Article Links For Wednesday 4-2-2008

Schwarzenegger in Denial On Illegal Alien Costs By Edwin S. Rubenstein

Ahnold is at it again. The governor of the state with one-quarter of all U.S. illegal aliens says it would be a “big mistake” to blame them for the state’s looming $8 billion budget problem:

“I can guarantee you, I have been now four years in office in Sacramento, I don’t think that illegal immigration has created the mess that we are in.”

Memo to the Gov: When it comes to analyzing the cost of illegals, California has been here, done that. ...

Global Warming for Kids By: Philip V. Brennan

I wonder if Sen. John McCain, who has fallen hook, line, and sinker for Al Gore's shameful global warming scam, is also on board for the scare-the-dickens-out-of-the-kids campaign being waged by Mr. Gore's acolytes.

In an Oct. 26, 2007, speech on the Senate floor, McCain's colleague Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., zeroed in on the scare campaign, but I guess McCain wasn't listening. ...

The Left Trades Places By Larrey Anderson

One sign that the left is losing (and subconsciously knows it) is the prominence of conspiracy thinking in its fantasies.
When I was in the ninth grade I decided to run for student body president of my junior high school, and became suddenly and vitally interested in all things political.  My father's friend had given him some copies of American Opinion, the John Birch Society magazine.  I read them cover-to-cover.

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McMansion Marxism By George Neumayr

Black liberationists who pour bile upon America rarely want to leave it, preferring to wallow in the "white" wealth they claim to distrust than risk penury and persecution in their imagined Marxist paradises. ...

Evolution of Religious Bigotry By Jonah Goldberg

I just watched "Fitna," a 17-minute film by Geert Wilders, head of the Dutch Freedom Party, which takes a hard-line stance against Muslim immigration.

Released on the Internet on Thursday, "Fitna" juxtaposes verses from the Koran with images and speeches from the world of jihad. Heads cut off, bodies blown apart, gays executed, toddlers taught to denounce Jews as "apes and pigs," imams calling for global domination, protesters holding up signs reading "God Bless Hitler" and "Freedom go to Hell" -- these are just some of the powerful images from "Fitna," an Arabic word that means "ordeal." ...

Red, White & Black? By Paul R. Hollrah

On March 23, 2007, a reception was held at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The occasion was the official opening of the archives of the Communist Party USA. The keynote speaker was Gerald Horne, noted Communist and contributing editor of the Communist Party journal, Political Affairs. ...

We are Losing Our Country...Can We Save It? By Chris North

We are losing our country. This surely comes as no surprise to any number of conservative writers and others who may have come to the conclusion that our country is being stolen from us.

It seems, though, that a majority of Americans fail to grasp the fact that we are in a fight to the finish for our very existence. Else why do so many of our fellow citizens fail to exercise their right to vote and take so little interest in what our elected officials are doing – or not doing – in our behalf? ...

Who’s the White Barack Obama? by Ned Rice

Countless Americans were horrified recently when Geraldine Ferraro said of Barack Obama, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” Among the horrified were untold thousands of English teachers who noted that, since the verb was in the subjunctive mood, Ferraro should have said, “If Obama were a white man.” Since then, it has also been suggested that Ferraro’s remark wasn’t merely ungrammatical, it was racist. ...

The Coalition of Defeat and the Congressman of Surrender By Mark D. Tooley

The “Win Without War Coalition,” including 40 Religious Left groups and secular allies, is imploring Congressman John Murtha to slash funding for the U.S. presence in Iraq.  Murtha chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. ...

The Iranian Web of Influence in the United States By Hassan Daioleslam

On March 21, 2008, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced its decision to penalize three Iranian-connected companies as "they knowingly exported three U.S. origin aircraft to Iran in violation of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) and are preparing to re-export three additional U.S. origin aircraft to Iran in further violation of the EAR." ...

The MSA at Berkeley By FrontPage Magazine

The Muslim Students Association of UC Berkeley says that its mission is to support “those who wish to understand, appreciate, and practice their Islam without compromising their morals and beliefs”; to educate non-Muslims “about the misconceptions regarding Islam and the Islamic way of life”; and to “foster a social community for Muslims. ...

CodePink April Fools' hoax backfires By KRISTIN BENDER

That seems to be the consensus of many who were on the receiving end of a bogus announcement Tuesday by the radical anti-war group that the embattled U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in Berkeley was caving to the pressure of weekly protests and leaving town. ...

Video: Jihad USA: Homegrown Terror :: JAWA Report

The Fox News documentary hosted by E.D. Hill about the threat of homegrown terrorists. The threat is real and homegrown jihadis nearly always get their start online. The video is in four parts posted below. Watch it all and pass it on. ...

Muthanna Al-Hanooti, Another CAIR Official Indicted On Terrorism Charges :: PipeLineNews

Saddam Spy Hanooti Greeted By First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

March 29, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Council on American Islam Relations [CAIR] is in the news again, this time because the former director of its Michigan office, Muthanna Al-Hanooti, has been indicted on federal terror charges.

Obama's church founded on radical creed By S.A. Miller

The church where Sen. Barack Obama has worshipped for two decades publicly declares that its ministry is founded on a 1960s book that espouses "the destruction of the white enemy." ...

Dispatch from the Eurabian Front By Thomas Landen

The Austrian authorities have indicted politician Susanne Winter on charges of incitement and degradation of religious symbols and religious agitation. This offence carries a maximum sentence of two years. Last January, Ms Winter said that the prophet Muhammad was “a child molester” because he had married a six-year-old girl. She also said he was “a warlord” who had written the Koran during “epileptic fits.” ...

CONSTITUTIONAL DEFERENCE TO ISLAM By Stephen C. Coughlin

Thought by Western analysts and decisionmakers to be ancillary to the actual conduct of policy for most Middle Eastern Muslim countries, Islamic law’s status turns out to be constitutionally established in most of them. “Extremists” and Islamist who know this reasonably claim that if the Western-style constitutions of many Muslim countries were properly followed, they would have to yield to Islamic law. ...

Turning off global warming fears By JAY AMBROSE

All over the planet recently, people turned off electric lights to illustrate alarm about human-caused global warming, and the symbolism, it seems to me, is dead-on right about the possible consequences not of warming itself, but of hype about warming. Progress could become regress, and figuratively speaking, the world could go dark. ...

The city that liberalism ruined 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. ...

Egg Donors and Human Trafficking By Michele Clark and Jennifer Lahl

Whenever most people hear the term “egg donor,” they usually consider this a good thing, as most of us assume that anyone who donates is altruistically motivated and thus engaged in something intrinsically good. And besides, it’s for a great cause, so everything is all right, yes?

Nothing could be further from the truth. Sadly, egg donation has less to do with altruism and more to do with the exploitation of women–particularly young women and often poor women who are usually facing large debts or just trying to make ends meet. ...

British policy advisor says Gore is in 'panic' mode By Jim Brown

British environmental analyst Christopher Monckton says Al Gore's latest attack on global warming skeptics shows the former vice president and other climate alarmists are "panicking." 

On Sunday, CBS News correspondent Leslie Stahl asked Al Gore on the television show 60 Minutes what he thinks of people like Vice President Dick Cheney who doubt that global warming is caused by human activity. ...

Arabs battle West over free speech at UN :: Israel e News

Muslim nations meet opposition from EU, US in proposing restrictions to be imposed on negative comments about Islam. US: 'Resolution attempts to legitimize criminalization of expression'

On Tuesday Arab and Muslim countries defended a resolution they pushed through at the United Nations, to have the body's expert on free speech police individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam. ...

Europe's Muslim Radicals: The Next Generation By Abigail R. Esman

"American kill," said the five-year-old boy. "Bush I kill." And as his proud father watched, beaming, he demonstrated how to cut the evil American's bare throat.

So it was in a Birmingham, England, home – as recorded secretly by British security services a few months ago while investigating the child's British-Pakistani father, Parvis Khan, then a suspect in a plot to kill a Muslim British soldier. This week, after his plan had been thwarted by MI5, Khan was sentenced to life in prison.

And what will become of the boy? ...

British report says record immigration brought little or no economic benefit :: Herald Tribune

Record levels of immigration to Britain have brought little or no economic benefit, a parliamentary report published Tuesday said, disputing the government's position that immigration has helped the economy.

The report, by the Economic Affairs Committee, said that no evidence had been found to prove that "net immigration - immigration minus emigration - generates significant economic benefits for the existing U.K. population."

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Google Against Anti-Censorship Proposal By Blogoscoped

TechCrunch and Barrons.com report that Google has recommended a no vote against a proposed anti-censorship, as well as a human rights, shareholder proposal. The proposal titled Internet Censorship suggests Google should institute policies including the following minimum standards:

1) Data that can identify individual users should not be hosted in Internet restricting countries, where political speech can be treated as a crime by the legal system. ...

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