Article Links for Friday 4-4-2008

What a Tangled Web We Weave By Eric Rush

Last Friday, on the ABC talk show «The View» - about as softball a venue as one can get - presidential hopeful barack Obama indicated that he would have left Chicago’s trinity united church had the militant, anti-american pastor Reverend jeremiah wright not recently retired.

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard a bigger insult to the intelligence of american voter. To all but the Obama-struck, the statement had to be seen as gratuitously feeble. «Yes, officer… You know, I was just on my way to have that tail light repaired when you pulled me over.» ...

While Soros warns that the good times are over, the Internet is quietly creating the biggest, most dynamic economy the world has ever known by Tom Hayes

Billionaire financier George Soros made headlines again this week with his warning that the global “super boom” that drove the world economy since the Second World War is over. In a documentary that aired on the BBC, Soros asserted that the current malaise in the U.S. financial markets signals the end of the age of leverage, easy money, and rapid growth. The new danger, he worried, would be that growing protectionism would send the global economy into a recession, “or worse.” ...

The Democrat Party Has 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. ...

Obama’s 'change' comes through agitating a community, not uniting all communities By Ted Belman

Why did Obama not pursue a corporate law practice but instead looked to community work as his life’s work? Why has he identified with agents of radical change, including William Ayers a convicted terrorist, throughout out his adult life. Why did he join a Black Nationalist, Africacentric Church? Why did he write (see Damning Quotes from Obama) ...

Pushing Atheism in the Name of Tolerance: The Myth of the Religion-Neutral Classroom  by Brian Melton

My readers may already be aware of the blatant example of religious discrimination in a Wisconsin public school that Fox News recently brought to the nation’s attention.  Student “A. P.” drew a rather innocuous landscape for a school project.  In it, he placed a cross and a reference to John 3:16.  The teacher heard students talking about it and demanded that A. P. remove the “offensive” material, stating that when A. P. had signed a required document prohibiting “any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs” in class artwork that he had “signed away his constitutional rights.”  A. P. tore up the paper and was thrown out of the class.  An assistant principal later twice confirmed that A. P.’s “religious expression infringed on other students' rights.” ...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights converted into Universal Declaration for the Protection of Islam from Criticism  by Lawrence Auster

At the website of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, Roy W. Brown, its former president, reports that the Organization of the Islamic Conference has effectively taken over the UN's Human Rights Council. According to Brown, the OIC, with the support of allies including China, Russia and Cuba, has pushed through an amendment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights requiring the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression "to report on instances in which the abuse of the right of freedom of expression constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination." ...

Company 'gives away' Southwest to Mexico :: WorldNetDaily

A new ad for Absolut vodka reconfigures North America according to the aspirations of many Mexicans, who believe the U.S. Southwest was stolen and should be returned.

Over a redrawn map of the U.S., the ad by the Absolut Spirits Co. declares, "In an Absolut World," noted columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin. ...

Snake in the Grassley By Bob Emrich

Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa recently demanded that popular religious leaders Creflo Dollar, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, and Benny Hinn, among others, comply with an unprecedented congressional request for their financial records. ...

Haditha: The Collapse of a Liberal Fiction by Michael Reagan

You’d hardly know it if you relied on the mainstream media, but the government’s case against the Haditha Marines took another body blow last Friday that may be the beginning of the end for this whole sorry attempt to severely punish eight heroic United States Marines for doing what they are trained to do. ...

The Fabulist Vs. the Saint By Charles Krauthammer

Hillary Clinton met her Waterloo at Tuzla. She'd been regaling audiences with tales of a dangerous landing under sniper fire in Tuzla 12 years ago and then running for cover. None of this occurred. When CBS provided the tape, she was forced to admit to "a misstatement." ...

Supreme Court Rules Against Foreign Precedent Warner Todd Huston

In 2003, then Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor famously posited that our judicial system should take into account foreign court rulings when deciding American cases prompting outraged conservatives to denounce her idea as endangering American sovereignty and destroying the Constitution of the United States of America. This year, the Roberts led SCOTUS has made an important decision that will serve to forestall that possibility. ...

Risky Misreading of Democrat Turmoil By Chris Adamo

Rush Limbaugh is enjoying the ensuing success of his “Operation Chaos,” his ongoing effort to weaken the political prospects of the Democrats by prolonging party infighting between the Hillary and Obama camps. But despite Limbaugh’s exuberance, the Democrat Party is alive and well, and could under the right circumstances, resuscitate itself very quickly. ...

Liberals Love Loons and Liars by Michelle Oddis

Barack Obama still remains a favorite among Democrats despite the recent exposure of his relationship with controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, now infamous for his anti-American jeremiads. Real Clear Politics national poll averages still place him two percentage points above Clinton with 45% to her 43%. ...

Global warming 'dips this year' By Roger Harrabin :: BBC

Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.

The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.

This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. ...

The Violence of Double Standards By Joseph Bottum

We should start raising money for a secret Christian commando force—the special-action arm of the Poor Clares, maybe, or the rapid-response team of Beeson Divinity School.

Well, probably not. But why, in fact, shouldn’t we? Violence works, after all. The mere threat of violence works. ...

CEI counters Gore's 'global warming' ad blitz By Pete Chagnon

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is re-launching an ad campaign that is designed to raise awareness to the threats posed by Al Gore's "global warming" agenda.

According to a press release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection recently launched a $300 million ad campaign that seeks to build support for policies that "restrict energy through higher prices and reduced supplies." But in response to that ad campaign, CEI has released a counter ad that "contrasts Gore's energy-consuming lifestyle with the life-and-death need for energy in developing countries." ...

‘Islam is not a religion, it is a sect’ Ehsan Jami

The controversial PvdA politican and founder of the Committee for Ex–Muslims Ehsan Jami (22) dominated the headlines this summer. Jami, who has called prophet Mohammed a “criminal” and Islam a “sect”, went into hiding after he was allegedly assaulted by three men of immigrant descent on 4 August. ...

WHO ARE WE? By: Daniel Sargis

Not incredibly, in its recent article, Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race, the New York Times is now pandering to tribalism. 

Talk about reaping what you sow....

It’s little wonder why the stock price of the NYT has collapsed by 50% over the last 5 years while the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased by 50% in the same period. ...

Who Is Influencing John McCain? AIM Report

It’s not the kind of endorsement that a Republican presidential candidate should welcome. But former Clinton State Department official and alleged Russian dupe Strobe Talbott says that Senator John McCain and Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are all “moderate pragmatists” in foreign policy “with the demonstrated ability to reach across party lines.” ...

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