Article Links For Tuesday 4-1-2008
Winning The Iran-In-Iraq War By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
The surge strategy produced an astonishing turnaround in Iraq. Now the challenge is defeating Iranian-backed Shiite militias trying to undo that progress. Naturally, Democrats recommend surrender. ...
Treason Lobby Trying to Muscle MainStream Media Into Banning Immigration Reform Patriots By James Fulford
There's a new website called wecanstopthehate.org which is trying the old guilt-by-association trick to delegitimize all anti-immigration arguments and arguers—including not just us at VDARE.com, but also including the more circumspect/ wimpier organizations like CIS, FAIR, and NumbersUSA, which may see us as radical. ...
A Giant Mosque for Strasbourg By Tiberge
A giant mosque is being built for the city of Strasbourg. Joachim Véliocras writes at Islamisation that the Regional Council of Alsace, consisting mainly of UMP members, voted in favor of a 420,000 euro subsidy for the construction of the Grand Mosque of Strasbourg. The UMP is President Sarkozy’s party. ...
Does Obama know America? By James Lewis
When I hear liberals talk about this country I don't recognize the place. It's just as if they never talk to their own neighbors or go to their local market. The Left seems to constantly misunderstand normal people in a really paranoid fashion. ...
SCANNING FOR TERRORISTS :: The Real World
This entire warrantless wiretapping issue is as big a HOAX as any ever perpetrated upon the American people. The spin, lies and exaggeration that surrounds the "discussion" is both disgustingly partisan and foolish beyond belief relative to the safety of our citizens.
Let's begin by reviewing some of the facts about what this actually entails: ...
Demeaning of Life By James Bowman
The "Free for All" page of the Saturday Washington Post has become mainly a forum for the politically correct to complain that their exquisite sensitivities have been rudely violated by some Post reporter or editor who has failed, say, to include the pronouns appropriate to both sexes or who has made the mistake of mentioning a woman's appearance. Last Saturday, one Bill Crews of Washington wrote to remind us that, as he put it, "Not Everyone Is Straight": ...
The West's cowardice toward Islam By Henryk M. Broder
There's a key for every lock, just as there's a perfectly fitting label for everyone who refuses to fit in. At the moment, the term "right-wing populist" is hot. Everyone and his brother is calling Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders by that name at the moment, but hardly any commentators or reporters have taken the time to explain what a "right-wing populist" actually is. And what distinguishes it from other political standpoints like, for instance, "left-wing populists." ...
Destroying Detroit By Rich Lowry
It could be an item on a David Letterman Top Ten List of “How to Know Your Mayor is Headed for a Major Scandal” — he’s known as the “Hip-Hop Mayor.”
That’s what they call Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, now famous for text messages detailing the affair he had with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick had denied the relationship under oath in a lawsuit brought by two police officers Kilpatrick allegedly fired to cover up his personal misconduct. He has been indicted on eight felony counts including perjury and obstruction of justice. ...
Compulsion to Corruption By Lance Thompson
During the 2006 campaign, no Democrat could grant a print, radio or television interview of more than a dozen words unless it contained the phrase "culture of corruption." Capitalizing on Republican congressional scandals like the outrageous graft of Duke Cunningham and the overblown scandal of Mark Foley, Democrats filtered every news event through the "culture of corruption" spin. They promised to "end the culture of corruption" if only the voters would elect them. The Democrats rode the mantra to majorities in both houses. ...
MI Speaker Employs State Paid Thugs to Stop Recall By Warner Todd Huston
Here is a story that details how far Democrats will go to destroy the people's ability to be heard in government. It also shows Democrat's penchant to abuse their power, their blatant waste of government funds, and the incestuous relationship that the anti-democratic process unions have with Democrats. ...
SCOTUS Tells Foreign Court to Butt Out by Ted Cruz
Over the past few years many Americans have become deeply concerned that judges have begun relying more and more on foreign law to decide questions of U.S. constitutional law. One doesn’t have to be a constitutional scholar to object to foreign laws and foreign courts -- laws that are not enacted by our democratic government and judges who are not selected as our Constitution provides -- ruling on Americans’ rights and the powers of American government. ...
Will Europe Resist Islamization? By Daniel Pipes
Some analysts of Islam in Western Europe argue that the continent cannot escape its Eurabian fate; that the trend lines of the past half-century will continue until Muslims become a majority population and Islamic law (the Shari‘a) reigns. ...
The Party of Defeat’s Haditha Lie Crumbles By Ben Johnson
THE COLLECTED TALES OF AMERICAN ATROCITIES, WHICH LEFTISTS RELY UPON THE WAY OTHERS SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES FOR SOLACE, is getting shorter. Like allegations of torture at Guantanamo, Koran desecration, and detainee murders in Afghanistan, the Haditha “massacre” is increasingly being exposed as a fairy tale. ...
AN OAF FOR ALL SEASONS By Norman Liebmann
Inasmuch as the necessity for a tie-breaking compromise Democrat candidate for President looms as a possibility, Al Gore is rattling the bars of his cage once again. It is suspected he always had another run for the Oval Office in mind but was just a little slow “getting off the blocks”. ...
Well, it's happened again. The Islamists are waging a fresh war in Western courts to get their way.
Actually, that's not quite true. They've managed to scare enough people that they're willing to do the Islamists' dirty work for them: some Dutch people are threatening to sue Geert Wilders if his film exposing Islam's dirty little secrets triggers a Muslim boycott of Dutch products in general. ...
The stupendous idiocy of talking to maniacs who just want to destroy us By Melanie Phillips
At the National Theatre, a new play by the former radical playwright Howard Brenton, Never So Good, paints a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of the Sixties Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who as a young man opposed Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. ...
All right, where is the worldwide Muslim indignation over this film? :: Jihad Watch
Here is open bloodlust and Islamic supremacism, in a film produced by Muslims for Muslims -- indeed, for Muslim children. Will the OIC denounce this film? Will Ban Ki-Moon and Louise Arbour?
If not, why not? ...
The Fitna Firestorm by Robert Spencer
Fitna in Arabic means discord or upheaval; it is also the name of a new sixteen-minute film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders that appeared last Thursday, and has done nothing since then but … create fitna. The expected riots and violence did not materialize: in Karachi, a quixotic band of just over three dozen jihadists chanted “Death to the filmmaker,” but so far that has been about it on the street level. ...
What if Condoleezza Rice came to Jerusalem, and nobody cared?
When you have been watching the peace process for enough years, you start to wonder whether anything is ever serious. So here was Rice asking Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for confidence-building measures, accordingly he announced the removal of 50 West Bank roadblocks and several key checkpoints, leaving the Secretary of State “amazed.” Yet on the same day, he also announced the resumption of building in major settlement blocs, in flat contradiction to his previous commitments. ...
Can Anyone Define "Politically Correct"? By Harris Sherline
I've been trying to understand exactly how the term "Politically Correct" (PC) is defined. What is it, specifically? Who determines what is correct and what is not? Are there regular meetings of some PC board or committee? Who appoints or elects them? Is there a guide or dictionary that is used to determine what is correct and what is not? ...
Your Child Is Not State Property By Thomas E. Brewton
Rocked by a nationwide storm of criticism, the Los Angeles County court that declared homeschooling illegal in California has agreed to rehear the case in June. At issue is Justice H. Walter Croskey's Feb. 28 decree, which ordered the parents of "Rachel L." to send her away to a public or private school, where she can get a "legal education." ...
Another Haditha Marine Cleared of All Charges; Murtha still in good standing with Dem colleagues :: Pundit Review
Charges dropped against Marine in Haditha case
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Charges against a US Marine involved in the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha were dropped on Friday, just moments before the start of the soldier’s court martial. ...
The Problem of Western Civilization By Kyle Bristow
Western civilization seems to be deathly ill with a problem that has yet to be diagnosed. Some people suggest that the rise of Islam is the principle problem that faces the Occident in contemporary times. Other people suggest that a secularization of the Western people is the main quandary. Still others suggest that a balkanization of American culture is the primary dilemma. In my opinion the aforementioned problems are only symptoms of the true problem, which is that Westerners lack the willpower to defend their civilization. ...
Hostile-To-Reason Academics Fear Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged by Craig Biddle
“Gifts with Strings a Knotty Issue,” is the latest in a recent stream of articles about academics going berserk because BB&T, under the direction of CEO John Allison, has made contributions to universities with the stipulation that Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged be included somewhere in the schools’ curricula. For those who have not yet read Atlas, let me begin by saying a few words about the novel in order to set the context necessary for understanding the hostility of certain academics toward the book. ...
LiveLeak restores “Fitna”; Video: Indonesians call for Wilders’s death by Allahpundit
Lawhawk salutes, as do I. That’s an awfully quick turnaround; I can only assume the Brits have hooked them up with security for the foreseeable future.
On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film “fitna” from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. ...
The Real Taboo By Ian Jobling
Last week, Condoleeza Rice called slavery America’s “birth defect.”
Rice acts as though she were bravely fronting our taboos on race. However, her remarks are utterly generic and cliched. Americans plainly have no difficulty talking about the evils whites have committed against blacks. In fact, we are totally obsessed by this aspect of our history. Our history textbooks, our popular media, and the thousand and one slavery museums that have popped up around the country revel in the gory details of death during the Atlantic passage, whippings, and rape that were undeniably part of the reality of slavery. ...
Silence from post-election Zimbabwe deafening By Judi McLeod
According to Zimbabwe’s independent newspaper The Zimbabwean, Morgan Tsvangirai has toppled President Robert Mugabe with 58 percent of the popular vote.
Tsvangirai received 467,000 votes to Mugabe’s 300,000 in Saturday’s general elections. ...
Historical Reality vs. a National “Birth Defect” By Arnold Ahlert
Last Friday, Condoleeza Rice stated that we still have a racial problem in this country due to a national “birth defect” resulting from slavery. “Black Americans were a founding population. Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together–Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding,” said the Secretary of State. ...
Pipes's penetrating discussion of the meaning of Fitna by Lawrence Auster
Sphere: Related ContentIn a long blog entry that was first posted last December 29 and then repeatedly updated through March 27, Daniel Pipes has followed the Perils of Pauline tale of Geert Wilders's efforts to screen Fitna. Pipe's items are all about the Dutch government's and the Muslims' responses to the movie, the threats, the efforts to suppress it, and so on.
Then, at the end of the blog entry, Pipes writes: ...
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