Charlie Wilson's War Was Really America's War

By Michael Johns

If there exists one visional depiction of the Cold War's end, it is still a Eurocentric one, November 9, 1989, the day East Berliners joined with those of the city's West in celebration of the Berlin Wall's demise. Three weeks earlier, on October 19, 1989, Stalinist East German dictator Erich Honecker, facing mass internal opposition, was forced from power when the Kremlin, overwhelmed with comparable resistance on many fronts, for the first time refused to provide the East German dictatorship with the political or military cover it had come to expect in its Cold War defense of the regime's totalitarian reign over the East German people. Many East Germans began fleeing the nation without resistance into Czechoslovakia, which itself soon underwent its own liberating, anti-communist and now famous «Velvet Revolution.»

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Esposito at Stanford By Cinnamon Stillwell

Georgetown professor John Esposito, director of the Saudi-financed Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding has a reputation as an apologist for radical Islam. And it's one he lived up to with a Stanford University speech last week titled, "Dying for God? Suicide Terrorism and Militant Islam."

Esposito claimed that Islamic terrorism grows primarily out of a sense of political and economic grievance and, of course, "occupation" on the part of "neo-colonial powers." This spin allowed him to deflect responsibility for Islamic terrorism to the West while negating the need for self-reflection among Muslims.

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Exploring The McCain Potential :: Wizbang

With John McCain pretty much guaranteed to be the Republican nominee (there's still time for him to have a Howard Dean-style meltdown or some health issues), it's time to recognize the reality of the situation and start looking at some of the fun and entertaining possibilities that can come from having him carrying the GOP banner.

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A Hero’s Fight-DeMint Vs. Berkeley By Holly Borei

When Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) first decided he was going to make the move from the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Senate, I did not hesitate to jump on board. I knew that DeMint had done a great job at representing the values that defined our shared corner of South Carolina and looked forward to the possibility of him doing so on a larger scale.

When you work a campaign with all your might, a part of you worries that one day you will wake up to find a politician that has changed and that your heart and feet have labored in vain.

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Obama's Supporters Say "Viva Che!" By Humberto Fontova

During recent interviews of Obama campaign workers on Houston's Fox TV station, the offices of two Texas Obama campaign volunteers (including a precinct captain and head of the "Houston Obama Leadership Team") were found prominently decorated with Che Guevara images, against the backdrop of Cuban flags. The MSM kept mum, but the conservative blogoshere spread the story. Intrepid blogger Henry Gomez (Babalu Blog), uncovered 15 different pages of Che Guevara well-wishers on the official Obama campaign site.

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Dereliction of Duty By Jacob Laksin

House Democrats have a message for terrorists plotting to attack America: wait until Saturday.

That’s the practical effect of their decision yesterday to allow the lapse of a key surveillance law. Passed earlier this week by the Senate, the law, known as the Protect America Act (PAA), was a critical foundation for the government’s surveillance of terrorists abroad. Now, thanks to House Democrats’ inaction, it will expire at midnight today.

Not to worry, the Democratic leadership claims. The fact that the government’s surveillance powers will expire “doesn’t mean we are somehow vulnerable again,” Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, insisted yesterday.

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The Terrorist Media War Against America By Debra Burlingame

The issues surrounding the question of the legal rights of Guantanamo detainees are both novel and complicated. Conferring full habeas corpus rights on alien enemy combatants during wartime is something no English or American court has granted in the 800-year history of Anglo-American jurisprudence. Today, it is our troops who bear the heaviest burden in carrying out the will of Congress. Congress owes it to them and to the American people to consider the full consequences of granting this level of extraordinary relief to the kind of people who detonate IEDs, who use suicide vests to target tourists and commuters, and who crash commercial airliners filled with innocent men, women and children into buildings.

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Illegal Aliens Cause Global Warming!

By John W. Lillpop

As most people know, Michael Chertoff is the part-time head of U.S. Homeland Security. His real job and vocational passion is functioning as the anti-Christ, a role more consistent with his temperament and appearance.

Because of Chertoff's split responsibilities, homeland security has been neglected and short- changed, especially when it comes to illegal aliens.

Whether by design as a result of Dubya Bush's insanity, or by coincidence because of Dubya Bush's stupidity, the result has been devastating.

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Understand this: Islam wants you and me dead. by Colonel Robert Neville

Ya just can't beat Islam. But it sure loves to beat you! I dunno, don't cha feel Islam has a natural, light hearted touch, is lots ‘a fun, with a really nice breezy Hawaiian feel, and Hell, loaded with a mountain of laughs?! It's an endless party! Er, no. Islam my dear sports, is s**t. This man is being punished for the crime of having sex with his girlfriend. That would make most every normal relationship in the West and a lot of elsewhere, a whippin' offence! And not the fun kind.

"Their definition of Mercy is Allah treats you as you deserve. Christianity’s is that God forgives and treats you much better than you deserve, to the point of giving up his own Son. I know such a life is superior and even the Muslim is 'living off that capital."

If the West did not have even the meager foundations of Christianity to influence their decisions, Mecca would have been a burning hole in the ground one day after 9/11. Sometimes I hang on to that belief by a thread. Islam better pray that American never becomes a Muslim nation. The fact that it is not is the only reason their homelands still exist”.

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Islamofascism: Parallels with Nazism & Communism by Dr. Emanual Tanay

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War ll owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

'Very few people were true Nazis 'he said,' but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

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The Militant Muslim Family of Barack Hussein Obama :: Faultline USA

The following well-documented article suggests that Barack Hussein Obama is a media darling who has direct connections to Kenya and the Marxist Odinga, and the press doesn't want American voters to be aware of this connection.

Obama's Sharia Connections in Kenya
(Originally published at Right Truth January 16, 2008)

I think everyone needs to take another look at Barack Obama, his history, his church and his continuing connection to sharia law in Kenya:

Obama appears to have sided with opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama's late Muslim father belonged.

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Jane Fonda, the "C***" Word, and Hillary's Campaign

Satire By John W. Lillpop

Jane Fonda's reputation as a reprehensible traitor and left wing thug has been well chronicled for nearly 40 years. The behavior of this wretched vermin during the Vietnam War should have lead to her arrest and deportation to North Vietnam for permanent enslavement by the communist murderers with whom she conspired against brave American men and women in harm's way.

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Obama Hope Beating Clinton Help By Joel Hirschhorn,

As befits American culture, politics is all about slick selling to the masses. Hillary Clinton is selling Day-1 help to victims and sufferers. Barack Obama is selling effervescent hope to yes-we-can dreamers. This media hyped horse race is like a fight between diet Coke and diet Pepsi, artificially sweetened candidates devoid of real nourishment.

The least educated, least sophisticated and least wealthy along with Hispanics are sipping Clinton's fizzled-out drink. The most educated, most privileged, and most financially successful along with African-Americans are gulping down Obama's charismatic pick-me-up.

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Obama's International Socialist Connections By Cliff Kincaid

Campaign workers for Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama are under fire for displaying a flag featuring communist hero Che Guevara. But Obama has his own controversial socialist connections. He is, in fact, an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler.

Obama's socialist backing goes back at least to 1996, when he received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for an Illinois state senate seat. Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter reported that Obama, as a state senator, showed up to eulogize Saul Mendelson, one of the "champions" of "Chicago's democratic left" and a long-time socialist activist. Obama's stint as a "community organizer" in Chicago has gotten some attention, but his relationship with the DSA socialists, who groomed and backed him, has been generally ignored.

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American Guilt By George de Poor Handlery

While the Germans were inclined to crush the source of their problems, and the Russians tended to conquer and then annex the source of its discontent, America's favorite culprit is herself. She prefers to try to weasel out of predicaments by claiming that she has caused them. From this pseudo-fact of self-hate, the US inclines to conclude that giving up and giving in will make the trouble go away.

This is about US-bashing which is the fashionable “anti”-movement of our time. By this term a culturally approved predisposition is meant. It blames robotically something for whatever seems to be ailing a community. Illustrations of the generalization are the past’s anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism or the inclination to discover a commie in anything to one's left. Hate groups had local mutations. In some countries certain minorities – Koreans in Japan, Armenians in Turkey, Hungarians in central Europe, Zionists in the Near East and the USSR – serve(d) to explain misfortune.

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The New York Times Parrots Communist Party Line By John Nania and Jason Loftus

The theater was packed, the crowd gave a standing ovation, and audience members raved in interviews after the show. But according to a story in The New York Times last week, as many as “hundreds” were flocking to the exit doors by intermission.Chinese New Year Splendor played 15 shows at New York’s famed Radio City Music Hall, ending with a sold-out final performance on the evening of Feb. 9. The response to the show, confirmed by The Epoch Times reporters in over 700 interviews with audience members, was overwhelmingly positive.

One of those interviews was with John Wright, formerly with the Times own book review department. When asked what he thought of the show, Wright said, “It was very beautiful, very different.”

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The Romney endorsement by Lawrence Auster

If Mitt Romney had held onto his delegates until the convention, there was, in combination with Huckabee's continuing campaign, a slight chance of stopping the nomination of McCain. Any means of doing so should have been pursued. So I am disappointed that Romney endorsed McCain today and asked his delegates to support him. As a result, we now face the certain nomination of a 71 year old mediocrity in obvious poor health, whose strongest beliefs are for open borders, for keeping our troops in Iraq for a hundred years, and for sticking it to conservatives every chance he can get. The Republican party has committed hara-kiri, while the Democratic party seems to be moving toward the selection of a nonwhite leftist messiah who will "unify" us (i.e., unify us around leftism) and take care of all our needs.

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The Jena Six—and Other “Hoax Crimes” By Patrick J. Buchanan

"(S)ome Americans do not understand why the sight of a noose causes such a visceral reaction," declared President Bush to the White House gathering for Black History Month.

As the Washington Post rushed to remind us, President Bush was "responding to news coverage of such episodes as the 'Jena Six.'" [At Black History Month Event, Bush Denounces Noose Displays, By Michael Abramowitz and Hamil R. Harris, February 13, 2008]

But if history is about truth, not myth, that news coverage deserves another look, before the Jena Six enter the history books alongside Emmett Till and "the Scottsboro Boys."

By now, most folks know the media story. White students at Jena High in Louisiana hung nooses on a tree to warn black students not to sit under it. After a fistfight over this racist outrage, black kids in the fight were indicted for attempted murder, while the white racists who hung the nooses walked away with a verbal spanking.

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Abortion: Black genocide By Jess Lee Peterson

Most of my life I had considered myself a Christian. Yet 18 years ago as I sat quietly and prayed, I experienced a deep realization – I harbored resentment in my heart. The realization caused me to repent and forgive. Forgiveness set me free from within, and I began to see with a clarity I never had before.

Soon after that life-changing experience, I started BOND to help black men overcome their resentments and find freedom. Soon I was helping men of every race as I saw mankind's problems were universal.

I began to counsel young and older women as well. Many of the women I spoke to were having or have had at least one abortion. During the counseling sessions, I discovered that most of these women had guilt and low self-esteem. Often they had considered suicide.

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Obama bill: $845 billion more for global poverty :: WorldNetDaily

Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations.

The bill, called the Global Poverty Act, is the type of legislation, "We can – and must – make … a priority," said Obama, a co-sponsor.

It would demand that the president develop "and implement" a policy to "cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief" and other programs.

When word about what appears to be a massive new spending program started getting out, the reaction was immediate.

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The German Way of War by Robert Messenger

Its distinctive characteristic is the muster of overwhelming force and a rapid advance into enemy territory. The successive Prussian and German states were surrounded (and felt themselves threatened) by vastly larger ones and so aimed at short, decisive wars of movement: the Bewegungskrieg--though the term blitzkrieg is more common in English. To Germany's leaders, both military and civilian, the offensive must ever be immediately taken to force a decision before the geographic predicament could be made to bear.

The history of the Prussian and German state through 1945 is one in which war is the main outcome of national policy. It was the country's principal export over two centuries. War was more than just "politics by other means"; it was, as the Comte de Mirabeau noted in 1788, "the national industry of Prussia." Though he formulated it most neatly with his quip that: "Where some states possess an army, the Prussian army possesses a state."

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Obama receives the Danny Ortega Seal of Approval By Rick Moran

There are endorsements. And then there are "endorsements."
Former dictator and current Nicarauguan president Danny Ortega has endorse Senator Barack Obama's candidacy for US president, calling his campaign "revolutionary:"

"It's not to say that there is already a revolution under way in the U.S. ... but yes, they are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change," the Sandinista leader said Wednesday night as he accepted an honorary doctorate from an engineering university.
Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. He returned to office last year via the ballot box.

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Barack Obama: A Human Hallmark Card For President? By John Hawkins

"The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality." -- Paul Krugman

If even Paul Krugman is willing to publicly admit that Barack Obama is a human featherball -- a slick, smiling, substance-free empty suit who excites gullible dimwits by repeating the words “change,” “unity,” and “hope” over and over -- then who am I, a mere conservative blogger, to disagree?

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Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain by Michael Reagan

In 1976 the Ford vs. Reagan campaign for the Republican presidential nomination got so heated it looked as if my father and Jerry Ford would never again talk to one another.

When it was over and Ford had won, what did Ronald Reagan do? He simply went all-out to help Ford win his re-election, as did I and as did my sister Maureen. My dad simply followed his rule of backing the Republican candidate no matter who he was.

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Hosting Unindicted Co-Conspirators By Joe Kaufman

On Saturday, March 1st, the city of Fort Lauderdale will be playing host to two U.S. government named “Unindicted Co-Conspirators,” the Islamic advocacy group CAIR and Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj. The event will be taking place with the full knowledge of the city, while the citizens of Fort Lauderdale will be left in the dark, unaware of what their elected officials are allowing to operate in and fundraise in their town.

CAIR or the Council on American-Islamic Relations was created in June of 1994 as a part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, a quad of groups looking for ways to finance Hamas from the United States. The committee was headed by Mousa Abu Marzook, then the Political Bureau Chief of Hamas. Today, CAIR has over 30 offices based throughout the U.S. and Canada, one of them being CAIR-Florida.

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FEMINIST AT THE END OF HER ROPE By: Henry Makow

What better example of stupid, self-defeating behavior than the latest advice of  a veteran feminist?

In an article entitled "Marry Him" (Atlantic Monthly, March 2008)  Lori Gottlieb advises her sisters to "settle"--marry anything  in sight...and fast.  This kind of abject surrender, while satisfying in an "I told you so" way, is also sad.

Millions of women who outsourced their common sense and trusted the media, their teachers, their leaders and their society are now high-and-dry. They were told they could have it all but most can't.
There are three times as many single women in their 30's now than there were in the 1970's. By the time these women have established their careers, many are too hard bitten and used, and the good men are all gone.

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JUDICIAL TERRORISM By: Paul Vincent Zecchino

The big, fat, deputy wheeled Brian Sterner into the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department. The big, fat, deputy stopped at a desk at which sat another deputy. Several deputies stood about. The big, fat deputy pushed Mr. Sterner's wheelchair handles. The big, fat deputy stood impassively as Brian Sterner tumbled like a corpse to the floor.  Brian Sterner is a quadriplegic. 

Surveillance cameras captured this charming vignette in technicolor. It occurred over two weeks ago. Not one of the onlookers, sworn to uphold the Constitution - of Hoxa's Albania? - bothered to report this all too common, increasingly familiar incident of Judicial Terrorism. If you haven't seen Brian Sterner on YouTube, TV, or net news sites, you soon will. 

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Dereliction of Duty By Jacob Laksin

House Democrats have a message for terrorists plotting to attack America: wait until Saturday.

That’s the practical effect of their decision yesterday to allow the lapse of a key surveillance law. Passed earlier this week by the Senate, the law, known as the Protect America Act (PAA), was a critical foundation for the government’s surveillance of terrorists abroad. Now, thanks to House Democrats’ inaction, it will expire at midnight today.

Not to worry, the Democratic leadership claims. The fact that the government’s surveillance powers will expire “doesn’t mean we are somehow vulnerable again,” Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, insisted yesterday.

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The Targeted Killing of Imad Mugniyeh :: Muslims Against Sharia

If Imad Mugniyeh - the Hezbollah terrorist mastermind who was responsible for hundreds if not thousands of murders - was indeed successfully targeted for assassination, his untimely death should be cause for celebration. I say untimely, because if he had been killed years ago, many innocent lives would have been saved.

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White Men Give Hillary a Lesson in Politics By Carey Roberts

Oh, what a difference a year makes.  When Hillary Clinton made her ''I'm in to win'' announcement on January 20, 2007, her path to the Democratic nomination looked like a rose-petal strewn cakewalk.

        Since three-fifths of the Democratic electorate are female, it was reasoned that most of these women would line up obediently behind Hillary's campaign.  Clinton would reassure her media adorers that ''this campaign isn't about gender,'' and then huddle with her all-female staff to plan the next Women for Hillary rally.

        If anyone criticized her record, Hillary's advisors would mount a ''Politics of Pile-On'' counter-offensive. And the New York Times could always be counted on to run a sympathetic ''wounds I gladly bear'' front-page story.

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Jimmy McCain By Max Boot

Since John Podhoretz has posted an article on John McCain’s son, Jack, at the Naval Academy, I thought I would post an update on Jack’s younger brother, Jimmy. To his credit, John McCain refuses to make political hay out of his family on the campaign trail, so it is possible to overlook this CNN item which notes that Jimmy, a Marine, has just gotten back from serving a seven-month tour in Iraq, safe and sound. That’s great news.

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Who Was Imad Mughniyeh? By Matthew Levitt and David Schenker

Yesterday's assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was welcome news in Washington, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and, albeit quietly, Beirut and Baghdad. For Hizballah and Damascus, however, the loss of Mughniyeh -- who was a brilliant military tactician, a key contact to Tehran, and a successful political leader -- is a severe blow to their ongoing activities and operations.

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Change Obama can believe in: Socialism? By Cliff Kincaid

Campaign workers for Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama are under fire for displaying a flag featuring communist hero Che Guevara.

But Obama has his own controversial connections. He is, in fact, an associate of a Chicago-based socialist group with ties to the Socialist International, access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler.

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Iran's Mirages By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The illusions created by a politicized intelligence report and pacifist wishful thinking don't change the reality of Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Bush administration has just provided expanded evidence.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton wonders why the publicly released portion of last December's National Intelligence Estimate, contending that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003, placed so much emphasis on the building of nuclear warheads.

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Not serious about energy policy either :: Power Line

In a post below, John shows once again that congressional Democrats are not serious about national security. They would rather pander to their radical base and, it would appear, to their trial lawyer financiers than authorize measures through which the government can obtain the intelligence needed to fight terrorism.

As Ben Lieberman of the Heritage Foundation demonstrates, the Democrats aren’t serious about energy policy either. Both gasoline prices and oil company profits are high. Thus, House Democrats propose to raise taxes on oil companies. But, according to Lieberman, oil companies already pay their fair share of taxes. In fact, their effective tax rate of 37 percent is slightly higher than that of large corporations in general.

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THE FIRST MUSLIM HEAD OF STATE MAY BE IN AMERICA--NOT EUROPE :: Real Clear Religion

Great mystery surrounds Barack Hussein Obama's religious beliefs and upbringing. I do not know what is worse --that he may be a Muslim apostate or that he could turn out to be a professing Muslim. While the Islamization threat is much more apparent in Europe due to immigration and dismal birth rates, the average American feels much more insulated and seemingly has the luxury of ignoring the reality of the danger that Islam poses to the entire Western world (despite 9-11). So many long to believe that the problem lies with the radical elements in Islam rather than with the religion itself. This ignorance could make America just as vulnerable to Muslim domination as Europe.

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Anti-Philanthropy "Times" by Thomas E. Brewton

The New York Times is distressed that private philanthropists can give money to any charity they choose. Only an all-knowing Federal government is capable, says the Times, of making wise decisions about dispensing money to achieve social justice.

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

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What child-men need is some tradition By Rod Dreher

Some years ago, a young painter about to complete art school complained bitterly to me about his education.

"They told us all that we were geniuses the first day we showed up," he said. "They never taught us the basics. Whatever we wanted to do, our teachers thought was brilliant. Now I'm about to graduate, and I don't know much more about being an artist now than when I started."

The young artist's point was actually more profound than I realized then and helps explain the pathetic phenomenon of child-men — those woebegone males who seem stuck in perpetual adolescence.

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‘The Candidate’ — starring Barrack Obama By Victor Davis Hanson

In these uncertain times, the relatively new Sen. Barack Obama has become America's "change" candidate. But how different in real terms is the Obama candidacy?

Obama's father was from Kenya, and he grew up for a time in Indonesia. But, otherwise, Obama was raised by his white mother and grandparents in a middle-class suburb in Hawaii — a unique upbringing in the 1970s but hardly so in today's multiracial and itinerant America.

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Have Conservatives Unwittingly Created a Black Camelot?

Satire By John W. Lillpop

Call it Murphy's Law, or the Law of Unintended Consequences, or just call it plain bad luck.

However it is branded, the inconvenient truth is that in the process of vanquishing Hillary Rodham Clinton, conservatives may have unwittingly created a far more formidable foe in the personage of Barack Obama.
For nigh unto six years now, nearly every conservative communication in America has vilified Hillary by portraying her as the devil incarnate.

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Socialized Repression Manifesting a Seventh Century Mindset By Peter W. Wright

My good friend Jeff Bayard came to town last week to attend the America's Truth/Basics Project Symposium Exposing the Threat of Islamic Terrorism with me. After an illuminating and exhausting day of learning, we saw someone engaged in a heated discussion with Robert Spencer, one of the presenters. Later, my friend Jeff sent me the URL(1) of a blog entry by this argumentative attendee. One of the neat things about my friend Jeff Bayard is he's always uncovering interesting things. In this case, he dug up a post from our fellow attendee describing us all as "future converts" to Islam. Jeff and I have a problem with this, as you'll see.

First, let's recap the symposium. Roger Hedgecock kicked the meeting off and proceeded to broadcast his national radio show from a room in the rear of the hall. Dr. Moorthy Muthuswamy, nuclear physicist, described standard Islamic conquests of countries through destruction and the role of mosques in the proselytization of terror against unbelievers. Dr.. Muthuswamy also asserted that Islam is not a religion but is a political movement of conquest with the trappings of a religion.

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The North American Union, Mexico style By Judi McLeod

American and Canadian patriots scouring the Internet for the latest on the North American Union (NAU) may be missing a huge resource.

Politicians and the mainstream media still brand as conspiracy theorists those who suspect a European Union style NAU is destined for Canada, the United States and Mexico.

A Canada Free Press (CFP) reader reminds us “Mexico has its own Security and Prosperity (SPP) websites.  Mexico’s SPP websites are called (ASPAN) (Spanish).”

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Why We Can't Not Vote for McCain by Vladimir Val Cymbal

So many Republicans are angry with McCain that it boggles the mind how this could have happened. The fact that it did happened that he is the front runner on the Republican ticket leaves so many of us mumbling to our selves. Hey! Snap out of it. Things are what they are.

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Who is"Fascist"? by Thomas Sowell

Those who put a high value on words may recoil at the title of Jonah Goldberg's new book, "Liberal Fascism." As a result, they may refuse to read it, which will be their loss -- and a major loss.

Those who value substance over words, however, will find in this book a wealth of challenging insights, backed up by thorough research and brilliant analysis.

This is the sort of book that challenges the fundamental assumptions of its time -- and which, for that reason, is
likely to be shunned rather than criticized.

Because the word "fascist" is often thrown around loosely these days, as a general term of abuse, it is good that "Liberal Fascism" begins by discussing the real Fascism, introduced into Italy after the First World War by Benito Mussolini.

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The First Muslim-Born Leader of the West By Thomas Landen

If I had been asked two months ago “Which Western country runs the greatest risk of electing a Muslim-born leader and how soon do you think this is going to happen?” I would have bet on the Netherlands somewhere in the next decade. Today, it looks as if the first Western country with a Muslim-born leader might very well be the United States next year, when President Barack Hussein Obama enters the Oval Office.

The Europeans do not mind being surpassed. Obamania has struck Western Europe. Two weeks ago, in an attempt to explain Europe’s enthusiasm for Mr. Obama, the left wing German weekly Der Spiegel pointed out that the Illinois senator is the most “European” of all the candidates in the U.S. presidential race. “Many in Europe would like nothing more than a ‘European’ America […] Obama personifies Europe’s hopes for a modern America: black, socially minded and gentle,” the German magazine wrote. As if Europe is black, socially minded and gentle…

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The enemies of free speech are on the march By Wes Vernon

If there is anything the jackboots cannot take, it is humor at their expense. They don't like it when you sass them back in serious discourse, either. But a touch of "irony" that shows the emperor has no clothes? That is when they reach the breaking point.

Lighten up? No way

Hell hath no fury like a police state mentality made a laughing stock.
Such appears to be the lesson currently being learned by columnist Mark Steyn. A Canadian citizen who spends half the year living in the U.S. writing for U.S. newspapers, magazines, and book publishers, Steyn is in hot water with stone-faced Canadian authorities.
His "crime?" He wrote a book — laced with his brand of humor, and issuing a serious warning on the demise of Western civilization, specifically Europe and North America.

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A Primary Season of Narcissism By George Will

With metronomic regularity -- the rhythm may arise from some strangely shared metabolic urge, which may explain the mystery of their marriage -- the Clintons say things that remind voters of the aesthetic reason for recoiling from them. Aesthetic considerations even cause many Republicans -- a coarse commercial breed, they are notoriously insensitive to higher things, but they are not immune to the repulsive -- to hope, against three decades of evidence, that Democrats can be sufficiently sensible to nominate Barack Obama, even though Hillary Clinton would be more vulnerable to John McCain.

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John McCain will keep the country safer By James Lewis

John McCain's recent American Conservative Union ratings are not the 80% plus that we hear about all the time.  McCain has scored much less conservative in recent years, now making him one of the most liberal Republican Senators. That served his strategy of tacking Left to please the national media; but more worrisome, it seems to reflect his real beliefs.

Here's a man who really seems to believe the NYT Op-Ed pages. McCain is not an independent thinker on certain issues.

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Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism? By Selwyn Duke

It seems like just yesterday that many were reading liberalism's epitaph.  After the Reagan years, Republican Revolution of 1994, retreat of the gun-control hordes after Al Gore's 2000 defeat and George W. Bush's two successful presidential runs, many thought conservatism was carrying the day.

Ah, if only.

We might ask: With conservatives like President Bush and many of the other Republicans, who needs liberals?

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By Obama We Were Saved By George Neumayr

Senator Barack Obama rejects the "politics of the past" while borrowing from its phoniest chapters. His promised caravan toward a new Camelot, with Teddy Kennedy bringing up the rear, may generate feelings in Chris Matthews' leg and cause women to swoon, but over time it is likely to pall and bore.

Obama's speeches are like cotton candy, sweet but substanceless and dangerous to one's health if turned into a steady diet. Is he saying nothing? Unfortunately not. Glimpsed through the haze of his sophistical rhetoric is something, and it is tiresomely false, namely, the dogmatic assertion that "hope" and liberalism are synonymous.

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The Elephant in the Room: The conservative jury is still out on backing McCain By Rick Santorum

Why are so many conservative Republicans upset about the inevitable nomination of Sen. John McCain, and what are we going to do about it?

The cause of conservative discontent isn't hard to fathom. Start with the Arizona senator's voting record on many key issues. He has opposed pro-growth tax cuts and supported limits on political speech. He has pushed amnesty when it came to illegal immigration and half-measures when it came to interrogating terrorists. He wants to close Guantanamo and allow the reimportation of prescription drugs into the United States. Not only does he part company with conservatives on these and other issues - climate change, drilling for oil in the Alaskan hinterland, federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, international criminal courts, gun-show background checks - he invariably adopts the rhetoric of the left and stridently leads the opposition.

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How Conservatives Can Reclaim the GOP By Rene Guerra

“From my vantage point, however, it looks like both major political parties are moving to the Left” a well respected conservative columnist of worldwide readership wrote recently about the Republican and Democrat Parties. That remark of amazement reminds me of that fellow in the Campbell Soup TV commercial who suddenly realizes that there is salt in seawater.

Hello? The Democrat Party has been in the hands of the Left since George McGovern’s run for the Presidency in 1972. The Carter and Clinton presidencies wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

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Will You Make Your Vote Count On Election Day?

By Marie Jon'

Fellow Republicans, you have reason to decry. You have been handed the presidential candidate chosen by the elites within the Republican Party. For some reason they believe that only Senator John McCain has what it takes to beat the Democrats come November.

McCain needs your conservative feedback. Send him e-mail. Call his office. Tell him what he needs to do to get your vote on Election Day. McCain respects the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) members' point of view.

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Calderon's Tour Of America: Hobnobbing With The Very Rich, And Demagoguing The Illegal Alien Community By Allan Wall

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has finally arrived for his first visit to the U.S. as president of Mexico.

As expected, Calderon’s principal emphasis is on Mexicans in the U.S. "to strengthen the ties and deepen the dialogues with the Mexican communities" north of the border.

(Why don't U.S. presidents come here to Mexico to "strengthen ties" with us gringos who live south of the border?)

Despite the fact that it's Calderon's first presidential trip to the U.S., he is not visiting the President of the U.S., George W. Bush, as Vicente Fox used to. I guess he figures Bush is a lame duck. He's right about that.

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Confirmed: Obama is an unreconstructed liberal :: HOT AiR

I realize that Republicans don’t exactly corner the market on government spending restraint (thanks, W, thanks, Congress!) but hopefully someone on the Hill will resist Barack Obama’s latest big government scheme. He wants to spend $210 billion “creating” jobs.

Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday that as president he would spend $210 billion to create jobs in construction and environmental industries, as he tried to win over economically struggling voters.

Or buy their votes with someone else’s money. As the title says, he’s an unreconstructed lefty. That’s how they are.

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IT'S A SPIRITUAL, NOT CULTURE, WAR By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Some conclude that what’s going on in the US — indeed in the world — is a culture war. One basic cultural line in opposition to another.

Not so. Culture is just a polite term for what’s going on. Culture is also only a part of what’s going on. What’s happening is a first-class spiritual war: God against the devil.

Take for instance the two major political parties. They are dealing with spiritual matters on the front burners. The issues have to do with right versus wrong.

The Dems are for killing womb babies. The Republicans are against murdering womb babies.

The Dems are for baptizing sodomy. The Republicans are against sodomy on the grounds fundamentally that it’s evil.

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Who's Behind Barack? By Michael J. Gaynor

We know who's behind Hillary.

That's Bill.

We knew who was behind George W. Bush.

That was George H.W. Bush.

But who's behind Barack Hussein Obama?

He was not born into a wealthy or a "political" family.

His parents are dead.

His (black) father left home when Barack was two and his (white) mother's ashes are in Hawaii.

Is it Barack's paternal grandmother (a Kenyan Muslim still living in Kenya)?

I don't think so.

Pray to God that it's NOT Barack's pastor!

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Two Fatal Errors in Modern Liberalism By Dennis Campbell

Two primary errors of modern liberalism are a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and an inability to learn from history.

Regarding the first, liberals are always chasing the fantasy of human perfectibility, which influences so many aspects of their policies.

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In Defense of Conservative Talk Radio By MICHELLE MALKIN

The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It's disgusting.

A grenade by author Mark Helprin in The Wall Street Journal stands out. This week, he launched an attack on conservative radio hosts who oppose presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Helprin sneered that their "major talent is that, like hairdressers, they can talk all day long to one client after another as they snip."

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Poisoning the Infidels with Feces in UK and US by Ayesha Ahmed

Here is an excellent way to slowly poison infidels and kill them guaranteeing yourself 72 virgins, if you are in Bakery/Restaurant business . All you have to do is to collect feces and mix it with the food you are serving to the infidels. Due to the deadly B-Coli in the feces, the nasty kuffars become sick like a dog. They never know what hit them . Here are two mujahids who had been successfully doing it for a while..

MUSLIM BAKERY SELLS CAKE SPRINKLED WITH FECES TO ENGLISHMEN

Cardiff, U.K., 11th February 2008 (The Opinionator)

Two muslim shop-owners were today fined for selling chocolate cake - which had been sprinkled with human faeces.

A horrified customer ate the foul-smelling gateaux but noticed that it didn't taste or smell "quite right" and handed the cake to public health scientists.

The analysts soon established that the sweet treat was covered in faeces and legal proceedings against the shop owners were started.

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Listening to Henry K. :: Power Line

Henry Kissinger's appearance at our Book of the Year event Monday night, and what he said there, was a significant news story. Andrew Bostom listened carefully to the audio clip of Kissinger's speech that we posted here, and found it important:

I just listened to a brief audio of Henry Kissinger at the Norman (Podhoretz)-Fest sponsored by Power Line earlier this week.

Remarkably, Kissinger briefly drops the PC mask and says at about 7:40 to 8:00 of the audio posted (see direct audio link within this post) how, in a “deeper sense” what is threatened (now my words, by the global jihad) is the “secular” basis (Henry’s words) for “any society within the reach of Islam,”—he does not interject prophylactic rhetorical qualifiers such as “Islam-ism,” or “radical Islam,”—tacitly acknowledging a former commonsensical understanding that such words were in fact synonymous with “Islam”, but now dangerously abandoned to uphold corrosive modern PC fantasies about Islam.

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Who Killed Terrorist Mastermind Imad Moughniyah? By Frida Ghitis

At 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday night, a loud explosion rocked the neighborhood of Kafr Soussa in Damascus. Residents rushed to see the gruesome spectacle left by the explosion of a car bomb. It was the kind of scene that has become eerily common not in this, the Syrian capital, but in Beirut, where the victim of this attack, terrorist mastermind Imad Moughniyah, found most of his followers, and more than a few of his many enemies.

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Islam and the War against Freedom of Expression Adrian Morgan

On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of 12 images of Mohammed, founder of Islam. The intention was not to insult Islam, but to highlight how artists had become too scared to tackle Islam head-on. The issue stemmed from attempts by Kare Blultgen, a Danish author, to find illustrators to provide pictures for a children's book he had written about Mohammed, founder of Islam. Blultgen said he found no artist willing to take the risk of depicting Mohammed. As a result, Jyllands-Posten invited artists from across Denmark to submit their pictures. These can be seen here.

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Islam, Britain By Helle Dale

With all the elegance of a bull in a china shop, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, last week made a foray into the difficult subject of how Muslims fit into Western societies. The ensuing crashing and banging is still going on in Britain and can be heard across the pond.

We might possibly thank the venerable gentleman for bringing the subject out into the open. How Muslims fit into Western societies is certainly one subject that deserves intensive reflection and debate, as Muslim populations continue to grow — particularly in Europe, but also in the United States, Canada and Russia.

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Rush and the Reagan Future by Lisa Fabrizio

As one left-wing blogger put it, “Republicans are a collection of ‘Lost Boys’ right now, desperately looking for a national leader in the wake of the Bush disaster.” Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday rejoiced that “there’s not a re-assembling of the Reagan Coalition.”

From the right, movie critic and radio talk-show host Mike Medved has concluded that, “The big loser in South Carolina was, in fact, talk radio: a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight,” going on to explain that, “[John] McCain and [Mike] Huckabee are both decent and principled conservatives.”

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Decline and Fall of Western Civilization By Greenfield, Daniel

It is hard for most people to grasp and understand that they are living through the period of the decline and eventually destruction of their countries and their entire way of life, yet that is what we are seeing now.

The European continent, the core of Western civilization is collapsing. European birth rates have fallen below replacement rates, populations are dwindling and slowly being displaced by large foreign Muslim populations. Wedded to socialism Europe faces a generation in which the elderly and their social services will vastly outnumber a far smaller population of youth leading to economic collapse.

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The Mohammed cartoons By Ethel Fenig

Hooray for Denmark, the little country that could.

Despite death threats and warnings of economic retaliation

Denmark’s three main newspapers will take the provocative step today of reprinting a cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb instead of a turban after the arrest yesterday of three suspected Islamic terrorists for plotting to murder the artist.

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CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO By John Bender

The Republican establishment and the mainstream media are all aflutter having managed to nominate John McCain to be the Republican Party’s offering for President in November. They are beside themselves with joy over the situation. 

Most of their glee, at least among the party establishment, is because McCain is not a conservative in the traditional sense of the word and most of the time doesn’t claim to be. Oh sure, he now claims he’s a conservative, but almost nobody believes it. Certainly nobody believes it who paid any attention to his record over the past 10 years or so. 

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Plan B: The Senate :: GOPublius

With the departure of Mitt Romney, all conservative hopes for retaining the White House have diminished. The 2008 Republican presidential nominee will be Senator John McCain.

Under the best of circumstances, retaining the White House following a  two term presidency is difficult - in recent decades only Ronald Reagan was able to achieve this feat with the election of his sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush. This year, it is particularly difficult. No president in recent memory has been as despised by the left as George W. Bush. Between an expensive and unpopular war, worries over a souring economy, etc., Bush is anathema to the left and unpopular among independents. Their frustration over his policies and the sheer indignity they feel at having what they believe to be an ignorant and unworthy man who beat Al Gore and John Kerry leading our Nation is palpable.

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Denmark to the Jihad: Drop Dead by Baron Bodissey

Do you remember Fabrizio Quattrocchi?

He was an Italian civilian who was held hostage in Iraq by Muslim terrorists and eventually murdered by his abductors. Unlike so many of his fellow Western hostages, who went whimpering and pleading to their deaths, Mr. Quattrocchi ripped the hood off his head and shouted, “Now I’ll show you how an Italian dies!” just before he was shot to death.

Denmark is doing something similar. Collectively — as a nation — it is saying to the Great Jihad, “Now I’ll show you what a Dane thinks of death threats!”

Steen and TB have been keeping me informed of the responses in the Danish media to yesterday’s arrest of the Muslim terrorists who plotted to kill Kurt Westergaard. Mr. Westergaard is the artist who drew the famous and iconic “turban bomb” cartoon of Mohammed, one of the twelve Motoons that so inflamed the “Muslim street” back in early 2006.

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Celebrating the second anniversary of the publication of the Mohammed cartoons

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Day Laborer Centers: Free Day Care for Mexico!

By John W. Lillpop

In yet another surrender to Mexican banditos intent on conquering America with leaf blowers & toilet bowl scrubbers, many American cities are erecting "Day Laborer" centers for illegal immigrants.

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You Don't Know What You Don't Know by Erik Rush

«About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist… Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!»

- Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, 1956

I considered titling this column «Where Are We Going and How Did I Get in This Handbasket?» but decided it would have been a bit unwieldy.

The term «Bolshevik» was derived from a Russian word that means «majority;» the party which bore this name went on – after some good old-fashioned 18th-Century style party warfare – to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) and rule Russia and eastern Europe with a titanium fist for nearly a century.

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Good Riddance: Imad Mugniyeh By Max Boot

Great news from Syria. Imad Mughniyeh, one of the world’s worst terrorists, has been killed by a car bomb in Damascus. He is all but forgotten now, but Mughniyeh, a leader of Hezbollah, was the original Osama bin Laden—a terrorist kingpin who was responsible for hundreds of deaths, primarily Americans and Israelis. He had a $25 million American bounty on his head, the same size as the reward for bin Laden. It’s not hard to see why. This AP story sums up his reign of terror:

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The Collapse of South Africa By Jan Lamprecht

When the Western world, with the connivance of then-President FW de Klerk and his National Party, finally forced the white government to surrender to the ANC, a massive chain-reaction was set in place: the steadily eroding reputation of South Africa as a once-stable country in a violent Africa. Despite all the problems that came with an apartheid government, South Africa was still relatively calm and peaceful. Now, it has erupted into chaos.

Prior to the 1994 elections, the western world was suffering from a guilt-ridden conscience and needed a country or a people to project their insecurities onto. That arrow was aimed towards South Africa and its governing white minority. Indeed, it had been pointing in that direction for a generation prior to 1994.

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Ayn Rand: A Legacy of Reason and Freedom by Michael Berliner

Born 100 years ago in Holy Mother Russia and educated under the Soviets, Ayn Rand became the quintessential American writer and philosopher, upholding the supreme value of the individual's life on earth. She herself led a "rags to riches" life, wrote best-selling novels that championed individualism, and developed a philosophy of reason that validates the American spirit of achievement and independence.

The story of Ayn Rand’s life is, in the words of the Oscar-nominated documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life: “a life more compelling than fiction.” Born February 2, 1905, she wrote her first fiction at age 8, when she also showed signs of being an intellectual crusader, vowing to refute a newspaper article claiming that school was the sole source of a child’s ideals. A year later she decided to become a writer: inspired by the hero of a children’s story, who embodied “intelligence directed to a practical purpose,” she had a “blinding picture” of people--not as they are but as they could be.

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McCain’s Prescription for Fighting the War against ‘Islamic Extremism’ is a recipe for Defeat, Not Victory By Joseph BH McMillan

McCain has a well-oiled "machine" to silence his fellow Vietnam POW’s, and it will no doubt save him from the “Swift Boating” that helped sink John Kerry. But silencing your critics is not a substitute for an effective and workable war strategy.

While McCain pontificates about his credentials as a "war hero," which, he claims, uniquely equip him to deal with the threats posed by "Islamic Extremism," I find that I am being subjected daily to the humiliations of having to sacrifice my freedom to accommodate his inability (and the inability of most of our politicians) to even identify the enemy.

Let me give a recent personal example before I demonstrate how McCain plans to hand our enemies a victory on a platter.

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Why Do Only Whites Lose Jobs Over Racial Remarks? By Peter Bradley

In his 1993 book Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism, the late Sam Francis wrote, "the practice of ruining a white person once a year in honor of Dr. [Martin Luther] King is becoming a national tradition." Sam, who would soon become one of those ruined white persons, mentioned the well-known cases of Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder and Al Campanis, who lost jobs for their theories about blacks and sports. He also described the 1986 case of a Maryland school teacher who was suspended (though not fired in those lax days) for telling someone in a private conversation (correctly) that King was a communist sympathizer.

The pace of ruining white people for allegedly racist remarks has picked up in the last 15 years - and even in the three years since Sam passed on.

As Don Imus, James Watson, Michael Richards, Dave Seanor (former Golfweek editor) and Kelly Tilghman (Golf Channel anchor) can attest, the practice is now much more common than once a year.

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Obama, The Global Candidate By Lee Cary

If Barack Obama fulfills the MSM's storyline of Obama the Dragon Slayer, a new theme will surface - Obama the Global Candidate.  

In his February 11, 2008 article entitled "Obama, the Democratic Nominee? Yes He Can!" Dick Morris unequivocally declared,

I believe that Barack Obama will defeat Hillary and win the Democratic nomination.

If Morris is right, we should see hints of the next big MSM storyline emerge in the weeks ahead. It could look like this.

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The Obama Cult of Nonthreatening Personality By Ray Robison

Barack Obama strikes nearly everyone as a nice guy. Part of that appeal is a distinct absence of aggression. Normally, when we think about charismatic political leaders, the mind conjures up a little more dynamism, a bit more vocal modulation. He doesn't need them. Perhaps the drama of his background is enough.

His now-legendary abilitry to inspire crowds is no doubt a complex phenomenon, but his smile and his disposition certainly have their magnetism for those of us who long for racial healing. He has crafted an image someone who wants to get along with everyone.

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Biofuels Meltdown By William Tucker

Last week two studies published in Science announced what anyone might have suspected all along. "Biofuels," rather than reducing carbon emissions, are adding two them -- possibly by a factor of nearly 100!

The two studies may finally puncture the myth that anything is to be gained from burning crops for fuel. From the very beginning, there was never any indication that turning corn into ethanol was improving our energy independence. As that effort faltered, the myth arose that at least it was reducing carbon emissions. Now it has been shown to do neither.

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How Conservatives Can Reclaim the GOP By Rene Guerra

“From my vantage point, however, it looks like both major political parties are moving to the Left” a well respected conservative columnist of worldwide readership wrote recently about the Republican and Democrat Parties. That remark of amazement reminds me of that fellow in the Campbell Soup TV commercial who suddenly realizes that there is salt in seawater.

Hello? The Democrat Party has been in the hands of the Left since George McGovern’s run for the Presidency in 1972. The Carter and Clinton presidencies wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

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Neo-Paganists Ignore Human Misery, Choose Caribou by Aryeh Spero

The Dow has plunged nearly 15% signaling a possible recession and many economists contend we are already in the early stages of one. No doubt the sub-prime credit debacle and the housing bubble it created are very much at fault, but so is the fact that oil rose to $100 per barrel.
Such high energy costs for gasoline and home heating fuel have forced many consumers to halt spending and many manufacturers are finding it tough to make a profit. Some Americans will lose their jobs. Those who have jobs will find it difficult to spend on their family when so much money must be set aside for transportation to work.

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Defending the West in American Universities By Robert Spencer

With jihad terrorists around the world making recruits and justifying their actions by reference to Islamic teachings, academic study of Islam is needed more urgently than ever. Yet in today’s universities, political correctness almost completely forecloses any honest examination of the elements of Islamic culture or belief. Much of this is the result of the work of the late Edward Said, a hugely influential professor and author of the book Orientalism, which has set the tone for Middle East Studies in the United States ever since its first appearance in the 1970s. Said contended that Western academic study of Islam and the Middle East was deformed by notions of cultural superiority, and was a racist handmaiden of Western colonialism and imperialism.

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The Attempt to Annihilate Israel By Joseph Klein

Every year since Israel’s founding, Israeli civilians have been murdered by Arab soldiers, the fedayeen, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, Hezbollah or some other shadowy Islamic militant group. Israel's enemies have, from the start, sought to eliminate the Jewish state through whatever means necessary, including committing genocide against the Jewish people.

Islamic terrorists use suicide bombers and increasingly sophisticated rockets, launched from lands relinquished by Israel to the Palestinians, to accomplish their grisly deeds. Their killing machines of choice tomorrow will be whatever weapons of mass destruction they can get their hands on.

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A Declaration Against Genocide By Deborah Weiss

This Saturday, political activist and author David Horowitz stood on the dais in the nation’s capital against the backdrop of an enlarged photograph of women covered in black hijabs. With only their eyes revealed, the women carried signs that read: “God Bless Hitler.” This photo was not taken in Iran or Saudi Arabia, but instead comes from a recent rally of radical Muslims in Chicago.

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Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote By Cliff Kincaid

A nice-sounding bill called the "Global Poverty Act," sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.   

Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama's "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) through his committee. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.   

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Obama: Elect me and I’ll lose the war AND raise your taxes! :: HOT AiR

Barack Obama is speaking to a packed auditorium in Wisconsin right now, more or less taking the opportunity of winning the Potomac Primary to pivot from the Democrat race to the general election. That’s surely the tone, since he’s ignoring Hillary Clinton and attacking John McCain, the war in Iraq, and Republican policies.

Once he’s finished I’ll cut some and post it here. I’m struck by how Mondalian he sounds. And how easy he’s finding it to twist McCain’s words on the “100 years” comment. He’s shedding his Mr. Clean image to launch a fairly negative string of attacks on McCain, whom he just praised as a hero for opposing tax breaks.

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The Enviros Are Winning By Nancy Morgan

Last week as the nation's attention was focused on all politics, all the time, the environmentalists made major headway. Significant headway. Right under our noses.

Politicians, celebrities, businesses, scientists, bureaucrats, farmers, cities, the UN, our own government and even religious orders are accepting and validating the largely unproven concept of man-made global warming.

Corporations are jumping on board as they roll out credit cards designed to cash in on people's worry about global warming. Allstate now cites global warming as the reason they hiked their rates by a whopping 42%.

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The Long March Begins For Conservatives By Rick Moran

If, as expected, John McCain wins a smashing victory and takes an insurmountable lead in delegates, most conservatives will have to face the fact that our influence in Republican party has diminished significantly and that a re-assessment of our relationship with the party is in order. I daresay the most immediate fallout – and most superficial – will be a reduction in donations to the party from conservatives as well as fewer volunteers to fill out the staffs of Republican campaigns.

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YOUTUBE CENSORS AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE

“It is outrageous that YouTube would black-out our video warning the public about a Planned Parenthood sex video while it continues to carry the original Planned Parenthood video,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League.

The “inappropriate nature” cited by YouTube management is the very same centerpiece of a publicly aired Planned Parenthood television advertising campaign which is still being hosted by YouTube as of Monday afternoon and has not been flagged.

“Such duplicitous acts cannot go unchallenged.  We’ve let them know we will not be silent.  We have already filed a complaint with the online service and will do whatever we can to see that this discriminatory action is overturned by YouTube,” said Judie Brown, President of American Life League.

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The 'F' Word That Liberals Dare Not Utter By THOMAS SOWELL

Those who put a high value on words may recoil at the title of Jonah Goldberg's new book, "Liberal Fascism." As a result, they may refuse to read it, which will be their loss — and a major loss.

Those who value substance over words, however, will find in this book a wealth of challenging insights, backed up by thorough research and brilliant analysis.

This is the sort of book that challenges the fundamental assumptions of its time — and which, for that reason, is likely to be shunned rather than criticized.

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Barack Guevara By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

How is it a front-runner for the highest office in the land can reject an American flag on his lapel but permit the display of a huge Cuban flag at one of his offices, emblazoned with a mass murderer's mug?

Improbable as it sounds, it's true. Barack Obama, displaying the same "anything goes" standard of patriotism he showed when he ostentatiously refused to wear a U.S. flag in his lapel, now shows he's got a whole different idea about patriotism.

One of Obama's volunteer offices in Houston was caught operating under a huge flag of communist Cuba with Che Guevara's face printed on it, according to images shown on Fox News. Flak from bloggers ensued — followed, of course, by spin control.

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Infiltration of the West by Fjordman

I do not have the time right now to include hyperlinks to every single piece of information stated here, but almost all of this information should be available online with a quick web search. Robert Spencer has dealt with the Muslim Brotherhood in a number of books, for instance in Onward Muslim Soldiers. I would also strongly recommend the recent book "Global Jihad: The Future in the Face of Militant Islam," by former Muslim Patrick Sookhdeo. Sookhdeo does excellent research, particularly regarding the systematic Islamization of Britain, but the same blueprints are used in other countries, too.

The Muslim Brotherhood, today widely regarded as the largest Islamic movement in the world, was founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928. Its member groups are dedicated to the motto: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."

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A LA CARTE CHRISTIANITY AND SHARIA LAW

Here is an interesting quote from an astute self-described atheist on Rowan Williams' capitulation to the inevitable introduction of sharia law in Britain ...

From Simon Heffer at the Telegraph: "The archbishop seems to imagine that sharia law's adoption could be confined to matters such as financial transactions and divorce.
"But why should it stop there? Indeed, how could it?

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Pakistan's Theater of Jihad and the Growing Complexity of the Terror War By Aidan Kirby

With Pakistan's much-anticipated Feb. 18 elections fast approaching against the backdrop of mounting jihadist activity in the country's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), questions about the stability of the region and the strategic implications of the activity there for U.S. interests seem to be growing more urgent by the day. While Pakistan has been considered a "key ally" in the war on terror for many years now, receiving at least $10 billion since 9/11 for its support in hunting down top al-Qaida operatives, this partnership has become dramatically more complex of late, and American decision makers are now facing difficult dilemmas in the region.

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Fitzgerald: An act of dominance and aggression :: Dhimmi Watch

"LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A battle of faiths is being waged in the ancient English city of Oxford, where some people are bitterly opposed to Muslim plans to broadcast the call to prayer over the fabled dreaming spires." -- from this news article

The noisy call to prayer is an act of dominance and aggression. The louder it is, the better. Mosques were always supposed to be built in high ground, or in the most imposing spot, towering over churches and synagogues, in the lands first conquered by Islam. Those aggressive skyward thrusting minarets were symbols of power, of dominance. And the same thing continued wherever Islam went.

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While the world ignores the threat, Islam is taking over By Vincent Gioia

The inroads Muslims are making in the western world are achieved inch-by-inch so the changes become difficult for westerners to fully comprehend and to recognize the slow marginalization of all we hold dear in a free society. Muslims practice the clever use of political correctness to classify any mocking or criticism of Islam as ‘racist’ (remember the Danish cartoons), including the obvious need to critically examine people from Muslim countries entering the United States as well as those in the category of highest potential threat who enter the transportation system. (It is trite to say, but a little old lady from Winnetka is not as likely to pose a potential terrorist threat as the bearded Imam from a Mosque preaching that Islam should take over the world.)

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Playing dumb on terrorism? :: The Washington Times

Mark Steyn's Jan. 28 article "Playing real dumb" rang more true to me after I heard the president's "State of the Union" address as he spoke of his Middle East foreign policy. Why?

Because the very point Mr. Steyn made in his article about Britain renaming Islamic terrorism as "anti-Islamic activity" to soften the reaction from Muslims by engaging in "Orwellian Newspeak"— that is, to hide the truth of terrorists plotting to murder and terrorize "infidels" in the name of Allah definitely belonging under the category of Islamic fascism.

However it was to be handled like the fairly tale of the "Three Little Pigs" which Mr. Steyn also reported was censored in Britain because it too, was considered offensive and politically incorrect for Arab children.

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GOP Rearrangement Syndrome By David Limbaugh

Here we are — the non-McCainiacs — just minding our own business and contemplating such lofty ideals as party unity while the McCainiac cabal lobs yet more rhetorical cruise missiles our way. Hold your fire, boys, we're trying to meet you at the peace table.

If I were just slightly inclined toward the conspiratorial, I'd wonder whether this were an orchestrated assault by the McCain forces against the recalcitrant. Could more be going on than meets the eye?

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How Britain inched closer to Islamic law By Daniel Pipes

Beneath the deceptively placid surface of everyday life, the British population is engaged in a momentous encounter with Islam. Three developments of the past week, each of them culminating years' long trend — and not just some odd occurrence — exemplify changes now underway.

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McCain Would Defer to Kennedy on Judges, Coulter Says By Kevin Mooney and Josiah Ryan

If he is elected president, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) would defer to Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) in picking Supreme Court justices, conservative pundit Ann Coulter said in a speech Friday in Washington, D.C.

Conversely, if Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) wins, Coulter said, Republicans would pick up House and Senate seats in the 2010 mid-term elections.

Coulter's speech was sponsored by the Young America's Foundation (YAF), a conservative organization, and was given in a ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, where the CPAC conference was going on at the same time.

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More Things Change The More They Stay The Same In Leftist Suburb

by Frederick Meekins

In some systems of Eastern thought, the doctrine of recurrence teaches that everything that has happened will happen again.  Western philosophy of history drawing inspiration from a Biblical understanding of the universe does not share in the same exact idea since the Judeo-Christian worldview sees history as moving towards its ultimate conclusion in eternity. However,. traditional orthodox theism admits there is nothing new under the sun, meaning all the schemes and frauds have all been around the block a few times and will continue to plague the human condition until the good Lord decides to step and put an end to all this nonsense.

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Has "Hillary Care" Cured Slick's Addiction?

Satire By John Lillpop

Senator Hillary Clinton has a reputation for being a brutal, brass knuckle pragmatist.

For instance, she cries in public only when her daily tracking polls indicate that a crying jag would pump some needed energy and cash into her campaign, which at last peek was falling apart with greater dispatch than Nancy Pelosi's most recent botox surgery.

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Reformation By Rudy Takala

Peggy Noonan’s recent observation that George Bush destroyed the Republican Party was true, but the brevity of her statement left unspoken a thousand nuances. He was not a conservative, but he clearly failed in trying to redefine the philosophy of conservatism. He finalized Republicans’ distrust of politicians, but especially of their own politicians. He did not create a legacy worth preserving, which is why a void now exists wherein we are left to redefine a party.

The latitude we have to do that on a national scale is sadly – if expectedly – lacking. But within the purview of our own communities, we have an ability to shape something unique; something that can escape the meddlesome hands of national powerbrokers.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center Must Add Itself To Its List Of "Anti-Immigrant Hate Groups" By Peter Gadiel

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), has grabbed a very lucrative and seemingly permanent seat on the fundraising gravy train by smearing organizations it claims are "anti-immigrant hate groups."

But recently the SPLC itself attacked an immigrant ethnic minority using the exact same language which, when used by other organizations, it denounces as hate speech and proof that they are nativist "hate groups." The SPLC is going to have to add itself to its list of hate groups!

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Christians: Hasta la vista CA schools! by Nicholas Jackson

“We’re Here, we’re queer, we’re in the classroom.”

Lesbian Activist Donna Red Wing addressing Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network, 1995.

Last year, California Governor Schwarzenegger signed legislation mandating that public school children as young as 5 years old be indoctrinated to accept the abnormal homosexual lifestyle and other forms of sexual deviancy.

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John McCain funded by Soros since 2001 By Jerome R. Corsi

As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.

In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros' Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.

McCain used the institute to promote his political agenda and provide compensation to key campaign operatives between elections.

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Che Guevara Flags in Obama's Houston Office :: LGF

Barack Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, but on the wall of his Houston campaign office: a Cuban flag with a picture of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara.

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What Obama Means By Unity by Jonathan V. Last

Sometime before Barack Obama's strong showing on Super Tuesday, the Washington Post observed that the senator had been campaigning across this great land on a "platform of hope and change." Whether or not the Post was being arch, they had it about right.

Obama rarely speaks about policy specifics; "hope" and "change" are the two dominant messages he preaches on the stump. But he has two secondary themes: "straight talk" and "unity." They don't receive nearly as much attention: Perhaps because an examination of them shows Obama to be a somewhat conventional political figure.

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Obama Unplugged by Dean Barnett

USUALLY WHEN BARACK OBAMA gives a major speech, the overdone hosannas from the liberal commentariat follow as surely as night follows day. The American Prospect's Ezra Klein wrote of Obama's post-Iowa victory speech, "I've been blessed to hear many great orations. I was in the audience when Howard Dean gave his famous address challenging the Democratic Party to rediscover courage and return to principle . . . But none achieve(d) quite what Obama, at his best, creates. . . . Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment."

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Mandate Me, Baby By Rick Moran

I am not much of a policy wonk. Rarely do I don my pointy hat and delve into the mysteries of exactly how government tries to run our lives. Usually it is enough for me to spout generalities while railing against bureaucrats, liberals, and eager beaver do gooders who often act as surrogates for government policy in lieu of direct intervention by agencies.

No, I have eschewed covering policy for the most part. I am not smart enough and fear if I cram  my head with too much of that stuff, other more important things will dribble out of my ears. Why take a chance on losing vital information like what Eva Longoria likes to do in bed or the name of Britney Spears' favorite psychiatrist?

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Sean Hannity Is Right By Jeffrey Lord

Sean Hannity is right. But why?

To borrow from a once famous phrase about the economy, "it's the principles, stupid."

The American conservative movement, refreshed from its annual festival of intellectual and political lights known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), is experiencing yet another transformational moment of growth. It is important, it is dynamic, and it is most certainly unstoppable.

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