Using the Race Card To "Lynch" Free Speech

By John W. Lillpop

Kelly Tilghman is a "hot" fox and a babe. She is also is an exceptionally talented commentator for the GOLF channel, the first woman to hold that position on a full time basis.

Tilghman is now the first woman commentator to be suspended for poorly chosen and "insensitive" on-air remarks.

Who would imagine that behind that long blond hair, crystal blue eyes, perfect teeth, and angelic smile resides a deranged racist who achieves spiritual fulfillment only when she has spiked a burning cross into the lawn of an innocent black family?

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John McCain, enemy of free speech By Roger Kimball

My friend Andrew McCarthy has an important and admonitory article over at National Review on the McCain/Feingold so-called “campaign finance reform” act. Actually, it should be called the “McCain/Feingold anti-political speech act.” John McCain, supposed conservative from Arizona, and Russ Feingold, ostentatious liberal from Wisconsin, may seem like an odd couple. But both have a passion to undermine the First Amendment by curtailing free speech in the political arena. Andrew explains:

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Hate speech without condemnation By Douglas J. Hagmann

While the people in the West were ringing in the New Year with their renditions of Auld Land Syne, IslamOnline.net published a “poem” titled How to Behead” (copied in its entirety at the end of this article). The written composition, promoted under the pretext of art, is weighted more with gruesome instruction and perverse elation rather than artistic conceptualization. The decision to post the “poem” in the venue on which it appears, and that it was written by a convicted terrorist from the UK is exponentially more important than what has been written about it on various Internet Blogs and forums known for their generally superficial reporting of the musings and utterances of militant Islamists.

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Peace is War: The Brainwashing and Oxymorons of Political Correctness By Baron Bodissey

To disable rational opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy, the first step is to take control of the language, forbidding certain words, promoting others, and changing the meanings of words within the permissible vocabulary to align with an all-pervading political ideology.

The second step is to erode the logical framework of thought itself, eating away at the deep structure of language until the underlying mental processes are deranged, leaving the mind vulnerable to re-programming.

Under the new PC template, time-hallowed distinctions — between good and evil, moral and immoral, true and false — are discarded. The only remaining distinction allowed is between what is and is not politically acceptable. PC has but a single commandment: “Thou shalt have no other words before mine.”

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The War on Islamic Terror: Four Key Concepts By Mark Goldblatt

1. The Philosophy of Radical Islam

The political scientist Michael Thompson has observed that the cognitive blind spot of the Left is its belief that pathological behavior is always the result of privation. If only people were rescued from poverty, ignorance and hopelessness, they would cease doing bad things. But in the case of Islamic terrorism, which is a pathological behavior, such an analysis falls short — at least according to Thompson, who edited the academic anthology Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on Modernity. On the contrary, Thompson argues, the psychic justifications for Islamic terrorism can be found in an intellectually accessible and, in its own way, profoundly moving philosophy that stands in direct opposition to the liberal democratic institutions of the West.

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Four Types of Government Operatives: Bullies, Muggers, Sneak Thieves, and Con Men By Robert Higgs

Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer — except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.
— George Orwell, Animal Farm

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

Sometimes government functionaries and their private-sector supporters want simply to bully you, to dictate what you must do and what you must not do, regardless of whether anybody benefits from your compliance with these senseless, malicious directives. The drug laws are the best current example, among many others, of the government as bully. Our rulers presently enforce a host of laws that combine the worst aspects of puritanical priggishness and the invasive, pseudo-scientific, therapeutic state. They tolerate our pursuit of happiness only so long as we pursue it exclusively in officially approved ways: gin, yes; weed, no.

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The Improvident Races By Ian Jobling

As we saw in The Reality of Racial Differences, there are large, and almost certainly innate, differences between whites and blacks in intelligence and ability to defer gratification. Hispanics, America’s largest minority group, are much more similar to blacks than whites in these traits. Consequently, with the increasing size of the Hispanic population, America has every reason to expect higher rates of social failure that are the inevitable consequence of low intelligence and low ability to defer gratification.

“Ability to defer gratification” is a bit of a mouthful. Social scientists use the more compact term “time preferences” to designate this attribute. People with little ability to defer gratification have high time preferences; those with more have lower time preferences. An even more compact, but less scientific term, is “provident,” which means “having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.” Since blacks and Hispanics are less likely to do these things than whites, we can refer to them as improvident races.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH Will soon be dead in America By Bill Gibbons

I am writing this message now, because once this bill is passed, by the senate and signed into law by the president, which we are sure will happen SOON, I could be prosecuted as a TERRORIST for writing this message.

I will no longer be able to tell the truth about anyone. When this bill becomes law, I will shut down this web site and many of you will be deprived of hearing the truth, which you are entitled to hear; and I am sure you do not want to see that happen. This freedom-robbing legislation is HR 1955.  The First Amendment reads:

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Tribal America? By Arnold Ahlert

There is a great irony emerging: the United States is becoming that which it stands against.

We are in a war against Islamic terror–a profoundly anti-modernist movement. The basis of this anti-modernism? Tribal culture. My sub-group versus your sub-group, my warlord versus your warlord, my self-contained universe determined to eliminate yours. Cooperation? The enemy of my enemy is my friend–until it’s just the two of us left to fight it out for the ultimate victory.

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The conservative betrayal that tops them all by Lawrence Auster

A few weeks ago, the editors of National Review, invoking the "three legs of the stool" image of Reaganite conservatism, endorsed Mitt Romney for president because, more than any other candidate, he supported all three legs of the stool. This week, writing in Time magazine, Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor of National Review, declares that it's time for conservatives to follow the example of John McCain and start reaching out to independent voters, since that's where electoral success lies for the Republican party.

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The Ten Most Corrupt Politicians in 2007 by Jim Kouri

The maverick attorneys at Judicial Watch, a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, recently released their list of Washington DC's “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians of 2007.”  The list being circulated in alphabetical order includes several presidential candidates such as Hillary Clinton, Rudy Guiliani and Barack Obama. The list also includes leaders from both major political parties.

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The Clintons Play Dirty -- And The Media Lets Them By Mike Gallagher

Dick Morris is a political genius.

When everyone scoffed at the prospect of Hillary Clinton wanting to run for President, he was the one person who repeatedly said it was going to happen.

And just this past week, he made a prediction about Hillary’s New Hampshire campaign that appeared to be chillingly accurate.

Last Sunday evening on Fox News Channel, Morris said: “I think that what she is going to do is she is going to say Obama is unelectable, Americans won’t elect him, he can’t beat the Republican Party, America is not ready for Obama, he doesn’t have the experience to win, and what she is going to mean is that they won’t vote for an African-American, but she won’t say it. She’ll say everything but, but that’s what she means.”

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Blue Helmet Bigotry By Doug Bandow

As predictable as the sun rising in the east, the United Nations has voted to assault religious liberty. Islam, however, is to be protected from criticism since Muslims are said to be under vicious attack in the West.
The offending resolution, which denounces the "defamation of religions," had its genesis in the UN Human Rights Council, created in 2006 to replace the long-discredited Commission on Human Rights. The inmates again have taken over the asylum as human rights violators joined the panel to insulate themselves from criticism. The only country certain to be denounced is Israel.

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The Real McCain Record By Mark R. Levin

There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.

The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:

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Democrats for Dead Babies By Michael M. Bates

Look at our presidential candidates, brag Democrats; such diversity, such pluralism, such variety. We have a woman, a black, and a Hispanic running. Heck, there’s even a white male tossed in the mix just for fun. Indeed, Democrats perceive a veritable embarrassment of riches.

What they don’t have is a contender who’s even moderately pro-life. Every one of them ardently supports abortion rights.

Hillary Clinton has pledged her resolve to “keeping abortion safe, legal and rare,” a popular Democratic mantra that begs the question of, if there’s nothing wrong with abortion, why do they want it to be rare? Barack Obama has avowed: “I have consistently advocated for reproductive choice and will make preserving women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority as President.”

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Behar Joins Christian Bashers By Sher Zieve

As Christians throughout the world continue to be murdered by Islamofacists, dhimmi-celeb Joy Behar has apparently decided to join the oppressors. After all, Christian-bashing is not only accepted by Islamists and the Hollywood elite, it’s expected – if not required. Wednesday on The View, Behar apparently decided that she needed publicity to bolster and polish her fading star – a star that was never very bright in the first place – by blasting Christians.

Christianity continues to be the “safe religion” to vilify, as Christians seldom – if ever – fight back. Therefore, feckless secular celebs who are fearful of offending Muslims (who might actually behead them) direct their anger against religion at Christians.

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Hezbollah's Billion Petrodollars by Walid Phares

A few weeks ago, articles published around the world reported that Hezbollah is undergoing two major changes. Both portend greater violence from the Iranian-sponsored global terrorist network.

The first change is a shift in leadership responsibilities. A report published initially in the Saudi owned Sharq al Awsat said the office of Ayatollah Khomenei appointed deputy secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassim as the new supreme commander of Hezbollah forces and the personal representative of the Ayatollah in Lebanon. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, according to this report remains as secretary general of the organization. Sources said this change in control and command is because of "differences in opinions" between Narsrallah and Qassim.

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Vanity Foul By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Do Americans once again need a CEO lecturing us as if we were his employees? Do we need another Perot to tell us that by not choosing him we "just want to keep slow dancing and talk about it and not do it"? Perot capitalized on the budget deficit issue, but America soon grew its way out of it. Today, the deficit, at 1.2% of GDP, is below its 40-year average. Not a big deal.

Bloomberg: Nanny in chief?

The idea of a third-party candidacy remains as erroneous today as it was then, even with Bloomberg apparently willing to spend as much as $500 million to head a "national unity" ticket. All a third-party candidate does is skew the mandate of the ultimate winner — or, as in the case of the 1992 election, tilt the outcome.

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A Party Turned Upside-Down by Michael Reagan

Nobody ever tried to build a house by starting with the roof and working down -- it can’t be done. You have to start from the bottom up.

The same thing is true about building a political party. You have to start at the grass roots and work your way up to the national level, going from precincts, to counties, to states and all the way up to the national level. Without a large body of workers at the local level, a political party would be like an army with only generals and no privates.

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HUMAN EVENTS Endorses Fred Thompson

The 2008 presidential election is the most unusual and most important in many years. It’s been more than five decades since such a race didn’t feature an incumbent President or Vice President. Since World War II, America has not had a presidential election at a time when the stakes were higher. Conservatives have to win this election, and to do so, we have to identify a candidate around whom we all can rally.

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UN Gag Order By Joseph Klein

The Islamic propaganda machine has turned Western democratic values inside out to the Islamists’ advantage. Cloaking themselves in the rhetoric of multiculturalism and tolerance, Islamists succeeded in getting the United Nations General Assembly to pass a resolution late last year condemning the defamation of religions – but the only religion mentioned in the resolution was Islam. This follows in the wake of a declaration by the UN “expert” on racism, who told the UN Human Rights Council last September that “Islamophobia today is the most serious form of religious defamation” and constituted a threat to world peace.

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Portrait of the Artist as a Dhimmified Man by David J. Rusin

Given the history of Islamist violence directed at European artists, writes David Rusin, their fear of critiquing Islam is justifiable. However, the current level of self-censorship is deeply problematic. “Their eagerness to assume the role of subjugated infidels living under Islamic rule can only demoralize the population and embolden the extremists.”

“Art is not what you see,” noted Edgar Degas, “but what you make others see.” Ninety years after his death, a new maxim applies to Europe: The art that you do not see reflects what everyone already sees. And what we see is the preemptive surrender of public freedoms in the name of appeasing the continent’s restive Muslim underclass.

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The Enemy Within Our Citadel By Sean Osborne

Over the past couple of weeks, I have made much of the revelation from Bill Gertz' "Inside the Ring" that Major (US Army Reserve) Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon Joint Staff's Islamic law specialist was the apparent victim of an Islamofascist conspiracy, the intent and substance of which was noted by Gertz as an effort "to try and discredit Major Coughlin as a 'Christian extremist with a pen' and force him out of the building.

What was it that our Pentagon expert on Islam did with his pen that so upset the Islamofascists within the Pentagon? Major Coughlin dared to specifically identify in an official memorandum the extremist Islamofascist organizations (read: "front groups") within the United States to whom our Department of Defense is running an "outreach" program. This "outreach" program is under the leadership of Hasham ISLAM, a close and pro-Islamofascist aide to Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England.

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Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of an Education System By Nancy Salvato

As an education reformer, I read about education every day.  I read about ways to hold institutions of higher learning accountable for their education curriculum, I read about how important it is to have highly qualified teachers, and I read how students not receiving an equitable education should be afforded the right to attend private schools or charter schools with the tax dollars set aside for public education.  While all of these are noble ideas, none of them address the real problem with education.

The real problem is that nowhere is it written in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights that there is freedom of education. Unlike religion, which received protection from the faction of the majority by the Bill of Rights which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” nowhere is education specifically addressed in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Yet, today, we have in place a Department of Education funded by the taxpayers’ money and a public education system funded by the taxpayers’ money.

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Immigration Issue Isn't About To Die By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

With the war in Iraq politically on the back burner, illegal immigration is heating up as a campaign issue. The public wants action, and the candidates are scrambling to react.

Sen. Hillary Clinton's sure nomination was first questioned when she flubbed an easy debate question about driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

Sen. John McCain's recovery took off when he backed away from his support of immigration reform that didn't first ensure the closure of the border. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is no longer for "sanctuary cities" that shield illegal aliens from arrest.

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Hillary's Tears Might Be Start Of Real Debate By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Was it the tears in the New Hampshire coffee shop? Whenever there is a political upset, everyone looks for the unscripted incident, the I-paid-for-this-microphone moment that can account for it.

Hillary Clinton's improbable victory in New Hampshire is being widely attributed to her rare display of emotion when asked how she was holding up.

This "Hillary cried, Obama died" story line is satisfying, but it overlooks an earlier moment played to a national TV audience of 9 million that was even more revealing.

It showed a side of Barack Obama not seen before or since. And it wasn't pretty.

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Fighting and Dying for Islam By Joseph BH McMillan

The men and women who wear the uniform of the armed forces of the United States of America are the most professional, honorable, and committed human beings one could ever hope to meet.

They are people who risk and sacrifice their lives without question.

Such unquestioning devotion to duty and country puts a terrible and onerous obligation on those who call on these men and women (and their families) to make the sacrifices they so willingly make.

And I am not talking here about the Democratic members of Congress playing a despicable game of politics with the lives of the members of the armed services by threatening to withhold funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I am talking about the outcome of the sacrifices that have been and are being made on a daily basis.

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McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate by James R. Edwards, Jr.

It’s amazing how soon people forgot that John McCain is as bad as Teddy Kennedy on immigration.

Sen. McCain took 37 percent of the New Hampshire Republican primary votes Tuesday, winning that state's contest.  Mitt Romney finished six points back, at 31 percent, in second place.  McCain had shown poorly in Iowa.  He tied for third place with Fred Thompson, each with just 13 percent.  Romney finished second in Iowa, with 25 percent, while Mike Huckabee won 34 percent.

Take a quick trip down memory lane. Less than a year ago, Sen. McCain was one of the leaders crafting a “comprehensive” mass amnesty bill behind closed doors. He, along with Kennedy, Obama and Clinton, blocked every attempt to amend the bill with any measures to decrease the damage it would have done.

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Ways to Defeat Islamic Jihadism By Amil Imani

This is an urgent call to all free people to rise and defeat the Islamic Jihadists who are marching under the banner of the Qur’an to subdue all non-Muslims.

It is imperative that the values and the way of life of civilized people be protected against the assault of Jihadists’ savagery born from a primitive culture of long ago Arabia. There is nothing to negotiate here. Nothing to compromise, for the Jihadists are on a non-negotiable campaign of Allah. The goal of this mission from Allah is the eradication of just about everything that falls under the rubric of human rights.

It takes every free human to do his or her share in defeating Jihadism. Below is a partial list of what can be done.

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Wishful Thinking: A lethal habit when it comes to Islamist terrorists By Clifford D. May

Osama bin Laden probably does not get home delivery of Parade but more than 30 million Americans do. And on the magazine’s cover last Sunday was the not-quite-smiling face of Benazir Bhutto, along with this confident quote: “I am what the terrorists most fear.”
By the time Bhutto’s image and words reached America’s breakfast tables, she was, of course, dead. The January 6 issue of the magazine had gone to press before Bhutto was assassinated on Dec. 27 during a campaign stop in northern Pakistan.

Not far from where she was killed are the “tribal areas” of Pakistan -- a swath of wild, mountainous territory along the Afghanistan border where al-Qaeda and its allies hold sway. Bin Laden is believed to enjoy sanctuary there. If he and other terrorists did fear Bhutto, they evidently found an effective way to deal with their fear. To slightly paraphrase Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator and mass murderer: No woman, no problem.

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Belgium on Edge as Female Suicide Bomber's Terror Cell Jailed By Paul Cruickshank

Today five men were found guilty of being part of a Brussels-based terrorist cell that sent Muriel Degauque, a pretty Belgian baker’s assistant to die in Iraq. On November 9, 2005 Degauque became Al Qaeda’s first western female suicide bomber in Iraq when she drove an explosives-laden vehicle into an American military convoy on a highway north of Baghdad. No American soldiers were killed. The next day her husband, Issam Goris, who had accompanied her to Iraq was shot dead by U.S. forces in the Fallujah area as he prepared to launch a suicide bombing attack. When news of Degauque’s death was revealed to the press several weeks later it hit front pages around the world.

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Barbary Pirates Offer Reasons Why Stephen Coughlin was Fired For The Truth....... :: Tundra Tabloids

Another salient line of reasoning by the Tundra Tabloids' good friend, Dr.Andrew Bostom. If only our western leaders would immerse themselves into the history of our nations' past, they would find themselves coming face to face with the same recurring phenomenon that other great statesmen have faced generations ago.

In his most recent article "Fired For the Truth", Dr.Bostom tackles the reasons surrounding the dismissal of the Pentagon's most knowledgeable specialist on Islamic Law, and jihad terrorism, Stephen Coughlin.

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Hillary without tears By Camille Paglia

A swarm of biographers in miners' gear has tried to plumb the inky depths of Hillary Rodham Clinton's warren-riddled psyche. My metaphor is drawn (as Oscar Wilde's prim Miss Prism would say) from the Scranton coalfields, to which came the Welsh family that produced Hillary's harsh, domineering father.

Hillary's feckless, loutish brothers (who are kept at arm's length by her operation) took the brunt of Hugh Rodham's abuse. Hillary is the barracuda who fought for dominance at their expense. Flashes of that ruthless old family drama have come out repeatedly in this campaign, as when Hillary could barely conceal her sneers at her fellow debaters onstage -- the wimpy, cringing brothers at the dinner table.

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Mexican Incursions Into U.S. Spur Inaction From Dubya

By John W. Lillpop

Startling new information secured by Judicial Watch documents the fact that Mexican military and other officials have staged 29 incursions into America over the past 12 months.

FOXNEWS: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321547,00.html

In 17 of the incursions, the Mexicans were armed.

Can you imagine? An armed invasion of these great United States without either a whimper or complaint from the dunderheads charged with defending our nation?

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Mexican soldiers found invading United States :: WorldNetDaily

A federal document obtained and released by Judicial Watch reveals that there were dozens of armed incursions by Mexican soldiers and police into the United States during Fiscal Year 2007.

The report was obtained by the Washington-based organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and it documents 29 confirmed incidents along the U.S.-Mexican border involving Mexican military and/or law enforcement personnel during that time.

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A Moral Challenge for the Democrats By Bruce Walker

There is a difference between Mrs. Bill Clinton and Senator Barack Obama.  That difference is not about political ideology.  It is not about specific policies.  The difference between Clinton and Obama is about ethics and character. 

We do not know much, really, about the character of Barack Obama, but what we do know is good.  He appears to have a normal marriage.  When Obama graduated from college, he took a poor paying job to work for something he believed was good.  During this campaign, the Obama campaign has been essentially devoid of substance, but it has also been conducted with a tone that is upbeat and civil.

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Surge Protection By Jennifer Rubin

Six months ago, pundits were predicting that congressional Republicans' patience with the Iraq war had run out. Led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, they were going to storm the Oval Office, deliver the news that no more funding would be forthcoming and thereby save their skins in the 2008 elections. Things have a funny way of working out.

General Petraeus did not just win the rhetorical argument in September because MoveOn.org overplayed its hand. He won because facts on the ground had shifted, Democrats who returned reported significant progress and commentators not known for their support of the war concurred that the surge was working. President Bush got his breathing room.

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The Messy Politics of Illegal Immigration By Victor Davis Hanson

With the war in Iraq politically on the backburner, illegal immigration is heating up as a campaign issue. The public wants action, and the candidates are scrambling to react.

Sen. Hillary Clinton's sure nomination was first questioned when she flubbed an easy debate question about driver's licenses for illegal aliens.

Sen. John McCain's recovery took off when he backed away from his support of immigration reform that did not first ensure the closure of the border.

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Myths of '68 By Thomas Sowell

This 40th anniversary of the turbulent year 1968 is already starting to spawn nostalgic accounts of that year. We can look for more during this year in articles, books, and TV specials, featuring aging 1960s radicals seeking to relive their youth.

The events of 1968 have continuing implications for our times but not the implications drawn by those with romantic myths about 1968 and about themselves.

The first of the shocks of 1968 was the sudden eruption of violent attacks by Communist guerillas in the cities of South Vietnam, known as the “Tet offensive,” after a local holiday.
That this sort of widespread urban guerilla warfare was still possible after the rosy claims made by American officials in Washington and Vietnam sent shock waves through the United States.

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McCain’s Costly Tax on Energy By Roy Cordato

What do John McCain, Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Pew Center on Climate Change have in common? They have united to support a massive new tax increase on energy — which will raise costs throughout the economy and threaten the vitality of, among others, the oil and automobile industries.

I suspect that many who would be significantly harmed by McCain’s wrongheaded tax plan — say, blue-collar workers in Michigan — have never heard of it. The Arizona senator’s position on federal tax cuts is better known. Nearly all of his opponents in the presidential campaign have criticized him for voting against both of President Bush’s tax-reduction plans. What is not widely understood is that he is currently sponsoring legislation that, in the name of fighting global warming, would dramatically raise the tax on all carbon-based fuels, including gasoline, home heating oil, coal, and to a lesser extent, natural gas.

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McCain Is the Amnesty Candidate by James R. Edwards, Jr.

It’s amazing how soon people forgot that John McCain is as bad as Teddy Kennedy on immigration.

Sen. McCain took 37 percent of the New Hampshire Republican primary votes Tuesday, winning that state's contest.  Mitt Romney finished six points back, at 31 percent, in second place.  McCain had shown poorly in Iowa.  He tied for third place with Fred Thompson, each with just 13 percent.  Romney finished second in Iowa, with 25 percent, while Mike Huckabee won 34 percent. 

Take a quick trip down memory lane. Less than a year ago, Sen. McCain was one of the leaders crafting a “comprehensive” mass amnesty bill behind closed doors. He, along with Kennedy, Obama and Clinton, blocked every attempt to amend the bill with any measures to decrease the damage it would have done.

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Fired For the Truth By Andrew G. Bostom

Bill Gertz, Washington Times national security columnist, reports (1/4/08) that the Pentagon has fired Stephen Coughlin, its most knowledgeable specialist on Islamic Law, and jihad terrorism. As Gertz observed aptly, the Pentagon thus ended the career of its most effective analyst attempting to prepare the military to wage ideological war against jihadism.

This past September, 2007, I lectured with Mr. Coughlin, a US Army Reserves Major, at The Naval War College, and witnessed his brilliant, tour de force presentation which elucidated the reliance of contemporary jihadism on Islamic Law. Coughlin demonstrated meticulously that “Jihad fi Sabil Allah”—“Jihad in the cause of Allah,” is the animating principle which underlies the threat of global jihad terrorism, and how this understanding should form the basis for rational, effective threat development assessment, and war planning.

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Multiculturalism is breeding intolerance By Philip Johnston

It has taken a long time to happen, but at last an authoritative and senior establishment figure has pointed to the elephant in the room. Before the Bishop of Rochester's article yesterday in The Sunday Telegraph, the debate about immigration focused almost exclusively on who benefits financially. We have tiptoed around its effect on our society and culture. Even the somewhat belated recognition by ministers that newcomers should show a commitment to British values and demonstrate a knowledge of English tends to be couched in economic terms and ones favourable to the immigrants themselves - that they will get a job more easily and their lives will be enhanced if they are more integrated.

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Pakistan: The looming threat of Islamist terror By Adrian Morgan

On Tuesday, January 8, Pakistan would have held national elections. These would have chosen members of the National Assembly and also the prime minister of the nation. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on December 27 caused widespread chaos on the streets of many cities, and led to numerous conspiracy theories concerning the circumstances of Ms Bhutto's death. Initially the interim government maintained that Bhutto had died from striking her head on the lever of her vehicle's sunroof, contradicting eyewitness accounts that she had been shot. On Sunday, January 6, President Pervez Musharraf conceded that Bhutto may have been shot.

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Bosnian 'White al-Qaeda' seen as grave threat to Europe by Serbianna

Bosnian Muslim politician says that the Islamic terrorist with European features that are based in Bosnia are more dangerous for the security of Europe then the 'White al-Qaeda' with bases in Kosovo, reports Croatian daily Vecernji List. 

 

"In Bosnia and Herzegovina today al-Qaeda is in a strategic planning phase. This means that, among such potentials - and it is likely that there are 100,000 such believers - you can find five people... to hang bombs on their belts and bring in explosives," says Dzevad Galijasevic, chairman of the New Democratic Party in Bosnia and an author of the recently published book The Era of Terrorism in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Honor Killings: Made in the USA By Phyllis Chesler

They have dishonored our shores for quite some time and more keep coming our way.

I am talking about honor killings in North America. In The Death of Feminism, I write about honor murders in Missouri, Ohio, and in parts of New Jersey, New York, and Canada which took place during the last quarter-century.

Earlier this month, an Egyptian Arab Muslim father in Dallas, Texas allegedly shot his two beautiful teenage daughters to death because he disapproved of their American-style ways. Their names were Amina and Sarah Said and their father’s name was Abdul Said. The girls looked sassy and full of life; they looked like Dallas teenagers. They were 17- and 18-years-old and their friends considered them “geniuses.” Abdul was a taxi driver. (In parts of Europe, taxi drivers are known to aid and abet honor murders).

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Way Too Close for Comfort By Douglas Farah

The newly-released tape of the Iranian patrol boats pushing in on U.S warships shows just how close we are, routinely, to a major conflagration with unknowable consequences.

That the crew of the USS Hopper did not open fire on the speedboats and cause a serious international incident is a tribute to their discipline, particularly given the memory of the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.

To be able to resist pulling the trigger when someone says “I am coming at you. You will explode in a few minutes” is nothing short of a miracle.

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LA Times runs Anti-Semitic Cartoon with Inflammatory Op-Ed by Lee Green

In a January 6th Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times, "Israel's False Friends", Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer spewed the same anti-Israel inaccuracies, historical revisionism, and moral blindness that characterized their shoddy book, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."

The Op-Ed was accompanied by a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon (see below), apparenly chosen by Times editors, that would have been more at home in a neo-Nazi publication than a supposedly major newspaper.

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The Ugly Truth About New Hampshire by Dave Nalle

In the aftermath of the New Hampshire primary one ugly truth shines through. Race is clearly still a serious problem for the Democratic Party and for many Democratic and independent voters in New Hampshire and perhaps nationwide.

How can I say such a terrible thing? It's easy. Race is the most evident explanation for the disparity between all of the advance polling, the exit polls, and the actual results of the election. Virtually every poll prior to the election showed Barack Obama with a strong lead over Hillary Clinton. Even Clinton's own campaign was predicting an 11 point loss to Obama. Yet when it came down to the voting, Clinton won by a 3% margin.

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Hillary for President Autopsy Shocker!

By John W. Lillpop

Hillary Rodham Clinton was supposed to be dead this morning, figuratively speaking that is. According to nearly all political wizards, Hillary was destined to be stabbed in the heart by a clean and articulate black man in the hinterlands of New Hampshire.

Her premature demise was supposed to take place on Tuesday, starting at 12:01 AM EST and continuing until the very last breathe was driven from her soulless campaign when the polls closed in the evening.

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A Rosetta Stone for Lionheart :: Gates of Vienna

This post came into being because of something that Transatlantic Conservative said to me in an email. Concerning the plight of Lionheart (about whom much has been written previously), TC wrote:

I hear that you have quite an extensive network of translators. I find Lionheart’s article important for the Europeans. If you could find some more translators for other languages that’d be great.
It would be an interesting experience to put the international versions up in a corner of GoV and offer them for download. Call it the IgoV.   :)

TC’s request inspired me to see how many translators I could find. The results can be found below: an excerpt from Lionheart’s post “The Sword of Truth” translated into Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Swedish.

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Obama Gets Gold in Skating by Erik Rush

A rather timely occurrence transpired just the other day: Apparently, since the Iowa caucuses people are trying to secure everything on one Barack Hussein Obama that they can get their hands on. A gentleman who had stumbled upon my column «Obamination» (The New Media Journal, February 20, 2007) wrote to me claiming that he couldn’t find much about [the issue the column addressed] in the news. He actually did quite a bit of digging before writing to me, I surmise to determine that I hadn’t just made the whole thing up. He finished with the question: «Has anybody ever asked Obama about it?»

«Curiouser and curiouser,» as Alice (of Wonderland fame) said…

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Liberal Guilt Trumps Common Sense: New Jersey Apologizes for Slavery By John W. Lillpop

In a gesture designed to temper liberal guilt without accomplishing much of anything else, New Jersey became the first northern state to formally apologize for slavery.

State legislators did so by passing a resolution which expresses «profound regret» for New Jersey’s participation in the practice of slavery.

The resolution states that in New Jersey, "the vestiges of slavery are ever before African-American citizens, from the overt racism of hate groups to the subtle racism encountered when requesting health care, transacting business, buying a home, seeking quality public education and college admission, and enduring pretextual traffic stops and other indignities."

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Environmental extremism must be put in its place in the climate debate By Dr. Tim Ball & Tom Harris

All responsible citizens are ‘environmentalists’, but that is no reason to yield to mass delusions.

Many people are starting to realize that much of what they’ve been told about climate change by governments, the United Nations and crusading celebrities is simply wrong. Not surprisingly, the assertion that “the science is settled” in a field the public is coming to understand is both immature and quickly evolving, is triggering growing public skepticism.  Alarmists respond by upping the anti, making even more extreme and nonsensical forecasts, which in turn further fuels healthy public disbelief.

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Passive-aggressive Bureaucracies by Sam Vaknin

Collectives - especially bureaucracies, such as for-profit universities, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), the army, and government - tend to behave passive-aggressively and to frustrate their constituencies. This misconduct is often aimed at releasing tensions and stress that the individuals comprising these organizations accumulate in their daily contact with members of the public.

Additionally, as Kafka astutely observed, such misbehavior fosters dependence in the clients of these establishments and cements a relationship of superior (i.e., the obstructionist group) versus inferior (the demanding and deserving individual, who is reduced to begging and supplicating).

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Obama is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever by Terence P. Jeffrey

Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever.

He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede -- as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor -- that these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."

"Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.

In 2004, U.S. Senate-candidate Obama mischaracterized his opposition to this legislation. Now, as a presidential frontrunner, he should be held accountable for what he actually said and did about the Born Alive Infants Bill.

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A Purple Heart in the War of Ideas? By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one of the most important questions to be addressed will surely be: Why did a president who repeatedly talked about the ideology animating our enemies in this "War on Terror" do so little to wage an effective "War of Ideas" against it?

The good news is that historians — and the rest of us — have just been given an insight into that highly consequential disconnect. The bad news is that the incident suggests a problem of such ominous proportions that it raises questions as to whether our government is being rendered incapable of fighting successfully an ideology best described as Islamofascism at home, to say nothing of abroad.

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Columbia professors plan to visit Iran to apologize to Ahmadinejad :: Mehr News

An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed at Ahmadinejad on September 24 in his introductory speech, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in New York reported.

Since the incident, the deans and professors from the faculties of history, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, and Islamic studies have criticized Bollinger’s behavior toward Ahmadinejad.

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Segregation: Muslim style By Cal Thomas

BELFAST, Northern Ireland. -- Where there are large concentrations of Muslims in England, "no-go" zones are being established and, says the Right Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, the Church of England's Bishop of Rochester, non-Muslims who "trespass" in such neighborhoods risk attack.

Bishop Nazir-Ali, a native of Pakistan and convert to Christianity, writes in the Sunday Telegraph that a spiritual vacuum in Britain, along with its indifference to the rise of Islamic extremism and a growing "multi-faith" society, is robbing the nation of its Christian identity and putting its future in jeopardy. He is not alone. A poll of the General Synod — the Church's parliament — shows its senior leaders also believe Britain is being damaged by uncontrolled immigration.

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Naturally, I Blame Massachusetts by Jay Tea

Well, wasn't that... um... interesting.

I gotta admit I am absolutely gobsmacked over the results of New Hampshire's primary. I did not expect the results we got.

My gut said that we would not go for Hillary Clinton. I thought we'd kick her sorry ass to the curb. But that vapid twit I met Saturday night apparently showed up with all her insipid little friends and voted with their... well, it wasn't their overly-perforated heads, that's all I'll say.

The vibe I got right up through the primary was that Obama would take it running away. But the morning of the primary, I heard one of those babbling idiots call in a local talk show and ask if it was true that Obama was a secret Muslim who took his Senate oath of office on a Koran and all that bullshit. The host immediately went to Snopes and read the entry, but somehow missed the "false" at the top and presented it as all true. I called in and howled in protest, and she did correct it after the commercial break.

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Why Hasn't Crime Fallen Further? The Immigration Explanation By Steve Sailer

One of the creepier experiences I had last year was walking past the TV as the local news reported on a woman who had been knifed repeatedly in the neck and face by a robber in her apartment. As the broadcast introduced more details about the nameless victim, I started to feel a horrible sense of inevitability: the victim was somebody I knew. Finally, when the reporter mentioned the victim had been a Peace Corps volunteer, I found my wife to tell her that some intruder had attempted to murder her friend T., but that she was in stable condition in the hospital.

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Hamas and Islamic Millenarianism: What the West Doesn't Recognize Paul Landau

Some 20 years after its founding, the Palestinian organization Hamas remains little understood in the West. Although it is invoked nearly daily in the media, it has been the subject of only a very small number of serious studies. The most common error made by observers in considering contemporary Islamist movements -- and notably, Hamas -- is that of attempting to grasp them in terms of concepts and modes of thought that are proper to the West. Most western analyses of the phenomenon of Islamism tend to underestimate or even obscure a fundamental element that is common to all the various Islamist currents and organizations: namely, the role of specifically Muslim religious beliefs and, more precisely, of Islamic eschatology.

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IASC Report: Islam in American Courts - 2007 Year in Review By Jeffrey Breinholt

History is important. It gives us perspective into modern problems. We can gain immediate comfort seeing how so many “ new” issues have been considered by courts in the past. As I have written (here) American court opinions explain that the threat of Islamic actions against our nationals is the very reason we have diplomatic assets overseas, and they show that al Qa’ida targeted the United States in part because of the economic sanctions we promoted against Iraq well before our 2003 military invasion. They also show that FBI wiretaps are hardly a new controversy (here), nor is the phenomenon of Muslims exploiting charities in hopes of achieving worldwide domination (here).

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Shining the Light of Redemption on the Mud of Upcoming Events: Part II by Ruvy

Previously in this series, we dealt with the more boring aspects of the new facts on the ground in the Missile East since November, 2007.

Briefly, we mentioned that the best (and almost completely unlikely) possible result of the Bush visit would be a renunciation of the Road Map, of the goals of violating the Holy Directive that this entire Land was to be in the hands of the Children of Israel forever until the end of Time.

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Hillary's "Iron My Shirt" Protester Was Yet Another Plant By David R. Usher

Today at a whistle stop in Salem, New Hampshire, an alleged protester raised a sign saying "Iron My Shirt" while hollering the same idiotic slogan.

I do not know anybody in the men's movement who would resort to this level of idiocy. I do, however, know a few individuals hitting the whistle stops with truly intelligent questions, all of whom have been hustled away literally before they could finish the question.

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IRAN 1, USA 0 By Ralph Peters

EARLY Sunday morning, the US Navy lost its nerve and guaranteed that American sailors will die at Iranian hands in the future.

As three of our warships passed through the Straits of Hormuz, five small Iranian patrol craft rushed them. As the Revolutionary Guard boats neared our vessels, an Iranian officer broadcast a threat to our ships, claiming they'd soon explode.

The Iranians tossed boxes into the water. Mines? Just in case, our ships took evasive action.

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A Termination of Intellectual Cowardice LTC Joseph Myers

Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, Major (USAR) Stephen Coughlin was to my knowledge the only Islamic Law scholar on the military Joint Staff.

He is a lawyer by training and a reserve Military Intelligence Officer. His first interface with Islamic Law began in Pakistan where he was investigating and prosecuting an intellectual property rights case about 10 years ago. Reviewing Pakistani property rights law, he kept seeing footnoted references to the Quran and Sharia law.

I have long argued and wondered why our military, from senior leaders down to tactical level, are so unread and unstudied on Islam, jihad in Islam, even the topic of terrorism. I have often contrasted this unconscionable wartime state of affairs, with the due diligence the US military showed since I was a cadet at West Point 30 years ago, where we lived, ate, slept and drank Soviet warfighting doctrine. It was the threat we oriented on and we developed our own doctrine around-- “Air/Land Battle” in the early 1980’s.

Can anyone show me where the equivalent of the Soviet threat doctrine series for the global war on terror is published?

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Dems Speak No Evil Of Islamic Jihad By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

If the New Hampshire debates settled anything, it's which party has the stomach to take on radical Islam. The Democrats couldn't even identify the enemy. Not once. Really.

We scanned the transcripts of Saturday's debates hosted by ABC News and tallied up the references to Islamic terrorism. The rhetorical divide between Democrats and Republicans on that score alone — ignoring the yawning gaps in policy — is stunning.

None of the four Democrat presidential candidates — despite running for an office that demands they lead the ongoing global war against Islamic extremists — could bring himself or herself to define the enemy we face as Islamic.

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McCain Still Doesn’t Get it and Huckabee Never Did ::Faultline USA

Ok, so I’m a political junkie and I admit that I’ve watched every Democratic and Republican debate. As much as I enjoyed Hillary’s “hurt feelings” on the CBS debate Saturday night, and as much as I wonder why I only fall asleep during Obama’s vapidly “unifying” change for the sake of change chants, I have to admit that all the substance was on the Republican side.

Oh and yes I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that all of the Democratic candidates said, in one way or another, that they would use Bush’s unilateral preemptive strike policy under the right set of circumstances thus validating the Bush doctrine.

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Where Have All the (Flower) Children Gone? By Dr. Earl Tilford

The American Left clings to the myth that the anti-war movement ended the U.S. war in Vietnam. In fact, the anti-war movement failed to prompt any substantive changes in U.S. war policy. Rather than “pricking the conscience of the nation,” as many on the Left continue to claim, ill-kempt demonstrators waving Viet Cong flags and shouting “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam is gonna win” aroused the silent majority to eek out a close victory for Richard Nixon in 1968 and then four years later return him to the White House in a landslide after the Democratic Party, dominated by its radical fringe, nominated George McGovern. By then the anti-war movement was moribund.

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Fascism's Legacy: Liberalism By Daniel Pipes

Liberal fascism sounds like an oxymoron – or a term for conservatives to insult liberals. Actually, it was coined by a socialist writer, none other than the respected and influential left-winger H.G. Wells, who in 1931 called on fellow progressives to become "liberal fascists" and "enlightened Nazis." Really.

His words, indeed, fit a much larger pattern of fusing socialism with fascism: Mussolini was a leading socialist figure who, during World War I, turned away from internationalism in favor of Italian nationalism and called the blend Fascism. Likewise, Hitler headed the National Socialist German Workers Party.

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Defending the West By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ibn Warraq, an independent researcher based at a humanist think tank in the USA. He is the author of Why I am Not a Muslim (1995), and editor of anthologies of Koranic criticism, The Origins of the Koran (1998), What the Koran Really Says (2002), and the forthcoming Which Koran? (2008) -- all Prometheus Books. He also edited an anthology of testimonies of ex-Muslims, Leaving Islam (2003). Warraq’s op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal in America and The Guardian in London, and he has addressed distinguished governing bodies round the world, including the United Nations in Geneva on the subject of apostasy. His latest book, entitled Defending the West is a critical study of the thought of Edward Said.

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Bush's Betrayal By Jacob Laksin

Saul Bellow once observed that a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. President Bush’s ill-advised trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank this week to promote a “two-state solution” would seem to underscore the wisdom of Bellow’s insight.

The presumed aim of Bush’s visit, the first of his presidency, is to revive the goals of November’s all-but-forgotten Annapolis summit. There the president imperiously decided that all that was needed for a final peace settlement to be reached between Israel and the Palestinians was for two leaders with no popular constituency on their respective sides to decide that it should be so. Bush duly met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and read from a statement in which the parties promised, not a little ambitiously, to resolve “all outstanding issues, including core issues, without exception” in 2008.

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The Diplomatic Strategy against Israel Joel Gilbert

President Bush’s diplomatic mission to the Middle East for “peace in 2008” highlights the huge gap in understanding of the Islamic world on every level in the West, from the man on the street, to Jewish and Christian religious leaders, to our elected officials. Only by gaining an appreciation of Islam's world view, through its theology and historic trials, can Israel and the West begin to deal with the real issues and challenges.

From the inception of Islam, the Christian West has had difficulty understanding Islam as a different religious phenomenon than Christianity. When Muslims conquered the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th Century, Christians referred to Muslims arriving from North Africa as “Moors.” Over the centuries, Spaniards continued to refer to Muslims as Moors, even if they were from India or Indonesia. Throughout the rest of Europe, Muslims were referred to as “Turks,” after the group of central Asian nomadic invaders who converted to Islam and governed the Islamic Empire in the Middle Ages. In Asia Minor, Christians referred to Muslims as “Tartars,” an ethnic name.

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The Judiciary: Tyranny’s Active Agent By: Thomas E. Brewton

Have the Constitution’s checks and balances come unglued?

The First Things website carries a provocative essay by Richard John Neuhaus. The essay explores the contention that, as Anti-Federalists feared in the 1787-89 Constitutional ratification debate, the judiciary has come to be the dominant power in the Federal government.

Without exaggeration, it can be said that most of the activist, anti-traditional measures of government have been judicially imposed. Those have been predominantly aimed at outlawing Judeo-Christian morality, notably Roe v Wade and measures to banish spiritual religion from education and politics, while encouraging an accelerating descent into the cesspool of sensual gratification.

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Women and gay men are 'worst drivers' By Sarah Radford

Women and gay men are likely to be the worst drivers, a new study has shown.

Be afraid: Women or gay men could be behind the wheel of any car

Research has revealed that both perform poorly in tasks involving navigation and spatial awareness when compared to heterosexual men.

Psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London, who conducted the study, believe the findings mean driving in a strange environment would be more difficult for gay men and women than for straight male motorists.

Both tend to rely on local landmarks to get around, and are also slower to take in spatial information.

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Shaking Off Woodrow Wilson :: Gates of Vienna

For those of us who are attempting to unlearn the decades-long indoctrination that is now known as “political correctness”, an essential part of the process is dethroning the icons of modern liberalism. From an American viewpoint this has meant looking at JFK and FDR with a jaundiced eye, but we also need to go even further back, all the way to Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson is the only scion of the Commonwealth of Virginia whose election to the presidency I would rather forget. Wilson did much mischief in his conduct of American foreign policy, and we have yet to shake off his legacy. From Versailles to the UN to the idealism of George W. Bush: we set out to make the world safe for democracy, and ended up making it unsafe for just about everyone.

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Global Hot Air from the BBC By Graham Cunningham

Billions of people now ‘know' about global warming and how it threatens the planet. They ‘know' that it is all the fault of decades of irresponsible, profligate industry and capitalism.
And yet, what exactly do they really know? Have they delved in to the research data? Have they made it their business to acquire a thorough understanding of atmospheric processes and of climatology? Or have they simply heard it ad nauseam on the news. Heard it so insistently, emphatically and endlessly repeated that it must be true. Surely?

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Happy End of Global Warming! By James Lewis

Happy New Year. And just for another thing to celebrate, Dr. David Whitehouse, the British astronomer and former science editor of the BBC, tells us:

"'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001'

"Global warming stopped? Surely not. What heresy is this? Haven't  we been told that the science of global warming is settled beyond doubt and that all that's left to the so-called sceptics is the odd errant glacier that refuses to melt?

"Aren't we told that if we don't act now rising temperatures will render most of the surface of the Earth uninhabitable within our lifetimes? But as we digest these apocalyptic comments, read the recent IPCC's Synthesis report that says climate change could become  irreversible. Witness the drama at Bali as news emerges that  something is not quite right in the global warming camp.

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Past Clinton Donor Files FEC Complaint :: USA Daily

A one-time Clinton donor and Hollywood entrepreneur has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission asking it to reopen an investigation into a 2000 fundraiser that he helped organize for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign.
The donor, Peter Paul, contends that Clinton's Senate campaign violated the law by not properly reporting nearly $2 million that he says he spent to arrange the event in Brentwood, Calif.

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The woman behind the man, the darkness behind the light by Lawrence Auster

Barack Obama may not be a "race man," to use the old-fashioned expression for a black who puts his race first and foremost, but his wife Michelle is certainly a race woman. In the first ten minutes of a talk she gave on Sunday to a group of New Hampshire voters, the text and subtext of every sentence was that we are all isolated from each other, we're all cynical and fearful of each other, because there has never been a black president, but if we elect her husband, that will show that we're ready to go beyond our limits, ready to reach beyond our fears, prepared to leave our skepticism behind, and realize that we're one people. In her mind everything bad and ill about America is connected with the "isolation" that we, meaning whites, are experiencing, meaning that we're isolated from blacks, but we if elect Obama, then we won't be isolated any more, and our psychic ills will be cured. The guilty, fearful white people (guilty toward and fearful of blacks) will be cured, by opening themselves fully to blacks. This woman is negative about everything about America, describing us over and over as a mean, fearful country, and in a tone of unwavering resentment.

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Freedom of Speech and Assembly by Jayson Javitz

Here's an interesting quote:

'The abortion issue is huge. It is the Darfur of America."

Whom do you suspect uttered those words?

a. Mike Huckabee.
b. Rick Santorum.
c. James Dobson.
d. Ralph Reed.

The answer is none of the above:

Berkeley Preacher Calls for Blacks to Fight Against Abortion,
says abortion is top cause of death for African Americans

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A Brief Discussion About Christian Fundamentalists by DJ Drummond

Some of my Christian friends are quite disparaging about Christian fundamentalists. This usually comes from an unforunate emphasis by the media in characterizing fundamentalists solely as angry, rigid believers who who believe not only that their faith is the only correct one, but who consider it their mission to force others to change their belliefs to fit the desired mold. While such people certainly exist, they do not represent the whole of fundamentalist Christianity. After all, Christian fundamentalists run the spectrum from the relatively intolerant Jerry Falwell and Bob Jones University, to the peaceful and unobstrusive Amish and Mennonite communities. It occurs to me that a brief discussion about the different kinds of Christian fundamentalist would be fruitful. Christian Fundamentalism is the belief that certain aspects of Christianity are critical in importance. This leads to three sub-groups of Fundamentalists:

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Interview with Jonah Goldberg By Vox Day

Let's start with the title of "Liberal Fascism." You derived it from H.G. Wells, who you point out was not only a science fiction author but also an important public intellectual responsible for coining the term. When you look at science fiction, there's often an underlying assumption that mankind will be unified in the future. Is this fascist aspect of science fiction also an inheritance from H.G. Wells?

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Threat to West doesn't worry candidates; It will take a movie By Lev Navrozov

The year of 2007 ended in the West just as did the previous years: without public awareness of the “mortal China threat,” except for the U.S. presidential candidate Duncan Hunter’s warning.

As I have been writing repeatedly before, the dictators of China face a dilemma. To lose their slave-state power (which can yield its owners more than any wealth can), as they nearly lost it to the Tiananmen peaceful uprising and as the Soviet dictatorship did lose its power in 1991? Or to establish world domination via post-nuclear (such as nano) super weapons?

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Comrade Hugo Chavez bids for the 'hearths and minds' of low-income Americans By John Metzler

In the midst of a brutally cold winter and increasingly expensive fuel heating season here in the Northeast, a tropical dictator is coming to the rescue to help struggling low income American families keep warm. None other than Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, has used his petrodollars to offer cheap and free heating fuel to ostensibly aid the poor but to gain a red hot propaganda windfall as well.

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Islam's Global Army by W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

With the exception of Al Qaeda, no terrorist organization on earth is responsible for the deaths of more Americans than Hizballah: The group that drew first blood during its formative years when in 1983 one of its suicide bombers drove a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Americans.

Unlike Al Qaeda, however, Hizballah is more than simply a terror network or a loose confederation of terrorist cells: Hizballah is a state-funded terrorist army with a sophisticated propaganda arm and operational teams deployed worldwide. Not surprisingly, Hizballah is on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Yet some Western media -- even a few American politicians -- have openly defended Hizballah (as well as its parent company, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) as a legitimate force and political movement.

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Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam By Daniel Pipes

In a recent analysis, “Was Barack Obama a Muslim?” I surveyed available evidence and found it suggests “Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father.” In response, David Brock’s organization, Media Matters for America (MMfA), which calls itself a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” has criticized one of my sources of information.

MMfA contends in “Daniel Pipes relied on disputed LA Times article to revive Obama-Muslim falsehood,” that “key aspects” of a March 16, 2007, Los Angeles Times article I quoted were later challenged by another newspaper account, “History of schooling distorted,” by Kim Barker in the Chicago Tribune on March 25.

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Lost Dog Mohammed :: Jihad Watch

A poster was put up near a Somali-owned store in Lewiston, Maine. It says a dog named Mohammed has been lost, and that the dog is not good with children and cannot be trusted. The Somali community in Lewiston is upset (thanks to Weasel Zippers for the heads-up), and now the rest of the community is swinging into action too, against this possible hate crime.

A mildly obnoxious teasing poster is a possible hate crime? Well, remember that Lewiston, Maine is the home of the notorious Ham Steak of Hate: the placement of a bag containing a ham steak on a table in a middle school where a group of Muslim students was sitting was investigated as a hate crime. So if there is any place in the United States where a poster of a dog can get traction as a hate crime, it's Lewiston.

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Lessons Unlearned on North Korea By Arthur Waldron

The latest collapse of nuclear negotiations with North Korea provides some clear lessons, but we are not learning them.

The New Year began with the flat refusal by Pyongyang to provide the inventory of her programs that she had promised. For good measure, North Korean state media editorialized on January 4th that “Our republic will continue to harden its war deterrent further in response to the US stepping up its nuclear war moves.”

Today’s Washington Post indicates we still do not grasp the situation. It quotes envoy Christopher Hill: “We understand that this [preparation of an inventory] is always a difficult process, one that is rarely completed on time. So I think we have to have a little sense of patience and perseverance.” Such self-deception is inexcusable: we’ve been through this cycle of negotiation-to-a-dead-end twice now.

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In Blog, a Military Man Writes About His Own Death By BRIAN STELTER :: NYT

Andrew Olmsted, a United States Army major who wrote an online blog for The Rocky Mountain News, prepared for the possibility of his death by writing a 3,000-word piece.

“I’m dead,” he wrote in July 2007 as he arrived in Iraq for an 18-month tour of duty. “But if you’re reading this, you’re not, so take a moment to enjoy that happy fact.”

The major, who was 38, was killed Jan. 3 by small-arms fire from insurgents in Sadiyah, 100 miles northeast of Baghdad. The next day, a fellow blogger published Major Olmsted’s eloquent essay, leading to an outpouring of comments from more than 1,000 readers. His blog became exponentially more popular in death than in life, garnering more than 100,000 page views on Saturday.

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Man of the Year: Rush Limbaugh by Mark R. Levin

Rush Limbaugh’s detractors never learn. They’ve tried everything to come between Rush and his more than 20 million listeners, intending to destroy his appeal and impact. But it’s a hopeless, almost laughable endeavor. They led boycotts against his advertisers -- yet his show continues to generate more revenue than any other on radio. They pressured his affiliates to drop his program, but he’s still heard on more than 600 stations -- more than any other talk host. They tried to keep him off Armed Forces Radio, of course, but he has the most popular program on the military’s radio network.

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Conservatives Need To Cut Slick Some Slack Satire

Satire By John W. Lillpop

For the past 16 years, conservatives all across our great land have railed at the personage of William Jefferson Clinton. The «Liar in Chief» is one of the kinder monikers bestowed upon the man from Hope, Arkansas who apparently believes that truth is more of an enemy than communism, poverty, AIDS, and Islamofascism combined.

From his hate affair with the U.S. military and traditional family values, to his love affair with damn near anything female, conservatives long ago decided that «Slick Willie» was the devil incarnate.

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Special Operations Warrior: For The kids of Our Troops By Marie Jon’

We all have heard about Operation Swarmer Insurgence, Operation Move Forward Together, The Surge and other various military terms to describe actions taken to win the peace in Iraq. We are winning in Iraq because we have a president who has stayed the course. God bless our awesome troops, as they have shown courage, fortitude, and honor while fighting for freedom.

The people of Iraq and Afghanistan are building democracies. They will need our support and prayers to help them succeed. God’s people believe that: «With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.» (Matthew 19:26)

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Multicultural Thought Police - Coming to your neighborhood soon

The citizens of Europe and Great Britan have already lost their freedom of speech to the dhimmified multi-culturalist thought police. This has been obvious for some time. The blight of British blogger Lionheart, who is facing arrest in Britain, is just the latest example.

If you are of the opnion that it can’t happen here, you would be seriously mistaken. The same process that has been going on in Europe and Great Britan is underway right here in the USA as well as the rest of the world.

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At War with Mexico By Alan Caruba

It’s an issue that will dominate the elections in 2008. It is illegal immigration, but there was scarce attention paid during the debates leading up to the Iowa caucuses. The candidate that promises to put a stop to it will be the candidate that wins. The party that temporizes will be the party that fails.

The conflict in Iraq has siphoned the energy to pay attention to Mexico, but as that battlefront recedes, the eyes of voters will be on our southern border. A war is being fought there. Some may argue that no such war has been authorized or declared, but a full-scale invasion has been taking place for years, resulting in an estimated one tenth of all Mexicans presently living in the United States.

They are not pilgrims. They are parasites.

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Jerusalem belongs to the Jews by history, religion and law By Ted Belman

Jews all over the world are preparing to rally to save Jerusalem as the united and undivided capital of Israel. Their efforts will reach an apex during the visit by Bush next week. But the fight for Jerusalem is ongoing as a result of the Annapolis Conference at which discussion were held about the division of Jerusalem . The fight to save Jerusalem will continue after Bush leaves.
Abbas demands that Israel abandon all the land seized by Israel in ‘67 including all settlements thereon which Israel incorporated into Jerusalem. Olmert wants to divide the city based on Jewish areas vs Arab areas. An agreement is nowhere in sight, thank G-d.

It is important to understand what the law, such as it is, provides.

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Expo and the Islamophobes By Fjordman

The Swedish far-Left, anti-racist organization Expo recently released a publication ( pdf, in Swedish) entitled “Kriget mot islam,” “The war against Islam,” in which they worried about an increasing trend towards “organized Islamophobia” in the West. According to them, “Parallel with the growth of SIOE, a new anti-Islamic network of academics, bloggers and politicians is taking shape. The network has no formal name, but meets at so-called anti-Jihad conferences. The first known meeting was in Copenhagen on the 14th of April this year. Behind the event was the network Center for Vigilant Freedom (CVF).”

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Denying Muslim Visas By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

In a controversial ad that's sending his libertarian fans into orbit, Paul proposes tough new immigration policies, including denying visas to Muslim students from terrorist states.

Paul, a congressman from south Texas, also proposes ending "birthright citizenship," which allows the children of Middle Eastern and other illegal immigrants to stay in America. Such anchor babies now include the offspring of jailed or deported terrorists.

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Socialized Medicine - How About Socialized Education By Daniel Muniz

Liberals love to use the word “free” whenever they discuss public policy. By saying that something useful is “free” almost makes it sound Utopian because after all, it doesn’t cost anything. But in real world pragmatism, nothing is ever free. Somebody has to pay for it and it always ends up being the taxpayer. As a result, public education isn’t free and it never has been. It is outrageously expensive.

But the real question is whether or not public education is a success?

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Attack on "hate speech" is an attack on the messenger By Douglas J. Hagmann

5 January 2008: Pictured above, Safaa IBRAHIM is the Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) - San Francisco Bay Area chapter in Santa Clara, California. Personally, I believe that she should also be yet another of CAIR’s poster children for advocating the repression of free speech when inconvenient facts get in the way of intellectual honesty.

At issue is a column written by Cinnamon Stillwell titled "Savage vs. CAIR: The battle over free speech" that appeared in SF Gate on December 19, 2007. In that column, Ms. Stillwell offered well documented evidence of CAIR’s pattern of strategic aggression and tactics against those who disagree with their ideology and objectives, citing the case of talk radio giant Michael Savage as the latest in a series of examples. Ms. Stillwell’s position was cogent, her arguments well defined, and her points both contemporary and relevant. Arguably, the facts she presented about the history and actions of CAIR could well be described as “best evidence” if her discourse was offered in a courtroom environment.

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Epiphany revealed! By Marcellino D'Ambrosio

Caspar, Balthasar, Melchior. These “three kings of Orient are” found, complete with crowns and camels, in every nativity scene.

Yet if you look closely at the gospel account of the Magi (Mat 2:1-12), you won’t find these names. Actually there is no mention of how many Magi there were or that they were kings riding camel-back.

This is a testimony to something some Bible Christians would like to deny: that all who read a text of Scripture do so in the light of some tradition, through some lens. If it is the right lens, it magnifies the text and allows us to get at its true meaning. If it is the wrong lens, we get a distorted image.

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Let the Battle for the Heart & Soul of Great Britain commence! :: Lionheart

I would like to thank everyone for their messages of support and for the exposure of this on your own sites now that I know I am going to be arrested by British detectives on suspicion of stirring up Racial Hatred through my blog.

I have had murdering Pakistani Moslems from Luton wanting to kill me during the course of 2007 because I helped the police arrest and imprison one of them who was selling heroin and crack cocaine in my community and now I have this to look forward to in 2008.

I went to ground in 2007 and covered my tracks so that I have been untraceable by anyone.

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The cross and the crescent :: The Economist

THIS has been a bad year for Orhan Ant. As a Protestant missionary in Samsun, on the Black Sea, he has had death threats and his church has been repeatedly stoned. Local newspapers called him a foreign agent. A group of youths tried to kidnap him as he was driving home. His pleas for police protection have gone unheeded.

Mr Ant is not alone. All over Turkey, Christians are under attack. In January Hrant Dink, an ethnic Armenian newspaper editor, was shot dead in Istanbul by a teenager who said he had “insulted Turkishness”. In April two Turks and a German, all evangelists, were murdered in Malatya. Their killers bound and tortured them before slitting their throats. In December an Italian Catholic priest was knifed by a teenager in Izmir. Another Italian priest was shot dead in Trabzon in 2006.

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The future belongs to Islam By MARK STEYN

Sept. 11, 2001, was not "the day everything changed," but the day that revealed how much had already changed. On Sept. 10, how many journalists had the Council of American-Islamic Relations or the Canadian Islamic Congress or the Muslim Council of Britain in their Rolodexes? If you'd said that whether something does or does not cause offence to Muslims would be the early 21st century's principal political dynamic in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, most folks would have thought you were crazy. Yet on that Tuesday morning the top of the iceberg bobbed up and toppled the Twin Towers.

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Fighting Vote Fraud With Photo ID By Robert Bluey

All eyes will be on New Hampshire Wednesday morning for the first true primary in the 2008 elections. But even as hardy New Englanders trudge to the polls, something at least as consequential will happening in Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a major case on election law.

In Crawford v. Marion County Election Board and Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita, the court will tackle the issue of vote fraud. The arguments will revive the debate over voter disenfranchisement that raged after the contested presidential election of 2000.

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My Anti-Feminist Fatwa By Mike S. Adams

In 2004, Elizabeth Ervin, then-Director of the UNC-Wilmington Women’s Resource Center (WRC) sent a mass email to some feminists participating in a discussion on a list serve at Dartmouth College. Under the subject line “I need some support!” she complained that a group of feminist speakers coming to give a talk during Women’s History Month (formerly known as “March”) had received death threats. She suggested I was responsible for the death threats. Ervin said:

“…I'm tired of having to pay so much attention to a guy who lies and distorts and smirks and issues anti-feminist fatwa!”

In response to her accusation that I had encouraged death threats, another feminist suggested that letters be sent directly to me showing support for the WRC. To this, Ervin responded with the following:

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