Will the Federalist Society succeed where the North Vietnamese failed? :: Power Line

In a characteristically overwrought piece, Dahlia Lithwick looks at John McCain's recent adventures in jurisprudence and concludes that McCain has sold his soul to the Federalist Society. Liberals like Lithwick will be spinning out variations on this theme constantly during the next nine months, as they attempt to transform McCain's image from maverick to captive of the far right. Lithwick must have particularly enjoyed developing this theme in the context of her obsession with the Federalist Society.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Watch the Democrats destroy themselves By David Michael Green

Suppose you had a political party you were trying to get rid of. How would you do it?

Would you give it some cement shoes and toss it into the bay? Would you roll it up in a carpet and drag it into the trunk of your car in the middle of the night? Would you put out a contract on it?

If the latter sounds appealing, no need to get your hands dirty messing with any nasty mob guys from Jersey. I know some very upstanding establishment folks who've perfected a killer formula (pun intended) for particide. They're called Democrats, and they know how to get the job done right.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Paying any price, bearing any burden By Jonathan Gurwitz

When U.S. leaders travel abroad, their visits are in some way supposed to elicit the majestic nature of the American democratic experiment.

Think of John F. Kennedy, in the midst of the Cold War, traveling to Europe in 1963 to pledge American solidarity with an outpost of democracy: "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'"

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Audacity of Compromise By Kathleen Parker

Kamikaze Republicans — those who say they'll never vote for John McCain because he isn't conservative enough — may get what they deserve.

The Clintons.

Many on the right, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, James Dobson and others, have declared they'd rather vote for Hillary Clinton — or not vote at all — than cast a ballot for McCain. These self-appointed spokesmen for conservatism insist that voting for Clinton is a matter of principle: Better to go down on the strength of one's convictions than to be a morally compromised placeholder, they say.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Adam Gadahn - American al-Qaeda Killed In U.S. Strike? :: NTA

Where is accused terrorist Adam Gadahn?

That’s what Taliban sources along the Afghan-Pakistan border are wondering about the American-born al-Qaida member. Gadahn, known as Azzam al-Ameriki (Azzam the American), joined al-Qaida in 2003 and has appeared in several bombastic al-Qaida videos since then.

[ ]

U.S. intelligence officials have heard the same rumors, but tell NBC News that they have no information to suggest Gadahn is dead. They specifically deny that Gadahn was killed in the same Predator missile attack that killed al-Qaida’s #4, Abu Laith al-Libi, last week near the town of Mir Ali in Pakistan’s North Waziristan province. Gadahn was visiting Mir Ali at the time, according to a local man who describes himself as a friend of Gadahn’s.

American al-Qaida member missing?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The European Union and the Islamization of Europe by Fjordman

Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihad Watch recently suggested a number of things Europeans can do to halt Islamization. The proposals were good, but I think we should focus on the most important obstacle: the European Union. I've suggested in the past that the EU is the principal motor behind the Islamization of Europe, and that the entire organization needs to be dismantled as soon as possible, otherwise nothing substantial can ever be done about the Muslim invasion. At the Gates of Vienna blog, I am writing a text called "Ten Reasons to Get Rid of the European Union," which can be translated into other languages and be republished when it is completed.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Whom Do You Trust? An Over 60 Feminist, Or a Closet Muslim With Attitude?

By John W. Lillpop

Democrats continue to trash each other, especially Hillary Clinton, with reckless abandon. Don't they realize that all that mudslinging is providing Republicans with a bountiful cache of attack ads for the general election?

The latest addition to the GOP war chest flowed out of the mouth of Barack Obama who said:

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

CAIR's Hometown Paper By Steve Emerson

Once again, New York Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar is auditioning to be the chief public-relations mouthpiece for radical Islamic front groups in the United States.
In an article published Thursday, titled “Speakers at Academy Said to Make False Claims,” MacFarquhar writes:

The Air Force Academy was criticized by Muslim and religious freedom organizations for playing host on Wednesday to three speakers who critics say are evangelical Christians falsely claiming to be former Muslim terrorists.
The three men were invited as part of a week-long conference on terrorism organized by cadets at the academy’s Colorado Springs campus under the auspices of the political science department.

And just who are the “Muslim and religious freedom” groups that MacFarquhar cites? One outfit called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and none other than the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In fact, MacFarquhar twice in his article refers to “Muslim” and “Arab” organizations — in the plural — as objecting to the conference, but the only Muslim or Arab group he cites is CAIR, once again giving CAIR its desired, and undeserved, platform as the sole spokesman for Arab and Muslim communities.

Full Artticle ...

Sphere: Related Content

The American Election and Islam By Phyllis Chesler

This coming American election is not just about universal health care—it is also about the survival of the free world as we have come to know it. And therefore, it is also about Islam.

If we say we are for women’s rights or for human rights, then a candidate’s gender, skin-color, or age may not be as important as their ideas about Islam.

Do our candidates understand that we are really at war and that we cannot talk our way out of it? That charm, even of the spellbinding variety, is not enough, nor can we “take a meeting,” Hollywood-style, or Tammany-Hall style, to set things right. Nor is simple, old-fashioned heroics the answer to the kind of Orwellian propaganda and guerilla-terrorism that America and our allies will continue to confront in the 21st century.

Does our next President understand that we have to fight with everything we have and risk losing it all in order to hold onto any of it?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

My sentence was reduced to beheading :: Telegraph UK

Sandy Mitchell has terrifying first-hand experience of being on the wrong side of sharia law.

Mr Mitchell, 52, was falsely accused of being involved in a car bombing in Saudi Arabia in 2000 when he was working there as an anaesthetic technician.

He was held in prison for three years and tortured until he eventually signed a confession, which he later had to read out on Saudi television.

A sharia court sentenced him to having his head partially severed, followed by public crucifixion.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Conservatives: America's Forgotten and Disenfranchised Voters

By John W. Lillpop
Should things continue to erode in this the wildest of political seasons, it is probable that conservative voters will have little real choice in November. That is so because the presidential ballot might very well look like this:

( ) Hillary Clinton (or equally distressing, Barack Obama)
( ) John McCain

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Conquering the Architecture of Death By Kidst Paulos Asrat

Just before the stealthy rise of Hitler, there were many signs in German culture which inadvertently anticipated the annihilating environment that Hitler sought. 

        Expressionist German filmmakers of the 1920s such as Carl Meyer and Friedrich W. Murnau were making symbolic films about their degenerating society and individuals in purely symbolic, rather than realistic, terms.  They built this sense of doom through set designs and lighting.  Structures were on the verge of collapse, or caving in on their inhabitants; shadows and their subjects were misplaced; hallways and corridors were twisted and claustrophobic.  The actual realities of the post World War I inflation, the high unemployment, and the general sting from the losses of the war never figured in the films.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Bush begat McCain By Charles Krauthammer

On Super Tuesday, John McCain secured the Republican nomination. How did that happen? Simple. In the absence of a compelling conservative, the Republican electorate turned to the apostate sheriff.

In the beginning, there were two. There was America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani, determined to "go on offense." And there was America's maverick, John McCain, scourge of Iraq wobblies.

Both aroused deep suspicions among conservatives. Giuliani's major apostasy is being pro-choice on abortion. McCain's apostasies are too numerous to count. He's held the line on abortion, but on just about everything else he could find — tax cuts, immigration, campaign finance reform, Guantanamo — he not only opposed the conservative consensus but also insisted on doing so with ostentatious self-righteousness.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Mandarin and the Empress's New Clothes :: Power Line

Last month AFP reported on remarks by Bush administration special envoy for human rights in North Korea Jay Lefkowitz at an American Enterprise Institute forum (the text of Lefkowitz's remarks is accessible here). Lefkowitz candidly acknowledged the dead end the administration has reached with North Korea.

Secretary Rice reacted to Lefkowitz's remarks as though he had asserted that the empress wears no clothes. Rice dressed Lefkowtiz down as a fool who was too benighted to observe the administration's fine new policy threads. In a remarkable postscript, Claudia Rosett discovered that the State Department sent Lefkowitz's speech down the memory hole. In the various reports on Rice's comments on Lefkowitz, however, Rice has cited no fact that belies his observations.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

A PC-Plagued Pentagon By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Last month we told you about a high-level Muslim aide pushing his weight around the Pentagon. Now we learn he wasn't properly vetted, and his days there are numbered.

Somehow, Egypt-born Hesham H. Islam landed a top-security job in the office of the deputy secretary of defense, despite nefarious contacts with Muslim radicals and a questionable background.

Key parts of Islam's official bio don't check out, according to the National Review. Now the Pentagon has taken down a glowing profile of him from its Web site, "while we try to determine the facts," a spokesman said.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Sun Also Sets By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.

Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.

To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.

And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

I Am A RINO By Warner Todd Huston

It's no more for me. I will not blindly vote Republican just because I often canvass with them. I will not be a fool for the party while getting nothing in return. I am not a Republican first. I am a conservative.

That's right, you read the title to this piece correctly. I am admitting that I am a RINO. I admit it openly, freely, with relish even.

For those unfamiliar, RINO is not only shorthand for rhinoceros, that great beast of the African plains, but it is also an acronym. It stands for, "Republican In Name Only" - RINO.

Now, I am not going to pull a fast one here and spell RINO out with other words. No, I'm happily sticking right with the words "Republican In Name Only." So, there it is. I am a RINO.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Thus ends Western Civilization By Joseph Farah

The London Daily Mail reports this week that one in four Britons don't believe Prime Minister Winston Churchill actually existed.

They suspect he is a mythical character, rather than a historical one.

Likewise, they think historical figures such as Florence Nightingale, Sir Walter Raleigh, Mahatma Gandhi and Cleopatra were also fictional personalities created for literature or films.

On the other hand, they believe Sherlock Holmes was a real person.

You can laugh about a survey like this, but I suspect we should all be very, very angry about it – at least the three-quarters of us who understand Churchill was not only a real guy but an important one in the history of Western Civilization.

In fact, he wrote the book on Western Civilization – the classic "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Media Spins Success in Afghanistan as Failure By Ray Robison

American and Coalition forces have taken the initiative in Afghanistan, and have the Taliban on the run. Yet major American media outlets, to the extent they cover fighting in Afghanistan, are portraying the Taliban as "resurgent". Going on the offense and succeeding at it always increases violence.  But is being spun onto bad news/

The increase in fighting in Afghanistan is not a sign of a stronger Taliban, but rather a more desperate one. Despite all the media reports to the contrary it is we who are surging in the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Yet the media has continued to claim the Taliban is growing stronger as the Los Angeles Times just did: 

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Four Wives of Abu Izzadeen By Christopher Orlet

If Britain were an inmate in a psychiatric hospital (and there is quite a bit of empirical evidence that it should be), the nation would be on 24-hour suicide watch. I say this after coming across this headline in the Sunday Telegraph: "Multiple wives will mean multiple benefits."

No, Westminster hasn't passed a law permitting bigamy. That is, unless you are a Muslim and happen to have acquired your harem before your British citizenship. It seems Gordon Brown's government will now allow Muslims with more than one wife to claim extra welfare benefits for each wife. That's called compassion. It is estimated that there are at least a thousand "polygamous partnerships" in Britain, so the ruling could cost taxpayers millions of pounds, depending, I guess, on the number of wives each immigrant in question want to bring with him. (Islamic law permits men to have up to four wives at any one time.)

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Women and Children First By Oliver North

When it sailed from Simon's Bay near Cape Town, South Africa, on Feb. 25, 1852, under the command of Capt. Robert Salmond, the British paddle wheel frigate HMS Birkenhead was loaded with more than 640 men, women and children. Mostly, however, the passengers were British soldiers, their horses and ammunition. Their destination was Algoa Bay, South Africa, as reinforcements for Sir Harry Smith in the eighth campaign of the Kaffir War.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Stepping Back from the Conservative Abyss By Frank Salvato

"If you are looking at substance rather than if there is an 'R' or a 'D' after his name, manifestly, if he's our candidate, then Hillary is going to be our girl, because she's more conservative than he is..." – Ann Coulter on Hannity & Colmes

If Conservatives and Republicans don't squelch their anger toward the apparent party nominee we will be falling into the trap the Liberal Left has set for us; the trap that splinters the Conservatives within the Republican Party so that another Clinton (or Democrat) can get into the White House with less than a majority of the national vote. We will be acting emotionally instead of intellectually; exactly as the Liberal Left wants us to.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

For Conservatives, What's the Next Move? By JB Williams

In his speech to CPAC moments ago, Republican nominee John McCain called himself a life-long conservative. But that’s not what life-long conservatives call him. His speech writers included all the right conservative buzz words. But most of them are at odds with his past performance. So, what now?

As the last remaining conservative in the GOP race, Mitt Romney suspends his bid for the White House today, leaving the White House in the hands of quasi-liberals, John McCain, Hillary Clinton or Barrack Hussein Obama for the coming four years, what’s our next move to protect and defend our nation from the enemy within and the enemies abroad?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Honor Politics By Yuval Levin

John McCain seems strangely uneasy at the top. Throughout the Republican primary campaign, he has shown himself an able scrappy underdog, and once the voting started he proved he can be a very good come-from-behind winner too. But McCain has never seemed able to make sense of himself as the acknowledged leader of the pack. At campaign events and election-night rallies, his supporters always chant “Mac is back.” But McCain’s challenge now is not a comeback. He needs to solidify his strong position and broaden his base of support. That would seem to require a kind of politicking McCain is very evidently uncomfortable with, and that he has not been very good at in the past.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

U.S. AID for Terror By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

The Bush Administration's search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen’s “blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat -- which isn’t there.”
For the first time, the Bush Administration plans to give $150 million in cash directly to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Treasury, as part of a $496.5 million “aid” package, including $410 million for development programs. This added to the $86.5 million for CIA “security training,” which Congress authorized in April 2007.

The CIA has apparently assumed the Palestinian terrorist-training role previously held by the former Soviet Union. Since 1994, the CIA armed and trained thousands of Palestinian “security forces,” who subsequently joined every Palestinian terrorist organization.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

OBAMA WILL 'CHANGE' AND 'UNITE' ALL RIGHT By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

But first he will have to create two nations.

That will be the major CHANGE that he has promised in speech after speech.

As for UNITING, only those who are politically left of Obama will gather around his throne.

Therefore, the other America will be those who do not believe in his extreme leftist positions. One of his stances is pro-choice. The other is pro-sodomy.

The moralists will then split from Obama’s leftist kingdom to form their own country. It will be pro-life and pro-morality.

Consequently, when The Boy promises the Republic that he will bring CHANGE and UNITE, the citizens who are blurred in the head have no idea that he is lying to them.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Conservatives have already lost the White House By JB Williams

In his speech to CPAC moments ago, Republican nominee John McCain called himself a life-long conservative. But that’s not what life-long conservatives call him. His speech writers included all the right conservative buzz words. But most of them are at odds with his past performance. So, what now?

As the last remaining conservative in the GOP race, Mitt Romney suspends his bid for the White House today, leaving the White House in the hands of quasi-liberals, John McCain, Hillary Clinton or Barrack Hussein Obama for the coming four years, what’s our next move to protect and defend our nation from the enemy within and the enemies abroad?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Archbishop of the Deliquescent by Lawrence Auster

On the same day that the nomination of open-borders McCain became inevitable, the piece of human putrescence known as the Archbishop of Canterbury told an interviewer that the adoption of certain aspects of sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable":

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.

For example, Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Early Voting Insanity And a GOP Gift By George Will

Forewarned, Democrats now are forearmed -- not that they will necessarily make sensible use of the gift. Tuesday's voting armed Democratic voters with the name of the candidate that their nominee will face in the fall. Will their purblind party now nominate the most polarizing person in contemporary politics, knowing that Republicans will nominate the person who tries to compensate for his weakness among conservatives with his strength among independent voters who are crucial to winning the White House?

Perhaps. The Republican Party's not-so-secret weapon always is the Democratic Party, with its entertaining thirst for living dangerously.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Scooter Libby Could Have Gotten a Much Better Deal!

Satire By John W.Lillpop

First, I suppose I ought to explain the irony of the analogy I propose: Weevils, of the insect family Curculionidae, include approximately 40,000 species (Encyclopædia Britannica), but the most common association relates to those species which typically feed on grain.

Biblically, stored grain was literally the lifeblood of society, and anything which threatened it –  drought, blight, war, or spoilage (from varied causes, often insectoid) threatened all, as any deficit produced repercussions which not only affected human consumption thereof, but that of livestock, and ultimately the overall economic vitality of society.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Lesser of Two Weevils by Erik Rush

First, I suppose I ought to explain the irony of the analogy I propose: Weevils, of the insect family Curculionidae, include approximately 40,000 species (Encyclopædia Britannica), but the most common association relates to those species which typically feed on grain.

Biblically, stored grain was literally the lifeblood of society, and anything which threatened it –  drought, blight, war, or spoilage (from varied causes, often insectoid) threatened all, as any deficit produced repercussions which not only affected human consumption thereof, but that of livestock, and ultimately the overall economic vitality of society.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Mystery Deepens Over WMD Documents By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

How the classified military documents from Iraq, which named the coordinates of where the Army suspected weapons of mass destruction to be hidden, ended up in an Arabic translator's apartment on Hoyt Street in Brooklyn, is clear.

Not likely to be known anytime soon is what, if anything, the army contractor did with the documents.

The U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, which is prosecuting the case, appears to have little direct evidence that Noureddine Malki passed information on to the insurgency, either during his time in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, or upon his return to America in 2005. But it has raised the possibility that he may have done so. The government has said Malki regularly called phone numbers connected to insurgents and took bribes of at least $11,500 from Sunni tribal leaders.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama and 'Da Yutes' By J.R. Dunn

One unwelcome side effect of Obamamania is the threat of yet another bout of liberalism's youth obsession.

This is not a reference to John Kerry's Botox shots or Nancy Pelosi's face lifts, but the liberal tendency to fall on their knees before the nation's youth at the drop of a skateboard.

Granted that pols right left and center pander to the upcoming voters in search of the "youth vote" -- usually to no avail -- but this is something else. Something compulsive, irrational, and more than a little creepy. It seems to consistently bubble under the surface of American liberalism, erupting only on occasion. We're in the middle of such an eruption right now.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Why the West Is Best By Ibn Warraq

Last October, I participated in a debate in London, hosted by Intelligence Squared, to consider the motion, “We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values.” Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, among others, spoke against the motion; I spoke in favor, focusing on the vast disparities in freedom, human rights, and tolerance between Western and Islamic societies. Here, condensed somewhat, is the case that I made.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Winter of Our Conservative Discontent By Thomas Lifson

The prospect of John McCain as Republican nominee is inspiring sometimes angry resistance from millions of conservative stalwarts. Ann Coulter's famous support for Hillary Clinton threatens to spark a wave of conservative "suicide voters" if the Arizona Senator gets the nomination.

Other Republicans, variously called insiders, party pros, elitists and worse, blithely assure us the alienated base will come around in the end and vote for McCain and the GOP ticket, particularly if Hillary Clinton is the alternative.

Assuming McCain gets the nomination, I am not so sure. It could go either way.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Why Bill Gates Hates My Book By WILLIAM R. EASTERLY

This newspaper reported recently that Bill Gates hates my ideas. I have no hurt feelings, at least nothing that months of intensive psychotherapy can't cure. Mr. Gates, after all, has allied himself with the foreign aid establishment. This establishment is notoriously sensitive to criticism from people like me, who find no evidence that the aid industry's grand schemes are actually lifting anyone out of poverty.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Marinating in 'Decline' By BRET STEPHENS

In 1788, Massachusetts playwright Mercy Otis Warren took one look at the (unratified) U.S. Constitution and declared that "we shall soon see this country rushing into the extremes of confusion and violence." This, roughly, is the origin of American declinism -- and it's been downhill ever since.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

What is a Hero? By Lee Culpepper

There are many heroes in this world, but the word “hero” itself has become a hackneyed label. Time and again it is circumstance that brings out an individual’s heroic qualities. Our military members who are serving our country and fighting for the freedom of people in a foreign land are undeniably heroes.

Frequently, many heroes pay the ultimate price while serving others, such as the brave firemen, policemen, and civilians who sacrificed their lives trying to save the victims of 9/11. For the heroes who survive their crucibles, they tend to continue serving with a degree of humility and meekness. How many heroes do we know that flaunt themselves as such? Heroes are modest, truthful, loyal, and selfless.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Wearing Blinders By Paul R. Hollrah

The Clinton-Obama debate from California promised to produce a lot of interesting “fireworks,” but it didn’t. With Wolf Blitzer moderating, it turned out to be just another CNN “softball game,” proving nothing more than that CNN actually does stand for “Clinton News Network.”

As usual, what the CNN questioners didn’t ask, and what Clinton and Obama didn’t say, was far more important than what they said. For those who are new to the political trenches and who are just beginning to understand Liberals and Democrats, this is the most important thing to know about them. Liberals and Democrats will jump through hoops, turn themselves inside out, trying NOT to address the really important issues or actually tell the truth about anything if the truth will not help their cause.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Semper Fi, Berkeley by Sen. Jim DeMint

When you mention "Berkeley, California" to most conservatives, they picture a leftist community of graying hippies, radicals, and protesters.  Activities in the last few weeks have only reinforced this image.

The City Council of Berkeley last week voted to ask the U.S. Marine Corps to vacate their recruiting office in town, and that if they chose to stay they did so as "uninvited and unwelcome intruders."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Oprah’s Islamist Nightmare By Joe Kaufman

Oprah Winfrey, the popular television talk show hostess, probably doesn’t realize it, but she is being used by a radical Muslim organization. Last month, she aired a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., where she featured the daughter of a well known Islamist leader. Now, the leader and his operation are spreading the word that Oprah has helped their group to hit the big time.

On January 21st, the Oprah Winfrey Show aired its ‘The Dream Lives: A Martin Luther King Day Special.’ It was a very personal event for Winfrey, because she credits much of her success to Dr. King. She stated, “I wouldn’t have the life – no part of the life that I have – had there been no Martin Luther King, Jr. and all the other people who stood with him to create a civil rights movement. Nothing that has happening in my life, since I was 16 years old would have been possible.”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Liberal-Progressive Paganism by Thomas Brewton

Pagan gods of the Old Testament were powerless against God, as Pharaoh discovered when he balked at God's demand to liberate the Isrealites from slavery. Nonetheless, Middle Eastern peoples, and even the Israelites, kept turning to their idols of stone, wood, and precious metals.

Re-cycling is a modern-day liberal-progressive idol that is, like the idols of old, both ineffective and harmful. Neither of these characteristics, of course, deters liberal-progressives, whose avowed fidelity to science doesn't go as far as examining and acting upon actual results in real life.

The only requirement for liberal-progressives is that a shibboleth sound good and make them feel good.

But, why recycling?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Single Young Males: A Defense By Bernard Chapin

I’ve been a fan of City Journal since my interest in Harry Stein led me to the website back in 2000. The quarterly’s masthead features the names of numerous esteemed and intelligent social commentators. Looking back over the last eight years I can honestly say that there has not been one essay they’ve published that was not worthwhile. Kay Hymowitz’s recent endeavor, “Child-Man in the Promised Land: Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood,” is no exception to this rule — if only due to the way that responding to it sharpens the mind. 

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Kingdom's Double-Game By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Lost amid the national distractions of a Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, the clock is running down on an immense sale of precision-guided munitions and other advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia and several of the smaller oil-rich Gulf States the Saudis dominate.

Unless two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress adopt resolutions of disapproval by Feb. 14, these transactions will proceed. All other things being equal, it is a safe bet the Saudis will augment their already vast arsenal with these new American arms.

Full Article...

Sphere: Related Content

Where Do Conservatives Go From Here? By John Stephenson

I'm a pretty fair and open minded person. It is a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because it allows me to understand, empathize, and deeply consider where different points of view are coming from....even if they are completely opposite of my own. Of course, it is a curse because in many cases it leaves me confused as to which way is the right way to go. My fallback for this is to follow my basic instincts, however my gut isn't always right. I don't have much in the gift of insight.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Kidnappings of U.S. citizens on rise By Tony Manolatos

Organized, well-financed and violent Mexican kidnapping cells are targeting a growing number of U.S. citizens visiting communities popular with San Diegans and other California residents.

Last year, at least 26 San Diego County residents were kidnapped and held for ransom in Tijuana, Rosarito Beach or Ensenada, local FBI agents overseeing the cases said yesterday. In 2006, at least 11 county residents had been kidnapped in the three communities.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Was Hillary Clinton Advisor Strobe Talbott Manipulated By Soviet Intelligence? PipeLineNews.org

If we are to believe the Hillary Clinton campaign line, the main attribute which qualifies her above all others is that, "She is ready to lead on day one."

She derives this alleged standing from what can only be called political osmosis, having been the wife of Bill Clinton, serving as his "co-president." This echoes a theme which Bill stated often during the 1992 presidential campaign, suggesting that a vote for him was a bargain because the lucky voter would get "two for the price of one," thus providing a first hint, both into the role that Hillary would play during his administration as well as her own remarkable appetite for power and desire to become president in her own right.

The problem with the thesis "ready to lead" has always been that Mrs. Clinton is a creature of her husband's. Without Bill to grease the pathway it is unlikely that she would have ever been successful in politics or even have made it to Arkansas' sleazy Rose Law firm, let alone now be the odds on favorite for the Democrat nomination.

Like much about the Clintons, Hillary being ready to lead is a myth.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Hillary's Fraud Squad By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Even before polls opened Tuesday, Hillary Clinton was all but calling electoral fraud, pre-emptively urging supporters to report irregularities. Ironically, the only campaign committing them was her own.

Which was evident enough when daughter Chelsea Clinton was caught trying to campaign at a Connecticut polling place.

TV cameras in tow, she brought goodies to poll workers like some teacher's pet. Nice as it sounds, it actually was illegal. Connecticut law prohibits campaign representatives from appearing within 75 feet of a polling place on primary day.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Classified military documents from Iraq ended up in Arabic translator's apartment in Brooklyn :: Jihad Watch

No worries. "This is not a terrorism case. This could happen to any immigrant." Of course. Any immigrant could inadvertently get a job handling classified military documents, and mistakenly take some home with him, and -- who knows? -- perhaps without intending to let a few drop into the sight of Iraqi jihadists. But keep your shirt on! This could happen to anyone!

"Mystery Deepens Over WMD Documents," by Joseph Goldstein for the New York Sun (thanks to all who sent this in):

How the classified military documents from Iraq, which named the coordinates of where the Army suspected weapons of mass destruction to be hidden, ended up in an Arabic translator's apartment on Hoyt Street in Brooklyn, is clear.

Not likely to be known anytime soon is what, if anything, the army contractor did with the documents.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

From Goldwater Girl to Hillary Girl by Ann Coulter

Nominating McCain is the gesture of a desperate party.

Republicans are so shell-shocked and demoralized by the success of the Bush Derangement Syndrome, they think they can fool the voters by nominating an open-borders, anti-tax cut, anti-free speech, global-warming hysteric, pro-human experimentation "Republican." Which is to say, a Democrat.

As the expression goes, given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, voters will always choose the Democrat. The only question remaining is: Hillary or Obama?

On the litmus test issues of our time, only partially excluding Iraq, McCain is a liberal.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Nausea Factor

By Alan Caruba

There always comes a time at some point in the process by which Americans select the next «leader of the free world» that one experiences the nausea incurred by too much political rhetoric. There is an impolite word for this that begins with the word «bull.»

Depending on one's age, fortitude, gullibility, gender, et cetera, the nausea can set in early or late, but it will arrive and, with it, what is generally called wisdom. There is that quiet voice in the back of your head that says these are the same people that put the nation in the mess we're in and we're arguing over which one of them should dig the hole deeper.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama's Greatest Advantage: Black Racism

By John W. Lillpop

Barack Obama is, without question, one of the most charismatic and credible candidates to raise hell on the national political scene in quite some time. His sphere of influence extends from TV icon Oprah Winfrey, to Hollywood stars, to the Kennedy Klan.

For sensitive liberals who cringe with pain at the mere thought of another damn Clinton in the White House, Obama also provides an acceptable socialist alternative to the Hidabeast.

Even some conservatives are buying into Obama's «Stop Hillary» power.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Is the Qur'an Hate Propaganda? :: TRP

When Islamic terrorists massacred 186 children and 148 other non-Muslims on the morning of September 3^rd, 2004 at a schoolhouse in Beslan, Russia, very few Muslims celebrated the high-profile event and some even took the time to denounce it.  But, in a community renowned for its peevishness, there was very little passion over the routine slaughter of innocents in the name of Islam.

While rumors of a Qur’an desecration or a Muhammad cartoon bring out deadly protests, riots, arson and effigy-burnings, the mass murder of non-Muslims generally evokes yawns. In the six years following 9/11 more than 10,000 acts of deadly Islamic terrorism were perpetrated, yet all of them together fail to provoke the sort of outrage on the part of most Muslims that the mere mention of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo inspires.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Silly talk By Walter Williams

It's not easy being me. I'm disturbed by statements that many Americans accept or don't question that are ludicrous, if not crazy. The terms "change," "agents of change" and "change agents" are being bandied by presidential hopefuls, their supporters and media commentators. I'd like to ask Americans listening to these people whether they are for or against change. For one to be for or against change, in any generic sense, qualifies as stupid, but maybe public stupidity is the stock and trade of politicians.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Lies of Tet By ARTHUR HERMAN

On January 30, 1968, more than a quarter million North Vietnamese soldiers and 100,000 Viet Cong irregulars launched a massive attack on South Vietnam. But the public didn't hear about who had won this most decisive battle of the Vietnam War, the so-called Tet offensive, until much too late.

Media misreporting of Tet passed into our collective memory. That picture gave antiwar activism an unwarranted credibility that persists today in Congress, and in the media reaction to the war in Iraq. The Tet experience provides a narrative model for those who wish to see all U.S. military successes -- such as the Petraeus surge -- minimized and glossed over.

In truth, the war in Vietnam was lost on the propaganda front, in great measure due to the press's pervasive misreporting of the clear U.S. victory at Tet as a defeat. Forty years is long past time to set the historical record straight.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism By Linda Kimball |

For over eighty-five years, America has been incrementally conquered by the same madness-inducing demon of hatred and violence that earlier took over Russia, China, Germany, and Italy.

Rabbi Aryeh Spiro concurs: “There is a madness in today’s liberal thinking. It insists on policies that tie our hands to defend ourselves while given free reign to the jihadists intent on killing us. It is dangerous because it is becoming the law, and thinking of the land in the western world. (Liberal Madness is Deadly, www.caucusforamerica.com (1/24/08)

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Media's Manchurian Candidate

With most of the primary elections still to come, the media have anointed John McCain as the inevitable Republican candidate.  That's understandable--McCain has been in the pocket of the mainstream media for years.  Especially since 2000, he's been the Republican they could always count on--along with Senators Chuck Hagel (Neb.) and Dick Lugar (Ind.)--to say something negative about President Bush's policies.

        But McCain has done more than simply bash President Bush.  He's spent years stabbing conservatives in the back, and working against conservative principles in exchange for fawning press from the New York Times--which has now endorsed him along with Hillary Clinton.  I guess the editors couldn't make up their minds.  

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Conservatives vs. McCain By David Harsanyi

Why do so many conservatives detest — and yes, "detest" is the most accurate word — John McCain?

Why are radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Hugh Hewitt abandoning their customary stance on Republican unity by endorsing or supporting Mitt Romney?

Why would the right-wing queen of provocation, Ann Coulter, claim that she would rather campaign for Hillary Clinton than the longtime Republican senator from Arizona?

Why, many talking heads marvel, are conservatives ambushing their only real shot at a general election victory in November?

Well, just maybe, to conservatives, the principle is worth more than the victory.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Ann Coulter Vows to Stop 'President McCain' By: Philip V. Brennan

Some Republicans may be rallying around Sen. John McCain as the GOP’s best hope of winning in November, but best-selling author and conservative firebrand Ann Coulter would rather stick to her principles and give up the White House to Hillary than to see the Arizona senator as the White House’s new resident.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.com, Coulter explained in great detail why she is so adamantly opposed to John McCain, even to the point of backing Hillary Clinton as a last resort.

Newsmax: Is a pro-abortion socialist-in-everything-but-name Hillary Clinton administration preferable to a McCain administration?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Promotion of Islam in Our Schools By Cinnamon Stillwell

Public school students are being assigned textbooks that misrepresent and, in some cases, glorify Islamic beliefs and history--often at the expense of other religions and cultures.  The apologetics and indoctrination common in university Middle East studies programs is being carried into public schools by contentious, ahistorical, and inaccurate textbooks written by those same Middle East studies professors.

''History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond,'' a textbook published by the Teachers' Curriculum Institute, was removed from the Scottsdale, Arizona, school district in 2005 for this very reason.  The textbook is now causing controversy in California and at the center of the storm is Cal State University--Sacramento sociology professor Ayad Al-Qazzaz.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Anti-Mormon Bigotry Tainting Republican Votes?

By John W. Lillpop

Mike Huckabee is a congenial sort of fellow, in keeping with the not- so- fine tradition of former governors from Arkansas.

Like that other, more celebrated ex-governor from Arkansas, the huckster is a slick double talker who is witty and engaging and a perfect interview target for the substance-adverse liberal media in a presidential election year.

But to be perfectly frank, Mike Huckabee stands a better chance at being elected to serve as the top Ayatollah in Iran than he does at winning the U.S. presidency.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Jihadists, Islamists, and "Extremists" - what's in a name? By Jeffrey Imm

Another U.S. threat assessment has been issued that refuses to identify the enemy threatening us, and instead defines the enemy only as "extremists". Today's annual threat assessment from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) fails to use the terms "Jihad", "Jihadist", "Islamism", or "Islamist" in identifying the enemy. The question must be asked how the U.S. can meaningfully assess threats, if it can't even identify the enemy. The term "radical Islamic" (used twice) and "militant Islamic" (used once) is the only term close to "Islamist", and such terms as "radical" and "militant" have very different meanings to different people. Predominantly, when describing the enemy, the DNI annual assessment today uses the term "extremist(s)" (used 18 times) or "extremism" (used twice). In effect, the DNI views that America is fighting a war against "extremism".

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

And Then There Were None by Paul Ibbetson

The withdrawal of Fred Thompson from the presidential primary will have far more of an impact to the Republican primary than to dampen the spirits of Thompson supporters. To say it plainly, the exit of Thompson marks the end of the potential of a conservative entering the White House in 2008.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

What Kind of "Experience"? by Thomas Sowell

The front-runners in both political parties -- that is, Hillary Clinton and John McCain -- are making "experience" their big talking point. But what kind of "experience"?

Both have been around in politics for decades. But just what did they accomplish -- and how did it benefit the country?

Whether in Arkansas or in Washington, Hillary Clinton has spent decades parlaying her husband's political clout into both money and power. How did that benefit anybody but the Clintons?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Bolton: Our politicized intelligence services

Today, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee (and Thursday on the House side) to give the intelligence community's annual global threat analysis. These hearings are always significant, but the stakes are especially high now because of the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran.

Criticism of the NIE's politicized, policy-oriented "key judgments" has spanned the political spectrum and caused considerable turmoil in Congress. Few seriously doubt that the NIE gravely damaged the Bush administration's diplomatic strategy. With the intelligence community's credibility and impartiality on the line, Mr. McConnell has an excellent opportunity to correct the NIE's manifold flaws, and repair some of the damage done to international efforts to stop Iran from obtaining deliverable nuclear weapons.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Western Civilization and Other Fairy Tales By Jonah Goldberg

My daughter really, really, really (throw in a few more reallys for accuracy) wants to go to Disney World. Scouting reports from several of her preschool colleagues indicate that there is a large amount of princess activity down there. And not just princesses - real princesses. She's seen fake Cinderellas and Ariels - the royal equivalents of shopping mall Santas - but now she's focused on engaging the real thing, and she's been told that Disney World is where they hang their tiaras. So one day, probably very soon, we'll be heading to Florida to meet the "real" princesses who, despite presumably lavish wealth, charge parents $200 a day or more to take our children to meet them.

I just hope that while we're there, Daddy can have some fun, too. For instance, I would love to meet the "real" Winston Churchill.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Berkeley Vs. America, Again By Michelle Malkin

The troop-bashers in Berkeley are at it once more. But this time, the rest of America lashed back. Message to the Left Coast: It's not the 1960s anymore.

On Jan. 29, the Berkeley city council passed several measures targeting the lone Marine recruitment office in town. The anti-war harridans at Code Pink have been picketing the center for months. Last fall, they defaced the building by slapping a sign that read "assasination" (sic) in the military office window. Instead of rising to defend the recruiters' property rights, the city council and mayor voted to sabotage them further. They granted Code Pink special parking privileges directly in front of the Marines' workplace to facilitate their protests -- and also offered them a free sound permit for six months.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Illegal Immigration and Low Wage Labor By Lee Cary

Leprechauns, unicorns, and the assertion that illegal immigrants take jobs Americans won't do -- they're all myths.  Some myths are harmless, while others, like the medical benefits of bleeding, cause harm.  The assertion about illegal immigrants taking unwanted jobs is not harmless. Low wage Americans bear a considerable burden.
As Will Rogers said,

"It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you do know that ain't so."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama and the Culture Wars By J.R. Dunn

It's a truism that a presidential candidate acts as a vessel for the dreams and beliefs of his followers. We've seen this for years with Madame Hillary, and more recently with Mike Huckabee. But nowhere has it been more evident than in the case of Barack Obama.

With Obama it appears at least in part to be a matter of strategy. His campaign persona is so vague, and slogans such as  "the audacity of hope" and "the politics of unity" so generic that they could mean anything, which is exactly what they've been taken to mean.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Not Staying Home By Lisa Fabrizio

If you're like me, you're probably sitting around somewhere in the dark, trying your best to avoid all forms of media coverage of the 2008 presidential primary season. Maybe for the first time in years, you eschewed the weekend talk shows, even Fox News. And except for the crossword puzzle or the sports section, you probably refused to even open your Sunday paper, especially if it is a liberal fish-wrap like the AP-infested publication in my hometown.

Yes, if you're anything like me you are sick of seeing headlines touting the inevitability of a John McCain nomination and tired of hearing how conservatism is dead and that its adherents had just better realize it and roll over. You've had it with pundits, liberal and conservative alike, who pompously quote polls like bad Shakespearian actors in an effort to influence, rather than report so-called popular opinion.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Hope Trumped Kos for Democrats By Warner Todd Huston

Well, this will send the Daily Kossacks into a tizzy! The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed by Dan Gerstein titled, Decline of the Angry Left. Gerstein, a senior adviser for Joe Lieberman's various national campaigns, claims that the Daily Kos is finished as a mover and shaker in Democratic politics. After reading it over I think he is dead on with much of his analysis. The anger of the extremist, left as seen on a daily basis on the Daily Kos site has lost the contest for the hearts and minds of the Democrat Party. As Gerstein notes, he has been the target of the left before and this op-ed certainly won't make him their newest American idol!

In fact, Gerstein might not make himself very welcome in many Democrat circles all the way 'round with his denigration of the party leadership at this time.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Search for Adnan El Shukrijumah By Dr. Paul Williams, PhD

FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft have called Adnan el-Shukrijumah “the next Mohammed Atta,” who represents “a clear and imminent danger to all Americans.”

Shukrijumah’s face has appeared on the front pages of newspapers and every televised news outlet throughout the United States and Canada.

A special office for information that might lead to his arrest -- replete with a 24 hour hotline -- has been set up in Miami, Florida.

Federal investigators have combed South and Central America with the hope of gleaning a scintilla of evidence that might shed light on his whereabouts. They even established an elaborate sting operation in Guyana, Trinidad, and New York (the JFK plot) to snag the elusive fugitive -- but the operation only resulted in the creation of a virulent terrorist organization south of the border.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

McCain Didn’t Close the Deal by Jed Babbin

John McCain’s strong showing in the February 5 primaries wasn’t enough to close the deal.  He could have done it by winning enough delegates to be the prohibitive favorite or -- conversely -- by Mitt Romney making so poor a showing that he would be unwilling to fight on. 

Before sunrise Wednesday, this is how it lined up:

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

BHO is no JFK by Doug Patton

With several members of the now largely irrelevant Kennedy family endorsing the most radically left-wing, least experienced candidate in this year’s race for president, perhaps it is time to introduce some reason into the ridiculous argument that Barack Hussein Obama is the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

JFK supported tax cuts, knowing they would spur economic growth. BHO thinks he can somehow tax us into prosperity.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Kingdom's Double-Game By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Lost amid the national distractions of a Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, the clock is running down on an immense sale of precision-guided munitions and other advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia and several of the smaller oil-rich Gulf States the Saudis dominate.

Unless two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress adopt resolutions of disapproval by Feb. 14, these transactions will proceed. All other things being equal, it is a safe bet the Saudis will augment their already vast arsenal with these new American arms.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Islamists' Best Friend at the UN By Joseph Klein

Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will be presiding over Durban II - the UN's 2009 follow-up to its controversial 2001 ‘anti-racism’ hatefest in Durban, South Africa.

While Canada, her home country, announced that it will not attend the Durban II Conference "circus of intolerance," as Canada’s Secretary of State for Multiculturalism so aptly described it, Ms. Arbour will be the Secretary-General of this circus.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

It's Not a Conspiracy. It's Just a Cover-Up. by John Haskins and Gregg Jackson

Part 1: What are Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham and Coulter hiding about Romney? And why?

An undercurrent of distrust and anger toward the "conservative" and "pro-family" elites is building among American conservatives. Conservative talk radio audiences are departing. Donors to establishment social conservative and "pro-family" groups are departing. Voters who identify themselves as Republicans are dwindling.

Who can blame them? The failures of the "conservative" elites to defend any boundary in the Culture War or in constitutions are striking and far-reaching. And there is no end in sight. No end game has even been presented for the grassroots to consider as a path to anything but more surrender packaged as "pragmatism."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Dobson won't vote McCain wins GOP :: 2008 WorldNetDaily

Evangelical Christian leader James Dobson has not endorsed a candidate for the Republican nomination, but his statement today declaring he would sit out the general election if Sen. John McCain becomes the GOP winner was quickly highlighted by Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign.

Dobson, who noted he was not speaking in his capacity as founder and head of Focus on the Family, said he's "deeply disappointed" the Republican Party appears to be ready to nominate the Arizona senator, who is considered the front-runner ahead of tonight's results in the 24 Super Tuesday primary contests nationwide.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Thoughts On the March of the McCainiacs By Doug Edelman.

Rush Limbaugh has stated that a McCain nomination would ruin the Republican Party.  This is only partially right.  McCain's recent success is indicative of (and a McCain nomination would merely confirm) the reality that the Republican Party is ALREADY ruined!

For the last several years, the GOP party machine seems to have adopted the misguided attitude that the Reagan-Conservative movement is the ugly stepchild of the party – rather than being the party's true heart, soul, and core.  The party is happy to accept their support, but won't actively pursue their interests!  Evangelicals and their values are especially marginalized and vilified.  The elephant is still in the Living Room, but is unspoken of!  Instead, the RINO seems to have been moved to the forefront.  Reagan's NAME is frequently invoked… but his philosophies and policies are rarely emulated.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Bush Legacy: John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Illegal Aliens By John W. Lillpop

America desperately needs a Presidential Hall of Fame (PHOF) in which to enshrine the legacies of those 43 white males (to date) whom have served the American people as commander-in-chief and CEO.

The PHOF should be built on the banks of the Potomac in Washington, D.C., open to the public 365 days a year, free of charge. As with professional sports, the PHOF should commemorate exceptional performances, but unlike sports halls of fame, the PHOF should recognize failures as well.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Why Does John McCain Hate the Rule of Law? By John W. Lillpop

John McCain still does not get it on illegal aliens. In fact, he is not even close.

Rather than accepting the will of the people and committing to the rule of law, McCain continues his obstinate fight on behalf of illegal aliens, at the expense of the American people.

McCain's pandering to illegals hit a new low last November when the senator searched every nook and cranny for a viable excuse with which to oppose mass deportations.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Islamofascism? Hitler, Muhammad, and Islam Andrew G. Bostom

34 years ago (1974), Bat Ye’or published a remarkably foresighted analysis of the Islamic anti-Semitism and resurgent Jihadism in her native Egypt, being packaged for dissemination throughout the Muslim world. The primary, core Antisemitic and Jihadist motifs were Islamic, derived from Islam’s foundational texts, on to which European, especially Nazi elements were grafted. 

The pejorative characteristics of Jews as they are described in Muslim religious texts are applied to modern Jews.  Anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism are equivalent – due to the inferior status of Jews in Islam, and because divine will dooms Jews to wandering and misery, the Jewish state appears to Muslims as an unbearable affront and a sin against Allah. Therefore it must be destroyed by Jihad.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Lockerbie: Chronicle of a Death Foretold By Ludwig de Braeckeleer

Governments lie. They do it all the time. And, much as we’d like to believe otherwise, the US government is no exception. There were times when we may have believed otherwise. But after Vietnam and Watergate, we know better.—The USS Vincennes: Public War, Secret War, July 1 1992, ABC News, Ted Koppel.

In some sense, the true and enduring mystery of the Lockerbie bombing is why so few people died. If one is willing to accept the official version of the tragedy, is it not indeed a miracle that an airliner flying from London to New York at Christmas time was actually half booked? 

"270 people died when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988. [1] It was the worst-ever act of airline terrorism against the United States. It’s also been called the world’s biggest unsolved murder,” wrote John Biewen and Ian Ferguson in their brilliant piece “Shadow over Lockerbie”. [2] Nearly 20 years later, the crime remains unsolved.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The McCain candidacy reveals the essence of Bushism by Lawrence Auster

The Bushites live in a fantasy, and they use that fantasy as a club over our heads to make us give up conservatism.

That thought occurred to me as I was reading a David Horowitz blog post. In disagreeing with two of his contributors, Ann Coulter and Tammy Bruce, who say they would vote for Hillary Clinton against John McCain, Horowitz writes:

Ann, Tammy, please. John McCain has been the strongest supporter of the war against radical Islam in the United States Senate.

We're supposed to support McCain because he's been a leading supporter of "the war against radical Islam." But what exactly is Horowitz referring to here? What does this "war" consist of? The only major military operations in which our forces are involved are counterinsurgency campaigns or holding actions in two Muslim countries against radical Muslims. Meanwhile, ...

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

McCain, Politically Opportunistic Liar by Michael Gaynor

Some of John McCain's alleged conservatism is real, but hardly all of it.

It has been revealed that McCain publicly proclaimed the conservative position on issues, but quietly cooperated with the liberals on them.

It also has been revealed, by John Fund of The Wall Street Journal, that McCain privately dismissed Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. as a person who "wears his conservatism on his sleeve" and not McCain's idea of what a United States Supreme Court Justice should be.

It got worse: McCain lied about it instead of admitting it.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Rampant Islamic Jew-Hatred in Europe By Andrew G. Bostom

European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security, Franco Frattini, who is the European Union (EU) official responsible "for combating racism and Antisemitism in Europe," as reported by The Jerusalem Post 2/2/08, has revealed  that Muslims are responsible for fully half (50%) of the documented Antisemitic incidents on the European continent.

Demographic data from 2007 indicate that the total number of Europeans is 494.8 million; estimates of the number of Muslims in Europe range from 15-20 million, or some ~3.0-4.0% of the total European population. Thus, on a population percentage basis, Muslims in Europe account for roughly 24.0 to 32.3 times the number of Antisemitic incidents as their non-Muslim European counterparts.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Immigration Reversals By Myron Magnet

I'm embarrassed it took me so long to grasp the phoniness of the charge that it's "anti-immigration" to oppose current U.S. immigration policy and the even worse "comprehensive reform" bill, which thankfully failed. I can only plead blind piety. After all, I live in the great immigrant metropolis, lit by the Statue of Liberty's torch, under which all my grandparents sailed a century ago to reach a land that amply fulfilled its promise to them. I feared that my misgivings about today's immigrant flood were but a short step from the nativist know-nothingism that dismissed my forebears and their fellow newcomers as defective both mentally and culturally, sure to debase American society with their ignorance, poverty, and crudity. Isn't the lesson of my grandparents' generation simply this:

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

More Ice Than Ever By Patrick J. Michaels

The Washington Post recently ran a shocking above-the-fold article warning us of "Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica." A new paper by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows a net loss of ice where most scientists thought the opposite would occur.

The Post went full-bore with this one, spreading the article on to an entire interior page. The piece ends by noting that Rajenda Pachauri, head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is so concerned that he's is personally going down to inspect the situation.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The plot to elect McCain By Noemie Emery

THERE IS A LEFT-WING conspiracy at loose in the world, dedicated to undoing conservative governance, only the people who see it aren't sure what it is. John McCain is in it, of course, in fact he is the cause of it, as making him president is the ultimate goal. He is blamed for running, (and perhaps, for breathing), but beyond him the face of the threat is less clear. In fact, the faces are those of other conservative stalwarts, who were their heroes and brethren until--until, say, just after the Florida primary, when McCain emerged as a serious threat. These include Mike Huckabee, the once well-thought of former Arkansas governor (and hero of the social conservative part of the movement), who unaccountably refuses to withdraw from the race on their orders; Tom Coburn and Sam Brownback, perhaps the most conservative members of the United States Senate; Jack Kemp, the supply-side Reagan enthusiast; Phil Gramm, the most conservative Republican to run in the 1996 contest; and Ted Olson, the hero of the Federalist Society, who argued and won the case of Bush vs. Gore. (They may also include the late President Reagan's widow, who, according to the Drudge Report, hearts John McCain.)

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

John McCain & The Queen Of Diamonds Henry Mark Holzer

Ever since John McCain won the South Carolina and Florida Republican primaries, the Internet has been awash (ablaze is probably a better word) with assertions, arguments, and proof that he is not a conservative. See, for example, Straight Talk About The Straight-Talker.

In the last few days, however, a few commentators have revived long-standing speculation about whether McCain’s non-conservative positions and conduct are rooted in something much darker than mere opportunism or closet liberalism. Some have even characterized McCain as a Vietnam War “Manchurian Candidate”—after the title of the famous 1959 novel by Richard Condon, and the subsequent movie of the same name.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Media Finally Get Their Man by Seton Motley

The media’s long love affair with the maverick, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, may be finally about to bear presidential primary fruit.

The Straight Talk Express has taken a circuitous route to the precipice of the Republican nomination and – throughout the journey --  its co-pilot has been the national media, who rarely have loved a Republican more.
The press’ affinity for McCain might seem strange, if you look only at the numbers.  The Senator has an American Conservative Union rating of 82, not uniformly right-wing but certainly a solid figure.  On abortion he has been consistently pro-life, perhaps the media’s most egregious political transgression.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Leaving Iran for the Next Administration by Caspar Weinberger Jr.

It’s obvious by now that the Bush Administration has no intention of acting decisively on the Iranian nuclear threat. That is unfortunate because the longer we wait, the more serious the problem grows.

To all who have studied Iran’s regime, the possibility Iran’s intent is peaceful is as minute as the horror of it achieving nuclear arms is great. Somebody in charge here (hopefully with our allies, but if not, then alone) is going to have to give the order one day to eliminate the Iranian program by force and the sooner that is done, the less is the chance that it may spark a larger conflict.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Radical Muslims for Obama By Joe Kaufman

With its similarity to popular online sites such as Facebook and MySpace and its links to a network of grassroots blogs, Barack Obama’s campaign website has been hailed as a testament to the candidate’s transformative politics. But at least part of the senator’s online outreach, “Muslim Americans for Obama ’08,” proposes installing Muslim prayer areas in public places and giving Muslims time off for prayer and has denounced Obama’s colleagues in the U.S. Senate who happen to be Jewish. This segment of Obama's online outreach also has ties to unindicted co-conspirators in terror trials and has recruited Obama supporters from among the ranks of fundamentalist Muslim extremists.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Republicans for Hillary By Rich Lowry

Hillary Clinton might be losing Democratic voters to Barack Obama, but she has a stalwart cheering section that won't abandon her even as she slips in the polls: Republicans nearly everywhere.

Bill's relationship to Hillary is blissfully straightforward compared with that of Republicans. They hate her, and they love hating her. They have wanted her to lose the nomination for the mere sport of it, and they have wanted her to win because they think she's the weakest potential Democratic nominee. Lately, the entire party seems united in its quiet pleading: "Please, Hillary, you're in it, now win it -- for us."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama’s Marxist Liberation Theology Church :: Faultline

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s article originally posted on Right Truth and here “What Obama’s Church Preaches”

Note: This article isn’t so much about religion as it is about the politics of political revolution as fomented in all Liberation Theology churches.
Read also the post by Church and State: Obama's Pastor Embarrasses Entire Congregation. Be sure to View the video where “Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Barak Obama's pastor, went on Hannity & Colmes last night to respond to claims that his church is a black separatist congregation.”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Romney-Santorum 2008 By Mark Hemingway

If the general public associates a face with the word “conservative,” it could very well be that of former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum. He’s been a vocal opponent of his former colleague John McCain during this primary season, but he had hesitated to go one step further. That changed Friday, when he endorsed Mitt Romney during an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. In a subsequent interview with National Review Online, he explained his decision.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

McCain Mirage By Andrew C. McCarthy

Senator John McCain’s ascendancy in the Republican presidential race has been truly remarkable. Yet, it’s no groundswell.

To this point, about two out of every three primary and caucus participants have voted against him. If the Democrats and independents some states permit to crash the Grand Old Party were factored out, his standing in the Republican base would be even less impressive. Still, you have to hand it to his admirers: They have parlayed his thin support into an aura of inevitability. The glow could intensify this week, when McCain is likely, finally, to rack up some more impressive numbers … in delegate-heavy blue states that rarely vote Republican when it counts, in November. (Full disclosure: I support Governor Mitt Romney.)

As it happens, the received wisdom about McCain’s suddenly broad support mirrors the regnant narrative about his chief qualification for the job: It’s a mirage.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Great Betrayal by Patrick J. Buchanan

Offering more “straight talk” on the Sunday before the Florida primary, John McCain made an arresting prediction: “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s going to be other wars. I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars.”

Ike promised to “go to Korea” and ended that war. Nixon pledged to end Vietnam with honor. McCain says we may be in Iraq a hundred years and warns, “there’s going to be other wars.” Take the man at his word.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

McClintObama Amnesty Plan: 20 million illegal alien voters by 2010 by William Gheen

Have GOP Voters forgotten that just a few months ago, John McCain stood hand-in-hand with liberal icon Ted Kennedy pushing for the largest amnesty for illegal aliens in American history? While Rasmussen polling showed that Americans following the legislation very closely opposed it 3 to 1 (69% to 23%), McCain ignored the massive public outcry!

The angry calls rolling into the Senate offices, including John McCain's, were between 50 and 100 to 1 against McCain and Kennedy's bill. We know this because we stood outside his door counting calls received by his staff and because other Senators told us the ratios they were receiving. History was made when the Capital phone system shut down, due to overload of calls from angry Americans.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

How the Media Pick the Candidates By Cliff Kincaid

Whatever you think of Ron Paul, you have to admit that the media are notoriously biased against him. The Fox News Channel unfairly excluded him from its January 6 debate, while MSNBC and CNN tried to keep him from speaking for any significant length of time during their January 24 and January 30 debates. This is a candidate, we must recall, who placed second in the Republican Nevada caucuses on January 19, beating John McCain.

Interestingly, every time the media do something to undercut Ron Paul, his supporters react by sending more money to his campaign. The result is that the Los Angeles Times and other media are reporting that Ron Paul was the most successful fundraiser among the Republican presidential candidates in the last three months of 2007. Paul brought in $19.7 million-compared to $9.9 million for Mitt Romney, $6.8 million for John McCain, and $6.6 million for Mike Huckabee.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

How the Republican Party Committed National Suicide By JB Williams

Republicans no longer control the Republican Party and as a result, they can not advance a truly Republican candidate though the current liberal leaning primary process. By the time 99 percent of Republicans get a chance to vote in the primaries, all real Republicans have already been eliminated from the race. Lesser evil choices are all that remain by Super Tuesday...?

How it Happened

It happened by two important factors.
First, Republicans refused to unite behind any of the conservatives originally in the race. They were divided, and all of their candidates failed as a result.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Islam continues to hollow out the old United Kingdom :: HOT AiR

I won’t rant and rave about any of these stories. I’ll just note them on the site here to mark the passing of a once great country.

Item 1: Female Muslim med students are routinely violating health standards in deference to Islamic practice.

Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam.

Universities and NHS trusts fear many more will refuse to co-operate with new Department of Health guidance, introduced this month, which stipulates that all doctors must be “bare below the elbow”.

The measure is deemed necessary to stop the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have killed hundreds.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Amnesty For Illegal Aliens Is Like Timelines Are For Terrorists

by John W. Lillpop

President Bush has spoken forcefully and correctly of the folly in recently passed military funding bills that include timelines for withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.

With the exception of Democrats and a few out of touch RINOs here and there, most people realize that timelines are foolish signals of surrender that tell the enemy of America's dwindling commitment to victory, and the "date certain" by which said commitment will expire completely.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

John McCain: La Raza’s voice in Washington By Michelle Malkin

The McCain campaign continues to perpetuate its Big Lie in the run-up to Super Tuesday. And thanks to MSM enablers and open-borders Republicans rooting for a McCain win, voters are swallowing the Big Lie. The Big Lie is that McCain can be trusted on immigration and border security. Dinocrat reports that the McCain campaign called him again and left a recorded message touting the shamnesty promoter’s border security credentials. Here’s the text of the call:

On the issue of immigration there is no debate that our borders are broken. There are 12 million people here illegally. I’ve listened and learned. We must secure our borders first and restore trust and confidence in our government. As President, I’ll hire new border patrol guards, build a fence, ask governors to certify that their borders are secure. The two million people who have committed crimes will be deported immediately. No one will be rewarded for illegal behavior. They’ll go the the back of the line, pay fines and learn English. For those already in our country, there will be no special privileges, and we’ll punish employers who hire illegal immigrants. We’ll be humane and compassionate, but we will be firm. It’s a matter of national security.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama’s Afro-Centric Church: A Non-Negotiable Commitment to Africa :: Faultline USA

This is follow-up to a must-read article, Obama’s Marxist Liberation Theology Church

Here are the words posted on Obama’s church web page: We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black . . . We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. . .

I don’t know about you, but I want to elect a president who has a non-negotiable commitment to the United States – not to Africa. I want to elect a president who will remain true to America – not to Africa! I’m very uncomfortable with a candidate who says that he wants to represent all Americans regardless of race but who worships in a church that would make all Anglo’s and most Latino’s very uncomfortable, if not downright frightened for their lives. Anyone who has ever studied Black Liberation Theology understands the truth of what I’ve just written.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence By Michelle Malkin

Do you know the story of the Incredible Disappearing Border Fence? It’s an object lesson in gesture politics and homeland insecurity. It’s a tale of hollow rhetoric, meaningless legislation and bipartisan betrayal. And in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, it’s a helpful learning tool as you assess the promises of immigration enforcement converts now running for president.

Last fall, Democrats and Republicans in Washington responded to continued public outrage over border chaos by passing the “Secure Fence Act.” Did you question the timing? You should have. It’s no coincidence they finally got off their duffs to respond just before the 2006 midterm elections. Lawmakers vowed grandiosely to keep America safe. The law specifically called for “at least 2 layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors” at five specific stretches of border totaling approximately 700 miles.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

HIllary Outlines Her Plan for a Socialist America By Duane Lester

Hillary has written an article in the Wall Street Journal, outlining her “My Plan for Shared Prosperity.” Is it just me or does that sound just a little to, oh, Marxist:

I am running for president to bring those voices to the White House and give people a chance to achieve the American Dream: having a good job, owning their own home and living with financial security. That means tackling our toughest challenges — rising inequality, stagnating wages and a growing sense that too many middle class families are just one pink slip away from financial devastation.

So how does Her Majesty plan to do this:

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Allah in Europe — And on the Moon By Frank Genao

You can learn a lot about how Europe is changing by talking to former Europeans, explains Frank Genao, a bartender who winters in the Dominican Republic. He pours drinks for countless expatriates who were disturbed by the transformation of their nations by immigrants who don’t respect their countries’ “values, laws, or freedoms” and packed their bags.

I’m sitting in the Dominican Republic talking to one of the many European workers who have migrated down here in recent years. “How long you been on the island?” I ask him.

“Oh, about four years now,” he replies.

What brought you to this particular island?” I ask, always curious as to why so many foreigners have come here.

“I came here,” he says, “because I got tired of the Belgium winters, the unemployment, and the influx of immigrants that don’t respect Belgium values, laws, or freedoms.”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

How Colleges Purge Conservatives By Rudy Takala

Students whose beliefs already match professors’ ideal ideological paradigm are rewarded. Those who refuse to conform are at the very least persecuted, and they are often denied graduation.

In a recent column, I commented on the repression exercised by college professors upon their impressionable students. Their goal is to mold those students who come in without many beliefs until they reflect, in perfect uniformity, a secular worldview. Students whose beliefs already match professors’ ideal ideological paradigm are rewarded. Those who refuse to conform are at the very least persecuted, and they are often denied graduation.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

McCain Set Aside Duty, Honor, Country by Michael Gaynor

Unfortunately, heroism does not immunize a person from developing character faults with age as a result of overwhelming personal ambition or greed. Yes, John McCain was an American hero during the Vietnam war. So was former Congressman Duke Cunningham, now in prison.

King James Bible: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

Mitt Romney understands that and he's spending his own money trying to save America's soul by preserving the Reagan coalition that transformed America and toppled the Soviet Union.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

McCain's Straight Lies by Thomas Sowell

We have been hearing for years that Senator John McCain gives "straight talk" and his bus has been endlessly referred to as the "straight talk express." But endless repetition does not make something true.

The fact that McCain makes short, blunt statements does not make him a straight-talker.

There are short, blunt lies -- and he told a big one on the eve of the Florida primary, when he claimed that Mitt Romney had advocated a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Life with No Absolutes Becomes Absolutely Ridiculous by Jonathan Falwell

Sometimes you see events unfolding in our nation and you just sit back and wonder how things got so out of control.

As the father of four children, I am becoming increasingly concerned that America is recklessly rushing from the values that made this nation great and healthy, while also turning away from God’s Word. Let’s examine just a few of these recent happenings.

Here in Virginia, the College of William and Mary, which infamously removed a historic cross from a chapel last year, has again authorized a controversial sex workers’ “art show” that actually features strippers and things I can’t mention in this column. The college, founded under biblical guidelines, has certainly disregarded its Christian heritage.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Does the New York Times Hate Meat? By Alan Caruba

After a while, one grows accustomed to the environmental rants that appear in The New York Times. This newspaper, so often pointed to as an exemplar of the highest standards of journalism, has been repeatedly revealed to employ fantasists for whom truth and facts are mere impediments to the advancement of their obsessions and agendas.

A perfect example of this is the January 27th rant, «Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler» by Mark Bittman, identified as the author of «How to Cook Everything Vegetarian» along with the disclaimer that «He is not a vegetarian.» He writes for the «Dining in and Dining Out» section. If it looks like a vegetarian, walks like a vegetarian, and quacks like a vegetarian, it probably is a vegetarian.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content