My Wife Became Legal and I Became Illegal By Carey Roberts

Each year the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and similar federal laws funnel $1 billion to help abused and battered women – or so we are led to believe.

Each year the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and similar federal laws funnel $1 billion to help abused and battered women – or so we are led to believe. A good part of that money goes to immigrants who claim to be victims of domestic violence.

Last Fall I wrote a three-part exposé that revealed how an immigrant woman’s restraining order becomes a “gold-plated meal ticket that entitles her to preferential treatment by immigration authorities, free legal services, and a generous helping of welfare services.”

One woman whose father had been falsely accused of abuse and forced from his home wrote me, “I believe the Violence Against Women Act should be called the ‘Women Get What They Want Act.’”

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Barack Obama: The Disturbing Truth :: Three Consrevatives

I have no interest in being the voice of bipartisanship on this matter. I keep reading that it does not matter for whom you vote, as long as you get out and vote like a good citizen should, and I cannot possibly roll my eyes any harder than I do each time such an asinine attempt at pandering to one’s opponents is spewed. Cory briefly alluded to the below issue a few days ago, but it deserves a bit more attention.

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Joe’s Immigration Reform Fantasy Comes True—Almost! By Joe Guzzardi

In my recurring fantasy, I’m on national television debating patriotic immigration reform with a well-known reconquista like Maria Hinojosa, or possibly the Senate’s most outspoken pro-open borders advocate, Teddy Kennedy.

That day has yet to come. But in the meantime, something almost as good has happened.

Bill McIntosh, a journalist at Univision, the notorious reconquista Spanish-language TV channel, submitted a list of ten questions to me about former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda’s interview with Miami Herald reporter Casey Woods.  Their topic: Castañeda’s new book, Ex-Mex. [A Mexican View of U.S. Immigration Debate, Casey Woods. Miami Herald, February 17, 2008]

McIntosh’s questions and my replies have been submitted to Univision for possible posting in Spanish on its online website.

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Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins :: Telegraph UK

An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum."

Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. She was declared dead early the following day - her 31st birthday.

Her suicide note read: "I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does."

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The Perils of Socialized Healthcare by Tom Blumer

This is a difficult column to write, because there’s a glut, not a lack, of pertinent material.

You see, the state-run British National Health Service (NHS) has been decaying steadily for years. Even the formerly fawning British media, after decades of kid-glove treatment, has taken to regularly exposing the NHS’s dark side.

Here are just a few of the most recent sordid examples revealing a system at its breaking point.

The first comes from just outside of many British hospitals (known as “trusts”), in the UK Daily Mail:

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Obama and the Jews By MARC ZELL

Less than two weeks before the critical primary elections in Ohio and Texas, Democratic voters have made it very clear: Barack Hussein Obama is for real.

Leading in the popular votes cast, delegates pledged and total delegates (meaning principally the back-room machers euphemistically referred to as "superdelegates"), Obama has a decent chance to become the 2008 Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Obama has become a rallying point for millions of disgruntled voters who yearn for a new style of politics in the world's greatest democracy.

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Why Is Federal Authority Preeminent In Hazelton, But Irrelevant In Newark?

By John W. Lillpop

Decent American citizens like those in Hazelton, Pennsylvania are increasingly disenfranchised as they struggle to protect their communities from unwelcome third world aliens who come here illegally in violation of violate U.S. borders and laws.

For the most part, Americans residing in Hazelton are law-abiding citizens who have been raised to believe that America operates within the rule of law. They pass local ordinances and laws in order to protect their schools, families, and property with the expectation that the rule of law, rather than violence, is the American way of adjudicating differences.

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Virginia parents succeed against pro-homosexual book By Jeff Johnson

Parents in one Virginia County have successfully forced the removal of a book, which promotes homosexuality, from their local elementary school.

The book, titled And Tango Makes Three, is based in part on the story of two male penguins that temporarily form a couple to raise a penguin chick. Peter LaBarbera with Americans for Truth About Homosexuality says he is not surprised that the homosexual propaganda piece is still showing up in elementary school libraries.

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The Gipper's Win By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

A destroyed satellite attests to the prowess of U.S. technology and our ability to defend ourselves. Democrats said it wouldn't work. Adversaries say it's provocative. Somewhere Ronald Reagan must be smiling.

Rarely is military technology put to so public a test with so much riding on its success or failure. With the whole world watching, a modified Standard Missile-3 was launched Wednesday night from a Navy cruiser in the North Pacific, its target a spy satellite in a decaying orbit headed to Earth full of hazardous hydrazine fuel.

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The Archbishop's Road to Dhimmitude! by Denis Schulz

Geoffrey Chaucer had a monk, a friar, a nun’s priest, a prioress, a second nun and a canon’s yeoman but he had no archbishop. Why? Were they that unpopular? Did he miss something? The first archbishop of Canterbury was Saint Augustine. One of Gus’ successors was beheaded by an angry mob in 1381. Oh, what tales an archbishop could have told…especially an Archbishop of Canterbury! Perhaps Chaucer found them too boring, too conventional, too God-ridden. Maybe he had a presentiment of the future and didn’t like what he saw. He would not have liked the current Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Soft Pedaling Radical Islam: The New York Times Discovers the MSA by Steven Emerson

Neil MacFarquhar's latest paean to radical Islam appeared in Thursday's New York Times, "For Muslim Students, a Debate on Inclusion," in which he praises a known radical leader of the Muslim Students' Association as some kind of moderate. MacFarquhar begins the story with a sweet vignette about Mertaban's alleged moderate bona fides:

Amir Mertaban vividly recalls sitting at his university's recruitment table for the Muslim Students Association a few years ago when an attractive undergraduate flounced up in a decidedly un-Islamic miniskirt, saying "Salamu aleykum," or "Peace be upon you," a standard Arabic greeting, and asked to sign up.

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Can Americans Respect a President They Don't Like? by DJ Drummond

BDS: Bush Derangement Syndrome. The increasingly serious diagnosis of people who blame President George W. Bush for all manner of disappointments. The venomous hatred of President Bush goes all the way back to his Inauguration, and has included such notable milestones as a movie celebrating his possible assassination. Before Bush, President Clinton experienced a similarly odious treatment, accused of everything from complicity in rape and murder to deliberate treason against America. For at least half a generation, the President of the United States has been smeared by a substantial portion of the population, regardless of political affiliation or his actual conduct. To some degree, this is almost an American tradition - Abraham Lincoln was denounced in newspaper editorials as a buffoon and as a stupid man who did not understand the office he held. Grover Cleveland was the target of smear campaigns by corrupt politicians whose plans he opposed. Teddy Roosevelt was commonly regarded as incompetent and reckless, as was Andrew Jackson by his enemies (although Jackson's enemies were a bit more anonymous, since Jackson held a formidable reputation as an accomplished duelist). Even so, the modern disparagement of the President seems well out of balance and fueled by a most unhealthy and irrational spite.

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Impact at 130 miles By Rich Lowry

Somewhere 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, tumbling around the Earth at 17,000 mph, a disabled spy satellite met a fiery end late Wednesday night — destroyed by a U.S. missile-defense interceptor.

The spectacular hit marks a definitive turn in the debate concerning missile defense, from whether it's technically possible to whether it's ethically desirable. Many of the same people who had argued for years that missile defense couldn't be done now will complain that it constitutes a nefarious "weaponizing of space."

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Pro-Homosexual Booklet to Be Distributed to All 16,000 US School Districts By Hillary White

US, February 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At the same time that news has come out that the Toronto Catholic School board has refused to participate in pro-homosexual activities, homosexual activists are making significant inroads in US schools, as a booklet titled, "Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth," is set to be distributed to all 16,000 school districts in the country.

The 24-page booklet by the National Education Association and American Psychological Association, tells students that homosexuality is a "normal expression of human sexuality".

"What's so scary and dogmatic about this report is that it communicates that religious-based viewpoints are harmful, and even dangerous," said Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action.

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Obama's Mentor's Mentor By Lee Cary

The influence of the black liberation theology of James H. Cone appears in the political philosophy of Barack Obama as well as in the recent controversial statement about national pride made by Michelle Obama. 

The spiritual role that Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ (UCC) and its just-retired pastor Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright have played in the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama is well-established, as is the Africentric theology that is the cornerstone of the church's self-proclaimed identity.

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Vice President J. C. Watts? By Matt Barber

If conventional wisdom holds true and John McCain ends up the last man standing in this year's Republican primary, he's going to have his work cut out for him in the general election.

It's no secret that many conservatives--not just Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter--have major problems with McCain's positions on a wide range of issues, as well as with many of the less than conservative, if not downright liberal, pieces of legislation he's attached his name to.  One man's "maverick" is another man's "mealy-mouthed moderate."     

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Illegal alien van driver arrested in Minnesota schoolbus tragedy By Michelle Malkin

The local Fox affiliate in the Twin Cities finally confirms what the local papers didn’t seem to want to mention about the horrible school bus accident that killed four children. It didn’t have to happen:

Authorities have confirmed that the the driver of the van that struck the school bus that killed 4 students on Tuesday is an illegal alien.

Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are checking to see where she came from and how long she’s been in Minnesota. FOX 9 has also learned that the name she gave to police, Alainiss Morales, is an alias.

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Muslims Slay Christians: US CONGRATS Kosovo By J. Grant Swank Jr.

So churches were burnt to the ground. Nuns were raped. Christians were slain.

And the United States congratulated Kosovo on its declaration of independence from Serbia. Long live the idiocy. Not.

Thousands of Serbian Christians in the Balkans have been murdered by Islamic extremists who truly believe that infidels must be wiped out across the planet.

Kosovo is now a “radical Muslim state,” per CFP’s Paul Williams’ “America’s war on terror has come full circle.”

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A turn against Obama-god? by Lawrence Auster

Paul of Powerline harshly criticizes both Michelle Obama's pride deficit and Sen. Obama's explanation/defense of same. It's good to see this. John of Powerline then says something that brings me hope that Obama can be stopped:

Sometimes the seeds of defeat are sown, or become apparent, at what seems to be the moment of greatest triumph. It is possible that a turning point of sorts may have occurred over the last few days.

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The Last Europe: Death by Self-Annihilation By Napoleon Linardatos

Every age fathers its own illusions and in the postwar Europe there were plenty of opportunities. Europe’s threats were contained by America and its material needs glutted by a postwar recovery. It seemed as if the continent could carry on without the ordinary constraints of survival and it could indulge itself in a world where a cut off between means and ends, causes and effects was not only imaginable but also possible. Now the Europeans would not have to face any of the predicaments, make any sacrifices or contemplate any of the awful dilemmas of that previous time. We were to encounter a gentle reality where grave crises existed outside a diminishing European jurisdiction and where the mastery for dealing with these crises became superfluous.

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Barack and Michelle Keeping the Faith By Kyle-Anne Shiver

I'm not buying the Obama campaign spin on Michelle Obama's patriotic faux pas this week, any more than I'm inclined to believe that Barack Obama's refusal to wear our flag pin in his lapel is a meaningless gesture.  Both Michelle's stated lack of pride in America until this precise moment in history, and Barack's unwillingness to don our national symbol are in perfect keeping with the doctrines of their church, Trinity United Church of Christ.

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WHEN JIHAD CAME TO AMERICA By Andrew C. McCarthy

On May 2 and 3, 1990, the U.S. embassy in Cairo alerted its counterpart in Khartoum that Egypt’s “leading radical,” Omar Abdel Rahman, was on his way to Sudan. Warning that his ultimate plan might be to seek exile in the United States, the Cairo embassy asked its colleagues to pass along any information they might learn about his activities on Sudanese soil.

What did U.S. officials already know about Abdel Rahman in 1990? As the 9/11 Commission would later determine, they knew that he

had been arrested repeatedly in Egypt between 1985 and 1989 for attempting to take over mosques, inciting violence, attacking police officers, and demonstrating illegally, and that he had been imprisoned and placed under house arrest until he left Egypt for Sudan.

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From Elections to Shootings: America Is Broken By Chris Adamo

It is noteworthy that the stalled Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) renewal effort became a huge controversy, prominently headlined during this past week, as the Northern Illinois University shootings wreaked indescribable horror and tragedy on yet another progressive and enlightened college campus.

Both situations are symptomatic of a twisted modern culture, based on the perverted premised of “political correctness.” Both portend more harm to be visited on innocent Americans. And, instead of real solutions, both will virtually ensure the hasty implementation of “fixes” that invariably offers more of the liberal disease to cure its symptoms.

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The New York Times -- Political Assassins by Seton Motley

This would make even the Daily Kos and MoveOn.org blush.

Well, maybe not. 

The New York Times on Wednesday evening went to the web with, “For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk”, an innuendo-filled and fact-deprived 3,000 word ramble on the 1999 professional interactions between now virtually certain Republican Presidential nominee John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman.  They then extrapolated the unproven impropriety of this alleged “relationship” into a broader questioning of McCain’s ethics.

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Single Payer Systems Kill by Deroy Murdock

Before American voters embrace either Hillary Clinton’s universal-health scheme or Barack Obama’s somewhat less dirigiste single-payer proposal, they should consider the avoidable deaths that plague the mother of all state-run medical programs: Great Britain’s big-government National Health Service. Low-quality, taxpayer-funded health care killed more than 17,000 Britons in 2004, according to the TaxPayers’ Alliance in London.

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McCain at War with the New York Times by Jed Babbin

Sen. John McCain’s campaign promised to “go to war” with the New York Times according to a report in the Politico released the morning after the McCain-Iseman story was released, alleging the presidential contender's involvement with the attractive lobbyist. 

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Scumbag Journalism By Jacob Laksin

The New York Times must really like John McCain. Twice in the span of one month the paper has printed endorsements of the senator. The first of these came in January, courtesy of the Times’ editorial board, which magnanimously pronounced the senator the least contemptible of the Republican candidates. The second, and ultimately the more helpful to McCain, came yesterday, when the Times published a thinly sourced page-one hit piece alleging ethical improprieties and a possible affair by the senator.

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TRANS-TEXAS TREASON By Alan Stang

I wish I did not believe this, but I do. At some point now coming fast, the battle for America will metastasize beyond politics. Yes, it would be nice, so wholesome, so American, if voting and elections were sufficient, but more and more in recent years it becomes clear that those things are fraudulent charades designed to lull us and that the conspiracy for world government will do what it likes regardless.

Again and again we have seen that, sure, you peasants go ahead and vote, but, of course, if you vote for the wrong thing, then the conspiracy for world government, infinitely wiser, wealthier, more powerful and, let’s face it, better than we are, will change the result and impose what they want.

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Obama's Not Muslim -- But Muslims Love Him Like He Was By Tim Graham

We've already seen in this election cycle a real sensitivity in the Obama-ogling media to any suggestion that Obama be mischaracterized as a Muslim. But will the media allow the Obama campaign to have it both ways, as Muslims voice hope that his upbringing in Islamic Indonesia will allow him to bring the echoes of detente to the "so-called war on terror"? Agence France Presse reports:

Delegates at a US-Islamic forum voiced support on Monday for U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, although some warned against expecting any radical policy change irrespective of who captures the White House.

Obama, who is vying to become the first black president of the United States, won overwhelming support in a mock election by more than 200 American and Muslim delegates at the US-Islamic World Forum in the Qatari capital. His Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and Republican candidates won only a handful of votes.

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Ahmadinejad: Israel Is Filthy Bacteria :: Newsmax

In the latest verbal attack on Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Jewish state a “filthy bacteria” established to oppress other nations in the region.

"The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast," Ahmadinejad told supporters at a rally.

Israel won support from the other nations that “created it as a scarecrow, so as to keep the people of this area under control," he said.

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Culturist Asylum By John Press

In U.S. law, in order to qualify as a refugee and apply for asylum, an alien must be unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality because he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or "membership in a particular social group." This quoted portion of our law has been used to argue that women who fear female genital mutilation should all be granted asylum. Laws such as this show no appreciation for the existence or impact of international cultural diversity. We need to replace internationally-oriented, culturally-neutral laws with laws informed by culturist understandings.

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Blame It On The Whitey! By Guy White

The West is a society of emasculated liars. A people lacking the will to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes are easy to control. They all know that multiculturalism and race card tricks are a lie, but cooperate in the cultural and demographic destruction of their nations nonetheless for the fear of being called “racist”. So powerful is the claim of racism that more than 95% of people will immediately back down if you only accuse them of being racist. It does not matter what you discuss – immigration, taxation, favorite athlete, music, anything – try calling your opponent a racist and you will immediately put him on the defensive. His facial expression will change. He will no longer be concerned with explaining why he enjoys golf or classical music and will instead try to rehabilitate himself as anything other than a racist.

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Obama the Messiah of Generation Narcissism By Kathleen Parker

Much has been made of the religious tenor of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Reports of women weeping and swooning -- even of an audience applauding when The One cleared his proboscis (blew his nose for you mortals) -- have become frequent events in the heavenly realm of Obi-Wan Obama.

His rhetoric, meanwhile, drips with hints of resurrection, redemption and second comings. "We are the ones we've been waiting for," he said on Super Tuesday night. And his people were glad.

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Delusional Hope: The Obama Rapture By Joel Hirschhorn,

Never have so many hoped for so much because of rollicking rhetoric and pulsating platitudes. A tsunami of hope has plunged America into electoral euphoria. In its path is the wreckage of critical thinking about what ails the US and what bold, revolutionary actions are needed. Barry Obama has accomplished semantic alchemy, turning justified but grim distrust and outrage with government and politics into hallelujah hope. But most hope never materializes and is a terrible predictor of reality.

Think about the prevalence of hope: sports teams heading into a championship game, research scientists envisioning a Nobel Prize, people in the criminal justice system awaiting trial, entrepreneurs starting a new business, people starting off on a long-awaited vacation, American Idol contestants, college seniors dreaming of becoming superrich, and all those supporters of Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and other presidential candidates that will not reach the White House.

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NIU Killer Liked HAMAS, Spoke Arabic, Says Extremist Muslim Friend; Was He a Muslim Convert? By Debbie Schlussel

After my crime of posting anti-Cankles and anti-B(Hussein)O candy hearts on this site, I'm sure this, too, will attract the ire of my friends at the Nazi-funded Media Matters for America gang.

After all, how dare I repeat the words of a Muslim reporter in the Chicago Sun-Times who was friends with Northern Illinois University killer Steven Kazmierczak, and said he was a good guy because he spoke Muslim phrases in Arabic with a phony Arabic accent and liked HAMAS? The nerve of me to report that Muslim former Northern Star reporter Rasmieyh Abdelnabi says Kazmierczak was "nice, smart" because he liked HAMAS.

I mean, I'm sure this is just a coincidence--him liking HAMAS and then rampaging HAMAS-style, murdering multiple innocent people on the NIU campus:

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Humpty Dumpty environmental policies By Paul Driessen

Playing games with language, justice and people's lives - "Environmental justice" is often used to benchmark corporate social responsibility.

“People of color and low-income populations are disproportionately impacted by pollution,” argues Leslie Fields, Sierra Club director of environmental justice.

It’s unjust that people lose their jobs when companies merge or downsize, to cut costs or boost profits, activists claim.

“Every time a child dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned,” for causing global warming, rants UK firebrand George Monbiot. Government leaders “should go to jail” for failing to act more quickly to prevent planetary climate cataclysm, insists Canadian eco-zealot David Suzuki.

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The Cult of Obama By Steven Laib

What America truly needs is not a sycophantic public following a cult leader on a path of foolishness.

America as been fortunate in avoiding political cults of personality.  The closest that we have come to it may have been the 4 terms that Franklin Roosevelt was elected to.  We should note also that FDR was a special case.  He was first elected during the Great Depression and continued into World War II.  This form of crisis situation has been unusual, and while one might disagree with the way that President Roosevelt handled some aspects of them, he certainly understood the gravity of the situation and the need for America to take action to preserve itself.  This is exactly the opposite of what we see with current Democrat presidential front-runner, Barack Obama.  

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Bush Adminstration Unites with Al Qaeda in Kosovo By Paul Williams

America’s war on terror has come full circle.

By pledging his support of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia, President George W. Bush has sanctioned the genocide of thousands of Serbian Christians in the Balkans and the creation, thanks to al Qaeda, of a radical Muslim state at the doorway to Europe.

After announcing their independence from Serbia on February 16, thousands of ethnic Albanians (Muslims) took to the streets waving American flags and singing patriotic songs.

While the national press provided glowing coverage of these demonstrations as proof that the “Kosovars” were adamantly pro-America, few media outlets took notice that the demonstrations were preceded by the sacking of Christian churches and the burning of thousands of Serbian books.

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Why Does The Anti-Defamation League Want Jews (And America) To Commit Suicide? By Brenda Walker

The recent death and well-attended memorial service of San Francisco Congressman Tom Lantos was a sad reminder that even people who ought to know better sometimes don't get it: a man who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp should understand that your tribe's enemies will kill you if they can.

The young Tom Lantos was darn lucky to get out of WWII Europe alive. But did he learn the obvious immigration lesson, namely to at least keep out the bad guys?

No. His lifetime immigration voting grade was F in a Congressional career that began in 1981.

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Barack Obama is a Fake by Ben Shapiro

Sen. Barack Obama's star appeal is causing physiological reactions in his supporters. Which is to say, they're fainting.

And these fainting routines are causing me physiological reactions. Which is to say, I'm throwing up.

At no less than six of Obama's recent rallies, fans have reportedly fainted. Those incidents were caught on video or audio. In each, Obama -- who never even thinks to put down the microphone or ask a campaign aide to take care of the matter -- narrates to the crowd as medical volunteers show up to minister to the stricken. In two of the videos, he picks up a bottle of water and offers it to the poor, overcome admirers.

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The Left Wing School Agenda and the Banning of Patriotism By Mark Loftin

When Churchill was dropped from the UK school curriculum last July, one had to wonder if patriotism itself was next.  Now it's official.

The Institute of Education, a leading educational body, has warned teachers not to instill pride in students when speaking of great moments in British History:

"To love what is corrupt is itself corrupting, not least because it inclines us to ignore, forget, forgive or excuse the corruption. And there's the rub for patriotism."

The recommendations singled out specific moments in history that students should now feel "ambiguous" about:

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Obama and Race By DANIEL HENNINGER

The Democratic Party is undergoing the greatest seismic shift since Bill Clinton came out of Arkansas in 1992, and the press chooses to sacrifice trees this week to consider whether Barack Obama "plagiarized" some lines from Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts. There is an important story here. It has nothing to do with plagiarism.

In January, I happened across a piece by the Associated Press describing the close professional relationship between Obama and Patrick, who shared the same political consultant, David Axelrod. Indeed, back in April 2007, the Boston Globe's Scott Helman wrote a thorough and nuanced article on all this, noting that the two have known each other for a decade and trade ideas all the time. There is nothing the least bit shocking here.

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Bashing LGF, St. Louis Paper Shills for Islamic Group By Matthew Sheffield

When it comes to Islam, the approach of too many media outlets seems to be to avoid questioning authority. Whether this attitude stems from fear (as in the case of Lawrence O'Donnell), ignorance, or plain old-fashioned political correctness doesn't really matter because the end result is the same: when extremist Islamic groups like the Council on Islamic Relations say "jump," far too many news organizations say "how high."

It's not asking for much, really. When, for instance, other religious groups (be they Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, etc.) make complaints, the usual procedure is to talk to the person or group being accused and allow them to tell there side of the story. It's basic journalism. It appears, however, that St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Tim Townsend doesn't believe that, at least when the complaint involves CAIR making allegations against the conservative blog Little Green Footballs. Let's take a look:

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Serving the Enemy By Lance Thompson

House Democrats have decided that their greatest duty is to the enemies of this country. They have performed magnificently in this role by refusing to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that provide information to government agencies tasked with preventing terrorist acts. By withholding their votes from the legislation that would have renewed the Protect America Act, House Democrats have discouraged these companies from cooperation by leaving them open to law suits by the very terrorists who plot the murders of innocent Americans.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke for the Democrats when she denied that national security was the issue, and accused the GOP of wanting "to protect the financial interests of telecommunications companies and avoid judicial scrutiny of their warrantless wiretapping program." The Democrats, on the other hand, are protecting the interests of lawyers, terrorist-enabling lawsuits, and the rights of our enemies to plot our destruction in inviolable secrecy.

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LAT: Heinlein’s Books Too Manly to Be Popular? By Warner Todd Huston

It is always curious when left leaning artists, writers and musicians get in high dudgeon when the American people criticize them for their overtly political statements. These leftist artists often argue that the “integrity of the art” means that critics have “no right” to criticize them. But there is a great amount of hypocrisy in the art world over the issue of "artistic integrity" because these same people exert a good deal of peer pressure against any art that might have a conservative viewpoint. A recent L.A.Times Book section report on the works of Sci-Fi writer Robert Heinlein's work is a perfect example of this attack of a conservative author's work by the American left.

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The Human Cost of Illegal Immigration - Part Three: Importing Pedophilia By Duane Lester

Illegal immigration is more than getting enough people in America to pick lettuce or roof houses. While the people who crash the border to do those jobs take jobs from legal citizens, it is far from the most damaging of issues. Not everyone who comes to America is here to do jobs Americans won’t do.

Some are here doing things we already have too many Americans doing.

Virginia’s Attorney General Bob McDonnell announced yesterday that the state police, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), identified one hundred seventy-one members of the state’s sex offender registry that are in the country illegally. These were criminals who were already convicted on sexual assault charges and were on the state’s registry.

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The Human Cost of Illegal Immigration - Part Two: Out of the Shadows, Into the Morgue By Duane Lester

If an illegal immigrant manages to live through the trip across the border without dying from exposure, drowning or being gang raped, they are then free to move about the country.
While a majority of illegal immigrants can count the actual border crossing as their only crime here, there are far too many who cannot. The cost of their being here weighs heavy on the victims of their crimes.

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Hillary's Anti-American Economic Plans by Ross Kaminsky

Question: What’s the difference between Hillary Clinton and Chairman Mao?
Answer: Hillary’s little book, supporting class warfare while attacking personal, political, and economic liberty, doesn’t have a red cover.

In her recently re-tooled “Economic Blueprint for the 21st Century”, Hillary Clinton offers “Solutions for America” which anyone other than the most die-hard of liberals would see as a recipe for economic disaster.

Senator Clinton has frequently used a telling phrase when discussing economics: “Shared prosperity”.  On January 24, introducing her “blueprint”, Clinton said that she has “a vision for a twenty-first century economy based on shared prosperity. Where we measure our success not by the wealth at the very top but by how broadly wealth is shared.” 

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Encouraging Jihad By Sarah N. Stern

On March 21, 2002, Dr. Alan Bauer, a Harvard educated biochemist from Chicago, was walking down King George Street in the center of West Jerusalem, with his seven year son. At 4:20 pm, Mohammed Hashaikah, a 22 year old member of the Palestinian Authority police force detonated himself, killing three people and wounding eighty-one.
The terrorist had been armed and sent directly by the PA. It was ordered by Akrim Rachav Yinis Aweis, a member of their General Intelligence Service, as well as by Nasser Shawish, a high ranking member of Fatah’s Tanzem. The director of Tanzem, Marwan Barghouti, supplied the six hundred dollars for explosive material, and the director of PA intelligence, Tawfiq Tirawi, provided it directly. The General Secretary of Fatah for the West Bank , Hasin a-Sheikh wrote a letter claiming responsibility for the attack.

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The Church of Global Warming By Mark D. Tooley

The imploding National Council of Churches (NCC) is always flailing about for a new raison d’etre.  This month, it took its Global Warming alarmism to Northern Ireland , where it hopes that fears about a climate catastrophe will “inform the peace and reconciliation process.”  Even First Minister Ian Paisley, the once firebrand Ulsterman who is now an elderly pillar of the Ulster peace settlement, met with the ecclesiastical busybodies.  The NCC’s furtive mission was sponsored by the British Consulate in New York .  Other members of the 2 day junket were the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life and the Presbyterian Church (USA).

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Sharia in Britain? Taxpayer-subsidized polygamy in T.O.? Yawn. Nothing to see here. By MARK STEYN

Since Maclean's got into a spot of bother with Canada's "human rights" pseudo-courts, I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of our media confreres who don't think it should be a "crime" for magazines to publish excerpts from books by yours truly. Nevertheless, in defending free speech in general, they usually feel obliged to deplore my exercise of it in particular:

"Maclean's published an alarmist screed by Mr. Steyn . . ." (The Economist)

"While the book may be alarmist . . ." (CFRB)

"Steyn's argument is indeed alarmist . . ." (The Guardian)

And, oh dear, even:

"The fear of 'a Muslim tide' was alarmist . . ." (Tarek Fatah and Farzana Hassan in Maclean's)

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The Irrational Atheist by Anthony Sacramone

Just when atheists thought it was safe to enter the public square, a book like this comes along. The Irrational Atheist by Vox Day is not a work of Christian apologetics. It is, instead, a merciless deconstruction of atheist thought—or what passes for thought. That’s the gimmick, if you will, of the book: Day does not accept a single assertion made by any one of the “Unholy Trinity”—Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens—without first pinning it to a sheet of wax as in a seventh-grade science class, dissecting it until there’s nothing left but a case for anti-vivisection legislation.

(A quick Google search, by the way, will reveal that Day bears a striking resemblance to one Theodore Beale: Christian fantasy and sci-fi writer, computer-game designer, and libertarian. Some would go so far as to say they’re the same person. I will continue to use the name that appears on the book, however, and that also is appended to the blog Vox Popoli.)

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Kosovo and Islam's Balkanization of the World :: Sultan Knish

Even as the world rushes to embrace the newly manufactured Kosovo as a country, the rise of a splinter Muslim country in Europe can't help but give hope to Islamic terrorists fighting to create breakaway states in Thailand, the Philippines, Israel, India and Kenya among many others.

Balkanization, or divide and conquer, has always been a key element in bringing down countries and with a global Islamic war, each country with a Muslim minority, natively converted or imported, is on the same track as Yugoslavia.

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BEYOND PARODY :: Dr. Sanity

Victor Davis Hanson comments on the 'Orwellian Democratic message to the white male':

If you're African-American, then it's OK that you express racial solidarity and vote for Sen. Obama by margins approaching 90 percent — while at the same time white males must prove that they are not racialists by having the courage to 'do the right thing' by likewise voting for an African-American. That apparently would make Michelle Obama proud of her country for the first time in her life.
If you vote for Hillary, likewise you transcend your gender and do the right thing — and so join the legion of feminists for whom her shared womanhood was their signature issue.
But if you were to vote for John McCain? You would, of course, reveal a tribal mentality by forgoing principle and obviously allying yourself along comfortable racial and gender lines.

Meanwhile, for the first time in her entire adult life, Michelle Obama--educated at a high-class Ivy league school and then Harvard for law school--finally has found something to be proud of in America.

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Reactions to My Obama Articles By Michael J. Gaynor

"...I am glad to see that someone is zeroing in on Obama. He has obviously been groomed for this run at the presidency. He is so popular BECAUSE he speaks in generalities and wonderful platitudes. Unfortunately, our young people have little instruction in discernment and have embraced Obama. It is difficult to imagine a more dangerous person at the helm of our country, if Obama will promote those who either will allow or install Sharia Law."

I believe that all presidential aspirants should be fully scrutinized, regardless of sex, color, age, wealth, height, weight and whether their fathers were monogamous or polygamous or born inside or outside of Kenya.

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The Road To A Brave New World Order By Wayne Lela

Picture an imaginary world where fanatic, radical, and judgmental liberal bigots hold sway; who preach or teach the "religion" of moral relativism, but who hypocritically treat their own values almost as if they were moral absolutes; where:

1) One can lose one's job for merely stating the well-documented scientific fact that the brains of men and women are structurally different and reasonably opining that those differences may help explain why women seem to be better than men at certain tasks and men better than women at other tasks.

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The Trinity United Church of Christ and Louis Farrakhan by David J. Jonsson

This is the second of a series of articles on The Clash of Ideologies and Leftist/Marxist – Islamist Alliance.

It is important in considering the following to note that Barack Hussein Obama is a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ and according to their website: The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision. When Obama moved to Chicago and became a community organizer, he found it expedient to choose a Christian church to join.

Recall this is a church and a mentor who Obama has relied upon to shape his views, to be his sounding board; the church is the largest recipient of his charity dollars; he proudly states that he admires the church and Jeremiah Wright, Junior. He prayed with Wright before he announced his candidacy for President. He is a beacon for Obama.

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Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back By Phil Brennan

Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory?

Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.

Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming.

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An Illegal Exodus...Back to Mexico? By Tom Fitton

Previously I reported to you that a federal court in Missouri upheld a law penalizing businesses that hire illegals.  Last week, more good news to report from Arizona:

A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the business licenses of those that do.  U.S. District Judge Neil Wake dismissed a lawsuit filed by business groups that argued that federal immigration law severely restricts Arizona's ability to punish people who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.

Under the law, a business would be placed on probation after one violation and would lose its business license permanently following a second violation.

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Group Claims Iran Speeding Up Nuke Plans By RAF CASERT

An exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Tehran was speeding up a program to develop nuclear weapons. "The Iran regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project," said Mohammad Mohaddessin of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran.

The NCRI is the political wing of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, which advocates the overthrow of government in Tehran. The Mujahedeen has been designated a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union as well as Iran.

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Is Nancy Pelosi too Liberal for America?

Satire By John W. Lillpop

Now that Nancy Pelosi has shattered the gender barrier, glass ceiling, and incredulity index all in one fell swoop, Americans are starting to worry that she may be just a tad too liberal to be second in the succession line for the presidency.

After all, Comrade Nancy does hail from San Francisco—the only American city that tried to join the former USSR, but was rejected because Moscow found folks here too far to the left.

In order to calm the minds of those fearing the worse from Speaker-Queen Pelsoi, several common myths, and exaggerations concerning San Francisco liberalism must be debunked.

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A Castrated Nation

by Erik Rush

If there was ever an election cycle in which the issues (at this juncture, really weighty ones) took a back seat to pomp and circumstance – or, if you prefer, hype and flatulence – this one is definitely it.

With the exception of half a handful of worthwhile individuals who were destined to be ignored by the public (for reasons of lack of profile), their party’s elite (for reasons rooted in fear and weakness), and the media (for obvious reasons), the choices have been ghastly right from the start.

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Declaration Against Genocide By Amil Imani

The David Horowitz Freedom Center announced that it will distribute a Declaration Against Genocide and ask individuals and groups, particularly those on American college campuses, to sign it. The Declaration notes that the Sudanese and other Africans have been victims of a slow motion genocide, and that Islamofascists in the Middle East are preparing a new genocide against the Jews and can be found here: Terrorism Awareness Petition.

In describing the objectives of this new initiative, David Horowitz, President of the Freedom Center, said: “We are asking all campus groups to repudiate the genocidal passage in the Islamic Hadith which reads: “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The time [of judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’”

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Unfree to Choose By Jeff Emanuel

Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has made "health care for all Americans" a major plank in her policy platform since the beginning of her run for President last year -- though, as those who are familiar with the junior Senator from New York and former First Lady's history will recall, radical changes to America's health-care system have been a cause dear to Mrs. Clinton's heart for the better part of the last two decades at least.

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The Obama Delusion By Robert Samuelson

It's hard not to be dazzled by Barack Obama. At the 2004 Democratic convention, he visited with Newsweek reporters and editors, including me. I came away deeply impressed by his intelligence, his forceful language and his apparent willingness to take positions that seemed to rise above narrow partisanship. Obama has become the Democratic presidential front-runner, precisely because countless millions have formed a similar opinion. It is, I now think, mistaken.

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Serving the Enemy By Lance Thompson

While Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats claim victory for stalling the Bush Administration's ability to listen in on calls made by suspected terrorists, the enemy benefits. We really need to stop and ask ourselves, whose side are these anti-war Leftist Democrats on?

House Democrats have decided that their greatest duty is to the enemies of this country. They have performed magnificently in this role by refusing to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that provide information to government agencies tasked with preventing terrorist acts. By withholding their votes from the legislation that would have renewed the Protect America Act, House Democrats have discouraged these companies from cooperation by leaving them open to law suits by the very terrorists who plot the murders of innocent Americans.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke for the Democrats when she denied that national security was the issue, and accused the GOP of wanting "to protect the financial interests of telecommunications companies and avoid judicial scrutiny of their warrantless wiretapping program." The Democrats, on the other hand, are protecting the interests of lawyers, terrorist-enabling lawsuits, and the rights of our enemies to plot our destruction in inviolable secrecy.

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The Unilateral Disarmament Democrats: Putting Trial Lawyers Ahead of Your Family's Safety by Newt Gingrich

It's hard to think of an action that has put as many lives at risk as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D.-Calif.) declaration of unilateral disarmament in the War on Terror last week.

By refusing to renew our ability to monitor terrorist communications overseas, Speaker Pelosi has put Americans at risk. She has blinded our counterterrorism capability and shut down America's most sophisticated defenses against the irreconcilable wing of Islam. As of midnight last Saturday, the law governing America's defense is totally inadequate to stop terrorists.

Why? Because the Democratic left believes lining the pockets of trial lawyers is more important than stopping terrorists.

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Who Are They? by John Batchelor

Who is Nahdmi Auchi, who according to the British newspaper TimesOnline may have lent money through a company he controls in Panama to support a fundraiser for U.S. Senator Barack Obama in May 2005?

Who is Mr. Auchi? A British billionaire living in London, born in Iraq in 1937. And why would he, as it is alleged, lend money via a Panama company, Fintrade Services -- of which his wife, Ibtisam Auchi, is said to be a director -- to a freshmen U. S. senator from Illinois just a few months after he is sworn in as a very junior member of what was then a Democratic minority?

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The Academic Blackballing of David Horowitz By Scott Jaschik

David Horowitz will not be appearing at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, which is expected to draw thousands of professors to San Diego in November. On that fact, everyone is in agreement. But whether he isn’t participating because he was making unreasonable demands, because he was never invited in the first place, because the association gave in to members who didn’t want to give him a forum, or some combination of factors is the subject of much disagreement.

Further, the fact that the association almost had a debate between Horowitz and Michael Bérubé — and now plans to have the debate, but subbing in Anne Neal for Horowitz — has prompted a dispute about to whom a scholarly group should provide a platform.

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Always apologize, always explain, or, Why Intellectuals like Genocide By Roger Kimball

Australia’s recent decision to apologize to the Aborigines—it was, said The New York Times, “a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs”—was front-page news. But why? Kevin Rudd, Australia’s new Prime Minsiter, said his country would act “to remove a great stain from the nation’s soul.” But what, precisely, had Australia done to the Aborigines? Well, everything. Australia is run by white folks now, isn’t it? And then there is the issue of attempting to improve the lot of Aborigines by encouraging assimilation. This was the so-called “Stolen Generations” controversy. The Times says “tens of thousands” of children were removed, “sometimes forcibly,” from their families and resettled. I’d like to second the historian Andrew Bolt’s challenge to produce a list of even ten names of children who were resettled by Australian authorities. It’s not that I doubt some children were removed from their families—e.g., a 13-year-old called Dolly, who was taken into the care of the State after being “found seven months pregnant and penniless, working for nothing on a station.”

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Why are Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann Crying About McCain? By Gregg Jackson

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter and many others in the conservative media have been attacking Senator McCain relentlessly, assailing him as a liberal and referring to him as "Juan McCain." Limbaugh has claimed that a McCain (or Huckabee) nomination would "destroy the Republican Party."

Frankly, it is unfathomable to me and many others how any honest and responsible person could fail to say exactly that about Willard Mitt Romney -- if they've done the homework assignment  Now that Romney has "suspended" his campaign and McCain looks like the inevitable nominee, many of the conservative elites continue to cavil and lambaste McCain. Ann Coulter stated on "Hannity & Colmes" that she would go work for Hillary before voting for McCain. Hmmm.

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In Search of Moderate Muslims By Joshua Muravchik and Charles P. Szrom

Ever since his first post-9/11 speech summoning the nation to a war against terrorism, President Bush has stressed that “our war is against evil, not against Islam.” Indeed, his administration has branded the terrorists as “traitors to their own faith”—outlaws who are “trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.”

There is no reason to doubt the sincerity of such pronouncements. But they also reflect a strategic imperative—namely, to prevent the jihadists from attracting wide support in the Muslim world. The goal of Bush’s policy is, rather, to call forth the Muslim majority against the acts and ideology of the terrorists. As the Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes has put it: “radical Islam is the problem and moderate Islam the solution.”

This is one facet of U.S. policy on which there has been virtually no dissent. But it begs the question: what exactly is moderate Islam, and where can we find it?

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American Pride And Shame By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

At a campaign rally in Madison, Wis., on Monday, the wife of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., declared: "Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."

Obama: Nothing to be proud of?

She continued: "And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."

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U.S. Recognition Of An Al-Qaeda Infiltrated Kosovo Is Indefensible :: PipeLineNews.org

As we predicted in a 2005 piece, 10 Years And Counting - Still No Exit Plan From Clinton Created, European Al-Qaeda Base the radical Muslim game plan in the former Yugoslavia, which was evident from the mid 1990s has now been realized by what is perhaps George Bush’s most serious foreign policy error, the recognition of an illegal and radical Muslim state in East Central Europe - Kosovo.

As has been the case in most of America’s blunders regarding radical Islam, the United States embarked upon this disastrous path under the Clinton administration:

"Ignored by the leftist participants in rage-filled street demonstrations is the fact that the Clinton team's Balkan policies were viewed by establishment politicians as so outside the normal confines of American diplomacy that the actions of the US Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith and then NSC Director Anthony Lake were referred to the Justice Department by the House of Representative for possible criminal action.

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Muslim threats lead toward Darker Age in Europe By Kathleen Parker

Traveling to Europe's Dark Ages, one might expect to find newspaper headlines like these:

• Archbishop of Canterbury says sharia law to be incorporated into British laws.

• A Danish cartoonist is placed under indefinite police protection as three would-be assassins are arrested.

• Renegade Muslim author seeks country to protect her from Islamist fanatics promising to kill her.

Alas, these are headlines from the past few weeks in modern-day Europe, where ancient values continue to collide with Western civilization.

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HAVE THE DARK AGES RETURNED TO EUROPE? :: TheOPINIONATOR

Good article by an American columnist who is in solidarity with most writers, bloggers, and many others who believe that freedom of speech is the crux of all of our other freedoms - without it other freedoms are in grave jeopardy if not already snuffed out - DOA.

The current biggest threat to our freedom of speech are muslims and their dhimmi apologists who seek to stifle our comments, cartoons and artistic expression if any muslim deems it "offensive" to them. Dhimmi bureaucrats are all to happy to use this muslim whining as reasons to set up "Hate speech" legislation and tribunals so that the government can get in on the act of intimidation and squelching of free speech. Only a few kuffar fights back and occasionally win.

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Whose politics of fear? By Rich Lowry

Last week, in the words of Nancy Pelosi, House Democrats struck back against "fear" and "fear-mongering." They let the terrorist surveillance program expire, thus making a stirring gesture of national self-confidence and fearlessness.

House Democrats probably can't sustain their stand against renewing the program over the long term, so they will have managed a Pyrrhic defeat, losing on the policy and exposing a major political vulnerability for the fall.

President Bush compromised with Senate Democrats on a renewal of the surveillance program that passed by a 2-1 margin. The program monitors the communications of terrorist suspects outside the United States, which the president has the inherent authority to do. The legal and political controversy has arisen because many overseas communications now — in the age of fiber optics — travel through the United States and has gotten entangled with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Westerners must mount a united front against Islamic law By Daniel Pipes

Westerners opposed to the application of the Islamic law (the Shari'a) watch with dismay as it goes from strength to strength in their countries — harems increasingly accepted, a church leader endorsing Islamic law, a judge referring to the Koran, clandestine Muslim courts meting out justice. What can be done to stop the progress of this medieval legal system so deeply at odds with modern life, one that oppresses women and turns non-Muslims into second-class citizens?

A first step is for Westerners to mount a united front against the Shari'a. Facing near-unanimous hostility, Islamists back down. For one example, note the retreat last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in a dispute concerning guide dogs used by the blind.

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WHO IS BARACK OBAMA? By Gordon Bishop

It appears that a junior United States Senator could possibly be the next President of the United States. 

The liberal mainstream media is glorifying this fresh new face in the 2008 election campaign. 

He is, of course, Barack Hussein Obama, a liberal Democrat representing the State of Illinois. 

But who is the real Barack Obama? 

I did some research on the Internet and came up with a lot of reading material on Senator Obama. 

Here’s what I found: 

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father is Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a black Muslim from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya, Africa. 

His mother is Ann Dunham, a white born Catholic from Wichita, Kansas, who became an Athiest. 

Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii. When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a “radical” Muslim from Indonesia, which is a Muslin country.

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Special report: Tampa explosion & the strange case of Farid Karakra By Doug Hagmann

It was around midnight on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 when a series of at least three explosions ripped through Jacob’s Lube & Citgo gas station, convenience store and deli at the corner of Busch and North Boulevards in Tampa, killing 22 year-old Palestinian immigrant Farid I.A. KARAKRA. The station was closed for business at that hour, raising questions about what KARAKRA was doing at his brother-in-law’s automotive repair shop in the middle of the night.

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The West’s Fatal Mistake: We Are All Serbs Now By Thomas Landen

Today, one day after Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence, the United States and the major European countries rushed to recognize Kosovo’s independence. George Bush hailed Kosovo’s “bold and historic bid for statehood.” Five years ago, Mr Bush invaded Iraq and began “operation Iraqi freedom.” He toppled Saddam Hussein in order to get rid of a rogue regime, one of the members of the “axis of evil.” Five years later, Mr Bush is saddling Europe with a new rogue state.

Surely, Mr Bush knows that al-Qa’eda fighters were involved in driving the Serbs from Kosovo in the late 1990s. The Jerusalem Post reported in 1998 that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was “provided with financial and military support from Islamic countries,” and had been “bolstered by hundreds of Iranian fighters or mujahedin [some of whom] were trained in Osama bin Laden’s terrorist camps in Afghanistan.” There is more proof of involvement of the KLA of the (then and current) Kosovar leader Hashim Thaçi, nicknamed ‘the Snake,’ with al-Qa’eda than there was of the Iraqi Ba’ath regime of the late Saddam Hussein.

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Ben Stein Wins Intelligent Design Award for 'Expelled' By Katherine T. Phan

Ben Stein's work in his new controversial movie “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” has earned him praises and now an award from the intelligent design community.

The multi-talented star of his Comedy Central show “Win Ben Stein’s Money,” who is also known for his lead role in the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” was named the recipient of the 2008 Phillip E. Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth, an award created to honor one of the founding fathers of the intelligent design movement.

Stein will receive the award through Biola University’s masters in science and religion program in a ceremony on March 27, one month before “Expelled” hits theaters.

In his movie, Stein explores the long-standing controversial debate between supporters of Darwinism and proponents of intelligent design. Through interviews with experts and professors from both camps, he discovers an elitist scientific establishment that punishes the scientific proponents of intelligent design because they reject some of the claims of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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Dependency breeds suffering, death By Joseph Farah

There's a bold new political and cultural push on in America to make everyone dependent on government.

You don't need guns to defend yourself and your family, just call 911.

You don't need to prepare for disasters, just call 911.

You don't need to worry about paying for health care yourself, just call 911.

There isn't anything government can't do for you.

That's what we're being told.

We're all going to live in brand new utopian world, according to the swirling rhetoric of Barack Obama and the shrill demands of Hillary Clinton. We'll just tax the rich, then the rest of us will be on Easy Street. All our basic needs will be met. We'll live in a just and fair society.

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Does Balkanization Beckon Anew? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When the Great War comes, said old Bismarck, it will come out of "some damn fool thing in the Balkans."

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot the archduke and heir to the Austrian throne Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, setting in motion the train of events that led to the First World War.

In the spring of 1999, the United States bombed Serbia for 78 days to force its army out of that nation's cradle province of Kosovo. The Serbs were fighting Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). And we had no more right to bomb Belgrade than the Royal Navy would have had to bombard New York in our Civil War.

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Cult of Obama Will Turn Off Independents By Froma Harrop

Despite the hard contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, party leaders keep telling Democratic-leaning voters that they have two good candidates. They are right, but one of them may well be a Republican.

Far from the pumped-up Obama rallies, centrists who voted for John Kerry last time now say they are considering John McCain -- especially if the Democrat is the vaporous Obama. At least that's what many are telling me -- and I'm telling myself.

One friend said he'd vote for the New York senator, and if she's not the candidate, then McCain. When I reminded him that he doesn't like Hillary, he shrugged. Another acquaintance e-mailed, "Hillary is to me extremely unlikable, but I do not regard likability as a qualification."

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Looking At Obama and Black Liberation Theology

By Marie Jon'

Barack Obama belongs to an unabashedly Black African-centered church. Its teachings focus on a "black value" system. It has knowledgeable Americans questioning how Obama's church (Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ) and its pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr. influence the man who wants to be President of the United States.

Why couldn't Obama have chosen to be a Methodist, a Pentecostal or a Lutheran? What drew him to a church that many find questionable?

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In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man By Gary Hubbell

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

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Obama's Global Tax By Lee Cary

Senator Barack Obama's sponsorship of Senate Bill 2433 aligns with the emerging core theme of his general election campaign.  The change he promises will bring much-needed relief, not just to America's victims of economic injustice, but to victims worldwide.

On December 7, 2007, Obama introduced the Senate version of the Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433).  On February 13, the bill cleared the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on which Obama and 6 (Biden, Dodd, Feingold, Hagel, Lugar, Menendez) of the bill's 9 co-sponsors serve. The House version of the bill (H.R.1302) passed by a unanimous voice vote last September 25. 

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The Methodist Child Indoctrination League By Mark Tooley

Among the latest exploits of the United Methodist Women’s Division is a children’s book intended to instill anti-Israel themes among Methodist younsters. Innocuously called, “From Palestine to Seattle; Becoming Neighbors and Friends,” the booklet portrays Israel as an oppressor of Palestinians while omitting all mention of terrorism. It was written by Mary Davis, a former United Methodist missionary in “Palestine,” where she led “study tours,” whose political content no doubt was predictable.

The United Methodist Women’s Division, with over $60 million in assets, $30 million in annual income, and nearly 700,000 members, is one of the most powerful women’s groups in America. Its mostly older members, strung across over 30,000 local churches, earn money for their New York-based headquarters with bake sales, Christmas bazaars, and church suppers. Few among them realize that their donations fund causes of the radical left, including anti-Israel activism.

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HillaryCare for the World By Joseph Klein

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a United Nations body created, in the words of its constitution, to "promote and protect the health of all peoples."

In its early years, WHO accomplished some life-saving goals, such as helping to eradicate smallpox. But like the rest of the United Nations, WHO has since turned into a bloated organization that has no real goal but to perpetuate itself. Today, WHO spends much of the money we contribute as taxpayers to protect its turf rather than to help the people it is supposed to serve. It conducts useless studies, holds meaningless conferences, issues biased reports and proselytizes a philosophy of redistributionist, government–run health systems.

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Georgetown U's Wahhabi Front By Patrick Poole

In December 2005, Georgetown University announced receipt of a $20 million gift to endow the school’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, after whom the Center was renamed. The Center’s director, John Esposito, has been known for his vigorous apologetics for Islamic extremism, authoring several books prior to the endowment’s announcement dismissing the global influence of extremist Islamic ideology. Under Esposito’s oversight, the Center has also developed questionable ties to individuals and organizations directly involved in Islamic terrorism. One example of these ties is the joint conference held by the Center with the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) in July 2000. By that time, UASR had long been identified as the political command for HAMAS in the United States, and Esposito’s co-chair for the conference was then-UASR executive director Ahmed Yousef, who fled the country in 2005 to avoid prosecution and currently serves as the spokesman for the HAMAS terrorist organization in Gaza.

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Economics 101 for Obama & Hillary

By Doug Edelman

As we evaluate the proposals of the Presidential Candidates, one must remember that the Government PRODUCES nothing, EARNS nothing and HAS nothing that it doesn’t  first  APPROPRIATE from the producing public.  Whatever it GIVES to someone, it must TAKE from someone – in THAT sense the government IS a Zero Sum Game!!  The more the government gives to the dependent, the more they must take from the producers.  If you’re a producer – watch your wallet.  If you’re a dependent – GET A JOB!

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Rewriting Medieval history :: Fausta's Blog

This morning Siggy forwarded his post, "What if the Muslim armies hadn't been stopped at the French border?". Siggy refers to Joan Acocella's review in the New Yorker of David Levering Lewis's book God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215.

Siggy points out,

It is true that the Arabs oversaw a great advances in medicine, mathematics, philosophy and science. There is no question they were to have a tremendous influence in the world as we know it, but that is not the story.
The Golden Age of the Arabs did not occur in Arab lands.
There would have been no Golden Age for Islam had Muslims not been in contact with Jews and Christians.This glaring truth still holds true today.

I must clarify that I have not read the book, but one statement in the book review stands out:

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‘Supporting’ the Troops By Thomas Sowell

The Berkeley city council has made national news by telling Marine Corps recruiters that they are unwelcome in that bastion of the academic Left.

It is a shame that Berkeley is not on some island in the South Pacific, because then they could be given their independence and left to defend themselves.

As it is, members of our armed forces who put their lives on the line to defend America are also defending people like too many in Berkeley for whom the very word America, and the American flag, bring only sneers.

Unfortunately, Berkeley is not unique. A professor at Harvard who put an American flag on his car after 9/11 provoked looks of astonishment from his colleagues. They wondered what was wrong with him.

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US Border Attacked :: National Summary

A National Guard team of an unspecified size was forced to retreat from their observation post along the U.S. and Mexican border in Arizona between Nogales and Lukeville. No one was injured when a group of gunmen opened fire on the outpost at 11:00 pm.

Now when I heard about this incident I was enraged. How does something like this happen on our own border?

We are the most powerful nation on earth and our National Guard can’t even fend off a group of gunmen with small arms; what an embarrassment.

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Kosovo Was Then, This Is Now... By Victor Davis Hanson

Quite apart from the undeniable merits of independence, in political terms Kosovo 2008 is not quite Kosovo of 1998. Let us count the post-9/11 ways:

1. The rise of radical Islam, especially in Europe, has made Western publics edgy about Muslim-identified states, especially inside Europe.

2. Russia is no longer a basket case, but rearming, aggressive, overflowing with petro-dollars, and eager to use oil — and more — as a weapon.

3. Milosevic is long dead.

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'Realism' in Syria :: New York Sun Editorial

What in the world are advisers to both Senators Obama and Clinton doing in Syria in the middle of a presidential campaign — and why are the two campaigns so unforthcoming about the details of the visits? The same week that a terrorist mastermind harbored by the Baathist regime in Damascus was assassinated by a car bomb, both one of Mr. Obama's foreign policy counselors, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a long-time critic of Israel, and one of Mrs. Clinton's national finance chairs, Hassan Nemazee, were meeting with President Assad.

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Intelligence 'Expelled' from Evolution Debate by Gary Bauer

Ben Stein -- columnist, humorist, actor, game show host, economist, lawyer, law professor and presidential speechwriter -- has worn many hats during his long and varied career.  For his most recent project, Stein adds another:  investigative documentarian. 

In the forthcoming film "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," Stein investigates the controversy over intelligent design (ID), the theory that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.  "Expelled" follows Stein as he travels the globe speaking with accomplished scientists and educators who acknowledge an intelligent design for life and have been criticized, ostracized, denied tenure and even fired -- expelled! -- for those beliefs.  As Stein says, “scientists are not even allowed to think thoughts that involve an intelligent creator.” 

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Michelle Obama hasn’t been proud of America in at least 26 years? :: HOT AiR

That’s what she said today, if this quote is accurate.

“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”

Only her husband’s run for president has made her proud of America? That’s…extremely narcissistic and self-centered.

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Free Speech For Some, But Not For All By Elizabeth Wright

Is freedom of speech a moot issue at this point in American history? Are those who persist in fighting to uphold the principles of the First Amendment fighting an already lost battle? From several recent polls of American citizens, it would seem that most people are more concerned about avoiding social discord than with preserving individual rights as enshrined in the Constitution.

It appears that the average American accepts the notion that if John's resolute opinions make his neighbor George unhappy--or, in today's politically correct jargon, "uncomfortable"--then John should be restrained from expressing those opinions. The once sacred adage that went something like, "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," today is virtually unknown, and has given way to "Don't make waves."

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Triumph Of Sonia Gandhi By Hilwiah Roche

India, also known as the ‘ Hindustan’, has stood the test of centuries, proving to be a great land which has had the greatest of the rulers. Chronological evidence point out that around 323 B.C., there were powerful Kings and Emperors ‘who had ruled over an India more extensive than British-India, with its boundaries extended beyond the frontiers up to the borders of Persia and had brought together the valleys of the three great rivers Indus , Ganges and Yumna under one political authority.

Thus, from time immemorial there have existed great figures of wisdom, fortitude and chivalry. Their deeds are said to be the ‘salt of India’s History,’ which have laid the foundation for Politics of today.

As centuries rolled by, different generation of Indian rulers and leaders, learnt the best examples from the past and put them into use, to mould an even greater India, free and liberated from the foremost power of the world, the British who had reigned India since the year 1600.

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Obama Finally Releases Details Plans for His Presidency Satire By Jeremy Robb

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Often criticized for being long on rhetoric and short on policy, Barack Hussein Obama finally released a detailed plan outlining his policies if he were elected president.

"No one can say I am shallow and running on a campaign slogan," said Obama.  "I have now outlined specific plans for all of the key areas that a president will need to address as he faces the world."

Obama's detailed plans are as follow:

Healthcare: I will formulate a policy that brings hope and belief to the uninsured.  We're going to make a change that will allow the poor to believe in hope and have hope for a believable future.  This believable hopeful future will be a change from today and from the past and focus on the future.  And it will happen by only taking money from the very wealthiest in our society who should contribute more.  Those making over $75,000 per year.

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Children for Sale on Craigslist By Shelley Seale

I’m sure most of us are familiar with Craigslist, the online Web community where people post job opportunities, items for sale, and find activity partners. Over the past years, Craigslist has grown by leaps and bounds and now has websites representing over 300 U.S. cities. However, despite its millions of users and various social benefits, there’s a dark side of Craigslist that most users don’t see. In the “Erotic” section, human traffickers have found Craigslist to be one of the most efficient, effective, and free ways to post children and women for sale.

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Obama’s Communist Mentor By Cliff Kincaid

In his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama's life as a "secret smoker" and how he "went to great lengths to conceal the habit." But what about Obama's secret political life? It turns out that Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist.

In his books, Obama admits attending "socialist conferences" and coming into contact with Marxist literature. But he ridicules the charge of being a "hard-core academic Marxist," which was made by his colorful and outspoken 2004 U.S. Senate opponent, Republican Alan Keyes.

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S. 2433: Global Poverty Act of 2007 - Obama's Bill Forces US Tax Payers To Pay...Global Poverty :: American Infidel

A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

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Only The Foolish Claim The Troop Surge Hasn't Worked Feb 17, 2008 at 2:14 AM 2 comments Share By ~Snooper~

In recent weeks, we have seen the political front in Iraq make great progress directly related to the success of the Troop Surge. Much to the chagrin of our rezident Doom and Gloom and America Bashers and bottom feeders, the political success of the Benchmarks set by a defunct CONgress, are now sailing full speed ahead.

This post will serve as a massive collection of links and for all you link craving bloggers, have at it. Unlike the Leftinistra libtard bloggers out there, we don't cherry pick. They seem to like to pick and choose vague elements and pretend they know what they are talking about.

The ENTIRE Iraq strategy Review, in pdf format, can be seen, read, saved as a file and printed here. The background briefing can be found here and is an interesting read. The Focus on Iraq can be seen here.

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