Article Links for Thursday 4-3-2008

In spite of his words: Rev. Jeremiah Wright By Marie Jon'

It seems that the image of Reverend jeremiah wright (former pastor of presidential candidate barack Obama) is being expiated after offending Americans with his inflammatory, bigoted and anti-american words. The divinity wagons have been circled to protect the bombastic preacher in spite of his words. ...

Knock, Knock, Knocking on Europe's Door—Geert Wilder's Campaign to Save The West By Brenda Walker

The War for Europe is heating up. Despite the somnambulism of many Europeans themselves, immersed in comfortable lifestyles, immigration realist Geert Wilders is stirring the pot to arouse the public before it's too late.

And there's nothing like telling the truth about Islam to arouse people. ...

Obama was 'quite religious in Islam' By Aaron Klein

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam?

The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. ...

In the Company of Heroes By Kyle-Anne Shiver

"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering."
    - Carl Jung

Last weekend, I was profoundly privileged to be in the VFW Post in Nashville, Tennessee with a roomful of the some of the most intelligent, reasonable and sane human beings I have ever encountered.  These men seemed to shun the term "hero." 

Yet, what other word could possibly suffice? ...

Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy By Marc Sheppard

On the surface, Sunday's 60 Minutes puff piece did little more than cheer the pending rollout of Al Gore's all-out 300 million dollar green media blitz.  But on a deeper level, it also provided disturbing new insight into just what drives this man's unwavering and unfounded obsession. ...

Plymouth Crock By Hal G.P. Colebatch

Britain's great culture war continues to become simultaneously more totalitarian and more ridiculous.

A recent development is that the Plymouth Council for Racial Equality, funded by the Government's Commission for Racial Equality, the main power-house of Britain's Race Relations Industry (one of the country's major growth industries at present), is attacking the fact that a nearby pub has been named after the Elizabethan sea dog Sir John Hawkins, a companion of Sir Francis Drake and one of the chief British Admirals who defended England against the Spanish Armada. ...

The Patriotism Problem By JOE KLEIN

When he was really rolling in February, Barack Obama would close every speech with a peroration about the importance of hope. The setup always seemed a bit defensive to me — an attack on the pundits and party elders who thought he was too idealistic, a "hopemonger" who needed to have the "hope boiled out of me." ...

Hearts and Minds, Again By DANIEL HENNINGER

Is it uncharitable to suggest that when the fighting erupted in Basra last week between Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and the U.S.-trained Iraqi army, some opponents of the war hoped it would become George Bush's Tet Offensive? That is, a battle whose military details are largely irrelevant, but whose sudden violence "proves" to voters that a U.S. military commitment is unwinnable and should be abandoned? ...

The Wisconsin 'Tragedy' :: WSJ

Governor Jim Doyle called the result of Wisconsin's state Supreme Court election "a tragedy." It's surprising to hear how little he thinks of his constituents, who had the sense to depose one of the court's ultra-liberal justices and in the process helped toughen the standards for judicial accountability. ...

We Must Shield Our Defenses and Prepare for the Worst By Julian Krasta

While the three presidential candidates scuttle towards the big prize, the real-time issue of national defense against terrorist aggressors here and abroad remains the front-row topic.

Since time in memorial, legions of men of fractured ambition have left carpets of corpses in their wake because of ill-conceived, all-consuming greed, envy and hate. These same neuroses survive today. The disparity now is, tormentors are equipped with weapons of mass destruction and are sway to deluded impulses to gun down and eviscerate the sleeping giant, America. ...

CEI Fights Sierra Club Demands for CO2 by Richard Morrison

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and more than a dozen other conservative groups filed an amicus brief March 21 against a Sierra Club petition demanding that EPA regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new electric power plants. (The amicus brief can be read at CEI.org.) ...

The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine By FrontPage Magazine

The Muslim Student Union (MSU) at the University of California - Irvine (UCI) was founded in 1992 by a group of Muslim students who said they wanted “to establish a presence on campus.” Today MSU seeks to “build an environment that enhances good, discourages bad, and provides networks of resources, knowledge, people, and companionship to its members.” Toward these ends, MSU offers “daily congregational prayers, daily free iftars the evening meal for breaking the daily fast during Ramadan that serve over a hundred Muslims, over eight weekly classes, a quarterly magazine Alkalima, coalition building with other clubs on campus, and a gateway to the larger Muslim community …” MSU also provides career advice and a study/tutoring program to help Muslims at UCI. ...

Chinese Spy 'Slept' In U.S. for 2 Decades By Joby Warrick and Carrie Johnson

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the "perfect sleeper agent," though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security clearance. Colleagues remembered him as a hard worker who often took paperwork home at night. ...

Comrade Climate Commie Returns :: sdkruiser

When I first heard that Al Gore was going to spend $300 million on something I naturally assumed he was treating himself to a light lunch. No such luck. Chicken Little/Large is back to peddle his doomsday crap and tell us that the weather is going to kill earth. ...

Defending Family Values and Representative Sally Kern :: Humbled Infidel

There has been a lot of nationwide attention paid to State
Representative Sally Kern's comments regarding what is becoming an
obviously well financed and planned attack on traditional family
values. Those behind this effort have gone on the attack and suggested
that Kern is a hateful person who should resign from office. ...

Letter to a Secular Nation By Mike S. Adams

In his short book, Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris begins by talking about the torrent of hate mail he received in response to his previous book, The End of Faith. He has this to say about the worst of it: ...

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. ...

Time to Make a Deal with Osama bin Laden! By John Lillpop

Owing to the fact that far too much Muslim blood is being shed in the war on terror, I say it is time to make a deal with Osama bin Laden. Let’s work with all due diligence to end the hostilities and bring our troops home. ...

Funding Freedom's Demise By Henry Lamb

Youngsters who are just entering the work place have never known the difference.  Baby-boomers and beyond, know that government rules and regulations have increased exponentially, and continue to squeeze freedom from almost every endeavor.  Few people recognized the incremental constrictions, nor the institutions and processes that apply the pressure. ...

This is a Cultural/Religious War By Ted Belman

Moshe Feiglin was in New York on 9/11. Two weeks later he wrote this profound article, Why America Has Already Lost the War. For him it was a cultural/religious war. The same war that Israel had been fighting for a century and losing. Islam destroyed the greatest symbol of the West, he wrote, namely the Twin Towers and nothing less would do but to destroy Mecca, Medina and al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. ...

McCain Travels the World — and Impresses by James Kirchick

John McCain traveled the world last week — visiting Iraq, Jordan, Israel, France and Great Britain — hoping to demonstrate to voters at home his foreign policy chops and to people abroad his intent to repair damaged alliances. Seizing upon McCain’s remark that Iran trains Al Qaeda operatives. the media missed the bigger story: the largely positive reception that McCain received overseas. Rather than confirm to the world that he is the scary right-winger many of them envisioned, McCain instead reassured his hosts that his presidency would be markedly different than the current one.

Identity Crisis: Can European Civilization Survive

The European Freedom Alliance was established during the conference “Identity Crisis: Can European Civilization Survive?”, which was held in Rome. The Alliance is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and will develop and administer new programs and activities which advance and defend the cause of freedom and liberty in Europe. It will also administer a legal networking project and a scholarly and research institute that will conduct academic investigation into EU policies and actions. ...

The New York (Islamic) Times: How Propaganda Works to Ensure The Subordination of Women by Phyllis Chesler

At a time when Islamists are at full jihadic throttle, the New York Times recently featured a mild and lovely article about the proliferation of home schooling among Muslim communities in America.

How do we cut down on honor murders in the West? According to some people, you do whatever it takes to keep the girls from dishonoring their families so that their families do not have to honor-murder them. ...

Media 'Depression' By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Scary headline in Monday's Times: "As Jobs Vanish And Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record." Scarier headline in Britain's Independent: "USA 2008: The Great Depression."

Why didn't the Times editors just say: "Economy In Shambles — It's All Bush's Fault"? Or the Independent condemn the president for his war on the poor? ...

The 'Recession' Is a Media Myth By John R. Lott, Jr.

But over the last half-year, the media and politicians have said we were in a recession even while the economy was still growing.

Gas prices are going up. The economy is slowing. Talk of recession is seemingly everywhere. While the majority of people rate their personal finances positively, consumer confidence in the economy has plunged to a 16-year low, well below what it was during the last year of the Clinton administration when we were in a recession. ...

Green Lobby Fraud by Jeffrey Folks

Here I am in the sunny South, sitting inside in the midst of a late-winter blizzard. In most of the eastern U.S., in fact, this has been the coldest winter in memory. Since 1998 temperatures in the northern hemisphere have been trending down, and predictions for the next 20 years point toward colder than normal temperatures. We may well be entering a period akin to the Little Ice Age, a time of widespread crop failures, hunger, and lower life expectancies due to disease. In response to this crisis, the Democratic Congress is busy passing new taxes that make it more expensive to heat homes, fuel cars, and grow food. ...

Modernization and Its Discontents by Thomas Brewton

Anthony Daniels’s At the Forest’s Edge on the New Criterion website ruminates about the analyses of modernity expressed by Sigmund Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents and by Jose Ortega y Gasset in The Revolt of the Masses. Both works were published in 1930 and both are products of the materialistic philosophy of the 19th century that repudiated God and spiritual religion, proclaiming that only the tangible and material elements of everyday life here on earth had any real influence upon human conduct and the course of history. ...

Where Are the Prophets? By Peter Leithart

The question of my title is not a lament. My question is not, Why are there no more prophets? I have something more literal in mind: Where do we find prophets, and, specifically, where do we find them in the Bible? What is their physical and social location? ...

If Only We’d Voted Democrat in 1972, We’d All Know How to Speak Russian By Yomin Postelnik

Everyone would like to have a presidential candidate we can always agree with.  In the end, however, when two clear choices emerge, the responsible thing to do is to fight hard for the candidate you believe will best serve, govern and protect this nation. ...

The age of the immigrant spy By Sreeram Chaulia

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. - Sun Tzu in Art of War, Chapter XIII
One March 25, Chinese-born engineer Chi Mak was sentenced to over 24 years in prison by a Californian court for plotting to obtain American naval submarine technology and illegally exporting it to China. The case offered a rare peek into the new multipolar world espionage system that is more complex than that of the bipolar Cold War-era. ...

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