Saturday, December 1, 2007

President Bush and Condoleezza Rice Revel with the Devil. by David Singer

Annapolis has come and gone but what happened there guarantees that the next 12 months of negotiations to implement the Bush two-state solution will end up going nowhere - just like the fruitless negotiations conducted over the last four years.

Annapolis clearly confirmed that these on-going negotiations with Israel will be undertaken by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) - whose Charter specifically rejects the two state solution proposed by the President.

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AIDS: The Questions They Won’t Ask By Robert Knight

As another World AIDS Day dawns this morning, prepare for the usual media blitz of stories designed to promote more spending on failed approaches to HIV/AIDS, and more bashing of the Bush Administration despite increases in spending by the billions each year.

Here are some of the questions that the media probably won’t ask the professional HIV/AIDS lobby, which grows ever fatter while the human tragedy rises:

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Genocide Nearly Forgotten by History By S. John Massoud

The past week saw the anniversary of one of the great tragedies of history overlooked by most of the US mainstream media.  On November 24th 75 years ago, Stalin announced plans to collectivize all grain from his people, in an attempt to enforce "true socialism" on the people for their own good.  This Holodomor (forced famine) sentenced millions of Ukrainians to their deaths.

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A Slow-Motion Revolution By Tom Bethell

Even in the quietest of times it's hard to figure where the country is headed, but in a revolution it's impossible. And we are living through a revolution -- a slow-motion one, or perhaps not so slow. I refer to the transformation ushered in by the high-tech world. Its consequences are likely to be as far-reaching as those of the printing press, but it's all happening much more quickly than Gutenberg's revolution. That one took maybe 250 years to mature.

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Global Warming and the Tax the Rich Scheme By Noel Sheppard

Have you noticed the genie concerning the real modus operandi behind climate alarmism beginning to peek its head out of the bottle lately?

After the United Nations announced earlier in the week that rich countries - code for America, of course - are going to have to pay billions of dollars to help poor nations deal with global warming, several international press outlets published articles of similar content.

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Setting America Free By Mark Silverberg

Our war against Islamic radicalism will be fought for many more years, but its defeat will never be achieved so long as we continue to transfer petro-wealth to those who wish to harm us. The U.S. has been forced to coddle some of the world’s worst dictators and despots because, as it stands today, they hold the key to our prosperity. As a result, we have compromised American values and principles.

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Bin Laden and Future Jihad in Europe By Dr. Walid Phares

What is interesting about the latest audio message of Usama Bin Laden, carried by al Jazeera, is its delayed argument. Strangely he is trying to convince the Europeans - seven years later - that they are wrong to have followed the United States into Afghanistan. Why?

In his speech - irrespective of the ritual investigative questions regarding its location, technology and other details - the central issue appears to be his growing concern with the European role in Afghanistan, and perhaps because of it, the potential growth of that role in the fight against the forces of Jihadism worldwide. As a reader of the Jihadi strategic mind, I believe that the speech writers (Bin Laden himself or his “advisors”) are looking ahead in their evaluation of future European involvement in the so-called War on Terror, and are positioning al Qaeda to “own” it. The significance of this is, as al Qaeda’s war room has showed in the past, they are skilled at anticipating trends.

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Americans Pay for Emerging World Government By Cliff Kincaid

In its new Human Development Report calling for another $86 billion in aid to the rest of the world, supposedly to fight the effects of climate change, the United Nations acts distressed that people in “rich” countries like the U.S. don’t take the theory of man-made global warming more seriously. Its answer—and this is actually spelled out in the report—is that too much “editorial balance” in the media has prevented “informed debate” about the need for “urgent action” in the form of higher taxes on energy. 

The U.N. report complains that, according to one poll, roughly four in ten Americans believe that human activity is responsible for global warming, but just as many believe it is a natural phenomenon. This is not acceptable to the global elite.  

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Friday, November 30, 2007

TSA To Rummage Through Emotional Baggage As Well

By Frederick Meekins

On an episode of South Park taking aim at the airline industry, Mr. Garrison (still a man at that point) invented a mode of transportation where riders had to have a metal prod inserted into their backsides in order to avoid falling off the vehicle.  The response of those enduring such discomfort and humiliation was that it was still less than what passengers had to endure at the airport.  While the bit might have been a bit over the top in terms of propriety, it was pretty much on target in terms of how most Americans feel regarding the bureaucratic procedures implemented in the name of  “transportation security” since September 11th.

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John McCain's Alleged Compassion for 80-Year-Old Illegal Aliens


By John W. Lillpop

John McCain still does not get it on illegal aliens. In fact, he is not even close.
Rather than accepting the will of the people and committing to the rule of law, McCain continues his obstinate fight on behalf of illegal aliens, at the expense of the American people.

McCain's pandering to illegals hit a new low on Wednesday when the senator searched every nook and cranny for a viable excuse with which to oppose mass deportations. The best he could come up with was a specious argument based on a hypothetical crook and granny.

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String Quartets Abounding By Benjamin Ivry

The string quartet repertory is so demanding to play that fans of the genre cling to rare historical favorites on CD who manage to get it just right. Mutual dependence and independence, statements from both the individual and group that convey a balanced message are extremely difficult to achieve. Sometimes a strenuous, heavy-handed group wins critical praise, perhaps because they always sound the same, no matter what music they play. Differentiating the styles and personalities of various composers so that Ravel does not sound like Debussy, let alone Brahms, is a rare skill. Whence the deserved cult-like status of historical ensembles like the Busch Quartet; Budapest String Quartet; Flonzaley Quartet; and Calvet Quartet, who were able to enter different musical worlds adeptly.

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Another inconvenient truth: 4.9% 3rd quarter GDP growth by Kevin :: Pundit review

Before I start talking about the incredible, continued economic expansion (24 consecutive quarters), let’s acknowledge the housing crisis, the subprime loan debacle, the falling dollar and long term national debt. Yes, liberals and MSM, those are serious headwinds for our economy.

Ok, now that we have that out of the way, what are we to think of a media and a certain political party that so insessently talks down the economy in the name of partisan politics? It’s just like Iraq. Good news for America (on the war, on the economy) is bad news for them. That is not a very attractive place to be, if you ask me.

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The History and Unwritten Future of Salafism by Hillel Fradkin

This conference is on a most important subject—the subject of the organization, or group of organizations, known as the Muslim Brotherhood. The importance of this subject partially derives from the importance of another related subject: the worldwide Islamic phenomenon and movement variously known as Islamism, Salafism, radical Islam, militant Islam, political Islam and the like. Since the events of 9/11, we have all learned that understanding this movement properly—broadly, deeply and accurately—is a very great necessity. It is a necessity if we are to understand the present-day world situation and crisis and if we are to devise sensible policies to address them. To this end, an understanding of the Muslim Brotherhood is absolutely essential and arguably more important than anything else. Nevertheless, over the past few years the Brotherhood has not stood in the foreground of discussion and reflection. The purpose of this conference is to address—or rather, to begin to redress—that oversight or neglect.

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The great climate change extortion racket By Klaus Rohrich

Anyone who still believes that the Kyoto Accord is about actually reducing so-called greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is in dire need of therapy.  Kyoto is now and has always been about redistributing wealth.  Recent statements by countries such as Brazil and India have confirmed this to be the case as developing nations are taking the position that climate change was caused by industrialized countries and should therefore be remediated by those countries.

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Battling Hate Crimes Against Christmas by Bonnie Alba

Those few U.S. citizens who can’t stand the thought or public expression of “Merry Christmas” or any other symbol of Christmas are taking up the annual banner of their War against “the reason for the season.”

These misguided citizens can’t stand to see the Nativity on public property. It offends them. In the name of the misinterpreted First Amendment, the American Civil Liberties Union gladly pursues the War in court.

School Administrators and school boards struggle with renaming the annual “Christmas” concert to the benign “Holiday” or “Winter” Concert. Ditto for Christmas trees and class parties; for Christmas cards and gift exchanges among students.

Cities and local officials across the country wrestle with “Should we take the chance of public display of Christmas symbols, mainly the Crèche or Nativity scene, in public and risk the ACLU taking us to court?” Who can blame them?

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Socialist Seers by Thomas Brewton

Most commentators blame corporate greed and poor judgment for the subprime mortgage meltdown and the resulting squeeze in the financial community.

In reality, excessive Federal spending on the socialist welfare-state inaugurated by the New Deal, and the Federal Reserve's over-expansion of the money supply to fund it, are the proximate causes for today's financial mess. Without excessive money in the system, neither greed nor imprudence enters the picture.

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Blowback from Moscow by Patrick J. Buchanan

Our next president will likely face a Russia led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, determined to stand up to a West that Russians believe played them for fools when they sought to be friends.

Americans who think Putin has never been anything but a KGB thug will reject accusations of any U.S. role in causing the ruination of relations between us.

Yet the hubris of Bill Clinton and George Bush I, and the Russophobia of those they brought with them into power, has been a primary cause of the ruptured relationship. And the folly of what they did is evident today, as Putin's party, United Russia, rolls to triumph on a torrent of abuse and invective against the West.

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Report: China targeting all 'enemy space vehicles' including GPS satellites :: East-Asia-Intel

China’s anti-satellite and space warfare program includes plans to destroy or incapacitate 'every enemy space vehicle' that passes over China.

The annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released last week, listed among Beijing's goals that of ensuring that Chinese space weapons are “conducted covertly so China can maintain a positive international image.” China has called for a ban on space weapons at the United Nations.

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Lefty British icon calls cops on WND staff :: WorldNetDaily

Amid a volatile exchange over whether Hamas is a terrorist organization, the leftist British lawmaker George Galloway abruptly booted WND's Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein and radio talk-host Rusty Humphries from his London office and handed them over to Parliament police, claiming the two were Zionist operatives who had breached security by falsely presenting themselves as reporters.

The entire fiasco, which occurred in June, was recorded on audio tape.

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Rick Warren's Inquisition By Joseph Farah

While mega-pastor Rick Warren has joined a group of 100 church leaders calling for interfaith dialogue and the building of "common ground" with Muslims, he has a slightly different outlook toward Christians with whom he disagrees.

In his latest missive to fellow pastors, he writes: "You've got to protect the unity of your church. If that means getting rid of troublemakers, do it."

"As pastors, as shepherds of God's people, it's our job to protect our congregations from Satan's greatest weapon – disunity," he writes. "It's not always easy, but it's what we've been called to do."

I may not be pastor of a mega-church, but, I've got to tell you, Rick Warren's priorities and sensibilities and his biblical literacy and standards are upside-down, inside-out and twisted beyond anything remotely connected with Scripture. And I'm not afraid of his threats of ex-communication from the new papacy he apparently seeks to create.

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Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all By Jason Whitlock

There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same.

Someone who loved Sean Taylor is crying right now. The life they knew has been destroyed, an 18-month-old baby lost her father, and, if you're a black man living in America, you've been reminded once again that your life is in constant jeopardy of violent death.

The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.

No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight.

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Countries Missing Kyoto Targets, Taxpayers to Foot the Bill By Noel Sheppard

As climate alarmists around the world head to a tropical paradise on Bali next week to discuss how developed nations should pay to solve global warming, an inconvenient truth has emerged: many countries that are part of the Kyoto Protocol are going to dramatically overshoot their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.

While it seems a metaphysical certitude that America's green media will largely boycott such revelations so as not to put a damper on the hysterical proceedings, the fact that taxpayers in countries missing these targets will end up footing the bill also appears likely to be ignored.

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Someone Is Telling the Truth But No One Is Listening By Nancy Salvato

It’s a timeless story, The Boy who cried Wolf, one I can remember reading many times as a young child perusing Aesop’s Fables long past my bedtime, while the rest of the house was sleeping. It’s a simple moral, “There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.” My love of these fables had an enduring effect; imprinting their many lessons on the direction my life has taken. Of late, it has occurred to me that many people are employing this moral to the yellow journalism that has graced the pages of our nation’s newspapers, the hyperbole which has escaped the mouths of our nation’s politicians and to the manipulation of statistics by special interest groups to draw attention to their causes.

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Al Gore, Global Warming and Convenient Untruths by Deroy Murdock

When Nobel laureate Albert Gore, Jr. collects his Peace Prize in Oslo on December 10, he should tell the gathered Norwegians exactly what he meant when he remarked about global warming:

“I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are,” Gore said in the May 9, 2006 Grist Magazine.

“Over-representation?” Is that anything like misrepresentation?

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Rising Tide, Rising Burden by Michelle Oddis

The immigrant population has hit its highest number in 80 years at 37.9 million according to an analysis of 2007 Census Bureau data on legal and illegal immigration, released Thursday by the Center for Immigration Studies.

The study’s data are compelling: in the seven years of the Bush administration, immigration -- especially illegal immigration -- has grown hugely, imposing a burden on the U.S. economy it may not long be able to sustain.

The Current Population Study (CPS) conducted by Steven Camarota, an advocate of limiting immigration and director of the Center for Immigration Studies, shows that between 2000 and 2007 the immigrant population rose by 7.3 million or 1.04 million per year, and that one in three immigrants is an illegal alien.

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An Embarrassing End to the YouTube Experiment By Blake D. Dvorak

And so ends in embarrassing failure the great YouTube Debate Experiment of Election 2008. Which is not to say that it wasn't entertaining, in the same way that David Letterman's "Stupid Human Tricks" sketch is a riot. But as far as revolutionizing the way presidential debates are conducted, taking a question from a Dick Cheney cartoon doesn't exactly measure up to the advent of television.

As a political medium, the YouTube technology is useful for pretty much two things anyway: 1.) Capturing candidates' more telling moments for endless replay to a universal audience; and 2.) giving candidates the ability to speak directly to voters, without the hassle of buying airtime. Those are two very significant developments, and because of them, we can correctly say that politics has entered a "YouTube Age."

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Mexican “Migrant Parliament” Deliberates In Mexico City—Next Year In Washington DC! By Allan Wall

On November 16th and 17th, Mexico City was the scene of a special gathering:  the "Primer Parlamento de Líderes Migrantes Mexicanos que Viven in Estados Unidos de America"—"The First Parliament of Mexican Migrant Leaders Living In The U.S.A."

This isn’t the first time these meetings, discussing ways to subvert U.S. immigration policy and increase Mexican political power, have been held in Mexico.  

In 2003 Mexican-American state legislators and mayors were invited to the "First Public Awareness Conference for Elected and Appointed Latino Officials" attended by such politicos as California State Senator Gil Cedillo, pusher of driers’ licenses for illegal aliens, and California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.

Then, in 2004 there was the "Primer Foro de Reflexión Binacional", which invited such Mexican-American luminaries as University of Texas “Mexican Studies” professor  Jose Angel (we’re going to Latinize this country) Gutierrez and disgraced Clinton HUD Henry Cisneros.

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Sleepwalking Into a Nightmare by Newt Gingrich

I just want to talk to you from the heart for a few minutes and share with you where I think we are.

I think it is very stark. I don't think it is yet desperate, but it is very stark. And if I had a title for today's talk, it would be sleepwalking into a nightmare. 'Cause that's what I think we're doing.

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No, Bush is Brilliant! By Raymond Kraft

Today, I received an article from a friend about the Middle East Peace Conference proceeding at Annapolis, with its nebulous, if not dismal, prospects for actually achieving achieving a resolution of the Palestinian Israeli problem, asking me if I thought Bush was naive, or merely stupid.  I replied, substantially as follows.

No, Bush is brilliant!

I do not think Bush is either naive or stupid.  I do not think he thinks there's a snowball's chance in hell that the Israelis and the Palestinians will work out a real peace deal this year, or next, and maybe not in the next century.  But Bush is playing a deeper game than that.  I'll call it "clearing the decks."

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Wave Of Illegals Turns Into Tsunami By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

A new study suggests that the wave of illegal aliens is having a more serious impact — particularly on welfare spending — than commonly believed. Is anyone in Washington listening?

The study by the Center for Immigration Studies notes that the estimated 10.3 million people who've come here since 2000 represent the greatest-ever migration to the U.S. over a seven-year period. Over the next decade, at current rates, another 15 million will arrive — the largest immigrant wave in our history.

Not bad for a country that supposedly is one of the most unpopular on Earth. That said, the study also notes that more than half the newcomers so far this decade — 5.6 million — have come illegally.

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H-R-CNN By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

CNN can spare us the alibis for letting Democratic operatives slip past them as questioners in this week's Republican debate. The Hillary Rodham Clinton News Network may be as dishonest as it is slanted.

All it took was a Web search to figure out that the supposedly independent retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, whose video question for the candidates was chosen by CNN for the GOP YouTube debate, was a co-chairman of a Clinton campaign organization.

Yet after CNN's Anderson Cooper innocently announced "another question from a YouTube viewer. Let's watch," came a gravelly voice right out of George C. Scott's portrayal of Gen. George Patton, as Kerr rattled off his biographical data.

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"Cultural relativism makes me sick" by Chaalan Charif and Nicolien den Boer

Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), is known for his anti-Islamic remarks, his striking blonde mane and the many death threats he has received. It's less well known that he spent most of his time on a kibbutz chasing girls and once named Syria as his favourite holiday destination. He even watches Arabic television channels every evening. Geert Wilders spoke to Chalaan Charif and Nicolien den Boer from RNW's Arabic desk.

Geert WildersGeert Wilders' office in The Hague is a high security stronghold. Once the parliamentary security people have established that the journalists are who they say they are, the real screening begins. No less than four burly bodyguards tell us what we can and can't do ("No filming in Mr Wilders' room" "Photographs? Only against the backdrop of an empty anonymous wall."), search our bag of recording equipment and bombard us with questions. ("Do you have any weapons? Are there any secret compartments in your bag?).

For three years now Wilders has been under heavy guard because of regular death threats. After his proposal a few weeks back that the Qur'an should be banned, more threats streamed in.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Canadian Defence Minister - Dirty Bomb or Nuclear Device Greatest Threat To North America :: NTA

Canadian Defence Minister Peter Mackay says the greatest threat facing North America is international terrorists smuggling a nuclear weapon onto the continent through a busy container port.

At an Ottawa conference of transportation security experts on Wednesday, Mackay raised the spectre of radicals detonating a crude radioactive dispersal device or a conventional nuclear bomb after smuggling it in one of the millions of cargo containers arriving annually on foreign ships.

“The greatest threat to North America right now is on the water,” he told the audience. “This is an area where, God forbid, if someone with ill intent decided to send a dirty bomb or some kind of a nuclear device into our country, this is an area where we are vulnerable.

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Pelosi Holds FBI and NASA Hostage to Her Leftist Agenda By Bob P

Well, she promised America a "new direction" if her and her minions (read: Lib Dems) get elected last year. Now, Nancy Pelosi is fulfilling that promise and more, much to the detriment of the overwhelming majority of Americans.

Nancy is holding up a $53 BILLION dollar appropriations bill that funds the FBI, the Justice Department and NASA. Why? Because there's an attached amendment that would prohibit the funding of EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) lawsuits against English-only rules in the workplace. It seems the EEOC has filed over 200 lawsuits against employers over English-only rules.

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Riots Resume in France and Other Islamist Atrocities By Sher Zieve

Showing yet again that evil is alive and flourishing in the world, France’s Islamist immigrants are causing additional mayhem on the streets of France. One of their favorite pastimes has been, and continues to be, the torching of vehicles. After three nights of “youth” rioting, their incendiary behaviors continued through Wednesday, including the arson of homes and shooting of French police. Their patently exuberant and violent acts are being carried out in the suburbs of Paris and France’s southern city of Toulouse. Also included in the “youths’” fun was setting fire to two libraries. As the world’s apologizing and appeasing Leftists might say: “What a bunch of crazy kids!”

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10 Steps to Understanding Liberal Thinking

Satire By John W. Lillpop

The liberal brain does not collect and process information in a logical, reasonable, and objective manner. Rather, liberal thinking is dominated by an obsession with power, and use of that power to preserve elitist advantages.

This distorted perspective makes it very difficult to understand exactly how liberals think without advanced training in Abnormal Psychology.

Nonetheless, the following non-technical summary should be useful to lay people.

How liberals think on 10 major issues of the day:

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Ayaan Ali Hirsi: ‘We are at war with all Islam’ :: Winds of Jihad

Actually, it’s Islam that is waging war against us, ever since its inception. Yet there are too many among us who still don’t understand the nature of the beast and that this war is different from any other war ever fought. This enemy is patient and persistent, this is an enemy that knows us while we chose to ignore it at our peril. An enemy that exploits our weakness and our humanity, our political system and our multiculturalism.

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An interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Last Tuesday at nightfall, as the servants of democracy fled SW1, a young Somali woman stood spotlit on a stage in Westminster. Behind her was the illuminated logo for the Centre for Social Cohesion: a white hand reaching down across England to help a brown one up; in front, an audience of some of Britain’s biggest brains — politicians, editors, academics. She drew her shawl a little closer round her shoulders, looked up and said: ‘We are not at war with “terror”, that would make no sense.’

‘Hear, hear,’ said a voice at the back. ‘Terror is just a tactic used by Islam,’ she continued. ‘We are actually at war, not just with Islamism, but with Islam itself.’

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Liar, Liar By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Hoping to improve his co-president's chances in Iowa, Slick Willie says he was against Iraq from the beginning. So just who signed the Iraq Liberation Act? Millard Fillmore?

Speaking in Muscatine, Iowa, on Tuesday, William Jefferson Clinton uttered perhaps the mother of all falsehoods when he tried to explain that wealthy people such as himself should pay more taxes in time of war.

Rewriting history, Clinton said: "Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers."

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Digging out more CNN/YouTube plants By Michelle Malkin

Update: Watch video of the disappearing plants. CNN cuts out Keith Kerr from the debate rebroadcast. Keep pulling those weeds…

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Welcome to Horticulture Journalism 101. (Keep scrolling down for new updates to this handy CNN/YouTube illustrated plant guide.)

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Concerned Young Undecided Person “Journey” = John Edwards supporter “Journey”

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Concerned Undecided Log Cabin Republican supporter David Cercone = Obama supporter David Cercone

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Finding the courage to stand up to the Council on American-Islamic Relations By Judi McLeod

imageWhere are you Rush?

Where are you Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity?

And what about you, Matt Drudge and Joseph Farah?

The cunning Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Internet writer Selwyn Duke calls “a group that could be the legal arm of al-Qaeda” is out to take down radio talk show host Michael Savage.

Correction: CAIR is out to take down Americans and to stifle freedom of speech—Savage is just the chosen icon.

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Fuzzy Math: A Nationwide Epidemic by Michelle Malkin

Do you know what math curriculum your child is being taught? Are you worried that your third-grader hasn't learned simple multiplication yet? Have you been befuddled by educational jargon such as "spiraling," which is used to explain why your kid keeps bringing home the same insipid busywork of cutting, gluing and drawing? And are you alarmed by teachers who emphasize "self-confidence" over proficiency while their students fall further and further behind? Join the club.

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30 Pieces of Silver? By Brian Cherry

Judas walked with Jesus and betrayed him for a mere 30 pieces of silver. In modern terms his payment for the traitorous act was about $220. Even by biblical standards this was hardly a bargain. Up until this point the King of bone-headed bartering was Esau. This genius traded his inheritance for a bowl of soup. For those who are not up on their biblical history, this would be like Paris Hilton trading her place in Daddy’s will for a can of Chunky Clam Chowder.

Judas walked with God himself, and still found the will to betray him. Even Peter turned his back on Jesus when the chips were down. With that said, I think the lesson from these biblical personalities is that nobody is beyond the act of betraying their religious convictions for short term gains. So, how many pieces of silver have been added to Dr. Dobson’s account?

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The Art of the Flip-Flop By Clifford D. May

Pity poor Harry Reid. Back in April, the Senate Majority Leader proclaimed the war in Iraq “lost.” Two months before General David Petraeus had in place the reinforcements he needed to implement his bold, new strategy — which included a “surge” of operations against al-Qaeda forces in Iraq — Reid also said: “The surge is not accomplishing anything.”

Since then, it has become increasingly obvious that Reid was wrong, that the “surge” has been accomplishing nothing less than the defeat of al-Qaeda in the very heart of the Arab world. Petraeus’ troops appear to be making progress against Iranian-backed militias as well. As a result, the threat of an Iraqi civil war has diminished and there is no “resistance” movement to speak of — not of Saddam Hussein loyalists and certainly not of patriotic Iraqi nationalists.

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Child Abuse Worsens as Families Change by Michael Reagan

Child abuse is growing out of control here in America, and there’s a good reason why: the traditional family is coming apart at the seams.

According to reports made to state agencies, there were 900,000 incidents of child abuse in 2005 alone. These raw numbers give no clue just how much child abuse correlates with parents’ marital status or the make-up of the victim’s household, although these are vitally important factors in child abuse cases. The proof is in the news far too often.

Nothing is more important to child welfare than living within the bosom of a stable family, and nothing is more destructive to their well-being than being forced to live in a fatherless household where dad is replaced by the live-in boyfriend, or as is often the case, by a series of live-in boyfriends.

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The Palestinians' Final Solution For Israel By Joseph Klein

The Palestinians’ idea of a final solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to obliterate Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, and his Hamas rivals share that same vision.

Accordingly, the Palestinian negotiators at the ‘peace’ conference in Annapolis have refused to start negotiating a two-state solution that recognizes Israel as the homeland for the Jewish people, living side by side in peace and security with a separate homeland state for the Palestinian people.

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Jihad in India By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Moorthy Muthuswamy, an expert on terrorism in India. He grew up in India, where he had firsthand experience with political Islam and jihad. He moved to America in 1984 to pursue graduate studies. In 1992, he received a doctorate in nuclear physics from Stony Brook University, New York. Since 1999 he has extensively published ideas on neutralizing political Islam's terror war as it is imposed on unbelievers. He is the author of the new book, The Art of War on Terror: Triumphing over Political Islam and the Axis of Jihad.

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The Parisian Intifada and “The Project” By Patrick Poole

Paris is burning, yet again. The Muslim immigrant “youths” in the banlieues have taken to the streets to expand a Western front in the global jihad. This time, however, instead of just burning cars and throwing rocks, this week they have taken up arms against French police. As the Associated Press reported on the violence around Paris late Tuesday, noting the escalation beyond the car-burning intifada of November 2005, such that even apologetic Associated Press reporters are forced to describe the present rioters as “urban guerillas”:

Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to contain rioters who have burned cars and buildings and — in an ominous turn — shot at officers.

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The "Good" Immigrant—Myth vs. Reality By Brenda Walker

Among the more annoying ploys of the open borders crowd is the idea that we need endless immigrants because we wouldn't want to miss getting someone really valuable.

Einstein is the perpetual example—what if restrictionists had kept him out? They never seem to mention Al Capone. (Former New York mayor Ed Koch pulled this trick when reviewing Peter Brimelow’s Alien Nation.)

As if the brilliance of the 20th century's greatest physicist were a reason to import millions of illiterate peasants: the argument makes no sense.

Still, with multiculturalism, the quantity is often more important than the quality. So we get a continuous barrage.

One regular salvo from the opposing shore is the "Immigrants of the Week" column which appears in the ILW.com email newsletter, targeted at immigration lawyers and other enemies of American sovereignty—what we call the “Treason Lobby.”

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ENSO Variation and Global Warming By Robert Ellison

ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) is the technical name given to the most prominent source of inter-annual variability in weather and climate around the world. Its ocean temperature signatures, the more widely-known La Niña and El Niño, corresponding to different phases of the oscillation, are officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5°C across the central tropical Pacific Ocean.

When ENSO is in the phase known as La Niña, the Pacific trade winds blow true and strong causing sun warmed surface water to pile up against Australia and Indonesia.  Cool subsurface water rises in the east.

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Eight Years of Liberal Hatred By J.R. Dunn

In politics as in personal life, hatred is a dangerous tool. It's like one of the early medieval cannons, just as capable of blowing up in your face as it is of lobbing a ball at the enemy. Of course, the medieval metal casters realized they had a problem and worked to correct it. Haters never seem to get that far.

For the latest evidence of this, we can thank Peter Berkowitz. Berkowitz is that rarity, a sincere liberal with as critical an eye for his own side as he has for the opposition. In a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, "The Insanity of Bush Hatred", Berkowitz attempts to take the measure of the haters, a phenomenon generally unmentioned by the legacy media, which prefers to act as an unknowing conduit for these people (watch how quickly this changes if Madame Hillary manages to squeak in).

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A Few Good People By Victor Davis Hanson

In the last few years, it has become popular to say that history is determined largely by sweeping inanimate forces of technology, the environment, gender, class or race. We play down the role of individuals - as if the notion that one person can shape history is old-fashioned. But that's hardly the case.

Take Nicolas Sarkozy, the new president of France. For 60 years, the power of the state in France had steadily increased. Government workers were handed lavish entitlements and retirement packages while French competitiveness diminished in a new globalized world.

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The Grown-Ups Never Showed Up By Joe Conason

To the Washington establishment, George W. Bush's arrival in the White House marked the "return of the grown-ups" to the running of American foreign policy. While that judgment upon President Bill Clinton was unfair, the implied endorsement of the first Bush administration was based on real achievement in the management of the Gulf War and the 1991 Madrid peace conference.

But the second Bush White House has never come under adult supervision. The president has rejected advice from the wise old heads who counseled his father and who repeatedly pleaded with this president for seriousness and maturity in dealing with Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel and Palestine. Instead, as the Annapolis meeting suggests, his approach to those issues has been both ideological and inconsistent, with a vacillating quality that seems unlikely to encourage progress.

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NYT: An Undocumented Newspaper by Ann Coulter

Last week, in an article titled "Walking a Tightrope on Immigration," The New York Times made the fact-defying claim that the illegal immigration issue poses a risk for Republicans who appeal to voters "angry" about illegal immigration. (This is as opposed to voters "angry" that they spent good money buying a copy of The New York Times.)

In support of this assertion, the Times was required not only to ignore the stunning defeat of this year's amnesty bill, but also to proffer provably absurd evidence. I dearly hope Democratic politicians continue to look to the Times as an accurate barometer of voter sentiment.

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Jerusalem: Arab Denial of Jewish Ties :: CAMERA

One of the main obstacles in previous peace-making efforts has been the issue of dividing Jerusalem and control over the Temple Mount. In the aftermath of Annapolis, any negotiations on the issue are likely to encounter familiar pitfalls—most importantly, Muslim refusal to acknowledge Judaism's historical and religious ties to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

Both Israel and the Palestinians lay claim to Jerusalem and its holy sites. Israel maintains security and legal control over the Temple Mount while the Muslim Waqf has religious, economic, administrative, and some security control there. Past negotiations have faltered on Palestinian denial of  any Jewish religious or historical connection and rights to the Temple Mount.  During the July 2000 negotiations at Camp David, Yasir Arafat refused to acknowledge Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, claiming the Jewish Temple never existed there. When talks resumed in Taba later that year, the Israelis agreed to full Palestinian sovereignty on the Temple Mount, but requested Palestinians acknowledge the sacredness of the Temple Mount to Judaism. They refused.  According to then-foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami:

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Hillary plants question in Republican debate By Jonathan Garthwaite

It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee.  He's also part of a film production crew trying overturn the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Shades of Things to Come?

by Erik Rush

In December of 2003, the U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association (http://www.hslda.org) released an article entitled «German Homeschoolers Under Attack» which addressed difficulties German families were having with their government in attempting to home school their children.

In 2001, HSLDA helped German homeschoolers start their own legal advocacy group, Schulunterricht zu Hause. In 2003, Schulunterricht zu Hause successfully represented a family who had been charged with flouting German mandatory school attendance laws. This was the first step toward legitimizing homeschooling in Germany.

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It's Perfectly Inappropriate

By Michael Hichborn

How can anyone claim that this book is appropriate for 10 year olds?» asked Jim Sedlak, vice-president for American Life League. «First, pixilated images and excerpts of the book were rejected by a state prison, and now video-streaming sites are censoring the content of a video containing those pixilated images as well.

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Failing Our Students, Failing America - Civic Literacy Report :: Humbled Infidel

College seniors know astoundingly little about America’s history, political thought, market economy and international relations.

The overall average score for the approximately 7,000 seniors who took the American civic literacy exam was 54.2%, an “F.” That is consistent with the overall average of 53.2% posted by seniors last year. Not one college surveyed can boast that its seniors scored, on average, even a “C” in American civic knowledge.

Harvard seniors scored highest, but their overall average was 69.6%, a “D+.” That is almost identical to the 69.7% earned by Harvard seniors last year. Yale and Princeton seniors averaged only 65.9% and 61.9%, respectively. At 18 colleges, the average senior scored less than 50%.

The average senior failed all four subjects, scoring less than 60% in each.

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Hillary goes to church By Joseph Farah

I would hate to be Hillary Clinton on Judgment Day.

I know you're not supposed to say things like this. I know it's not politically correct – or spiritually correct.

I know we're not supposed to be "judgmental."

Nevertheless, we are commanded as Christians to be spiritually discerning and to know people by their fruits.

Quite simply, Hillary's fruits are rotten – rotten to the core.

Even when she is pretending to be righteous, a discerning believer can see through the charade. Take, for example, her most recent trip to church.

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Are the French Waking Up? :: The Brussels Journal

A quote from the French writer Bernard Antony at his blog, 27 November 2007 [here is an English translation]

The racist scum of this civil war shows no emotion over the murder of Anne-Lorraine [Schmitt].

Anne-Lorraine, a young Frenchwoman, a young Christian woman, was murdered while heroically resisting the monster who was attempting to rape her. This murder did not trigger a single riot. And yet, at the very least, the early release of criminals ought to result in demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Justice.

On the other hand, once again, an accident was the pretext for an anti-police hysteria that saw veritable professionals commit acts of civil war with weapons suitable to the task.

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Al Gore buddy owner of sunken ship that left huge carbon footprint on Antarctic Ocean floor By Judi McLeod

You’d never read this in the mainstream media:  The owner of MS Explorer that sank, leaving a huge carbon footprint at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean Friday is an acolyte of teensy-weensy carbon footprint crusader Al Gore.

G.A.P. Adventures CEO and Explorer owner, Bruce Poon Tip and Gore have similar ideals, “filling their schedules with speaking engagements on environmental change to educate global audiences.” And that’s straight off of www.gapadventures.com.  In fact, as recently as last April, both Poon Tip and Gore gave presentations at the Green Living Show in Toronto.

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Unnatural History By Patrick J. Michaels

Hurricane Katrina -- a very big storm by any measure -- has now been called the "largest ecological disaster in U.S. history," according to the Christian Science Monitor, because it "killed or damaged about 320 million trees." Moreover, Katrina was a double ecological whammy, as the downed trees will eventually rot or burn, releasing another increment (probably too small to detect) of dreaded carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas. The Monitor's report was based upon an analysis of satellite imagery conducted by scientists at the University of New Hampshire.

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How to Fight for Life By Lisa Fabrizio

Short weeks after receiving the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson apparently ran afoul of some in the pro-life movement, when, in an interview on Fox News Sunday, he revealed that he does not support a Human Life Amendment (HLA) to the U.S. Constitution.

Can one be pro-life and not in favor of a Constitutional Amendment which seeks a federal ban on abortion? The easy answer is that one can and probably should be both. But at this time in our history, the amendment process is, sadly, a pipe dream. Imagine trying to get two-thirds of both houses of our Democratic Congress to even propose such an amendment. Then further fantasize that three-fourths of the states would ratify it in the present political climate. This is an all-or-nothing approach that in all probability would save no lives.

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Huckabee is a Fiscal Conservative By Dick Morris

As Mike Huckabee rises in the polls, an inevitable process of vetting him for conservative credentials is under way in which people who know nothing of Arkansas or of the circumstances of his governorship weigh in knowingly about his record. As his political consultant in the early '90s and one who has been following Arkansas politics for 30 years, let me clue you in: Mike Huckabee is a fiscal conservative.

A recent column by Bob Novak excoriated Huckabee for a "47 percent increase in state tax burden." But during Huckabee's years in office, total state tax burden -- all 50 states combined -- rose by twice as much: 98 percent, increasing from $743 billion in 1993 to $1.47 trillion in 2005.

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Buffet's Piece of Mischief by Jay D. Homnick

Thanksgiving began the holiday season, a time when Americans show gratitude for all the unique blessings of our country, including the odd phenomenon of financial savants who in commonsensical matters behave like prize idiots.  From John D. Rockefeller to William Randolph Hearst to Joe Kennedy to Ross Perot to George Soros, this is a tradition of long, if twisted, standing.  The newest entrant to the billionaire boob sweepstakes is Warren Buffett, who came to the Capitol two weeks ago to testify against abolishing the estate tax.  Not only should your life’s fortune be stripped of most accrual past the $2 million mark, but the revenue should then be distributed to the bottom rung of the middle class at a thousand a pop.

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'Occupation' and Defensibility

As predicted earlier this week, President Bush -- formerly (and arguably) the strongest supporter of Israel to inhabit the White House in years -- used his address at today's Annapolis Conference on Palestinian Statehood to renege on his 2004 promise of "defensible borders" to the then-Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, and to demand that the Jewish state retreat to its pre-1967 borders as a show of good faith in its peace negotiations with the Palestinian government.

Three years ago, Bush wrote to Sharon that "as part of a final peace settlement, Israel must have secure and recognized borders." He continued:

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Moral Inversion at Annapolis By P. David Hornik

“For too long, the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder, and rape of innocent civilians. My administration has called these actions by their rightful name: genocide.”

So said President Bush in a speech last May 29. At the end of the speech he said: “I call on President Bashir to stop his obstruction, and to allow the peacekeepers in, and to end the campaign of violence that continues to target innocent men, women and children. And I promise this to the people of Darfur: The United States will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world.”

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Excess Environmentalists -- The Greatest Threat to Planet Earth by Mac Johnson

The Environmentalism movement would have you believe that its critics want to kill the planet. It is a unique individual that wishes to live in a dying toxic world devoid of nature. I have yet to meet any such person -- although the closest I’ve come are some radical environmentalists themselves, who often choose to live in the sterile, paved downtown areas of overdeveloped cities, far removed from nature.

From these abiotic bubbles of apartments and “dog parks,” they then heap scorn on suburbanites, commuters, farmers, oilmen, rednecks, hunters, fishermen, miners, loggers, and other assorted villains and yahoos who actually live out there where all that nature that the environmentalists claim to love so much actually exists.

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How Huck Can Win By Lee Harris

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is a former Baptist minister with a hick name, who has received the enthusiastic endorsement of such luminaries as pro wrestler Ric "Nature Boy" Flair and karate expert turned actor Chuck Norris. Huckabee is opposed to gay marriage and civic unions, accepts the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy, and he thinks that creationism should be taught in the school. For understandable reasons, he is popular among conservative Christians, especially in the South. Newt Gingrich has called Huckabee "the most interesting dark horse" in the current race for the Presidency, and recent polls have shown that he may well have a good chance of beating out Mitt Romney in both Iowa and New Hampshire, despite the fact that Romney has vastly outspent Huckabee. If Huckabee can pull off an upset in these two states, he will be a figure to be taken seriously. The question is, Is this bad news or good news?

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Weapons seized in Mexico - intended for use in attacking Fort Huachuca?

"Intelligence obtained by the Northeast Intelligence Network suggests that the weapons seized at the Mexican-U.S. border could be used to launch an attack against U.S. military bases, especially those situated in the southwestern United States." -- Northeast Intelligence Network

By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director

26 November 2007: Today, the Washington Times is reporting that "Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility." In an interesting near-convergence of events, the Northeast Intelligence Network warned of an increased risk of an attack on military bases in the Southwestern United States on March 1, a full two-(2) months before security measures were ramped up at the installation.

The warning made public by the Northeast Intelligence Network stemmed from the seizure of a tractor-trailer registered in Texas containing an unprecedented shipment of weapons, ammunition and armored vehicles. At the time of the seizure, authorities and numerous counter-terrorism analysts claimed the weapons were destined for use by warring drug cartels in Mexico and emphatically denied that they were intended to be used against assets inside the U.S.

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Distorting Plato Thomas E. Brewton |

The current campaigning slogan of the Democrats, "The Common Good," is a new name for the same old attack upon the moral virtues championed by Plato and Aristotle.

Academic propagandists of atheistic materialism have warped Plato’s dialogues into a formulaic skepticism aimed at discrediting Western civilization’s Judeo-Christian heritage.
A couple of illustrative examples:

A classic that used to be on most college reading lists illustrates the negative aspects of public opinion, the hook upon which liberals hang their demand for elimination of the electoral college and selection of the president solely by popular vote.

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Michael Savage: The Battle Between Taquiya and Talk Radio by Selwyn Duke

You will have to forgive me, but I have a difficult time taking the war against Moslem extremists seriously. No, I haven't become the latest in a line of anti-American quislings who say the war is "all about oil" or that Islamism is not a threat. It's just that I have trouble mustering enthusiasm for overseas ventures when we allow the enemy's fifth column to operate virtually unopposed on our shores.

I'm talking about the odious Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group that could be the legal arm of al-Qaeda. Although CAIR's machinations usually go unmentioned by the mainstream media, for quite some time now it has been training its sights on anyone who would tackle the Islamic threat with manly strength. It has carried out campaigns against National Review magazine, radio personality Paul Harvey, the producers of the television program 24, and many others who dare say the sultan has no clothes. And now it is targeting award-winning radio talk show host Michael Savage.

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Tinfoil Nation: Why 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Linger By Richard Miniter

Sixty-two percent of Americans believe it is “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that federal officials knew about the 9-11 attacks in advance and ignored this lifesaving information, according to this recent New York Post report.

The Post, in its typically calm manner, opines “Idiots in the majority.”

This characterization was too much for the blog ThinkProgress.com.

While eschewing conspiracy theories, the ThinkProgress blogger cited three pieces of “evidence” that “prove” that President Bush knew about the 9-11 attacks in advance: the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief; a July 10, 2001 briefing by CIA director George Tenet; and the FBI’s legendary Phoenix memo.

The “smoking gun” is supposed to be the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief, a summary of vital intelligence prepared by the CIA. Its re: line seems to say it all: “Bin Ladin [sic] Determined to Strike in US.”

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Conservatism Is a Way of Thinking by Susan Heathfield.

Researching nonverbal communication, I stumbled upon research by UCLA Professor Emeritus Albert Mehrabian that differentiates conservatives or libertarians from liberals or totalitarians. The research so strikingly supports my beliefs that I wanted to share it.

Admitting that social science literature consistently portrays conservatism in a negative light, in four research studies, Dr. Mehrabian's results were "highly consistent in showing an absence of any consistent personality or adjustment-maladjustment differences between liberals and conservatives or, for that matter, between libertarians and totalitarians." In fact, Dr. Mehrabian found that the:

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Global Warming Shakedown Begins By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Al Gore was smiling like the proverbial cat that ate the canary following his 45-minute talk Monday with President Bush. Does he know something about U.S. global warming policy we don't?

We hope that's not the case. The two men refused to talk about details of their conversation. But Bush is preparing for a global conference next week in Bali, Indonesia, and we'd like to think he isn't still swallowing Gore's line about taking drastic action to curb greenhouse gases.

"It was a private conversation," Gore said after the meeting. "Of course we talked about global warming . . . the whole time."

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CAIR's Savior In The Congress By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Terrorists would be hard-pressed to find a better friend in Washington. The House Judiciary Committee chairman wants to kill the Patriot Act, prevent the FBI from profiling Muslim suspects in terror probes, and even criminalize the "disrespect" of Islam.

Conyers represents the largest Arab population in the U.S. His district includes Dearborn, Mich. — nicknamed "Dearbornistan" because of its large influx of Middle Eastern immigrants and its constant focus of counterterror investigations.

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America's Bigger Threat: Dishonest Moderate Muslims or Honest Jihadists? by Amil Imani

Humanity has suffered horrific wars in the past. Yet, the present multi-form and multi-front war waged by Islamists has the potential of inflicting more suffering and destroying more lives than ever before. Ruthless Islamic forces are advancing rapidly in their conquests while those of freedom are acquiescing and retreating. Before long, Islamism is poised to achieve its Allah-mandated goal of cleansing the earth of all non-Muslims. Any and all means and weapons are to be enlisted in the service of this final holy war that aims to establish the Islamic Ummeh.

Is “Moderate Islam” an illusion? Moderate Islam is a wedge that will jam open the door to Jihad. The great majority of Muslims are not adherents of the radical line. Yet, because the Islamists wage their war under the name of Islam, they receive immense direct and indirect support from the rank-and-file ordinary Muslims. It is this support of moderate Muslims that keeps the Jihadists alive. And it is the Jihadists who intend to show no mercy to any and all who do not share their theology, be they Muslims or not.

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Crescent of Betrayal Blogburst 11/28/07

Mary Bomar's fraudulent investigation

In April 2006, Park Service Director Mary Bomar ordered an internal investigation into claims that the planned Flight 93 Memorial is actually a terrorist memorial mosque, built abound a giant Mecca-oriented crescent. Bomar's investigation was a total fraud, concluding, for instance, that it isn't possible to calculate the orientation of the crescent because the site-plan has not been geo-referenced. (Page 2, PP2 of September 2006 summary report. Page 1 here.)

In fact, the original Crescent of Embrace site-plan was drawn on a topo map that the Memorial Project provided to all participants in the design competition. A topo map is the epitome of a geo-referenced map. North marked on a topo map is true north, which is the only piece of information needed to calculate the orientation of the crescent. Just connect the tips of the crescent, form the perpendicular bisector, and calculate how many degrees it points from north (53.4).

Also known are the crash-site coordinates, which is all that is needed to calculate the direction to Mecca (55.2° clockwise from north). All of this is trivially easy to verify. Just use the Mecca-direction calculator at Islam.com to get a graphic of the direction to Mecca from the crash site and place it over the crescent site plan:

Giant crescent pointst to Mecca

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Doku Umarov declares Islamic Caucasus Emirate By Bill Roggio

While al Qaeda in Chechnya and the greater Chechnya rebel movement has suffered a serious setback over the past two years, a nucleus of the terror movement remains. Doku Umarov, one of the last remaining original leaders of the Chechen rebellion and a close associate of al Qaeda, has declared an Islamic emirate in the greater Caucasus region.

On November 22, the Kavkaz Center, an al Qaeda-linked website promoting the jihad in Chechnya, published Umarov's declaration of the Caucasian Emirate. Umarov, who is now the "Amir of Mujahideen in Caucasus," emphasized the importance of implementing sharia, or Islamic law, and the responsibility of Muslims to "fight the infidels."

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Robert Spencer’s “Religion of Peace” :: Gates of Vienna

I informed Robert Spencer recently that I had read his latest book, Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, and was preparing a review of it. He expressed some surprise over the fact that I liked it, pointing out a few earlier essays of mine indicating that I am somewhat critical of Christianity. I would describe my relationship with that religion as mildly critical, but for the most part positive. I am a non-religious person, but I appreciate the many good aspects of Christianity and think some of the criticism against it is unfair.

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Hate Christmas and Fireplaces? Welcome to San Francisco!


Satire By John W. Lillpop

Just how kooky is San Francisco?  The short answer: Think Nancy Pelosi.

In most civilized communities, Nancy Pelosi would be strapped to a padded cell and given insulin treatment every hour, shock therapy every two hours. For security purposes, she would be banned from stepping foot in any local, state or federal government building for any purpose whatsoever, except to execute documents needed to effect her permanent and irrevocable deportation to India or Pakistan.

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Science Vindicates Bush's 'Theology' By Rich Lowry

The “sideshow” has become the main event. For years, we’ve been told that only stem-cell research that destroys human embryos is worth pursuing. Everything else is a diversion, driven by fanatical religious opposition to the progress of science.

When President Bush sought legislation from Congress to advance research that didn’t involve destroying embryos, he was rebuffed by the Democratic Congress. Eventually, he issued an executive order in June 2007 to promote stem-cell research “without violating human dignity or demeaning human life.”

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Enter the Dragon: Australia Imports a New Elite By R. J. Stove

As you have probably heard by now, Australia’s general election of November 24 swept from power Liberal Party Prime Minister John Howard, who had held the office since 1996. It proved a triumph for his opponent, the Australian Labor Party’s new and largely untested leader Kevin Rudd, who has a 27-seat majority in the federal parliament.

Among the election’s issues: Iraq (to a very limited extent), the economy, tax cuts, national security, climate change, and quasi-generational change (Rudd is a youthful-looking 50 years old, Howard an increasingly tired-looking 68). Almost everything, in fact—except mass immigration, on which both candidates were locked in a bipartisan embrace.

Sound familiar?

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Just as ignorant of Hu’s China as of Stalin’s Russia By Lev Navrozov

Ethnic settlements of Uyghurs (ethnics of Turkic origin) exist in many countries, including the United States. But the dictatorship of China wants its population to be homogeneous ethnically as well. Rebiya Kadeer, a successful Uyghur business woman, suffered imprisonment in China from 1999 to 2005, for being too outspoken, but because of the pressure of the international community, was released and now lives in the West as an “exiled activist.” The China dictatorship had evidently decided that she would be controllable. She is 59, and her children are in China, in the Xinjiang region, where the Uyghurs live. Yet here is the first paragraph of her interview to The Epoch Times, a Chinese dissident weekly, published in New York (Nov. 8-14, 2007):

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Kathleen Willey: Hillary behind 'terror' campaign By Art Moore

In her newly released book, Kathleen Willey asserts Hillary Clinton was behind a campaign of intimidation and harassment against her that fit a pattern employed against numerous other women whose claims of sexual impropriety or assault by her husband, Bill Clinton, threatened the couple's political fortunes.

Willey writes that along with the former president, "Hillary also betrayed me – and all of the women her husband abused – when she brought her power to bear on her husband's prey."

"Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton," published by WND Books, an imprint of World Ahead Publishing, reminds readers how the Democratic presidential front-runner, despite her husband's 20 years of countless extra-marital relationships, famously came to his defense shortly after the Monica Lewinsky affair broke in 1998. Asked about the accusations, the then-first lady said, "Certainly, I believe they're false. Absolutely."

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I'm Embarrassed to be White By Mike S. Adams

The other day a skinny white boy came to me complaining about his teacher’s “anti-white racist remarks.” These remarks were made while the teacher was lecturing in a course here at UNC-White (Oops! I mean, UNC-Wilmington). After listing a bunch of bad things white people have done to black people, the professor stated in front of a racially-mixed audience: “You know … I’m actually embarrassed to be white.”

The student thought this made his teacher look like an “anti-white racist.” But looks can be deceiving. In reality, like most white “liberals,” the teacher is really a white supremacist.

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A Quiet Defeat for Political Correctness By Charles J. Sykes

Maybe this is how political correctness ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.

Last fall, for instance, the University of Wisconsin unveiled an ambitious "diversity" campaign designed to root out inappropriate speech and behaviors on campus. The "Think Respect" campaign was not as controversial as the University of Delaware's re-education program that required students to confess their racial guilt and demanded that they demonstrate "correct" attitudes toward sexuality and environmentalism.

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Betrayal in Annapolis By Jeff Emanuel

It seems somehow fitting that this week's Annapolis Conference on Palestinian Statehood, featuring appearances by Israel, the Fatah leadership of the Palestinian West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and other regional players, will be taking place just over a year from the time that President George W. Bush is scheduled to leave office. In what has become somewhat of a time-honored tradition among recent American presidents, President Bush, like Bill Clinton before him, has turned a hopeful eye to the Levant as a solution to his "legacy" problem as the time for him to leave office draws near.

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The Death of the Grown-up: A Dangerous Truth by Ericka Andersen

Is America’s apparent weakness in the War on Terror caused by our perpetual adolescence?  So says Washington Times Columnist Diana West in her new book, “The Death of the Grown-up.”

West, who was born and raised in Hollywood (the daughter of a rare conservative Hollywood scriptwriter) claimed she has been “preparing to write this since I was born.”

The average video gamester in America is 30, people as old as 25 are reading young adult-level literature and more adults are watching the cartoon network than CNN. The country seems to be faced with an epidemic of eternal youth or at least the craving for it, as West argues in her book.

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The World Doesn't Hate America; the Left Does By Dennis Prager

One of the most widely held beliefs in the contemporary world -- so widely held it is not disputed -- is that, with few exceptions, the world hates America. One of the Democrats' major accusations against the Bush administration is that it has increased hatred of America to unprecedented levels. And in many polls, the United States is held to be among the greatest obstacles to world peace and harmony.

But it is not true that the world hates America. It is the world's left that hates America. However, because the left dominates the world's news media and because most people, understandably, believe what the news media report, many people, including Americans, believe that the world hates America.

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Palestinians: Aggressors, Not Victims By David Meir-Levi

Arab propaganda has been successful in presenting a picture of the Palestinian people as the helpless and innocent victims of Israeli aggression -- potential friends of America who have been alienated by America’s support for Israel and its failure to support a Palestinian national state. This decision is itself the result of a “Jewish Lobby” run by “neocons” and “receiving its orders” from Israel. The fact that Palestinians are now led by two terrorist organizations, Fatah and Hamas, is also blamed on Israel and the United States rather than on the Palestinians who elected terrorists as leaders.

According to Palestinian revisionism, the Palestinians lived from time immemorial in historic Palestine, a veritable paradise of flourishing orchards and fertile vineyards, teeming with happy peasants. Then, the evil Zionists came and, with the support of the British, stole the Palestinians’ land, exiled their people, and initiated a reign of terror and ethnic cleansing that has not abated until this very day.

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The U.N's Massive AIDS Scandal By Cliff Kincaid

A massive 2,800-word article in Monday's Washington Post paying homage to Bono quotes the rock star as saying he puts "flesh and blood on statistics" about AIDS. The problem is that, only six days earlier, the paper noted that the U.N.'s estimate of AIDS cases has been vastly overblown by millions. Which raises the question: The U.S. Government has spent $200 billion on AIDS, based on the figures supplied by the U.N. and other agencies. Where has all the money gone? Does anybody in the media care? Does Bono?

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Annapolis: Munich Rising By Jerry Gordon

I listened to an interview with Ambassador John Bolton and Natan Sharansky with Lori Lowenthal Marcus and Steve Feldman on the ZOA Middle East News Hour on WNWR.com. Listen to the interview here.. I came to a basic conclusion. What we have going down on the US Naval Academy grounds in Annapolis, Maryland next week is Munich Rising.

I would say that Dr. Rice follows, what Ambassador Bolton called during the interview, “the General Colin Powell school” of listening to the Arabists at State and the Islamist propagandists here in America and advocating on their collective behalves before the President and the NSC staffs.

But then, the President and Dr. Rice are leading this country astray and into a cataclysmic abyss based on denial and delusion akin to what British PM Neville Chamberlain did in September, 1938 at Munich with Herr Schikelgruber and his Nazi thugs. The Israelis under faltering incompetent PM Olmert are the 21st Century equivalent of hapless Czechs under President Eduard Benes, awaiting the death sentence of their country after the ‘diktat’ of Munich.

Israel, according to Ambassador. Bolton has weak leadership and the Palestinians even weaker ones.

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An Epidemic of Falsehoods By Michael Fumento

The UNAIDS program has issued its annual report in which, finally, it doesn't say how many more current HIV infections there are this year than last. Rather it drops the figure by over six million from its 2006 estimate. Specifically, it went from 39.5 million to 33.2 million. Further, the Agency now admits the number of new HIV infections per year peaked way back around 1998.

For years, some of us have dared write that worldwide HIV and AIDS figures have been grossly exaggerated; that we were being lied to by just about everybody, including -- or especially -- the UNAIDS program and the World Health Organization.

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Boston's Outrage Against the Constitution By Boston's Outrage Against the Constitution

The recent outrage against Constitutional liberty by the Boston Police raises some very interesting questions. Can we voluntarily give up our Constitutional rights? Further, can government legally violate our rights even if we ask them to do so? These are questions that we all need to consider before allowing police into our homes, invited or no.

Last week The Boston Globe reported that the Boston police are about to launch a program in "high-crime neighborhoods" where a roving band of policemen will walk door-to-door and ask parents if they have permission to search the home for guns. These police squads intend to conduct searches without warrants, claiming that the invitation by the homeowner is all they need to commence the search.

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It's Munich in America By David Horowitz

An American Secretary of State should be in Baghdad brokering a reconciliation between Iraqi factions and locking down a victory for which nearly 4,000 Americans gave their lives. Iraq is the central front in the holy war against the West being waged by al-Qaeda and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and an American defeat in Iraq would lead to an escalation of that war to proportions that would make the current conflict in Iraq seem tame by comparison.

Instead, Condoleeza Rice has been shuttling between capitals in the Middle East in an attempt to feed a piece of Jewish meat to the jackals in the West Bank in the hopes that bribery and concessions will turn them into doves and they will agree to live side by side with a non-Islamic state -- a state run by pigs and monkeys, whom their prophet has cursed.

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Terrorists target Army base — in Arizona By Sara A. Carter

Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.

Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.

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Monday, November 26, 2007

A Pandemic of Stupidity: Mexican Politicians

By John W. Lillpop

With as many as 38 million third-world Mexican illegal alien peasants dumped on the backs of U.S. taxpayers, one would expect Mexican officials to keep their mouths shut about border violation issues.

You know, do not bring up a subject that will expose your own criminality and vulnerability.
But Mexico is obviously a land of pandemic stupidity.

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Islamic Voodoos: Black Magic, Part A by Abul Kasem

Islamist apologists often extol the scientific nature of Islam, that Islam has no room for spirituous mumbo—jumbo. This blatant distortion of the truth about Islam might work well for those who have no or very little idea about the proliferation of many superstitious Islamic rites routinely performed for the alleviation of many afflictions. If you ever chanced to observe any such superstitious rites, you will be amazed at the similarities between Islamic procedures and the Black Magic performed by many voodoo cults in Africa and South America.

First, let us examine the Qur'an and its use to perform Islamic Black Magic. Many Mullahs routinely perform such rituals as professional Islamic black magicians. Please note that both Shias and Sunnis practice Islamic Black Magic, although the Shias are more prone to resort to such rituals.

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Global Warming is Real And It’s Happening on Mars! By John D. Turner

NASA scientists are reporting that the climate on Mars appears to presently be warmer than it has been for at least several decades, possibly even centuries. This is based on pictures of Mars dating back to 1999. These images document substantial changes in the polar ice caps that Michael Malin, the principal investigator for the Mars Orbiter Camera describes as shrinking at “a prodigious rate”.

This is not new news. Back in 2003, scientists were theorizing that Mars was in the process of emerging from an ice age, based on studies of its surface from data collected by the Mars Odyssey orbiter. According to William Feldman, a scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab, there is too much frozen water present at the lower latitudes, away from the poles, given Mars current climate.

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Fox News Owner Backs Australian Leftist By Cliff Kincaid

Rupert Murdoch, the so-called "conservative" owner of the Fox News Channel, made a dramatic turn to the Left when one of his major Australian newspapers endorsed the liberal pro-United Nations candidate, Kevin Rudd, in the Australian presidential contest.

Rudd is a former diplomat who served in China and speaks Chinese. He pledged to pull Australian combat troops out of Iraq, increase the power of the United Nations in global affairs, and boost relations with Communist China. He was backed by radical labor union activists who have called for anti-American Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to visit Australia in 2008.

Rudd’s Labor Party won the election on Saturday over the Liberal Party (the equivalent of U.S. conservatives) with about 53 percent of the vote. He defeated conservative John Howard, Australia’s long-serving Prime Minister, friend of President Bush and the United States, and opponent of the global Islamic terrorist movement.

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Pakistan is not a democracy By Stanley Kurtz

Pakistan is not a democracy. Pakistan has never been a democracy. Should Pakistan adopt the electoral trappings of democracy in the near-term, that would not make Pakistan an authentic liberal democracy. Free and fair elections just might dissolve Pakistan into chaos, and/or begin a process of evolution toward Islamist domination. Elections or not, if Pakistan achieves stability any time soon, it will not be due to democracy. Pakistani stability in the near-term can only be the result of a precarious balance between political factions that are largely illiberal and undemocratic. Elections, at best, will throw a veil over a complex and fragile behind-the-scenes political deal. Pakistan’s 1970 election — the freest and fairest in the nation’s history — resulted in civil war, war with India, and the partition of the country into Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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Non compus POTUS

Shadow Warriors by Kenneth R Timmerman
Reviewed by Spengler

Oh, those pesky demons! In response to the taunt that the Eucharist resembled the cult of the wine god Dionysus, St Justin Martyr (100-165) claimed that demons had anticipated what Christian worship eventually would be like, and therefore had invented pagan practices prior to the birth of Christ in order to discredit what later would become Christian rites. The Catholic
Church does not accept St Justin's reasoning. Neither should we accept Kenneth Timmerman's account of the demonic deeds of the American intelligence establishment, whom he dubs "shadow warriors".

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Gang-rape in Annapolis, Saudi-style By Caroline Glick

It is fitting that Condoleezza Rice chose the U.S. Naval Academy for the venue of tomorrow's so-called Mideast peace conference.  The reputation of that extraordinary institution in Annapolis has been sullied in recent years by a succession of rapes of young women.  Despite official efforts to low-ball its significance, Ms. Rice's conclave is shaping up to be a gang-rape of a nation on a scale not seen since Munich in 1938, when the British and French allowed Hitler and Mussolini to have their violent way with Czechoslovakia.  

This time, the intended victim is Israel.  As with the effort to appease the Nazis and Fascists nearly sixty years ago, however, the damage will not be confined to the rapee.  The interests of the Free World in general and the United States in particular will suffer from what the Saudis and most of the other attendees have in mind for the Jewish State – namely, its dismemberment and ultimate destruction.

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