Saturday, November 10, 2007

Pelosi's "New Day" Produces 11 Percent Approval


By John W. Lillpop

More than 10 months ago, Nancy Pelosi basked in the glory of being sworn in as the most powerful woman in America and third in line for ascension to the presidency.

Wags referred to Pelosi as San Francisco's "only straight Queen."

Those were heady days for California's most prominent socialist and greatest national embarrassment. Mind you, Barbara Boxer and Pete Stark are gaining on the bug-eyed grandma, but to date neither has been quite as spectacularly goofy as Speaker Pelosi.

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Friday, November 9, 2007

Republican Darlings of the Leftist Press By JB Williams

Dark horse candidate Ron Paul is fast becoming the media darling of the same leftist press that has been pushing Rudy Giuliani for President since 2001. This alone should make conservatives nervous about supporting either. If the leftist press approves, count me out!

Most conservatives know too well why the press is pushing for these two candidates. But it’s high time the supporters of these two candidates come to grips with this reality.

On first blush, one might easily conclude that the leftist press, like the leftist anti-war movement, has found favor with Ron Paul simply because he supports their anti-war anti-American rhetoric. Ron Paul borrowed leftist talking points concerning the war, national security and even their fear-mongering rhetoric about government oppression at the hand of a “fascist” Bush regime.

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Brussels Journal Too Belgian (Or Flemish) For Little Green Footballs By James Fulford

Little Green Footballs is a website focusing on the high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Muslims around the world. It's owned by Charles Johnson, who was instrumental in exposing Dan Rather. It posts stories of Muslim atrocities, and allows comments, which means it has a large number of people writing random things on the site.

Lately, LGF has decided to attack Paul Belien of the website Brussels Journal, who has written a number of articles for us at VDARE.COM. In fact they're attacking him partly because he's written a number of articles for VDARE.COM.

In The Mask Comes Off at Brussels Journal, they write

“So let’s look at Belien’s writing. Here’s an article by Paul Belien himself, published at the hard-core (some say extremist) anti-immigrant web site Vdare.com: VDARE.com: Anti-Immigration Party Banned In Belgium, by Paul Belien.

“And Belien’s article was linked with approval at the Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review, on a page full of other bizarre and anti-Semitic articles.

“Nice company Paul Belien runs with.” [Links in original]

That's an incoming link they're talking about from the Institute for Historical Review. (Let me pause to condemn them—they actually are Holocaust deniers, which I condemn here as crazy lie, of a kind that I as journalist find highly annoying—and if I forget to condemn them, I'll be held responsible by the Little Green Footballers.)

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The Bicameral Universe: A Theory of Everything in One Blog Post By Mike LaSalle

This article will review a set of well-known concepts in theoretical Cosmology. Its purpose is to offer a possible solution to the apparent discontinuity between Professor Frank Tipler’s Omega Point Theory asserting the existence of Almighty God - G-d, Allah, Yahweh, Shiva, you-name-It - and the scientific evidence for cosmological inflation. I offer the Bicameral Universe model to help explain this apparent contradiction.

In my Bicameral Universe model, the Big Bang is a single explosive event that propels massive ejecta in two equal but opposite directions in SpaceTime.

I propose that,

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Get tough on suicide bombings by Salim Mansur

A recent story in The Times of London reveals how utterly despicable are the folks who plan and execute suicide bombings.

Two 17-year-old peasant boys from the wilds of northwest Pakistan failed in their mission to kill the pro-West governor of Jalalabad, an Afghan border town. Farman Ullah, the suicide bomber, and his accomplice, Abdul Quboshi, instead were captured.

Times writer Robert Baer got to interview both captives. The peasant boys told their captors they believed virgins would be waiting for them at the site of the explosion and escort them to Paradise.

These captives -- their illiterate minds twisted by handlers recruiting them -- were programmed human bombs.

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The 25 Most Influential People On The Right By John Hawkins

Last week, the Daily Telegraph put out an attention-grabbing list of the 100 most influential conservatives in America. Lists of that sort, by their very nature, tend to be quite arbitrary and debatable, but the Telegraph's list struck me as being particularly far off the mark. With that in mind, I decided to put together a list of my own and although people will undoubtedly disagree with some of my selections, it's hard to imagine that I could do any worse than the Daily Telegraph, which seems to think that Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan, Jack Abramoff, Drew Carey, & Joe Lieberman are amongst the 50 most influential conservatives in America.

Honorary Mentions: Roger Ailes, Samuel Alito, Jed Babbin, Roy Blunt, Neil Boortz, Pat Buchanan, Tom Coburn, Joseph Farrah, Edwin Feulner, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Fredrick Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, Trent Lott, Glenn Reynolds, Antonin Scalia, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, R. Emmett Tyrell, George Will

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Does Obama Have a Valid Point? Can America Trust a Woman Over 60?

  

By John W. Lillpop

Democrats continue to trash each other,and especially Hillary Clinton, with reckless abandon. Don't they realize that all that mudslinging is providing Republicans with a bountiful cache of attack ads for the general election?

The latest addition to the GOP war chest flowed out of the mouth of Barack Obama who said:
"I think there's no doubt that we (his campaign) represent the kind of change that Sen. Clinton can't deliver on, and part of it is generational."

He continued by saying, "Sen. Clinton and others, they've been fighting some of the same fights since the '60s, and it makes it very difficult for them to bring the country together to get things done."

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Eliminate the Gasoline Tax? By Alan Caruba

With the cost of a barrel of crude oil edging toward $100 (remember the good old days when it was only $70?), it’s time to look at the gas tax. In August, the Cato Institute published a “Policy Analysis” that was titled, “Don’t Increase Federal Gasoline Taxes—Abolish Them.”

Masters of turgid prose, Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Cato senior fellows authored sixteen pages of a tightly reasoned argument against raising the taxes on gasoline, plus seven small-print pages of footnotes documenting their position. A prodigious amount of scholarly effort was invested in this analysis.

Fortunately for me, there was an “Executive Summary” on page one that helped to identify the major themes. “Gasoline consumption does not necessarily distort American foreign policy, impose military commitments, or empower Islamic terrorists organizations,” say the authors.

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Students who 'desecrated' terrorist flags vindicated :: WorldNetDaily

In a decision hailed as a victory for free speech, a federal judge ordered San Francisco State University and the California State University system to stop enforcing speech codes used to prosecute students for the "desecration" of flags used by terrorist groups.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Wayne Brazil issued a preliminary injunction to bar the schools from enforcing several policies challenged in a lawsuit. One required students to act in accordance with SFSU "goals, principles, and policies" and another, a CSU system-wide policy, called for students "to be civil to one another."

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Warning Signs from Annapolis By Mark Silverberg

Truth is, an Israeli-Palestinian peace is not on anyone's agenda at Annapolis, and that's why Annapolis represents a grave threat to Israel. The real American motive for the Conference is to solidify America's anti-Shiite alliance against Iranian expansionism, stabilize Iraq, shore up Arab support for a pending coalition air-strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, and secure American oil interests in the Middle East. And in this game of high-stakes political poker, despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, Israel's national security interests are of secondary importance.

In the world of realpolitik, Israel is viewed by Foggy Bottom as more of a bargaining chip than a strategic asset so the guiding philosophy there is that all disputes and world problems can be resolved through negotiations even if, as in this case, only one side is being asked to make any real concessions. With the U.S. experiment in Middle East nation-building something less than a resounding success, other priorities have taken precedence. Simply stated, if the Saudis and Syrians show up at Annapolis, pressure will be applied on Israel to make significant one-sided concessions for getting them there. For Syria, that means Israel will be forced to make concessions on the Golan Heights. For the Saudis, it means American protection, either delaying or killing the recently submitted Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2007* and a continuing American blind eye to the Saudi's global propagation of Wahhabism/Salafism.

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Hillary Clinton: Do We Really Want This Woman? by Armstrong Williams

A few years ago there was a popular movie out called Mean Girls; a mildly humorous satire about high school drama. During the Democratic presidential candidate debate on October 30 in Philadelphia, Senator Hillary Clinton continued her strategy of dodging questions and focusing her answers on what the current administration is doing wrong. She tried to turn every issue into an argument against President Bush. She said Bush's name 25 times -- more than all six of her rivals combined. To borrow a phrase from the movie, I wonder when Senator Clinton is going to release her “burn book.” 

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Happy Birthday, Marines! by Ericka Andersen

Tomorrow, November 10, is the 232nd birthday of the US Marine Corps. The Marines can be a mystery to those of us who weren’t raised in the military culture.  We know from our history books that they are an elite group, something different from other soldiers. But what really makes them different? 

In celebration of the Marines, HUMAN EVENTS asked a few Marines to describe the difference in their own words.     

I felt proud just speaking with Colonel H.C. “Barney” Barnum, Jr., a retired Marine, now Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy.  Col. Barnum received the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in combat in Vietnam.  He sounded just as I suspected an older Marine would -- direct, convinced and matter of fact.

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The End of the University As We Know It By David Horowitz

Alarms about the political subversion of the academic curriculum were first sounded more than a quarter of a century ago with such books as The Closing of the American Mind, Illiberal Education and Tenured Radicals. Lesser known but more specifically documented texts followed, including Zealotry and Academic Freedom by Neil Hamilton (1995) and Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies, by Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge (2003). In addition, several websites, including noindoctrination.org and studentsforacademicfreedom.org have collected many student testimonies of academic abuses, stemming from the introduction of political agendas into the academic curriculum. Several organizations including the National Association of Scholars and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni have contributed to these efforts, and in 2003 I began a campaign for an “Academic Bill of Rights” to protect students from being proselytized in university classrooms. Partly under the pressure of that campaign hearings have been held in the Pennsylvania and Missouri legislatures and the accumulation of evidence that such practices are widespread has reached a critical mass.

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Emerson, a Jew who gets it A perspective of a moderate Muslim :: Muslims Against Sharia

At the risk of sounding anti-Semitic, I want to say this: either American Jews are completely clueless about the internal struggle inside Islam or they are so cowardly, that they are even afraid to voice their opinion. Or maybe it's a combination of both.

Every time there is a development that involves radical Islam, be it a Mayor of New York attending an Islamist parade, DOJ's officials attending an Islamist conference, or a protester being sued for having the balls to expose an Islamist-sponsored event at an amusement park, the American Jewish community is as quiet as a church mouse. It's like it is not even there.

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Last Chance for Public Diplomacy By Clifford D. May

Four Americans have now held the title of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs – three of them under the current administration. President Bush has one last chance and one more year to get it right. I’ll tell you how – but first, let’s take a moment to review the modern history of public diplomacy.

During the Cold War, it was understood that battles of ideas had to be fought – and that they could not be won simply by having diplomats talk to other diplomats at embassy receptions. We also needed to communicate with ordinary people. To that end, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was created. Its work product was not spectacular – it was a government bureaucracy, after all – but it got some things right. In the early 1960s, its director was Edward R. Murrow. Perhaps the greatest broadcast journalist of his generation, he had no problem defending the United States and the White House. (Imagine that!)

Then, in the 1990s – despite a series of bloody attacks by Militant Islamist terrorists -- Americans persuaded themselves that all the serious wars had been fought and that it was time to spend the “peace dividend.” That meant shrinking the military, cutting the intelligence budget and, in 1998, shutting down USIA.

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Slicker Than Water By INVESTOR'S BUSIENSS DAILY

Republicans in Congress didn't desert President Bush this week for some high-minded principle. No, they joined with Democrats to hit him with his first veto override over a petty, pork-laden water bill.

"Almost every president opposes this type of bill," declared Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, one of 79 senators who helped Congress' upper house override President Bush's veto of the water bill Thursday.

That kind of shrug-your-shoulders thinking may help explain why the GOP is in the minority in Congress today.

Seen through the eyes of the scores of Republicans in the House and Senate who voted for pork over their supposed principles and their president, it wasn't big spending they approved, but, in Lott's slick words, "good, deserved, justified projects."

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Blacks must drop victimhood and reclaim dignity By Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint

Martin Luther King had a dream that some day his children would "live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

He wanted his children to become strong, beautiful people. But what we see today in poor African American neighborhoods is a nightmare.

We know there are forces that make the ability to escape poverty seem bleak: overburdened single-parent homes, a high dropout rate, joblessness, gangs, drugs, crime, incarceration, deaths at an early age from guns fired by angry black men. We know that systemic racism and governmental neglect still exist.

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Shortage of Farm Workers? Why Not Use Protesting Illegal Aliens?

 

Why not use protesting illegal aliens to pick grapes and tomatoes?

By John W. Lillpop

Democrat politicians and certain RINOs are always looking for new ways to ram illegal aliens down the throats of reluctant Americans. In the latest scam, these anti-American knot heads are passing out crying towels to gain support for agricultural tycoons who allegedly face a shortage of farm workers.
Prudent citizens: Save your tears and pity for both the corrupt farmers and the illegal aliens that they are so fond of.

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WE'RE AT WAR, FOLKS :: Your Daily Paine

Not with a nation--although nations like Iran are involved.

 Islamists (I like to call 'em 'slammis) have declared war on the West. I guess they figure once the West falls the rest of the world will sign up for prayer rug.

I wonder if the clerics of Islam have given any thought to the traffic problems of 6*109 human beings converging on Mecca for the Hajj boogie. But maybe they reckon that their world should be populated by a whole lot fewer people.

True believer(TM) socialists are waging war against capitalism and personal wealth. Their zero sum economic models are prevailing in the left wing among us. Somewhere north of 20% of US citizens are already subscribed and many are instructing our children.

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Anti North American Union protests planned in 7 cities for November 17th By Marty Eels

Organizers are planning to protest the North American Union in 7 cities on November 17th. Protests are planned in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Yakima, WA.
The nation wide protest march is in opposition to the Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) and establishment of a North American Union between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
The website dubbed ‘March for America’ states:

“The SPP is a “hostile takeover of democracy” by the leaders of the United States, Canada & Mexico in collaboration with un-elected and unaccountable corporate elite “working groups” who are integrating and “harmonizing” policies and regulations between the three nations without any public forum or congressional oversight.”

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Welcome Back, France By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Nicolas Sarkozy's warm embrace of America on Wednesday did much to improve a relationship his "sophisticated" predecessor had trashed. Ironically, it's likely to raise France's standing in the world.

France's president seemed to know this. His quip that he proved it possible to "be a friend of America and win an election in France" went to the heart of his new approach: Being friends with the U.S. is a very good way to be popular with voters.

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“Militant group” gets routed from Baghdad, NYT buries the news on page 19 :: HotAir

The “militant group” in question is, in fact, al Qaeda.

American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Iraqi militant network, from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top American general said today, allowing American troops involved in the “surge” to depart as planned.

Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commander of United States forces in Baghdad, also said that American troops had yet to clear some 13 percent of the city, including Sadr City and several other areas controlled by Shiite militias. But, he said, “there’s just no question” that violence had declined since a spike in June.

“Murder victims are down 80 percent from where they were at the peak,” and attacks involving improvised bombs are down 70 percent, he said.

I’ve heard similar information from an Army captain who until recently was commanding a tank platoon in east Baghdad. I’m hoping to interview him next week. We won’t bury that interview.

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Islam and Islamofascism By Larry Houle

The term Islamo - Fascism gives tremendous creditability to Islam. It perpetuates the myth that Islam is a wonderful religion of peace and love that has been hi – jacked and perverted by a few bad apples of evil Islamo – Facsists, Islamic militants, jihadists, Wahhabism, radical Islam, Islamists. There has been no hijacking. There has been no perversion. These demented souls are following exactly the teachings of the Koran and in the footsteps of the Prophet - Muhammad.

The reality is that Osama bin Laden is a true Muslim – a holy man of the book who is following exactly the teachings of Islam as recorded in the Koran.

By not exposing the true nature of Islam, those who use the term Islamo – Fascism etc are elevating Islam to an equal footing with Christianity and other world religions.

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The Hillary Whitewash Continues By Seton Motley

As we are in the midst of a presidential campaign, this by itself is not an issue. That it is the national media that is leading this charge is. One need focus on but the latest corners of the Clinton pantheon to come to light to see the full court press the press puts on when their girl needs them.

In an October 10 Boston Globe interview, Senator Clinton let her socialism slip a bit, saying "I have a million ideas. I can't do all of them. I happen to think in running a disciplined campaign - especially when it comes to fiscal responsibility, which is what I'm trying to do - everything I propose I have to pay for. You know, you go to my website, you'll see what I would use to pay for what I've proposed. So I've got a lot of ideas, I just obviously can't propose them all. I can't afford them all. The country can't afford them all." (Emphasis ours.)

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Coalition of the Incapable by Stuart Koehl

ONE OF THE MOST common complaints made against the Bush administration's war policies is it's alleged "unilateralism," an unwillingness to bring in our allies or fight as a coalition. This view overlooks the participation of many countries alongside U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Granted, these are often small countries, with proportionally small contingents, but they are there, they share the risk, and sometimes they spill their blood as well.

The charge of "unilateralism" also overlooks U.S. military doctrine, which explicitly recognizes both the necessity and the inevitability of coalition warfare. The Department of Defense's top-level transformational document, Joint Vision 2020 (JV 2020) clearly considers "multinational operations" to be the norm for future conflicts:

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Saving Civilization From Itself BY ARTHUR HERMAN

"Why should we Anglo-Saxons apologize for being superior?" Winston Churchill once growled in exasperation. "We are superior." Certainly Churchill's views of what he and other late Victorians called the "lesser races," such as blacks and East Indians, are very different from ours today. One might easily assume that a self-described reactionary like Churchill, holding such views, shared the anti-Semitism prevalent among Europe's ruling elites before the Holocaust.

But he did not, as Martin Gilbert vividly shows in "Churchill and the Jews." By chronicling Churchill's warm dealings with English and European Jews throughout his long career, and his heartfelt support of Zionism, Mr. Gilbert conveys Churchill's deep admiration for the Jewish people and captures his crucial role in creating the state of Israel. Churchill offers the powerful example of a Western statesman who--unlike other statesmen in his own time and ours--understood the malignant nature of anti-Semitism and did what he could to oppose its toxic effects.

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Renowned Environmentalist Calls Biofuels ‘Crime Against Humanity’ By Noel Sheppard

Another prestigious international figure spoke out against biofuels Tuesday actually calling their use and production a "crime against humanity."

Unfortunately, since this goes counter to solutions for manmade global warming espoused by folks like Al Gore, you likely didn't hear or read about it.

Though George Monbiot isn't a household name in the States, he is considered one of Britain's leading environmentalists, and is regularly quoted by warm-mongers to advance climate hysteria.

Yet, despite his irrational disdain for carbon dioxide, Monbiot has long campaigned against the use of biofuels, a position quite diametric to Gore and other noted American climate alarmists.

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McCarthyism: The Rosetta Stone of Liberal Lies by Ann Coulter

When I wrote a ferocious defense of Sen. Joe McCarthy in Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, liberals chose not to argue with me. Instead they posted a scrolling series of reasons not to read my book, such as that I wear short skirts, date boys, and that Treason was not a scholarly tome.

After printing rabidly venomous accounts of McCarthy for half a century based on zero research, liberals would only accept research presenting an alternative view of McCarthy that included, as the Los Angeles Times put it, at least the "pretense of scholarly throat-clearing and objectivity."

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America’s Awareness Increasing—But Not As Fast As Italy’s By Brenda Walker

Italy's government instituted a major crackdown on foreign criminals last week, as political leaders sought to respond to public fury.

The immediate reason for bulldozing shantytowns near Rome and deporting some Romanians: the shocking murder of Giovanna Reggiani, the 47-year-old wife of a naval officer. On November 2, as she was walking home, she was beaten until she was unrecognizable and left for dead in a ditch by a 24-year-old Romanian gypsy. She later died in hospital.

In a remarkable gesture, Premier Romano Prodi sent a condolence message to the husband, saying the murder "had wounded the soul of all Italians."

He additionally empowered police to expel European Union citizens "for reasons of public safety."

Can you imagine President Bush taking similar actions after an immigrant crime against an American?

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Jihad and the American Left By J.R. Dunn

A few weeks ago a meeting occurred between Iranian mullahs and assorted international left-wing figures in hopes of generating some sort of "revolutionary solidarity".  The guests of honor were the children of Che Guevera, Aleida and Camilo. The attempt ended in unintentional comedy when one of the mullahs present began to praise Che for his hatred for the Soviet Union, his loathing of socialism and communism, and his "godliness".

When Aleida Guevara protested, the Iranians threw both her and her brother out, and the affair fell apart.

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The Mullahs are not 'Conservatives' By James Lewis

Google shows more than 2 million hits for the words "Iran conservative," in reference to the mullah regime. That's a slander against conservatives. The mullahs of Iran are emphatically not conservatives. They are reactionaries.

The media call the Iranian mullahs "conservative" because they want to go back to the 7th century. But the mullahs don't admire George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, William F. Buckley or Rush Limbaugh. They hate conservatives, because they know that Ronald Reagan was a much harder nut to crack than Jimmy Carter.

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Britain's Escalating War on Christianity By Hal G.P. Colebatch

The war being waged by the quasi-establishment and quasi-government Left in Britain against the nation's own traditions, values, identity and, perhaps most of all, religion, has been escalated and its battle-lines redefined with a report by a leading Labour Party-aligned think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, recommending that Christmas, which cannot be obliterated, should be down-graded to promote multiculturalism.

The report says that because it would be hard to "expunge" Christmas from the national calendar (although this would apparently be desirable), public organizations must be made to give non-Christian religious festivals equal footing.

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Election '07: Voters Prove Their Sanity By A.J. DiCintio

I’m tempted to react to Tuesday’s elections by pointing out that having heard a number of the results, Homer Simpson is gloating, “Wrong again, Liberal media!” However, given the seriousness of the only legitimate process by which law is made or changed (Washington’s “explicit and authentic act of the whole people”) I’ll control my emotions to say simply that somewhere Thomas Jefferson is smiling.

Indeed, how could Jefferson, who wrote, “The people...are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty,” do anything but smile after learning, for example, that by a landslide (60%-40%) Oregon voters rejected a proposal to amend the state constitution to raise cigarette taxes an astounding 84.5 cents a pack (yes, including the additional insult of the ha’penny) to provide health care for low-income children, families, and individuals.

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Iraqi Casualties, Leftist Lies By Glen Reinsford

Counting bodies in Iraq has become quite the fashion these days. Most major news organizations, from CNN to the New York Times, keep an up-to-the-minute running total of the number of U.S. troops killed there. Critics note that if demoralization of the war effort is not the key motive then it is certainly odd that the number of dead terrorists is so rarely, if ever, provided as well.

Dead Iraqis are extremely popular with anti-war groups, particularly IraqBodyCount (IBC), which meticulously compiles a database of deadly incidents in Iraq based on news and morgue reports. The organization’s “counter” of civilian casualties was once found on the sidebar of most anti-war blogs – before bloggers were seduced by the wildly insane Lancet survey estimates, which exceed IBC’s numbers by a factor of 10.

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Fred Thompson Is Finished By Cliff Kincaid

Fred Thompson looked much too relaxed on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” interview with Tim Russert. He was nonchalant to the point of apathy about one of his key supporters being a convicted drug trafficker and his positions on rights for the unborn and the disabled were embarrassing in their lack of intellectual depth.  

Thompson has to know his days are numbered as a presidential candidate. Indeed, he is now in hot water for joking to Carl Cameron of Fox News that he has doubts about his own candidacy. 

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From Pakistan With Terror: How the Islamic Circle of North America is tied to the Bhutto attack By Joe Kaufman

The tragedy that occurred on 9/11 taught us that America is not insulated in safety from radicals positioned thousands of miles from our shores. So when violence in Pakistan erupts, as it did last month in the form of an assassination attempt on an ex-Pakistani Premier, or when the Pakistani government declares martial law, as has happened this week, possible implications on the United States must be delved into. This is especially the case given the fact that Pakistan has been used as a training ground for Al-Qaeda. One American organization in particular, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), has a number of ties to groups that are implicated in last month's deadly attacks.

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Appeasers– Tony Blair decries a “state of semi-apology” :: Islamo-Fascism Blog

Tony Blair was interviewed in the Jerusalem Post as he is functioning as a Mideast envoy.  He was asked about the causes of Islamofascist terror:

He answered brilliantly:  (excerpts follow)

…”This terrorism is not our fault,” he said. It needed to be fought through a combination of military action where necessary and “a galvanizing idea that is more powerful” than the extremists’ message. “And that idea is not simply about freedom and democracy, though it should be about that, but also about justice,” he said.

“The trouble with a large part of the Western world is that we’re in a state of semi-apology the whole time, and that’s an absolutely hopeless position from which to take this thing on… A large part of public opinion in the West is basically saying, ‘We have caused this. It’s our fault they’re like this.’ I just think that’s nonsense.”

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Will Ahmadinejad's Claim Of 3,000 Centrifuges Trigger Israeli Strike ? :: Freedom Zone

Iran's announcement that it now has 3,000 centrifuges signals an ability to produce the nuclear material needed for a warhead. With Israel having destroyed Saddam Hussein's Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, and having recently struck a suspected nuclear plant in Syria, there should be little doubt that "as the sole -- if undeclared -- nuclear power in the region," it will not tolerate a nuclear Iran that has said Israel should be "wiped off the map." So no wonder Washington is concerned about a possible (if not likely) strike on Iran by Israel:

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Slouching Towards Brussels :: Gates Of Vienna

I recently posted a summary report about last month’s Counterjihad Brussels 2007. Controversy and acrimony have swirled around the conference since shortly after the participants left the Flemish Parliament building that afternoon and boarded trains or planes to make their way home.
For a change of pace, here is a simple narrative of what happened in Brussels.

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Renewing the French-American Alliance By Nicolas Sarkozy

Madam Speaker, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the United States Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen,

The state of our friendship and our alliance is strong.

Friendship, first and foremost, means being true to one's friends. Since the United States first appeared on the world scene, the loyalty between the French and American people has never failed. And far from being weakened by the vicissitudes of History, it has never ceased growing stronger.

Friends may have differences; they may have disagreements; they may have disputes.

Renewing the French-American Alliance

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Can Iranians trust Western support? By Judith A. Klinghoffer

Limited number of Iranian dissidents be they minorities or students continue to be arrested and executed. Here is some of the latest:

Sheema Kalbasi reports:

“8 Arab-Iranians are to be executed. Among them is Faleh Abdullah al-Mansouri, a Dutch national and UNHCR-registered refugee was deported to Iran by the Syrian authorities in May 2006. Al-Mansouri is currently being tortured in Section 209, a notorious prison run by the Ministry of Intelligence. He was sentenced to death while in exile and is likely to be executed in Iran. Three more are sentenced to life. One of them is Hamzeh Savari who was arrested at the age of eighteen and two of his brothers were executed last year.”

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Backstabbing Republican By Daniel Muniz

At first, Governor Rick Perry of Texas faced a serious challenge by the popular Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. It has been known for years that the Senator was becoming increasingly uncomfortable in siding with certain conservative positions on Capitol Hill. Hutchinson is actually a social liberal but she maintains such a low profile of her personal beliefs that many Texas Republicans either don’t make a big deal about it or they actually think that she is a solid conservative.

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Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’ By Noel Sheppard

If the founder of The Weather Channel spoke out strongly against the manmade global warming myth, might media members notice?

We're going to find out the answer to that question soon, for John Coleman wrote an article published at ICECAP Wednesday that should certainly garner attention from press members -- assuming journalism hasn't been completely replaced by propagandist activism, that is.

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Feminism Leads to the Oppression of Women By Fjordman

As University President, Lawrence Summers in 2005 gave a speech where he dared to suggest that innate differences between men and women could explain why men hold more seats as top scientists than women. This is a plausible thesis. According to Dr Paul Irwing at Manchester University, there are twice as many men with an IQ of 120-plus as there are women, and 30 times as many with an IQ of 170-plus. There are other studies that indicate similar, disproportionate numbers of men among those with extremely high intelligence.

Besides, even though Summers may have been wrong, it is dangerous to embark on a road where important issues are not debated at all. One of the hallmarks of Western civilization has been our thirst for asking questions about everything. Political Correctness is thus anti-Western both in its form and in its intent. It should be noted that in this case, feminists formed the vanguard of PC, the same ideology that has blinded our universities to the Islamic threat.

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A Macedonian Fairy Tale By Boban Karapejovski

Once upon a time there was a small country called "the Oasis of Peace". This country was Macedonia. This fairy tale dates from the mid-`90 of the previous centrury, when Macedonia became the only country to secede from the Yugoslav breakdown without war and human casualties. This small polity (in terms of square kilometers) is again at the focus of international interest due to the process of solving the Albanian issue on the Balkans.

Following the conflict in 2001, after which the Constitution was changed, the Albanian population (25,17 percent of the overall population, according to the census in 2002), obtained all the rights that placed them in a position equal to the Macedonian majority (although they have had all minority and human rights even before). Now, there are some indications of a repetition of 2001 with armed groups stationed near the Kumanovo and Tetovo areas, according to some media, albeit yet not confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Left-Fascism Awareness Week By Don Feder

During the week of October 22-26, David Horowitz and his Freedom Center held a series of events at 100 campuses for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, intended to counter standard academic nitwitery about the war on terrorism ("America is evil," "We brought it on ourselves," "9/11 was a Republican conspiracy").

Admirable though this was, attention must be called to an even more imminent threat.
By the authority vested in me (by myself), I hereby designate the week of November 5th Left-Fascism Awareness Week -- a time to consider the clear and present danger to free speech emanating from the left, from academic Jacobins to Hillary, Harry and Nancy.

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Where is the Modern Day Huizinga? By Andrew G. Bostom

More evidence of Western Europe’s moral and intellectual decay, and capitulation to the Ur Fascism of the Islamic Jihad emerged on Wednesday November 7, 2007, with this announcement:

Tariq Ramadan is to hold the Sultan of Oman chair of Islamology at the University of Leiden. Education and Culture Minister Ronald Plasterk said yesterday in the Lower House that he does not object to Ramadan's appointment.

The appointment was a sickening reminder of its diametric opposite: the principled stand taken at Leiden by Huizinga in 1933 as described in “Huizinga before the Abyss: The von Leers Incident at the University of Leiden, April 1933,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1997, 27:385-44. Johan Huizinga, the great Dutch historian, then serving as rector of Leiden University, withdrew university hospitality to the Nazi scholar, Johannes von Leers, who was attending an international student conference at the university. Huizinga acted on the grounds that von Leers had published an anti-Semitic election pamphlet in which he knowingly presented the blood libel of Jewish ritual murder as a historical fact, and contemporary threat. Despite subsequently winning public approval, Huizinga stood in courageous isolation when he took this action, suffering both personal criticism and significant problems in his dealings with German and Swiss publishing houses in the aftermath of the affair. (Ultimately, he died in Nazi detention, during 1945.) Thus in sharp contrast to his modern heirs at Leiden University, Huizinga had a very definite sense that a university had to judge its behavior according to concepts of intellectual honor and dignity which von Leers’ actions infringed upon.

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FBI's New Friends Were Kicked Out of UAE For "Talibanization" By Andrew Cochran

As a follow-up to Steve Emerson's post about the FBI's meeting with Tanzeem-e-Islami, I want to suggest to the FBI that they use a website named "Google" to comprehensively search the groups and individuals with which they are planning to meet. If they had done that search well, they would have found that the UAE government kicked Ahmad's supporters out of the country back in May, fearing "the spread of Talibanization." Excerpts from a story:

ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has deported dozens of the disciples of noted scholar Dr Israr Ahmad for holding Dars-e-Qur’aan sessions in Dubai, fearing the spread of Talibanisation in the country.

“They violated the laws,” FO spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told The News but added that she had no knowledge of the exact numbers of the deportees.

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“Churchillian” Statesmanship By Joshua Muravchik

The Washington, D.C.-based Churchill Centre has just awarded the first Winston Churchill Award for Statesmanship to James A. Baker and Lee Hamilton.

This is the same James A. Baker who, as Secretary of State, when asked what the U.S. would do about aggression, ethnic cleansing, and mass murder in Bosnia-Herzegovina, replied: “We have no dog in that fight.” It is hard to say which was more Churchillian, the sentiment or the eloquence.

By this standard, Hamilton, former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was even more Churchillian. His reaction to the Bosnia debacle was described thus by Congressional Quarterly:

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Farmworker Farce - The shortage simply doesn’t exist. By Mark Krikorian

The Senate this week will debate a $238 billion farm bill, and there was the prospect that yet another amnesty for illegal aliens, this one for farm workers and their families, would be attached to it. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) was considering introducing the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007 (AgJOBS) ...

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Public Schools and Birth Control Pills, Time For School Vouchers By Marie Jon'

A role of a good parent is to teach its children about things that affect their lives, including the dangerous pitfalls that come from having sexual intercourse. The trend of giving birth control pills to 11 and 12 year-old girls in our schools must stop. Instead there should be massive police investigations as to who, what when or where. These are under age little children who are being sexually molested. — Statutory Rape

A youngster's mind is not mature enough to make decisions about sex. They do not understand the horrors of venereal diseases, or the ramifications of becoming pregnant. The emotional downsides of abortions are never mentioned by those who propose it. However, even for an adult woman it is an unforgettable act. Abortion can lead to long lasting depression, low self esteem, emotional problems, drug abuse, and alcoholism. 

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Columbia prof: ‘All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists’ :: Jihad Watch

They cured polio, flew to the moon, perfected the heart transplant -- wait, no, scratch that. But they did do absolutely everything else.

There is a certain sadness to this kind of ridiculous triumphalism, for it just begs the question of why, then, is the Islamic world so mired in misery today?

But that question, of course, brings us right back to Zionist Crusader paranoia. It's too bad Muslim scientists haven't discovered a cure for that.

"‘All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists,’" from the Daily Times:

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Virginia Is for Radicals? By Stephen Spruiell

The Islamic Saudi Academy — a private school owned and operated by the government of Saudi Arabia in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of northern Virginia — is more than just a religious school. While its math, science, and English curricula all conform to American standards, its religion curriculum is the same as the one imposed on all schools in Saudi Arabia. For years, that curriculum has been the target of legitimate criticism for its use of textbooks that promote jihad and justify violence against Christians and Jews.

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LIKE IT OR NOT JIHAD IS REAL By: Phil Brennan

Anyone who believes that  the Islamic world's anger at the Great Satan - that's us - is the direct result of our being in their ballpark and would quickly subside if we'd just pick up our marbles and go home had better begin to pay attention to what's going on across the globe right now.

A quick scan of current events strongly suggests that what we mistakenly call the war on terrorism is really what it's combatants call Jihad - a holy war against Christianity, Judaism and all other non-Islamic faiths. Our presence in the Middle East is merely one of the irritants that motivate the Jihadists, but the main thrust of their campaign  is solidly religious in origin and would by no means fade away were we to retreat from what they regard as their sacred territory.

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Pakistan: Media Reports on Pakistani Islamists Conceal Their Anti-Freedom Ideology By Jeffrey Imm

In the media coverage of Pakistan President Musharraf's declaration of emergency and martial law, Islamists objecting to his emergency declaration are being portrayed as defenders of Pakistani freedom, when in fact they represent Islamist anti-freedom ideologies. While there are certainly other genuinely pro-freedom individuals who object to Musharraf's emergency declaration, media sources are combining reports of anti-freedom Islamists' criticism along with other democratic opponents of Pakistan President Musharraf, and in the process, lending undue credibility to Islamist Pakistanis.

This is starkly reflected in the media reporting on such figures as Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Hamid Gul. Both of these individuals are Islamists within Pakistan, who seek to undermine any remaining pluralism and freedom in Pakistan and replace it with an anti-freedom Islamist ideology. What media reports fail to point out is that such "repressed" Pakistani Islamists as Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Hamid Gul and their supporters are likely to want to see someone like Osama Bin Laden lead Pakistan.

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Part II: CBC’s denial of the climate science debate By Dr. Tim Ball & Tom Harris

1.  The Fifth Estate commentator asserts, “The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming.” The programme does not address the roots of the issue at all.  Had they done so, they would have discovered that many of the scientists who disagree with climate alarmism have been working in this field for decades and their published papers contesting the politically correct view date from the early 80s.  If some American climate experts who refute the human-caused climate change hypothesis now receive support from fossil fuel companies, then it is clearly as a result of the scientists’ already well-established record of outstanding research in the field.  In other words, the Fifth Estate have cause and effect backwards-- support from industry would obviously be a result of, not a cause of, the work of skeptical scientists.

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Foreign Ownership of American Roads – A Mistake and a Backlash By Paul M. Weyrich

Infrastructure ought to be an easy sell. After all, we are talking about the roads upon which we drive every day. Now even mass transit systems are up for consideration. But the Administration is reluctant to fund infrastructure projects. The last major push for such projects came in 1982. Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis persuaded President Ronald Reagan, still relatively new on the job, to agree to a tax increase for infrastructure purposes. Congress was supposed to make budget cuts accordingly. Reagan raised taxes but the Congress failed to come through. Reagan was angry. He felt he had been had. Still, money was raised for roads and bridges and that was the last major federal push for infrastructure projects.

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Destroying the Nation-State By Alan W. Dowd

Buried deep in a recent Washington Post piece deriding former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s penchant for firing off memos, we find this morsel:

“In one of his longer ruminations, in May 2004, Rumsfeld considered whether to redefine the terrorism fight as a ‘worldwide insurgency.’ The goal of the enemy, he wrote, is to ‘end the state system, using terrorism, to drive the non-radicals from the world.’”

Love him or hate him, Rumsfeld was right about this. He was also consistent, recognizing that the jihadists’ worldwide insurgency—or global guerilla war, if you prefer—is not the only challenge to the nation-state system. In fact, Rumsfeld also spoke at length about international institutions that undermine the nation-state system.

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New GIMF Video: Caravan of Martyrs in Iraq :: The JAWA Report

GIMF (The Global Islamic Media Front) has released a new video named Caravan of Martyrs in Iraq. The video refers to a phrase spoken by Osama bin Laden, but which also was the name of a popular Islamist blog with links to GIMF and a Charlotte, N.C. blogger named Samir Khan.

The video is a compilation of old assorted terrorist videos from Iraq. The video follows the theme stated in the title, taking various clips from martyrdom videos, and splicing them together.

The video starts with a common GIMF animated clip in which a truck is driven into a cross and explodes. The message is, "Kill the cross worshipers (Christians)!"

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Communist Dissonance (Part One):'Huawei and CFIUS' Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter

The psychological disorder termed “cognitive dissonance” occurs when individuals refuse to acknowledge facts that contradict their existing views.  In the realm of national security, the equivalent of cognitive dissonance is properly termed “communist dissonance.”  This occurs when the global sophisticates inhabiting America’s business and political elites refuse to recognize facts contradicting their belief communist China is our friend.   

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Beware Hate Crime Hoaxes By Clarence Page

A student at George Washington University recently complained that swastikas were scrawled on her dormitory door. Thanks to cameras hidden by university police, they have a suspect: The student who filed the complaint.

I was shocked but not surprised, just as I am shocked but not surprised when, with thousands of cars on the road, some get into accidents. Similarly with the recent upsurge in national attention to swastikas, nooses and other racial vandalism in public places, I am shocked but not surprised that at least one case of racial-ethnic vandalism turns out to be phony.

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Colonizing Barnard :: New York Sun Editorial

The news, coming over the weekend, that Barnard College has granted tenure to an anti-Israel anthropologist, Nadia Abu El-Haj, is a setback to those who had hoped that the tide of anti-Israel sentiment at Morningside Heights would begin to recede after President Bollinger's welcome of President Ahmadinejad. Press coverage of Ms. El-Haj's case in the Nation and the Jewish Week (by the same reporter, no less) has sought to portray her opponents as McCarthyites and has insisted that she has been falsely accused. In fact, she is on the record accusing Israel of being a colonial project.

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Chavez and His Idiots By ANNE APPLEBAUM

Ninety years ago this week, a Bolshevik mob stormed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, arrested the Provisional Government, and installed a "dictatorship of the proletariat" in its place.

Though the Russian revolution is no longer widely celebrated (not even by the Russians, who instead commemorate the expulsion of the Poles from Moscow in 1610, I felt it important to mark the occasion. In honor of the anniversary, I re-read "Ten Days that Shook the World," the famed account of the revolution written by John Reed, the American journalist and fellow-traveller. Then I re-read last week's press reports of the recent encounter between Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, and Naomi Campbell, the famed British supermodel, as well.

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Illiberal Statism By Mike S. Adams

For years, conservatives have been claiming that conservatism is dying in America. That isn’t true. Actually, liberalism is dying in America. But, unfortunately, it is being replaced by another ideology far more dangerous than liberalism. After you consider the following issues, I hope you will join me in an act of self-censorship that will culminate in a lifetime commitment to refrain from calling Democrats “liberals.” Instead, I would urge the use of the more appropriate term “statist.”

Abortion. For years, many have mistakenly dubbed the pro-choice position as a “liberal” position. Clearly, it is not. It is certainly true that pro-choicers applaud a 1973 decision extending a new constitutional right to choose – oddly by saying that the constitution is living and breathing but the fetus is not. But that right only applies to half the population.

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Three cheers for Ayn Rand By Maggie Gallagher

"Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand's monumental 1,000-plus-page valentine to the America of her dreams, turns 50 this year.

The occasion has been marked by nerdy paeans to her philosophy, and grudging acknowledgements by sophisticates that Rand's novels may not be so very bad, after all. For the latter ersatz tribute, see, for example, the famous art critic (and my friend) Terry Teachout's essay on Rand at 50 in the current issue of National Review.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Memo From Mexico (About Oklahoma) By Allan Wall

One of the most encouraging recent developments on the patriotic immigration reform front: state, county and local governments cracking down on illegal immigration.

Somebody needs to.

The latest law—said by some to be the toughest yet—has just come into effect in my home state, Oklahoma. It’s the famous/infamous H.B. 1804, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizenship Protection Act of 2007, authored by state legislator Randy Terrill, who was interviewed on the Terry Anderson show on November 4th.

H.B. 1804 really cracks down on illegal aliens. It prohibits them from getting driver’s licenses or specific government benefits. It prohibits the sheltering and transport of illegal aliens.

It allows the local police to enforce immigration law. That doesn’t mean that Oklahoma police are going to be going door to door ferreting out illegals. But if a policeman, in the normal course of his duties, detains an individual for a felony or drunk driving, the lawman is authorized to check the detainee’s immigration status, and, if illegal, to contact immigration authorities.

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Universal Neglect By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The officials who run Great Britain's National Health Service apparently don't believe patients need the benefits of medical innovations. Advanced medicine costs too much, so they can just go without.

Medical treatment will always be rationed. Care may be abundant in many parts of the world, but it's not unlimited. The question, then, is who does the rationing? The patient? Or the government?

For years we've warned readers that the universal health care model those on the left have been trying to force on the country will establish a system in which the state takes over medical treatment and makes decisions for the sick.

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WORLD WAR IV By Clifford D. May

To mark the publication of Norman Podhoretz's new book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, the editors of Commentary magazine invited 15 leading thinkers to contribute to a symposium on such key questions as "what kind of war are we fighting?" and "can we win?"
Two on this list, Claudia Rosett and Andrew McCarthy are full-time FDD senior fellows. Another, James Woolsey, is FDD's Distinguished Advisor and Co-Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger, an organization administered by FDD. Other contributors, including Fouad Ajami, Bill Kristol and Ruth Wedgwood, contribute to FDD projects. The entire symposium is well worth reading - not least to consider areas of disagreement among these analysts- and it's here.
AGONISTES: Over the weekend, thinking I might relax for an hour, I watched a re-run of an episode of the TV show, Law and Order. But it was not relaxing - it was an hour of unmitigated and infuriating propaganda.

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The Nostalgia of Islamic Golden Age vs. the History of Science by Syed Kamran Mirza

Islamic Golden Age, usually dated from the middle of the  8th century to the middle of the 13th century, scholars and engineers  (from various faiths: Muslims, Christian, Jews, Hindus etc.) of the Islamic world contributed enormously to the arts, literature, philosophy, sciences and technology both by preserving and building upon earlier traditions and by adding their own inventions and innovations. Muslim-born philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers, created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every continent. Scientific and intellectual achievements blossomed in the “Golden Age” and passed on to Europe to be expanded upon in the European Renaissance.

But what was the real dynamic force behind the making of this “Golden Age”? Was it the scriptural dictums of religion Islam—the blind-faith on Allah? Or, was it the driving force of rationalism of some free thinkers?  Answer to this above question is the main subject of this long article.

Islam is the only religion, which pretends to Claim all the goodies of this planet as their own. They consider Islam is the best/true religion from Allah (God) and Muslims are the best human beings, and Allah only loves Muslims. Most devout fanatical Muslims in particular, as well as, a good percentage of gullible Muslims in general, express a special nostalgia about the so called ‘Islamic golden age’.  Muslims today emphatically blame western civilization in general and American super power in particular for all of their problems in their own country. They intentionally and deliberately mention about the past historical glorious day (golden age) of Islamic Caliphate only to energize Muslims to unite and fight-back western civilization in order to regain the past glory of Islamic golden age.

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Shari'a-Jihad Threat Alert #1 By Dave Gaubatz :: Mapping Sharia

Shari'a-Jihad Threat Alert #1

By Dave Gaubatz, Director  Tue, August 28, 2007, 9:03 pm

This Shari'a-Jihad Threat Alert #1 begins a series of such alerts arising out of the Mapping Shari'a investigation.

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Threat: Imam Yusuf Estes, a popular Islamic leader in America</PLACE /></COUNTRY-REGION />. Born in 1944 to a Christian Protestant family, Estes converted to Islam in 1991. He is active in converting non-Muslims to Islam (dawa) and runs and contributes to many web sites.

Location: Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, Falls Church</CITY />, Va.</STATE /></PLACE />

Date: 18 May 2007

Evidence obtained:

· Audio recording of 18+ minutes of conversation between Dave Gaubatz, Director of Mapping Shari’a, and Estes.

· Compact disk placed in Dave Gaubatz’s pocket by Estes.

Synopsis: On 18 May 2007, Dir. Dave Gaubatz visited Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church</CITY />, Virginia</STATE /></PLACE />, one of the larger mosques in the greater D.C. area, with another Mapping Shari’a field researcher. The visit was a pilot test to familiarize team members on best methods for conducting field research at mosques throughout the U.S.</COUNTRY-REGION /></PLACE /> The purpose of the nationwide investigation: to evaluate the level of Shari’a compliance and determine the correlation between Shari’a compliance and the Jihad Threat Level.

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Proliferation of Climate Scepticism in Europe By Hans H.J. Labohm

Climate scepticism has now gained a firm foothold in various European countries.

In Denmark Bjørn Lomborg stands out as the single most important sceptical environmental­ist, defying the political correctness which is such a characteristic feature of his home country, as well as other Nordic countries. But wait! Bjørn Lomborg is not a genuine climate sceptic. Real climate sceptics admire his courage, his scientific rigour and debating skills, but beg to disagree with him on the fundamentals of climate science. Lomborg acknowledges that there is such a thing as man-made global warming, which is quite in line with the mantra of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). He 'only' challenges the cost benefit relationships of the policy meas­ures, which have been proposed to do something about it. Massive expenditures (often euphemistically called 'investments') in exchange for undetectable returns. Real climate sceptics do not accept the man-made global warming hypothesis. They are of the opinion that the human contribution to global warming over the last century or so is at most insignificant. But, of course, they are happy with the arguments advanced by Bjørn Lomborg to bolster their case against climate hysteria.

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Democrats, kids and old folks By Joseph Farah

It seems everyone agrees that Barack Obama neatly handled Tim Russert's question about whether he believes there is life on other planets. In last week's Democratic presidential debate, Obama replied: "You know, I don't know, and I don't presume to know. What I know is there is life here on Earth and that we're not attending to life here ...

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From HLF to Hamas: A Modern Parallel :: IPT News

One of the more salient facts to come out of the trial against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was the participation of several of the defendants at the 1993 meeting of Hamas activists and supporters in Philadelphia.Defendants Shukri Abu Baker and Ghassan Elashi, along with Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, future principals

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A Simple Question

Well, there's more talk of a "peace conference" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this one to be held in Annapolis. And the talk this time is that this is to be THE BIG ONE that finally solves the whole thing -- and involves establishing East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital.

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Essential American Truths Immigrants Must Be Forced to Accept

By John W. Lillpop

As the debate over immigration rages on, it is clear that many Hispanics, including those here legally, need to understand the following essential truths about America:

*In 1848, The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo was ratified by both the U.S. and Mexican Congresses. That Treaty ended any and all claims Mexico had to land now a part of the United States.

*Native American Indians were the original owners of the American southwest. Were there were any valid property rights claims concerning that land, such rights would belong to Native American Indians, not Mexicans.

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Washington, We Don’t Have A Science And Engineering Problem By Edwin S. Rubenstein

Fifty years ago Sputnik revealed what many feared was a science and technology "gap" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Since then our competitors have changed, but the perception of second-class status hasn’t. Many are calling for a new "Sputnik spike" to launch more Americans into science and engineering careers.

The most vocal groups?

Surprise, surprise: the educrat and big-business lobbies.

In August President Bush signed the America COMPETES Act aimed at recruiting more science and math teachers and drawing more students into those disciplines. Earlier efforts along these lines haven’t stopped Bill Gates and his counterparts from Google, Intel, and other high-tech companies from claiming the "skills shortage" can only be resolved by importing foreign scientists and engineers.

We have long argued that Gates and Co. had a self-serving agenda—namely, low wages and the exploitation of foreign workers who are little more than indentured servants while in their employ.

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The Deranged Left, Part CCLIXII By Rick Moran

Over the last two days, there have been two jaw dropping examples of how truly deranged the left has become.
First, this piece appeared on the front page of Daily Kos. It is self-explanatory:

As U.S. casualties have continued to drop, many people on the anti-Bush side of the aisle have begun to quietly panic in recent days over this question: “Could George W. Bush and Frederick Kagan have possibly been right about the surge?”

The fact that Democrats and the left would "panic" over winning the war tells you all you need to know about the shockingly cockeyed priorities the left holds regarding America. They would rather see us lose in Iraq than shown to be wrong.

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The Road to Wealth for Americans By Rick Ballard

The major media love nothing better than peddling pessimism on the economy, as long as a Republican is president. Given what we read, it's amazing that one doesn't trip over the unemployed selling apples on street corners on a daily basis. Now we have fear mongering within the business press clamoring for a "recession soon" (hopefully no later than next quarter, in order to maximize the negative impact on the Republicans prior to the election).

"Banking analyst Richard Bove at boutique brokerage Punk Ziegel points out that debt in the U.S. economy over the past five years has grown at a pace three times faster than income. Nominal gross-domestic-product growth has advanced at 3% while financial debt has grown at a 9.7% clip to $13.8 trillion."

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A History of Liberal Disasters By Jeffrey Lord

Add Hillary Clinton's endorsement of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants ("it makes sense") to a very long list.

The list? A seemingly unending series of bad policy proposals and loopy values that liberals have championed during the course of decades. What all of these subjects have in common is that they upended common sense in favor of a fit of moral superiority and emotional feel-goodism. They are a history of liberal disasters. All backfired or were proved dead wrong. Sometimes they were outright lethal. Collectively they are part and parcel of the real reason the once honorable term "liberal" has won such disdain from so many Americans when it isn't being hooted out of a serious policy discussion with laughter. And lying just under the surface of all the current crop of polls that predict a Democrat victory in the race for the White House is the lurking reality that any candidate who makes a point of flying the liberal flag stands a serious chance of being defeated outright. Why, after all, do you think Senator Clinton hemmed and hawed her way through the driver's license issue in last week's debate?

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Stop 'Making a Difference' By Thomas Sowell

Among the many mindless mantras of our time, "making a difference" and "giving back" irritate me like chalk screeching across a blackboard.

I would be scared to death to "make a difference" in the way pilots fly airliners or brain surgeons operate. Any difference I might make could be fatal to many people.

Making a difference makes sense only if you are convinced that you have mastered the subject at hand to the point where any difference you might make would be for the better.

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Hitler was Not a Christian :: Pundit Review

Dinesh D’Souza rebuts the fallacious assertion promulgated by many Leftist atheists and anti-theists that Hitler and the Nazis were “Christians.” We hope to have Dinesh and Christopher Hitchens on our radio show soon to debate and discuss this and other issues very soon.

Embarrassed at the murderous legacy of atheist Communist regimes in the twentieth century, leading atheists seek to even the score with believers by portraying Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime as theist and specifically Christian. Atheist websites routinely claim that Hitler was a Christian because he was born Catholic, he never publicly renounced his Catholicism, and he wrote in Mein Kampf, “By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” Atheist writer Sam Harris writes that since “the Holocaust marked the culmination of…two hundred years of Christian fulminating against the Jews,” therefore “knowingly or not, the Nazis were agents of religion.”

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Indoctrination U: Thought Police At the University of Delaware By Joanne Jacobs

In one-on-one sessions with RAs (Resident Assistants), University of Delaware students were questioned: “When did you discover your sexual identity?” In dorm meetings, they were pressured to pledge their allegiance to university-approved views on race, sexuality and environmentalism. When FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) spotlighted the indoctrination, a university official defended the “free exchange of ideas.” A few days later, the program was canceled.

How can academics talk about “critical thinking” while turning residence halls into reeducation camps? Well, they meant well. Everyone agrees they meant well. If only academics were capable of thinking critically about their own assumptions.

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Blunt Diplomacy BY BRENDAN SIMMS

The British conservative Enoch Powell once famously said that all political careers end in failure. John Bolton's career, as we read in the opening pages of "Surrender Is Not an Option," began with the defeat of Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, on which he had served as a teenage volunteer. It is a disarming start to the memoir of a man usually caricatured as a bombastic tub-thumper. In any case, history records that John Bolton bounced back from this disappointment, rose through the Republican ranks in the 1980s and, after loyal service interpreting Floridian chads during the 2000 election count, found himself propelled into high office. He tells the rest of the story with a focus, brutality and exasperation that will give pain and pleasure in all the right places.

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28 years ago: Islamic thugs, 52 Americans, no end in sight... Today: no end in sight By Douglas J. Hagmann

Bahrain's crown prince, in interviews to British newspapers published yesterday, said Iran is developing atomic weapons or the capability to do so. This is the first time an Arab state in the Persian Gulf has openly accused Tehran of lying about its contentious nuclear plan, the Times of London said.

"While they don't have the bomb yet, they are developing it, or the capability for it," Sheik Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa told Times correspondents in the Bahrain capital Manama.

Look at the man - Ahmadinejad. Look at the stated objectives of the man and the Islamic country. A quarter-century ago, it was 52 American hostages held by Muslim believers for 444 days. Today, it is the Islamic regime holding Israel, America and non-Muslim states hostage. Their tactics are slightly different, but Ahmadinejad has not changed. His goals, and those in his regime of the annihilation of Israel, the extermination of the Jews, and overall world domination have not changed. Neither has the blindness or wishful thinking by some in our administration that they will.

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Harvard Paper Calls Al Gore a Hypocrite By Noel Sheppard

As a global warming obsessed media have been fawning of Nobel Laureate Al Gore in a fashion that is almost sick-making, it was rather surprising to see a column by the Harvard Crimson's editorial page editor mocking the former Vice President's hypocrisy concerning climate change.

After all, though the Global Warmingist-in-Chief certainly talks the talk, he far from walks it.

Such was remarkably pointed out by Peter W. Tilton Monday evening in an article wonderfully titled "Gore and ‘Green' Goonies" (emphasis added throughout):

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Top 10 Most Outrageous Liberal Media Quotes From the Last 20 Years by Human Events

To commemorate its 20th Anniversary, the Media Research Center has compiled the most outrageous liberal media quotes of the past two decades in a special edition of “Notable Quotables,” the MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous, often humorous quotes from the liberal media. The Top 10 “Notable Quotables” of the past 20 years are provided below, and the full special edition containing more than 100 quotes -- many accompanied by audio and video clips -- is available online at www.MRC.org.

“This collection shows the scope of the very problem the MRC was founded to combat,” says MRC President Brent Bozell, “and the extent to which the liberal media have smeared conservatives and cheered liberals over the years. While the public increasingly abandons the liberal media, reporters continue to be immune to the fact that their bias is a problem.”

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Illegal Aliens Have Already Elected The Next President Of The United States By Douglas MacKinnon

You can see it. You can hear it. You can feel its immense power even though it is still a year away.

The “it,” is the perfect storm brewing against the eventual Democratic nominee for president. A storm being fueled by the dual forces of illegal immigration and the war in Iraq.

With regard to illegal immigration, the debacle in New York State caused by Governor Elliot Spitzer’s insistence on giving illegal aliens a driver’s license seems to have been the proverbial straw that has broken the camel’s back. When asked about Spitzer’s plan during the latest Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton eagerly twisted herself into a pandering pretzel as she tried desperately to be all things to all people. The next day inexplicably saw her “clarify” that answer by declaring that she in fact, supported driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. Goodbye, Mrs. Clinton.

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Fire and Rain By Gary Aldrich

When the FBI transferred me to Los Angeles in 1970, I saw every nook and cranny of Los Angeles County, including some of the neighborhoods recently ravaged by fire.  On a muddy hillside there was a scorched foundation, and a hand painted sign lamenting, “We’ve seen fire and we’ve seen rain.”  For as long as there has been recorded history, the hills surrounding Los Angeles burn annually, and this year is no exception.

        California also has mudslides, sandstorms, and worst of all, earthquakes.  Four days into my new assignment I was bounced out of bed by a 7.1 shake on the Richter scale.  The dishes and glasses in our rented efficiency marched out of the cabinets and onto the floor.

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Sinister Secrets of the U.N. Sea Treaty By Cliff Kincaid

The former editor of the New York Times editorial page says it is “crazy” to be opposed to the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty and she can’t understand why it has become a hot-button issue in the Republican presidential race. Gail Collins declared in a November 3 column in the Times that the measure simply clarifies “rules for navigation and mining in international waters” and sets up “a system for settling disputes.” Those opposed to it, she says, are spinning “conspiracy theories.” But Collins is doing the spinning.

What if there were evidence that the treaty was the product of those who believe in world government financed by global taxes? Hold on to your seats.

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"Bush Doctrine 2.0?" :: CSP

The first term of the George W. Bush presidency and what has come to be known as the "Bush Doctrine" were marked by a profound and forceful reaction to September 11, 2001.  Determined to prevent further, murderous attacks on the United States, Mr. Bush and his national security team were determined to "drain the swamps" from whence terrorists received safe havens and other forms of support.  Out went the sort of "stability" born of accommodations with totalitarians and favored by the foreign policy establishment's so-called "realists."  In came a U.S. commitment to bringing down the "axis of evil," in favor of a world ordered by liberty and democracy.

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Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit to Obtain Hillary Health Care Records Jill S. Farrell

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to obtain records related to the National Taskforce on Health Care Reform, a “cabinet-level” taskforce chaired by former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The records at issue are archived at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. The lawsuit was filed on Friday, November 2, 2007, with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The National Archives admitted in correspondence to Judicial Watch that there are approximately 3,022,030 textual records, 2,884 pages of electronic records, 1,021 photographs, three videotapes and three audiotapes that must be reviewed in order to respond to Judicial Watch’s April 4, 2006, FOIA request. However, according to Judicial Watch’s complaint, the Archives, “…has failed to allow [Judicial Watch] access to any records responsive to [its] request, or indicate when access would be allowed. Nor has the Library demonstrated that responsive records are exempt from disclosure” as required by law.

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