Article Links for Monday 4-7-2008

Universal Health Insurance: Just Don't Get Sick By Alan Caruba

Okay, let’s say that President Obama or Hillary is in office and Congress has passed a bill that requires everyone to have health insurance. Gas is up over $4.00 a gallon, food prices are sky high, and, if you’ve recently graduated from college, you are paying off loans at $1,000 per month.If you’re a homeowner, you have a mortgage, property taxes, and a stack of other bills. You’ve got to decide between paying the mandated premium or being able to drive to work, buy food, holding onto your home, or keeping the bill collector from your door. ...

Creating a European Indigenous People’s Movement By Fjordman

An American friend of mine has proposed that native Europeans should create a European Indigenous People's Movement. I have hesitated with supporting this because it sounded a bit too extreme. However, in more and more European cities, the native population is being pushed out of their own neighborhoods by immigrant gangs. The natives receive little or no aid from their authorities, sometimes blatant hostility, when faced with immigrant violence. In an age where the global population increases with billions of people in a few decades, it is entirely plausible, indeed likely, that the West could soon become demographically overwhelmed. Not few of our intellectuals seem to derive pleasure from this thought. ...

Absolut Mexifornia  By Vox Day

According to the increasingly useless Wikipedia, my May 2006 column opposing a border fence and pointing out the practical possibility of the mass deportation of illegal aliens is one of my most notable accomplishments to date. And despite the incompetence of the left-wing college girls who increasingly control the content of the online encyclopedia, the ongoing northern migration from Central and South America indicates that this judgment may not be entirely wrong. ...

Tehran's murderous role :: THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL

The explosion of violence which started in Basra and spread to other cities across Iraq late last month is just the latest reminder of the destructive role that Iran is playing in the region. The violence began when the Iraqi Army attempted to disarm Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, a radical Shi'ite militia with longstanding ties to Tehran. Nearly 500 people died in five days of fighting which began March 25 and spread to Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. ...

Iraq and Its Costs By JOE LIEBERMAN and LINDSEY GRAHAM

When Gen. David Petraeus testifies before Congress tomorrow, he will step into an American political landscape dramatically different from the one he faced when he last spoke on Capitol Hill seven months ago.

This time Gen. Petraeus returns to Washington having led one of the most remarkably successful military operations in American history. His antiwar critics, meanwhile, face a crisis of credibility – having confidently predicted the failure of the surge, and been proven decidedly wrong. ...

Vanities of the Warmists By Jon Caruthers

The conceit that scientists and bureaucrats can use the power the state to manage nature has lead to disaster in the past, and will again if the global warmists keep getting their way. ...

Climate Activist Got BBC to Change 'Global Temperatures Decrease' Article By Noel Sheppard

NewsBusters has just learned that a British "climate activist" was responsible for getting the BBC to radically alter its "Global Temperatures 'To Decrease'" article last Friday.

Re-traumatizing blacks to serve the Left By James Lewis

Keeping people on the boil makes for very powerful group politics, which is why demagogues and tyrannical regimes do it all over the world. But there is an awful cost. ...

Democrats Have Kept Racism Alive By Nina May

There was a big problem with Barack’s mea culpa speech in Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White. He failed to mention that over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery. He didn’t mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded the Republican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those who had been in bondage. ...

America’s Fifth Column By JB Williams

America has a growing enemy within. This enemy is referred to by experts as America’s Fifth Column. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the term Fifth Column refers to “A clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity [unity] by any means at their disposal.”

Will Petraeus and Crocker End Clinton’s Campaign? by Jed Babbin

The Democrats fear tomorrow. Not only in the metaphysical sense, but literally. Tomorrow, Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker will report again on the situation in Iraq. And before a session of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Petraeus and Crocker will face two of the three competitors for the presidency. ...

Don't Abandon Iraq by John McCain

On the eve of the new Petraeus-Crocker testimony, Sen. John McCain says calls for premature withdrawal from Iraq are the height of irresponsibility and a failure of leadership. ...

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate By Kathy Shaidle

Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, became a household name last month when ABC News reported on some of Wright’s inflammatory sermons. As his applauding congregation cheered him on, the former leader of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ condemned the U.S. government for “killing innocent people” and for treating American citizens, especially blacks, as “less than human.” “God Damn America,” Rev. Wright preached. ...

Jihad Comes to Wall Street By Alex Alexiev

If you’ve seen Geert Wilders’s film Fitna, you may not have noticed a single headline amongst all the bombings, beheadings, and earnest expressions of Islam’s eventual world domination: Halal-fund: investments for Muslims. But the investment vehicles referenced are an essential part of radical Islam’s efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within. And Wall Street, barely out of the woods from its disastrous run-in with sub-prime mortgages — and having lost one of its historic investment houses, Bear Stearns, in the process — is now chasing the very kind of “sharia finance” against which Wilders's movie warns, a business line that may eventually wind up being even more calamitous than the subprime-mortgage fiasco. ...

Travel to Mexico at your own risk! :: Bear Creek Ledger

It isn’t like this is new news, just that the US State Department is finally willing to admit the danger with our neighbor to the south. There’s a battle going on with Mexican drug cartels and corrupt Mexican government officials. Don’t worry though, the US is sending the corrupt government of Mexico $1.4 Billion to arm and train their military. Once trained and armed, the military joins the drug cartels to attack US Border Patrol and local law enforcement. ...

Liberalism and the Deceit of Power By Robert Klein Engler

A few green shoots poke up from the dry lawn near Lake Street, as if to question the sun, "Is it spring, yet?"  I see them on my way to class.  Something stirs underground.  Soon, in the words of Gerald Manley Hopkins, the green will "shoot long and lovely and lush." ...

Obama Doesn’t Want You to Defend Yourself by Bob Owens

Though it should hardly come as a surprise considering his past record and rhetoric, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama further cemented his left-wing foundations Wednesday by stating that he is firmly against Americans defending themselves with legally concealed firearms. ...

Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in Christian wool? By Reuven Koret

The glib handling of criticism of his relationship with the anti-American ("God Damn America!") and anti-Israel ("a dirty word for Negroes") Reverend James Wright may have bought him a little time. But the legacy of dissimulation about his long-concealed identity is about to come crashing down around the ears of Barack Hussein Obama, courtesy of the assembled testimony of his family, friends, classmates and teachers. ...

The Real Cost Of Immigration By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

As some experts tell Congress to fight a possible recession with more immigrants, a respected economist warns that immigration's costs are grossly underestimated — because the government won't study them.

Set for release Tuesday is a report published by Social Contract magazine, "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: An Analysis of the Costs to 15 Federal Departments and Agencies." ...

Iraq Is a Mess. But Germany Was, Too By David Stafford

Smash the enemy, deliver victory, topple the dictator, destroy his regime, eliminate his evil ideology, and establish peace and democracy. Oh, and -- almost forgot -- do this several thousand miles away on a distant continent while also fighting another life-or-death struggle elsewhere. Meanwhile, make sure to keep in step with our allies. And one last thing: Bring the troops back home as soon as possible. ...

The Chill Is On By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Global warming? Don't worry about it. It's over. No longer does Al Gore have to fly around the world in private jets emitting greenhouse gases to save the world from — greenhouse gases.

The United Nations World Meteorological Organization is reporting that global temperatures have not risen since 1998. That would be the same temperatures that models from the U.N.'s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change said would be scorching the earth into an unlivable wasteland — except for those coastal areas flooded by seas gorged with water from melting ice sheets. ...

THE ASSAULT ON TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE--BY MUSLIMS IN EUROPE :: Real Clear Religion

Traditional marriage, which is essential for the survival of Western Civilization, is under assault not only from the secular pro-homosexual left but also from Islam. Here is a report on the spread of polygamy throughout Europe via Islam. ...

Leaders' Statements Illustrate CAIR's Extremism, Anti-Semitism by Steven Emerson

Repeated statements by CAIR's leaders illustrate the group's extremist and anti-Semitic positions.

Today's installment in the Investigative Project on Terrorism's detailed analysis of the self-proclaimed civil rights group, the ninth in a series, presents a compilation of those statements.

Here are some of the highlights: ...

The UN Inhuman Rights Council by Alamgir Hussain

Islamic leaders, in the recently concluded OIC summit in Dakar (13-14 March), adopted "A Ten-Year Program of Action" to meet Challenges facing the Muslim Ummah. The Action plan, among other goals, calls on the United Nations to combat Islamophobia, and to enact laws to counter defamation, denigration and stereotyping of Islam, including penalties as deterrent. ...

The lost history of the Crusades By Robert Sibley

Thousand-year-old events don't usually make headlines. But when U.S. President George W. Bush used the word "crusade" to describe the campaign against Islamist terrorism, suddenly an ancient conflict became a hot-button topic. ...

Marxist roots of Black Liberation Theology By Anthony B. Bradley

What is Black Liberation Theology anyway? Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright catapulted black liberation theology onto a national stage, when America discovered Trinity United Church of Christ. ...

Condi is a dangerous incompetent By Diana West

I wonder if Condoleezza Rice was surprised by the headlines over her comment to The Washington Times that America suffers from a national "birth defect" — namely, the practice of slavery at the time of the nation's founding. ...

Fear of democracy By Caroline B. Glick

The West stands by idly as its foundations are being rent asunder.

Last Friday the UN's Human Rights Council took a direct swipe at freedom of expression. In a unanimous 32-0 decision, the Council instructed its "expert on freedom of expression" to report to the Council on all instances in which individuals "abuse" their freedom of speech by giving expression to racial or religious bias. ...

AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right by Edward C. Green and Allison Herling Ruark

Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions. Referring to the hyperepidemics of Africa, an article in The Lancet this fall named “ten myths” that impede prevention efforts—including “Poverty and discrimination are the problem,” “Condoms are the answer,” and “Sexual behavior will not change.” Yet such myths are held as self-evident truths by many in the AIDS establishment. And they result in efforts that are at best ineffective and at worst harmful, while the AIDS epidemic continues to spread and exact a devastating toll in human lives. ...

AN EASY LIAR By Rick Moran

I never would have thought it possible to say but I believe now it is a powerfully good thing that our presidential nominating process is such a long, drawn out affair.

How else were we ever going to confirm that Barack Obama is a most accomplished and shameless liar? ...

Anti-Semitism is on the Rise in Europe : A Deeper Look

Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, but its especially noticeable in Europe. There is a definite connection between hatred of Israel and hatred of Jews in general-- both inflammed by media coverage that is strongly biased against Israel. ...

Al Azhar spends $10 billion on Islam while Egyptians can't find bread By ibn Misr

Egypt, the land of the greatest civilization that gave the world the wonders of the Pyramids and the Library of Alexandria, that has been known to be the light of the world. Once It was swept by fundamental islam, expelled the Jewish population, oppressed and keep persecuting the native descendants of ancient Egyptians, the Copts (both Jewish and Copts that made Egypt the most thriving, economically and culturally in the Middle-East). ...

Obama's Stance On Wright Worse Than Hillary's Bosnia Falsehood By:  Ed Koch

I am dumbfounded that there has been no drop in Barack Obama’s standing in the polls following revelations that he sat in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and did nothing, publicly or privately, to voice disagreement with Wright’s hate speech.

Indeed, Obama’s poll numbers are going up. The most recent CNN national poll shows Obama with 50 percent and Hillary with 40 percent of likely Democratic voters. ...

Coming soon: superfast internet By Jonathan Leake

THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. ...

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