Links for Saturday 3-29-2008

Livelink succumbs to threats over FITNA By Bob Parks

Welcome to the world we must share with radical Muslims. Screw freedom of speech, screw freedom of expression, and all you who preach multi-culturalism and tolerance and inclusion can watch them all go straight down the toilet. ...

Fitna can’t be stopped

AJM (dedicated server—very fast)
Bivouac-ID (French subtitles)
Czech Infidel (Czech subtitles)
Daily Motion (flagged as inappropriate—must register to see it)
Google video
Isohunt (links to torrent sites)
Rapid Share (flv format)
Rapid Share (wmv format)
The Pirate Bay (bit torrent)

(Found here )

The silence of American "conservatives" on the growth of leftist totalitarianism in Europe  by Lawrence Auster

Just a passing question. The Wall Street Journal is opposed to statism, yes? Has the Journal raised jeremiads against, warned about, opposed, criticized, or even mildly questioned Europe's steady march toward a quasi-totalitarian superstate subsuming the ancient states of Europe? ...

Uprooting the New Racism by Patrick J. Buchanan

In his Philadelphia address on race, Sen. Obama identified as a root cause of white resentment affirmative action -- the punishing of white working- and middle-class folks for sins they did not commit: ...

Global Cultural Jihad...the Saga Continues :: A Newt One

At the very end of this post, you will find numerous posts in which to at least begin to scratch the surface of the Global Cultural Jihad.

Years ago, I began my quest in which I set out to expose the sinister deeds and motives of a political and philosophical movement which had then and more so now the intent of making the Constitution of the United States null and void. It has nearly succeeded. What it will take to overcome and reverse the trend will be a long and painful fight. The time for talk has come and gone...it is time for action now. So, what can we do? ...

Gore Says Global Warming Skeptics Same as Believing in a Flat Earth By Duane Lester

This hoax peddler is persistent:

According to CBS, when correspondent Lesley Stahl says to the former vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential nominee that some prominent leaders aren’t convinced that humans are contributing to the problem, Gore says: ...

March 31 in California: Holiday Based on State-Sanctioned Racism! By John W. Lillpop

According to specious liberal logic, people of color are, by definition, incapable of being racists. In truth, however, racism is evident in all racial and ethnic groups.

Racism is just as wrong and un-American when practiced by people of color as it is when practiced by whites. When people of color attempt to elevate their group above that of others based solely on race, they are engaged in racism. ...

Scientist: Global warming stopped decade ago The Australian

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril. Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth still warming?" ...

North Korean society revolves around worship of dictator By Bob Unruh

A video documentary series shot partly with hidden cameras by a film crew that ventured into North Korea posing as tourists reveals a closed cult society that revolves around the worship of the dictator, Kim Jong-Il. ...

A Euro-army is fantasy land. We need our American ally By Martin Kettle : The Guardian

Like pensions and insurance, defence is one of those subjects to which too many people only pay attention when things go wrong. You might think, in the light of the past decade, that this would have changed. But you would be sadly mistaken. ...

Hillary stranger than fiction By Mark Steyn

About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can't blame them for wondering how they missed the memo advising that henceforth the old rules no longer apply. ...

Obama's Controversial Views on Israel by Gary Bauer

For those of us with access to the Internet, it’s been difficult to miss the circulating e-mails claiming that Barack Obama attended a Madrassa (an Islamic school) as a child in Indonesia. Or perhaps the one informing us that Obama’s middle name is Hussein. Then there’s the Internet allegation that Obama is really a “secret Muslim.” ...

Hate and Terror Awarded By Joe Kaufman

On September 27, 2007, the head of the Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Michigan), Dawud Walid, was presented with a “special recognition” award by the Mayor of Lansing, Michigan, Virg Bernero. This took place only two months after Walid publicly defended two terror-related charities and during a federal trial against leaders of another terror charity, for which CAIR was named a co-conspirator. ...

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The Utter Normality Of Ethonationalism—Except For Whites By Kevin MacDonald

Jerry Z. Muller’s Foreign Affairs article, Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism (March/April, 2008), is a grim and timely reminder of the power of ethnicity in human affairs. It has explosive implications for the future of the United States and the West.

Muller demonstrates that, over the last 150 years or so, the general trend in Europe and elsewhere has been has been toward the creation of ethnically-based states—“ethnostates”. This trend did not end with the close of World War II.  In Europe, the war was followed by a forced resettlement of peoples—mainly Germans—to create ethnically homogeneous states. Indeed, the high point of ethnic homogenization in Europe was in the two generations in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

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Hollywood's love affair with totalitarianism By Joseph Farah

Today it's Hugo Chavez and a fading Fidel Castro.

In another time, it was Josef Stalin.

Benito Mussolini even had his moment of admiration among America's entertainment elite.

But 20 years ago, it was Mikhail Gorbachev.

There's nothing like a militaristic, totalitarian socialist brute to throw Hollywood into a swooning tizzy.

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Ex-CAIR chief indicted for 'Baghdad Jim' junket

The former head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan branch was indicted yesterday for allegedly arranging a visit to Baghdad by three U.S. congressmen financed by Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency in the run-up to the war, according to federal prosecutors.

Muthanna Al-Hanooti, an Iraqi-American, was rewarded with 2 million barrels of oil by Iraqi intelligence officials when he set up the controversial excursion by Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California.

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Some Wicked Friends of Public Schools By Bruce Walker

Free  education, the provision for the opportunity for universal literacy, is a blessing to any society. The ability to read and write has made the difference between social mobility and social stagnation.  Free public education is largely an American invention.  The Northwest Ordinances provided for land to go to public schools. 

Free, mandatory schooling appears to have originated in Scotland, where churches were required to provide schooling to all children -- male and female -- so that everyone could read the Bible.  The unintended consequence in Scotland was a virtual explosion of intellectual and cultural activity in the Nineteenth Century, parallel to the explosion of activity in America.

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Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy By James Lewis

One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.

Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.

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Bill Clinton Was Right By James Bowman

Bill Clinton may not be the most graceful in utterance of our public men, but no one has ever thought his political instincts to be less than finely tuned. So when the other day he said: "I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country" -- meaning, as the context made clear, John McCain and Mrs. Clinton and rather pointedly leaving out Barack Obama -- he was pointing his fellow Democrats at a real electoral problem for them and not just engaging, as an Obama adviser suggested, in "McCarthyism."

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The 100 Year Lie By Charles Krauthammer

Asked at a New Hampshire campaign stop about possibly staying in Iraq 50 years, John McCain interrupted -- "Make it a hundred" -- then offered a precise analogy to what he envisioned: "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so." Lest anyone think he was talking about prolonged war-fighting rather than maintaining a presence in postwar Iraq, he explained: "That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed."

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The Insolent Arrogance of the Progressive-Left By Frank Salvato

A recent event in Chicago illustrates the arrogance and narcissism of the Progressive-Left – and in particular the anti-war Progressive-Left. During Easter services at Holy Name Cathedral Catholic Church in Chicago, six anti-war protesters staged a political demonstration disrupting religious services. They shouted generic anti-war slogans and squirted fake blood on themselves and the parishioners in attendance. Their goal was to attract attention to themselves and – therefore – their cause. It worked.

The group of three men and three women, who call themselves Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War (interesting self-commentary on the three “men” involved), issued a statement saying they purposely targeted Holy Name Cathedral – specifically on Easter – to reach a large audience, including the press, which usually covers the services.

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Liberal Media in Bed with Obama Joan Swirsky

For decades the liberal media have known about – and seen the videotapes of – Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., and the Marxist, racist, anti-American and anti-Semitic “sermons” he has delivered to the roaring approval of his 8,000-person congregation at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

2003 sermon: "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God Damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God Damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God Damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

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Hate and Terror Awarded By Joe Kaufman

On September 27, 2007, the head of the Michigan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Michigan), Dawud Walid, was presented with a “special recognition” award by the Mayor of Lansing, Michigan, Virg Bernero. This took place only two months after Walid publicly defended two terror-related charities and during a federal trial against leaders of another terror charity, for which CAIR was named a co-conspirator.

Michigan is home to a significant radical Islamist community. One of its shining stars is an individual by the name of Dawud Walid. His activity within extremist Muslim groups is a matter of record.

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CULTURAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION By Selwyn Duke

In a way, I prefer the old, overt affirmative action. While it was government-sanctioned discrimination, at least it was, in some measure, more honest than our cultural affirmative action. There is such a thing. It’s when people in the market and media privilege others – sometimes unconsciously – based upon the latter’s identification with a “victim group.”

This phenomenon is what Geraldine Ferraro referred to recently when she addressed Barack Obama’s meteoric political rise and said, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” Pundits have condemned her for this unfashionable utterance, but it’s no insight. It’s a truth hiding in plain sight.

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U Penn's Hillel And MSA's Excellent Spring Break Jihad Adventure By Beila Rabinowitz and William Mayer

As these authors noted in a November 2007 piece University Of Pennsylvania Hillel Conducts Interfaith Hoax With Radical Muslim Student Association warning that a then planned trip to New Orleans by the Muslim Student Association and Hillel was ill advised:

"Since the Muslim Student Association is an integral part of the Saudi-funded Wahhabist power structure, this interfaith trip can't be anything but a da'wa exercise by the group, a call to convert the Jewish students."

That trip has now taken place, with the aforementioned predicted results, as a report on the U Penn website gushed:

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It's A Typical White Person Thing by Jay Tea

Whenever I find myself lacking for something stupid to mock, I turn to the Boston Globe and its stable of columnists. Apart from the token conservative, Jeff Jacoby, they're a never-ending font of liberal idiocy.

The best, though, has to be Derrick Z. Jackson. And his latest defense of Barack Obama and his association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright is absolutely typical of his denseness.

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OK, Sen. Obama, Let's Have the Race ‘Talk’ By Larry Elder

In his Big Speech defending his 20-year membership in a church headed by a racist, anti-Semitic, sexist, conspiracy-believing pastor, Democratic candidate Barack Obama says America needs a frank "talk" about race.

For crying out loud, we talk incessantly about race! Pick up a newspaper — any newspaper — or turn on cable news and wait a few minutes. Race — usually something about how blacks feel, how blacks think, how blacks and whites see things differently, yada, blah, etc. — comes up.

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Israel tells Jimmy Carter: Your 'help' is not welcome :: Israel Today

Israel this week issued a formal rejection of a recent offer by former US President Jimmy Carter and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to mediate a ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip.

Carter and Annan sent their proposal to Israel several weeks ago, and noted that South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Irish President Mary Robinson would also be part of the mediation team.

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Obama Suggests Jesus Christ Not the Only Way to Heaven By Jennifer Riley

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that Jesus Christ is not the only way to heaven during a campaign event in North Carolina.

While answering a question about his Christian faith, Obama said he believes that Jesus Christ died for his sins and through God’s grace and mercy he could have “everlasting life,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

But he also believes Jews and Muslims and non-believers who live moral lives are as much “children of God” as he is, according to The Associated Press.

As an example, he spoke about his late mother who was “not a believer.”

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Attaché case of cliché by Colonel Robert Neville

said er whut, me worry? Global Warming Kashmir, London or downtown Los Angeles and so on style.
Yep, it’s hard to get your kicks if you’re waitin’ around for the rather slim possibility of even a third rate Algonquin Round Table, desperate for some sparkling and invigorating Dorothy Parker and Noel Coward style conversation. Now Noel may have been quite singular, incapable and largely uninterested in the grit of real feeling as well as somewhat lacking in depth, but sometimes he was kinda witty and entertaining too.

MC: “Ladies and gentlemen, direct from England, Mr Noel Coward will now perform a delightful medley of Pink Floyd songs in his trademark manner. Mr Noel Coward!”

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Ecoterrorism and the Democrats: More on the Radical Left :: American Power

This entry's the second in my series on progressives for Obama (see also the introductory post, "No Enemies on the Left? Progressives for Barack Obama").
Recall the premise of the series: I'm examing the nature of today's far left-wing movement in campaign '08, particularly the degree to which contemporary radicals are rallying to the Obama banner. So far, there some's evidence for this in Tom Hayden's call earlier this week for the left to unite behind the Illinois Senator, " Progressives for Obama."
Well, it turns out that Captain Ed's got an interesting post that provides some key insight to the direct action mindset and mobilization of today's radical left wing activists. Check it out:

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Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans By C. J. CHIVERS

Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

With the award last January of a federal contract worth as much as nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach, became the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces.

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Cold North Pole, Cold South Pole

By Alan Caruba

I was suspicious when the Department of the Interior announced it was considering the listing of polar bears as an «endangered species», particularly since the designation has nothing to do with the current, thriving population, but a computer model projection that in fifty years they might be endangered. Since polar bears have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, the notion they might suddenly go missing in fifty years is questionable.

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Fallout from the Energy Policy Act of 2005 By Diane M. Grassi

Part 1 of a Series

«Energy independence from foreign sources.» A mantra repeated over and over again by Al Gore, by the Hollywood elite and by candidates running for the 2008 Presidential nomination. But rarely is it ever pointed out how this phrase is but an oxymoron with respect to United States energy policy, which becomes ever more vulnerable, not just as the result of its failing infrastructure, but from misguided public policy decisions.

And never is the topic broached publicly in how much of the U.S. energy infrastructure and lines of transmission have been consumed by a constant stream of foreign direct investors and diversified holding companies. Also unbeknownst to most consumers is that such activity was hailed from Wall Street to Capitol Hill as the answer to resolving U.S. energy woes.

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The FARC Jones Boy & Congressman James McGovern By Judi McLeod

Dead men talk and in the Colombian-Ecuadorian jungle, they talk loudly about Congressman James McGovern (D-Mass).

The media-downplayed hard drive recovered from the computer of killed Colombian guerilla Raul Reyes, No. 2 in command of the Colombian FARC, tells a tawdry tale of the opposition of House Democrats to the US. -Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

“Some Democrats oppose the Colombia trade deal because they sympathize more with FARC’s terrorists than with a U.S. antiterror ally (Colombia)”

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Obama And James D. Watson: How To Make A Real Statement About Race—And Free Speech By Steve Sailer

At VDARE.COM. we’ve never been in the business of endorsing Presidential candidates. And considering who's left in the running in 2008, we're certainly not going to start now.

But by publishing revelations about one candidate, aren't we tacitly just helping the others?

For example, when Sen. Barack Obama, who has been running largely on his autobiography, makes campaign claims about his relationship with his pastor or his grandmother and I point out that his 1995 autobiography says something very different, I always receive messages denouncing me for being culpable for electing Hillary Clinton and/or John McCain.

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The religion of eternal racism and eternal sexism By Bruce Walker

The Civil Rights Act was passed forty-three years ago.  The feminist movement was more or less officially launched about forty years ago.  And yet today in the Democrat Party there are serious voices complaining of racism and sexism among Democrat voters (and, presumably, among the American people.)   How many "civil rights" leaders talk as if racism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society?  How many feminist leaders talk as if sexism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society?  

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The Disgrace of Liberalism By J.R. Dunn

2008 marks the end of liberalism as a governing force in the same way that 1968 marked the end of liberalism as a political doctrine.

American liberals spent the '60s seeing their programs and policies collapse one after the other. The War on Crime, the War on Poverty, civil rights legislation, Vietnam, all were either unmitigated disasters or textbook examples of the law of unintended consequences. The Democrats went into the 1968 presidential election as crippled as any political party in American history, choked with failure, bereft of ideas, and facing a general uprising from their own younger elements.

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Immigrants Into Patriots By Shawn Macomber

When Civica Americana President Paul Crespo was 12 years old his parents, politically-active Cuban exiles who had fled Fidel Castro's terror state for U.S. shores in the early 1960s, asked him whether he considered himself Cuban or American. "I said I was 100 percent American -- and 50 percent Cuban!" Crespo recalled. "I thought: You can't be half an American, you have to be all-American but that doesn't mean you can't have an extra 50 percent on top as gravy."

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Schumer, the predator By The Hill Editors

When Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) dons sunglasses and bikes through the streets of Brooklyn on weekends, New York residents are oblivious to the predator in their midst. But they are not his prey.

Schumer, a 57-year-old with a receding hairline and a voracious appetite, is a political carnivore. In recent years, the senior senator from New York has instilled fear in Republicans; his gaze has fallen upon them and they know from the 2006 election cycle what that means.

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Conservatives More Liberal Givers By George Will

Residents of Austin, Texas, home of the state's government and flagship university, have very refined social consciences, if they do say so themselves, and they do say so, speaking via bumper stickers. Don R. Willett, a justice of the state Supreme Court, has commuted behind bumpers proclaiming "Better a Bleeding Heart Than None at All," "Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty," "The Moral High Ground Is Built on Compassion," "Arms Are For Hugging," "Will Work (When the Jobs Come Back From India)," "Jesus Is a Liberal," "God Wants Spiritual Fruits, Not Religious Nuts," "The Road to Hell Is Paved With Republicans," "Republicans Are People Too -- Mean, Selfish, Greedy People" and so on. But Willett thinks Austin subverts a stereotype: "The belief that liberals care more about the poor may scratch a partisan or ideological itch, but the facts are hostile witnesses."

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Black Culture: A Defining Issue of Our Time By Richard Thomas Rahm

There are few that care to discuss it. Even fewer who will admit it, but our national culture and the black culture are the defining issues of our time. We who grew up in the 60’s and 70’s thought that by creating equal opportunity and providing for education opportunities that the black minority of our nation could be equal to the white majority.

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'Demographic Winter' Exposes the Century's Overlooked Crisis by Don Feder

“Demographic Winter” -- a dramatic new documentary -- is the first to explore the most overlooked crisis of our times: the rapid, worldwide decline in birth rates.

Philip Longman, a demographer and author of “The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity,” observes: “The on-going global decline in human birthrates is the single most powerful force affecting the fate of nations and the future of society in the 21st. century.”

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The Party of Death By David Forsmark

Someone watching the Democratic candidates debate could be forgiven for wondering if they're viewing a year-old videotape.

But the reality is Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are so hidebound by ideology and beholden to left-wing interest groups that actual events are not allowed to intrude on their scripts.

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Shilling for Sharia at Harvard By Hillel Stavis

Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman touched off a fierce debate when he recently wrote in The New York Times Magazine that Islamic Sharia law represents the highest state of “the rule of law.” But what many of Feldman’s critics did not recognize is that his argument has been building over several years.

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Saddam's Salesmen By Ben Johnson

“If being used means that we’re highlighting the suffering of Iraqi children, or any children, then yes, we don’t mind being used.” – Rep. James McDermott, D-WA, on his 2002 trip to Iraq, financed by Saddam Hussein.

We’ve long contended the terrorists could not buy better representation than the Democratic Left gives them for free. We never knew how right we were.
The media revealed last night that Saddam Hussein personally funded the trip of three Democratic Congressmen to Iraq on the eve of the war that led to his ouster. Saddam’s Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) reportedly bribed an American Muslim activist with two million barrels of oil to arrange the fall 2002 trip for left-wing Congressmen Jim McDermott, D-WA; David Bonior, D-MI; and Mike Thompson, D-CA.

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US: Saddam Paid for Lawmakers' Iraq Trip By MATT APUZZO : AP

Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq. While traveling, they called for a diplomatic solution.

Prosecutors say that trip was arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a Michigan charity official, who was charged Wednesday with setting up the junket at the behest of Saddam's regime. Iraqi intelligence officials allegedly paid for the trip through an intermediary and rewarded Al-Hanooti with 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.

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McCain Supports Radical Muslims in Kosovo By Cliff Kincaid

If the media are on the lookout for gaffes by the presidential campaigns, they missed a big one on Wednesday, when Cindy McCain met with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in Kosovo’s capital Pristina, while her husband was giving a major foreign policy speech calling for “new foundations for a stable and enduring peace.” Kosovo’s declaration of independence, which McCain accepts and was implicitly recognized by Cindy McCain’s visit to Pristina, is a major threat to global peace and security. It could spark a U.S. war with Russia.

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Know Islam, No Peace... No Islam, Know Peace By JudgeRight

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to "the reasonable" Muslim demands for their        "religious rights," they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source  CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped  for their colorful uniqueness:

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Global Warming Myths: Part 1 By Daniel Muniz

I have always wondered why global warming activists and their supporters are so rabid about their belief of manmade greenhouse emissions destroying the planet. After all, this is an issue grounded in physical science so in adhering to the scientific method, there ought to be calm rational discussion about the subject.
But that has never been the case.

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Infiltration of the West By Fjordman

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

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Buoy Meets Gore By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Computer models used by environmentalists predict imminent and disastrous climate change. But actual temperature measurements by high-tech equipment show something completely different.

An early scene in the sci-fi disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow," showing what allegedly will happen to the planet if we continue to ignore Al Gore's warnings on global warming, shows three of the film's secondary characters at some kind of scientific station in Scotland. They're watching as automated data buoys in the Atlantic Ocean report sudden drops in water temperature resulting from melting Arctic ice stopping the Gulf Stream, which warms the Northern Hemisphere.

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The Saudis Deceptive Religious Reform Proposal By William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz

Many column inches of print in the West have recently been devoted to a not-so-new plan to "train" 40,000 Saudi imams with an eye towards reducing what have been called, "militant hardliners."

The action line in most of these stories is that this is a great move, a sign that the Saudis are rejecting Islamism, a fact nowhere in evidence.

As the Saudis have conceived this effort they intend to carry out this mission via the newly created King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue, which is a division of the Saudi Ministry For Islamic Affairs, Endowment, Dawa and Guidance - http://www.saudinf.com/main/yy1.htm.

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Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in Christian wool? By Reuven Koret

The glib handling of criticism of his relationship with the anti-American ("God Damn America!") and anti-Israel ("a dirty word for Negroes") Reverend James Wright may have bought him a little time. But the legacy of dissimulation about his long-concealed identity is about to come crashing down around the ears of Barack Hussein Obama, courtesy of the assembled testimony of his family, friends, classmates and teachers.

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The 8 Stages Of Liberal/Progressive Discussion When They Are Busted by William Teach

Exactly how do liberals/progressives go about discussion of of stories that do not bode well for them? (cross posted at Right Wing News)

1. Ignore the story - pretend it is not happening, or deflect like crazy.

2. Find some sort of moral equivalence or a story from 30 years ago saying a Conservative did something sort of similar.

3. Come up with some conspiracy theories. This is usually the most amusing part, reading and hearing all the strange stuff they come up with in their reality based chat rooms.

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America: History Repeated? :: The Stafford Voice

History has shown us, and will continue to show us that it will repeat itself. Some may say that sealing our borders is not that important, however, I stand to say how important it really is.

Time and time again, our neighbors to the south have shown us how vulnerable our borders are. This is not limited to illegal immigration, but also open to drugs and even at times weapons. But I ask, is that all this country is exempt to? Being that this country is what many strive to be a part of, many other states, nations, and countries want nothing more that to exploit it. So, what is to become of America because of that? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in an address to the U.N. in September 21 of 2006 said this:

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Climate facts to warm to By Christopher Pearson

CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

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American media ignores inconvenient science on global warming By Jerome J. Schmitt

Americans apparently have to look to Australia for truthful accounts of climate research conducted by our own space agency.   Christopher Pearson' March 22 article in THE AUSTRALIAN concerns an interview of "Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs."  When asked about "Global Warming", Marohasy stated:

"...actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.

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If Bill Richardson Be Judas, What Does That Make Hillary? By John Lillpop

Writing in his 2000 book titled, «Stickin': The Case for Loyalty,» James Carville, political sycophant for the Clintons, claims that his out spoken ways have caused him to be called a court jester, clown, comedian, serpent head, gamecock, slimy little worm, hatchet man, attack master, and bottom feeder.

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What Costs More Per Year Than The Iraq War? :: WFA

Illegals are taking the lives of 23 American citizens each and every day - thats 8,395 Americans a year. In the 5 years of the war in Iraq we have lost 4,000 soldiers. In those same 5 years we have lost 41,975 of our brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers to the invaders from Mexico and South America. These illegals are also costing American taxpayers 340 Billion dollas a year, and the numbers keep climbing.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare support given to illegal aliens each year. See Immigration and Welfare.

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Cultural Consequences By Judie Brown

A few days ago headlines across the nation declared “1 in 4 Teen Girls has STD.” The story got traction for all of about five minutes on the network news and then reporters moved on to the next “big” story. But the impact of those headlines is far-reaching and extremely troubling to me.

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Obama's Messiah Shtick By Bookworm

Messiah:  "One who is anticipated as, regarded as, or professes to be a savior or liberator."  American Heritage Dictionary

Schtick: "Yiddish slang meaning "gimmick" that has come to mean "someone's signature behavior."

He presents as a fairly nice-looking guy with a slightly dorky quality (I think it's the Bing Crosby ears); who is a smooth, albeit soporific, speaker; who boasts an Ivy League background sullied by the suspicion that he benefited as much from affirmative action as from his own virtues; and who demonstrates a sound grasp of shady Chicago style politics, including, during a remarkably short and generally undistinguished career, some pretty vicious and opportunistic conduct.  I am talking, of course, about Barack Obama, a man who has shot from relative obscurity to the forefront of American politics.

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The K9 Comparison—What Dogs Tell Us About Humans By Frank Miele

We share about 97% of our genes with chimpanzees. But when Francis Crick, co-discoverer with James D. Watson of the double helix structure of DNA, was asked what unraveling the chimpanzee genome would tell us about human differences he replied: "I wouldn't waste any American money on the chimp".

The dog genome, Crick went on, would be a better target—because dogs vary so widely in appearance and behavior that unraveling their DNA would reveal much more about the influence of genes. 

Canine evolution, because of dog breeding, has been run in fast forward—in some cases, before our very eyes.

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How the Leftist Churches Set a Time Bomb for the Democrats By James Lewis

Until  the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama's spiritual mentor in Black Liberation Theology, popped out of the woodwork, I didn't even know about BLT -- Black Liberation Theology. But the doctrines of Black Liberation have been preached since 1966 in black churches, with the enthusiastic support of white churches of the Left, notably the United Church of Christ.  The Rev. Wright runs an official UCC church. 

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The religion of eternal racism and eternal sexism By Bruce Walker

The Civil Rights Act was passed forty-three years ago.  The feminist movement was more or less officially launched about forty years ago.  And yet today in the Democrat Party there are serious voices complaining of racism and sexism among Democrat voters (and, presumably, among the American people.)   How many "civil rights" leaders talk as if racism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society?  How many feminist leaders talk as if sexism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society?  

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A Race Conversation? What Are You Talking About? By Jonah Goldberg

Thank God for Barack Obama. For until his "More Perfect Union" speech last Tuesday, it seems it never occurred to anyone that America needed to talk about race. "Maybe this'll be the beginning of a conversation," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan proclaimed on "Meet the Press." According to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, just the fact of Obama's address proves that a "national dialogue on race" is "essential." The Chicago Tribune reported that "many voters, black and white, say they were moved by Obama's speech ... which they see as a long-awaited invitation to begin an honest, calm national dialogue about race." Newspaper editorial boards agree. In the words of the San Diego Union-Tribune: "Prodding Americans to confront their racial differences is, by itself, an accomplishment of historical proportions."

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International Law, and Order :: WSJ

Everyone waxing outraged about the big Medellín decision yesterday is focusing on the death penalty, but the Supreme Court did something else entirely: It insulated American law from the international variety. And this modest and limited ruling should help restore those two qualities to U.S. courts, which is no doubt one of the reasons the Roberts Court's political opponents are so livid.

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Fallout from The Energy Policy Act of 2005: Part II By Diane M. Grassi

As discussed in Fallout from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the United States federal government is taking a more and more integral role in the distribution and transmission of electricity and in the energy sector throughout the U.S. And such is the result of both federal regulations and laws mandating the deregulation of public utilities as well as the repeal of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act (PUHCA) of 1935, as mandated in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005). It will prove to have profound impacts on the future of not only the fiscal health of public utilities but the oversight of their maintenance and the future construction of transmission lines.

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CAIR Terror Ties Exposed, Again by Steven Emerson

From the Hamas ties of its founders in 1994 to its solicitous stance toward accused terrorists today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has demonstrated that its actual mission is far removed from the civil rights advocacy it claims to pursue.

Still standing as perhaps the clearest evidence of CAIR's insidious role, two key leaders of the group attended a 1993 meeting in Philadelphia called by Hamas members and supporters to devise a strategy for torpedoing the Oslo Accords aimed at Middle East peace.

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The Middle East’s Gathering Storm By P. David Hornik

U.S. vice-president Richard Cheney and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert met twice in Jerusalem this week in talks described as “shrouded in mystery.” The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office didn’t even issue a statement; Olmert’s spokesman only said that Cheney and Olmert “discussed a range of issues, including the peace process, terrorism and threats to regional security.”

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Islamic States and Thought Crimes: The Thug's Ideal by John Lewis

On March 13, I gave my talk “‘No Substitute for Victory’: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism” to an audience of about forty at Georgia Institute of Technology. In the talk, based on my article in The Objective Standard, I rejected all forms of theocracy, but emphasized the danger posed by the Islamic state and argued for the destruction of its most obvious manifestation, the regime in Iran. I was prepared for opposition to the idea of war with Iran, and I acknowledged up front that those who recognize that religious law is wrong might disagree with my conclusion that a war against the Iranian state is necessary. But I was not prepared for the strident defense of Islamic law and jihad—and for the condemnation of me for even raising the issue of Islamic jihad—that was to come.

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Obama's Pro-Hamas Church By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Last July, Trinity United Church of Christ reprinted a Hamas manifesto written by a terrorist fugitive wanted by the FBI. It was published across two pages of the "Pastor's Page" section of the church bulletin.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright's name is copyrighted at the bottom of the pages. For those who don't know, Wright is the anti-American, anti-Israeli bigot that Obama has consorted with for the past two decades.

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Enviro-Harassment By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Global warming alarmists are using shareholder resolutions — corporate policy proposals brought by shareholders to a company's annual meeting to be voted on by stockholders — to force companies to disclose their responses to climate change.

They want to know what firms are doing about cutting greenhouse gas emissions and implementing renewable energy and efficiency programs.

So far — brags Ceres, an alliance of investors and environmentalists — 54 resolutions have been filed with domestic companies, many of them in the energy, airline and home-building industries.

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A Heartfelt Message to Al Gore By Paulie Miller

Hey Al, where's my global warming?  After experiencing one of the snowiest winter's in recent memory as well as the coldest February in my lifetime, spring finally arrives and 6-11 inches of snow is falling on Chicago.  So I repeat, where is my global warming?

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The Perversion of the VAWA Mafia By Carey Roberts

When professor Suzanne Steinmetz published the results of her survey on domestic violence, no one had prepared her for the firestorm that would ensue.  You see, feminists take it as an article of faith that only husbands abuse their wives.

       So when Steinmetz revealed that women are often as violent as their husbands, the fem-fascists started a whispering campaign designed to block her promotion at the University of Delaware.  When that didn’t work, they phoned in a bomb threat at her daughter’s wedding.  Cowed by the threats, Steinmetz soon suspended her pioneering research.

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A "Typical White Person's" Perspective by Whymrhymer

Barack Obama apparently deftly delivered another bullet to his foot with his recent comments about his "white grandmother." He called her a "typical white person" and the news commentators on radio and TV are lovin' it! The tone of their comments boils down to this: "How dare he, a black man running for president, use racial stereotypes when racial stereotypes have done so much to hurt civil rights?"

Well take it from a "typical white person", stereotypes or not, I can certainly understand his grandmother's fear of walking past certain people (be they white, black, Hispanic or other) on any street. Why? Simply because some of them are very different and different is, to many of us typical white people, not good — in fact it's scary sometimes.

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Financing Failure: How Foreign Aid is Mismanaged By Nicholas M. Guariglia

Who can explain the logic of first propping up a seemingly friendly autocrat, then disregarding the autocrat’s disloyalty, only to end this trifecta by subsidizing it all along? Take for example the late Yasser Arafat, whose decades of murdering diplomats and overseeing hit-squads was legitimized overnight by overt international assistance. Somewhere along the line, it was deemed that any hypothetical Palestinian state required the presence of an imposing “strongman,” someone to keep the apparently crazier folk down. (So who better than a Jordanian to do it?)

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Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity By Eve Tushnet

The understanding has sunk in slowly that the 1950s, far from being a bland decade of picket-fence complacence, were a time of intense social and artistic ferment: In literature alone, you have Invisible Man, Waiting for Godot, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” and Goodbye, Columbus. (You also have Howl, but no decade is perfect.)

No matter how artful her prophecies, nobody ever listens to Cassandra until the catastrophe has come—so it shouldn’t be surprising that one of the most prescient, thorough, and hilarious satires of postmodernity fell into obscurity shortly after its publication in 1955. But it’s time we rediscovered that book, for Nigel Dennis’ Cards of Identity was written with so much foresight that it almost reads like this week’s edition of The Onion.

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A VIKING LECTURE ON REAL CONSERVATISM :: Arthur's Hall

I am pissed off. Why? I am fed up with faux (or as I will call it from here forward "Fox") conservatism. We are going to look at what REAL conservatism is. Forget the divide and conquer "51 percent" mantra of Karl Rove. Real conservatism ALWAYS wins elections. It is a superior ideology but many Fox conservatives have perverted it to the point where I don't recognize it anymore. Our party should be ashamed itself. We have betrayed our hero and greatest president, Ronald Reagan. Like many of you, I was raised during the Reagan administration. As a six year old child, I told my father to vote for Reagan in 1984 due to his support of "Star Wars" missile defense. He did. I guess that was my first political stump speech. I am here to give another. I have a bigger audience now and the cause is as important as it was in 1984. Conservatives face a choice, we can get back to real conservatism or face political extinction. This is that clear to me.

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Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA By Richard M Bennett

Given the historical context of the unrest in Tibet, there is reason to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent demonstrations for the simple reason that their planning took place outside of Tibet and that the direction of the protesters is similarly in the hands of anti-Chinese organizers safely out of reach in Nepal and northern India.
Similarly, the funding and overall control of the unrest has also been linked to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and by inference to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because of his close cooperation with US intelligence for over 50 years.

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The mustard seed in global strategy By Spengler

A self-described revolution in world affairs has begun in the heart of one man. He is the Italian journalist and author Magdi Cristiano Allam, whom Pope Benedict XVI baptized during the Easter Vigil at St Peter's.

Allam's renunciation of Islam as a religion of violence and his embrace of Christianity denotes the point at which the so-called global "war on terror" becomes a divergence of two irreconcilable modes of life: the Western way of faith supported by reason, against the Muslim world of fatalism and submission.

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The NY Times’ Frank Rich Puts White Men in Their Place! by Nicholas Stix

White men suck and other insights from sallow-faced Frank Rich.

In a recent column by the New York Times' Frank Rich, (you know, the same one he's rehashed hundreds of times before, with slight edits), he speaks of the "demographic monotony: all white and nearly all male" of Senator John McCain's (Media-AZ) victory "posse" ("The Grand Old White Party Confronts Obama," February 17, 2008).

Rich tells us that in victory, "McCain looked like a loser," and that his white men supporters are an "albatross."

Imagine if he had said that female or black or Hispanic political supporters were an "albatross" around a candidate's neck, and made him "look like a loser." But he wouldn't dare. He'd be out of a job, and the column would be killed.

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Spitzer was behind Troopergate by Lawrence Auster

I never wrote about New York State's remarkable Troopergate scandal after it broke last July and went on for months, dragging Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, lower and lower in the polls. Close aides of Spitzer had improperly used state police to gather damaging information on his chief political rival, Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno, and then released the information to an Albany newspaper friendly to the governor. From the start, Spitzer denied that he had been personally involved. This was universally regarded as unbelievable, given Spitzer's micromanaging of everything done by his office. Now the New York Times reports:

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Wilders and Bosma on the Islam problem by Lawrence Auster

Geert Wilders and one of his colleagues in parliament, Martin Bosma, have written an op-ed article in one of Holland's two most important newspapers, de Volkskrant (which could be compared with the New York Times). I think it's an excellent article, which makes clear once again how close his views are to yours on some essential topics. Their article was prompted in response to an attack on them by a secular Jewish media personality, Harry de Winter, who paid for an advertisement on the frontpage of the Volkskrant earlier this week in which he equated Wilders' anti-Islamic position with anti-Semitism.

I have translated the entire article for you and have bolded the essential passages:

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Tibet’s Turmoil—The Immigration Dimension By Linda Thom

News reports of ethnic hostilities around the world inundate us daily—Kenya, Kosovo, Iraq. Tibet in particular is in turmoil.

In a recent Associated Press report, Tibet protests spread to other provinces, (March 17^th) Cara Anna and Tini Tran quoted the Dalai Lama: "Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place."

Just what is genocide? One dictionary states, in part, that genocide is

"the use of deliberate systematic measures . . .calculated to bring about the extermination of a racial, political or cultural group or to destroy the language, religion or culture of a group. "

Is genocide occurring in Tibet? I personally believe that the destruction of the culture, language and religion of Tibet is driven by the Chinese desire to overwhelm Tibet for economic gain rather than a desire to exterminate the Tibetans as a people. But whatever the motivation, the result is the same. Unless something happens, Tibet is doomed.

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A Bible study on environmentalism By Joseph Farah

Red Letter Christians are equating the modern environmental movement, which portrays man as an intruder on planet Earth, with common-sense conservationism – what biblically literate Christians called "stewardship" of Creation.

They are not synonymous. In fact, they are opposites.

In Genesis 1:26-28, we are told: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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The religion of eternal racism and eternal sexism By Bruce Walker

The Civil Rights Act was passed forty-three years ago.  The feminist movement was more or less officially launched about forty years ago.  And yet today in the Democrat Party there are serious voices complaining of racism and sexism among Democrat voters (and, presumably, among the American people.)   How many "civil rights" leaders talk as if racism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society?  How many feminist leaders talk as if sexism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society?  

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Numbers Fetish By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The media in America are trivializing the sacrifice of thousands who gave their lives in the global war on terror by playing a numbers game. Each of the 4,000 sad losses in Iraq was for a cause as great as WWII.

There should be no illusions as to why the establishment press, from networks to newsmagazines, never miss the opportunity to hype the death toll threshold in Iraq: They're trying to drum up opposition to the war among an American public that has proved time and again to be reflexively patriotic.

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The Audacity of Rhetoric By Thomas Sowell

It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious.

Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it.

It makes a good story, but it won't stand up under scrutiny.

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US Rewarding Arab Terrorism By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld & Alyssa A. Lappen

The Bush Administration’s search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen’s “blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat – which isn’t there”.

For the first time, the Bush Administration plans to give $150 million in cash directly to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Treasury, as part of a $496.5 million “aid” package, including $410 million for development programs. This added to the $86.5 million for CIA “security training”, which Congress authorized in April 2007.

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

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Target of Jihad By Robert Spencer

Wafa Sultan appeared on Al-Jazeera again earlier this month, and the shock waves are still reverberating throughout the Islamic world. The day after her appearance Al-Jazeera issued a public apology for her “offensive” remarks, but did not specify what exactly she said that was so terrible. Last week, however, the influential Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi was not so circumspect. Qaradawi, whom Saudi-funded academic John Esposito has praised as a “reformist,” in 2006 exhorted Muslims to fight against Israel by invoking the notorious genocidal hadith in which Muhammad says that on the Day of Judgment “even the stones and the trees will speak, with or without words, and say: ‘Oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim, there’s a Jew behind me, come and kill him.

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THREE DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT By John LeBoutillier

Barring some unexpected development (see below), the choice in November for President is going to be one of the three remaining candidates: John McCain, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

You know what?

All three of them are offensive to conservatives and opposed to conservative principles.
In fact, all three are basically Democrats - including McCain.

How can that be said about McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee? Simple. We now know that twice since 2002, McCain has considered joining the Democratic Party or the 2004 Democratic ticket, as the Veep candidate with his great pal, John Kerry.

And yet the GOP has somehow selected McCain as our candidate? How can this be?

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Top scientists warn against rush to biofuel By James Randerson and Nicholas Watt :: The Guardian

Gordon Brown is preparing for a battle with the European Union over biofuels after one of the government's leading scientists warned they could exacerbate climate change rather than combat it.

In an outspoken attack on a policy which comes into force next week, Professor Bob Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said it would be wrong to introduce compulsory quotas for the use of biofuels in petrol and diesel before their effects had been properly assessed.

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Islam intrinsically violent - convert :: HeraldSun

ITALIAN editor and critic of Islamic extremism Magdi Allam, who converted to Catholicism from Islam and was baptised by Pope Benedict XVI, today branded his former faith as intrinsically violent.

"I had to do this (abandon Islam)", Allam wrote in a long letter to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

"Beyond ... the phenomenon of extremists and Islamist terrorism at the global level, the root of evil is inherent to a physiologically violent and historically conflictual Islam," wrote the Egyptian-born journalist, who says he has received death threats and is under police protection.

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The rise of the conservative legal movement :: PowerLine

Living in a liberal enclave, I sometimes find myself at social gatherings where folks assume that everyone is a leftist and everyone hates President Bush. In fact, this happened to me quite a bit pre-Power Line. Once, very early in the Bush administration an acquaintance was working himself into a state describing some twisted and nefarious scheme Bush supposedly had concocted. Trying to conceal any trace of irony, I said that Bush must be some sort of evil genius to have thought of this. The liberal paused for a moment and then replied, "I wouldn't say he's a genius."

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Israel and the War of Ideas By Clifford D. May

Israel's 60-year war for survival has been marked by numerous victories on the battlefield. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is lauded as one of the premier military forces in modern history. But Israel has often lost on another front, sometimes without much of a fight: the battlefield of the mind, where ideas, words, and images are the weapons of choice. Israel's enemies are keenly aware of how the victories and defeats in one theater can affect the outcomes in the other. As Hizbullah commander Nabil Qaouk noted in 2000, "The use of media as a weapon had an effect parallel to a battle."

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Passport Probe Finds Link to Obama Campaign? :: LGF

Bill Gertz and Jon Ward report that one of the people who illegally accessed the presidential candidates’ passport records works for a company headed by an adviser to the Barack Obama campaign.

The State Department investigation of improper computer access to passport records of three presidential candidates is focusing on one remaining employee — a contract worker with a company headed by an adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.

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Ani-war protesters attack Catholic parishioners in Chicago by Ed Morrissey

A group of anti-war protesters interrupted an Easter Mass in Chicago yesterday, stunning parishioners with their shouts during Cardinal Francis George’s homily. They then squirted stage blood on the congregation, leading to their arrest and an angry confrontation in the gathering space outside the hall. As it turns out, the protesters not only were mostly incoherent, but also very, very late:

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Don’t Be Afraid To Call Obama A Racist by Dave Gibson

While there exists in this country a tremendous double-standard in regards to who is given a pass to preach and practice racism, we cannot be intimidated by the race mafia to keep quiet any longer. This man who has come out of nowhere and is now close to becoming the President of the United States appears to be a racist and he must be identified as such. Despite the mainstream news media’s love and affection for him, it is time to end the campaign of Barack Hussein Obama. This can be done by simply using his own words and actions against him.

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Disarmed in the War of Ideas By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

On March 19, President Bush spoke directly to an audience that may prove to be among America’s most important allies in the War for the Free World: the Iranian people. He did so by associating himself and his country with their long-denied aspiration for freedom – an aspiration that continues to be suppressed, in his words, by “a regime that says they have elections but they get to decide who’s on the ballot, which is not a free and fair election.”

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Barack Obama Would Let Shoaib Choudhury Die By Richard L. Benkin

Like everyone else, I have my own political principles and beliefs; and I feel very strongly about them.  But when I began fighting for anti-Islamist Muslim journalist, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury [see AT Sunday edition], I knew that I could not be successful if I garnered support from only one political party or philosophy.  The fact is, Shoaib was in prison, being tortured, and risking his life.  He still is; which is why we have not stopped fighting.  Clearly this was a matter of human rights, of basic American principles, and everyone with an ounce of human decency should support us.

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Holocaust Mashup :: IsraeliGirl

How can one understand the true horror of the Holocaust? 6,000,000 murders is a number nobody can really grasp. 600,000 or 6,000 or 600 or even 60 are just numbers. 

Here is an attempt to use mashup technologies to gain some understanding of the true meaning of the Holocaust:

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More on the Iraq Recession Fallacy By Max Boot

Nick Kristof presents a subtle version of the “Iraq Recession” fallacy in his latest column. He is at least honest enough to quote Bob Hormats of Goldman Sachs, who says of the war: “Is it a significant cause of the present downturn? I’d say no.” But that doesn’t stop Kristof from hyperventilating about “a bill that is accumulating at the rate of almost $5,000 every second!” Of course, we’re paying more than $5,000 a second for entitlement programs, but that doesn’t get a mention in his article. Nor does he mention the all-important point that I alluded to in my earlier CONTENTIONS posting: seen in the overall context of our economy, the cost of the Iraq War is chump change (less than 1% of GDP).

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Latinos’ Education Failure is Their Own Fault! By Prof. John Press

Latinos score lower than whites on tests and drop-out of school more often and it is largely their fault!!!! The same goes for Black American youth! Wow!!! That was risky. One can get fired for saying such things. So to cover my buns let me just clarify that nothing in this paragraph had anything to do with race. Culture, not I.Q. or innate ability, explains this discrepancy. And if you really want to minimize the achievement gap between Latinos, Asians, Whites and Blacks, you should read on.

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The Scourge of Globalization By Kyle Bristow

Globalization poses as a threat to civilization, and in the interests of our people, it needs to be opposed. The ideology of those who promote globalization can be termed globalism, because just like Nazism, communism, socialism, libertinism, and all other utopian "isms" of the 20th century, it is unnatural and is a world-order that conflicts with human nature.

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Obama digs hole deeper By Joseph Farah

When I heard Barack H. Obama compare his white grandmother, unfavorably, I might add, to his racist, hatemonger of a pastor, I realized this guy would step on anyone to get to the top.

In a speech being hailed by his supporters as historic, Obama explained, "I can no more disown him (Rev. Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."

That was bad.

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Teaching banks to fish By Vox Day

It is a common assumption among the Republican faithful to assume that Democratic criticism is universally disingenuous and unfair, on those rare circumstances that it is not entirely fact free. This opinion is not without a basis in fact, as one has only to read the editorial page of nearly any newspaper in America to discover a glaring example of Democratic dishonesty. The Democratic Party is, for the most part, the party of the evil and the party of the stupid; not for nothing is it primarily made up of an alliance of useless, overeducated academics with uneducated dimwits lacking either high school diplomas or productive employment, and all too often, both.

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Saddam, the terrorist's friend By Greg Sheridan

THE fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq should lead us to focus on two inescapable but unfashionable truths: that Israel is marginal to most conflict in the Middle East and certainly not the cause of Islamist hostility to the West; and that Saddam Hussein was not only the most bloodthirsty tyrant of his day but an inveterate supporter of terror.

The sincere belief by US, British and Australian policymakers that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, a belief we now know was wrong or at least greatly exaggerated, combined with Saddam's deep involvement in terrorism, facts we have just had confirmed from translated internal Iraqi documents, provided one powerful reason for taking military action against Saddam.

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Let’s Not, and Say We Did By WILLIAM KRISTOL

It wasn’t when he posed the rhetorical questions: “Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church?”

The real question, of course, is not why Obama joined Trinity, but why he stayed there for two decades, in the flock of a pastor who accused the U.S. government of “inventing the H.I.V. virus as a means of genocide against people of color,” and who suggested soon after 9/11 that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

But orators often ask themselves the convenient questions, not the difficult ones. And Barack Obama is an accomplished orator.

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Saddam's Terror Links :: WSJ

Five years on, few Iraq myths are as persistent as the notion that the Bush Administration invented a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Yet a new Pentagon report suggests that Iraq's links to world-wide terror networks, including al Qaeda, were far more extensive than previously understood.

Naturally, it's getting little or no attention. Press accounts have been misleading or outright distortions, while the Bush Administration seems indifferent. Even John McCain has let the study's revelations float by. But that doesn't make the facts any less notable or true.

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Gore, I Mean Obama: "The Debate Is Over" By J.R. Dieckmann

When Barack Obama gave his Jeremiah Wright speech on Tuesday morning, it was thought that he would explain his relationship with the Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago, and explain why he continued to be a patron of that church in light of the racist and anti-American sermons of Rev. Wright. Well he did, but not the way most people expected.

Rather than distance himself from Wright and the church, he defended them both in an insightful depiction of the "black experience" where he portrayed blacks as victims and justified their racial hatred for the white folks based on a pre civil rights mindset. Obama justified Wright's outbursts this way:

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Obama as C-in-C? by Kris W. Kobach

The third week of March was not a good one for Barack Obama.  The news cycle was dominated by tapes of the racist tirades of Jeremiah Wright, and by Obama’s efforts to distance himself from his long-time pastor and counselor.

Had the Wright tapes not emerged at that time, the news cycle might have been dominated by a speech that Obama delivered on March 19, 2008, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  In it, he offered voters a sketch of what American foreign policy might look like under President Barack Obama.

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Losing Our Soul to the Islamintern By Andrew G. Bostom

Last June, 2007, President Bush, during a re-dedication ceremony for the Saudi-funded Islamic Center Washington, DC announced that a special US envoy to the 57 Muslim nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) would be appointed. According to the President, this envoy’s mission would be to “listen and learn.” Within a day of Mr. Bush’s announcement, investigative journalist Steve Emerson warned that the appointment of such an envoy was a potentially serious error, observing appositely, 

…that hours after his speech, CAIR [the Council on American _Islamic Relations], the un-indicted co-conspirator in the Hamas case in Dallas, congratulated the president on the appointment of a representative to OIC. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

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The Muslim Students Association and the Jihad Network By FrontPage Magazine

As revealed in documents seized by the FBI and entered as evidence in a Texas court, the Muslim Students Association is a legacy project of the Muslim Brotherhood.[1] The Brotherhood is an organization formed by a Hitler-admiring Muslim named Hasan al-Bannain Egypt in 1928.[2] It was designed to function as the spearpoint of the Islamo-fascist movement and its crusade against the West.

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The Islamists' Nemesis By Stephen Brown

Can a film save a country? Geert Wilders is betting that it can.

The courageous politician, a member of the Dutch Freedom Party, is currently locked in a battle against the jihadists who would overwhelm and Islamize his homeland. But as he stands in combat against the enemies of Holland's liberal, democratic society, a fifteen-minute film that no one has yet seen is one of his few weapons.

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Paul Berman's Vain Attempt At Understanding "Radical Islam" :: Snooper

As I stated in a previous post, Paul Berman is an emerging former brain dead liberal. Having made that observation and, having read his editorial in today's NY Slimes, it is very much obvious and relevant that Mr Berman has yet to grasp The Threat of the alleged radical Islam.

There is no such thing as radical Islam. There are no radical elements that have taken the peaceful part of Islam and turned it into something radical. Islam is a religious-political tenet of existence and the very premise and foundings of the cult of Islam is death and destruction to all that oppose its teachings. Think Sharia Law. It is Islamic Law based on the teachings of Islam...they go hand in hand and you cannot have one without the other.

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Understanding Arabs

By Alan Caruba

Seven years passed 9/11 and five years passed the invasion of Iraq, Americans are still trying to figure out what makes Arabs behave the way they do. There is a vast cultural difference between those in the West and those in an Arab world that fills the Middle East and stretches across the northern tier of Africa. Indeed, military conflict with Arabs goes back to the days of Thomas Jefferson.

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Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright and Marxist-Based Liberation Theology :: New Republican Party Blog

Just what does Barack Obama’s church teach and believe?

This is taken directly from Trinity United Church of Christ’s website in the “Talking Points section, and it written by Barack Obama’s mentor, Jeremiah Wright:

“…The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology.

“Black theology is one of the many theologies in the Americas that became popular during the liberation theology movement. They include Hispanic theology, Native American theology, Asian theology and Womanist theology.”

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Pope Benedict baptises Muslim convert in historic ceremony

Pope Benedict has baptised Magdi Allam, a Muslim-born journalist who has converted to Catholicism during an historic Easter mass.

Mr Allam, one of Italiy's most prominent commentators on Muslim and Arab affairs, received death threats from Islamic extremists after criticising Palestinian suicide bombers.

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Negotiating Without Benefit By R. EMMETT TYRRELL Jr.

On the evening of March 6 in Jerusalem, a heavily armed Palestinian terrorist from nearby East Jerusalem entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva and opened fire on the unarmed teenaged students studying there. Eight died, and 11 were badly wounded before another student and an off-duty soldier shot the terrorist. The atrocity ignited wild celebrations in Gaza.

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Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits by Kevin Yuill

Is Richard Nixon responsible for the racial "identity" politics of today? Thirty-three years after Nixon left office, his legacy seems overdue for a reassessment. Recently, military historians have argued that Nixon nearly won the war in Indochina. In his recent book on Nixon and Kissinger, Robert Dallek argues that Nixon was more pragmatist than ideologue, and while he often spoke in hyperbole, he rarely followed course. In his recent book, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action, Kevin Yuill confirms Dallek's assessment, arguing that affirmative action was Nixon's practical (if authoritarian) response to black rioting in American cities. However, what began as a pragmatic response to America's pressing racial problems, was part of a larger cultural movement that transformed the individual citizen into a member of a race or ethnic group and spawned the birth of a "clientele" citizenry. This was nothing less than a radical undermining of the tradition of liberal individualism and replaced the idea of individual justice with federally mandated orders to achieve "group justice."

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Methodists Invite Children Into Alternate Universe :: CAMERA

Judging from a children’s book and a Sunday school teacher’s manual published by the United Methodist Church in 2006, the anti-Israel activists in the denomination are fans of St. Francis Xavier, the 16^th century missionary who proclaimed “Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.” These activists also believe in an alternative universe in which Israeli concessions and withdrawals bringing about an end to Palestinian violence – a fairy tale that has been proven false on numerous occasions in the past decade.

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Does Anyone Really Believe In Affirmative Action? By GuyWhite

Diversity is a strength, we are told. The greatest strength even. And affirmative action is the way to achieve this panacea. But does anyone really believe in affirmative action for the sake of diversity, or for any other reason?

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I Strongly Disagree By Jeffrey Breinholt

At the Counterterrorism Blog, we try to foster respect for dialogue. Individual contributing experts are responsible for their own postings, and not subject to any editorial oversight. True to the blog ethos, we believe the best response to a disagreeable posting is more words. It is in that spirit, as a CTB contributor, that I express my strong disagreement with Farhana Ali’s recent posting, “Outside View: Danish cartoons doom us all.”

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