Article Links For Wednesday 4-9-2008

Put a Shine on This, Madam Speaker By Eric Rush

Our inimical lich of a House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at it again last week, subtly sabotaging our military’s efforts in Iraq, potentially demoralizing and compromising our troops in a transparent election year political ploy. On April 4, Pelosi admonished General David Petraeus not to «put a shine» on developments in Iraq when he and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testify before Congress this week. Petraeus and Crocker’s report will ostensibly illustrate Iraq’s political and military progress since their last report to Congress in September. ...

An Absolut Outrage By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

A vodka maker's ad campaign in Mexico is more than a marketing faux pas that offends many Americans. There's a real movement out there that feels our Southwest is really occupied Mexico.

The first rule of marketing is know your customer base. So when the makers of Absolut vodka began an ad campaign in Mexico featuring what a map of North America might look like "In An Absolut World," it was well aware it might appeal to many Mexicans there and here.

Your Tax Dollars Funding Terror by Patrick Poole

A strategic partnership between a prominent Department of Defense research institute and organizations tied to terrorism reveals the problem with the federal government's Islamic outreach programs. ...

College Mind Police Live to Brainwash Another Day by Candace de Russy

University of Delaware freshmen are made to undergo a "treatment" of political and cultural indoctrination. A scandal? You bet. Too bad nothing's being done about it. ...

Global White Population to Plummet to Single Digit—Black Population to Double :: National Policy Institute

As a percentage of world inhabitants the white population will plummet to a single digit (9.76%) by 2060 from a high-water mark of 27.98% in 1950.

The study was conducted by William H. Regnery, Mark Stradley, Dean Stradley, and the NPI Staff. The methodology is described in a footnote.

Using 2010 as the base reference the big gainer in the population derby will be blacks or sub-Sahara Africans. This group will expand almost 133% to 2.7 billion by 2060. By the middle of this century blacks will represent 25.38% of world population which is up dramatically from the 8.97% they recorded in 1950. ...

Boycott the United Nations! Fjordman

The United Nation’sSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Wilder’s movie Fitna as “offensively anti-Islamic,” and said that “There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence.” Does that mean that the UN is now going to ban the Koran, which does both? As Robert Spencer commented, “What exactly is ‘hate speech’ about quoting Qur’an verses and then showing Muslim preachers using those verses to exhort people to commit acts of violence, as well as violent acts committed by Muslims inspired by those verses and others?” ...

Western Civilization Rising Kyle Bristow

It has been argued by concerned patriots that Western civilization is in decline and will eventually die. This has been a recurring theme in books such as Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, James Burnham’s The Suicide of the West, and Patrick Buchanan’s The Death of the West. What these authors all have in common is that they believe that Western civilization is on the slippery slope to ruin. ...

A Return From The Feminist Abyss? Prof. Nicholas Stix

In her 1998 book, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, Wendy Shalit argues that not money, but modesty (read: chastity) makes the world go ‘round. Shalit sees the loss of female sexual modesty as having made girls and women miserable, and invited men—who hardly need such an invitation—to treat them badly. In the name of a more “authentic” sexual culture, everyone’s “doing it,” yet almost everyone’s miserable. ...

What is the opposite of a mensch? by Lawrence Auster

Barack Obama had a perfect opportunity to show that he wants to take America "beyond race," by saying that an Obama delegate's having called two neighborhood boys who were climbing dangerously in a tree "monkeys" was not a big deal and that black people need to get over this kind of thing. He could have said that he doesn't want America to be a society in which people must live in fear of having their careers and lives damaged over innocent and ordinary remarks. Instead he did this: ...

Random Thoughts By Thomas Sowell

Most of the problems of this country are not nearly as bad as the "solutions" -- especially the solutions that politicians come up with during election years. ...

I Dream of Obama by Lee Culpepper

Remember Barbara Eden’s hit character “Jeannie” materializing from a cloud of pink smoke? Well, I wonder if Obama’s stupefied supporters envision the same vaporous entrance each time their candidate with the magic wallet pops up on stage. Seriously, how else can they explain their belief that Obama could actually grant and fulfill all their government-sponsored wishes? Only silly television shows, children’s fairytales, and socialist fantasies have the sort of hope where magic - or less believable, the government - can fix people’s problems. ...

Sen. Obama coddles evil By Ben Shapiro

Yesterday morning, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran was busily installing 6,000 new centrifuges for development of nuclear material. Further, Ahmadinejad stated, Iran would begin testing a new type of centrifuge that works five times faster than ordinary centrifuges. ...

A Faltering Freedom Agenda by Radwan Masmoudi

WHATEVER THE ACTUAL results of Egypt's municipal elections yesterday, the fix is in: President Hosni Mubarak made sure that even the most moderate and reform-minded candidates would be shut out of the process. The charade of democratic elections in Egypt typifies the Bush administration's faltering freedom agenda for the Arab world. ...

The slick trick behind global frauding By James Lewis

In Stalin's Russia any dissenter from the Party Line was guilty. Innocence had to be proved. It's a standard tyrant's trick. During the reign of Oliver Cromwell in England, witchhunters did not have to prove that their victims were guilty. The accused witches had to prove their innocence. ...

Obama's other spiritual mentor and the Catholic Church By Rosslyn Smith

Another far left clergyman, Father Michael Pfleger, has joined his Southside Chicago friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the media spotlight, thanks to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The national political media first noticed F. Pfleger when he spoke at a raucous welcome home for Rev. Wright, follow his recent media firestorm. ...

To Seek a Newer World By Mark Silverberg

On September 11, 2001, this nation was attacked by an enemy whose vision of the future, whose culture and value system, and whose concepts of life and death are a universe apart from ours. In Gaza City earlier this month, an Israeli air strike killed two Hamas terrorists who were about to launch missiles at the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon. One of those killed was a son of senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya. At the funeral of his son, al-Haya said, "I thank God for this gift. This is the 10th member of my family to be martyred". And in Pakistan, a jihadist wrapped a baby in an explosive belt and detonated it killing scores of Muslims. ...

Petition blasts Islamic themes at Flight 93 site :: WorldNetDaily

A group of concerned citizens has been raising alarms about the Islamic elements planned for the Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., for years. And a member of Congress has demanded the National Park Service make changes in its plans. ...

Obama Is No King By Christopher Hitchens

When Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, I was 19 years old and fancifully considered myself to be far to the left of him. Notwithstanding that, he felt to me like one of my moral elders and tutors (as he still does). When I was first asked to sign a petition to make his birthday a national holiday, on a Manhattan side street in 1970, I was 21 and signed with pride. ...

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: It Was Never about Borders Ruth S. King

In its sixtieth year, Israel is a nation in retreat.

Since anniversaries beget nostalgia and retrospection, there will be invocations of the epic rescue of the wretched survivors of the Holocaust and the oppressed Jews from Arab countries; of the almost impossible victory of David against an Arab Goliath in 1948; of the lightning victory of 1967; of the come from behind victory in Yom Kippur 1973; of the rescue of the hostages in Entebbe; of the incredible destruction of Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, all of which were the source of pride and renewed confidence for Jews in every corner of the world. ...

Darwin’s Kool-Aid By Matt Barber

There’s a shakeup in the cult of neo-Darwinist pseudo-science, and that endearing, monotone high school teacher of “Ferris Bueller” fame is doing the shaking.
With his new feature documentary, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” (opening in theaters April 18), Ben Stein — actor, economist, presidential speechwriter and all around really smart guy — squares off with some of the world’s most prominent anti-theist elites as he gets to the heart of the question, “Who are we, and how did we get here?” ...

Political Loathsomeness By Walter E. Williams

Do any of the prospective nominees of either party deserve respect from the American people? The answer partially depends on your knowledge, values and respect for the U.S Constitution. ...

The Siren Song of Populism By Lee Cary

He took possession of the Democratic Party with the mesmerizing power of his oratory as his followers screamed, waved their arms, threw their coats in the air, and rallied to his call that, “This community is ready for healing.” ...

Making Business a Crime By HARVEY SILVERGLATE

When rumors of a liquidity crisis at Lehman Brothers began to circulate in late March, company spokeswoman Kerrie Ann Cohen was unusually circumspect in her public responses. "There are a lot of rumors in the marketplace that are totally unfounded," she told this newspaper. ...

'Algoreism' For the Masses by Lynn Woolley

The earth has a fever! Global warming is unequivocal! The world’s scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice! The discussion is over! These outrageous statements form the basis of a new hysteria that has taken root across the planet -- even to the point of infecting all three remaining candidates for the U.S. presidency. ...

UNBRAINWASH YOURSELF By Alan Stang

Again and again in these columns I have respectfully reminded you that the main reason this country is now on its knees is the communist government schools. We could not have arrived at the end of the plank had not those schools cooked our brains from the beginning. The communist media left and right – from the Communist Broadcasting System and the Communist News Network to Loopy Laura and Limbag – would not be enough. It could not have been done without the communist schools. ...

Cold War on Campus By Malcolm A. Kline

The latest survey on academic bias has sent academics into their usual state of denial despite evidence of same that frequently stares them right in the face. “Taken together, 40 percent of the Americans in the survey said professors often use their classrooms as political platforms,” Robin Wilson of the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on April 4th of a Gallup poll. ...

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