CAIR's objection to 30 seconds of truth :: NIN

A 30-second television commercial called “Tough on Terror” began running in Iowa this week in advance of the January caucuses. Paid for by the funds from presidential candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo, the commercial depicts a hooded terrorist leaving a backpack at a shopping mall followed by a loud explosion The commercial ends with "Tancredo ... before it's too late." Regardless of your political persuasion or feelings about the 2008 presidential candidate, Mr. Tancredo knows what he is talking about and his ad must be taken seriously.

According to current law enforcement threat assessments issued within the last several weeks, the threat of such an event is - play on words intended - dead-on accurate. Hence, Mr. Tancredo should win a first-place award for truth in advertising during a presidential campaign, and a medal of honor for taking on enemy fire for telling it like it is. In fact, contact last week with a high ranking member of a “mission-specific” Joint Terrorism Task Force verified that the amount of high-level intelligence that suggests such an event is likely to happen is at an all-time high.

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Balance of Power Returning to United States By Charles Krauthammer

When the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick, they join in unison to pronounce the Democratic pieties, chief among which is that George Bush has left our alliances in ruins. As Clinton puts it, we have "alienated our friends," must "rebuild our alliances" and "restore our standing in the world." That's mild. The others describe Bush as having a scorched-earth foreign policy that has left us reviled and isolated in the world.

Like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, who insist that nothing of significance has changed in Iraq, the Democrats are living in what Bob Woodward would call a state of denial. Do they not notice anything?

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Hollywood's Red Decade By J.R. Dunn

As movie-goers, theatre owners and studio shareholders endure yet another wave of anti-American box office duds like Rendition and Lions for Lambs it is worth remembering that left wing propaganda has real roots in Hollywood. And thanks to the character of our media and cultural establishment, we rarely get to hear about them.

One of the big disappointments concerning domestic communism is that we'll never hear the full story from their end. The losing side ordinarily has plenty to say once the dust settles -- what went wrong, who was to blame, how they could have done better. But not the American rojos. Alger Hiss denied to his dying day, in the face of evidence that would have convicted the Pope, that he had been a Soviet agent. (Hiss went so far as to get a leading Russian historian, Dmitri Volkoganov,  up from his sickbed -- Volkoganov was dying of cancer -- to look through KGB files for evidence.

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Dianne Feinstein, Enemy of the Left By Liz Mair

Last year, ultra-liberal elements within the Democratic Party waged a heated political battle against Sen. Joe Lieberman, their vice-presidential nominee of just six years earlier. But if you thought that liberal cannibalism stopped with the attack on Connecticut's junior senator, think again. The left wing has now set its sights on California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another centrist Democrat who has failed to walk in lockstep with the increasingly puritanical left.

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Shattering Conventional Wisdom About Saddam's WMD's By John Loftus

We live in an age of documents. There are no more secrets, only deferred disclosures. Saddam Hussein's secret documents are measured by the shelf-mile and stored inside a secure but dusty facility near U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and in several subsidiary sites. Armed guards protect the unread dossiers. Three shifts of two hundred translators each work around the clock. Perhaps 5% of these captured documents have been studied so far, but their contents are about to shatter much of the conventional wisdom concerning Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

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Abourezk and the ADC: Apologists for Terror By Robert Spencer

One of the most energetic opponents of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week was the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), which sent letters to the presidents of all the colleges hosting IFAW events, urging them to censor the speakers in advance and not allow the Week’s activities to go on. The ADC’s President, former U.S. Representative Mary Rose Oakar, charged in the letter that “these planned activities seek not to increase awareness, tolerance, and understanding, but instead promote intolerance, fear, and bigotry…ADC is deeply troubled by the possibility that a tiny handful of student with a narrow political agenda, backed by a well-funded special interest group, would organize this type of hateful and bigoted event on your campus. I urge you to ensure that hate speech and demonstrations of bigotry and racial and religious profiling not be tolerated on your campus.”

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Al Taqiyya: The Islamic Terrorist Weapon of Deception By Frank Salvato |

Western civilization’s delinquent knowledge of the Islamic faith leaves us naïve to many of its tenets.  Many among us would be hard pressed to explain the differences between the Sunni and the Shi’ite, let alone the reasons why they have remained in conflict for almost the entire existence of the Islamic faith. 

This delinquency in understanding Islamic culture and doctrine makes those they consider nonbelievers--or kafirs--vulnerable both individually and collectively.  This is especially true when we examine the Islamic concept of taqiyya.

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Ignatius in Israel By Noah Pollak

David Ignatius, the Washington Post columnist, is in Israel, and I think it’s fair to say that his time in the region is not doing a whole lot to imbue his opinions with much in the way of perspective or wisdom. His column on Sunday presented a fawning portrait of Efraim Halevy, the former head of the Mossad, who has of late been tarnishing his legacy by arguing to anyone who will listen that the real threat to Israel is not from the regimes who implacably seek the country’s destruction, but from Israeli leaders who do not sufficiently accommodate, rhetorically and strategically, the leaders of Hamas, Syria, and Iran. (A sample bit of his wisdom on Iran: “We have to find creative ways to help them escape from their rhetoric.”) The only place Halevy has been taken seriously in recent memory is in David Ignatius’s column—I wonder if Ignatius himself knows this?

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Pulling No Punches By Clifford D. May

As America's ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton was the White House's most effective defender. Now, as an ex-diplomat, he has become among the administration's toughest critics. But he critiques from the right, not the left, which probably explains why the elite media are not eager to focus on what he has to say.

The son of a Baltimore firefighter who attended Yale Law School on scholarship, Bolton combines a combative nature with a keen intellect. He is a conservative without the prefix – neither neo-con (he's skeptical about nation-building and democracy promotion) nor paleo-con (he's no isolationist). He is most zealous about protecting America's sovereignty and national interests. All of this comes through clearly in his new book, “Surrender Is Not an Option.” His perspectives were persuasively articulated, too, at a recent discussion hosted by the American Spectator magazine.

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Theory On Thin Ice By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

From 2002 to 2006, scientists and researchers from NASA and the University of Washington's Polar Science Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory observed a meaningful ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation. The cause is atmospheric circulation changes that vary in decade-long periods and the effect is, well, let the scientist who led the study explain it:

"Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming," said the University of Washington's James Morison.

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Annapolis will bring death and destruction By Ted Belman

Make no mistake about it, Annapolis represents a mortal danger to Israel and the Jewish people. We don't have to know how and when the "peace process" train will reach its destination. Once you are on the deportation train, it is too late. It is enough to know the destination is Auschwitz borders and behind such borders lies Auschwitz.

The Jewish remnant in the Warsaw Ghetto, when hearing of the death of 300,000 Jews deported from the ghetto, decided to go down fighting rather than to go to their deaths like sheep. And fight they did.

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New York Times proposes a follow-up program by the folks who brought us the War on Poverty By: Thomas E. Brewton

In an extraordinary opinion piece in the November 13 New York Times, editorial board member Eduardo Porter endeavors to make a case for socialism’s Holy Grail: forced equality of income and government-regulated consumption as the road to happiness.

He writes:

“The framers of the Declaration of Independence evidently believed that happiness could be achieved, putting its pursuit up there alongside the unalienable rights to life and liberty…for all the public policies aimed at increasing economic growth, people have been left to sort out their happiness. This is an unfortunate omission…”

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Limiting the franchise: a proposal by Lawrence Auster

When I raised the same topic a few months ago in a more tentative fashion, I pointed out that the mission statement of this website is to look at our society from the point of view of the "traditionalist, politically incorrect Right." By definition, the traditionalist Right does not subscribe to modern indiscriminate notions of equality. A Right that simply accepts, without question, the universal suffrage of all persons, including women, wards of the state, felons, persons with sub-normal intelligence, and 18 year olds, is not a serious Right. Furthermore, many destructive trends have been unleashed in the modern world by extreme notions of equality that are incompatible with a healthy and truly free social order.

Here then is a proposal suggested by a friend recently, the basic principle and outline of which make a great deal of sense to me. I am not embracing the specific details, since a variety of means to obtain the same ends are possible. But to me the basic idea seems compelling.

The franchise, my friend said, should be limited to married men with children who are net tax payers.

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A "Marshall Plan For Mexico"—Sending Welfare To A Crack House By Brenda Walker

A really bad idea has been gaining currency among America’s political class: a "Marshall Plan for Mexico"—a massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to Mexico in the guise of foreign aid. A Google search shows more than 200,000 references. [VDARE.COM note: Even Steve Sailer suggested it back in 2001—but only if explicitly tied to Mexico reducing illegal emigration.]

Don't think that the scheme is just moldering on the back benches. Former Mexico Presidente Fox, on his book pander tour, suggested that exact policy just last week.

"Citing the evolution of the European Union from the U.S.-introduced Marshall Plan after World War II, Fox suggested a similar project in North America." [Mexican leader speaks to chamber, By Stepfanie Romine, Cincinnati Enquirer, November 8, 2007]

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Democrats Kill Mainstream America by Mike Moseley

The open border Democratic leadership's sanctuary city policy and the politically correct government regulations of Washington is killing the American union. The liberal leadership is clearly outside of bounds of main stream America. Just as they have turned on our soldiers on the battlefield of Iraq, the Democrats have turned on the American working man.

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Waving the White Flag By Michael Reagan

It has been said that there are none so blind as those who will not see. The quote is attributed by some to Jesus (Matthew 13:13): “Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand”

That’s a perfect description of Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, both of whom disingenuously state that that there has been no sign of progress in Iraq and that we are losing the war there and must pull up stakes and run as fast as we can with our tails between our legs.

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Border Insanity By Mike Gallagher

At long last, I have discovered the secret to the insanity of the illegal alien debate in America.

Finally, I have stumbled upon the ultimate truth. Because over and over again, we see people and events converge in a way that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever when it comes to those who continually defend the people who sneak across the border and take our jobs and social services.

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Media Silence: Islamic Terrorism Case Ignored By Joel Mowbray

In the terrorism case of two young Egyptian nationals and University of South Florida students arrested August 4 in South Carolina, fascinating twists and turns abound.

There’s a secret recording of the defendants discussing strategy shortly after their arrest. There’s a You Tube video in which one of the defendants gave instructions in Arabic on converting a remote-control toy into a bomb detonator, which one defendant allegedly told police was made to help people in Arab countries “defend themselves against the infidels invading their countries,” specifically “against those who fought for the United States.”

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Chisel 'Conversations' and the wonderful contradictions of the Left :: Colonel Robert Neville

A guy from Britain was saying that the name ‘Muslim’ had become like ‘Nazi’, in the UK, because wait for it, people were associating Muslims with no good news. Gee, I wonder why? Maybe something to do with Iran and every other Islamic nation wishing to destroy Israel and murder all Jews everywhere? Could be.

Aah, dear reader, the idiot went on to explain. British people are just bigots! Oh, the same ones who let so many in, ya mean? Yes, anyone who is repulsed by the repulsive bombing acts and beheadings of their citizens by the orgasmic practitioners of an insane religion like Islam is a bigot. Why people don’t just celebrate cultural diversity and inclusiveness after every bomb blast, I don’t know. Sticks in the mud! Oh, they do? In the Middle East? Right, and in much of the Muslim areas of Britain.

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To be a Good Republican

By Doug Edelman

Circulating on the internet these days, there are a couple emails outlining what you must believe to be a "good democrat" or a "good republican".  Recently I was sent a copy of the "Things you must believe to be a good Republican".

I was struck with the inaccuracies and outright falacies that the author circulates as representative of Republican thinking.  So I wrote a brief response, point for point.  I hope you find both the author's statements and my responses enlightening.

To be a Good Republican, you must believe:

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Hillary Reacts To Eliot Spitzer's Reversal on Licenses for Illegal Aliens

Satire by John W. Lillpop

Just as Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff were putting the final touches on her non-answers, half- answers, and outright lies for the Thursday debate in Las Vegas, the breaking news came roaring at them: Governor Eliot Spitzer had just 'pulled a Hillary' by flip flopping on the issue of licenses for illegal aliens.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/13/2007-11-13_gov_spitzer_gives_up_on_license_plan_for-3.html

Never at a loss to deal with any contingency, Hillary's team immediately shifted into "spin" cycle and issued the following press release:

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Psyoping Liberals By D.W.

Information Operations seeks to influence the behavior of target decision-makers or audiences through the use of information and information systems. This is no different from the exercise of the other forms of national power, be they diplomatic, military, or economic. In this instance the means is information, but the resulting outcome is the same.
IO Primer - U.S. Army War College

Following up on John Turner’s excellent article about Information Operations (IO) and its component Psychological Operations, it is important to clarify one fact. All of our national enemies, both active and passive, engage in Offensive Information Operations against the United States at the strategic level all of the time. Yes, from Iran to China, any nation that would benefit from America’s decline engages in and employs IO against us and against your fellow American.

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Middle East's Nuclear Dark Age By Prof. Barry Rubin

The Iranian nuclear issue is too important and dangerous to be miscomprehended. So here are some life-and-death factors to keep in mind about it:

First, Iran is not about to obtain nuclear weapons, certainly not ones that it could use. That dreadful outcome is still several years away. Despite all the bragging going on by Iranian leaders in Persian-language statements about how they are getting closer to atomic bombs-coupled with denials of any such intention in English-language ones-it just isn't that easy to do.

Second, neither Israel nor the United States is about to attack Iran. There are lots of reasons why this is so but they can be boiled down to the following: it is hard militarily to carry out such an attack, it is politically dangerous, and can lead to very serious consequences. An attack is something better to avoid, if possible. And it is certainly too early for such a high-risk, potentially high-cost venture.

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Congressman calls Mexico a "drug cartel" :: M&C Blog

Tom Tancredo, a Republican congressman and presidential candidate, said Wednesday that the United States cannot trust the Mexican government in combating narcotics and called the neighbouring country a 'drug cartel.'

'Mexico is a drug cartel,' Tancredo said. 'The degree of corruption inside the government and the military is so great that it's hard to see where the government ends and where the cartels begin.'

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Washington Protects the Terror Masters by Daniel Pipes

The Bush administration's counterterrorism policies appear tough, but inside the courtroom, they evaporate, consistently favoring not American terror victims, but foreign terrorists.

Consider a civil lawsuit arising from a September 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed credit for five dead and 192 wounded, including several Americans. On the grounds that the Islamic Republic of Iran had financed Hamas, five injured Americans students sued it for damages.

Expert testimony established the regime's culpability during a four-day trial, leading Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, under the Flatow Amendment of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, to fine the Iranian government and its Revolutionary Guard Corps US$251 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

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Duke Case: The Perils of PC Exposers by Michael Gaynor

Stuart Taylor, Jr. and KC Johnson are political correctness exposers. That's bad for book sales. That’s why Stuart Rojstaczer's caustic review of their masterpiece, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, is titled "A Book in Need of an Editor." An editor should have put put rape in quotation marks, but the most important things that the book lacked were a publisher that promoted the book properly, especially when it was released, and book sellers who sold instead of shunned it.

Mr. Rojstaczer pompously began his repulsive review by telling us about himself: “I'm very picky about the books that I like. Many times I'll read a glowing review of a book somewhere and after I'm finished reading the book myself will wonder, ‘What the hell was the reviewer thinking?” Sometimes the book has a good kernel of an idea and there is obviously a lot of work that has been done, but no one bothered to shape the book. If only there had been a decent editor, I think.”

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Until Proven Innocent: Marxism at Duke by Carey Roberts

How did a drug-addled stripper succeed in smearing the reputations of three Duke lacrosse players, dividing a community along racial lines, and making a mockery of the American legal system? That’s the question that Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson pose in their recent bell-ringer book, Until Proven Innocent.

Unless your news source is the New York Times, you know by now that Crystal Mangum accused three young lacrosse players of brutally raping and sodomizing her in the early morning of March 14, 2006. (My August 30 editorial was one of the first to publicly disclose the accuser’s name). I surmise the Old Grey Lady editors didn’t take note.)

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Hamas: Hillary ticket to Palestinian victory :: WorldNetDaily.com

Hamas believes Sen. Hillary Clinton, if elected president in 2008, will end President Bush's "unlimited military and diplomatic support for Israel" and adapt a more "evenhanded" approach toward the Palestinians, says the group's top political adviser.

Speaking yesterday with WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein, Ahmed Yousuf, the top adviser to the Hamas leader in Gaza and to the deposed prime minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, said in recorded comments the group heard from "many Americans" that if the Democrats take the White House next year they will implement "drastic changes" to U.S. foreign policy and relations with the Palestinians.

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Gore's Deceptive Rolling Stone Interview By Marc Sheppard

In case any doubt remains as to who deserves the title of undisputed Globaloney Champion of the World, Al Gore's Rolling Stone interview should put the question to rest.

Interviewed in the magazine's third 40^th Anniversary Issue of the year, self-proclaimed planet savior Al Gore warns that:

"It is a mistake to think of the Climate Crisis as one in a list of issues that will define our future.  It is the issue.  Everything else must be viewed through that lense."

That's right -- The issue.  Not the all too real, ongoing struggle against radical Islamic madmen.  Not nuclear proliferation. Not even the truly apocalyptic potential fusion of the two, a prospect which recent events in Pakistan have chillingly served to advance.

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Bath Revisited By Christopher Orlet

The nation's worst school massacre occurred in the spring of 1927, in the farm community of Bath, Michigan. Forty-five people, mostly second grade students, were killed that day, and 58 were injured. The perpetrator, Andrew P. Kehoe, 55, was a bankrupt school board member and electrician angry about a property tax levied to fund the school. One May morning, after about six months of careful planning, he murdered his wife, burned down his farm, and blew up the school, students and all.

What, if anything, has that tragedy to do with the latest school massacre? On November 7, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, an 18-year-old Finn, opened fire randomly at his high school, killing eight. Police and the media immediately described Auvinen as a "bullied teenage outcast" and an "alienated youth," a "school gunman profile that has become the norm since the 1999 Columbine massacre in Colorado."

Unfortunately the profile is wrong.

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Lou Dobbs: Man of the People By Steven Stark

This past week, CNN's Lou Dobbs posted an online commentary in which he predicted the victory next year of a surprise presidential candidate not yet in the race -- an "independent populist . . . who understands [that] the genius of this country lies in the hearts and minds of its people and not in the prerogatives and power of its elites."

After extensive but completely speculative investigative reporting, the candidate Dobbs may well have in mind can now be revealed:

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Lies of the Nixon Center By Alyssa A. Lappen

On the wall over my desk hangs an amusing trophy from the late, disgraced former President, Richard M. Nixon, whose lies about Watergate ultimately forced him from office. I framed Nixon's letter--extolling secretive textile magnate Roger Milliken as one of America's greatest businessmen--beside the May 1989 Forbes piece in which I also reported on the suitcases of cash Milliken gave to both Nixon presidential campaigns.

On October 19, 2006, I encountered a liar rivaling Nixon--ironically then a “senior fellow” at Washington's Nixon Center. Also then a consultant to ABC News and the U.S. Defense Department (DOD), Alexis Debat appeared at New York University Law School's Center on Law and Security on an “expert” panel on the Muslim Brotherhood. Debat claimed he was writing “a book on the Muslim Brotherhood,” reportedly with an enormous, indirect DOD grant, through the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) headed by former DOD analyst Andrew Krepinevich.

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The Mullahs and the Islamic Circle of North America By Joe Kaufman

As war with Iran moves closer to reality, it behooves the U.S. government to keep an eye on those groups and individuals within our borders that could be seen as fifth columns. This is especially the case with regard to entities that have expressed support for the enemy government of Iran. One of those organizations is the Islamic Circle of North America or ICNA, a group with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood of Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami. Its present support for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and its past (and present) support for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini make the group worthy of investigation.

It is understood by many that the catalyst that drove the Islamist movement of the 1980s and beyond was the Iranian Revolution of 1979, where religious fundamentalists replaced the largely Westernized government of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. And while those in power were Shiites – a minority faction of Islam that many Sunni Muslims consider to be heretical – the takeover was widely embraced as a symbol of religious domination and the beginning of a return to Islam’s past, which Islamists had been praying for for over 50 years. Indeed, the Sunni group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) had used the Revolution as a basis for its founding.

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A Grim Milestone Ignored By Patrick Poole

The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with “grim milestones” in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend. But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another “grim milestone” is reached – the10,000th attack by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which is responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured.

The chronicler of this bloody tally is Glen Reinsford, editor of TheReligionofPeace.com, who began compiling and updating daily a detailed list of reported incidents of violence and terrorism around the world targeting non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Because of space limitations he only posts the past two months worth of attacks on his websites main page, though he has archived all of the incidents from past years (2001-2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). He also maintains a banner graphic with the updated number of attacks, which people can post on their own websites.

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Penicillin is No Match for Immigration By Edwin S. Rubenstein

Syphilis and gonorrhea are far less common today than they were before antibiotics—and free condoms—were introduced.

That’s the good news.

The bad news: The number of STD [sexually transmitted disease] cases has recently increased—and infection rates among Blacks and Hispanics are at multiples of the white rate.

In 2005 (latest available year of data) approximately 68 percent of gonorrhea cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control occurred among non-Hispanic blacks. The infection rate for Blacks—626.4 cases per 100,000 population—was 18 times that of non-Hispanic whites and 4 times that of Hispanics. (Table 1.)

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Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, and Islamist Financing By Jeffrey Imm

On November 18, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), published by Dow Jones, is sponsoring a conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on "Islamic and Ethical Finance" to "examine the huge opportunities presented by this high-growth sector". The Wall Street Journal's "Chief Shariah Officer" for this November 18 conference is Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, who has worked for the pro-Wahhabist International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) organization and who was secretary of the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) beginning in 1989. IIIT was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum as one of the Muslim Brotherhood's like-minded "organizations of our friends." The Investigative Project has linked members of the FCNA to Islamist extremism and terrorism.

The Dow Jones Company provides a Dow Jones Islamic Market and a Dow Jones Islamic Fund (IMANX). The Dow Jones Islamic Fund is managed by Allied Asset Advisors, a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). NAIT is a venture of HLF trial unindicted co-conspirator Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Regarding NAIT, Newsweek has reported that "authorities say NAIT has long been a funnel for Saudi and other gulf money seeking to spread an often anti-American brand of Islamic fundamentalism in American mosques from southern California to South Carolina -- a little-noted movement financed by Saudi billions over the past 40 years."

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Columbia’s Tenured Thugs By Noah Pollak

We are called upon, ladies and gentlemen, to join the arts and sciences faculty of Columbia University in being aghast at the depradations of Lee Bollinger, who has not sufficiently expressed his intolerance for critics of the arts and sciences faculty, and who forced the entire university into lockstep with the Bush administration by saying mean things to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. These are truly dark days for the sensitive souls of the sociology department.

More than 100 faculty members issued a declaration yesterday stating that “President Bollinger has failed to make a vigorous defense of the core principles on which the university is founded, especially academic freedom.” They note in particular that 1) the Bollinger administration has not made “unequivocally clear” that attempts by “outside groups…to vilify members of the faculty and determine how controversial issues are taught” will not be tolerated (whatever that entails). 2) That the faculty has not been sufficiently consulted before making “decisions on key issues.” Point three bears reprinting in full:

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The Fine Art of Voter Fraud By Rick Moran

It was very early morning on Wednesday November 9, 1960 and the mood in John F. Kennedy’s hotel suite was somber. Theodore H. White, whose Making of a President 1960 is the gold standard of campaign chronicles, describes the emotions in that room as whipsawing back and forth all night between a kind of giddy elation and premonitions of doom.

Early returns from the east coast had given Kennedy a huge lead in the popular and electoral vote. But by the time the polls closed in California at 11:00 PM EST, Nixon’s strength in middle America and the mountain west had brought him within striking distance of the Massachusetts Senator. States still in play included Texas and Illinois where the last great playoff between Democratic and Republican vote fraudsters was about to play out over one the longest nights in election history.
In any other context besides electing the leader of the Free World in extremely perilous times, this contest between the old-time political machines in the big cities and rural counties might have been seen as either high drama or low comedy depending on your point of view. As it was, it proved that both sides were in deadly earnest to come out on top and if it became necessary to bend, break, or mutilate the rules to do so, no stone would go unturned in “finding” enough votes for their candidate to prevail.

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Winds of War: Leftist Ideology – The Enablers of Radical Islam :: The Gathering Storm Blog

We all know that that the Left has done its best to get into bed with Islam through appeasement and apologies. They have had a good deal to do with enabling political Islam to grow in the free countries and moderate Muslim countries like in Asia. Through books, speeches, web sites, institutions, organizations and universities, the incessant denial of political Islam runs rampant. As political Islam’s useful idiots they have helped advance it throughout moderate Muslim and non-Muslim countries.

But the useful idiots of the Left not only enable the political agenda of Islam to move forward with its denials but even more important the Left, over the last 40 years has, systematically fertilized the driving strategy of radical Islam with its liberal manure or what they like to call their Progressive ideology. Over the last 40 years, and thanks to the liberal Left throughout the world, freedom has lead to license and our culture has devolved into a ‘classless’ society - one that the tenets of Islam can not tolerate.

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Europe’s Binary Problem By Bookworm at Bookworm Room

Little Green Football’s Charles Johnson has been engaged in a very hostile to-and-fro with Fjordman, Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal, all of which initially garnered a lot of support for being European blogs/bloggers (or Euro-Centric) that were aware of the Islamist threat to the West. Johnson’s concern is that these people/sites have ties that are way too close to neo-Nazi movements in Europe. Here’s Johnson’s most recent post on the subject, along with links to all his other posts.

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99% of All Democrats Give The Rest A Bad Name :: A Newt One

Once was the time that America had two political parties that desired to see America thrive and succeed. They disagreed on just how to go about it, but ultimately, they both would come together in times of crisis, or war, to ensure American Forces won the battles and the keep the fires of liberty burning throughout the globe.

Ever since the Viet Nam Conflict, it appears that one party, the Democrats, seem to have decided that America is too wealthy and too powerful, so must be cut down a notch or two. They not only push to abandon our sovereignty to the United Nations, under the leadership of delegates from third world countries who agree America is too powerful, but like our wealth to pay for their uses, but now Democrats can't even get behind our Troops as they fight to bring freedom to the Iraqi and Afghani people in the ongoing War on Terror.

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My Farewell to Little Green Footballs By Fjordman

I recently announced my intention to take a long break from posting at the website Little Green Footballs due to the ongoing controversy regarding the participants in the counter-Jihad in Europe. Shortly after, Charles Johnson announced that Fjordman was “taking a permanent break. After the misrepresentations he’s posted about me and my views, despite being corrected many times, he’s not welcome at LGF.” Just out of curiosity, and with no intention of posting anything, I tried to log in to my account at LGF and discovered that it was blocked. I’ve now been officially banned from LGF, after having posted comments there at irregular intervals for several years.

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Tis The Season To Be Jolly--Terrorist Cells,The ACLU, and Protesting Muslims

By Marie Jon'

Al Qaeda might be planning to strike at shopping malls in Los Angeles and Chicago during the Christmas season.

The FBI and police recently warned us that Al Qaeda may attack shopping malls during the Christmas holidays. However, the "Drive by Media" has been rather silent about this very disturbing news. Los Angeles and other major cities face the dangers of terrorist attacks every day, not just during the holidays. However, radical Islam chooses this time of the year to explode, figuratively. We must all comprehend the reality that there are terrorist cells in America.

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Stealing from Peter to Pander to Pedro

By John W. Lillpop

Fabian Nunez is a political terrorist in the Reconquesta movement, a group of angry brown men and women who stupidly believe that the southwestern United States still belongs to Mexico.
Nunez and banditos of his ilk apparently have little or no regard for the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo, which was ratified by both the United States and Mexican congresses in 1848. That treaty ended any and all claims that Mexico had to land now a part of the United States.

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Terrorism & the mockery from Madison Avenue By Douglas J. Hagmann

Late yesterday, a colleague of mine provided me with the name and direct telephone number of a representative of a large New York City based Internet in-text advertising company. To those who don’t know what such advertising is, it is billed as an unobtrusive form of creating cash flow for a web site. I’m sure you’ve seen this in practice. When you pass your mouse over a specific highlighted word in an article, a dialogue box pops up and offers a link to another site. The web site owner earns money when the reader follows the link to the designated web site – in our case, money that can be used to offset the cost of operating and maintaining this site.

The following is based on written notes I made during our conversation, a practice I’ve done as an investigator for the last 2 decades:

Representative: Oh yes, I’ve been expecting your call. Let’s see what we can do. Give me the address of your web site again?

DJH: HomelandSecurityUS.com

Representative: Okay, let me have a look. Hmmm. Is this a terrorist web site?

DJH: Excuse me?

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Decline of Upward Mobility By MICHAEL GERSON

Republicans have spent years wondering when Americans would finally wake up and realize they are actually happy about the state of the economy.

A slowdown may now be in the offing, but that does not explain why the credit has never rolled in for six years of uninterrupted economic growth or the creation of more than eight million jobs since August 2003. Has an exhausting war overwhelmed the upbeat economic news? Has the public just been in a sour mood this decade?

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The Crack-Dealer Amnesty :: New York Sun Editorial

Even as national immigration reform is stalled out in the face of accusations that it amounts to "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, the risk is rising in Washington of an amnesty for a genuinely dangerous set of convicted lawbreakers — those who have been convicted of possessing or dealing crack cocaine. The United States Sentencing Commission, a federal panel, is considering making retroactive a rule change that equalizes the sentences for crack and powder cocaine. The effect would be to release thousands of convicted crack dealers and users, many of them violent, onto the streets of American cities.

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Sunshine on the Draculeft by Lee Emmerich Jamison

INCOME GAP WIDENING! HEALTHCARE DISASTER! The well-worn dogma of the left is that modern American economics is a horror tale for the working folk. Well, Not so fast. A couple of articles on the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal cast a little sunshine on the left’s own dark lair.

I can hear the howls now. Portraying the political left in the same light (or lack thereof) as the vampires of old? The gall! Think of it, though. Something that promises eternal life gets transplanted from places where it has held fast for ages, a place where it has sapped the lifeblood of the region, to a new place filled with life. In Bram Stoker's Dracula the story's namesake has so devastated the Carpathian region (interestingly enough, modern-day former Soviet satellites Romania, Slovakia, and the Ukraine) in which he originated that he needs new sources of life on which to feed. He leaves his native land to take up residence in England, where he starts an "ever widening circle of darkness". In real life Europe today, and in much of American culture, there are people who wax nostalgic eighteen years after the fall of the Berlin wall for the old promises of Communism and the socialist ideal. Never do they suspect they are speaking of the governmentalized version of the vampire.

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How to Fight Eurabia? :: The Brussels Journal

The truth is that the European Union is directly responsible for much of the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe, both by importing Muslims and by appeasing Jihad at home and abroad. The EU hardly cares about live Jews, certainly not about dead ones. The Holocaust is shamelessly exploited as an excuse for creating an artificial superstate and above all for imposing restrictions on free speech for everybody who wants to oppose this project. […]

Splitting Belgium, the ideological and geographical heart of the EU, is the policy of the Vlaams Belang. This would contribute significantly to undermining the EU and, by extension, Eurabia. However, out of all the information published by LGF, a lot of which is nonsense or outdated or both, the one piece of information that I disliked the most was VB’s connection to Jean-Marie Le Pen from the FN in France through the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group at the European Parliament. I don’t like Le Pen at all and consider it to be poor judgment by the VB to have even a formal link to that party. They should seriously consider cutting that link in the future. It’s not helpful.

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Catch a Falling Star By David Freddoso

When it met Sunday to choose a presidential candidate, the National Right to Life Committee’s board considered three factors for each candidate: positions, record, and electability. On that basis, they voted “overwhelmingly,” according to executive director David O’Steen, to endorse former senator Fred Thompson, who has a 100-percent pro-life voting record and mostly stands with NRLC on issues of abortion and embryonic research. (O’Steen would not release more details about board deliberations — including names of board members.)

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HIGH COST OF PAYING FOR A HOAX By: Phil Brennan

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in (sic) allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environment whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the ?research? to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon, they claimed to be a consensus?

---John Coleman, meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel.

Coleman goes on to describe  what has taken place regarding what he calls the  global warming scam.

"Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then team up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalists, [and] journalists  to create this wild 'scientific' scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to this radical agenda. Now, their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and becomes a cornerstone issue for CNN,  CBS, NBC, the Democratic political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens. Only one [ABC] reporter  has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment."

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Blair (and Bush) Not to Blame for Islamist Terror Denis MacShane

Ten years ago, in November 1997, 50 Swiss tourists rose early to visit the Valley of the Kings across the Nile from Luxor in Egypt. Suddenly from the hills came a group of Islamists. They shot, disembowelled and decapitated the tourists.

It was just one of the many forerunners of 9/11 in 2001 in New York, 7/7 in 2005 in London or 11/M as the Spanish call the train bombings in Madrid in 2004. Today, as the killing in the name of extremist political Islamist ideology increases in tempo and intelligence agencies struggle to disarm those promised a passage to heaven if they blow themselves and others up, the earlier wave of militant Islamist killing can be overlooked.

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'IS THIS THE FREE COUNTRY FOR WHICH OUR VETERANS FOUGHT?' By Rinaldo Del Gallo, Esq

I would like to convey some brief thoughts on this year’s Veterans Day. Those who fought in our countries wars fought to preserve freedom. By “freedom” I mean not freedom to do whatever we want, but freedom to engage in fundamental rights. Today, however, our country has deprived fathers of some of the most basic rights. From time to time, it is a worthy endeavor to make a cursory observation of our basic rights.

1. THE RIGHT TO FAMILY: Our nations family courts have deprived of us the right to be with one’s child. We are becoming a fatherless nation. (It is also in many cases impossible to live with our wives if they are foreign born.)

2. THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL: One of the most basic rights—the right to move about—has been reduced to a chimera by pulling driver's licenses. For failure to pay a debt—child support—fathers are being denied the means to go to work, shop, attend worship services, meet friends, attend meetings, and provide care and aid for relatives and friends.

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Duke Case: Rebutting KC Johnson by Michael Gaynor

KC Johnson's first Duke case post appeared on April 16, 2006. While critical (rightly, of course) of some Duke faculty, KC praised Duke University President Richard Brodhead as one of "two that have performed about as well as possible...under current circumstances." According to KC, (1) Mr. Brodhead "quite appropriately...suspended and then cancelled the lacrosse season"; (2) "based on the most benign interpretations of their actions, many of the lacrosse players were guilty of conduct unbecoming university students and gravely embarrassing the school"; and (3) Mr. Brodhead "avoided any rush to judgment."

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PC Elementary: Public Schools Ignore Veterans Day By Nelson Guirado

For the second year in a row, administrators at my children’s’ school didn’t find Veterans Day compelling enough to interrupt their rigorous curriculum with letters of appreciation to veterans, read-aloud stories of military valor, or assemblies honoring those who risk their lives for us all. I understand things were especially tight for the fourth grade this year at Selby Grove Elementary in Pico Rivera, CA - what with the two weeks they spent on their “Dia De Los Muertos” project.

Huh? Dia de los what?

“Dia de los Muertos,” for the culturally insensitive among you, is a Mexican festival honoring dead ancestors. It might seem odd to many readers that an American public school would devote a chunk of their educational time to a foreign, quasi-religious observance over a unifying, secular, and American holiday like Veterans Day. You’re not alone. I know that it’s at least as strange to the parents of the students - many of whom happen to be veterans - who neither ask for nor expect their ancestors’ native holidays to get three minutes of class time.

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West: The Fatherless Civilization By Fjordman

The decade from the first half of the 1960s to the first half of the 1970s was clearly a major watershed in Western history, with the start of non-Western mass immigration in the USA, the birth of Eurabia in Western Europe and the rise of Multiculturalism and radical Feminism. American columnist Diana West recently released her book The Death of the Grown-up, where she traces the decline of Western civilization to the permanent youth rebellions of the past two generations. The paradox is that the people who viciously attacked their own civilization had enjoyed uninterrupted economic growth for decades, yet embraced Marxist-inspired ideologies and decided to undermine the very society which had allowed them to live privileged lives. Maybe this isn't as strange as it seems. Karl Marx himself was aided by the wealth of Friedrich Engels, the son of a successful industrialist.

This was also the age of decolonization in Western Europe and desegregation in the USA, which created an atmosphere where Western civilization was seen as evil. Whatever the cause, we have since been stuck in a pattern of eternal opposition to our own civilization. Some of these problems may well have older roots, but they became institutionalized to an unprecedented degree during the 1960s.

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Iran: The Islamic Republic’s War with the Dead by Amil Imani

"The hatred of the extremist mullahs for the Baha'is is such that they, like the Taliban of Afghanistan who destroyed the towering Buddhist sculptures at Bamiyan, intend not only to eradicate the religion, but even to erase all traces of its existence in the country of its birth," says the statement, which took the form of a paid advertisement in the New York Times. Such has been the plight of one of the greatest segments of the Iranian population.

In 1993, in Tehran alone, under the orders of the Islamic authorities, more than 1500 graves were bulldozed on the pretext of constructing a municipal center. In a similar fashion, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which holds in great contempt any non-Islamic belief or heritage, has embarked on destroying the archeological sites of Pasargad, Persepolis and the tomb of Cyrus the Great as well, also on another pretext of building a dam. 

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Islam and the nation-state By Caroline Glick

Throughout the world, one of the most prevalent causes of war, terrorism, and political instability is the ongoing weakening of the nation-state system. There are several reasons that the nation-state as a political unit of sovereignty is under threat. One of the most basic causes of this continuous erosion of national power throughout the world is the transformation of minority-dominated enclaves within nation-states into ungovernable areas where state power is either not applied or applied in a haphazard and generally unconstructive manner.

While domestic strife between majority and minority populations has been an enduring feature of democratic and indeed all societies throughout history, the current turbulence constitutes a unique challenge to the nation-state system. This is because much of the internal strife between minority and majority populations within states today is financed and often directed from outside the country.

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Race/ IQ Explanation Gap At “Achievement Gap Summit” By Jared Taylor

The black-white achievement gap continues to baffle America’s best minds. Just this week we are being treated to the "Achievement Gap Summit," a conference in Sacramento, California. It will draw no fewer than 4,000 uplift experts to no fewer than 125 panels.  [Summit called to address racial disparities in academic performance , By Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 2007]

One of the organizers is Jack O’Connell, California’s top bureaucrat for schools. He has announced the bold discovery that lagging black and Hispanic test scores are not caused by poverty alone. The racial gaps in achievement are even greater for middle-class and wealthy children than for poor children, he has found. So, he says, something else must be going on.

Mr. O’Connell has decided the culprit is "cultural ignorance" in the schools. For example, he explains, blacks learn to clap and chant in church, and don’t realize they are not supposed to do this in school. And so they get bad grades.

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Don't answer Census, don't face going to jail By Bob Unruh

Another month is coming, and another 250,000 forms are being mailed out in the U.S. Census Bureau's perpetual American Community Survey, which demands responses to personal questions about a family's lifestyle, housing accommodations, work schedules, physical and mental disabilities, income and the like.

That means roughly 250,000 times recipients will see the warning that participation is required by law, and there are penalties including fines for not answering each question. But, in fact, U.S. Census Bureau officials say they've never had anyone prosecuted for refusing to provide those intimate details to the government.

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Send the State Department to War By MAX BOOT

THE State Department has announced that it will force 50 foreign service officers to go to Iraq, whether they want to or not. This is the biggest use of “directed assignments” since the Vietnam War, and it represents a long-overdue response to complaints that diplomats aren’t pulling their weight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However welcome, this is only a baby step toward a larger objective: to reorient the department and the government as a whole for the global war on Islamic terrorism. Yes, this is a war, but it’s a very different war from conventional conflicts like World War II or the Civil War. It is, in essence, a global counterinsurgency, and few counterinsurgencies have ever been won by force alone.

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The Insanity of Bush Hatred BY PETER BERKOWITZ

Hating the president is almost as old as the republic itself. The people, or various factions among them, have indulged in Clinton hatred, Reagan hatred, Nixon hatred, LBJ hatred, FDR hatred, Lincoln hatred, and John Adams hatred, to mention only the more extravagant hatreds that we Americans have conceived for our presidents.

But Bush hatred is different. It's not that this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion and become votaries of anger and loathing. Alas, intellectuals have always been prone to employ their learning and fine words to whip up resentment and demonize the competition. Bush hatred, however, is distinguished by the pride intellectuals have taken in their hatred, openly endorsing it as a virtue and enthusiastically proclaiming that their hatred is not only a rational response to the president and his administration but a mark of good moral hygiene.

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Playing Number Games with Our Dead By Bob Parks

I was in my hotel room this morning and found myself doing something not in my normal, everyday routine: I was watching CNN.

Not because I had some kind of epiphany, but because it was the only cable news station offered in the room. It was what I watched that kind of set my mood for the day.

The following is from the CNN website….

2007 now the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Six U.S. troops were killed in Iraq on Monday, making 2007 the deadliest for the American military in the Iraq war.

The grim record came despite lower death rates in recent months, which were not enough to offset death tolls that topped 100 during three months in the spring.

Four soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in northern Iraq's Tameem province; another died in combat in Anbar province.

A sailor was killed in Salaheddin province "as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations," the military said.

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Surrendering to Radical Islam By Joseph Klein

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict XVI last week at the Vatican. This was part of the king’s feigned gesture of inter-religious understanding, as he made his way around Europe.

As far as Islamists like King Abdullah are concerned, religious understanding means that the Pope is supposed to apologize for speaking the truth about the violent, intolerant nature of Islamic jihad, while Muslim leaders need not apologize for the actual violence committed every day around the world in their religion’s name.

King Abdullah’s gift to the Pope was a sword. How ironic. He would have done better if he had made a solemn promise to end his country’s religious apartheid and the lessons of hate that are spoon fed every day to Saudi schoolchildren. But the king knows that had he made such an offer and tried to carry it out back home, he and his royal brethren would face beheadings under the vengeful swords wielded by the Wahabi extremists who set and enforce the religious rules in Saudi Arabia.

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Ex-FBI Employee's Case Raises New Security Concerns By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen

A Lebanese national who fraudulently gained U.S. citizenship through a sham marriage managed to obtain sensitive jobs at both the FBI and CIA, and at one point used her security clearance to access restricted files about the terrorist group Hezbollah, according to court documents filed yesterday.

U.S. officials say there is no evidence that Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, passed secrets to Hezbollah or to other groups the United States considers terrorist. But Prouty's ability to conceal her past from two of the nation's top anti-terrorism agencies raised new concerns about their vulnerability to infiltration.

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As Bad News Dries Up In Iraq, Media Search For It Elsewhere By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

In an era of thinly veiled media bias, it's probably fitting that as positive reports pour out of Iraq on an almost daily basis, the situation there has virtually disappeared from the radar screens of mainstream news outlets.

For the first time in months — in fact, since the U.S. troop surge was put in place in June — coverage of U.S. policy in Iraq does not rank among the top 10 news stories as tracked by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

The percentage of news stories devoted to events in Iraq, moreover, has shrunk to 3%, the lowest since September and barely half the 2007 average. In only three other weeks this year has Iraq coverage been so scanty.

All this in a period when word managed to get out through other sources that:

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Climate Changes By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

As a U.N. panel presents its fourth and final report on climate change, a key member rejects his Nobel Prize and the founder of the Weather Channel calls its doomsday scenarios a fantasy.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPC), co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, rumored to be Time's Man of the Year, is laboring mightily this week to bring forth what purports to be a synthesis of the best research on global warming.

The document to be issued Saturday will follow a week of discussions on what should be included in the report and what should not. A summary of about 25 pages will be negotiated literally line-by-line this week. Is the prophecy of climate doom going to be, as was once said of history, a lie agreed upon?

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What the Islamic Invaders Did to India by Rizwan Salim

On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992), it is important for Hindus (and Muslims) to understand the importance of the event in the context of Hindustan's history, past and recent, present and the future.

Savages at a very low level of civilisation and no culture worth the name, from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women. This story, the educated-and a lot of even the illiterate Indians-know very well. History books tell it in remarkable detail. But many Indians do not seem to recognise that the alien Muslim marauders destroyed the historical evolution of the earth's most mentally advanced civilisation, the most richly imaginative culture, and the most vigorously creative society.

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Illegal immigrant, Muslim from Lebanon, worked for FBI, CIA, stole info, passed it to Hizballah :: Jihad WAtch

Whew. This story has everything: an illegal immigration angle, a Keystone Kops angle, an espionage angle, a moderate-Muslims-condemn-terror-or-do-they angle, and more. It would make a great movie. If this kind of thing doesn't kill us first.

The illegal immigration angle is of course that illegal immigration is a national security issue, and that illegal immigrants have no business working for the FBI and the CIA. That in turn leads to the Keystone Kops angle: what on earth was the FBI and the CIA thinking, giving this woman key jobs? Of course, no one would dream of asking Nada Nadim Prouty or anyone like her sensitive questions about where they stand on the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism. Why, you're automatically a bigot just for thinking that such questions should be asked. But when you don't ask, of course, and make no effort to investigate in any other way, you don't get answers.

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Chinese Sub Pops Up Undetected Near U.S.S. Kitty Hawk During Exercise :: NTA

Hot Air posted this story earlier today and it should shake your sense of security at least a little.

An unexpected visit by a Chinese Submarine that went undetected in the middle of a Pacific Ocean Naval exercise and came extremely close to the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, has American military chiefs looking for answers.

The sub was apparently able to slip past at least a dozen U.S. warships, two U.S. submarines and a vast array of advanced technology, which failed to detect it.

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Cloudy Days on the Global Warming Front :: Power Line

Advocates of anthropogenic global warming want you to believe that the science is settled and there is nothing left to debate. But this is the opposite of the truth; in fact, climate science is in its infancy and virtually every proposition relating to it is controversial.

A case in point: the computer programs that tell us that human activity will lead to catastrophic warming assume that warmer temperatures will give rise to more high-altitude clouds, which in turn will trap heat in the earth's atmosphere and create a positive feedback loop. Recent research suggests, however, that increasing temperatures will have the opposite effect, reducing the incidence of high-altitude clouds and thereby creating a safety valve rather than reinforcing the original warming. The research was published in Geophysical Research Letters by Roy W. Spencer, William D. Braswell, John R. Christy and Justin Hnilo:

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Former FBI Agent, and CIA Employee, an FBI Mole? by Steven Emerson

The sister-in-law of Hizballah-linked fugitive Talal Chahine pled guilty today to fraudulently obtaining her citizenship, and using her illegally acquired status to attain employment with both the FBI and CIA.

Nadia Nadim Prouty, aka Nadia Nadim Al Aouar, came to the U.S. in 1990 on a non-immigrant visa, overstayed her visa and entered into a fraudulent marriage in Michigan to a U.S. citizen. Prouty submitted a series of fraudulent affidavits, notably from her sister Elfat Al Aouar and her husband, Talal Chahine, attesting to the validity of Prouty's marriage. According to the federal government, "As planned, [Prouty] never lived as husband and wife with her fraudulent ‘husband' and the marriage was never consummated sexually."

But Prouty did use her newly gained citizenship to get a job as a Special Agent with the FBI, which requires U.S. citizenship for employment, in 1999. Prouty was given a security clearance and tasked to the FBI's Washington Field Office.

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Jersey's Counterterror Farce by Steven Emerson and Stephen M. Flatow

THE New Jersey Department of Homeland Security's counterterrorism conference last month turned out to be a textbook case of exactly what's wrong with many U.S. counterterror and outreach efforts - a farce that had apologists for terrorism and radical Islam writing the "script" for how to protect Americans from the terrorist threat.
Consider recommendation No. 7 from the final post-conference report:

"Universities can be breeding grounds for radicalization: . . . Most agreed that radicalization is most likely to find a breeding ground in the open environments of our college campuses, and thus it is essential to involve academia in any anti-radicalization strategy."

True enough - except that a key speaker at the event was Georgetown University professor John Esposito. Esposito calls himself a "very good friend" of Sami Al-Arian - who last year pleaded guilty to a "conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad" - a terrorist group.

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Al Qaeda would welcome Internet takeover by UN By Judi McLeod

Even as UN delegates meet to take control of the Internet in yet another Rio de Janeiro beach conference Nov. 12-15, Mike Smith, new UN counter-terrorism chief is calling the Internet as it exists: a threat.

In other words, all signs are GO for the UNs’ long coveted takeover of the only thing still working, the Worldwide Internet.

If this sounds alarmist, remember that the world’s largest bureaucracy is already well on its way to take over Mother Earth’s seven seas with only petitions circulating on the Net offering faint hope that Congress will not ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty.

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Diana West: Hitler's Revenge By Paul Belien

My colleague and dear friend Diana West sends me this excerpt from her book
“The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization”:

In Alien Nation: Common Sense about America’s Immigration Disaster, a bracingly unequivocal assessment of the cultural and political shambles that make up U.S. immigration policy – the basis of sovereignty – author Peter Brimelow opens his preface with a provocative statement.

There is a sense in which the current immigration policy is Adolph Hitler’s posthumous revenge on America. The U.S. political elite emerged from the war passionately concerned to cleanse itself from all taints of racism and xenophobia. Eventually, it enacted the epochal Immigration Act (technically, the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments) of 1965. And this, quite accidentally, triggered a renewed mass immigration, so huge and systemically different from anything that had gone before as to transform – and ultimately, perhaps, even to destroy – the one unquestioned victor of World War II: the American nation, as it had evolved by the middle of the twentieth century.

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Annapolis insanity By Joseph Farah

The U.S. is preparing for a very ominous summit in Annapolis later this month to move the "peace process" forward.

When all is said and done, the word "Annapolis" is going to take on a new meaning from this historic error.

What do I mean?

When we say "Oslo" today, you probably think of this so-called "Middle East peace process" – one that leads inevitably and inexorably to never-ending appeasement of the Islamists by Israel.

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Democrats zero for 40 on Iraq By: Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris

As the congressional session lurches toward a close, Democrats are confronting some demoralizing arithmetic on Iraq.

The numbers tell a story of political and substantive paralysis more starkly than most members are willing to acknowledge publicly, or perhaps even to themselves.
Since taking the majority, they have forced 40 votes on bills limiting President Bush’s war policy.

Only one of those has passed both chambers, even though both are run by Democrats. That one was vetoed by Bush.

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The Tragedy of Abdication By Erik Rush

Every time I publish a column on the issues of race or race politics, I invariably get a slew of emails from white people who shower me with kudos for saying what’s been on their minds “forever” but which they have come to believe they cannot verbalize out of concern for being labeled racists. Many have employed phrases such as “I’ve given up” apropos expressing themselves due to the climate of Political Correctness, a hypersensitive minority subculture and opportunistic parasites commonly known as “civil rights activists.”

Last week, a similar scenario played out very close to home, geographically-speaking, when FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly interviewed two parties on his television program about public holiday display policies of a certain city in Colorado. This phenomenon, which has erupted seasonally over the last three winter holiday cycles, is of course a manifestation of secular socialists across America, occasionally aided by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), seeking to do away with public religious holiday displays, particularly those pertaining to Christmas, and ultimately Christianity itself.

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Washington Protects the Terror Masters By Daniel Pipes

The Bush administration's counterterrorism policies appear tough, but inside the courtroom, they evaporate, consistently favoring not American terror victims, but foreign terrorists.
Consider a civil lawsuit arising from a September 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed credit for five dead and 192 wounded, including several Americans. On the grounds that the Islamic Republic of Iran had financed Hamas, five injured Americans students sued it for damages.
Expert testimony established the regime's culpability during a four-day trial, leading Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, under the Flatow Amendment of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, to fine the Iranian government and its Revolutionary Guard Corps US$251 million in compensatory and punitive damages.

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A Window into the Left's Rage By Dennis Prager

The current issue of Rolling Stone magazine, its special 40th anniversary issue, reveals almost all one needs to know about the current state of the cultural left. The issue features interviews with people Rolling Stone considers to be America's leading cultural and political figures -- such as Al Gore, Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Cornel West, Paul Krugman, Kanye West, Bill Maher, and George Clooney, among many others.

It brings me no pleasure to say that, with few exceptions, the interviews reveal a superficiality and contempt for cultural norms (as evidenced by the ubiquity of curse words) that should scare anyone who believes that these people have influence on American life.
First, the constant use of expletives.

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Muslims Against Sharia By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview's guest today is Khalim Massoud, the president of Muslims Against Sharia, an Islamic reform movement.

FP: Khalim Massoud, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Massoud: Thank you.

FP: Tell us why it is necessary for you to wear sunglasses in the picture you gave us to use of you.
Massoud: As you might imagine, Islamists are not particularly happy with our group. According to our poll, over 20% of Muslims want us beheaded. I am perfectly content with my head not being separated from my body and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as I can.
FP: Sounds like a good idea.
Tell us what Muslims Against Sharia is about.

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The Muslim Student Union: Where “Community,” “Prayer,” and Jew-Hatred Come Together By John Perazzo

If one were to judge the Muslim Student Union (MSU) of the University of California at Irvine (UCI) solely on the basis of its self-description and its stated mission, one would have no inkling of the volcano of Jew-hatred that animates this organization. Founded in 1992 by a small group of Muslim students who “desired to establish an Islamic presence on campus,” MSU says it aims to provide a “community” or “family” atmosphere for Muslims enrolled at UCI, and to build “an environment that enhances good, discourages bad, and provides networks of resources, knowledge, people, and companionship to its members.” Toward these ends, MSU offers “daily congregational prayers, daily free iftars [the evening meal for breaking the daily fast] during Ramadan that serve over a hundred Muslims, over eight weekly classes, a quarterly magazine Alkalima, coalition building with other clubs on campus, and a gateway to the larger Muslim community …” MSU also provides career advice and a study/tutoring program to help Muslims at UCI.

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A Strange Alliance By Flemming Rose

The strange alliance between the left and reactionary Muslims has taken center stage in the campaign leading up to tomorrows national elections for a new parliament in Denmark.

Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, a 25 year old social worker and islamist, is running for the extreme left wing party Enhedslisten. Last year she was behind a lawsuit against Jyllands-Posten trying to have the newspaper indicted for blasphemy after the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.

I wonder how many leftists since the birth of socialism as a political movement have been involved in lawsuits against people offending the Christian faith? Not many, I gather.

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Eric Alterman’s Alternate History By Eric Alterman’s Alternate History

One of the first things you learn as a journalist is that the biographies of writers which appear on the backs of their books, at the end of their articles, or on websites are not written by editors or interns at publications, but the journalists themselves. Most journalists provide their place of employment and list any books they have authored. Some go further, listing awards or scholarships they have won (and even, should they have won too many, declined). Others feel the need to share their incomparable brilliance with the world. Reading the biography of Nation columnist and CUNY professor Eric Alterman, “a frequent lecturer and contributor to virtually every significant national publication in the United States and many in Europe,” you get a sense of the man’s mammoth importance (in his own mind) to the world of American arts and letters.

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First Amendment Trampled With ENDA Passage By Matt Barber

Recently, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives passed--largely along party lines--H.R. 3685, the so-called Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA), by a vote of 235–184.  

        By passing this Orwellian piece of legislation, the Democrat-controlled House has displayed exceptional arrogance.  Congress apparently believes it has carte blanche authority to nullify any constitutional provision which it finds bothersome.  In this case, they’ve drawn a black line through the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. 

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Little Green Footballs and Racism In The United States By Fjordman

As many 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.

However, I’d like to continue the debate about “racism,” which now frequently means something along the lines of “I’m a Multiculturalist. I’ve just lost the debate because I have poor arguments in favor of my case. I want to shut you up, therefore you are a racist.”

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Doug Tracht As the Precedent for White Groveling and Cowardice By Elizabeth Wright

As a black woman, there is little these days that shocks me when it comes to white acquiescence to black demands. But I must say that even this cynical soul was unprepared for the groveling behavior of that radio personality Doug Tracht (The Greaseman) when the hounds were set upon him several years ago.

Now this is a guy, rumor has it, who has wisely turned his earnings into millions, so we’re not talking about a nearly destitute person, dependent upon the next pay check. Yet look at his unbelievable cowardly behavior when fired for making a wisecrack about some black singer of "hip-hop" noise.

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Jimmy Carter’s Magical Mystery Anti-Israel Book Tour By Aaron Goldstein

If a man who nearly became President could star in a documentary and win an Academy Award, why not a man who actually got to sit in the Oval Office? 

I am sure Jimmy Carter had Al Gore on his mind when he agreed to star in the documentary feature Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains.  This film documents Carter’s U.S. tour of his notorious book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.  Given Michael Moore’s proximity to the 39th President at the 2004 Democratic National Convention I am surprised Moore wasn’t tabbed to direct this flick. But give Carter his due.  He did recruit Jonathan Demme, who won an Academy Award for his direction of The Silence of the Lambs, to write, produce and direct this film.

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You can't script Pakistan By Mark Steyn

From CBS News:

In Toluca Lake, Calif., near Warner Bros. studio, writers converged on a house that serves as a location shoot for “Desperate Housewives.”

“We write the story-a, Eva Longoria,” about 30 strikers chanted, referring to one star of the hit ABC show.

Wouldn’t that rhyme be better as a taunt? “Who writes the story, huh? Eva Longoria?” Heigh-ho. Maybe the rewrite guys don’t show up to the protest until the first draft of chants has nosedived into the asphalt. Get a suite at the Waldorf Astoria, Eva Longoria: This one will run and run.

Until this here Hollywood writers’ strike came along, I had no idea so much of television was scripted. One charitably assumed it was the way it was because they were winging it. But across late-night the fastest wits in the West have fallen silent, apparently unable to produce a snide Dick Cheney crack without armies of accredited highly trained professionals. I haven’t checked the Weather Channel lately but it wouldn’t surprise me to find their photogenic meteorologists standing slack-jawed in front of maps of the midwest unable to decide whether to go for a high of 70 with a 25 percent chance of precipitation or vice versa.

You can't script Pakistan. ,,,

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Elitist Economists, Immigration, And The American Future By Steve Sailer

Economist Bryan Caplan [email him], an associate professor at George Mason U., a commuter school in suburban Virginia, has been getting a lot of good press for his recent book The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies which argues that voters should have less power because they make bad decisions compared to experts—such as (to pick a random example) economists.

Thus Caplan wrote in the online journal of the libertarian-turned-Beltway-Establishment-wannabe Cato Institute:

"Consider the case of immigration policy. Economists are vastly more optimistic about its economic effects than the general public. The Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy asks respondents to say whether ‘too many immigrants’ is a major, minor, or non-reason why the economy is not doing better than it is. 47% of non-economists think it is a major reason; 80% of economists think it is not a reason at all."[The Myth of the Rational Voter, November 6th, 2006]

This is a particularly foolish argument—because, of course, immigration is the single political issue on which the American elite most gets its way over the American people.

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Do Western intelligence agencies exist? By Lev Navrozov

In Soviet Russia, every resident had to have an (internal) passport, stamped by the relevant local police station, certifying thereby the passport holder’s residence at the address indicated in the passport. Children were included in their parents’ passports. To have an American spy residing in Soviet Russia outside the relevant U.S. embassy or consulate, the CIA would have to have another spy in the relevant local police station of Soviet Russia, to stamp the resident spy’s passport.

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