Let's Close the Book on Judicial Activism By Nathan Tabor

After a bruising and extended primary fight, the Republican die has been cast; for better or worse, John McCain appears to be our next nominee.  As our thoughts turn to the general election, the alignment of the Supreme Court becomes an issue that hinges on November’s results.

        Thanks to liberal decisions made by the Supreme Court over the past thirty-odd years, the culture wars have enflamed public opinion and divided Americans.  Debates over gay marriage, abortion, and public expressions of religiosity--at best, deeply controversial--were exacerbated and prolonged by the Supreme Court’s forays into policymaking.

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Obama Minister's Hatred of America By Ronald Kessler

In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as president.

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An audio recording of the sermon appears on YouTube.

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California Courts Outlaw Homeschooling One Day, Congress Pushes for Communist Indoctrination The Next By Duane Lester

A California court has ordered a couple to put their children back into California’s public school. The couple had been homeschooling the children:

The sweeping February 29th ruling says that California law requires “persons between the ages of six and eighteen” to be in “public full-time day school,” or a “private full-time day school” or “instructed by a tutor who holds a valid state teaching credential for the grade being taught”.

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Helen Thomas: Not Just Another Pretty Face!

Satire by John Lillpop

Helen Thomas of the Washington Press Corps has a face and voice that only a mother could truly love. Provided said mother happened to be a blind and deaf liberal, that is.
ALL liberals are dumb, so calling out that defect would be redundant.

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Global Warming Doubters Strike Back By William Rusher

Every few years, some group of scientists, egged on by the media, is persuaded to warn mankind of some new danger facing the human race. This triggers the anxiety that always floats just below the conscious level in most people, and serves the purposes of the media by generating several months of gratifying headlines. It also serves the purposes of the scientists, by giving them months of flattering publicity, not to mention the financial rewards that accompany scientific papers on the subject.

The excitement dies down in due course, but there is always some new peril being discovered. Remember the ozone hole? And whatever happened to acid rain?

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Prominent Scientists Debunk Global Warming By: John Bender

The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, which was held at the Marriott Marquise Hotel in New York City, concluded Tuesday. It got very little coverage in the dinosaur press, even though it was a gathering of some of the most prestigious and most learned experts on climatology from around the world.

The conference didn’t attract much attention from the dieing dinosaur media because it didn’t have any of the falderal that attracts the “journalists” and management of faltering old media. Plus, the scientists presented facts and scientific research that debunks the global warming hoax the dinosaur media helped create and is invested in perpetuating.

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The youth vote scandal By Bob Parks

That’s right. I said it.

The “Youth Vote” is a scandal.

Everywhere you look, politicians, pundits, and media types are marveling over the emergence of the young voting block, affectionately known as “The Youth Vote”. Those under twenty-somethings who are voting in the presidential primaries for the first time, the enthusiasm they bring, and the very real possibility that they alone may sway this fall’s general election.

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A Bible study on poverty By Joseph Farah

In a new book, "Red Letter Christians," Tony Campolo makes the case that Christians can fulfill their duty to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the homeless by electing politicians who will make this the collective responsibility of the government and all taxpayers.

For fear that even one Christian in America might be so misled by the noted evangelist and theologian, I decided to do something Campolo failed to do – consult the Bible.

Of course, that's not entirely fair. Campolo does offer a scriptural citation for his prescription for coercive wealth redistribution by government. It just doesn't apply. He cites Matthew 25:31-46, in which Jesus explains the responsibility each of us has individually to be compassionate to our neighbors in need.

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Special report: Tracing the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters By Michelle Malkin

Ideas have consequences. Inaction has consequences. For the past several years, I’ve chronicled the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters–and the apathetic, weak-kneed response to it. In Unhinged, I devoted a sub-section of my chapter “They Don’t Support Our Troops” to the organized campaign of harassment against recruitment offices on college campuses nationwide. The anti-recruiter thugs have thrived thanks to a combination of public indifference, law enforcement fecklessness, and left-wing ideological apologism. As you may recall, I have personal experience with the anti-recruiter propagandists, who lie through their teeth, exploit media sympathy, and harbor nothing but raw hatred for the men and women who protect and defend their rights to bitch and moan.

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The Tragedy of the Democratic Party By Thomas Lifson and Richard Baehr

Super delegates will determine the next nominee of the Democrats, and a happy ending for the Party looks unlikely. Mathematically, the Democratic Party is nearly locked in to Barack Obama entering the convention with a significant delegate lead. Taking the nomination away from him via the super delegate mechanism would alienate the Party's African-American base and potentially turn off a swath of the younger generation enthusiasts for Obama's multi-cultural charisma.

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Freedom Means Responsibility By GEORGE MCGOVERN

Nearly 16 years ago in these very pages, I wrote that "'one-size-fits all' rules for business ignore the reality of the market place." Today I'm watching some broad rules evolve on individual decisions that are even worse.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior. Much paternalist scrutiny has recently centered on personal economics, including calls to regulate subprime mortgages.

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Post-Soviet Nationalism and Russia's Future By Dr. Andreas Umland

The roots of Russia’s currently rising nationalism are threefold: pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet. The idea of Moscow as the “Third Rome,” i.e. of a special Russian mission in world history, goes back several centuries. Russian nationalism had been – contrary to what many in the West believed – an important element of Soviet ideology ever since the 1930s. Like in the early 19th century when Moscow’s so-called Slavophiles applied German nativist thought to Russian conditions, ideas of various Russian nationalist movements today are often imported from the West.

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Senior British diplomat: Contrary to NIE, no reason to believe Iran has suspended nuclear weapons program :: HOT AiR

The British ambassador to the IAEA made this same accusation a week or so ago. Same source, do you think?

The British government said yesterday that Tehran could still be developing a nuclear weapon, and called into question a key American intelligence finding that work on building an Iranian bomb had stopped in 2003.

For the first time, a senior British diplomat cast doubt on the US National Intelligence Estimate published last November which reported “with high confidence” that Tehran’s nuclear weapons programme had been halted in autumn 2003…

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Darwin First Taught: Intelligent Design is Not Creationism By Mike LaSalle

As good vassals to the establishment, the mainstream media has accepted the responsibility to take science and magic and sunder them separate for the benefit of the laity. But as Arthur C. Clark noted many years ago in his Three Laws, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

One man's magic is another man's science.
Religious essayist Rev. Eric Strachan of the New Life Community Church in Ontario, Canada has published a short essay in The Daily Observer called "The Wonders of Intelligent Design."

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Terrorism's Left Turn By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

As for Thursday morning's bomb, there's a lot of speculation about who set it off. Islamic extremists? Groups affiliated with Code Pink, Ruckus, Recreate '68 and other extreme left-wing groups? All possible, but none proven — yet.

That said, the apocalyptic rhetoric and verbal violence of the far left is starting to be translated into acts of terrorism. Soon, someone's going to get hurt badly or even killed if we don't stop it now.

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Wikipedia and Robert Spencer :: Jihad Watch

Jihad Watch reader James asked me this morning if I had seen my Wikipedia bio lately, so I went over there to take a look. Some time ago I called it "ridiculous," but it is worse than that: it is relentlessly biased, and the negative spin is thoroughgoing. Several people have strongly advised me to set the record straight, at least with the bio as it stands now, since people continue to use Wikipedia as a research tool. So here goes.

Robert Bruce Spencer (born 1962) is a Catholic American writer specialized in Islam criticism.

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Hillary's Scheme to Revamp the Traditional Family By Carey Roberts

Hillary Clintons personal life has long made a mockery of traditional family values “ her betrothal to a serial womanizer, the refusal to have a traditional wedding, and her smears of the females who later accused her husband of sexual impropriety.

Letâs recall her acrid put-down of stay-at-home moms: I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do is fulfill my profession. And when Jennifer Flowers claimed she had had a 12-year affair with Bill, Hillary ludicrously remarked, I'm not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.

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Nanny Bloomberg Knows Best By Abe Greenwald

Some years back, the late William F. Buckley, Jr. and his late wife Pat were hosting a get-together in their Manhattan home. At one point, the formidable Mrs. Buckley approached New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, drew deeply from her lit cigarette and blew a copious plume of smoke in his face. “Mr. Mayor, may I smoke in my own house?” she asked.

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Stiglitz the Nobelist Gets Math Wrong on Iraq War By Amity Shlaes

Three trillion dollars is the amount that Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz puts as the cost of the Iraq war. In a new book with Linda Bilmes of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Columbia University economist argues that the Bush administration has underestimated outlays for the war by hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Largest U.S. Underground Welfare State by Gabriel Delgado

What does the largest UNDERGROUND Welfare State in U.S. History have to do with our unsecured border?

Relentlessly, angry American voices are asking, “Why is our government deliberately refusing to secure our borders?”  We now understand. The truth is indeed ugly.  While Congress talks the good talk on border security and immigration enforcement, they are actually in the business of aiding and abetting the invasion by Illegal Aliens and their offspring while pillaging our tax coffers for illegitimate purposes.  We have been and continue to be betrayed by what can only be described as an intentional dereliction of duty and responsibility to the American people.

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Reawake Britain's Patriotism By DANIEL JOHNSON

Prince Harry was a dysfunctional younger son born into a dysfunctional family, with his father's looks and his mother's brains. Until recently, his only achievement was notoriety, as the kid brother who dressed up in a Nazi uniform for a fancy dress party and brawled with paparazzi outside nightclubs.

Then, unexpectedly, he had heroism thrust upon him.

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Global Warming Doubters Strike Back By William Rusher

Every few years, some group of scientists, egged on by the media, is persuaded to warn mankind of some new danger facing the human race. This triggers the anxiety that always floats just below the conscious level in most people, and serves the purposes of the media by generating several months of gratifying headlines. It also serves the purposes of the scientists, by giving them months of flattering publicity, not to mention the financial rewards that accompany scientific papers on the subject.

The excitement dies down in due course, but there is always some new peril being discovered. Remember the ozone hole? And whatever happened to acid rain?

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Meet Sada Cumber by Stephen Schwartz

ON MONDAY, MARCH 3, the first U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which brings together 57 Muslim countries, took up his duties. Named by President George W. Bush, America's new diplomat to Muslims is Pakistan-born Sada Cumber of Austin, Texas. Cumber is the co-founder of an investment and wealth consultancy, CACH Capital Management, and some 10 other enterprises. Cumber's official job at the OIC is "to promote mutual understanding and dialogue between the United States and Muslim communities around the world."

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In Colombia, Reyes' Death Seen as Turning Point in War Against FARC By Anastasia Moloney

The death of FARC commander Raúl Reyes is being seen here as a significant turning point in Colombia's internal armed conflict with Latin America's oldest insurgency, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
While the killing of Reyes on Ecuadorian soil has sparked a diplomatic crisis between Colombia and its neighbors, it is the impact of his death on the country's conflict that will be noted in the annals of Colombian history.

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An Open Letter to America's Students--Will "Atlas Shrugged" Change your Life Forever? by C. Bradley Thompson

This letter is addressed to all young people who've read or are about to read Ayn Rand's epic novel, "Atlas Shrugged."

I've taught "Atlas Shrugged" for fifteen years during which time I've witnessed many remarkable things.  For example, some 95% of my students report that "Atlas Shrugged" is the best book they've ever read.  No book that I've taught comes remotely close to fostering a more robust exchange of ideas in the classroom.  My students typically come to class after pulling an all-nighter debating "Atlas" with their friends, and then they pepper me with dozens of questions.  Whether one agrees or disagrees with Ayn Rand's ideas, few could deny that this is what the college experience is supposed to be like.

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Congress to Chertie: We need more incompetents of color! By Michelle Malkin

It’s a match-up of morons vs. moron. Grievance-mongering minorities in Congress lambasted DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff today for not hiring more womyn and People of Color. The incompetents and cronies in upper management at the beleaguered DHS aren’t diverse enough, they thundered.

Comedy gold. Where are the black, brown, red, and yellow faces? Where are the gyno-bureaucrats? And why don’t we have more undocumented DHS employees?!?! (Okay, kidding about that last one. But really, it won’t be long.)

The Washington Times has the report (hat tip - reader Anton):

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Climate Propaganda Works: 'Global Warming Equals More Snowfall' By Noel Sheppard

One of the biggest concerns of media analysts and press watchers is the brainwashing effect bad reporting has on the public.

No finer example of this propagandist power exists than with the liberal bogeyman known as global warming, for the constant climate alarmism being spewed 24 yours a day, seven days a week has tremendously and demonstrably impacted the views of the citizenry.

Of course, that's the goal.

Consider the following e-mail message I received this morning from someone that appears to work for the government of Ontario, Canada (name and e-mail address withheld, emphasis added):

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Media silent on Obama's controversial interpretation of scripture Jim Brown and Chad Groening

Conservative media watchdog Bob Knight says the national media virtually ignored Democratic presidential frontrunner Senator Barack Obama's recent use of the Sermon on the Mount to justify homosexual civil unions. 

Senator Obama (D-Illinois) boldly declared in a campaign speech recently that states should legalize "same-sex unions" for homosexuals.  "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount," says Obama. "Which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans."

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U.S. & Europe Give Sudetenland to Hitler; Blogosphere Shrugs, Applauds By Julia Gorin

The Kosovo surrender is Munich in more ways than one. 

Mary Mostert has an article explaining how the Kosovo surrender, Bush’s Munich, will lead to war. In addition, I had meant to post this short item that was published just two weeks before Kosovo’s declared independence, but since that time I stumbled upon a 1992 article that compounds its point. First, the article from last month, quoting Czech human rights activist and diplomat Jiri Dienstbier who famously asked, “If NATO and the UN can’t defeat terrorism in an area the size of one-eighth of the Czech Republic, how do they expect to confront global terrorism?”

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The Republican Justices dissented from the Dred Scott decision :: Grand Old Partisan

In his inauguration address, Democrat President James Buchanan hinted that he had been tipped off that the Supreme Court would soon render a decision he believed would settle the question of slavery in the territories.  Two days later, on this day in 1857, the Supreme Court did indeed announce its infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision.

The slave, Dred Scott, having travelled in northern states, where he was free, was suing for his freedom after returning to Missouri.  The Justices had been wrestling with how a person could be a slave, then free, then a slave again depending where he was.

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Was explosion at Times Square recruiting station a call to action by CodePink? By Judi McLeod

Was the early morning explosion that rocked the military recruiting station at New York’s Times Square a call to action by CodePink?

“CodePink, an anti-war group that gave more than $600,000 to terrorists’ families in Iraq, is calling for anti-military agitators to escalate attacks on U.S. Government offices where the military work with potential recruits on their futures. 

The group outlines ways for followers to terrorize recruiters, shut down recruiting stations and stop people from exercising the Constitutional rights to pursue their life’s goals.” ( www.moveamericaforward.org).

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Ben Stein smart-bombs Darwinian bunker By Jack Cashill

A rousing SRO preview on Tuesday of the new Ben Stein documentary, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," brought a Kansas City audience to its feet.

And with good cause. Stein's often funny, always engaging frontal assault on the oppressive neo-Darwinist establishment is arguably the smartest and most sophisticated documentary ever produced on the right side of the cultural divide on any subject, ever.

As such, "Expelled" represents still another blow to the progressive orthodoxy of government-issued science in its winter of discontent.

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Nails In America's Coffin by John R. Marshall

The toughest part of this writing exercise was selecting an informative and entertaining title. The choices were: Nails In America’s Coffin, Too Stupid to Survive, Baby Boomers A Generation of Addicts, and Same History Different Names.           

           Starting with the basics, societies do not survive with economies based on the following:

1. consumer credit debt, unlike governments citizens cannot print extra currency;
2. public subsidy addicts, there will never be enough tax subsidies for those living on other people’s money;

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The Death Cry of Gloria Steinem by Michelle Malkin

Behold with me the politics of gynocentrism. What a depressing and desiccative sight it is. Just look at Gloria Steinem.

From once-ripe feminist icon to idea-barren harridan, she offers nothing to young women but anachronistic man-hate, anti-military bigotry and woe-is-me wallowing.

Hope and change? Try harp and whinge. Some things get better with age. The women's rights movement isn't one of them.

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Eurabia--is America next? By Wes Vernon

Dr. Bernard Lewis — a British-American who is one of the most widely read authorities on the Middle East — says, "Current trends show that Europe will have a Muslim majority by the end of the 21st Century at the latest.... Europe will be part of the Arab West — the Maghreb."

George Weigel, a distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), invites us to envision a Europe in which the muezzin summons the faithful to prayer from the central loggia of St. Peters in Rome, while Notre Dame has been transformed into Hagia Sophia in the Seine — "a great Christian church become an Islamic museum."

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Virginia Cuts All Government Funding to Planned Parenthood By Michael Baggot

The Virginia Senate decided to end taxpayer funding to abortion provider Planned Parenthood on Wednesday.  Lt. Governor Bill Bolling cast the tie-breaking vote and approved the amendment to the state budget following the 20-20 tie vote among senators. 
Attorney general hopeful Sen. Ken Cuccinelli II introduced the amendment.  He explicitly attacked Planned Parenthood's abortion programs.  "What we are doing is financing an abortion-mill operator," Cuccinelli said. "This will deny them that money."

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What are Red Letter Christians? By Joseph Farah

There's a movement afoot to seduce evangelical Christians into anti-biblical, socialist, tyrannical politics – the kind currently energizing Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

I know this because I just read a new book by the self-proclaimed "godfather" of the movement – Tony Campolo. Yeah, you remember him as Bill Clinton's spiritual guru.

The book is a manifesto of sorts called "Red Letter Christians." Red Letter Christians are those, we learn in Campolo's book, who heed the words spoken by Jesus and recorded in the New Testament – sometimes in red letters.

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Taking Aim at Chicken Little By Shawn Macomber

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals," the playwright Henrik Ibsen once remarked. "Let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

After years of being labeled everything from devotees of a neo-Flat Earth Society to the equivalent of Holocaust deniers by an opposition that refuses to seriously engage them -- i.e. declaring unsettled science settled, refusing to publicly debate spurious claims made in one's Academy Award winning documentaries, repeatedly using scorn as a crutch to steady lack of reason -- the global warming skeptics gathered at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change held at the Times Square Marriott certainly appeared fully on board with Ibsen's proposition.

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The Enlightenment by Sujit Das

Les Misérables is my all time favorite novel. This ‘great literature of all time’, written by Victor Hugo, is an excellent work which fathoms the author’s humanity and vision. The emotional intensity of this dramatic story revolves around an ex-convict ‘Jean Valjean’ as a central character. His life and dignity were restored by a Bishop’s trust and kindness, which drastically converted him from a miserable and hated criminal into a heroic, peaceful, loving and responsible human being. Bishop said “Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!” Later on Valjean  faced many obstacles that were like an acid test for him and made him choose between right and wrong. He always chose the right path. This is enlightenment.

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The arrogance of impotence, Obama style :: Powerline

Barack Obama likes to complain about American "arrogance" during the Bush years. In fact, our alleged arrogance is his pretext for wanting to negotiate directly and without pre-condition with some of the world's worst and most virulently anti-American dictators, a move that even Hillary Clinton opposes.

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Who Will Be Next Excuse For Socialism? By WALTER E. WILLIAMS

I recently wrote about Mississippi Legislature House Bill 282 that would have imposed fines or revoked licenses of food establishments that served obese people. Fortunately, the measure died in committee.

State Rep. Ted Mayhall, one of the bill's sponsors, justified it by saying that he wanted to bring attention to the fact that "obesity makes people more susceptible to diabetes, which puts a further strain on the state's financially challenged Medicaid program."

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Smoking Out The Warm-Mongers By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The founder of the Weather Channel wants to sue those who sell carbon offsets as scam artists who participate in the "the fraud that is global warming." Indeed, on global warming the jury is still out.

When he was the weatherman at WLS-TV in Chicago, John Coleman was a member of a broadcast team that pioneered a news format that was dubbed "happy talk" by a local TV columnist. It's a format that's been widely copied. He went on to be the first weatherman for ABC's "Good Morning America."

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Let's get it done, people by Cassy Fiano

It looks like Republicans in the Senate are finally getting it. Jim DeMint, who was a hero in fighting the shamnesty movement last year, has introduced legislation to finally get the damn fence finished.

Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) introduced the "Complete the Fence Act" that will require the completion of 700 miles of reinforced pedestrian fencing along the nation's southern border by December 31, 2010. The bill also requires the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress by June 2009 on fence construction progress and how it plans to complete the full fence by the 2010 deadline.

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The Return of National Greatness Conservatism By Gregory Scoblete

There's an old military aphorism that reminds us that "no military plan survives contact with the enemy." It can equally be said that no intellectual fad survives contact with reality. Such appeared to be the verdict rendered on one of the late 1990s silliest intellectual fads, "national greatness conservatism" as it collided with the ugly realities of policing Iraq.

Yet John McCain's ascendancy in the Republican primaries signals the idea's rebirth. Indeed, appreciating "national greatness," its impact on America's foreign policy, and McCain's affinity for it may help shed some light on what his prospective presidency could offer.

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To Be Conservative In America By JB Williams

America’s conservative party, the Grand Ole Republican Party, is so fractured down ideological lines that it has not been able to advance a real conservative candidate in a quarter century, since Reagan won re-election twenty four years ago in 1984.

In the 2008 primaries, conservative voters were so divided between numerous candidates that they were unable to coalesce around a single conservative. By Super Tuesday, before most conservatives had any say in their party nomination, the most liberal Republican candidate had emerged as the party nominee, even though more than 65 percent of Republicans voted against him. The 65 percent agreed only on opposing John McCain, but not on whom else to run in his place.

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Reaction to "Barack Obama's Alleged Christianity" By Michael J. Gaynor

Reaction to my recent article disputing Barack Obama's claim that his views of abortion and infanticide don't make him "less Christian" ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous (and racist).

The pro-life Catholic mother of a deservedly famous son used a four-letter word after reading my article: "AMEN".

A New York father and grandfather shared these thoughts:

"I am an observant Jew and want to thank you for speaking up about this issue concerning a potential presidential candidate. How any knowing human being could condone and/or advocate the killing of unborn children is a horrible reflection on the state of American society today. I am a parent and have seen the sonograms of all my unborn children and it is beyond any reasonable doubt that they are human beings and should be protected as all children should be, regardless of whether they reside in or outside the mother."

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Boys: Casualties of the Gender War By Robert A. Fink, MD

Recently, educational researchers have begun to review the changes within our educational system brought about by such diverse factors as standardized testing in the schools, the rise of gender feminism, and the currently widespread use of drugs to treat alleged behavioral disorders in our schoolchildren.

Male children are showing deterioration in achievement, lowered acceptance into colleges, increasing diagnosis of various “hyperactivity” or “attention deficit” disorders (with concomitant medication of such alleged “disorders”); and decreasing attendance at school. Furthermore, reports indicate boys between the ages of 5 and 14 are 200% more likely to commit suicide than are girls, and that, within that age range, boys are 36% more likely to die (of all causes) than their female counterparts.

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Post-Soviet Nationalism and Russia's Future By Dr. Andreas Umland

The roots of Russia’s currently rising nationalism are threefold: pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet. The idea of Moscow as the “Third Rome,” i.e. of a special Russian mission in world history, goes back several centuries. Russian nationalism had been – contrary to what many in the West believed – an important element of Soviet ideology ever since the 1930s. Like in the early 19th century when Moscow’s so-called Slavophiles applied German nativist thought to Russian conditions, ideas of various Russian nationalist movements today are often imported from the West.

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They Will Get Fooled Again By Robert Meyer

The late Christian philosopher and apologist Francis Schaeffer was once asked by a colleague which cultural trend he feared most looking toward the future.  Without hesitation, Schaeffer replied "statism."
        Our presidential campaign thus far has shown us that Schaeffer's concerns from yesteryear were anything but indulgence in paranoia.

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Africa: A Tragic Continent by Walter Williams

President Bush's trip to Africa and promise of increased foreign aid will do little or nothing to solve the ongoing tragedy in most places on the south-of-Sahara African continent. Kenya is on the brink of a civil war. Over 1,000 people have been killed and another 300,000 made homeless. Rebels have invaded Chad. In the Darfur region of the Sudan, millions of people have been displaced in a genocidal war. Ethiopia and Eritrea threaten war again. Somalian warlords are in a pitched battle.

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Dvorkin Agonistes :: CAMERA

CAMERA apparently got under the skin of former NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin — really under the skin. Years after an intensive CAMERA campaign seeking to redress pervasive bias against Israel at the influential radio network, Dvorkin is still railing against CAMERA. In a rather comic and incoherent account in a Salon.com story he rambles on (erroneously) about NPR’s coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict, CAMERA, the Patriot Act and the decline of the ombudsman’s role in journalism.

Kevin Williamson at NRO provides an excellent take-down of the piece, referring to Dvorkin’s “journalistic jackassery” in once more pointing fingers at all and sundry but never NPR or himself.

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A Chill Wind from the North By Dave Nalle

Despite their love of liberalism and widespread opposition to the Iraq War, our friends to the north have been none too pleased with the Democrats and some of the ideas they've put forward in the primary campaign. The Great White North has turned into a source of constant bad news for both Clinton and Obama.

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Banks Stick Foreigner-Scammed Consumers

by Erik Rush

In December of 2007, someone close to me was contacted by a company that had come across their resume on one of the large Internet job sites. They were contracted for a short-term project that ended in mid-January 2008. Toward the end of January, they were alerted by their bank (a very large commercial bank) to the fact that the cashier’s checks they had received from this company in payment had been counterfeit, and that they were personally responsible for the cumulative balance of the transactions, or some $10,000, plus fees.

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Overpopulation Has Its Costs... By Brenda Walker

This just in from the climate debate: a group of atmospheric scientists and actuaries have found that the increasing billions of dollars in costs for hurricane damage do not come from worsening storms—but from the millions of additional people now living in affected areas.

For example, if the 1926 Greater Miami hurricane were to strike today, it would ring up losses costing $140-$157 billion, dwarfing Katrina's $81 billion.

Research showing the cost of hurricane damage has been doubling every 10-15 years was presented in the paper Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005 [Natural Hazards Review, February 8, 2008].

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European Leaders Agree to Create Eurabia By Fjordman

Bat Ye’or in her book about Eurabia documented how European leaders have for years been quietly planning to merge Europe with the Islamic world. This has been denounced as a “conspiracy theory.” Only a few months ago the British Foreign Minister David Miliband said openly that the European Union should expand to include the Muslim Middle East and North Africa. Now French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are saying virtually the same thing. The greatest betrayal in European history is fact, not fiction. And to think that many people supported Sarkozy because he should “halt” Islamization. Now he is speeding it up:

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Next on school agenda: Teaching communism By Bob Unruh

A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional values advocacy organization.

"Just when we thought the indoctrination in California's public schools couldn't get any worse, state lawmakers introduce bills that will further brainwash innocent children," said a statement from Capitol Resource Institute, a traditional values and family advocacy organization based in California.

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Obama and Carter and Israel By Roman Brackman

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report and a supporter of Israel, in his January 30, 2008 MSNBC interview stated that he did not yet know who among the three leading presidential candidates, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, is best for Israel. It is common for candidates to proclaim their strong support for Israel. Obama is no exception. On February 25, 2008, in a closed-door meeting with several members of Cleveland‘s Jewish community, Obama said:

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Border Insecurity By Tony Blankley

In 2006, Congress passed a law to spend more than $7 billion to build a fence to secure our Mexican border. Less than two weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced at a news conference that a high-tech "virtual fence" project along part of the U.S. border with Mexico finally was ready for service as a substitute for an actual physical fence -- you know, concrete, barbed wire, watchtowers, moats.

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Gloria Steinem's Last Stand By Kathleen Parker

Change agents running for president probably would do well to leave the ghosts of crises past stashed in the attic.

Instead, Hillary Clinton's latest stumper, Gloria Steinem, is a vision from a time that is, as Barack Obama's youthful contingent would say, "so yesterday."

Appearing in Austin before the Texas primary, Steinem's words on Clinton's behalf merely served to remind young voters why they prefer Obama.

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It's Getting Cold But Some Say It's Still Too Warm By J.R. Dieckmann

While politicians on the left are telling us that global warming is threatening to destroy our planet and we need to take affirmative action to stop it by making major changes to industry standards and our life style, scientific institutions are telling us that the warming cycle is over and the planet is beginning to cool. Not just gradual cooling but rapid cooling that just over the past year, has cancelled out the warming cycle of the past 100 years.

In an article on DailyTech.com, Michael Asher tells us:

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

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Israeli Appeals Court: You Can Denounce the Radical Left By P. David Hornik

It was a big loss for Israel’s radical Left, and a big win for the freedom to criticize it and describe it accurately.

An appeals court in the Israeli town of Nazareth overturned an earlier lower-court ruling that had awarded a legal victory to Neve Gordon, a far-Left Israeli lecturer in political scientist at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. Gordon had filed a SLAPP suit in that court against Prof. Steven Plaut, a prominent columnist and academic economist, based on articles Plaut had published denouncing Gordon’s political opinions and public political activities. Plaut is a critic of Israel’s radical academic Left and is associated with websites that monitor it, including www.isracampus.org.il.

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We Have a Winner By Ben Johnson

IF “SUPER TUESDAY II” DID NOT DECIDE BOTH PARTIES’ NOMINEES, at least it highlighted the most salient difference between the three contenders in the 2008 race: John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama were all surrounded by Communists during their formative years, and only John McCain fought back.

Although the media will continue to analyze the minutiae of votes and exit polls today, those results were either perfunctory (a much-needed stage hook for Mike Huckabee) or inconclusive (a Hillary-Obama dead-heat in the delegate count). However, the tenor of the campaign – and last night’s three acceptance speeches – forecast the kind of general campaign we may expect. And those concerned with national security and a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq have reason for (dare I repeat the word?) hope.

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Yechhhh! By Lee Duigon

As reported by Snorri Sturluson in "The Heimskringla," King Harald I of Norway fell in love with a witch: actually, he was bewitched by her.  When she died unexpectedly, he remained under her spell and left her body lying on their bed for three years.  Why not?  She hadn’t decayed at all, but still looked young and fresh and beautiful.

The king’s worried advisors finally got him to let them change the dead woman’s bedding.  But when they moved the body, three years’ worth of corruption suddenly set in.  Before they could burn the putrid mass, “all kinds of worms and adders, frogs and toads and vipers crawled out of it.”

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Serbs Struggle to Understand Western Support for Kosovo Independence By Ljiljana Smajlovic

As editor-in-chief of Serbia's oldest and most prestigious daily newspaper, Politika, I am at a loss to explain the West's stubborn support for Kosovo independence to my readers. Only nine years ago, my country was bombed for 78 days by the most powerful military alliance the world has ever seen, and the last thing I want is to pour oil over the fire of anti-Western sentiment. But the truth is, I find myself grappling with the same bitterness and resentment as most of my countrymen.

I was very much part of the democratic upheaveal that rid Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, and all Serbia has done since was to mend its ways.

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An exercise in discrimination at Harvard By Michael Graham

What can a 19-year-old guy in jogging shorts do at Harvard that a rich Saudi sheik who sponsors terrorism can’t?

Get banned from the building.

Six times a week, Harvard kicks all the guys out of the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center at the request of the Harvard Islamic Society. This is to accommodate those female Muslim students whose faith won’t let them work out in front of men.

In the old days, Harvard would have laughed if some Catholic or evangelical mother urged “girls-only” campus workouts in the name of modesty. Today, Harvard happily implements Sharia swim times in the name of Mohammed.

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Gloria Steinem and Oprah Winfrey can both go "bye-bye" by Cassy Fiano

Everyone's already heard Gloria Steinem's pigheaded remarks about John McCain:

"Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], 'What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?'" Steinem said, to laughter from the audience.

McCain was, in fact, a prisoner of war for around five-and-a-half years, during which time he was tortured repeatedly. Referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said with bewilderment, "I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don't think so."...

"I am so grateful that she [Clinton] hasn't been trained to kill anybody. And she probably didn't even play war games as a kid. It's a great relief from Bush in his jump suit and from Kerry saluting."

Disgusting, eh?

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The Offense of Piety By R.R. Reno

The intemperate, even violent tone in recent criticisms of faith is quite striking. Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens: They seem an agitated crew, quick to caricature, quick to denounce, quick to slash away at what they take to be the delusions and conceits of faith. And the phenomenon is not strictly literary. All of us know a friend or acquaintance who has surprised us in a dark moment of anger, making cutting comments about the life of faith. There is no way around it. There is something about faith that agitates unbelief.

The great poet Lord Byron knew the complicated power that faith has over unbelief. He built his play Cain, a dramatization of the Cain and Abel story, around the effect of piety on doubt; and, in his version of the original murder and first death, Byron gives us insight into the present crop of crusading unbelievers.

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Obama’s Treacherous Idiocy

WTOL  11, a CBS  affiliate in Toledo, reports  an interview with Senator Obama on their web site.

Obama has pledged to give a speech in a “major Islamic forum” to “redefine our struggle” against fundamentalism within his first 100 days in office. Aides have said the speech would take place in an unspecified Muslim-majority country. Asked what form the redefinition would take, Obama differed little from standard Bush rhetoric on the subject, saying he would “make it clear that the United States is not at war with Islam . . . [and] stands ready to support those who reject violence with closer security cooperation . . . [and] increased foreign assistance.”

What is Islam if not ‘fundamentalism‘ ?  When Islam renovates itself every  hundred years, what will it turn to if not the documents which constitute its foundation?

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UN deepens the Iran nuclear crisis By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

On Monday, the United Nations Security Council adopted a third round of sanctions on Iran [1] that will likely escalate the nuclear crisis, given Tehran's stated promise to resist "unlawful" pressures and demands. This may well mean resisting a key aspect of the UN resolution that calls for the interdiction of ships and airplanes carrying suspected nuclear cargo to and from Iran.

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I TOLD YOU SO By Phil Brennan

It may be a bit early to say I told you so, but recent events including one of the coldest winters in memory and reams of new data concerning global cooling, make what I wrote on December 26, 2007 worth a new look.
In that column, an open letter to Al Gore, I wrote: "In my 1997 11-part series published on Wednesday on the Web (http://pvbr.Com — check it out) I laid out the case for a new ice age aborning.

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Bipartisan Crimes Against the Constitution By Cliff Kincaid

The liberals have come up with a clever way of ratifying dangerous treaties, which now require a two-thirds vote (67) to pass in the Senate. They will introduce them as legislation, requiring only a majority vote to pass. The model for this new approach is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which President Bush mistakenly refers to as a treaty.

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Ideological Violence Against Muslims by Baron Bodissey

We are hoist on our own petard.
The Arabs know it. They know we’re running away as fast as we can, with our buttocks full of multicultural shrapnel.
Muslim leaders are fully aware of the rules of Western discourse. They can talk the talk as well as the most progressive Swarthmore alumna, and they know how to turn every phrase into yet another little grenade detonating under our infidel tushes.

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The Sordidness of Liberal-Progressivism By Thomas Brewton

Reading Anthony Daniels’s At the Forest’s Edge in the New Criterion website, one is reminded of the superficiality of the liberal-progressive philosophical foundation.

Mr. Daniels ruminates about the analyses of modernity expressed by Sigmund Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents and by Jose Ortega y Gasset in The Revolt of the Masses. Both works were published in 1930, when liberal-progressivism was becoming ascendant in the United States.

Both are products of the materialistic philosophy of the 19th century that repudiated God and spiritual religion, proclaiming that only the tangible and material elements of everyday life here on earth had any real influence upon human conduct and the course of history.

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Global Warming Censored By Julia A. Seymour and Dan Gainor

Global warming crusader Al Gore repeatedly claims the climate change “debate’s over.” It isn’t, but the news media clearly agree with him. Global warming skeptics rarely get any say on the networks, and when their opinions are mentioned it is often with barbs like “cynics” or “deniers” thrown in to undermine them.

Consistently viewers are being sent only one message from ABC, CBS and NBC: global warming is an environmental catastrophe and it’s mankind’s fault. Skepticism is all but shut out of reports through several tactics – omission, name-calling, the hype of frightening images like polar bears scavenging for food near towns and a barrage of terrifying predictions.

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Hillary is Right About Obama By James Lewis

Hillary Clinton is wrong on most issues, but she is right about Barack Obama. Obama is an empty dashiki; he has no experience in any job remotely resembling the presidency of the United States. Two terms in the Illinois legislature just won't do; and a few years in the US Senate, running for President, is no experience at all.

When he departs from that magnificent speech on Hope, he tends to fumble the ball. Ideologically Senator Obama is boringly predictable. He seems smart enough to develop his thinking, but he just hasn't spent the necesssary years doing it. As a result, Senator Obama is superficial on foreign and domestic policy.

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The World Has Plenty of Oil By NANSEN G. SALERI

Many energy analysts view the ongoing waltz of crude prices with the mystical $100 mark -- notwithstanding the dollar's anemia -- as another sign of the beginning of the end for the oil era. "[A]t the furthest out, it will be a crisis in 2008 to 2012," declares Matthew Simmons, the most vocal voice among the "neo-peak-oil" club. Tempering this pessimism only slightly is the viewpoint gaining ground among many industry leaders, who argue that daily production by 2030 of 100 million barrels will be difficult.

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ABC News Produces CAIR Propaganda By Lance Fairchok

“The Sept. 11 attacks, the Iraq war and suicide bombings worldwide have changed not only the way we live but the way we look at those around us, especially Muslims. "Islamophobia" has entered the American vernacular, and the anti-Muslim attitudes and prejudice it describes remain common.” – ABC News, Ann Sorkowitz & Julie N. Hays

In an appalling piece of news staging and misrepresentation, ABC has produced a Primetime segment right out of the ideological playbook of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). In the segment entitled – “Witness to Discrimination: What Would You Do?” – with the byline “Bystanders Turn Away When Muslim Actor Hired By 'Primetime' Encounters Hostility” – ABC blatantly manipulates public perceptions with falsehood.

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Is Obama Lying About NAFTAGate? By Byron York

For the last several months, the tone of the Democratic presidential debate on the issue of trade has worried government officials in Canada and Mexico. Would a President Barack Obama or a President Hillary Clinton actually pull the U.S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement? It’s a nightmare scenario in Ottawa and Mexico City — not to mention Washington — and Canadian and Mexican officials have tried as best they can to gauge just how sincere the criticisms of NAFTA coming from Obama and Clinton really are.

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The Doers, Not the Talkers: The Real Change Movement Surges Ahead of Campaign '08 by Newt Gingrich

While others are only promising change, there is a key group of Americans who are acting -- now -- to deliver on the hunger for real change being expressed by the American people in campaign '08.

After all, there's no reason to wait to have a government for the people instead of a government for the special interests.

There's no reason we have to have an election before we can do what's necessary to protect our American civilization.

And there's no reason we need an election to know that America stands on the precipice of tremendous opportunity -- if we have the courage and foresight to take advantage of it.

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Obama for Che Guevara? By Humberto Fontova

Those Che Guevara posters recently spotted in Obama's Houston campaign offices were not hung by a young volunteer who dug the cool looking dude's awesome guitar licks for the Smashing Pumpkins, nor by an older one who thought she remembered the groovy guy with the beret "hangin" with Wavy Gravy at Woodstock.

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Why Most Voters Shouldn't Vote By Selwyn Duke

Often the most fanciful ideas become the least questioned assumptions.  In this election season a few have made themselves apparent, such as the notion that "change" is good by definition and "experience" is definitely good.  Yet an even better example is the oft-repeated platitude that greater voter participation yields a healthier republic.

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I can't wait to be 'Expelled' By Joseph Farah

There's a movie coming out in April, but I can't wait to tell you about it.

It's called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

Imagine what Michael Moore might produce if we forcibly administered sodium pentothal. That would be "Expelled."

It's a documentary in which my old friend and colleague Ben Stein takes on the role of Michael Moore, aided in his point of view by the truth serum, trying to get to the bottom of our origins, about whether there is any hint of design in our universe and our world.

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In the US they’re still lynching Blacks By Klaus Rohrich

Today Conrad Black surrendered to authorities at the Coleman-Low Federal Penitentiary near Orlando, Florida to begin serving a six-year sentence for three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.  Black’s prison sentence amounts to a lynching, pure and simple, as forces beyond even his control conspired to deprive Black of his wealth as well as his liberty.

For the forces wishing to bring down Conrad Black it was the perfect storm as a politically ambitious prosecutor colluded with unscrupulous minority shareholders of Hollinger International to use the testimony of an admitted perjurer to convict a highly principled and innocent man.

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Health Care Is Not A Right by Leonard Peikoff

In today's proposals for sweeping changes in the field of medicine, the term "socialized medicine" is never used. Instead we hear demands for "universal," "mandatory," "single-payer," and/or "comprehensive" systems. These demands aim to force one healthcare plan (sometimes with options) onto all Americans; it is a plan under which all medical services are paid for, and thus controlled, by government agencies. Sometimes, proponents call this "nationalized financing" or "nationalized health insurance." In a more honest day, it was called socialized medicine. -- Lin Zinser

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The Fifty Worst Supreme Court Decisions By Henry Mark Holzer

Several years ago I intended to write a book entitled ''The Fifty Worst Supreme Court Decisions,'' and to that end I did considerable research and some drafting.  For a variety of reasons, including the press of time and other commitments, I postponed the writing.  Now, I've decided to go forward with the project, but in very a different way.

Instead of using conventional publishing methods as I've done with other of my books, I'm going to "publish" ''The Fifty Worst Supreme Court Decisions'' on my website, at www.henrymarkholzer.com.

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Big Worry For The West Is Not Iraq, But Surrender And Self-Destruction By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Gen. David Petraeus — a sort of combination of Fabius Maximus ("unus homo . . .") and Matthew Ridgway — has changed the entire Iraq War, and thereby given us a breathing spell to reflect on our longer-term strategies of victory.

Most of the conventional pessimism about Iraq is being proven wrong. For example, the recently translated captured diary of the dead al-Qaida terrorist — Abu Maysara, a senior adviser to Abu Ayyoub al-Masri — reveals a sort of hopelessness. The dead Maysara laments that al-Qaida has lost the hearts and minds of the people to the U.S. and its Iraqi allies, while suffering terrible battlefield losses.

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The Audacity of Silence About Tony Rezko By Tim Graham

Jury selection began today in Chicago in the trial of Syrian-born businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a major supporter of Barack Obama. Two days before the 2006 elections in which Democrats won by running against a “culture of corruption,” Chicago newspapers revealed that Obama purchased a home that summer for $1.6 million, but only because Rezko’s wife bought an adjoining parcel for $625,000 to complete the deal. Rezko was already under federal investigation for kickback schemes.

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NO PRICE TO HIGH FOR THE PROMISCUOUS LIFESTYLE :: Real Clear Religion

The silence from the left is deafening regarding the dangers posed the new vaccine Gardasil which is meant to stop the spread of the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). This vaccine is manufactured by Merck and has been mandated by many states in order for girls as young as 11 to enter the public school system.
According to an article in FT.com:

"Since Gardasil’s approval last year, there have been reports which have cited 11 deaths and adverse events which range from Guillan-Barre syndrome, Bells Palsy, seizures and fainting. The vaccine has also been linked to blood clotting and heart problems.

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Palestinian self-destruction :: National Post

On Friday, a 13-month-old Palestinian girl was killed by shrapnel in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Hamas blamed Israel for the death. But according to locals, the deadly explosion occurred when a Palestinian rocket aimed at Israel went off course and blew up the victim's house. By the time the weekend was over, dozens more Palestinians would be killed -- as well as two Israeli soldiers -- as Israel waged an air and ground campaign against Palestinian rocket crews and their Hamas enablers.

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More Americans turning to Web for news :: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.

While most people think journalism is important to the quality of life, 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their communities, a We Media/Zogby Interactive online poll showed.

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Save Us, Al Gore! by Jay Tea

Over the weekend, we got yet more snow here in New Hampshire. It's been a record winter, with more "snowfall events" than ever before. we've had an astonishing number of roofs collapse under the weight of snow, we're expecting record floods from the spring runoff, I've had to shove at least eight feet of snow off Mongo's roof this winter (thank heavens, not all at once), and I find myself thinking about global warming with a wistful attitude.

This is the point when the global warming alarmists argue (unconvincingly, at least to me) that "global warming" is an overly simplified term. The proper term should be "climate change" and extremes of weather are yet another symptom of the problem.

To this, I say "bushwah."

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Arab Ideological Doctrine Syndrome: A Crippling Plague By Barry Rubin

One of the things least understood by people in the West is the framework--or should I say straitjacket?--of the dominant ideology in the Arabic-speaking world in shaping thought, speech, and political alternatives. This shows up in the smallest of exchanges. But atoms, too, are very tiny yet make up all the wide variety of things in the world.

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We Need To Take A Closer Look At Liberal Barack Hussein Obama By Marie Jon'

Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has given Senator Barack Hussein Obama a dishonorable mention. Obama was placed on their ten most wanted list in 2007.

Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with a political fundraiser by the name of Tony Rezko. «There is so much more to learn about Obama in the coming months.» — Judicial Watch.

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Ruining Our Youth, Our Future By Alan Caruba

Those of us who grew up in the 1940s and 50s almost universally look back on those days with great fondness. Born into an era that saw the end of the Depression and living as children through World War II, we were nonetheless somehow shielded from it by parents who took care to ensure that these calamities in the world did not take from us the sheer joy of being young. 

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Why Barack Hussein Obama's Middle Name Matters By Steve Sailer

No, it's not because he's a secret Muslim. Nobody has ever seen him engage in Islamic rituals since he left Indonesia at age ten.

Significantly, Islam's transracial ethic had no appeal to Obama as a young adult, when his obsession was proving he was "black enough". He was proud of his Kenyan grandfather for converting to Islam—but that was because Obama mistakenly associated orthodox Islam with the black racism of Louis Farrakhan's heretical Nation of Islam, which had long interested him (see pp. 195-204 of Obama's Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance).

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Note to parents: Let schools burn By Vox Day

There comes a time when an institution has been so badly damaged that the best thing to do is to junk it and start over. The American schools have been in trouble for as long as I can remember. It's worth remembering that the nation has been at risk due to educational failures since 1983 saw the publication of "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform." But despite repeated reforms, the public schools of America have continued to get worse by nearly every statistical measure.

And it's little wonder. Consider, for example, this recent communiqué from the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento.

There are four main goals that we have and will continue to focus on in the college, which are expressed in the acronym TEACH:

Transformative Leadership
Equity and Social Justice
Action
Collaboration
Human Differences and Diversity

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Worshippers of Death By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Zahra Maladan is an educated woman who edits a women's magazine in Lebanon. She is also a mother, who undoubtedly loves her son. She has ambitions for him, but they are different from those of most mothers in the West. She wants her son to become a suicide bomber.

At the recent funeral for the assassinated Hezbollah terrorist Imad Moughnaya -- the mass murderer responsible for killing 241 marines in 1983 and more than 100 women, children and men in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 -- Ms. Maladan was quoted in the New York Times giving the following warning to her son: "if you're not going to follow the steps of the Islamic resistance martyrs, then I don't want you."

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Our Weakened Sense of Right and Wrong By Warner Todd Huston

There is a growing number of Americans who have the conception that too many judges are weak on crime, that their judgments all too often mollycoddle criminals. It's hard to quibble with such a conception, unfortunately. But we cannot merely cast blame on our judges and move on as if there is no other area of concern. While perhaps heightened, judges often are a reflection of our greater society and what they are reflecting is a sever degradation of our moral center.

A recent story about a small case in Winona, Texas, embodies all that seems broken not only with our judicial system, but with our education system, our immigration laws as well as the attitudes that so many of our youth employ towards their elders in society as a whole -- It reflects the permissiveness in all.

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It Is War, Pure and Simple By Howard Linett

The Hamas terrorists in control of the Gaza Strip are firing barrages of missiles into Israel and Israel is responding with air strikes and ground incursions. Thanks to the active and effective one-sided and biased broadcast coverage from inside Gaza, especially of Al-Jazerra the Arab world's CNN, pictures of dead and wounded Gaza of children have captured the news. As usual Israel's effort at explaining its reason for resorting to self-defense is deplorably, totally lacking, virtually nonexistent.

The limited news reaching America is that Israel is wantonly attacking civilians with a ferocity hugely disproportionate to the minor disruption of day life Israeli civilians are suffering. You need to know what is really happening. What follows is a concise description.

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Al Gore, Where Art Thou? by Jeff Poor

Remember last summer when you couldn’t turn on any TV channel without seeing Al Gore in all his glory -- telling you the earth is in a planetary emergency -- requiring an aggressive response from the federal government?

Throughout 2007, Gore went wire-to-wire -- testifying in front of Congress, presenting a Grammy or doing a victory lap with his Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize. No one in the liberal media could seem to get enough of the former vice president.

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Virtually De-Fenceless by Rep. Duncan Hunter

The first 28 miles of “virtual fencing” being deployed along our Southern border has failed to meet expectations according to last week’s congressional testimony by Richard Stana, Director of Homeland Security for the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Stana’s indictment of the hugely expensive, over-complicated and so far unworkable alternative to real border security reminds us of what we have known all along: that virtual fencing is virtually useless.

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Cool News About Global Warming By Bill Steigerwald

You've no doubt seen the stories about strange snowfalls in Saudi Arabia. A brutal winter in China. The heaviest snow cover in North America, Siberia and elsewhere since 1966.
And if you are a vigilant observer of the global warming debate, you know how inconveniently cold it is in the Arctic this winter for Al Gore and his army of climate alarmists.

But how cold is it, Johnny?

Well, NASA says recent satellite images show that the allegedly endangered polar ice cap -- which will melt completely one of these summers and kill off all the polar bears if we don't slash our greedy carbon footprints and revert to the lifestyles of medieval peasants -- has recovered to near normal coverage levels.

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“Sharia Creep” Around the World By Kathy Shaidle

In the blockbuster action movie Independence Day, alien spacecraft hover simultaneously above strategic spots around the globe, the better to maximize chaos and destruction when they finally attack all at once.

A more mundane version of that scenario played itself out in real life this week, when three new stories appeared within 24 hours, all documenting a worldwide phenomenon that has come to be known as “sharia creep.”

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Public School Surrender By Arnold Ahlert

It’s not often that a news story makes me realize how “out of the loop” I am regarding certain cultural “trends.” But an item
in Sunday’s New York Post did exactly that. The funny part was that what galled me the most was not an integral part of the story.

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We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get? By Charlotte Allen

Here's Agence France-Presse reporting on a rally for Sen. Barack Obama at the University of Maryland on Feb. 11: "He did not flinch when women screamed as he was in mid-sentence, and even broke off once to answer a female's cry of 'I love you, Obama!' with a reassuring 'I love you back.' " Women screamed? What was this, the Beatles tour of 1964? And when they weren't screaming, the fair-sex Obama fans who dominated the rally of 16,000 were saying things like: "Every time I hear him speak, I become more hopeful." Huh?

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Our Open-Borders Politicians Have More Children's Blood On Their Hands By Dave Gibson

The school bus crash in Cottonwood, Minnesota last week in which four children were killed was caused by a 23 year old illegal alien who ran a stop sign. These children are only the latest victims of the ongoing invasion of this country, an invasion which is being encouraged by our corrupt Congress and White House.

This past Tuesday morning, Mexican national Alianiss Nunez Morales went sailing past a stop sign on County Road 24, and right into a school bus carrying 28 Lakeview School students. The bus flipped over on its side, injuring several children and killing four.

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When Good Intentions Turn Evil Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman

In February, opponents of scientific research set off an incendiary device at the home of a medical researcher at UCLA.  UC Santa Cruz researchers were attacked by students in an attempted home invasion. In the past two years, fanatics have left bombs outside the homes and under the cars of researchers, and it is only due to their incompetence that none of them went off. As Santa Cruz Sentinel editor Don Miller noted, they have a right to their opinions but not a right to terrorize researchers and their families. Animal Rights fanatics are rightly on the FBI’s list of domestic terrorists, which I noted in my 2001 book, God’s Law or Man’s Law. It’s only a matter of time before they kill.

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No Longer Suited for Self-Governance? By JB Williams

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” - John Adams, in a Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, circa 1765

People have been predicting the demise of democracy, individual freedom and liberty, as well as resulting American supremacy, since the day American democracy was born. The most vastly distributed prediction has often been attributed to historian Alexander Tytler, dating back to the late 1700’s, and the prediction goes something like this.

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Illegal Immigration is still Illegal By Sher Zieve

After listening to another of Geraldo Rivera’s self-indulgent rants against all those who do not condone the invasion—yes invasion—of our Southern border by drug dealers, terrorists and other illegal immigrants, I believe some sort of reply to his continual ravings is required. Although his latest tirades appear to be efforts to push his new pro-illegal aliens’ book, on the FNC program Fox and Friends Mr. Rivera again referred to US citizens who are opposed to illegal—as an ostensible former attorney one would think that Mr. Rivera would know the difference between legal and illegal—immigration as “vigilantes” who are “racially motivated.” And continuing with his oft-used liberalist hammer, Rivera then beat and blamed “conservative talk radio” for bringing up the issue in the first place. Note: Liberals do not believe that both sides of an issue should ever be aired but, only their side should be known.

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The Mislabeled "Energy Independence and Security" Act By Vincent Gioia

When I wrote about the “Energy Independence and Security Act” (EISA), now the law of the land, I pointed out the mislabeled law provided neither independence nor security.  What I didn’t know then was that not only does the law not provide independence from Mid East oil, it also deprives us of a secure oil source.

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What Conservatism Offers to Middle Americans By John Hawkins |

One of the smears that the left often hurls at conservatives is that we're only concerned about the rich. Of course, that's not true; conservatives simply believe in an America where people should be able to get rich through their own efforts without having the fruit of their labor looted from them by cynical liberal politicians who want to use their money to buy votes.

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It's 3 A.M. - Maybe Hillary Should Call It A Night by Dave Nalle

By now a lot of you will have already heard about Hillary Clinton's latest attack ad in her life and death struggle with Barack Obama. If you haven't experienced the ad, you can see the video from YouTube below.

It's only a 30-second ad, but it's such an over-the-top orgy of fear-mongering that it justifies having a DVR just so you can rewind it and listen to it over again a few times, because I guarantee you won't believe what you heard the first time.

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Silly Women — And Men By Jennifer Rubin

This very amusing, somewhat insightful but vastly overdrawn column on women overlooks a more interesting question than whether women have lost their rational minds. Rather than ponder why women swoon over Barack Obama or why Oprah has a media empire or why men make better drivers, it might be more interesting to ponder why men have fallen prey to the worst aspects of cliché feminism and emotionalized politics.

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Networks Stifle Debate, Rely on Politicians, Rock Stars and Men-on-the-Street for Science By Julia A. Seymour and Dan Gainor

Global warming crusader Al Gore repeatedly claims the climate change “debate’s over.” It isn’t, but the news media clearly agree with him. Global warming skeptics rarely get any say on the networks, and when their opinions are mentioned it is often with barbs like “cynics” or “deniers” thrown in to undermine them.

Consistently viewers are being sent only one message from ABC, CBS and NBC: global warming is an environmental catastrophe and it’s mankind’s fault. Skepticism is all but shut out of reports through several tactics – omission, name-calling, the hype of frightening images like polar bears scavenging for food near towns and a barrage of terrifying predictions.

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Tax Cut For Hugo? By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

If there's anything more dumbfounding than the House's imposition of higher taxes on oil companies, thereby guaranteeing higher prices at the pump, it's the exemption voted for Venezuela's state oil firm.

It goes to show that Congress is more willing to empower dictators than to get serious about America's energy supply.

On the surface, H.R. 5321 is awful all by itself. Passing 236-182 last week, the bill scrapped the tax deduction routinely given to the major integrated oil companies — Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips — that helps them explore, extract, refine and market the energy that drives our economy.

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Islam is Terrorism by Alie Siraj

I saw on 25^th Feb. 2008 in the NDTV telecast that  stated that “Terrorism is not taught in Islam ---Deoband Muslims slam Terrorism”.

First let us take Taqiyyah and then Terrorism in Islam.

TAQIYYAH = Holy deception

The above statement, “Terrorism is not taught in Islam ---Deoband Muslims slam Terrorism” is an out and out, ‘Taqiyyah’, the concept as taught exclusively by Mahamood to all muslims only. The deoband muslims are liars in this regard.  Taqiyyah means: ‘telling lies for the sake of islam’. It is also called ‘the Holy Deception’.

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New York City Parents On Collision Course Again With Dept. Of Education Over Khalil Gibran International Academy Move By Sara Springer

This week the NYC Department of Education informed the Khalil Gibran International Academy's PTA that the school would be relocated for the September 2008 school year. Yet with all the planning, the intended target for KGIA, PS 287 in Fort Green, doesn't have the required space and the proposed move is running into a firestorm of resistance from parents who feel their school is an inappropriate choice for the controversial Arabic school which has been called a madrassah.

In an effort to quell the growing dissent, on the evening of February 27, Garth Harries, DOE Officer of Portfolio Development, came to PS 287 where he faced an angry gathering of parents, outraged that their school had been chosen with little consultation.

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Iraq political 'surge' uplifts U.S. officials By David R. Sands

Politics has broken out in Baghdad.

Long derided as dysfunctional, Iraq's parliament in recent weeks has passed a package of laws on the budget, elections and sectarian reconciliation that have given cautious hope to U.S. officials and private analysts that the gains from President Bush's military surge are finally being matched by a political surge as well.

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Obama Is Our First Muslim Presidential Contender In The Same Way That Clinton Was Our First Black President By Phyllis Chesler

Someone should ask Senator Obama where he stands on the persecution of “infidels” in Muslim lands and the proliferation of Muslim-arranged marriages, polygamy, face-veiling, wife- and daughter-beating, and honor murders in America.

Talk Radio (The Mancow show) called and asked me to join them Tuesday morning to comment on the Obama-Farrakhan matter. And so I made a dutiful list of “talking points” and tried to overcome my professorial politeness in order to get a few words in edgewise on a wonderfully high-energy program. The interview is posted at Mancow.com and here’s some of what I said.

I believe that Obama is our first Muslim Presidential contender.

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Saying Too Much, Saying Too Little by Jay Tea

I've had a little fun taking shots at Barack Obama of late, and I think it's time for a few more.

One of the constant criticisms I (and others) have made against Obama is that he's largely an "empty suit" -- he says little of substance, but manages to say it in remarkably compelling ways. Well, a few remarks by Obama and his wife have struck me as worthy of note.

Recently, Michelle Obama spoke to a bunch of women in Ohio. As part of her spiel, she told them to tell their children "don't go into corporate America." That's a fine, noble, liberal sentiment. A pity that the Obamas themselves have done quite well with corporate America.

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Obama Nation By Greg Crosby

Now that Hillary Rodham Clinton has all but gone down in flames, it appears that Barak Hussein Obama is a sure bet to get the Democratic presidential nomination. Widely popular with Democrats in just about every demographic, I wonder how much they really know about the guy? I mean besides the fact that he has great presence at the podium and is an accomplished orator. The fact is, he talks in sweeping generalities and platitudes. "Change" is his big word, but it doesn't tell you anything. Change can be either good or bad. It's like saying "fire." Fire can be good if used correctly or it can be devastatingly bad. Hitler brought change to Germany, right? So if you're saying change, well, what kind of change? Be specific.

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The curse of the moderates By Caroline B. Glick

Ten days after the Pakistani elections, the geopolitical consequences President Pervez Musharraf's political defeat are beginning to come into focus. And they are grim.

By any measure, Pakistan is a dysfunctional state. At least twenty-five percent of its 160 million people live in abject poverty. A third of Pakistanis suffer from illiteracy. The only prospering school system in the country is the Islamist system where millions of children are indoctrinated by preachers who share the world views, religious beliefs and political goals of al Qaida and the Taliban.

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Radical Islam Is Growing in the US: Where’s the American Anger? By Thomas D. Segel

It is very difficult to understand why Americans are not enraged at the thought of any radical Islamic movement, particularly in the United States. But, being unconcerned seems to be an understatement, for Islam is rapidly expanding in this country and there is already evidence that from evening prayer to the teachings of Islamic schools the tone is anti-American and anti-Christian.

We have already seen the growth of the Muslim faith in Europe. Even in England there are already calls for the country to adopt the edicts of Islamic Law.

Most have not taken the time to even learn what Islamic or Sharia Law would mean, if it became embedded in our society.

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Progressive Segregation By Malcolm A. Kline

Few presidents are as revered as Woodrow Wilson in academia. He was, after all, the last academic elected to America's highest office.

Beyond that, much ink is spilled and many lectures devoted to his policies which many professors are enamored of, chiefly the progressive income tax at home and the League of Nations abroad. As Black History month draws to a close, we should highlight a Wilsonian trend in policy that is relevant to both his national and international outlook-segregation.

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