Move America Forward's Petition to The City Council, Mayor and City Manager of Berkeley, California

To: The City Council, Mayor and City Manager of Berkeley, California
We, the undersigned, do register our complete outrage with the City of Berkeley for the recent resolutions that criticized our Marines, as part of an effort to harass the Marine Recruiting Center and chase all vestiges of the United States military outside of the city of Berkeley, California.
We take particular umbrage with the instructions given to the City Manager of Berkeley to tell the United States Marines that they are, "uninvited and unwelcome intruders."

It is shameful for you to attack our military men and women who nobly and bravely serve this nation to protect our security and defend our freedoms and liberties. Those liberties include the right to Freedom of Speech, which you seem to believe should not be afforded to the members of the United States Marine Corps and service personnel in other branches of the Armed Forces.

I call upon you to immediately revoke the resolutions passed that defamed and insulted our U.S. Marines and issue a public apology to this nation, and in particular, the honorable and heroic men and women of the United States military.

Sign Petition here

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Treason in Berkeley By Melanie Morgan

Society for years has endured the freakish antics of Berkeley dwellers. Naked people streaking in the streets; smelly hippies begging for money as they sing drunken renditions of '60s anti-war songs; adults sitting in trees like a bad zoo exhibit.

But the Berkeley City Council and instigators from the extreme left have crossed the line this time. The council Tuesday night passed two anti-military, anti-American resolutions and agreed to send a letter to the city's only Marine recruiting office saying the military are "uninvited intruders."

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John McCain: Poster Boy for Democrats By Lee Culpepper

From McCain’s lackluster record at the Naval Academy to his self-important tenure as a United States Senator, John McCain has an eerie history of enlarging himself.   Unfortunately, leadership is not about the size of one's election.  It's about character, competence, and respect.

Like any poster child for the Democrats, former POW John McCain possesses the victim status necessary to insulate himself from factually transmitted criticisms--at least while he’s serving liberal purposes.  However, most men are judged on how they conduct themselves throughout their entire lives, not on five ill-fated years in their pasts.

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Islamist 'Trojan horse' in Pentagon :: WorldNetDaily

Federal authorities say a high-level Muslim Pentagon aide, who led a campaign to silence a Pentagon intelligence analyst for taking a hard line against Islam, is running an "influence operation" on behalf of U.S. Muslim groups fronting for the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

Hesham H. Islam, a special assistant to deputy Defense secretary Gordon England, recently criticized Maj. Stephen Coughlin, one of the military's leading authorities on Islamic war doctrine, for making the connection between the religion of Islam and terrorism.

After Islam lodged complaints, Coughlin's contract with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon was not renewed.

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Wrong problem, wrong solution By Christopher Monckton

In the climate change debate, one figure is real. The Sunday Telegraph's website registered more than 127,000 hits in response to last week's article revealing that the UN had minimised the sun's role in changing past and present climate, persisted in proven errors and used unsound data, questionable graphs and meretricious maths to exaggerate future warming threefold.

The views of 200 readers who emailed me are in the link above. About a third are scientists, including well-known climatologists and a physicist who confirmed my calculations. Some advise governments.

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The sun is warmer now than for the past 11,400 years By Christopher Monckton

Last week, Gordon Brown and his chief economist both said global warming was the worst "market failure" ever. That loaded soundbite suggests that the "climate-change" scare is less about saving the planet than, in Jacques Chirac's chilling phrase, "creating world government". This week and next, I'll reveal how politicians, scientists and bureaucrats contrived a threat of Biblical floods, droughts, plagues, and extinctions worthier of St John the Divine than of science.

Sir Nicholas Stern's report on the economics of climate change, which was published last week, says that the debate is over. It isn't. There are more greenhouse gases in the air than there were, so the world should warm a bit, but that's as far as the "consensus" goes. After the recent hysteria, you may not find the truth easy to believe. So you can find all my references and detailed calculations here.

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Thomas Sowell Delivers Inconvenient Truths By Heather Wilhelm

Want to be a real hit at a cocktail party? Try bringing up politics, preferably with someone who disagrees with you--and if they're an emotional sort, even better. Proceed to delve into controversial issues of the day (the politics of race and gender, for instance) and, as you do, back up each point with lucid economic facts. After thorough research and a calm, learned presentation, odds are that you'll make a real impact. An impact, that is, in the form of gigantic tufts of steam shooting out of your audience's ears.

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It's a shame one of them has to win By MARK STEYN

President McCain? Or Queen Hillary? Henry Kissinger said about the Iran/Iraq war in the '80s that it's a shame they both can't lose. Conservatives have a slightly different problem: It's a shame that neither of them will lose – that, regardless of who takes the oath come next January, the harmonious McCain-Clinton consensus policies on illegal immigration and Big Government solutions to global warming will prevail. Where's Neither-of-the-Above when you need him?

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Who Was Hillary Clinton? :: WSJ

Hillary Clinton is running for President based in large part on her experience, especially her eight years as first lady. So it is revealing that she and her husband don't want the media and others to have ready access to the records that might tell us a good deal more about that 1990s "experience."

We're referring to the controversy over records at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, which opened in 2004. At the time, Mrs. Clinton promised that "everything's going to be available." More than three years later, the library that is partly funded by taxpayers has released less than 1% of its records, and the withheld documents include two million pages covering Mrs. Clinton's White House tenure. As usual with the Clintons, they've managed to make the controversy seem so complicated that everyone has lost interest.

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Erica Jong: Innumerate Bigot By Tomas Rome

Erica Jong, a largely spent 70’s novelist and feminist, made Drudge Report recently with her Huffington Post blog essay “Who’s Tired of Pink?,“ a frantic attack on all thinks white and male. “Pink” is apparently the Left’s new term for disparaging whites. Good luck with that, Erica; it has all the devastation of “honky” or “cracker.”

But the “pink” term is not the problem with Jong‘s tirade. The problem is Erica’s amazing lack of math comprehension—ironic for a feminist fighting stereotypes. It is safe to say that math rarely, if ever, enters the mind of Jong when she pens opening lines like, “I am so tired of pink men bombing brown children and rationalizing it as fighting terrorism.”

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Obama's Relationship with Racists, Islamists Ignored By Dennis Campbell

Consider for a moment how the New York Times would react to a white, Republican candidate for president of the United States who belonged to an organization like this one:

Members are admonished to avoid associating with anyone who is not white, and should avoid patronizing businesses owned by minorities, especially African Americans.

On its website, this organization proudly states that “We are a European people, and we will remain true to our native land, the mother continent.”

The head of the organization traveled with Ku Klux Klan head man and racial separatist David Duke to Germany, where they met in secret with members of a neo-Nazi group.

At a Chicago gala, the head of this organization honored Duke for lifetime achievement and referred to African Americans as “dark-eyed devils.”

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Where's "None-of-the-Above"? By Mark Steyn

President McCain? Or Queen Hillary? Henry Kissinger said about the Iran/Iraq war that it’s a shame they both can’t lose. Conservatives have a slightly different problem: It’s a shame that neither of them will lose – that, regardless of who takes the oath come January ’09, the harmonious McCain-Clinton consensus policies on illegal immigration and Big Government solutions to global warming will prevail. Where’s Neither-Of-The-Above when you need him?

Alas, the only Neither-Of-The-Above in the offing is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose candidacy would shake things up only insofar as we’d all suddenly be demanding: Okay, where’s None-Of-The-Above when you need him? Mayor Bloomberg is a former Democrat, former Republican, and current Independent, if by “Independent” you mean “Man who agrees with the conventional wisdom on illegal immigration, global warming, health care, and everything else.”

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John McCain: He's Always There When He Needs Us by Michelle Oddis

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is one-stop shopping for presidential candidates. It’s the one time every year that they can guarantee themselves the attention of more movement conservatives than at any other single gathering.

For years, Sen. John McCain has been noticeable by his absence. This year he’s not only coming, his campaign has bought a display booth in the exhibition hall.

McCain will address the conference on Thursday at 3 pm. He’ll follow Gov. Mitt Romney who will speak at 12:30pm. (Cong. Ron Paul is scheduled for 4:30 pm. Only Gov. Mike Huckabee hasn’t yet told CPAC he’d be there.)

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John McCain Nearly Abandoned the GOP?

By John W. Lillpop

Why is it big news--or news at all-- that John McCain nearly left the Republican Party in 2001? * Good heavens, McCain has never been a true and tried Republican, with the exception of his positions on the war on terror, in particular the Iraq theater.

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The American Vangaurd :: Lionheart

Foreword: I think that the declaration 'Where do you stand and who do you stand with' rings true with this excellent essay on the madness of the self professed King of the anti-Jihad movement - The Lizard King Charles Johnston and his pack of blood thirsty ravenous hounds.

I personally have tasted this mans venom as he sits on his throne of American conservative thought, when it was aimed at me, one of your distant relatives from across the pond whose life is in real danger and dire need.

I do not speak about my plight for peoples sympathy, I speak about my plight because of the serious reality that I and my country faces in relation to Islam's Holy War that is unfolding in the midst of my homeland, amongst my fellow country folk and this self professed American King and his hunting dogs have tried to hang me infront of everyone, and for what, whose warped pleasure does it fulfill?

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A Sensible Way to "Stimulate" the Economy: Stop Taking So Much In Taxes!

By John W. Lillpop

President Bush and the Congress are about to "stimulate" the U.S. economy by adding another $150 billion to the national debt! Will this sort of fiscal madness never end?

Why are the president and Congress not focused on cutting wasteful and unnecessary federal spending? You know, cut expenses and pass the savings on to American taxpayers, ergo, relief without adding to the burdensome debt?

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Will Republicans, (El Partido Estupido) Become El Partido Republicano? By Marcus Epstein

With his victory in Florida, John McCain has become the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Even though McCain’s campaign was earlier almost derailed solely for his support for the Kennedy-Bush amnesty and only recovered when he began to pose as an immigration hardliner, his potential success will certainly be used as evidence that Republican voters are not really against amnesty. If McCain gets the nomination, the open borders lobby will get to see what Hispandering does for the Republican Party.

When the late Sam Francis was in a symposium at the American Cause entitled "Will Mass Immigration Kill the GOP," he answered, "I sure hope so." Francis, of course, developed the term "The Stupid Party" to describe the institution in which he spent most of his life. I’m sure many VDARE.COM readers share his sentiments. But like Francis, they also recognize that immigration will have dramatic effects on the American political system.

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The Myth of Camelot By Jonah Goldberg

The gods have made their choice. The Olympians have found their anointed one. Bow, bow, before the vessel of the Divine Spark!

So sayeth the priestly class of the mainstream media as they witness the divine laying of hands from the Kennedys upon the New Deliverer, Barack Obama.

He is, quoth ABC's Terry Moran, the "new son of Camelot." Moran continued: "Ted and Caroline Kennedy pass the torch to Barack Obama to carry the legacy of JFK." David Wright, also of ABC, proclaimed, "the audacity of hope had its rendezvous with destiny ... Obama is now an adopted son of Camelot."

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "Today, for a brief shining hour, the young got to see what we saw, not the gauzy images of Camelot, but the living spirit of the New Frontier."

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Can of Worms: Mufti Wants Moratorium on French Law Separating Church and State By Tiberge

The mufti of the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, has dropped what amounts to a political and religious bomb. He proposes a moratorium on the French law of 1905 separating Church and State, because not enough mosques are being built in France.

Besides his position as mufti, he is the president of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith), an association officially established in 2003 thanks to the efforts of Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy.

Questioned by Le Monde, Mr. Boubakeur set forth the idea of a “moratorium of 10 to 20 years” on the 1905 law, which forbids all public funding of places of worship, so that Islam can “catch up” on its needs. “The associations that administer houses of worship need to be given air to breathe,” he says.

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Why American Evangelicals are the West's Last Hope By Vasko Kohlmayer

Christopher Hitchens -- the author of God is not Great -- is an anomaly: Unlike most secularists, he is deeply alarmed by the rise of Islam. While Hitchens tries to sound a warning trumpet, most of his fellow secularists are either oblivious to or even sympathetic to that against which he warns.

Michael Hodges, to mention one, writing in Time Out London enthusiastically enumerated the many benefits that would supposedly accompany Islam's takeover of his society. Such a development would, in his view, translate into appreciable improvements in ecology, public health, diet, social justice, education and the arts, among others. Remarkably enough, Hodges also included inter-faith and racial relations on his list. Jews and Christians in particular, he said, would enjoy special protection by virtue of being ‘peoples of the book.'

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Has Iran won? :: The Economist

WHO would have thought that a friendless theocracy with a Holocaust-denying president, which hangs teenagers in public and stones women to death, could run diplomatic circles around America and its European allies? But Iran is doing just that. And it is doing so largely because of an extraordinary own goal by America's spies, the team behind the duff intelligence that brought you the Iraq war.

It doesn't take a fevered brain to assume that if Iran's ayatollahs get their hands on the bomb, the world could be in for some nasty surprises. Iran's claim that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful is widely disbelieved. That is why Russia and China joined America, Britain, France and Germany at the UN Security Council to try to stop Iran enriching uranium. Until two months ago they seemed ready to support a third and tougher sanctions resolution against Iran. But then America's spies spoke out, and since then five painstaking years of diplomacy have abruptly unravelled (see article).

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A Call to Conservative Action By VIN WEBER

In February 2007, Gov. Mitt Romney stood at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., and announced his candidacy for President of the United States. As he did then and continued to do throughout this campaign, Mr. Romney spoke to a new vision for a stronger America.

It is a vision that calls for empowering the American people through conservative change in Washington. From Dearborn to Des Moines to Jacksonville, Mr. Romney has articulated the conservative vision and the conservative policies needed to make America strong again.

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Stop Illegal Immigration Now or Immigrants Will Soon Out Vote You By Warner Todd Huston

I have a neighbor named George. He and his family have been great neighbors. We've exchanged gifts, attended parties together, helped each other out from time to time with one thing or another. Our kids have been friends. I like them all. They’re really great folks.

However, all but the father and one son out of a family of six are illegal immigrants by way of Mexico.

Last year, two of their sons got caught up by immigration and sent back to Mexico. George's wife moved back to Mexico to be with her sons. George stays here with the eldest boy and their daughter. He works hard and misses his wife. Of course, she cannot come back because she was never a legal resident and has no papers.

It's all a terribly rotten situation for George and his family and I know that I would be highly upset were I in his situation. But, his situation is not unlike that of millions of other families that have a mixture of legal and illegal members living in the US.

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The 44th President of the United States By Lee Boyland

In typical American fashion, the electorate careens toward November 2008 when it will elect its new president—a president who will set America’s course for the 21st Century. Will we end the century as a super power and the cradle of freedom, or as a third world nation, or as the Islamic Republic of America?

The news media, the remaining candidates, and a major portion of our citizens ignore the real issues that will determine how we end the century: Militant Islam; spread of nuclear weapons—portending regional nuclear wars; loss of domestic heavy industry and associated jobs; lack of a well thought out energy policy; and the out of control government “Bureaucracy.” All of which are the result of not having a clearly defined domestic and foreign policy—clearly defined national objectives, and leaders who put America first.

Some Americans fail to recognize our enemies both foreign and domestic, placing us all at risk. We allow this to continue at our peril.

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Yvonne Ridley, Peddling Islam in Tennessee by Rebecca Bynum

According to Yvonne Ridley, who spoke at Vanderbilt University on Jan. 17^th, of the approximately 60,000 immigrants and refugees living in Davidson County, Tennessee, about one third (or 20,000) are Muslims who have settled in Nashville. The Ridley speech was sponsored by the Islamic Center of Nashville and the Muslim Student Association at Vanderbilt. Both organizations have roots in Islamic fundamentalism (see here and here) and both seem anxious to portray Islam to the rest of the community as a religion of peace, tolerance and pluralism.

Ms. Ridley is a British journalist who converted to Islam after she was captured and held briefly by the Taliban shortly before the American invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. By any objective standard, Ms. Ridley is an Islamic radical.

 

 

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The Arabs, The Berbers & Africa by Hugh Fitzgerald

It is no mystery as to why Christian missionaries might be having their greatest success in the Kabyle. In Algeria, that remains the Berber heartland. It is where the Berbers are concentrated, that is those who were not forcibly transformed, during the centuries of Arab rule (interrupted by 132 years of French rule) into "Arabs." (How many of those "Arabs" who now persecute the Berbers realize that they themselves are a generation, or two, or five removed from their clearly Berber origins?)

The cause of the Berbers is hardly known in this country. The writer Kateb Yacine, a Berber who refused to write in Arabic, but chose French, is celebrated in France, especially among Berbers -- but unknown in this country, and his anti-Arab rage is not likely to cause his books to be included in the syllabuses of courses on "Francophone" literature given that so many such courses are now taught by French-speaking Arabs.

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John McCain Hates Me by Michael Reagan

Until last night, when I watched the Republican debate, I had no idea how much John McCain dislikes me and just about everybody else but Rudy Giuliani, who if you believe The New York Times is a pretty good hater himself.

As I watched McCain and Governor Romney go at it during the debate at the Reagan Library I was struck by the huge gap that separates McCain -- whose contempt for his fellow humans is patently obvious -- and my dad, Ronald Reagan, who had nothing but the deepest affection and respect for the American people.

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Let's Closely Examine McCain's Record by Chris Field

Following his wins in the South Carolina and Florida Republican primaries, Arizona Sen. John McCain has become the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. He has spent the last year attempting to convince the conservative base of the Republican Party that he is one of them -- but his record in the Senate shows otherwise.

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John McCain: The Anti-Conservative by Jed Babbin

What could be wrong with a presidential candidate who is a longtime Republican senator from a conservative state, a certified war hero with a great smile and a wisecracking sense of humor? Nothing at all, except the last time one ran against a Clinton, he ended up filming Viagra commercials while Bill was rehearsing his inaugural address.

The media have created the fiction that Sen. John McCain, alone among the Republican candidates, can beat Hillary or Obama this fall. This is a fiction because only a conservative can unite the Republican Party this year and win. Call him “maverick”, call him “independent,” but please don’t call McCain “conservative.”

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NY State’s “Libel Terrorism Protection Act” :: By Frontpagemag.com

As the head of The David Horowitz Freedom Center and Editor-in-Chief of Frontpagemag.com, I welcome the bipartisan “Libel Terrorism Protection Act” (A-9652 and S-6687), which was introduced two weeks ago in the New York Assembly and Senate by Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D) and Senator Dean Skelos (R). The bill was introduced to protect New York authors and publishers who expose terrorism and terrorist financiers from meritless defamation lawsuits filed in foreign courts.

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The Wall Street “Sheikh-Up” By Jonathan Schanzer

The stock market is undergoing a dizzying correction. The subprime mortgage mess has forced credit markets to dry up and has hammered U.S. securities. Fears of recession recently sparked one of the worst stock sell-offs in years. But the worst may be yet to come.

While Americans are selling their positions in U.S. companies, Middle Easterners flush with petrodollars are aggressively gobbling up these stocks at fire sale prices. Moreover, as American financial institutions report the losses that forced them to deplete their cash reserves, CEOs are begging for loans from oil-rich Middle East nations that have benefited from the rise in oil prices in recent years from $30 to nearly $100 per barrel. As one former Wall Street executive lamented, U.S. business leaders are “lining up to kiss the ring.”

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Warming Atlantic Worsens Hurricanes…Or Stops Them..Or Something…GLOBAL WARMING IS BAD! By Duane Lester

The latest fear mongering from the Church of Global Warming comes packed with a really scary photoshopped picture of the 2005 season and a scary headline: WARMING ATLANTIC WORSENS HURRICANES:

Scientists have long known that hurricanes get their enormous energy from warm waters, so the warmer the water, the more fuel a storm has to either start up or get stronger. The study calculates how much storm frequency and strength is due to warmer sea water, said author Mark Saunders, professor of climate prediction at the University College London.

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Coulter: If McCain’s the nominee, I’ll campaign for Hillary ::HOT AiR

The ne plus ultra of conservatives crapping away Iraq in a fit of spite at Maverick: “I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism.” Madness.

Update: “The gulf between Hillary and McCain is Grand-Canyon like.”

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Just a Generation Away From Extinction By Vincent Gioia

It was Ronald Reagan who warned that “Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction.”

        Reagan’s warning is especially apt today, for enemies of liberty never give up, whether abroad or in the United States.  As in past generations, pro-freedom Americans still have to battle against liberal control, America-bashers, left-wing defeatists, and their accomplices in the press. 

        We don’t have Reagan to help us now, so it’s up to us to stand up for America and freedom.  We can begin doing that by our vote in the primaries this spring and in the national election in November.  It is imperative to choose a nominee that has not already demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice conservative principles for popular liberal news media acclaim.

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Treason at the State Department: A Whistleblower's Story by Annie Jacobsen

Two weeks ago, the London Sunday Times broke an exclusive story about FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. For five years, the U.S. government has prevented Edmonds from speaking publicly on what she knows, claiming State Secrets Privilege. The Times got the exclusive on the story, eerily titled “For Sale: West’s Deadly Nuclear Secrets,” by talking to a number of Edmonds’ close associates who were not under a gag order, and by filling in pieces of the puzzle from Sibel Edmonds herself.

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Clinton: Parenthesis In Search Of A Legacy By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Legacy? What legacy?

There was general amazement when (the now-muzzled) Bill Clinton did his red-faced, attack-dog, race-baiting performance in South Carolina. Friends, Democrats and longtime media sycophants were variously perplexed, repulsed, enraged, mystified and shocked that this beloved ex-president would so jeopardize his legacy by stooping so low.

What they don't understand is that for Clinton, there is no legacy. What he was doing on the low road from Iowa to South Carolina was fighting for a legacy — a legacy that he knows history has denied him and that he has but one chance to redeem.

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What I think I know :: Power Line

Ms. Hillary seems to me to have had the upper hand with Barack Obama in the debate on CNN this evening. Obama was more than a sideshow, but Ms. Hillary dominated the proceedings. Obama's repeated invocation of his work as a community organizer is thin gruel for the messianic campaign he is waging.

Clinton and Obama are nevertheless joined at the hip in the demagoguery and snake oil peddled by the McGovernized Democratic Party. Ms. Hillary revels in exploiting the stupidity of the Democratic base. Does anyone seriously think that "freezing interst rates for five years" (Clinton's proposal) will not have unintended consequences like other price controls?

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Not So Fast, McCain by DJ Drummond

John McCain is acting like a winner. A bad-tempered winner with no sense of perspective, a chip on his shoulder the size of his well-fed ego, and an arrogant disregard for the precepts of the President whose "foot soldier" he claims he was so many years ago. Apparently, McCain thinks that being in government service the same time as Ronnie qualifies him to make that claim, although such a lax definition would allow Mikhail Gorbachev the same honor.

But a winner nonetheless, in the same way we saw 'winner' defined, back in the days when an NBA team would celebrate with gangsta imitations, in the same way that Floyd Landis figured no one would dare investigate his doped-up Tour de France win, and so on.

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Missing Issues by George W. Liebmann

Americans in both parties report themselves uninspired by the current crop of Presidential candidates. Yet Americans know that significant domestic problems are unaddressed: that the public high school system is a disaster area; that the savings rate is nonexistent, being discouraged by over-liberal credit and justified fear of eventual inflation; that transportation infrastructure is deteriorating; that both local and national policies favor sprawl development and the mismanagement of public lands; that families with young children are under great economic pressure, while the elderly are the darlings of the tax and benefit systems; and that police, prison, and judicial bureaucracies are ever-expanding.

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Crisis of Big Government by Paul Weyrich

Conservatives may be surprised to hear that for over 50 years they have been somewhat successful in stopping the growth of big government. Going all the way to the early 1950s Federal spending has hovered in a fairly narrow band around 20% of GDP.

But even that limited success is soon to be swamped by reality. For the Federal Government’s long-term projections show a radical change over the next 40 years, with Federal spending soaring close to 40% of GDP or more. This is due to our nation’s big entitlement programs – Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Counting state and local spending, total government spending in the U.S. would be over 50% of GDP.

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Looking for Change? Think Mitt Romney!

By John W. Lillpop

Although Barack Obama has pinched, or attempted to pinch, the legacy of JFK for his own presidential aspirations, the fact is that Mitt Romney is far more reminiscent of America's 35th president.

Kennedy, it will be remembered, was forced to fight religious bigotry and prejudice in 1960 because of his Catholic faith.

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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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Marines Attacked in Berkeley, CA :: CFP

SAN FRANCISCO – The City of Berkeley, California has passed two resolutions attacking the United States Marine Corps, calling the Marines, “uninvited and unwelcome intruders in the city.”

The Berkeley City Council voted to condemn the Marines on Tuesday night (January 29th) as part of a campaign by anti-war activists to shut down a U.S. Marine Recruiting Center located in the city of Berkeley.

The votes by the Berkeley City Council were immediately condemned by Move America Forward (website: http://www.MoveAmericaForward.org), the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization.

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In what sense is Florida not an open primary? And the Hispanic factor by Lawrence Auster

I heard that the "semi-open" quality of the Florida primary consisted in the fact that voters could change their registration at the time they voted, meaning that an independent who wanted to vote for McCain could register as a Republican on primary day and vote as a Republican. But according to the exit poll as reported by the New York Times, 17 percent of voters in the Republican primary said that they were not affiliated with either party, and they voted for McCain over Romney, 44 to 23 percent. So it's an open primary, period. McCain only won in Florida because of the votes of non-Republicans. Why has this not been reported?

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Latest Treason Lobby Scam: “Undocumented” = “Unbanked” By Brenda Walker

We in Mexifornia live on the front lines of diversity. Every day politicians, business and the academy work to spread the doctrine of increasing inclusion, sometimes with the discovery of a new group of underprivileged foreigners who need our attention. Our political leaders in particular are highly attuned to any alleged discomfort on the part of Mexicans—or anyone else under the sun who can make their way here.

The latest attempt at heart-tuggery: the tribulation suffered by “The Unbanked”—as imagined by California’s illustrious Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his compadre Bill Clinton in the prestigious Wall Street Journal [Beyond Payday Loans, Jan 24, 2008].

"The American dream is founded on the belief that people who work hard and play by the rules will be able to earn a good living, raise a family in comfort and retire with dignity.

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The Clintons, Race, and the 50-year-old Calculation By Selwyn Duke

Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here.  They are political creatures first, everything else second and statesmen last.  For this to elude one, he must have his head planted firmly in a particularly dense grade of sand. 

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Arise, Ye Favorite Sons By Quin Hillyer

Memo to Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Mike Pence of Indiana, and John Thune of South Dakota, and perhaps to Butch Otter of Idaho, too: It's time for you gentlemen to run for president.

Yes, of the United States. Yes, this year.

Here's the situation: Mainstream conservatives are being routed in this year's presidential contests. And if John McCain or, less likely, Mike Huckabee goes into the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis with a first-ballot majority, the conservative movement will be completely shut out of a general election presidential campaign for the first time since 1976. For the movement that has brought peace, triumph and prosperity to this nation for 27 years, such an outcome would be a disaster -- and, worse, it would be a disaster for the country.

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Time for Some Real Straight Talk By JB Williams

Republicans had better rush to come to grips with the reality that all of our smart options for the 2008 election cycle are already off the table. Unlike past elections, Republicans actually had two very strong conservatives to unite behind in the 2008 primaries, Thompson and Hunter, and they failed to unite behind either of them.

The time to stand up for a true traditional conservative Republican has passed. The chance to do something smart no longer exists. Now we have one last shot and less than one week to do something that is at least half-smart.

John McCain Is An Outright Liar

It is no less than Clintonesque to listen to John “amnesty” McCain call himself “the official new leader of the conservative movement in America.”

McCain is not being nominated by conservatives. He is being nominated by liberal Independents in open primaries and liberal RINOs in closed primaries. He has very little support among conservatives and he can’t win in November as a result.

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Who Hijacked the Primaries? by Brett Winterble

With John McCain’s all-too-easy road to the nomination paved through Florida and now nearly complete one thing is clear: The Republican Party has been hijacked. Over the past month a new Axis of Evil has emerged -- not one based in Damascus, Tehran or Pyongyang -- but instead in Cedar Rapids, Charleston, South Carolina, Derry, New Hampshire and Boca Raton, Florida. It is the liberal and “independent” voters in these 4 states that have nearly completed a deed that makes Kim Jong Il envious -- the near crippling of the American Electoral System. These four states have combined their native liberal populism with an imported liberal electorate and have forced the GOP to accept a nominee so distasteful that in more than one poll -- the numbers of voters choosing not to vote and those choosing to vote third party actually exceed those who will hold their nose and vote for Maverick, War Hero, Amnesty Supporter, John McCain.

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The Surrender Lobby's Tet Offensive By Andrew Walden

It has been a bad year for al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the Jihadis’ allies in America are feeling their pain. Speaking to The Politico January 17, John Isaacs, executive director of the misnamed Council for a Livable World, explained: “last year was not productive. Our expectations were dashed.”

The year 2007 began promisingly for the Democrats, who had taken control of the House and Senate after faking out voters with a squad of seemingly pro-military candidates. The “new” Democrats immediately showed their true colors, installing Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a pro-surrender member of the socialist “Progressive Caucus,” as Speaker of the House.

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Chavez’s 21st Century National Socialism By Jacob Laksin

Hugo Chavez has long vowed to turn Venezuela into a laboratory for “21^st century socialism.” But if the latest bully-boy tactics of the Chavez government are any guide, the better name for his platform might be 21^st century National Socialism.

Most telling in this regard are the ruling regime’s rapidly deteriorating relations with Venezuela’s Jewish community. As reported recently in the Jewish Forward, it was only last month that a goon squad of government police swarmed down on the Hebraica Jewish community center in the capital of Caracas. Officially, the police had been searching for signs of “subversive activity,” the term’s definition having been expanded under Chavez’s ten-year reign to include any and all dissent from the government’s growingly authoritarian line. In the event, they found none, leading Venezuelan Jewish leaders to protest, compellingly, that the raid was little more than an act of state-backed intimidation and harassment aimed at the Jewish community.

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GOP to Edwards: How Much For That Concession Speech? by Ann Coulter

The Democrats are trying to give away an election they should win in a walk by nominating someone with real problems -- like, for example, a first-term senator with a 100 percent rating from Americans for Democratic Action and whose middle name is "Hussein."

But we won't let them.

The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president -- on a personal level, she's still a little creepy.) I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility.

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Provocation Alert: Revisionist History Favoring Islam In Public Schools :: Ironic Surrealism II

What have we been saying from day one?!

OPINION: January 20, 2008 — Springer Sara

The following is quoted from an article appearing in The Washington Times, January 18, 2008 by Diana West.

“And not just blasphemy laws. Jihad doctrine; Shariah (Islamic law); designs for a global caliphate through jihad (terrorism) and the spread of Shariah (Islamization): We pretend they are not factors in the free world’s experience with Islam”.

This statement hit home as just this evening my daughter was describing her global history class. She commented on the fact that Islam was studied for several weeks. A handout she received states, “We are so accustomed to regard our culture as essentially that of the West that it is difficult for us to realize that there was an age when the most civilized region of Western Europe was Islamic Spain. Western culture grew up under the shadow of the more advanced civilization of Islam, and it was from the Muslims that medieval Christendom recovered its share in the inheritance of Greek science and philosophy”. Do you understand the idea behind this statement? Our western culture has been in a few words destroyed and usurped by the civilized Islamic Spain.

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Life Issues, the Election and Obama by Sam James

Last week marked the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, possibly the most divisive and harmful of all the US Supreme Court’s majority opinions. A few places gave the moment its due recognition, but most news sites and blogs skimmed right over it, instead covering the juicier and more galvanizing drama between presidential hopefuls. That is a woeful indictment of both the American conscience and the priorities of public servants.

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The Man Who Blew It By Daniel Casse

Tonight was Mitt Romney’s last stand. He blew it. The conservative antipathy towards McCain involves real issues: his indefensible support of campaign finance reform, his opposition to Bush tax cuts, his throwaway lines attacking corporations, and so on. Romney should have been on attack mode from the first moment, stirring up every conservative trepidation about McCain, stressing his unreliability as a consistent voice for the cause. “We don’t need a maverick, Senator, we need a steadfast, principled and predictable conservative leader,” was the line I was waiting for. Instead, Romney dove head-first into McCain’s alleged smear about who supported the surge — a minor kerfuffle given all the other heat McCain has taken these last few months.

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This Little Piggy Was Banned from Market by Pam Meister

A year or so ago when a mother from Georgia tried to get Gwinnett County schools to remove Harry Potter books from their shelves because they were an “’evil’ attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion,” she became a national laughingstock.

Book banning has a nasty connotation for many, as it evokes images of Nazi book burnings as that party came to power in the 1930s. It’s one thing for a parent to guide her child’s reading choices; it’s another thing entirely when she attempts to keep a book she disapproves of out of the hands of everyone else.

Part of the reason the would-be book banner in Georgia was ridiculed was that she is a Christian. Christians are on the short list of groups that one can still openly mock and treat with derision. Why? My guess it’s because Christians, while they may make their voices heard when something (like the Harry Potter series) clashes with their belief system, limit their weapons to exactly that - their voices are all they use. When an outrageous insult toward Christians is perpetrated in the name of art or literature, there is no violence, no rioting in the streets, no threats to make those who insult Christianity pay.

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UN human rights chief backs plan that supports elimination of Israel :: Dhimmi Watch

Just another day at the office for the UN Human Rights commission. "Arbour backs plan that seeks end to Zionism: UN human rights czar supports controversial pan-Arab charter," by Steven Edwards for The Ottawa Citizen (thanks to Sounder):

UNITED NATIONS - Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has thrown her support behind a major pan-Arab human rights charter that commits to the elimination of Zionism.

Some critics say the wording is code for the destruction of Israel, but in a statement from her Geneva headquarters, the former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada welcomes the Arab Charter on Human Rights, which will come into force in mid-March.

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McCain's No Threat to the Left By Terence Jeffrey

While the liberal establishment may be conflicted over whether it wants Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, there's no doubt which Republican it favors.

John McCain is the liberal elite's go-to guy in the GOP. They believe he'll be there for them when they need him.

That was the essential message of last week's New York Times editorial endorsing McCain for the Republican nomination.

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An Interview With David Frum About His New Book, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again By John Hawkins

What do you say to the idea that the problems the GOP is having right now are largely cyclical. You know, the GOP was in power for a while and conservatives became complacent, Republicans politicians have made a lot of dumb decisions, and voters were just ready for something new as opposed to the Republican platform needing a major overhaul?

I think there is much truth to that, to the claim that the problems are cyclical, but cycles don't revolve by themselves. The reason we have cycles in politics is precisely because a party loses power and then it reinvents itself. But, if the party doesn't reinvent itself, the cycle can take a very long time. Look at what happened to the Democrats between about 1970 and 1995. They took a quarter century to reinvent themselves. They were the weaker party for all of that time.

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Terminated :: WSJ

Arnold Schwarzenegger's "universal" health-care plan died in the California legislature on Monday, in what can only be called a mercy killing. So let's conduct a political autopsy, because there are important lessons here for the national health-care debate.

It's especially useful to compare today's muted obituaries to the page-one melodrama that surrounded the Governor when he announced his plan a year ago. Endless media mash notes were bestowed on the "post-partisan" Republican trying to get something done.

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Iran: A 'duty' for Muslims to attack the West, says editor

 

Tehran, 29 Jan.(AKI) - Hossein Shariatmadari, managing editor of 'Kayhan' (Universe) one of Iran's most influential newspapers, has issued a strongly worded editorial inviting Muslims to topple moderate Islamic governments and attack US, European and Israeli interests.
In the editorial, entitled "The enemy's shield", Shariatmadari argues that in Shia or Sunni Islam "It is legal to strike those who protect the enemy" .
The real enemies, says Shariatmadari are "The barbaric Zionists, the ferocious Americans and their European allies".

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Scandal in China Over Tainted Cancer Drugs By JAKE HOOKER and WALT BOGDANICH

A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide drug scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed last summer by contaminated leukemia drugs.

Chinese drug regulators have accused the manufacturer of the tainted drugs of a cover-up and have closed the factory that produced them. In December, China’s Food and Drug Administration said that the Shanghai police had begun a criminal investigation and that two officials, including the head of the plant, had been detained.

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Is Brattleboro, Vermont, America's Last Best Hope?

Satire By John W. Lillpop

Quick! Name the greatest contribution made by the great state of Vermont to the overall interests of America and its people?

Answer: Other than maple syrup and a sappy chairman of the DNC (Howard Dean), there is an embarrassing paucity of greatness originating in Vermont. 

Until now, that is.

But should the good folks in Brattleboro have their way, the very future of human civilization may be altered forever.

Brattleboro, you see, is debating a petition that would subject President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to arrest for crimes against the U.S. Constitution.

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It's All Over By Michael Graham

Assuming there is no shocking revelation or health issue, the GOP nomination is over. Conservatives need to start practicing the phrase "Nominee presumptive John McCa....."

Sorry, I can't say it. Not yet.

But it's true. When the campaign comes here to Massachusetts on February 5th, I'll proudly cast my vote for any option on the GOP ballot other than You-Know-Who. But it will be a futile gesture. Mr. "1/3rd Of The GOP Primary Vote" is going to be the nominee.

He's going to win the big, left-leaning states on Tuesday. Huckabee will stay in and deny Romney a one-on-one contest for GOP voters that Captain Amnesty would almost certainly lose. The result: More wins for He Who Must Not Be Named, and fewer wins for Romney—regardless of delegate count.

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John McCain Makes Mexican Con Man Top Aide By Dave Gibson

Once more, John McCain has proven his contempt for the American people as well as his disregard for U.S. sovereignty. McCain has chosen a Mexican reconquista to fill a top campaign position.

McCain has appointed Juan Hernandez as his so-called 'Hispanic outreach director.' Hernandez was born in Fort Worth, TX to a Mexican father and an American mother. He served as the director of the Presidential Office of Mexicans Living Abroad under Vicente Fox. He holds dual U.S./Mexican citizenship and was the first U.S. born person to serve as a cabinet member of the Mexican government.

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Asylum in the USA for Lionheart? by Baron Bodissey

Now that the information is publicly available, I can reveal what Dymphna and I have known for a while: Lionheart is currently here in the USA.

He’s in good hands. People are looking after him, and he’s considering the possibility of asking for asylum in this country, since he faces arrest for political reasons (i.e. for “stirring up racial hatred”) if he returns to England. It’s possible that a legal fund will be set up to help him, but I don’t have any definite word on that yet.

There’s an article today about Lionheart, and an interview with him, in Savannah Now:

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A Model of Limited Perception :: Gates Of Vienna

In the most recent essay of this series I addressed the difference between flat and hierarchically-organized information systems. I chose to highlight the advantages of a flat (or distributed) network because the flat model offers the only possibility for effective resistance to the Great Jihad, which has thus far proved so notably successful against us in the current information war.

None of my arguments is intended to rule out hierarchical networks as a useful component in information warfare. Once a new paradigm has emerged within a distributed network, not only will the existing hierarchically-organized systems be altered from the bottom up, but new ones may arise to perform functions of which we are as yet only barely aware.

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We Were Warned By Jonah Goldberg

At a briefing for conservative journalists before the State of the Union address, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said President Bush isn't wistful about the close of his presidency and doesn't foresee a day when he will pine to be back in the Oval Office. Chuckles broke out in the room at the perhaps unintentional comparison to Hillary Clinton's surrogate in chief, who - as with everything else in his life - has decided to make this election year all about him.

This got me thinking. Bush came into office promising to be the un-Clinton. And in many ways - good and bad - he stayed true to that promise. But as Bush opened the final chapter of his presidency Monday night, the similarities between his tenure and his predecessor's seem to have finally eclipsed the differences.

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The Liberals' Mommy Fascism By Christopher Chantrill

At the end of the Bush administration conservatives need to clear their heads and think about the future.  It's time to do some serious political philosophy. Jonah Goldberg believes that the way to start is to understand how ubiquitous fascist ideas have become in our present age.

A project like that runs immediately into the problem, first articulated by George Orwell right after World War II, that the word "fascism" no longer refers to the specific movement founded by Benito Mussolini.  It has become merely a handy pejorative.  For half a century the left has used the word to define themselves as the good guys and anyone that opposed them as the fascist bad guys.

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Hillary: Undecided on Platform Apology for Slavery? By Jeffrey Lord

Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign had not answered by press time an inquiry as to whether the New York Senator and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination would support a plank in the 2008 Democratic platform apologizing for the party's extensive past support for slavery and segregation as well as blocking the immigration of Asians.
Press reports have indicated Senator Edward Kennedy endorsed the New York senator's opponent, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in part because of his anger that former President Bill Clinton had injected race into the campaign.

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Bill Clinton Remembered By Lisa Fabrizio

As the incessant march for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination continues, probably the most entertaining aspect is watching the mainstream media take sides. And although many of their liberal icons -- most notably Ted Kennedy and Pat Leahy -- are endorsing Barack Obama, Hillary is still the subject of loving puff-pieces like this one from ABC News: "Is Clinton Scrutinized About Her Looks Too Much?"

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Phill Kline's Battle Against Planned Parenthood by Ericka Andersen

Johnson County, Kansas DA Phill Kline may become the first to bring down a local Planned Parenthood operation on a host of criminal charges including failures to report sexual abuse of minors, criminal late term abortions and forged records. 

The legal wars between Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and Kline boil down to two simple points:  first, Kline alleges -- and has taken to a grand jury -- evidence that Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri routinely fails to report sexual abuse of children and its doctors perform illegal partial-birth abortions;  second, that this particular Planned Parenthood -- which denies all these charges -- has, with its Kansas political and media allies, undertaken to discredit and destroy Kline.

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Hillary -- The Movie by Aryeh Spero

A lucky few New York conservatives gathered by invitation in Times Square to view a private screening of the New York premier of "Hillary -- The Movie." It was a private showing because a three judge panel in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., recently ruled that it is akin more to a campaign ad and thus subject to campaign finance laws. David Bossie of Citizens United, producer of the movie, countered that it should be granted the same status as the Michael Moore film,” Fahrenheit 9/11”, which was allowed distribution in public theatres even though it, too, was a film dedicated to a negative portrayal -- during election time -- of a Republican politician, George Bush. Bossie’s argument was rejected and, once again, liberals have been able to use the Courts to their political advantage.

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The Clintons' Multi-Million Dollar Dubai Conflict-of-Interest By Tom Fitton

In the most recent Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama threw off their gloves and attacked each other for their suspicious and scandalous ties.  And you know what?  They were both right!

Here’s a story this week that makes my point with respect to Hillary:

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Disenfranchised Conservatives, Stolen Elections By J.R. 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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Hillary Takes Credit for "So-Called" Surge Success By Bob Parks

During last Thursday night's Republican debate, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said something that angered me a bit...
"And one more thing. What — what an audacious and arrogant thing for the Democrats to say, as Hillary Clinton did, that they are responsible for the progress that the surge has seen, by virtue of their trying to pull out so quickly.

"Look, the success over there is due to the — the blood and the courage of our servicemen and women, and to General Petraeus and to President Bush, not to General Hillary Clinton."

To think that Hillary Clinton would, on behalf of Senator Harry Reid and the anti-war movement, attempt to take credit for the "so-called surge" success because of opposition to the war, would be brazen at best, and opportunism at worst.

So I employed my perilous routine of skimming and found, within the January 21 Congressional Black Caucus Democrat debate, the following quote from Mrs. Clinton...

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John Quincy Adams & Winston Churchill on Islam :: Normulator’s Blog

John Quincy Adams on Islam:

    "In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, [.....] Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST.- TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE....

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War And The Imperfect Nature Of Man By Marcus Epstein

There have been thousands of books on military tactics and the history of warfare, as well as philosophical tracts as to what constitutes a just war. Yet few books address the question of why, despite the horrors of war, human beings continually kill each other on a mass scale.

David Livingstone Smith, who teaches philosophy at the University of New England, attempts to do this in The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War. Smith uses the field of evolutionary psychology—the science of looking at social behavior and psychological traits through the lens of natural selection—to figure out why humans are capable of war.

Firstly, Smith disposes of the Rousseauian view that humans are naturally peaceful creatures who have been corrupted by modern society. He notes that anthropological evidence has found evidence of war as far back as we have found human remains, and that our closest related species—chimpanzees—engage in a form of territorial warfare themselves.

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Parsing the truth at the Pentagon By Judi McLeod

The last word on the mysterious Hesham Islam belongs to boss man number two at the Pentagon, Gordon England—literally.

If you’re curious about the meteoric rise of Hesham Islam, all that is left on the Defense Department website is Gordon England describing Islam as his “personal close confidante”.

Last Friday award-winning journalist Claudia Rosett had her article “Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?” posted on National Review Online.  The article raised pointed questions about some of the stories recounted in a glowing profile, dated Oct. 15, on the Defense Department website, featuring a top Pentagon aide, Hesham Islam.

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The Denaturing of the West The Denaturing of the West

In the past week, I have posted two stories about the creeping restrictions on freedom of speech that have been imposed on Westerners because of our fear of offending non-whites. Yesterday, I discussed the case of Frances Semler, who was forced out of her job because she was a Minuteman member and a critic of illegal immigration. Last week, I described the threat of punishment hanging over Canadian critics of Islam. We can all think of a hundred examples of whites who have been punished for their opinions about race, from Brigitte Bardot to Rush Limbaugh. These cases are illustrations of a key principle: integrating non-whites into white societies changes our culture and makes the maintenance of our traditions and our way of life impossible.

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Harper Government Withdraws From UN "Anti-Racism" Conference by Naresh Raghubeer and David Harris

The Stephen Harper government has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference scheduled to take place next year in South Africa, according to a media release today from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity, said today that the conference, like its predecessor in 2001, "has gone completely off the rails... Canada is interested in combating racism, not promoting it. We'll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance".

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The Defense Rusts By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

After a Missouri Air National Guard F-15 came apart in early November, the Air Force grounded its fleet of 450 F-15Cs. At a time when Russia was resuming its long-range bomber patrols that it had curtailed after our victory in the Cold War, the Canadian air force volunteered its F-18s to patrol the skies over and near Alaska.

We ought to be ashamed, just as we ought to worry that no presidential candidate has made an issue of a steady decline in military capability. The Democrats will say this is because we have spent too much on Iraq. Even if true, that's no reason to spend too little defending against other threats.

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THE DEPOPULATION OF EAST GERMANY :: Real Clear Religion

Historically and traditionally a woman got married and raised her children. Now thanks to feminism and socialism a woman leaves her picturesque village in search of career and fortune. But even when the woman finds her fortune and her handsome prince in the city she still is not ready to embark on motherhood due to the brainwashing she has undergone at the hands of feminists and socialists. Even cash incentives, and free daycare can't tear her away from her government subsidized packet of birth control pills. The only thing which could bring back the deadened maternal instinct in the West is the rebirth of Catholicism--which is the lone voice in the wilderness that condemns artificial birth control and truly reveres the God-given role of women in society.

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Measuring One’s Liberal Quotient

Satire By John W. Lillpop

Recognizing when one's mind has become infested with liberalism, and knowing the full extent of that devastating news, is vital information that one should have in order to navigate life’s many dangerous obstacles and roadblocks.

The simple, yet scientific, test that follows has been programmed to evaluate one’s “liberal quotient,” which is the exact opposite of intelligence quotient, and usually portends serious mental and moral defects.
The test:

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India, take the U.N. – please By Joseph Farah

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered an impassioned plea last week for a new world order.

"To succeed now, the post-war rules of the game and the post-war international institutions must be radically reformed to fit our world of globalization," he said.

Specifically, Brown called for India to get a seat on an expanded U.N. Security Council.

This might surprise some people, but I agree with Brown.

India should get a seat on the Security Council.

In fact, I would like to see the U.S. offer India our seat. It would be even better if India would agree to host the U.N. in Calcutta or some other Third World city.

Leaving the U.N. in the dust would be the greatest "reform" I can imagine the U.S. contributing to the game of international relations and globalization.

Why do we have to play this game any more?

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Is Ahmadinejad setting a trap for Israel and the US? By James Lewis

Like the Jedi Knights in Star Wars, much of Israel's safety depends on an absurdly small number of daring pilots and their jet planes. The Israel Air Force has managed to use that capacity with amazing skill and daring, as it showed last September when a dozen fighter bombers and support aircraft jammed Syria's Russian-supplied air defenses and destroyed a secret nuclear facility on the Euphrates river --- not far from Iran.  The nature of that target has still not been revealed, but it must have been important enough to risk triggering a missile attack from Syria. That means the target was believed to be very important: most likely a joint Iranian-Syrian-North Korean nuclear facility.

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Staying The Coarse By George Will

In 1976, Fred Harris -- a populist precursor of this year's version of John Edwards -- championed "the little people." When he finished fourth with just 10.8 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, he cheerfully explained that the little people were too little to reach the levers on the voting machines. Soon Edwards will join Harris in the book of presidential trivia. (What presidential candidate was known as "Little Lyndon from Lawton"? Answer: Former Sen. Harris from Lawton, Okla.) Meanwhile, note this:

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Al Franken's Mental Disorder Given a Pass by Media? By Warner Todd Huston

"Comedian" Al Franken is running for the US Senate seat from Minnesota, this the media is happy to report. But, for some unexplainable reason, the media isn't so interested in reporting Franken's odd behavior. It seems that an ungovernable rage is always just under the surface with Franken, a rage that has several times broken free and resulted in assault and other violent or antisocial behavior. Why the media doesn't highlight this man's unstable behavior can only mean that they are lending him as much cover as they can to assist his campaign.

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Playing the Media By Mark Silverberg

With all the indignation shown over allegations that Israel is causing a humanitarian crisis* and exercising “collective punishment” on Gaza’s Palestinians, few have stopped to consider the possibility that this “crisis” has been engineered by Hamas to score a propaganda victory against Israel using the gullible Western media as its vehicle. This “crisis” has all the markings of a pre-arranged publicity event - skillful manipulation of the Western media, the use of falsehoods and selective information, staged atrocities, and all the other time-honored methods used by unscrupulous propagandists. Since the Palestinians staged the death of the child Mohammed al-Dura in his father's arms back in September 2000, Palestinian propaganda has not enjoyed such international success as it is enjoying today in Gaza.

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Phill Kline's Battle Against Planned Parenthood by Ericka Andersen

Johnson County, Kansas DA Phill Kline may become the first to bring down a local Planned Parenthood operation on a host of criminal charges including failures to report sexual abuse of minors, criminal late term abortions and forged records. 

The legal wars between Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and Kline boil down to two simple points:  first, Kline alleges -- and has taken to a grand jury -- evidence that Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri routinely fails to report sexual abuse of children and its doctors perform illegal partial-birth abortions;  second, that this particular Planned Parenthood -- which denies all these charges -- has, with its Kansas political and media allies, undertaken to discredit and destroy Kline.

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Bull Connor, Democrat :: Grand Old Partisan

Rush Limbaugh is discussing Bull Connor this afternoon, so here is Grand Old Partisan's previously published article: "Bull Connor, Democrat."

On May 2, 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights.  Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and police dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children.

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Driven a Ford Lately? Not if You're Boycotting By Tom Blumer

Maybe Ford Motor Company management can be forgiven for not taking seriously the American Family Association (AFA’s) call for its members to boycott the automaker in May 2005.

The conservative Christian group launched the crusade against the second-largest U.S. automaker for giving money to gay rights groups, offering benefits to same-sex couples and actively recruiting gay employees.

(Note: Yours truly does not support the AFA boycott, has one relative currently working for Ford, and another who is a Ford retiree.)

Several Ford dealers, recognizing the threat, convinced the AFA to suspend its boycott while they tried to convince the company to be less aggressive in promoting gay-agenda causes.

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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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Obama's Camelot By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Caroline Kennedy endorses Barack Obama for president because, like her father, he has "a special gift for inspiring young people." Maybe so, but we knew John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama is no JFK.

Ms. Kennedy writes in a Sunday New York Times op-ed that this election is like the election of 1960, with voters, particularly young ones, seeking "a change in the leadership of the country." There's that word again. She thinks Barack Obama, comparing him to her father, is the agent of that change.

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Suicide by tolerance By Lorne Gunter

Walt Kelly, the cartoonist and satirist once had his famous character Pogo say, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

In the clash between the West and Islam, that is increasingly true. We are our own worst enemy.

Those of us who care about the survival of Western civilization occasionally rage about the way Muslim organizations feign outrage in the media at the tiniest slight. We grind out teeth when those organizations file human rights complaints against the writings of the likes of Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant. We warn against our governments permitting the implementation of shariah law and against the insidious teachings of radical imams at mosques and Islamic community centres on our own continent.

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It should be no surprise that the Clintons are playing the race card By Christopher Hitchens

How can one equal Bill Clinton for thuggery and opportunism when it comes to the so-called "race card"? And where does one even start with the breathtaking nastiness of his own conduct, and that of his supporters, in the last week? Barack Obama carries South Carolina having made no sectarian appeal to any specific kind of voter, and the best Clinton can say is that this is no better than Jesse Jackson managed to do. Really? Did Jackson come south having already got himself elected the senator from Illinois? And, come to think of it, was Jackson so much to be despised and sneered at when he was needed as Clinton's "confessor," along with Billy Graham, during the squalor of impeachment?

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McCain's Dishonest Attack By Rich Lowry

As I've said before, McCain deserves a large part of the credit for the surge—he pushed to have it implemented both in his public advocacy and his behind-the-scenes lobbying of the Bush administration, and he has been its foremost defender. Romney wasn't as enthusiastic about it and in his body language, if nothing else seemed ready to distance himself from it if it failed. This is a perfectly legitimate issue for McCain to raise, and he has, by saying things like Romney was "looking at his shoes" while he was putting it all on the line for the surge.

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Scalia questions court's authority for moral decisions :: The Associated Press

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the high court judges, trained in law, could not specialize in making moral decisions for society.

Scalia, 71, spoke Thursday at Mississippi State University.

Among such issues cited by Scalia were whether it was a woman's natural right to have an abortion, the right for one to marry another of the same sex or the right to engage in certain sexual acts that are private and consensual.

"What I am questioning is the propriety, indeed, the sanity of letting value-laden decisions such as these be made for the entire society," said Scalia.

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Media Canonizes McCain While Slandering Romney By Douglas MacKinnon

In one of the most telling moments of this primary campaign season, Brian Williams of NBC News, went out of his way to smear Mitt Romney and denigrate his religion, and none of the other Republican candidates on the stage bothered to come to his defense.

During last week’s GOP debate in Boca Raton, Florida, Williams exercised all the subtlety of David Duke when he dropped this bigoted statement on the former Governor from Massachusetts: “Governor, we’ve got an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll coming out in the morning that says, among a lot of other things, 44 percent of respondents say a Mormon president would have a difficult time uniting the country.”

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Clintons Play the Race Card Again By Clarice Feldman

Chris Hitchens reminds us of the many times in the past the Clintons have used racial politics for their own advancement, and concludes:

Many of these same people do not like it now that they see similar two-faced tactics being employed against "one of their own." Well, tough. And many of the most prominent and eloquent black columnists-Bob Herbert, Colbert King, Eugene Robinson-are also acting shocked. It's a bit late. I have to say that Bob Herbert shocked even me by quoting Andrew Young, who said that his pal Clinton was "every bit as black as Barack" because he'd screwed more black chicks. How is Hillary Clinton, or Chelsea Clinton, supposed to feel on hearing that little endorsement? One gets the impression, though, at least from the wife, that anything is OK as long as it works, or even has a chance of working.

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Obama’s Rambo Foreign Policy By Cliff Kincaid

The Obama vs. Hillary fight looks mean and nasty. But it also looks like one of those "professional" wrestling bouts rehearsed in advanced and orchestrated in the ring. The crowd gets excited even though the sophisticated observers understand that the outcome is pre-determined. Bill Clinton wins no matter what happens because his old associates are advising both candidates. And while the U.S. may get out of Iraq, a new Democratic Administration could lead to more U.S. military intervention around the world, a bigger Army, and even a military draft.

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The 13 Steps of Liberals Anonymous By C. MacLeod Fuller

Liberals Anonymous (LibAnon) is a nationwide organization of current, former, and recovering American liberals and Democrats.  Its sole mission is to establish and maintain recovery programs designed to help similar individuals overcome the plethora of congenital illnesses inherent in postmodern American liberalism with which they are embittered.  Liberals Anonymous accomplishes this worthy goal by making the idiosyncratic elemental disease nature of liberalism self-evident to the afflicted individual.

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Straight Talk About the Straight-Talker: John McCain Lacks Integrity By Henry Mark Holzer

While McCain's lack of integrity in the MIA investigation is so dramatic because of his own military and POW background, there are other examples which are equally important and disturbing.

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 Truth About Mandatory Health Insurance By BETSY MCCAUGHEY

This week, Hillary Clinton's supporters attacked Barack Obama for not proposing a federal mandate that every American buy health insurance. Mr. Obama's health plan, they said, is a "Band-Aid" for the nation's gaping wound: 47 million people without health insurance. Mrs. Clinton would require all Americans to get coverage. Presidential candidates John Edwards and Christopher Dodd say they would, too. Not Mr. Obama.

Imposing a federal mandate is a hot issue on the campaign trail. It's also a burning issue in Congress, where Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and Republican Sen. Bob Bennett are pushing the Healthy Americans Act, which would require everyone not in Medicaid or another government program to buy health insurance.

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Passing the Torch of Camelot to a New Generation of Democrat

John W. Lillpop

President John F. Kennedy changed the world with his inaugural address on January 20, 1961, including these poetic words, «Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans...»

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