that this nation was established on the a secularist worldview and that the best exemplars of the American way are the ACLU, Hollywood and the Gay, Lesbian and Trans-gendered Caucus).

McCain told the interviewer, “But I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles, personally, I prefer someone who I know has a solid grounding in my faith,” to lead the nation.

Like the prospect of hanging in the morning, running fourth in the polls does much to concentrate the mind.

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Ohio's Taxpayer-Financed Terror-Fest By Patrick Poole

Just a week after I revealed that an event is currently scheduled to be held at the Ohio State Capitol later this month featuring a known HAMAS operative with multiple immediate connections to designated terrorists (“HAMAS in the House”), new details have emerged that not only are taxpayers partially footing the bill for the event, but yet another speaker at the event also has multiple terror ties.

According to a flier for the “Many Faces of Islam” conference (a copy of which is posted at Central Ohioans Against Terrorism), the event is being co-sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council (OHC), an organization that receives virtually all of its funding through government grants. According to the group’s most recent IRS Form 990, it received $903,715 from direct government contributions and only $27,819 from private sources during the 2005 fiscal year. OHC receives most of its funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as the state affiliate of the national organization. Inquiries about how much taxpayer money OHC is providing for the “Many Faces of Islam” event have not yet received a reply.

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PC Education: Lost in Space By: Thomas E. Brewton

A liberal Yale professor takes a critical look at his cohort’s handiwork

Politically-correct, multicultural education, like a lost spacecraft drifting forever in space with no destination and no way to return home, has lost contact with real life. It has become a caricature of science, a bastardized version that Friedrich Hayek called scientism.

Jacob Laksin’s review on the City Journal website ( http://www.city-journal.org/ )
of Yale professor Anthony Kronman’s “Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life” (http://www.city-journal.org/html/rev2007-10-12jl.html ) describes the growing irrelevance of liberal education in the hands of liberals.

Mr. Laskin writes:

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The Banality of Moral Generalities :: Zionist Youngster

The title is obviously an allusion to Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase, “The Banality of Evil”, which she said regarding Adolf Eichmann after seeing him sit inside the glass box in his trial. Arendt, together with Orwell and a host of others, is one of the post-WWII thinkers on morality whose pronouncements have the distinction of being quoted extensively on political blogs on all areas of the political compass. This fact illustrates two notable points: 1) The practical uselessness of moral generalities; 2) The grip that Nazism, or more accurately its aftereffects, has on people today, particularly on their moral judgments.

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Lefty slanted media bias continues in Iraq reporting.... :: SWAC Girl

In the New York Times and AP stories, there is no mention at all of the first part of the general's speech. In the Washington Post report, the entire story is devoted to Sanchez's comments on the current military situation in Iraq and biographical data on the general. Only the very last paragraph of the story mentions Sanchez's comments about the media.

What the media chose not to cover was scathing indictment of their practices and philosophy in covering the war. The general said:

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End the Stealth Government By Andrew C. McCarthy

Imagine if a public official, safe in the shadows of anonymity, penned a directive that radically rewrote American intelligence-collection law -- statutes enacted by our democratically elected officials and signed into law by elected presidents (including elected Democrat presidents, hyper-sensitive to privacy concerns).

Imagine that, rather than having such a critical national security decision made in the light of day, the anonymous public official issued the directive in secret — insulated from any political process in which the people whose lives hang in the balance were free to determine the appropriate line between liberty and security.

Imagine that we were not just barred from learning the name of the official; we were actually foreclosed from reading the directive under which we were now ruled.

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What made Western creativity possible? And why is it waning? by Lawrence Auster

Here is an e-mail I wrote to Fjordman:

I just came upon this essay by you on whether the ancient Greeks could have carried out the Scientific Revolution. You make valuable points. First, you show the limitations of the Greek culture that would have prevented them from creating modern science. (It's no accident that the ancient Greek culture came to an end so quickly, as, despite its unique greatness, it had inner limitations it could not surmount.) Second, you show how Christianity added understandings to the Western consciousness that made modern science and other achievements possible. In the below passage, you get at the key point, which I would put this way: the belief that truth objectively exists outside us, that truth is real and valuable and meaningful, is what makes the highest human creativity, including scientific discovery, possible. And this understanding of truth comes from Christianity.

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About Evil By Selwyn Duke

Man has long asked how a loving God could allow evil to exist in the world.  It's an age-old philosophical question that can cause those who want faith to doubt and those who want to doubt to mock faith.  A Christian's answer to this question is "free will," a concept critics may regard as something reduced to a convenient cliché.  The truth is, though, that this is a most fascinating subject to inquisitive minds.

The two qualities that make us like God are intellect and free will, despite the fact that the former can seem as lacking as the latter is abused.  Why intellect has prerequisite status is obvious, but why free will?  If God is omnipotent, He can prevent the immeasurable pain and suffering we inflict on one another with the blink of an eternal eye.  Why doesn't He do it?  Perhaps this problem is what caused people such as Thomas Jefferson to embrace deism, the belief that God set the Universe in motion but then receded into the background, indifferent to our plight.  So let's examine free will.

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Ban on 'Mom' and 'Dad' sparks call for exodus By Bob Unruh

A call is being issued to Christians who have been engaged in the culture wars in California's schools to abandon the system, after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a ban on "discriminatory bias" against homosexuals and others with alternative sexual lifestyles.

"We're calling upon every California parent to pull their child out of California's public school system," Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, told WND.

"The so-called 'public schools' are no longer a safe emotional environment for children. Under the new law, schoolchildren as young as kindergarten will be sexually indoctrinated and introduced to homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality, over the protests of parents, teachers and even school districts," he said.

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Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian -- So What? by Dennis Prager

Those who label Ann Coulter an anti-Semite do damage to the battle against anti-Semitism.

I say this as a committed Jew, a religious Jew, a Jewish writer and lecturer, a past college instructor in Jewish history, co-author of a widely read book on anti-Semitism, recipient of the American Jewish Press Association's Prize for Excellence in Jewish Commentary, instructor in Torah at the American Jewish University, and a man who has fought anti-Semitism all his life.

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Hey, Rush: We're Good by Roger D. Carstens

When Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) took to the Senate floor to denounce media commentator Rush Limbaugh for comments that he made on his nationally broadcasted show, Senator Reid called upon Mr. Limbaugh to apologize for his remarks -- ending his statement by saying, "I ask my colleagues, Democrat and Republican alike, to join together against this irresponsible, hateful, and unpatriotic attack -- by calling upon Rush Limbaugh to give our troops the apology they deserve." Well, I have listened to the comments Rush made on his 26 September show and have come to the clear conclusion that Rush has nothing to apologize for.

But first, let me apologize for coming late to the dance. As one of two American Special Forces officers assigned to an Iraqi Counter Terrorism organization, I spend my days on a compound with over 100 Iraqis and little connectivity to the U.S. by way of computers (we are on an Iraqi network) or TV.

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Affirmative Action Grading: Part 2 - Crime Scenes By Nicholas Stix

When people think of criminals, they usually conjure up images of street muggers, carjackers, and stock swindlers. They need to add to that rogues' gallery, images of college presidents, English Department chairmen, and professors.

For today's typical university is increasingly a criminal enterprise, which routinely violates the civil rights of students and employees alike, and which annually defrauds the taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars. Policemen have been prosecuted for violating civilians' constitutional rights, while doctors and druggists have been prosecuted for Medicaid and health insurance fraud. Why not prosecute alleged educators who have for years violated citizens' constitutional rights, and together defrauded the taxpayers out of billions of dollars?

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The Importance of Knowing Your History By Fjordman

Europe, 480 BC: "Come and take them!" Leonidas, King of Sparta, to the vastly more numerous Persian forces calling for the Greeks to lay down their arms during the battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas and his men died in battle after holding their ground for three days, but bought the Greek city-states enough time to defeat the Persians and permanently end Persian inroads into Europe.

Europe, 2004 AD: "We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us."

Jens Orback, Minister for Democracy, Metropolitan Affairs, Integration and Gender Equality from the Swedish Social Democratic Party during a debate in Swedish radio.

Europe, 2006 AD:

You stone your mothers
Flog your sisters
Mutilate your daughters
Behind veils
But I want to be your friend

Norwegian singer Åge Aleksandersen in his song "Æ vil vær din venn" ("I want to be your friend") about his relationship with Muslims. No irony was intended in the lyrics.

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Islam's Peace Offensive By Stephen Brown and Jamie Glazov

In a move eerily reminiscent of the Soviet "peace offensives", 138 leading Muslim scholars have composed a letter to Christianity's leaders, with Pope Benedict's name heading the list, requesting a meeting to discuss the "common essentials of our two religions." The authors warn that "the survival of the world" is at stake if the two religions do not make peace, which, the Muslim authors believe, is possible since the basis of Islam and Christianity is "the two commandments of love."

While it is at least admirable that these learned representatives of Islam acknowledge that their religion is at war with Christianity (since much of the Christian world is in denial), the main sticking point, the letter makes clear, is the aggressive nature of Christianity. The Muslim scholars emphasize that: "As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes."

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Lessons for the Left on the Price of Civilization By Newt Gingrich

A happy coincidence of scheduling found Callista and me in Italy on Columbus Day weekend, the birthplace nation of Christopher Columbus. He was from Genoa, and we were in Venice – but as we discovered, Columbus' Italy is filled with a history that Americans value.

Perhaps no one was more aptly named than Columbus. Christopher (literally "Christ Bearer") is the name taken from the saint who is to millions of Catholics the patron saint of travelers. And a traveler he was. Centuries before the sexton and other navigation tools, Columbus ventured to find for Spain a westward and competing route to spice-rich India. A great navigator he was not. He ended up finding the Western Hemisphere instead.

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Annapolis Syndrome By Noah Pollak

There is an unmistakable tinge of insanity creeping into the U.S. effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It takes form in the embarrassing desperation of Condoleeza Rice, as she countenances the increasing implausibility of the Annapolis conference with ever more florid and urgent declarations of the imperative of creating a Palestinian state. It takes form in the haphazard manner in which the U.S. has jettisoned virtually every requirement arrived upon in previous negotiations, most notably the unannounced dismissal of the 2003 Roadmap. And this creeping insanity takes form most strikingly in the refusal of U.S. strategists to deal seriously with the array of facts on the ground, facts that would undermine any print-on-paper agreements arising from Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

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Putin’s Rage By Joshua Muravchik

What is Vladimir Putin’s problem? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pay a rare joint visit to the Kremlin, and he snubs them by keeping them cooling their heels for 40 minutes. Then he treats them to a highly undiplomatic tirade before television cameras.

His diatribe was laced with threats. Should the U.S. continue with planned deployment of a small missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia will withdraw from the agreement on conventional force deployments in Europe and another treaty governing European nuclear weapons, and perhaps retaliate in additional ways. Putin’s performance, said the New York Times, “appeared to catch Gates and Rice off guard.”

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It's the coverup that kills you, part 2 :: Power Line

It’s been another week without word from the New Republic on the status of its "investigation" into the columns of TNR Baghdad Diarist Scott Thomas Beauchamp. "The editors" have not spoken on the matter since their August 10 update. At that time "the editors" spoke grandly of their "commitment to the truth" and their efforts to resolve the "legitimate concerns about journalistic accuracy" that had been raised by the critics of Beauchamp's TNR Baghdad Diarist columns. They also said they took those concerns "extremely seriously."

Nine weeks later, however, they have produced no new information and their promises seem empty. Indeed, TNR's August 10 statement and the silence that has followed become increasingly dishonest with each passing day. Then TNR said that the Army was "stonewalling" its investigation and that the Army had "rejected our requests to speak to Beauchamp." We now know that TNR editor Franklin Foer spoke with Scott Beauchamp on September 7. Of course, it wasn't TNR that reported this call, but rather blogger Bob Owens, who learned of the call from an Army spokesman.

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On Living to Age 70 By Alan Caruba

There was a time when I thought being age 70 was ancient. Now I think it is still young.

That might be because October 9 was my birthday and I have lived seven decades now.  Both my parents lived into their 90s, so I have a good chance of at least twenty more years.

Earlier this year I helped a friend my age revise his resume and wrote a commentary asking, "Is 70 the New 50?"  I frankly do not know how anyone retires these days.  More to the point, I know a lot of folks my age who have no intention of retiring because they do not want to.  I am one of them.

I have learned something else.  My outlook on life is pretty much the same as when I began to understand a few verities about human nature and history several decades ago.

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The Other Polution Problem By Nathan Tabor

A curious Associated Press story out of China recently caught my eye.  It spoke of the nation's efforts to combat "social pollution."

        For the uninitiated, social pollution refers to the sewage that clogs television and radio airwaves.  It's the endless stream of sexually explicit material that corrupts kids and coarsens our culture.

        In the past, Chinese regulators have cracked down on advertisements featuring crude language and images.  Now, China has opted to ban broadcast ads for push-up bras, figure-conscious underwear, sex tonics, and sex toys.

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Islamberg, British style By Judi McLeod

The North American radical Islamist compounds exposed by The Day of Islam author Paul L. Williams and Northeast Intelligence Network director Doug Hagmann also exist in Britain.

In the United States, Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as “the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr”, operates dozens of radical Islamic compounds, which flourish in out-of-the-way rural areas.

Gilani has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or “community of the impoverished”, an organization that seeks to “purify” Islam through violence.

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I Smell More Clinton Scandals! :: The JAWA Report

Democrat front-runnermania!

Some buzz about a new video from Hollywood insider and Clinton schmoozer Peter Paul allegedly documenting Hillary committing more election law violations, and flagrant ones at that. Enjoy "Hillary, Uncensored."

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Disenfranchised Republicans By Daniel Muniz

Conservatives have been greatly alarmed by the disturbing trend of the GOP abandoning its core conservative principles. The very fundamentals that made up the foundation of the Republican Party have been disintegrating for the past several years. As Dick Morris poignantly explained about fiscal policy:

Republicans need to start acting like Republicans, not drunken, big spending Democrats, and stopping earmarks is a good way to start.

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Al-Qaida associates in N.J. MIKE KELLY

Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror officials say they have identified several of his associates in a far more accessible spot -- northern New Jersey.

The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark says it is not only monitoring a number of North Jersey residents with ties to al-Qaida, but that agents have quietly "disrupted" their activities and even deported a few.

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Sabotage in Wartime By Thomas Sowell

With all the problems facing this country, both in Iraq and at home, why is Congress spending time trying to pass a resolution condemning the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago?

Make no mistake about it, that massacre of hundreds of thousands -- perhaps a million or more -- Armenians was one of the worst atrocities in all of history.

As with the later Holocaust against the Jews, it was not considered sufficient to kill innocent victims. They were first put through soul-scarring dehumanization in whatever sadistic ways occurred to those who carried out these atrocities.

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The Fatherless Civilization By Fjordman on

American columnist Diana West recently released her book The Death of the Grown-up, where she traces the decline of Western civilization to the permanent youth rebellions of the past two generations. The decade from the first half of the 1960s to the first half of the 1970s was clearly a major watershed in Western history, with the start of non-Western mass immigration in the USA, the birth of Eurabia in Western Europe and the rise of Multiculturalism and radical Feminism.

The paradox is that the people who viciously attacked their own civilization had enjoyed uninterrupted economic growth for decades, yet embraced Marxist-inspired ideologies and decided to undermine the very society which had allowed them to live privileged lives. Maybe this isn't as strange as it seems. Karl Marx himself was aided by the wealth of Friedrich Engels, the son of a successful industrialist.

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An Inconvenient Faith by Timothy Scheiter

It may be a good time for all of us to get a grip on the basic concepts of truth and faith. It seems to me that if there are contradicting facts of equal weight on more than one side of an issue, we are not necessarily dealing with "the truth". Taking a strong stance on one side of an issue is an act of faith, not truth, in a viewpoint.

Yet, the likes of Al Gore, the Clintons, and other democrats have recently shown that by promoting a one-sided issue and lying about it a lot, will establish the point certainly as “truth”. And it turns out that this old idea still works, especially to a newer dumbed-down generation. This isn’t truth, of course, but “faith” that is devoid of hope. Without a balanced approach, an issue like “global warming”, for example, becomes suspect as an agenda point. For Gore to get a “peace prize” for promoting a political viewpoint seems silly, (yet remember Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and Carter and Arafat got Nobel’s award also).

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Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action Revisited By Peter Brimelow

We just found my November 1992 American Spectator review of Invisible Victims, Frederick R. Lynch’s seminal study of the impact of affirmative action (a.k.a.) quotas on white males. Quotas are a zero-sum game, so somebody has to suffer. But at that point, as Lynch noted, the double-think about affirmative action was so extreme that its very existence was denied. Similarly, the systematic repression of news and analysis about mass immigration meant that the subject was effectively excised from the public consciousness until well into the 1990s.

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Turkey Vultures By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

We earlier ascribed Congress' move to declare the Ottoman Turks' slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians a genocide to simple Democratic incompetence. It may, however, be something much darker.

Based on the actions of Democrats in Congress recently, it's hard not to think that they actually want the U.S. to lose the war in Iraq — and will do almost anything to see it happens.

Unfortunately, they've run up against these headlines from Iraq in just the last couple of days: "Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled" (Washington Post), "Shiite Leader Makes Reconciliatory Gesture, Visits Sunni Anbar Province" (Associated Press), and "Iraq Sees Dramatically Low Death Toll" (Associated Press).

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Connecting Dots On The Axis Of Evil By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Last month's airstrike by Israel on a Syrian installation left the rogue regime silent, the U.N. seeking more details and the media tongue-tied. Here's the fact that's missing: Bush was right about the evil afoot.

Had there not been so much effort from the global intelligentsia to scoff at and downplay President Bush's 2002 declaration of an emerging axis of nations intent on spreading nuclear terror, there wouldn't have been such a strange silence over the Israeli strike, one that in most other contexts would have prompted denunciations about national sovereignty.

On Sept. 6, Israeli jets flew through Syrian airspace and destroyed what intelligence experts judged to be a nuclear reactor in the early stages of construction, and likely constructed by North Korea.

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A Common Word Between Us and You is a Call for Conversion by Ryan Evans

Say: O People of the Scripture! Come to a common word between us and you: that we shall worship none but God, and that we shall ascribe no partner unto Him, and that none of us shall take others for lords beside God. And if they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are they who have surrendered (unto Him). (Aal ‘Imran 3:64)

Nice message, isn't it? Verse 3:64 is perhaps the most prominent of many verses from the Quran quoted in an open letter this week, entitled "A Common Word Between Us and You" from 138 Muslim scholars to the Pope and other Christian leaders around the world. It has been posted on a website and in newspapers throughout the world. Ostensibly, the letter's message was the necessity of peace between two of the world's greatest religions – a noble goal. The end of the letter reads:

Finding common ground between Muslims and Christians is not simply a matter for polite ecumenical dialogue between selected religious leaders. Christianity and Islam are the largest and second largest religions in the world and in history….If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace.

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