Global Warming Strikes Back By Kevin Clarke

“Al Gore, where were you when the cooling threat to america was defeated in 1979? ”

“Smokng pot and playing hackysack at the Dailykos.”

Shown here is the cover of a 1979 issue of the very LIBERAL leaning TIME magazine. It seems like only yesterday when the same college teachers and professors were writing articles explaining the proof that we were moving towards a new ice age.

Maybe all the Aerosol hairspray of the 1980’s turned it all around?
We were saved by the Pet Shop Boys and Tiffany!

Nothing says “liberal” like crowd control through paranoia. Common sense must do battle with one reason to be afraid after another.

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U.N. Scientist Rejects Nobel Prize Share, Denounces Climate Alarmism By Matthew Sheffield |

Has the global warming alarmism movement hit its apex? Maybe so.

In recent weeks, we've seen a resurgence of hard scientists who have come out strongly against the warm-mongers, the latest of which is Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change member John R. Christy. In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, Christy tells the world that not only does he believe it's unproven that humans cause global warming, he's refusing his "share" of the Nobel Peace Prize that he was awarded because it was based on a misunderstanding of science.

An excerpt from this must-read op-ed:

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Good News Abounds!

By John W. Lillpop

Yes, the news can be frightening what with Iran working to acquire the nuclear bomb, the sub-prime loan crisis, drought in the southeast, another debate by the Democrats, the ascension of Mike Huckabee, and George W. Bush's relentless legacy politics.

Still, there is some good news, provided one is willing to hunt for it.

Consider these 10 items:

1. American casualties in Iraq fall dramatically as coalition forces move to win the war that Harry Reid dubbed "lost."

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Pseudonym-Americans Fight Back Humor By Jon Swift

When Facebook deleted my account and I decided to fight back, I had no idea what I started. I was pleasantly surprised by the groundswell of support I got from the blogosphere, even from people who use their real names. The response was so overwhelming that Facebook reversed its decision within hours and restored my account. Unwittingly, I seem to have tapped into feelings that have been bubbling under the surface for a long time. For too long Pseudonym-Americans like myself, and all the pseudonymous people of the world, have lived in the shadows. For too long we have been relegated to the back of the serial bus. Well, those days are over. I am somebody, just not exactly who I say I am, and I say it loud: I'm a Pseudonym-American and I'm proud.

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Little Green Footballs and Racism in the United States By Fjordman

As most readers know by now, I have been involved in what has unfortunately become a very public brawl — some would probably say witch-hunt — with Charles Johnson of major American blog Little Green Footballs about the supposed “racism” of the Sweden Democrats and the Vlaams Belang. Many of these claims have already been countered, though LGF refuses to link to this. I have announced my intention to take a break from commenting at LGF, where I have been active for several years, since it has become abundantly clear that neither Charles nor many of his readers have any interest whatsoever in having an actual debate, and certainly not about the real threats to freedom in Europe.

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Utah's Schools Showdown By George F. Will

In today's political taxonomy, "progressives" are rebranded liberals dodging the damage they did to their old label. Perhaps their most injurious idea -- injurious to themselves and public schools -- was the forced busing of (mostly other people's) children to engineer "racial balance" in public schools. Soon, liberals will need a third label if people notice what "progressives" are up to in Utah.

There, teachers unions, whose idea of progress is preservation of the status quo, are waging an expensive and meretricious campaign to overturn the right of parents to choose among competing schools, public and private, for the best education for their children.

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Hating Rudy By Philip Klein

"Rudy Giuliani [is] probably the most under-qualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency," Sen. Joe Biden declared during Tuesday's Democratic debate in Philadelphia. "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11."
The crowd roared with laughter, and liberal blogger Josh Marshall wrote, "Okay, I may have to endorse Biden after this tear against Rudy."

With the end of the dreaded Bush era approaching, Rudy Giuliani has slowly begun to supplant the President as the leading hate figure among liberals, a reality that will only help Giuliani in his efforts to overcome his differences with conservatives and win the Republican nomination.

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Why does Mrs. Clinton want driver's licenses for illegal aliens? By JOHN FUND

Sen. Hillary Clinton was asked during a debate this week if she supported New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. At first she seemed to endorse the idea, then claimed, "I did not say that it should be done, but I certainly recognize why Governor Spitzer is trying to do it."

The next day she took a firmer stand (sort of) by offering general support for Gov. Spitzer's approach, but adding that she hadn't studied his specific plan. She should, and so should the rest of us. It stops just short of being an engraved invitation for people to commit voter fraud.

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Modern-Day Mythology By Lee Duigon

Note: As of the morning of Nov. 2, a mere two days after it was first reported nationally, the University of Delaware announced that it has discontinued the "diversity training" described above. Following nationwide exposure and the threat of a lawsuit by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the university broke all known speed records for dropping blatantly unconstitutional and unlawful attempts to restrict students' First Amendment Rights. The god of Political Correctness will be displeased; but throughout the academic world and elsewhere, sacrifices of self-respect, money, and liberty continue to be offered to him.

False gods demand the darnedest things. And to make it worse, there are so many of them.

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What the New Atheists Don’t See By Theodore Dalrymple

The British parliament’s first avowedly atheist member, Charles Bradlaugh, would stride into public meetings in the 1880s, take out his pocket watch, and challenge God to strike him dead in 60 seconds. God bided his time, but got Bradlaugh in the end. A slightly later atheist, Bertrand Russell, was once asked what he would do if it proved that he was mistaken and if he met his maker in the hereafter. He would demand to know, Russell replied with all the high-pitched fervor of his pedantry, why God had not made the evidence of his existence plainer and more irrefutable. And Jean-Paul Sartre* came up with a memorable line: “God doesn’t exist—the bastard!”

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The Degeneration of Democracy By Steven Laib

Science fiction author Robert Heinlein has earned both my admiration, for his philosophical content, and my wrath for sometimes presenting certain aspects of that philosophy in plots of dubious value; especially when they contain excessive sexually oriented subject matter that adds little but titillation to his writing. One such book was "Glory Road". But what really stuck in my memory of that book was a scene where the protagonist, Oscar Gordon, attends an intergalactic social event where an alien asks him if America had given up its experiment with democracy. Clearly, this individual was a monarchist, and Heinlein does make a case, of sorts, that such a system has its advantages. However, that was not what eventually struck me as the most the important point. What I eventually realized was that a monarchy, or a similar authoritarian system is often desired by a large portion of a population simply because they don't want to take responsibility for their own lives and their own destinies. This becomes fairly obvious when we consider how the United States has shown a consistent increase in national government power often driven by an apparent desire by on the part of a significant segment of the public for government provided security. Of course, those who are willing to sacrifice freedom for security will eventually have neither, to paraphrase Ben Franklin. But today there are all together too many Americans who don't see it that way. If they did, there would be no social welfare agenda pending in Congress, and President Bush would not have to repeatedly veto the SCHIP bill. His rationale? That it would lead us further toward nationalized health care, which has already been shown to be a bad deal in Canada and England. This is one of the times when Mr. Bush has it right. It is a shame that he didn't take the same attitude on education a few years back.

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Not Surrender Monkeys Anymore By Max Boot

Reuel Marc Gerecht and Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute have published a fascinating new paper based on their recent talks with counterterrorism officials in Europe. Their findings contrast with the crude stereotype that so many American conservatives have of the French as “surrender monkeys.” Gerecht and Schmitt write: “France has become the most accomplished counterterrorism practitioner in Europe.”

France, they note, has been facing the threat of Middle Eastern terrorism since the 1980’s and has done an impressive job of marshaling its resources to defend itself. What’s the secret of French success? Gerecht and Schmitt point to the fact that the French “grant highly intrusive powers to their internal security service, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST), and to their counterterrorist investigative magistrates (juges d’instruction).”

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The Media Comedy Club By Prof. Barry Rubin

One of the dubious rewards of spending too much time reading newspapers on the Middle East are the laughs derived from those wonderful little phrases that seem logical but are so profoundly bizarre. Some indicate media bias but they are more often the result of some reporter, newsmaker, or editor who so takes for granted the bizarro, flat-earth version of the Middle East as to be blissfully unaware of the yawning contradiction in what they say.

For example, here’s a great sentence in an otherwise good survey of European attitudes toward intensifying sanctions against Iran on the nuclear issue. It is taken from Jamey Keaten, AP, “Europeans Ponder Sanctions Against Iran,” of October 27, 2007: “Concerns have been rising in some European corners that the United States or Israel might attack to prevent Iran from developing atomic bombs….”

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Understanding the Wahhabist Infiltration of America By Frank Salvato

Part of the reason many Americans don’t appreciate the significance of Osama bin Laden’s declarations of war against the United States and the West is because they are completely oblivious to the inroads radical Islam has made within the United States. Radical Islamists (i.e., Islamofascists, Wahhabis) understand that the conflict must take place on multiple fronts: militarily, economically, diplomatically and ideologically. Because they understand the complexity of the confrontation and the ability of the West to adapt to challenges – albeit lethargically – they employ multiple tactics in their aggressive pursuit of victory. The West’s addiction to sensationalism, epitomized by our limited attention to detail (unless it plays in the superficial 24-hour news cycle) facilitates the successful infiltration of radical ideology into Western society.

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Even Harvard Finds The Media Biased By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — hardly a bastion of conservative orthodoxy — found that in covering the current presidential race, the media are sympathetic to Democrats and hostile to Republicans.

Democrats are not only favored in the tone of the coverage. They get more coverage period. This is particularly evident on morning news shows, which "produced almost twice as many stories (51% to 27%) focused on Democratic candidates than on Republicans."

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Are Democrats Prepared To Lead Our Nation? By Marie Jon'

Many Americans were not interested in the Democrat's latest debate, and so refrained from watching it. We have become fed up with the negative bombastic rhetoric we've endured for the past six and a half years of the Bush presidency. We are all too aware of the lame contrived talking points. 
Whenever the Democrat candidates speak, they hurt our country. We can no longer respect their views. Unfortunately, the Democrats leadership and too many of their constituents are extremists. 

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Victim Visas—How America Stupidly Rewards Misfortune and Fraud By Brenda Walker

In my midnight moments of immigration-anarchy-induced depression, I imagine a stealth cadre of immigration lawyers housed deep within the White House whose job is to devise fiendish ideas for the worst possible visa categories, in order to desensitize citizens to the nation-wrecking insanity afoot.

Near the top of the list of Washington's corrosive creations (which include Diversity Visas and asylum/refugee policies that are welcome mats for fraud) would be the “Victim Visa”.

This concept has been in limited use for a while. But it recently received an upgrade.

The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 expanded laws against sex trafficking and general slavery, in legislation which was necessary given the open borders and diversity of crime America now faces. Its main provisions, particularly the U Visa, were touted as a way to help law enforcement keep witnesses to serious crimes handy to testify. But the benefits allotted are considerable. The U Visa does not merely allow crime victims to stay through the trial—it opens up the whole benefits smorgasbord, including eventual citizenship.

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'This Will Make Voter Fraud Easier' By JOHN FUND

Sen. Hillary Clinton was asked during a debate this week if she supported New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. At first she seemed to endorse the idea, then claimed, "I did not say that it should be done, but I certainly recognize why Governor Spitzer is trying to do it."

The next day she took a firmer stand (sort of) by offering general support for Gov. Spitzer's approach, but adding that she hadn't studied his specific plan. She should, and so should the rest of us. It stops just short of being an engraved invitation for people to commit voter fraud.

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A Cosmic Tear: the Mark Daily Story By George Shadroui

Mark Daily, for those of you who might not know, is an American hero.
He is also, at the young age of 23, no longer physically with us, though one hopes and prays that his spirit lives within us as part of our collective culture. If not, our nation is in for a rough future.

Here’s the story, compliments of Christopher Hitchens. Mark Daily was a bright, dynamic young man who was indifferent about our effort in Iraq until he stumbled across an article by Mr. Hitchens a couple of years ago.

Daily changed his mind, and did so knowing full well the risks of joining the military and serving his country there. In a fateful moment, while serving there, he realized that a lead vehicle was not adequately equipped to resist an IED attack. So Daily switched places and put his own vehicle in front of the military column. Not long after, he and his team bore the brunt of a huge explosion that killed all of them.

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Eight 9-11 Hijackers Were Registered to Vote: Will MSM 'Drive' Story? By Mark Finkelstein

The fact has been out there for some time, but never garnered much media attention. Now, in the context of the current debate over the granting of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, will there be renewed focus on this chilling reality? Could this be the factoid that changes a presidential election? As John Fund wrote in his Wall Street Journal column today and discussed during his "Morning Joe" appearance:

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University of Delaware terminates its indoctrination program. :: HotAir

Wow. The combination of FIRE + blogs proved to be too much for the University of Delaware.

Late Thursday, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker released on the school’s website a Message to the University of Delaware Community terminating the university’s ideological reeducation program, which FIRE condemned as an exercise in thought reform. He stated, “I have directed that the program be stopped immediately. No further activities under the current framework will be conducted.” Harker also called for a “full and broad-based review” of the program’s practices and purposes. While concerns remain about the University of Delaware’s commitment to free expression, FIRE commends President Harker for his decision to immediately terminate the Orwellian residence life education program. FIRE will have more on this development tomorrow.

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Most Muslims Reject Terrorism? By Robert Spencer

The controversy over Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week largely centered around the spurious charge that the term “Islamo-Fascism” itself defames all Muslims by suggesting that they are fascists, or support terrorism. Of course, this charge rests on the illogical premise that “Islamo-Fascism” is somehow a different kind of term from “white racism” or “Italian fascism,” which no one has ever taken to suggest that all whites are racists or all Italians fascists. But the real core of the problem is that a discussion of Islamic jihad terrorism and Islamic supremacism in general is supposed to be somehow offensive to the great majority of Muslims who are loyal, patriotic citizens of their respective countries and abhor terrorism.

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The top US conservatives and liberals By Toby Harnden

With a year to go before voters across the United States go to the polls to elect their 44th president, The Daily Telegraph unveils its list of the 100 most influential conservatives and 100 most influential liberals in America.

Top conservatives: 1-20 | 21-40 | 41-60 | 61-80 | 81-100 | Your choices

Top liberals: 1-20 | 21-40 | 41-60 | 61-80 | 81-100 | Your choices

Toby Harnden: Crossing America

The 2008 election is arguably the most open contest since 1928. The victor will become the most powerful person in the world at a time of almost unprecedented challenge and turmoil.

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Reasons to Believe By Lisa Fabrizio

You may have been treated to an e-mail message containing a list called, "Things you have to believe to be a Republican," that's been wending its way around cyberspace lately.

        It's a real hoot, but not for the reasons its unknown authors intended; for it says far more about them than about us. In the interests of compassionate conservatism, I thought I'd give them a hand in reaching a better understanding of their opposition.

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NYC Chinatown Donorgate Under-Covered By Lee Cary

To date, here’s how major newspapers have covered the NYC Chinatown Donorgate story:

October 19: The Los Angeles Times reported that the Clinton campaign received $380,000 from poor Chinese living in largely ethnic New York City neighborhoods—one is heavily populated by “recent immigrants from Fujian Province.” One-third of 150 donors could not be located; many gave false addresses. Other donors found and interviewed gave varying motives for their contributions. “Many said they gave to Clinton because they were instructed to do so by local association leaders.” Some cited an interest in immigration issues. One donor was proud to have had his picture taken with Mrs. Clinton—he sent it home to China.

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Understanding the Wahhabist Infiltration of America By Frank Salvato

Part of the reason many Americans don’t appreciate the significance of Osama bin Laden’s declarations of war against the United States and the West is because they are completely oblivious to the in-roads radical Islam has made within the United States. Radical Islamists (i.e., Islamofascists, Wahhabis) understand that the conflict must take place on multiple fronts: militarily, economically, diplomatically and ideologically. Because they understand the complexity of the confrontation and the ability of the West to adapt to challenges - albeit lethargically - they employ multiple tactics in their aggressive pursuit of victory. The West’s addiction to sensationalism, epitomized by our limited attention to detail, unless it plays in the superficial 24-hour news cycle, facilitates the successful infiltration of radical ideology into Western society.

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'Global Warming' as Pathological Science By James Lewis

Trofimko Lysenko is not a household name; but it should be, because he was the model for all the Politically Correct "science" in the last hundred years. Lysenko was Stalin's favorite agricultural "scientist," peddling the myth that crops could be just trained into growing bigger and better. You didn't have to breed better plants over generations, as farmers have been doing for ages. It was a fantasy of the all-powerful Soviet State. Lysenko sold Stalin on that fraud in plant genetics, and Stalin told Soviet scientists to fall into line --- in spite of the fact that nobody really believed it. Hundreds of thousands of peasants starved during Stalin's famines, in good part because of fraudulent science.

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Hillary's Bagman's Patron By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Hillary Clinton claims she can't recall who vouched for Chinese bagman Norman Hsu. She expects us to believe he just showed up, dumping $850,000 in her lap.

Her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, famous for his careful grooming of big donors and fundraisers, says he's also stumped. "I don't know how he became involved in the Clinton campaign," he said.

This is the same Democrat power broker who courted the other Clinton's top donor in the last Clinton presidential campaign — New York businessman Bernard Schwartz — who just happens to know Hsu.

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How Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting Is "Surging" Left Under Democrats :: The Media Research Center

The Democratic takeover of Congress in 2007 quickly made one definitive change in the national media infrastructure. For the first time since Newt Gingrich became speaker in 1995, America's public broadcasting system didn't have a skeptical majority party that might sporadically ask questions about PBS using the taxpayer-funded airwaves for overt liberal activism. In previous years with Democratic control of Congress, PBS has played a more activist role within the media, dragging the rest of the national media further to the left and spurring more aggression and ill will against conservative and Republican leaders. Just as 2007 has been a year for a "surge" of troops in Iraq, it's also been a year of "surging" activism within PBS.

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The elite media’s coverage of Iraq is a fiasco By Clifford D. May

Mark Twain famously said “if you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed — if you do read the newspapers you are misinformed.” Today, those who rely on the elite media for news of Iraq suffer from both disabilities.

Start with lack of information: The average news consumer probably has no clue that Gen. David Petreaus’ new strategy has crippled al Qaeda in Iraq, that Americans and Iraqis are now fighting side-by-side against both Sunni and Shia extremists, and that the elimination of terrorist safe havens and weapons caches has improved security for average Iraqis in parts of the country that a few months ago were snake pits.

As for misinformation, how many people still believe that guards in Guantanamo flushed Korans down the toilet, that U.S. Marines committed a massacre at Haditha, and that American soldiers ridicule women disfigured by bombs, run over puppies for sport and desecrate graves for a laugh? All of this was reported in such mainstream publications as Newsweek and The New Republic. None of it is true.

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Islamist-Communist Alliance in South Asia: Hyperbole or Hazard? Sanjay Upadhya

Patterns of a resurgence in cooperation between Islamic extremists and radical communists -- faint in some places, more pronounced in others -- are emerging. While much of the current focus is on parts of Europe, South Asia could emerge as the principal arena for a communist-jihadist alliance.

Depending on whom you talk to, an alliance between Islamic extremists and radical communists is either more sinister war-on-terror hyperbole or a clear and present danger. At the most basic level, the two groups are divided by their outlook on the supreme being. For Islamist extremists, killing in the name of and dying for God is an investment in the hereafter. But the communist's variety of death and destruction is motivated by a worldview rooted in materialism.

Yet the two philosophies clearly have much in common. Both profess a disdain for the excesses of Western capitalism packaged as globalization. Like Marx and Lenin of the last century, today's jihadists have a utopian vision of a chaste internationalism. Their glorification of death is an act of piety.

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Bin Ladens Followers Planning Electronic Jihad Cyber Terror Attack On 11/11? :: The National Terror Alert

Debka has posted this announcement on their site:

In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden’s followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites.

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Shocking charge that the University of Delaware involved in forced thought control, teaching racism By Maple Brown

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education FIRE, a nonprofit organization that seeks to unite civil rights and civil liberties has charged that the University of Delaware is teaching a “shocking program of ideological reeducation”.  Fire says that the University refers to the materials as ‘treatment’ for student’s incorrect attitudes and beliefs.

Fire issues a statement that “The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism.”
A spokesman for the University of Delaware told WorldNetDaily that “he was not ready to make a statement about the situation right away.”

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The Coming Balkan Caliphate by Julia Gorin

In September 2001, George W. Bush admonished the world, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." But how will the world know where to stand when America itself is with the terrorists?

Such is the America that operates in the Balkans, and such is the question underlying Christopher Deliso's new book, "The Coming Balkan Caliphate", which tells the most terrifying story never told in the War on Terror. An American journalist based in Macedonia, Deliso has been investigating radical Islamic trends in the region for the better part of a decade. He's the director of the independent Balkan news website Balkanalysis.com and a field analyst on Macedonian politics for the Economics Intelligence Unit, London. His book examines the repercussions of the free world's alliance with radicals in Kosovo and Bosnia, one of which surfaced just this month with the attempted bombing of the U.S. embassy in Austria. The vivid picture Deliso paints, one that is corroborated by daily reports that have been streaming out of the region since the Clinton administration rallied NATO countries to the side of "moderate" Muslims against Yugoslavia, is more disturbing than anything that even the most vigilant Jihad-watchers can imagine.

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That Diabolically Clever Filip Dewinter :: Gates of Vienna

During the last couple of weeks the controversy over the Flemish separatist party Vlaams Belang has centered on allegations of “neo-Nazi” baggage and white supremacist tendencies among its leaders and membership. Various pieces of evidence are offered in support of these assertions: an alleged radio interview of VB leader Filip Dewinter “opposite David Duke”, the photo of a white power flag at a Vlaams Belang rally, etc.

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Oklahoma!

By John W. Lillpop

As of November 1, 2007, Oklahoma is the beacon of light and hope for those seeking escape from liberal-begotten insanity when it comes to illegal aliens.
That is so because U.S. District Judge James H. Payne denied a request for a Preliminary Injunction against H.B. 1804, Oklahoma's common sense bill for dealing with the out-of-control invasion by illegal aliens.
As a result, H.B. 1804 is now the law of the land in Oklahoma. Let the self-deportations and state-assisted deportations begin!
Are you listening Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton?

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Ambush in Samarra: The longest morning :: Power Line

Combat reporter Jeff Emanuel was one of my traveling companions on the whirlwind tour of Israel I took courtesy of American's Voices in Israel this past summer. Jeff went from Israel to Iraq, in search of the stories that the mainstream media are ignoring. He has told many such stories over the past three months (collected here), but he saved his best for the new issue of the American Spectator. Jeff's "The longest morning" is the cover story of the November issue. In a separate message sent within the past hour, Jeff writes:

Six weeks ago in the Iraqi city of Samarra, four paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division became the object of a pre-planned, coordinated effort by dozens of al Qadea to kidnap and slaughter American soldiers only days before General Petraeus's internationally televised testimony to the U.S. Congress on the state of the war in Iraq. Not all survived -- but those who did fought like heroes, saving each other and preserving the honor of their nation.

This is their story.

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How long before the ADL kicks out all its Jews? By Ann Coulter

The Anti-Defamation League is to Jews what the National Organization for Women is to women and the ACLU is to civil libertarians. They represent not Jews or women or civil libertarians, but the left wing of the Democratic Party.

In the paramount threat of our time, the Democratic Party is AWOL. And those are the patriotic Democrats. The rest are actively aiding the enemy.

The blood of millions of Israelis is at stake, and the ADL is flacking for a party that yearns to surrender to the terrorists.

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Are We All Nazis Now? By Paul Belien

One of the greatest injustices to the victims of racism, and in particular the holocaust, is the trivialization of it. One does not have to agree with the Dutch “Islamophobic” anti-immigration politicians Geert Wilders or Rita Verdonk, but what kind of person writes something like: “Whenever I see people such as Wilders and Verdonk I think of the Kristallnacht! The moment the Jews were rounded up...”?

People who write such things do not care about the suffering of the Jews. They merely abuse the Nazi crimes for their own petty political objectives. The example quoted above comes from the Dutch correspondent of the far-left Belgian blog Yelloman. This blogger is an intolerant, immoral Stalinist activist. The politicians in the European Parliament, however, are hardly any better.

On January 27, 2005, the European Parliament voted a resolution “on remembrance of the Holocaust, anti-semitism and racism.”

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Missing Scandals By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

The other day while laying down my thoughts on the forty years of conservative journalism that I have undergone so painlessly since perpetrating my first published wisecrack in the autumn of 1967, I rang up El Rushbo for his collaboration. That would be Rush Limbaugh for the benighted; for the millions in his daily radio audience, he is El Rushbo. Rush recalled the liberal media monopoly that existed in the late 1960s and that now is sorely pressed by the emergence of talk radio, of various conservative journals and newspapers, and by the rise Fox News. He noted how arrogant the liberal media have always been and mentioned their "lies and deceits."

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Prejudiced for Eternity By Paul Chesser

This summer, as has been its custom in recent years, the megachurch (Southern Baptist, not Willow Creek) I attend brought in a series of guest speakers while the pastor caught a break.

One of the most compelling was James Walker, president of the Watchman Fellowship, which fancies itself a Christian discerner of new religious movements, cults, the occult, and New Age-ism. On the Sunday he visited my church, Walker preached about the folly of Oprah Winfrey-ism, exposing her New Age beliefs and showing a clip from her program in which a Christian confronted her (and her panelists) with Bible truths.

While Oprah wields enviable influence throughout the country, Walker has also seen a noticeable uptick in inquiries to Watchman about a certain presidential candidate's faith. The curiosity is over the Mormonism of Republican Mitt Romney, and let's just say Walker -- himself a former Latter-Day Saint church member -- is concerned.

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The angry voter: Bad news for Dems By: John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei

Congressional Democrats certainly know the power of a throw-the-bums-out message. It vaulted them to power a year ago this week. Little wonder anxiety is boiling over inside the new majority as lawmakers ponder a succession of polls and reach an inescapable conclusion: Lots of people think they are bums, too.

The anti-Washington mood in the country — aimed at both a Republican president and a Democrat-controlled Congress — has reached breathtaking levels. One has to reach back almost 30 years, to the low points of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, to find a time when there was such simultaneous disdain for both the executive and the legislative branches, as measured by Gallup approval ratings.

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Peacenik Paul By Thomas E. Brewton

In his October 29 column, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman expresses the implicit liberal-PC paradigm that all cultures and all peoples are interchangeable. Moreover, that people everywhere have the same thought processes and values as those of liberal-progressives.

Liberals, and presumably everyone other than Republicans, are against war, ergo Islamic jihadists must be misunderstood people who mean us no harm. We have therefore only to be nice to them in UN negotiations to insure world harmony and peace. (See "Liberals Still Can't Connect the Dots.")

Mr. Krugman writes:

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Conservatism Found in the Bible by Ericka Andersen

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible takes a no-nonsense approach to combating some biblical criticism and arguing that the best selling book of all time indeed embraces and promotes the conservative perspective of human rights and limited government.

Author Robert J. Hutchinson advocates the historical and archaeological accuracy of the Bible through documentation and records kept throughout the years. Taking on controversial issues such as creationism versus evolution, abortion and homosexuality, Hutchinson counters anti-Bible arguments with quotations from scripture placed in historical, geographical and spiritual context.

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The California Fires: Where were the Looters? by Jerry Bowyer

Did you see any looters on television last week? Neither did I. When New Orleans was flooded two years ago, there were looters all over my TV screen. Men with assault rifles waded through the streets menacingly. At first, I thought I was looking at footage from Somalia, but I looked at the crawl underneath the images - it wasn’t Somalia; it was Louisiana.

What about the rapists? There were rapists at the refugee camp formerly known as the Superdome, but did you see any reports about rapists at Qualcomm Stadium last week? I didn’t. Did the mayor of San Diego cuss and then lash out at George Bush on your TV screen last week? Did Governor Schwarzenegger cry for the cameras? Did he pass the buck?

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University Forces Students To Say That All Whites Are Racist By David Storobin, Esq.

The University of Delaware recently made a decision to subject its students to mandatory "treatment" ('treatment' is a term used by the university) where they learn that "all whites are racist", racism by the 'people of color' is impossible, and George Washington is merely a "famous Indian fighter, large landholder and slave owner".
The university requires that the students adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. Students are forced to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training”.

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Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism By Fjordman

I have heard people who have grown up in former Communist countries say that we in the West are at least as brainwashed by Multiculturalism and Political Correctness as they ever were with Communism, perhaps more so. Even in the heyday of the East Bloc, there were active dissident groups in these countries. The scary thing is, I sometimes believe they are right. But how is that possible? Don’t we have free speech? And we have no Gulag?
The simple fact is that we never won the Cold War as decisively as we should have. Yes, the Berlin Wall fell, and the Soviet Union collapsed. This removed the military threat to the West, and the most hardcore, economic Marxism suffered a blow as a credible alternative. However, one of the really big mistakes we made after the Cold War ended was to declare that Socialism was now dead, and thus no longer anything to worry about. Here we are, nearly a generation later, discovering that Marxist rhetoric and thinking have penetrated every single stratum of our society, from the Universities to the media. Islamic terrorism is explained as caused by “poverty, oppression and marginalization,” a classic, Marxist interpretation.

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Campus Fascism II By Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.

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Slavery in Islamist Sudan By Stephen Brown

It was the kind of excitement that made children uneasy. Grownups were pointing toward the river. Others were arriving at a run. The bustling atmosphere in the market place of the peaceful African town of Nyamlell in the Dinka tribal area in the southern Sudan was changing. Worried adults could see what a seven-year-old Dinka boy, Francis Bok, who had gone to the market that fateful day with older village children to sell his mother’s eggs and peanuts, could not: “a storm of smoke” rising from a nearby village. Sellers frantically began to gather up their wares and hurry away with the buyers. The adults understood. They recognized the approaching signs of the dreaded scourge that most people believed had disappeared from the pages of African history long ago: a slave raid.

It was 1986 and Bok was about to see his happy world of family and village shattered forever by a centuries-old, barbaric practice that has never died out: the violent capture and enslavement of black Africans by Arabs.

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What the Army Wants You to See Michael J. Totten

Some colleagues, readers, and friends have suggested the dispatches I published from Iraq as an embedded reporter might not be reliable, even if true, because I only saw what the United States Army wanted me to see. CBS news anchor Katie Couric said as much about her own coverage when she first arrived in Baghdad in September.

I’ve had the same thoughts myself, and I quietly wondered if I should disclose them. I chose not to, though, because my experience, as it turned out, didn’t actually warrant it.

The Army hooked me up with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Graya’at district of Baghdad in July. There hadn’t been any violence there since early in 2007. The soldiers hadn’t suffered a single casualty—not even one soldier wounded. How convenient, I thought, that the Army sent me to such a place. I appreciated not being thrown into a meat grinder and shot or blown up, but Graya’at did strike me as a dog-and-pony-show sort of location. Maybe it was. It could certainly function as one, if that’s what the Army intended.

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BOURNE TO RUN, AND RUN, AND RUN By Mark Steyn

I’m always impressed by the indestructibility of clichés. For example, I love that moment in the first Naked Gun picture when Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley are together in front of a roaring fire, and Miss Presley stands up, reaches behind, and her dress, as they do in the movies, falls from her shoulders in one perfect shimmering drop. And then the great Nielsen stands up and reaches behind, and in an equally perfect instant his suit, shirt and tie all drop from his shoulders. I can’t believe any director of a celluloid sex scene could do the frock drop for real after that, yet they do, all the time, in a thousand and one cheesy TV dramas.

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Law of the Sea Treaty heads out to open sea By Judi McLeod

The Gipper must be rolling in his grave: The Jolly Roger-flagged Law of the Sea Treaty is sailing full speed ahead, courtesy of a media encouraged U.S. Senate panel.

Minus political rhetoric, the treaty gives the power-grabbing United Nations complete jurisdiction over God’s Seven Seas--70 percent of Mother Earth’s surface.

“The treaty also creates an International Seabed Authority with the power to levy a $250,000 tax (application fee) on anyone who wishes to explore the seabed. (Henry Lamb, WorldNetDaily, May 17, 2007).  “It would also tax (royalties) everything that might be excavated from the seabed.  It requires technology transfer from the nations that have technology to the nations that don’t--under the supervision of the UN of course.”

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Stephen Limbaugh: Missouri's Most Dangerous Liberal Judge By David R. Usher

Most folks associate the Limbaugh name with a ruthlessly-honest framework of conservative thinking. Unfortunately, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh, who is cousin to Rush Limbaugh and well-known conservative writer David Limbaugh, apparently ate too many paint chips as a child.

While I have not studied more than a handful of Judge Limbaugh’s opinions, I have seen enough of them to conclude that he is unable to interpret cases while observing fundamental constructionist principles of law.

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Oklahoma! By Citizen Conservative

As of November 1, 2007, Oklahoma is the beacon of light and hope for those seeking escape from the fog of liberal-begotten insanity when it comes to illegal aliens.

That is so because U.S. District Judge James H. Payne denied a request for a Preliminary Injunction against H.B. 1804, Oklahoma's common sense bill for dealing with the out-of-control invasion by illegal aliens.

As a result, H.B. 1804 is now the law of the land in Oklahoma. Let the self-deportations and state-assisted deportations begin!

Are you listening Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton?

During the Democrat debate on October 30, Mrs. Clinton was asked her view on Governor Spitzer's idiotic deal to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Clinton replied by asking, " What is the governor supposed to do? He is dealing with a serious problem."

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Using Fires To Sell Global Warming By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

We don't know which is weirder — Dennis Kucinich's belief in UFOs or the House holding hearings on Harry Reid's claim that global warming caused California's wildfires. The "scientific link" doesn't exist.

We thought we had heard the ultimate absurdity when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid politicized a tragedy the other day by claiming, "One of the reasons we had the fires in California is global warming."

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A Requiem for Friendship by Anthony Esolen

Sam Gamgee has been fool enough to follow his beloved master Frodo into Mordor, the realm of death. To rescue Frodo from the orcs who have taken him captive and who will slay him as soon as he ceases to be of use in finding the Ring, Sam has fought the monstrous spider Shelob, has eluded the pursuit of the orcs, and has dispatched a few of them to their merited deaths.

Finally he finds Frodo in the upper room of a small filthy cell, naked, half-conscious, lying in a heap in a corner. “Frodo! Mr. Frodo, my dear!” he cries. “It’s Sam, I’ve come!” With a bluff tenderness he clasps him to his breast, assuring him that it is really he, Sam, in the flesh.

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The Knoxville Horror: Crime, Race, The Media, And “Anti-Racism” By Nicholas Stix

Shortly after midnight on January 7, the most controversial crime of the year (hopefully) was committed in Knoxville, Tennessee. A young white couple—Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom Jr., 23—were carjacked, kidnapped, gang-raped (both of them), tortured and murdered. Five suspects, all black, are in custody.

I gave more of the appalling details in my May 14 American Renaissance online article. (See also the much longer, revised version that is the cover story of AR's July issue.)

The crime I have dubbed "The Knoxville Horror" has raised grave questions

About the credibility of the media, police, and prosecutors, who continually lie to whites about the dangers facing them, and, in the media's case, simultaneously propagate fictions about "white racism";

About America's perverted dialogue on race, in which citizens are presented with a false alternative between crypto-Marxist "anti-racism" and "white supremacism"; and

About a society in which whites are hunted like prey by black racists.

The Knoxville Horror is no aberration. At the end of this article, I will set it in the true context of black-on-white crime. And I will discuss two further subsequent cases perverted by America’s “anti-racism” dominant ideology.

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Looking For the Doorway to Hell? by Jeff Morton

Hillary Clinton may know the way.

I have said for years, “If you wanted to know where the doorway to hell is, follow the Clintons!”Biblically, Hell is where the lost go, those that are banished eternally from the presence of God. Hell is also a place where evil exist, evil in its unchecked, purest form. Well, to me, that is the perfect description of Hillary Clinton.

I have been sifting through all of the court documents, letters and information provided on this website. All the while asking myself, why? Why keep doing this? The only answer I could come up with is because the Clinton's keep doing what they do best…Corrupt!

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Fascinating series on developments within Islam By Rosslyn Smith

Blogger Ali Eteraz just completed a seven part series in the Guardian on developments within Islam. I would sum up his theme by saying that the religious thinkers who influenced the Jihadists and the Islamists were those who supported dissent against the political authority of their own times. 

Once forces of dissent get unleashed in a culture they become difficult to control.   For every Bin Laden wannabe who reads the Quran for himself and finds support for violence against Muslim and infidel alike there are now even more like Laleh Bakhtiar, a woman whose translation of the Quran removed the permission for wife-beating based on her understanding of alternative meanings of classical  Arabic verbs.  In the author's words 

"the same people who wanted to prevent the "westoxification" of Islam, who wanted to "purify" Islam, have ended up ushering the same thing that makes the west special: hyper-individualism."

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Despite the Gloom, More Bush Boom By Lawrence Kudlow

If things are so bad, why are they so good?

With all the gloom coming out of Wall Street, the Democrats on the campaign trail and the mainstream media, a remarkable thing just happened: Real gross domestic product, the best summary report of the American economy, came in at a breathtaking 3.9 percent annual rate for the third quarter. In fact, following the 3.8 percent growth rate for the second quarter, the U.S. economy has posted its strongest quarterly growth in four years. The economy actually appears to be speeding up, following the relatively sluggish performance of the prior 18 months.

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Liberal or Progressive, Same Old Nonsense By George Will

In today's political taxonomy, "progressives" are rebranded liberals dodging the damage they did to their old label. Perhaps their most injurious idea -- injurious to themselves and public schools -- was the forced busing of (mostly other peoples') children to engineer "racial balance" in public schools. Soon, liberals will need a third label if people notice what "progressives" are up to in Utah.

There, teachers unions, whose idea of progress is preservation of the status quo, are waging an expensive and meretricious campaign to overturn the right of parents to choose among competing schools, public and private, for the best education for their children.

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The Do-Nothing UN By Noah Pollak

In a development certain to shock nobody, the UN has released a report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701, the cease-fire agreement that paused the Israel-Hizballah war last summer. The new report confirms what most sentient people predicted: that Resolution 1701 would accomplish nothing. Ban Ki-moon’s report assents to what Israeli intelligence and military officials have been saying since the end of the war, namely that Iran and Syria have encountered few obstacles to rearming Hizballah with better weapons.

Detailed in Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post, the report says that, in addition to the establishment of surface-to-air missile capacity and the tripling of Hizballah’s arsenal of land-to-sea missiles, ...

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Confronting Liberalism's Elusive Causes and Effects By Christopher Adamo

The lights came on across Kansas as the sun set on the evening of October 18, 2007, which in the minds of most people is just as it should be.  It might therefore be easy to conclude that the decision that day of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to refuse a construction permit for a new coal-fired electric power plant was a universally good one, spawning only happiness and positives for everyone, excepting, of course, those greedy industrialists who wanted to build the plant.

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Hillary Clinton: Immoral or Amoral? By Henry Mark Holzer

Much of Hillary Clinton's conduct has not involved issues of morality.  She has been a poseur, playing the role of victimized, yet forgiving wife, during the Lewinsky scandal.  She has been a hypocrite, castigating the president for warrantless surveillance but using purloined tapes to her own political advantage.  She has been a paranoid, complaining to the world about the alleged "right wing conspiracy." She has been a conniver, ousting career White House travel office employees in favor of her cronies.  She has been a dilettante, presuming to make over America's health care system.

While this conduct, and much more like it, has been unseemly and at odds with the image that had been projected by modern-era first ladies from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbara Bush, none of it raised serious moral questions.

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Two-faced oil Sheiks who trade in terror By OnTheWeb

The arrival yesterday of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on a state visit has already generated more than the usual share of hypocrisy from both sides of a relationship built not on affection but on oil and commerce.

Even before he set off from Riyadh, the King chided our security services for allegedly ignoring Saudi warnings about the imminence of the 7/7 London bombings and for being half-hearted in combating terrorism.

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Hillary: A Rose Between Two Thorns? Satire By John W. Lillpop

Satire By John W. Lillpop

Senator Barack Obama (D- Illinois) and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, both liberals to a fault, are almost always wrong on most issues. Dead wrong, out to lunch, no question about it.

But a minor miracle lifted these two out of the fog of liberalism during yet another Democrat debate Tuesday evening. At least with respect to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York), that is.
Obama and Edwards, positioned on either side of the Democrat front runner, spoke truth when they called Hillary a flip flopper, one who engages in double talk, a defender and part of the broken and corrupt system, and guilty of poor judgment.

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Voting as Political Narcotic By Joel Hirschhorn

Fast forward to Election Day 2008: Network anchors, cable pundits, and state and local election officials are going nuts as evening hours pass and voter turnout is hardly approaching 20 percent nearly everywhere. "What's going on?" everyone is asking incredulously. TV and computer screens all over the planet show Americans in streets celebrating and shouting things like "We've had enough political corruption. We're not going to take anymore!"

In contrast, news anchors are grim and aghast with little help from spin-fatigued and stammering Democratic and Republican spokespeople. At 2 A.M. on NBC Brian Williams sits with Tim Russett and Keith Olbermann, and sums up: "Americans have spoken and American politics have changed forever." "It's like the nightmare of entertainers: nobody shows up for their event," says bemused Olbermann. Russett grimly observes, "We should have seen this coming; people have been fed up with both parties for a long time." Meanwhile, the Internet is buzzing with talk of voiding the presidential and congressional election results, that President Bush may declare a national state of emergency, and that the Supreme Court might step in again. Did anyone think that the Constitution required a minimum voter turnout to make elections legit?

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A Moral Case Against SCHIP Expansion By Max Borders

When it comes to SCHIP, even some on the right have lost their moral compass - having fallen victim, perhaps, to the notion that if it involves "the children" then they should abandon both principle and common sense. But with the left's attempt to expand medical entitlement benefits to the middle class, this is no time for compromise. For even compromise will work toward their ultimate goal of incrementally socializing healthcare.

Most opponents of SCHIP expansion have been mired in the pragmatics of politics, the minutiae of markets, or the defensive posturing that comes when engaging a majority power that uses moralistic soundbites like daisycutters. What we have failed to realize, however, is that we have the moral case. Allow me to explain.

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Return from Paradise in the Left Lane By Hassan Daioleslam

In 2006, the Iran’s nuclear dossier was referred to the UN Security Council inaugurating a new era of confrontation between the clerical rulers and the international community. To counter the diplomatic pressure on Tehran, a new advocacy and PR group namely “Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran” (CASMII) was created.

CASMII’s “Mission Statement” says, “CASMII is an independent campaign organisation with the purpose of opposing sanctions, foreign state interference and military intervention in Iran.” In effect, its pronounced purpose is to conduct public relations campaigns defending the actions of the world’s largest and most dangerous terrorist regime.

Through CASMII, segments of the left and the anti-war movement in the United States have channeled their critique of the war and the current US administration to support the most radical elements of the Iranian regime. These American personalities and groups have clearly crossed the line and have become ardent advocates of one of the most notorious dictatorships of the modern history, with no regards for the Iranian people, the prime victims of these dictators.

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Be very afraid this Halloween By Joseph Farah

There's an interesting e-mail floating around the Internet.

Usually, when I get these, I chalk it up to "urban legend."

But when I got this one, I recognized at least some of it to be accurate. So, I decided to check it all out.

It turned out to be 100 percent right.

It's in the form of a little quiz. Quotes are provided, and you have to guess who made the statements.

You be the judge. This Halloween, see if you can figure out who is responsible for the following scary quotes:

No. 1: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Josef Stalin
D. None of the above

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University to students: 'All whites are racist' By Bob Unruh

A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group.

"Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the right to be free from compelled speech," said a letter from Samantha Harris, director of legal and public advocacy for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to university President Patrick Harker.

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Code Pink Hoax Snares CBS, Politico By Ethel Fenig

Code Pink has become the Scott Beauchamp of fake news stories about Iraq, suckering in Politico.com and CBS News.

Code Pink ladies are a radical group of lefty ladies adorned in pink (to prove they really are female) given to disrupting events of all kind to protest the war in Iraq. However while Beauchamp's victim, The New Republic, is still desperately denying it was had, Politico and CBS bravely took their medicine, admitting their mistake. CBS reprinted a Politico story on its site.

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McCotter: GOP Must Go Back To Its Anti-Communist Roots by John Gizzi

Declaring that “the Republican Party must go back to its anti-Communist roots,” Rep. Thad McCotter (R.-Mich.) today stepped up his attacks on mainland China’s Huawei Technologies attempts to acquire 3Com, an American company that services the Pentagon with security technologies.

McCotter’s discussion of his hardline stand against what he never fails to dub “Communist China” -- not calling them that, he told HUMAN EVENTS today, “is like not calling Rep. Charles Rangel a Democrat” -- comes as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R.-Fla.) has introduced H.R. #26 to call for a national security review by the Committee on Investments in the United States (CFIUS) before Huawei Technologies purcharses 3Com.

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Pols Pander at Arab American Institute Conference by Robert Spencer

The Arab American Institute held its national conference in Detroit over the weekend, and presidential hopefuls Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul were there. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards addressed the conference via video hookup. Obama also sent an adviser, Tony Lake, and Edwards sent his campaign manager, David Bonior. Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean was there as well.

A Detroit Free Press article noted how much this was indication of changing times: “In 1988, Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis rejected the endorsement of a major Arab-American group.” But now? “This year, Democratic party leaders gave the candidates permission to address the conference despite a campaign boycott of Michigan because legislators moved up the date of the state’s primary.”

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The New Campus Fascism By David Horowitz

The big news during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was the disruption of my speech at Emory University by leftists who, it so happens, weren’t actually students. They were members of the Coalition United for Peace and Justice, one of the leading groups in the movement to save the Islamo-Fascist regime in Iraq from being overthrown by American forces. Shutting down peaceful campus lectures is a fascist tactic, but in a country as committed to the principles of fairness and free speech as this one it is not the most insidious. This distinction must be reserved for the massive witch-hunt which attended our events -- the pursuit of alleged “racists,” “bigots” and “Islamo-phobes” who, once labeled, can then be discredited and even silenced if university administrators are willing.

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101 Love Crimes and Legislative Positions By Lee Culpepper

Liberal politicians quiver in bliss -- stroking their delusional consciences. They pimp a provocative fantasy that liberals are born superiorly caring and compassionate. For liberals, lamenting social injustices indulges some perverse pleasures. While they wallow in their liberal love-fests for entitlement programs, their brand of kindness and charity merely exacerbates the inequalities they vow to amend.

In fact, liberals might love “victims” so much that the victims are literally incapacitated by love. Liberal entitlement programs are more like weapons of mass destruction. Whether motivated by good intensions or psychopathic satisfaction, liberals refuse to stop loving victims into oblivion.

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How to Get the World to Like Us –The Case for Isolationism By Ron Silver

The presidential electoral cycle is upon us. That means conventions. Conventions have platforms. I propose a platform that will make the world like us again. Just like they always did.

It may take 12 steps to get clean and sober, but only 6 to make the world realize just how super the U.S. can be.

1. We can start by helping the Arabs retake Andalusia. Having conquered it once, it belongs to them forever. This goes for most of the Balkans as well as Austria up to the gates of Vienna. All infidels should convert to Islam. This is inevitable as Islam means “submission.” Needless to say, we should all follow the code of Sharia. It’ll work wonders. No need to tie up the courts with gay marriage cases; we can just kill all the homosexuals. How much better will our soap operas be when the cheating wives get stoned to death?

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China's Clinton-Aided Lunar Eclipse By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Sen. Clinton made the promise earlier this month, on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, as part of her plan to reclaim America's lead in science and technology.

The irony is, that lead is now being challenged by China, whose great leap forward in missile and space technology was aided by the Clintons in exchange for campaign contributions.

Last Wednesday, China launched its first lunar probe, the Chang'e 1 lunar orbiter, named after a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon. The 5,070-pound probe was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province aboard a Long March 3A rocket. The probe is expected to send back its first photos in November and to conduct exploration of the moon for a year.

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Loathing Nancy By INVESTOR'S BUSIENSS DAILY

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's popularity is plummeting as Democrats realize she is ineffective, Republicans find her dishonorable and voters feel betrayed. That's what she gets for putting politics first.

The first female speaker of the House may be from California, but less than 10 months after taking the gavel, the San Francisco-based Field Poll finds more Californians disapprove of Pelosi's performance (40%) than approve of it (35%). A recent Zogby poll found that only 11% view Congress positively, down from an already-dismal 14% in the summer.

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The Owl and the Ostrich by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In Africa we sometimes used animals to say things on sensitive issues to avoid discussing the messenger instead of the message. So I shall use the ostrich and the owl to sketch the two most important positions on the issue of immigration and pluralism in Europe.

The view of things, as the ostrich sees them, in Europe today is bright. He sees an open market of 450,000,000 people with an amazing potential. He sees a thriving economy and the free movement of people, goods, money and services. Immigration, to the ostrich, can only be viewed as an opportunity for an aging native population. Borders are better open than closed. Islam is a faith like Christianity and Muslims shall adapt their religion to life in Europe.

According to the ostrich, very soon there shall be a European Islam, signs of which are already visible in the young women in tight jeans, high heels, black sleeveless tight tops and matching head scarves, all designed by Prada. This Prada Islam will replace the old rural one and function as a vaccine against the Wahhabi Islam of the Saudis.

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Islamist Movements and Weapons of Mass Destruction Hans Rühle and Michael Rühle

Just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Pakistani authorities arrested two atomic scientists suspected of having aided the terror network al-Qaida in efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. One year earlier, they had founded a humanitarian aid agency for Afghanistan: the "Reconstruction of the Muslim Umma." But for the two Taliban sympathizers, the aim of constructing a new Muslim community was not only a matter of economic and political solidarity with the faithful around the world. In their opinion, Pakistan's nuclear weapons, which they had helped to develop, were also the "property of all Muslims."

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An Important and Urgent Message From Cliff Kincaid

"Our national survival is at stake. Our sovereignty is at risk and in danger. We need your immediate help to avert a catastrophe. We need at least 34 Senators to block ratification of the pro-world government and pro-global taxes Law of the Sea Treaty. The treaty could be brought to the Senate floor at any time. Informed sources tell me that, at this moment, we have less than 10 Senators opposed to it. Time is of the essence. We must act now. "

 

Please call the Capitol switchboard at 1-800-828-0498 and ask to be connected to your Senators. Tell them to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Tell your Republican Senators you do not want them ratifying a treaty that President Reagan opposed.

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Laura Bush's embrace of tyranny By Robert Spencer

Caroline Glick explains exactly what's wrong with Laura Bush donning the hijab in "Our World: Laura Bush's embrace of tyranny" in the Jerusalem Post (thanks to LGF):

Women in Saudi Arabia do not have human rights. As Amnesty International puts it, "The abuse of women's rights in Saudi Arabia is not simply the unfortunate consequence of overzealous security forces and religious police. It is the inevitable result of a state policy which gives women fewer rights than men, which means that women face discrimination in all walks of life and which allows men with authority to exercise their power without any fear of being held to account for their actions."

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Islamist groups use lawsuit in attempt to silence critic Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate :: Militant Islam Monitor

Joe Kaufman, the chairman of Americans Against Hate is being sued by several Saudi funded Muslim organisations who are attempting to deny him the right of free speech.One of the groups suing is the Muslim Legal Fund, whose head Khalid Meek is a board member of the Dallas/Ft.Worth chapter of CAIR Texas.Mahdi Bray Executive Director - MAS Freedom Foundation - Washington, DC is a MLF advisor. The Muslim groups attorney is Donalt Fulton who defended jihadi wannabe Syed Maaz Shah on firearms charges last year.Fulton referred to Shah (a student and president of the Muslim Student Association) as just being a "young kid".

FBI agents testified and presented photographic evidence that Shah, a 19-year-old Pakistan native, was participating in combat and firearms training at a campground in Willis, Texas - just outside of Houston. Houston FBI agent John McKinley testified that the exercises were designed to "prepare participants in combat operations as they would apply to jihad (holy war) overseas."

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Al Qaeda declares Cyber Jihad on the West :: DEBKAfile

In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden’s followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites.

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that, shortly after the first announcement, some of al Qaeda’s own Web sites went blank, apparently crashed by the American intelligence computer experts tracking them.

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Hillary Under 50% vs. Ron Paul by: Patrick Ruffini

Pollster Scott Rasmussen just shared this fascinating observation in an interview: When you average the head-to-head matchups with Hillary Clinton vs. any of the Republicans, she’s always getting 46 to 49 percent against any of them.

“When we polled her against Ron Paul, she got 48 percent of the vote. When we polled on Ron Paul among people who knew who Ron Paul is, she got 48 percent of the vote. When we polled among people who didn’t know who Ron Paul is, she got 48 percent percent of the vote.”

Paul got 38 percent against Hillary.

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What Has Bush Done With Our Precious Hurricanes? :: BlameBush

Some of us are old enough to remember a time when the mighty hurricane still roamed the high seas in vast herds, wild and free, unspoiled by the destructive force of man's greed. Not so long ago, scientists marveling at the sheer number of hurricanes worried that they might run out of names for them. Now, with yet another mild season drawing to a close and less than 15 storms to show for it, many are left wondering what is responsible for the disappearance of our beloved Hurricanes, not to mention our free $2,000 ATM cards.

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Next Stop Toward USA Dissolution Given Tacit Approval by Feds By Sher Zieve

Despite the fact that U.S. citizens have repeatedly told both state and federal governments not to do it, illegals are now to be given a huge step towards U.S. citizenship.  Illegals are to be given drivers licenses in New York State.  In a joint Saturday news conference, Democrat N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer and Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff were all smiles.  It appears that congressional Democrats and the Bush administration have found yet another way to bypass the people. 

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Why No «Bloody Hands» to Protest Slaughter of the Unborn? By John W. Lillpop

By John W. Lillpop
Code Pink activist Desiree Farooz made a huge splash in the media with her stunt at a House Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on October 24. It was at that gathering that this former teacher from Texas shoved her bloody hands into the face of Secretary Condolezza Rice while screaming, “The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands!”

Secretary Rice maintained her dignified, professional decorum while Capitol Hill police forcibly removed Farooz from the People's House. After order was restored, the war in Iraq and other issues in the Middle East were discussed in more respectful, rational terms, sans the bloody hands and screaming.

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The Top 10 Things Democrats Don't Want You to Know by: John Campbell

The Republican Staff on the Ways and Means Committee put this fact sheet together, I feel it is quite enlightening, and wanted to share it with you.
When Chairman Rangel introduced his long-awaited tax legislation yesterday morning, there were certain things he conveniently forgot to mention. Among the things the Democratic Majority doesn’t want you to know about the “Mother of All Tax Hikes”:

1. MARRIAGE PENALTY ON STEROIDS:  The bill imposes a surtax of 4% on single filers with incomes above $150,000 and $200,000 for married couples filing jointly.  After years of fighting efforts to repeal the marriage penalty, the Majority is taking the battle to a new level by putting a massive new marriage penalty into the tax code.

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I Have Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance Policies By Charles J. Sykes

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

During dull moments at school, I admit,  I not only drew soldiers shooting one another, but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with planet destroying powers.

These days, of course, any of them would have been enough to get me kicked out of school. In our era of zero-tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies.

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Make Way for a Second UN By Doug Bandow

Bad treaties never die. Such is the lesson of the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST. The treaty would turn over all of the world's unclaimed natural resources to a second United Nations, yet is beginning to move towards ratification. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote on the treaty on Wednesday.

Three decades ago the Third World was busy campaigning for a so-called New International Economic Order (NIEO), which combined demands for more foreign aid, UN regulation of business, and collectivist resource development. LOST declared all seabed resources to be the "common heritage of mankind," levied fees and royalties on Western mining and oil companies, created a monopoly company to mine the seabed, and established a new international body to divvy up the spoils.

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Was Ehrlich right about multiculturalism? By Robert Holland

When he was governor of Maryland in 2004, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. stirred a hornet's nest when he denounced multiculturalism as "bunk" on a talk-radio show. Because many Americans believe multiculturalism merely means teaching children in a wholesome way about diverse cultures, Mr. Ehrlich drew heat.

Now, the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), the main advocacy organization for multiculturalism, is coming to Baltimore to hold its 17th annual national convention tomorrow through Sunday.

Here is a perfect opportunity to examine the agenda and see if the former governor had a point.

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Welcoming the tyrant By Peter Tatchell

Gordon Brown refuses to meet the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. He says he wants to take a stand against tyranny. Yet the same Gordon Brown will happily embrace the Saudi dictator, King Abdullah during his state visit to Britain this week. Double standards or what?

The Killer King of the House of Saud is even more of a despot that President Mugabe, yet he will be feted by the prime minister at 10 Downing Street and he will stay with the Queen at Buckingham Palace as her honoured guest. Isn't it just a tad hypocritical for Gordon Brown to rage against one form of tyranny while embracing another?

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Condeleezza Rice Talks to Controversial Sources by John Gizzi

Amid mounting criticism from Administration supporters about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice getting advice on the Middle East from former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, her top spokesman called me to explain that America’s top diplomat is “drawing on experience” -- and nothing else.

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Media Coverage is LOST By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

In over 30 years of working in and watching the ways of Washington, I must say, I have never seen anything quite like it.

According to Senator Jon Kyl, the entire Senate Republican leadership is now opposed to a controversial treaty supported by the president and an implausible alliance of special interests – from the U.S. Navy to Greenpeace. At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several Senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Yet, it seems not one of the “establishment” media organs felt moved to report these momentous political developments.

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Anti-Clinton Video Draws Web Audience By JIM KUHNHENN

First came the Orwellian mash up YouTube video that portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton as Big Brother. Then came a clip of her off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Now, a stinging 13-minute video by a bitter Clinton foe is finding its own Internet audience.

The clip, a preview of a longer film by one-time Clinton donor Peter Paul, has scored more than 1.4 million hits on Google Video and about 350,000 on YouTube during the past week. Its popularity has driven it to the top spot on Google Video over the past two weeks

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