Alfred Must Die so that Mahmoud May Live By Daniel Greenfield

There’s always a price for everything, socialism though builds its promises on a government bureaucracy that will give you a free lunch. But the government bureaucracy isn’t free and there’s quite a tab to pick up for the lunch too.

The problem with offering a free lunch is that someone still has to pay for it. When doled out by the government medicine comes packaged with a massive bureaucracy to implement, distribute and manage it. Whatever the system may promise, resources are never infinite and hospital wards, doctors and drugs don’t grow on trees and it has to be paid for in the end.

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Open Border Shyster John McCain Deserves a Dunce Cap By Pam Meister

In the days of yore, students who did not make a valid attempt to learn their lessons and acquitted themselves badly at recitation time were sometimes relegated to a corner of the room in order to shame them. Sometimes a pointed cap would be put on their heads as a warning to other students: learn your lessons or you’ll be the next fool on display.

In today’s world, putting a student in a corner – much less with a dunce cap – would land the teacher in hot water, not the student who would rather play video games than study history or science. But I’d like to slap a big, fat dunce cap on John McCain, the man who claims to have learned his lesson when it comes to border security and amnesty for illegal aliens.

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COMRADE HILLARY By Roderick T. Beaman

Be very afraid!! (Unless YOU too are a part of the problem.)

I did a web search for them and wound up at www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/marxist.asp. Snopes is the website that debunks various Urban Legends. It takes each of these statements and places them in their proper context. This particular authorship is by Barbara and David Mikkelson.

Their proper context is supposed to assure us that they are nowhere near as frightening as the originator of the e-mail. As far as I was concerned, it did nothing of the sort.

For instance, we are supposed to feel better because Hillary’s audience for the first statement was a group of wealthy Democrats at a fundraiser for Barbara Boxer. However, there can be no doubt that far more people than those in her audience were the targets of her predicted repeal of tax breaks. The reader can follow the link in the article directly and make up his own mind.

There can be no doubt that the Democratic Party has been socialist for 75 years now. The question that must be asked, though, is it actually communist?

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Islamists planned attacks across Europe :: Reuters

Islamist extremists were planning attacks across Europe, especially against public transport, before their arrests in Barcelona last weekend, a Spanish paper reported on Saturday, citing a would-be attacker's testimony.

The Al Qaeda-inspired cell planned to attack the Barcelona metro and other targets in Spain, Germany, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, said the bomber turned police informant.

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State Actors in Criminal/Terrorist Pipelines By Douglas Farah

Stateless regions and/or failed states have become a hot, if often-shoddily- investigated topic in the counter-terrorism world. In my conception of the criminal/terrorist pipelines, there are important holes in general literature.

One of the primary ones is the limited ability to disaggregate truly failed or stateless regions from states that are not failed, but rather function as criminal enterprises. These states, in some ways, are more valuable to terrorist and criminal organizations than true, stateless regions.

The reason is demonstrated by the benefits that accrue to these groups from state actors, such as the ability to acquire legal passports.

Victor Bout and many others used states to secure End User Certificates to purchase weapons, obtain diplomatic passports, aircraft registries and countless other benefits that only a state can confer, despite the overall weakening of the nation-state structure.

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Obama and Israel, continued By Noah Pollak

There has been an awakening in recent days to the presence of a disturbing number of foreign policy advisers to the Obama campaign who harbor hostile views of Israel. Ed Lasky of the American Thinker has been doing serious work on the subject, and his two pieces — here and here — are must-reads. Caroline Glick adds to the discussion here.

But there is another Obama foreign policy adviser–a prominent one–who has so far escaped criticism. This is Samantha Power, a Harvard professor, journalist, and human rights specialist who of late has become a high-profile liberal critic of American foreign policy.

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Why McCain Is Wrong for the Right By Chuck Muth

For conservatives with long memories, John McCain is about the worst possible Republican presidential nominee--unless, of course, anyone still thinks Mike Huckabee actually has a shot at the brass ring, or you like seeing the GOP split asunder.  And the reason why can perhaps best be summed up in two words: McCain-Feingold.

Sen. McCain’s campaign finance reform bill--which he pushed relentlessly, almost to the exclusion of everything else--was a frontal attack on the right of free speech.  Not commercial or pornographic free speech, mind you.  Political free speech.  The kind of speech the founders clearly had in mind when they emphatically declared that Congress shall make no law abridging.

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Examining Republican Self-Destruction and the Term ‘RINO’ By Frank Salvato

I have been avoiding the discussion of who I am supporting for the Republican presidential nomination in deference to urging others to thoroughly examine the platforms, agendas and records of all those in contention.

Only by taking the time to circumvent the agenda-driven propaganda of the mainstream media (and in some cases its non-coverage of certain candidates) can we truly understand who each candidate is and what he – or she – stands for. With both my first and second choices now out of the race I believe it is time to examine the Conservative communities troubling propensity to self-destruct and the accurate definition of the term “RINO.”

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Iowa Legislature Opened With Islamic Curse

In January of 2008, the Iowa House of Representatives was opened with an invocation which included this phrase:
"Victory over those who disbelieve". That information comes from a newspaper article: By: Erin Ballou, Pilot Tribune Staff Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, January 24, 2008. It was included in an email from Act For America, which you can read on line at ACT's news page.

The malediction is derived from Allah's book of damnation.

2:286. Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope. He gets reward for that (good) which he has earned, and he is punished for that (evil) which he has earned. "Our Lord! Punish us not if we forget or fall into error, our Lord! Lay not on us a burden like that which You did lay on those before us (Jews and Christians); our Lord! Put not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Pardon us and grant us Forgiveness. Have mercy on us. You are our Maula (Patron, Suppor-ter and Protector, etc.) and give us victory over the disbelieving people."

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The Huckster Takes NumbersUSA Pledge. Too Bad For NumbersUSA. By Marcus Epstein

With every Republican candidate scrambling to position themselves as genuine patriotic immigration reformers, Mike Huckabee was given a great boost when he signed NumbersUSA’s "No Amnesty" Pledge. NumbersUSA President and CEO, Roy Beck went down in person to South Carolina to appear at a signing ceremony with Huckabee. Beck told supporters that

“Every candidate claims to oppose amnesty, but few define amnesty the way most Americans do. I applaud Gov. Huckabee for defining amnesty correctly, and for pledging to fully enforce laws that would take away the jobs and benefits magnets that draw illegal aliens here – and that keep them here” [Huckabee Has Someone Else Do the Knocking, By Joy Lin, CBS News, January 16, 2008]

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Private Philanthropy: Bad for Socialism by Thomas Brewton

Only a socialistic Federal government is capable, says the Times, of making wise decisions about dispensing money to achieve social justice.

The flip side of American private largess is the stinginess of the public sector. Philanthropic contributions in the United States — about $300 billion in 2006 — probably exceed those of any other country. By contrast, America’s tax take is nearly the lowest in the industrial world. Federal, state and local tax collections amount to just more than 25.5 percent of the nation’s economic output. The Finnish government collects 48.8 percent. As a result, the United States spends less on social programs than virtually every other rich industrial country, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Finnish government probably has money to build children’s health clinics.

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Soros nation: Hedge fund operator controlling Democratic politicians, media By Cliff Kincaid

Our media have treated us to endless replays of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama attacking one another’s corporate ties.

Obama said Clinton had been a corporate lawyer on the board of Wal-Mart, while Clinton countered that Obama did favors for a slumlord who contributed to his political campaign. But there’s more to this than charges and counter-charges and a desperate race for the White House. It is apparent that both of these candidates are “corporate Democrats” with substantial ties to the business community. But haven’t we been told by the media that the Republicans are the party of Big Business?

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Capitalism Doesn't Work, Mr. Gates? By Lawrence Kudlow

Bill Gates, bloviating at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is issuing a clarion call for a "kinder capitalism" to aid the world's poor. Gates says he has grown impatient with the shortcomings of capitalism. He thinks it's failing much of the world. This, of course, from a guy who's worth around $35 billion (give or take a billion).

Don't you just love it?

A guy without a college degree who invented a new technology process in his garage that literally changed the entire world, a guy who took advantage of all the great opportunities that a free and capitalist society has to offer and got filthy rich in the process, is now trashing capitalism and telling us it doesn't work. What chutzpah.

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Bush's Economic Surrender By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Here's one group that isn't much stimulated by the White House's economic pact: Republican presidential hopefuls. The general sentiment among most of the campaigns? Thanks for nothing.

The Bush administration unveiled its $150 billion feel-good stimulus package yesterday, with President Bush praising the "good will on all sides." The package, with its "middle-class" tax rebates and minor assortment of business benefits, isn't likely to help the economy. But it did allow the political class to provide itself some cover if things continue to go south. After all, Washington "did something."

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America's First Amendment Lifeline by Alyssa A. Lappen

World War II began long before the outbreak of military hostilities, with the Nazi campaign to silence its critics. Yet 63 years after the end of World War II, the U.S. today faces new threats to free speech.

Islamic terrorists and their advocates have increasingly succeeded in silencing critics of hatred and inhumanity, much as the Nazis silenced theirs, through intimidation -- but also now, through the courts.

The presidential candidates should all speak up, but unfortunately, none have yet addressed the issue.

Hillary Clinton has a gigantic $10 million “conflict of interest,” in the form of Saudi donations to the Clinton Library and Foundation, according to former Clinton political consultant Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. But Democrats Barak Obama and John Edwards and Republicans Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Mike Huckabee have also been eerily silent.

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Grievance-Based Terrorism By Melvin E. Lee

The fundamental premise of much scholarly examination and public discourse is that grievances with U.S. policies in the Middle East motivate Islamist terrorism. Such assumptions, though, misunderstand the enemy and its nature. In reality, the conflict is sparked not by grievance but rather by incompatibility between Islamist ideology and the natural rights articulated during the European Enlightenment and incorporated into U.S. political culture. Acquiescing to political grievances will not alter the fundamental incompatibility between Lockean precepts of tolerance and current interpretations of Islam: Only Islam's fundamental reform will resolve the conflict.

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The Surreal World of the Progressive Left By David Horowitz

It is not for nothing that George Orwell had to invent terms like “double-think” and “double-speak” to describe the universe totalitarians created. Those who have watched the left as long as I have, understand the impossible task that progressives confront in conducting their crusades. Rhetorically, they are passionate proponents of “equality” but in practice they are committed enthusiasts of a hierarchy of privilege in which the highest ranks are reserved for themselves as the guardians of righteousness, and then for those they designate “victims” and “oppressed,” who are thus worthy of their redemption. Rhetorically they are secularists and avatars of tolerance, but in fact they are religious fanatics who regard their opponents as sinners and miscreants and agents of civil darkness. Therefore, when they engage an opponent it is rarely to examine and refute his argument but rather to destroy the bearer of the argument and remove him from the plain of battle.

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Frank Discussions: Jonah Goldberg :: IMAO

Jonah Goldberg's finally finished and released his book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. People seem to love Liberal Fascism (Goldberg has a whole blog to keep track of reactions; apparently some liberals are hostile to it) as its been selling out everywhere and even Amazon.com ran out of stock. Actually, it's kinda pointless telling you about it since you can't buy it. Still, I decided to interview Jonah Goldberg to see if I could get a free copy out of the deal (I'm still waiting).

Q. You seem to be doing a great service to liberals by pointing out their fascistic tendencies. I know if I were doing fascist things, I'd like someone to point it out so I could stop. How grateful have liberals been thus far?

I've been told that in some cultures, huge piles of dog feces wrapped in burning brown paper and comments on the promiscuity of relatives on your matrilineal line are considered enormous compliments. So by that standard, things are great!

Unfortunately, we don't live in one of those cultures.

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Global Warming: The All-Purpose Farce to Control Your Life By Kevin James

Democrats say they want government to stay out of your bedroom.

Actually, they want government in every room of your house and in the ventilation system as well.

By now, you’ve probably heard about the proposal of the California Energy Commission to require that all new homes in the state be outfitted with a “programmable communicating thermostat,” an Orwellian device which would allow the government to control the temperature inside your house. Imagine: a government bureaucracy along the lines of the Department of Motor Vehicles or the U.S. Postal Service controlling the comfort level you are allowed to maintain inside your own home!

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Why We Can't Accept the Premise of the Liberal Global Warming Hoax and Learn to Love Senator McCain :: Rush Limbaugh

Many of you people have heard me speak glowingly and favorably, and I will continue to do so, by the way, this is just a blip here, of Jim Geraghty at the National Review Online.  Now, Jim got started on a blog at National Review Online in 2004. His blog was called The Kerry Spot, and it was TKS, and it was chronicling the comings and goings of the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, and it was fabulous.  Geraghty's written a couple books, we recommended them here. Geraghty's been on the show.  But he's got a post here today.  The name of his blog now is Campaign Spot and this is what he writes about McCain.  "'How Skeptical on Climate Change Can the GOP Be In 2008?' -- One of the arguments being deployed against McCain is that he's unrepresentative of the party on climate change and global warming. Robert Tracinski argues:  But the biggest problem for Republicans with McCain's candidacy is his stance on global warming.'  It's one of many.  It's not the biggest.  It's just one of many, and they're equally big.  But I now continue.  

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Disenfranchised Conservatives, Stolen Elections By JR Dieckmann

The 2008 primary election process has clearly been unfair to conservative candidates, and here's why. Several liberal and moderate/independent states chose to hold their primary elections and caucuses early, all wanting to be first - so they said. But look at what has happened as a result. Conservative candidates like Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter have been drummed out of the race by breaking their bank accounts in non conservative states before the rest of the country ever had a chance to vote for them. Is this what we call "fair and democratic elections?”

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McCain Hasn't Learned Lesson on Immigration By Michelle Malkin

After spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, "straight-talking" GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first. On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans' trust in their government's ability to defend the homeland.

"I got the message," he told voters in South Carolina. "We will secure the borders first."

But how can McCain cure citizens' distrust when his own credibility on the issue remains fatally damaged? He doesn't believe his own election-year spin. And he knows we know it. This is cynicism on steroids with a speedball chaser.

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Fifty Million Lives After Roe vs. Wade By Christopher Adamo

This week marks thirty-five years since the Supreme Court’s monstrous “Roe v. Wade” decision gave a blanket legalization to abortion, and by which the feminists claim that women have been greatly elevated in society.  At this milestone, it is worthwhile to ponder the horrendous consequences they have paid.

The network news headlines on any average day reveal the grim facts.  Women can comfortably degrade themselves in public, burdened with far less vocal judgment than they endured in the past.  Perhaps, according to the twisted thinking of some, this constitutes an improvement.  Yet on too many other fronts, their status in society has been significantly lowered.  And abortion has been a major contributing factor.

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Study on Bush's Iraq Deception and Lies: Full of Deception and Lies by Bob Owens

The Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and other news organizations — not to mention political bloggers from both the left and right —were buzzing Wednesday morning over an online report issued by The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and a related organization, The Fund for Independence in Journalism (FIJ).

The report, entitled Iraq: The War Card—Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War, claims that President Bush and top administration officials were complicit in issuing hundreds of false statements regarding the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq after the 9/11/2001 terror attacks in a run-up to the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003.

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The New True Believers: What we should have learned about fanatical mass movements By Clifford D. May

Adolf Hitler was evil and perhaps a madman. But throughout history, there have been many evil madmen in many corners of the Earth. Few have attracted millions of passionate followers; fewer still have conquered Europe and committed genocide. So what made Hitler different and – for a time – effective?

Start with this short list: He understood propaganda, the dynamics of public opinion formation, what it takes to persuade. He comprehended the mechanics of mass movements, how to harness the dark desires of restive crowds. And there was nothing – no matter how vile or inhuman -- he would not do to achieve his ends.   

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Journalism's Lazy Lie Protectors By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The so-called Center For Public Integrity is a "non-profit" funded by the profits of left-wing billionaire George Soros. It also gets foundation support from the Heinz Endowments, chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.

You'd think that in a presidential campaign year, a "study" by an organization propped up with money from someone who contributed more to defeat George W. Bush than anyone, plus cash from the wife of the man who ran against Bush in 2004, would be treated skeptically by our oh-so-impartial and professional mainstream media.

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I miss Fred :: Power Line

The rap on Fred Thompson was that he lacked energy and spark. But tonight's snooze-fest of a Republican candidates’ debate surely could have used Fred, at least the Fred of the South Carolina debate a few weeks ago. It wasn't just that the candidates didn't clash; the event at times bordered on a love-fest. Even Ron Paul was subdued.

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Where will the next disaster strike? By Yury Zaitsev

Today scientists are predicting that the warming, which is a source of deep concern, will soon give way to a cold spell - the observed rise in temperature is of a strictly natural origin and has nothing to do with the greenhouse effect.

Late 2007 and early 2008 have become a real trial for both the Old and New Worlds. Heavy snowfalls and frosts have paralyzed life for some time in California, states in America's Northwest, and the countries of Western and Central Europe.

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The coming American matriarchy By Jonathan Rauch

Suppose you could memorize only a single demographic number and you set about choosing the one with the most far-reaching implications for change in America. You could do worse than 1.5.

Of course, there are plenty of possibilities: the birth rate, the teen-pregnancy or illegitimacy rate, the percentage of the population that is white or foreign-born, the percentage of elderly. But unpack 1.5 and you have the makings of a social inversion: a turning upside down of the male-dominated order that Americans have taken for granted since — well, since forever.

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British Power Stations are on Al Qaeda's list of Targets :: Lionheart

You have to ask the question as to why it has taken the government several years to implement security measures on some of Britain's most vulnerable infrastructures that could cause mass devastation to the country - Thank God an Islamic terror attack has not unfolded already.

Do the British intelligence services now have credible information detailing any new Al Qaeda plans to target these types of key instillation's so as to cripple the running of our Country?

Al Qaeda's plans to target British Power Stations came to light after the biggest security operation ever in British history which was mounted in 2005 that targeted known Al Qaeda terrorists linked to the 7/7 bombers who were planning their own devastating Islamic terror attacks within mainland Britain. This plot is commonly known around the World as 'The Fertiliser' plot and was smashed up by the British security services in their investigation that was codenamed 'operation crevice'.

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‘Pro-Choice’ Clergy Mark ‘Roe’ Anniversary By ‘Blessing’ Abortion Clinic By Matthew Balan

An article in Wednesday’s Albany Times-Union carried the deceptive title "35 years pass, but not debate: Demonstrations mark 1973 high court ruling affirming right to abortion." Instead of covering any of the various pro-life or pro-choice demonstrations over the past few days, the Times-Union spent the bulk of article discussing a ceremony at a new Planned Parenthood facility in Albany where local clergy "blessed" the clinic. Only two sentences mentioned that "Capital Region activists joined voices with their counterparts nationwide to mark the day" and that the annual March for Life was being held in Washington, DC.

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‘Straight Talk’ Express takes scenic route to truth By Ann Coulter

John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most "electable" Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn't lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

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THE NEW 'LEPERS' By Ralph Peters

I'VE had a huge response to Tuesday's column about The New York Times' obscene bid to smear veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan as mad killers. Countless readers seem to be wondering: Why did the paper do it?

Well, in the Middle Ages, lepers had to carry bells on pain of death to warn the uninfected they were coming. One suspects that the Times would like our military veterans to do the same.

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Old: Global warming increases hurricanes. New: Global warming decreases hurricanes. :: HOT AiR

Why don’t we just take the average and say that since global warming may or may not even be happening, and if it is then the Sun might be the main cause, it’s impossible to say if global warming is having any effect on hurricanes at all?

Oh, right. That makes for a lousy scare-headline and can’t be turned to anyone’s political advantage.

Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how manmade global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.

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Anti-Bush campaign planned By JIM KUHNHENN :: AP

A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to ensure that President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.

Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign, spending the bulk of the money on advertising, to keep public attention on what the group says are the Bush administration's failures, including the war in Iraq, the response to Hurricane Katrina and the current mortgage crisis.

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Shame on You By Peter Wehner

Of all the people on planet Earth, is there anyone who has less standing to utter the words “Shame on you” than Bill Clinton? Yet there he was yesterday, scolding a television reporter for asking him about criticisms by other Democrats that he is leveling unfair and inaccurate attacks against Senator Barack Obama. For a man of bottomless dishonesty and irresponsible behavior to act morally offended about anything, especially for being asked about his own role in spreading false charges against a political opponent, is a remarkable thing to see.

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Remember Charlotte Perry :: Joseph Farah

While considering the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency, it's important to remember the way she and her husband, when they were in power, victimized innocent, hard-working people – often minorities – to get what they wanted.

One such forgotten victim is Charlotte Perry.

It was 16 years ago, yesterday, that Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton's longtime mistress, held her famous press conference exposing their relationship. Most of the media chalked up Flowers' confession to sour grapes, an inconsequential revelation only of a skeleton in the president's personal life.

Yet, it was actually much more.

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So's Your Old Man By Christopher Chantrill

Conservatives have long understood that socialism and fascism are two sides of the same coin.  They are both reactionary movements attempting to roll back the modern era to a simpler, less corrupt age driven by something higher than money, money, money.

Marx expressed this disdain in The Communist Manifesto:

"The bourgeoisie... has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‘cash payment.'"

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Happy Birthday, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy! By Bruce Walker

On Sunday,  January 27, 2008, our nation celebrates an important political anniversary.  Ten years ago Hillary Clinton (then the First Lady) went on television with Matt Lauer and said: 

"This is the great story here for anybody willing to find and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."

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Hillary and Bill Use Alinksy Tactics To Bring Down Obama By Kyle-Anne Shiver

Obama was up; now he's down.  Even though Obama seems to be harnessing the South Carolina black vote that will give him that state's delegates, he has been feeling the brunt of the Clintons' mastery of the tactic of  polarization, taught decades ago to Hillary by Saul Alinsky.

Obama is being forced into the position of being the black candidate. Successfully polarizing Obama, who has attempted to run as the anti-polarity uniter, a man in the middle, has not been a lazy-day walk in the park for the Clintons, and surely would not have been attempted if Obama hadn't trounced them in Iowa. 

Alinsky's 13^th rule for radicals

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

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Bush Called It Macaroni By Quin Hillyer

The presidential campaign trail is not the only place where conservatism is being routed this month. We're also being shoved under the desk in the Oval Office.

President George W. Bush has begun his final year in office by moving sharply leftward. It's as if he is finally vying for the Strange New Respect Award from the liberal East Coast elites. The effort, of course, is futile -- not to mention wrongheaded and potentially disastrous for the country.

How doth the president shaft us? Let us count the ways.

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The Moral Economy By Victor Davis Hanson

In this heated campaign season, housing prices are plummeting. Banks write off billions of dollars in unrecoverable debt. The stock market wildly fluctuates almost hourly. Candidates promise painless and near instant relief.

But despite the politicians' rhetoric, it is not hard to understand why America is in trouble.

First, there has been too much madcap real estate speculation. In recent years, housing prices were driven sky-high on the expectation that almost anyone, often with little security, could profit by borrowing easy money to buy and sell property.

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Kerry Goes Down with His Swift Boat, Again By Dennis Byrne

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) now has accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of the worst possible--in his mind--evil: "Swiftboating" his choice for president, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).

Kerry, demonstrating a child-like inability to let go, on Tuesday dragged out the swiftboating analogy in an e-mail responding to what he called "disgusting lies" that "they" are floating that Obama is a secret Muslim and refuses to observe the Pledge of Alliance.

Kerry doesn't say who "they" are, but it's clear, considering the deteriorating civility of the two campaigns that he was referring to the Clinton camp. Kerry equates the "disgusting lies" told about Obama with what happened to him when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth challenged Kerry's claims, made during his presidential campaign, of bravery and heroism in the Vietnam War.

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Democratic Socialism v. Republican Socialism: Is That Our Choice in 2008? By JB Williams

The Democrat Party is owned and operated by the Democratic Socialists of America. All modern Democrat candidates propose growing the federal government to a social services giant involved in every aspect of individual life and paid for by “the rich.”

“Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives.” – From the web-site http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

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Hillary's Health Care Cabal By Tom Fitton

Judicial Watch released new documents last week from the Clinton Presidential Library regarding Hillary’s botched attempt to stage a government takeover of our nation’s healthcare system in 1993.  Our investigators found them during a trip to the Clinton Library in Little Rock last year.

Here are a few highlights from what we found:

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DePaul’s “1984” Moment By Nicholas G. Hahn III

If you were to tour DePaul University’s campus asking students about free speech, you would notice the hesitation in their answers. For the past couple of years, the DePaul administration has earned a reputation as a foe of controversial ideas, especially those that offend or challenge the status quo. This has tarnished DePaul’s academic standing as a quality institution. To remedy this problem, President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider created a Free Speech and Expression Task Force and charged it with creating a policy for free speech that would hopefully rebuff any claims that DePaul isn’t a friend of the free marketplace of ideas.

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A Response to Feminists on the Violent Oppression of Women in Islam By David Horowitz and Robert Spencer

The David Horowitz Freedom Center has succeeded in putting the feminists and Islamists on the defensive. As David Horowitz and Robert Spencer note in the article below, the DHFC's exposure of the feminist movement's lack of attention to women's rights in the Muslim world has caused many of the movement's most prominent activists to sign a letter protesting that they originated concern fro Muslim women. The letter, drafted by feminist writer Katha Pollitt, has been signed by such notables as:

• Susan Faludi, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women, which argues conservatives are trying to suppress American womyn, and The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, which claims terrorism provided a handy excuse for the American Right to begin binding women's feet again;
• Julianne Malveaux, who expressed her feelings about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on PBS' To the Contrary, "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease"
• Jennifer Baumgardner, a Nation writer whose idea of fighting female oppression is staging productions of The Vagina Monologues;
• Dana Goldstein, an employee of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress and a writing fellow at the Soros-funded The American Prospect; and
• More than 700 more leftists.

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John McCain: The Geraldo Rivera Republican by Michelle Malkin

After spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, "straight-talking" GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first. On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans' trust in their government's ability to defend the homeland.

"I got the message," he told voters in South Carolina. "We will secure the borders first."

But how can McCain cure citizens' distrust when his own credibility on the issue remains fatally damaged? He doesn't believe his own election-year spin. And he knows we know it. This is cynicism on steroids with a speedball chaser.

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An absolute refutation of Darwinism by Lawrence Auster

In the previous entry on Darwinism and teleology, Sage McLaughlin comments:

"I have discussed this at more length with other bloggers, but the easiest example I can think of is (of course) sex. Masculinity and femininity, and at a more profane level the male and the female, are in large measure teleological concepts."

It's funny that Mr. McLaughlin should mention this, because an hour or two before reading his e-mail, I was talking about evolution with a friend and we suddenly realized that one of the greatest evolutionary puzzles is the appearance of reproduction by sexual intercourse in vertebrates. In fishes and amphibians, there is no sexual intercourse. Fertilization is external. The female lays her eggs in the water and the male ejects his sperm over the eggs, and that's it. There is no direct physical contact between the sexes and no parental involvement with the young.

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American courtrooms: another 21st century battlefield By Douglas J. Hagmann

American courtrooms are as much a battlefront in the war against Islamic terrorism as are the volatile, terrorist-filled cities in Iraq and the mountains and caves of Afghanistan. Unfortunately, too few understand the role of our court system as a terrorist weapon of distraction and harassment, and the grave potential consequences to our country.

The multi-faceted events taking place within our legal system at the hands of rabid, anti-U.S. and anti-war dupes are poised to be as effective as the physical attacks that preceded them. In fact, they could well become insidiously more effective, as the victories of the terrorists and their supporters in this venue do not evoke the same emotional response as seeing planes strike buildings and people jumping to their deaths. And to the Islamic terrorists, so much the better.

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The Fallacy of Grievance-based Terrorism by Melvin E. Lee

The fundamental premise of much scholarly examination and public discourse is that grievances with U.S. policies in the Middle East motivate Islamist terrorism. Such assumptions, though, misunderstand the enemy and its nature. In reality, the conflict is sparked not by grievance but rather by incompatibility between Islamist ideology and the natural rights articulated during the European Enlightenment and incorporated into U.S. political culture. Acquiescing to political grievances will not alter the fundamental incompatibility between Lockean precepts of tolerance and current interpretations of Islam: Only Islam's fundamental reform will resolve the conflict.

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Bill Clinton’s legacy: the destruction of the Democratic Party :: Pundit Review

Let’s be honest here. The Clinton’s attacks on Barack Obama are designed to do one thing, make his skin color an issue. Barack Obama was able to win Iowa and place a strong second in NH without his race ever becoming an issue. The more race becomes an issue, the better it is for Hillary.

How did the Clinton’s make race an issue? Like all dishonest, sleezy politicians do, though their surrogates, of course. Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson had a terrific column on this back on the 17th,

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Of Rush and Reagan By Lisa Fabrizio

This past weekend saw the vocalization of a much hoped-for wish of liberals everywhere: that, as one Left-wing blogger put it, “Republicans are a collection of ‘Lost Boys’ right now, desperately looking for a national leader in the wake of the Bush disaster,” while Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday happily posited that, “there’s not a reassembling of the Reagan Coalition.”

        From the right, movie critic and radio talk-show host Michael Medved has concluded that, “The big loser in South Carolina was, in fact, talk radio: a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight.”

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Mexico's New Plan for Meddling in Our Government By Allan Wall

Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations states that "it is the duty of all persons enjoying such privileges and immunities (diplomats) to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State." Mexico is a stickler for enforcing the Vienna Convention in its own territory.

        But when it comes to Mexican diplomats in the United States, they constantly meddle in U.S. internal politics as it relates to immigration.  And our own government allows it.

        Mexican historian and journalist Lorenzo Meyer describes the situation thusly:

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The Clintons' Coal-Gate By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Hillary Clinton calls President Bush's talks with the Saudis about increasing oil output "pathetic." But it's not as pathetic as her co-president husband locking up billions of tons of clean coal in exchange for political contributions.

As Bush wrapped up his Middle East trip, Sen. Clinton commented: "President Bush is over in the Gulf now begging the Saudis and others to drop the price of oil. How pathetic."

A large part of America's energy dependence on foreign sources can be traced to Sept. 18, 1996, when President Bill Clinton stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon on the Arizona side and signed an executive proclamation making 1.7 million acres of Utah a new national monument.

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Action In The North Atlantic By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

On Tuesday, Russia delivered its fifth shipment of fuel for Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. This delivery brings the nuclear fuel supplied by Moscow to 55 tons, or two-thirds of the total order of 82 tons.

While Moscow helps Iran in its steady march to an Islamic bomb, Russia's military chief of staff on Saturday said Moscow would not hesitate to use its nuclear weapons pre-emptively against a perceived threat.

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DANISH MUSLIM PARTY SAYS DENMARK WILL BE THE FIRST MUSLIM NATION IN EUROPE :: Real Clear Religion

A website claiming to be the Danish Muslim Party (DAMP) has published a "press release" in English and Danish, saying that Denmark will be the first Muslim nation in Europe.
The website also states as follows:
"[W]e can assure you that everything will be better in muslim Denmark: No drugs, no crime, peace, and humanity- instead of drug culture, immorality, possibly human rights crimes and violence which we have now."
"Every immigrant or muslim in danish jails should be released from prisons, because it is possible that there has been plotting or framing or provocation towards them - and all cases should be investigated again carefully."

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An Ominous 2008: Journalists and voters to regret their decisions By Tony Blankley

As I write this, it is about 15 degrees outside my Virginia farm. Nonetheless, my llamas and sheep, deep in snow, seem perfectly cozy in their winter woolens; the peacocks are in their feathered wintered invulnerability to cold; the horses are in their winter hair and indomitable spirit; my cats, all curled up and sleepy; the dogs, slumbering by the fading embers of the fireplace. The Lord provides for his children. But we Republicans shiver in the cold and brace ourselves for the hard winds yet to come.

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John McCain: The Geraldo Rivera Republican By Michelle Malkin

After spearheading a disastrous, security-undermining illegal alien amnesty bill last year with Teddy Kennedy, "straight-talking" GOP Sen. John McCain claims he has seen the light. In TV appearances, he vows to put immigration enforcement first. On the campaign trail, he offers a perfunctory promise to strengthen border security and emphasizes the need to restore Americans' trust in their government's ability to defend the homeland.

"I got the message," he told voters in South Carolina. "We will secure the borders first."

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FRONT-GATE By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

It is now a well-established tradition in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate," establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate.

Well, let me be the first to suggest that a recent scandal in the Pentagon be known hereafter as "Front-gate" in recognition of the central role played in the drama by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization designated by the Justice Department as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). With the House and Senate both back in business this week, Front-gate should be subjected to close congressional scrutiny since it may involve the most strategically ominous case of official misconduct since the Clinton Administration's China-gate.

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Green Desperation Time By Alan Caruba

News of a January 31 «teach-in» on more than 1,000 college campuses nationwide strikes me of just one more example of the growing desperation of the environmental movement that has bet its credibility and influence on global warming.

Mark your calendar for any news about a March 2-4 conference in New York that is expected to draw between 400 and 500 global warming skeptics, i.e., scientists, economists, and policy experts. I suspect that print and broadcast journalists will do their best to ignore this event in what is arguably the media capitol of the nation, if not the world.

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Control by Carbon: The Totalitarian Side of Climate Change By Duane Lester

“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

- Hillary Clinton

You will be told, if you haven’t already, that climate change is “the defining challenge of our age.” So says Ban Ki Moon, the United Nation’s Secretary General. Global warming is “really going to kill us all.” You will be told that it is our fault, that the sun has little to do with the warming.

You will also be told that global warming is “the first component of authentic global governance.” Then again, you might not, but it is the most likely.
Climate change is the key to controlling the masses now. And many are willing to submit:

Eighty-three percent of people polled in 21 countries said a change in lifestyle and behavior for their countrymen would be necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the poll from BBC World Service.

The results of that poll are disturbing (not to mention suspect), and it makes me wonder what kind of changes our Green overlords have in store for us.

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Obam-O-Vision: My Race, Right or Wrong

by Erik Rush

I broke this story last February (with help from a Chicago area journalist whom I did credit because I’m extraordinarily noble), and as I said two weeks ago in this space, it had its fifteen minutes and fizzled, which was somewhat expected given the mindset of the establishment media.

The story of presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s controversial church and pastor has been given new life for a few reasons:

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Huckabee's Fat Lip Yammering On About Your Gastronomic Business by Frederick Meekins

Throughout his time in the public limelight, Republican Mike Huckabee has made obesity awareness one of his pet issues having lost over 100 pounds himself.  However, as is typical of most fanatics having come to a realization or a cause a little later in the game than most, it is not enough for them to keep what they have learned to themselves but now they are out to impose their new way of life to such an extent that they are willing to appeal to the mechanisms of the state in order to enforce their vision of reality.

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Bill Clinton’s legacy: the destruction of the Democratic Party :: Pundit Review

Let’s be honest here. The Clinton’s attacks on Barack Obama are designed to do one thing, make his skin color an issue. Barack Obama was able to win Iowa and place a strong second in NH without his race ever becoming an issue. The more race becomes an issue, the better it is for Hillary.

How did the Clinton’s make race an issue? Like all dishonest, sleezy politicians do, though their surrogates, of course. Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson had a terrific column on this back on the 17th,

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AP runs Soros-funded anti-war “study” as hard news :: HOT AiR

This AP story should have been labeled a press release. That’s what it amounts to.

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”

The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

        

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Thompson by Lawrence Auster

I haven't said anything about Fred Thompson's withdrawal from the race because I didn't have anything new to say about it. But John of Powerline's comments come close to my own feelings:

I ... agree with [Thompson] on pretty much every issue. So I've puzzled over why my reaction to his candidacy was more negative than positive.... My own first-hand encounter with Thompson generated no sense that he had any intangible quality that would add value to his generic conservative views.... [I]t was never clear how badly Thompson wanted to be President. For that matter, it wasn't clear how much he wanted to be a Senator. He bailed on the Senate shortly after September 11 for a career in Hollywood. Nothing wrong with that, but it isn't necessarily the profile of our number one choice to be President.

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Is Conservatism Dead? by J.R. Dieckmann

Is conservatism dead in America? It would seem so, or at least it has shrunk to a no longer viable political ideology. There was a time when the Republican party had it’s roots in conservatism. The party was based on conservative values of smaller government; low taxes; a strong national defense; freedom in commerce and industry for entrepreneurs to grow and expand their businesses and make a profit. The freedom and liberty of the people to choose their own path through life and develop to their full potential without excessive government interference in their lives was the standard.

What went wrong? I don’t really know, but obviously the mainstream Republican party is no longer conservative. This has become apparent in the current election campaigning for President of the United States of America.

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New Hillary Clinton White House Records by Tom Fitton

Judicial Watch released new documents last week from the Clinton Presidential Library regarding Hillary’s botched attempt to stage a government takeover of our nation’s healthcare system in 1993. Our investigators found them during a trip to the Clinton Library in Little Rock last year.

Here are a few highlights from what we found:

· A June 18, 1993 internal Memorandum entitled, “A Critique of Our Plan,” authored by P.S., which makes the startling admission that critics of Hillary’s health care reform plan were correct: “I can think of parallels in wartime, but I have trouble coming up with a precedent in our peacetime history for such broad and centralized control over a sector of the economy…Is the public really ready for this?... none of us knows whether we can make it work well or at all…” (Click here to read.)

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Chicken Little Is Right by Tom Donnelly & Gary Schmitt

On an early November day in the skies over southern Indiana, Maj. Steve Stilwell of the Missouri Air National Guard's 131st Fighter Wing was honing his air-to-air combat skills. As he threw his F-15 into a turn, he stressed his big Eagle at two to three times the force of gravity, a relatively gentle maneuver in the world of dogfighting. But it proved to be more than the 27-year-old fighter could handle: It began to shake violently, paralyzing Stilwell's left arm, and then the fuselage shattered just behind the cockpit. As the rear bulk of the plane fell away, Stilwell shot forward. "I kept telling myself: I gotta get out, I gotta get out," Stilwell remembered to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. "I found the ejection handle. .  .  . I am a little concerned why a plane would break in half."

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A Freer World is a Better World By John Stossel

This week's newspapers are full of predictions of an impending recession, and maybe they're right. But the great untold story is the good news: the worldwide boom in economic growth.

"I think one of the best kept secrets is that the world is in the midst of an economic boom, and it is largely driven by increases in economic freedom," says economics professor James Gwartney, director of the Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education at Florida State University. "The world has become more free, and, at the same time, growth is soaring to new highs. During 1995 to 2005, the growth rate of per capita GDP in 99 countries for which data are available has increased to 2.2 percent, nearly twice the rate of recent decades. Since 2000, the annual growth rate of per capita GDP has been even more rapid, 3.2 percent."

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Europe: Major Staging Area for Islamic Extremists By Sher Zieve

Europe, with its ongoing and uncontrolled colonization by Muslims and their attendant radical brothers and sisters into its midst, is now viewed as one of the world’s major training grounds for terrorists planning attacks against it and the USA. Europe’s area is large and its people are more consumed by and concerned with political correctness (PC) and allowing terrorists to express their own viewpoint (and ultimately their right to murder anyone who disagrees with them) than they are with their own survival. This also seems to be an increasing agenda and belief system within many in the United States.

US Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff said recently in a BBC interview:

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Straight Talk About The Straight-Talker By Henry Mark Holzer

There is a scene in the classic Elia Kazan film “Viva Zapata” when a young Emiliano Zapata for the first time meets his bride-to-be’s father, a shopkeeper manifestly unimpressed with his daughter’s suitor. The father calls Zapata “a man of substance, without substance.”

So, too, it is with John McCain. He is “a man of integrity without integrity”—meaning that the senator is reputed to have great integrity, but in fact has little, given the definition of that word: “the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards” (Encarta Dictionary).

Two different, but related, events that coalesced today are what have caused me to write on this subject.

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The Real Fairy-Tale by Monica Crowley

Once upon a time, there was a Mythical First Black President who held court with his white Wife. They lorded over the land, until he was impeached and she bolted for the world's greatest deliberative body.

Today, the Mythical First Black President is trying to help the Wife beat the Candidate who could be the Actual First Black President.

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Huckabee's Class Warfare By Don Feder

Borrowing a page from the left's playbook, Mike Huckabees supporters are now engaged in full-scale class warfare.

Their message to the right:  If you're skeptical about the Huckster, you're an elitist -- a coupon-clipping, Wall Street Republican snob who distains social conservatives and is prejudiced against evangelical Christians.

But once you get past the preacher-man façade, it's Huckabee who most resembles the old Rockefeller Republicans among the current crop of candidates. Take away his pro-life position and his primary posturing, and Huckabee is John Edwards with a $15-haircut -- a softer Hillary Clinton.

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Rearranging the Deck Chairs at the UN By Joseph Klein

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is certainly a big improvement over his predecessor, Kofi Annan. His quiet diplomacy and relative even-handedness in dealing with such issues as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his first year in office are a refreshing change from Annan’s disastrous tenure. However, in terms of the institution, the change at the top has made little difference. The United Nations continues to spiral downward.

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Are We Selling America's Heritage? By Jack Ward

David Walker, the U.S. Comptroller General, is on a fiscal wakeup tour of the United States warning us of our pending fiscal disaster.  Walker has added up all the federal government’s income and compared it to all our liabilities and future obligations ($53 trillion) and has concluded that the current level of spending is unsustainable.  ($53 trillion is about the total wealth of all the American households)

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America's Foreign Policy: Time to Stop Babysitting the World By John Hawkins

Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine complained that, "There is nothing inherently "conservative" about the war in Iraq, and nothing inherently objectionable to the idea that we should have a more humble, skeptical and cautious foreign policy.  The way that candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Hagel have been virtually drummed out of polite Republican circles for arguing that we should be more cautious and skeptical is eternally frustrating to me.  Even if I disagree with them, it's a valuable perspective--and, in the grand scheme of foreign policy, more often right than (wrong)."

        The problem Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel have is not truly that they're disagreeing with most of their fellow Republicans, it's that they're disagreeable fellows who’ve adopted the offensive rhetoric of the left as their own on foreign policy.

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The Navy’s Failing China Policy by Gordon G. Chang

The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific has just completed a four-day visit of China. From the look of things, little was resolved. And that’s not entirely the fault of the increasingly assertive Chinese. Admiral Timothy Keating did not take advantage of an important opportunity to set military ties on a firmer footing.

There is a clear need to do so. After Beijing denied a long-arranged Hong Kong port call to the Kitty Hawk on the day before last Thanksgiving, the carrier and its multi-ship strike group sailed back to its homeport in Japan through the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese immediately complained, expressing “grave concern.” Keating to his credit asserted the long-held policy of the United States Navy. “We don’t need China’s permission to go through the Taiwan Straits. It’s international water,” he said last Tuesday in Beijing. “We will exercise our free right of passage whenever and wherever we choose.”

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Aboard The Double-Talk Express By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Had Mitt Romney not withdrawn from South Carolina, he might have drawn enough Republican votes away from McCain to give the contest to Mike Huckabee. McCain would have been reduced to a one-hit wonder facing a barrage of primaries where only registered Republicans could vote.

Huckabee still would have faced state campaigns where evangelical is just a word in the dictionary, and not even the mainstream media, looking for a straw man for Hillary or Obama to knock down, would be able to save him.

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The List of 45

Years ago, a brave soul or two tried to bring to the attention of the American People that the Communist take over of America was well under way. They were chattered down and pretty much ignored through space and time. Much like today. Yet, we see every day or, at least which are tuned into reality, our political machinations stripping away at our freedoms time and time again.

It is called Identity Politics. It is called Multiculturalism. It is called Why Can't We All Get Along? It is called all manner of colored and disguised names and titles. Now, in these modern times, one can also include Cultural Jihad.

In today's rough and tumble and troubled times, we see that the ignorance of the masses has indeed brought about MANY policies of which, left unabated and unchallenged, will see the dreams and goals of the First Czarina of The United Socialist States of the Former United Free States of America. That Czarina would be the Madame Rodham, her supporters and her like-minded politicos.

Below is what I have called, The List of 45.

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Why Martin Luther King Was Republican by Frances Rice

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Apostles of Atheism and the Confusion of Faith By George Shadroui

Those who pile remorseless fact on remorseless fact in the name of rational science usually wind up constructing another idol, only one that is lifeless; that is their right and choice, but why should it surprise them that the rest of us refuse to bow down and worship with them?

What is one to make of the onslaught of atheist tracts over the past year or two – Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens, all raking the countryside with their discontent with religion?
Did all those Silent Nights and Merry Christmases and Happy Hanukkahs finally get to them? Has peace on earth good will toward men driven them to madness? Does the Nativity cut to the heart of their pain?

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The Misrepresentation of Martin Luther King By Gamaliel Isaac

By comparing Mahmoud Abbas to Reverend Martin Luther King, Condoleezza Rice has managed to sully the heritage of Jews and Blacks at the same time.

Last October, in Jerusalem, Rice compared the struggle of the Palestinians to that of the African-Americans for civil rights.  She also compared Mahmoud Abbas to Reverend Martin Luther King because in her mind they both are committed to peace. Mort Klein, the director of the Zionist Organization of America, upon hearing about this outrageous comparison, wrote:

The civil rights struggle in this country was fought by honorable, peaceable African-Americans and their supporters, not by jihadist murderers, suicide bombers, kidnappers and hostage-takers. How dare Secretary Rice desecrate the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King by comparing Mahmoud Abbas with him? Rice claims that Abbas is dedicated to peace and non-violence. Really? Did Martin Luther King call terrorists ‘heroes?’ Did he call terrorist chieftains ‘martyrs?’ Did he call upon his followers to direct their guns at Israelis . . . Mahmoud Abbas has done all these things, and more.

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Limbaugh on McCain, Limbaugh on Giuliani by Lawrence Auster

Anyone who imagines that the GOP might unite around John McCain is living in a fantasy. Consider what Rush Limbaugh is saying about McCain. Today Limbaugh spoke with unusual intensity about McCain's bald-faced lie that he has not supported amnesty. He reminded us of the one-day period set aside for discovering the criminal records of all 12 million illegal aliens prior to their being legalized under last year's S.1348, the worst atrocity in the history of legislation, a bill that McCain not only tried to push through the Senate without a debate, but called his fellow senators xenophobes for opposing. Limbaugh speaks of how McCain angrily says people are wrong when they speak the plain truth that he supported amnesty, as contrasted with Romney who has frankly admitted that he has changed his mind on issues, for example, abortion, and explains why he has changed his mind. Rush also mimics McCain's endlessly repeated, robotic claim to be "pro-life," then tells how McCain filed suit along with liberal Democrats to silence an anti-abortion group--an act that was "above and beyond McCain-Feingold," as Rush puts it.

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American Renaissance’s 2008 Conference: Thank You, Loonies! By Jared Taylor

Every two years since 1994, the magazine I edit, American Renaissance, has held a conference. Every two years, assorted loonies do us the favor of trying to shut it down. Which is to say that every two years, they both ensure splendid press coverage and reveal the true goal of the tolerance-and-diversity crowd: utter intolerance of diverse views.

American Renaissance takes the position that racial differences are real, that racial solidarity is part of human nature, and that multi-racial societies will always have racial conflict. All this is obviously true, which is why the lefties fly into such a rage when someone says so. Since the people at AR conferences are among the most thoughtful, persuasive people who have ever said so, their rage is intense.

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Will the Ice Caps Melt? By Jerome J. Schmitt

The engineer has learned vastly more from the steam-engine than the steam-engine will ever learn from the engineer."
-- Prof John B. Fenn, Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 2002

There is considerable debate over whether the "greenhouse gas" effect will raise the temperature of the atmosphere by between 1-5°C over the next 100 years. But even if you grant for the sake of argument the Warmist claim that the earth's atmosphere will go up a full five degrees Centigrade in temperature, Al Gore's claim that ocean levels will rise 20 feet thanks to global warming seems to ignore the laws of thermodynamics. I am no climatologist, but I do know about physics.

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Saving the Trees and Killing the Children By Kyle-Anne Shiver

What can be said of a society that has reached such a ludicrous level of moral confusion that it cannot even make the simplest value judgment, cannot even distinguish between the value of a tree and the value of a newly conceived, perfectly innocent, unique human being formed in God's own image?

A society adept at saving the trees and killing the children.

Can we rightly call this "enlightened"?

Dare one call it "progressive"?

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On Anniversary of Roe V. Wade, Celebrate "Life Before Birth"!

By John W. Lillpop

Thirty five years ago, on January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand.

Unhappy anniversary to all!

In ruling as they did, the justices became party to a human rights violation of monumental proportions.

Since 1973, nearly 50 million human lives have been exterminated through abortion in the United States. That is nearly eight times the number of Jews who perished at the hands of Adolph Hitler during the Holocaust, and roughly equal to the number of victims slaughtered by Joseph Stalin.

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More Sadness By G. Tracy Mehan, III

Recent news of the decline of abortions in America is welcome but hardly comforting. This month the nation observes the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's grisly decisions, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, that sanctioned abortion for all nine months of pregnancy, up to the very threshold of birth. For three and a half decades, America has witnessed the destruction of tens of millions of lives, numbers that dwarf Vietnam, September 11, Afghanistan, and Iraq many times over.

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The End of the Obama Revolution By Gabor Steingart

All of those people who've been dreaming of America's first black president now have to slowly wake up. It'll happen one day, hopefully, but not in this election. And perhaps his name will be Barack Obama. But that first black president will have a more mature personality than that which Obama, 46, can offer American voters today.

The senator from Illinois has now lost two primaries, losses that have turned the former superstar back into an ordinary candidate. And after the CNN debate on Monday night, one thing is clear: Obama is a candidate under friendly fire.

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Another Loony Theory from the Wonderland of Evolution By Dennis Campbell

Proponents of evolution remind me of the slightly dumb class clown who thinks people are laughing with him, while all the time they are snickering as he makes a goofy spectacle of himself.

Since they hold a materialist view of the world, evolutionists must have a materialist answer for everything from lust to love. It quickly reaches absurdity.

For example, why are men – at least some men – attracted to women with slim waists and flaring hips? Well, because it indicates the ability to pop out babies. Preservation of the species, you know. Of course, that fails to explain why some prefer the emaciated runway model look.

Examples of this foolishness are endless. But recently, a theory to explain why the majority of the public rejects the theory of evolution exceeds any previous preposterousness by an order of magnitude.

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Abortion Victims Remembered by Rep. Duncan Hunter

Thirty-five years ago today, seven of nine Supreme Court justices voted to make abortion a legal right in this country.  In the landmark case of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court dramatically changed our nation, ushering in an era that disrespects human life and fails to acknowledge our responsibility to value and protect life from the moment of conception.

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Chill Out on Global Warming By Bill Steigerwald

Holly Fretwell, an economist by training, has done her best to bring some needed critical thinking to the global-warming debate by writing The Sky’s Not Falling! -- Why It’s OK to Chill About Global Warming. Aimed at 8- to 12-year-olds and their parents, it is a good, reasoned, 115-page antidote to the Chicken Little hysteria and propaganda found in the mainstream media and in places like Laurie David’s kids book “The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming.” Fretwell is a research fellow who focuses on natural-resource issues and public-lands management at the free-market Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Mont. I talked to her by telephone on Wednesday, Jan. 16:

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Front-gate By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

It is now well-established in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate," establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate.

Well, let me be the first to suggest that a recent scandal in the Pentagon be known hereafter as "Front-gate" in recognition of the central role played in the drama by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization designated by the Justice Department as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). With the House and Senate both back in business this week, Front-gate should be subjected to close congressional scrutiny since it may involve the most strategically ominous case of official misconduct since the Clinton administration's China-gate.

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Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told By Ian Traynor

The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists.

Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US, Nato and the European Union together in a "grand strategy" to tackle the challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed forces chiefs from the US, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands insist that a "first strike" nuclear option remains an "indispensable instrument" since there is "simply no realistic prospect of a nuclear-free world".

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Atheists, agnostics, Wiccans keeping Christians from freely practicing faith in mil By Chad Groening

OneNewsNow has reported that an organization called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is party to a lawsuit claiming Defense Secretary Robert Gates permits a military culture in which soldiers are pressured by their superiors to adopt and espouse Christian beliefs -- and that officers sanction activities by Christian organizations.

But Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson (USAF-Ret.) says it is the non-Christians who are forcing their beliefs on Christian members of the military. "I would say that the atheists and the agnostics and the Wiccans have too much say in what happens in today's military. So I think they've got the cart before the horse," he argues.

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Dishonest Dems by The Obnoxious American

Let me start off by saying I am a centrist that leans to the right. So it is with the delight of a cat watching two mice fight that I observe the machinations of the Democratic primary. And although I'd never vote for any of the contenders for the Dem nod, lets face it, the GOP race is rather boring. Guiliani and Thompson are basically done for, turning that race into a competition of the milquetoast, with McCain being the only interesting candidate left (and my ideal choice in case you were wondering).

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President Bush Went to the Middle East and All He Got Was Some Glitzy Jewelry By Meir Javedanfar

It wasn’t really surprising that the recently completed visit by President Bush produced little but condemnation in the Iranian press. With a central goal of Bush’s visit to isolate Iran in the region, one could hardly expect them to give it favorable reviews.

One Iranian media outlet, Mehr, took its rhetoric a step further. In an article published on January 17, this news agency, reflecting the views of the Iranian right wing, stated that the main goal of the US President’s visit was no less than bringing “fire, blood and insecurity to the region.”

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The development of a jihadist's mind :: Jihad Watch

Tawfik Hamid in the Jerusalem Post (thanks to all who sent this in) reveals how he became a jihadist, and his trajectory follows exactly what I have explained here many times: as he grows more devout, and studies the Qur'an and Muhammad's example, he tends more and more toward jihadist views and hatred of non-Muslims. That's why it's so critical for Muslims who claim to reject all this to do a searching reevaluation and reinterpretation of core texts of Islam, as Hamid is doing. But the likelihood of this on a large scale is virtually nil.

What occupies the mind of a jihad-driven Muslim? How is such fervor planted in young and impressionable believers? Where does it originate? How did I - once an innocent child who grew up in a liberal, moderate and educated household - find myself a member of a radical Islamic group? These questions go to the root of Islamic violence and must be addressed if free societies are to combat radical Islam. To further this aim, I will explore the psychological development of a jihadi's mind through my own firsthand experience as a former member of a Muslim terrorist organization.

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World War IV: 21 Days in August :: The Gathering Storm

A year an half ago, I wrote a series of posts on how World War IV could begin through the eyes of a blogger. I started thinking about how the coming world war would play out if we took random opinions and news items and stitched them together portraying, over a 21 day period, one scenario of how World War IV will enfold. Granted there are others, but this one, as an escalation process, I believe is most likely grounded in what pundits are saying the coming war would look like. It's interesting that I had to make so few changes from a year and half ago.
I'll run this scenario over this week. It starts a few years out, but the scenario could begin to unfold tomorrow.

Day One: 4:05 PM PST
This time it’s real. I’m sure of it. And although today’s news coming out of Germany might not be seen as the spark that ignites WWIII, most wars start when people are not ready for it. There’s been other ‘conflicts’ that could have sparked a world war like the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon a few years back. A cease fire was called when Europe and the US eventually agreed to send in NATO forces as armed peacekeepers in a 20 mile no-mans land in southern Lebanon. But all that just shaped the battlefield, so to speak. Lebanon’s conflict between Israel and Hezbollah made Hezbollah stronger and more popular than ever and resulted with Hezbollah gaining majority power in the election. This and the newly formed Islamic governments in Iraq and Afghanistan helped Iran reach its dream of a Shiite Islamic empire stretching from Pakistan to the Mediterranean. The fall of Syria into the hands of the Shiites and the installation of the new Caliphate completed their goal.

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The Legacy of Byzantium By Fjordman

The following quotes are from the book A History of Byzantium by scholar Timothy Gregory. It is impossible to understand the history of Eurasia for the past 1600 years without devoting considerable space to the Byzantine Empire. It had great influence on Western, Russian and Middle Eastern culture, especially on what is called Islamic civilization, which simply would not have existed without the Greco-Roman heritage of the Byzantines.

Despite this, the legacy of Byzantium is too often ignored in the West. The reason why so many Westerners buy into the idea that Muslims "preserved the Greek heritage" is that they know so little about the Byzantine Empire, where Greek texts were actually preserved and passed on.

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Weapons Arsenal Is Found at Home of Columbia Professor :: NTA

Police stumbled upon a bomb-making factory Sunday in the home of a Columbia professor who specializes in the spread of infectious disease and are now investigating whether he and his roommate have any connection to terror.

One of the pipe bombs was described as being inserted into a Nerf football. Investigators with the NYPD and FBI were questioning Ivaylo Ivanov, a native of Bulgaria, to determine whether he has any terrorism or Russian Mafia connections, a source told New York’s Daily News.

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Mich. Denies Illegal Immigrants Licenses By TIM MARTIN

Michigan will no longer let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses, a practice just seven other states continue to allow.

Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, who oversees the motor vehicle department, announced the new policy Monday and said it takes effect Tuesday.

The new policy also bars people who are legal but not permanent U.S. residents from getting licenses. Legislation to allow those on temporary work or student visas to get licenses is pending in the Legislature.

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Phony Green Lightbulbs by Timothy Carney

Had Thomas Edison employed the same business strategy as his 21st-Century heirs at General Electric, he would have lobbied Congress to outlaw the candle in 1879 when he perfected and patented the light bulb.

He surely could have masked his self-interested lobbying in some public interest claim, such as fire prevention or the need for wax conservation. Today, the mask is environmentalism.

Earlier this month, Thomas Edison’s GE, together with Sylvania and Philips won a legislative victory when Congress passed an energy bill that would outlaw sale of the standard light bulb by 2012.

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Get the Feds Out of Our Schools! By Alan Caruba

One of President Bush's legacies that will be judged harshly in the future is his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program that presumably was going to bring America's school systems up to a national standard of performance.

The first mistake, however, was made in 1979 when President Carter signed the Department of Education into existence. The Constitution recognizes that education is the business of the States and local communities. Not once is education ever mentioned as a responsibility of the federal government. 

NCLB is one of those horrid monster federal programs that is always devoted to noble goals, spends tons of money, and achieves nothing of value.

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Germany: Report on Islamization, 2007 by Stefan Herre

I want to review the islamization situation in Germany. First of all, how many Muslims live in Germany? We don't really know. The Federal Government says 3.1 to 3.4 million. This would mean about 4 percent of the total population.

Similar estimates have been that until summer 2006 there were some 8 million people of immigrant background in Germany, of whom about 40% were Muslims. Yet the Government admits that its figure is only an estimate, not based on verified statistics. Some observers, such as the Mideast expert Hans-Peter Raddatz, believe that the number is much higher.

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Identity Politics: Not What Dr. King Was About By Michael Weiss

I remember not too long ago asking my old professor Christopher Hitchens whom he was for in this presidential election.

Choice one was Rudolph Giuliani, who’d at least shown some pluck and ingenuity in making the work of Al Qaeda just a little harder on a day we all remember. Choice two—given somewhat reluctantly, I thought—was Hillary Clinton, who, despite a lifetime of co-sponsoring her husband’s falsehoods and using any and all means of getting ahead in politics, at least showed that, as a congresswoman serving on the Committee on Armed Services, she wasn’t shy either about bringing the fight to the forces of theocratic reaction.

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North Korean Human Rights & U.S. National Security By Jay Lefkowitz

Quite a lot has happened in regard to North Korea since I last spoke at AEI nearly two years ago. That was not long after a joint statement had been issued six-party talks in September 2005, in which North Korea promised anew to abandon its nuclear weapons and rejoin the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. Talks had begun two years earlier after it became clear that North Korea had not ended its nuclear program as required under the 1994 Agreed Framework. Not long after the speech, I was making plans to visit the Kaesong Industrial Complex inside North Korea to assess human rights conditions, when the regime tested ballistic missiles on July 4, 2006.

I was again considering a trip when the regime conducted a nuclear test that October. Economists teach us that correlation does not prove causality, but I have remained wary of announcing future travel to North Korea for fear of what might happen next!

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