Article Links for Friday 4-4-2008

What a Tangled Web We Weave By Eric Rush

Last Friday, on the ABC talk show «The View» - about as softball a venue as one can get - presidential hopeful barack Obama indicated that he would have left Chicago’s trinity united church had the militant, anti-american pastor Reverend jeremiah wright not recently retired.

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard a bigger insult to the intelligence of american voter. To all but the Obama-struck, the statement had to be seen as gratuitously feeble. «Yes, officer… You know, I was just on my way to have that tail light repaired when you pulled me over.» ...

While Soros warns that the good times are over, the Internet is quietly creating the biggest, most dynamic economy the world has ever known by Tom Hayes

Billionaire financier George Soros made headlines again this week with his warning that the global “super boom” that drove the world economy since the Second World War is over. In a documentary that aired on the BBC, Soros asserted that the current malaise in the U.S. financial markets signals the end of the age of leverage, easy money, and rapid growth. The new danger, he worried, would be that growing protectionism would send the global economy into a recession, “or worse.” ...

The Democrat Party Has Kept Racism Alive By Nina May

There was a big problem with Barack’s mea culpa speech in Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White.  He failed to mention that over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery.  He didn’t mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded the Republican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those who had been in bondage. ...

Obama’s 'change' comes through agitating a community, not uniting all communities By Ted Belman

Why did Obama not pursue a corporate law practice but instead looked to community work as his life’s work? Why has he identified with agents of radical change, including William Ayers a convicted terrorist, throughout out his adult life. Why did he join a Black Nationalist, Africacentric Church? Why did he write (see Damning Quotes from Obama) ...

Pushing Atheism in the Name of Tolerance: The Myth of the Religion-Neutral Classroom  by Brian Melton

My readers may already be aware of the blatant example of religious discrimination in a Wisconsin public school that Fox News recently brought to the nation’s attention.  Student “A. P.” drew a rather innocuous landscape for a school project.  In it, he placed a cross and a reference to John 3:16.  The teacher heard students talking about it and demanded that A. P. remove the “offensive” material, stating that when A. P. had signed a required document prohibiting “any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs” in class artwork that he had “signed away his constitutional rights.”  A. P. tore up the paper and was thrown out of the class.  An assistant principal later twice confirmed that A. P.’s “religious expression infringed on other students' rights.” ...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights converted into Universal Declaration for the Protection of Islam from Criticism  by Lawrence Auster

At the website of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, Roy W. Brown, its former president, reports that the Organization of the Islamic Conference has effectively taken over the UN's Human Rights Council. According to Brown, the OIC, with the support of allies including China, Russia and Cuba, has pushed through an amendment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights requiring the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression "to report on instances in which the abuse of the right of freedom of expression constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination." ...

Company 'gives away' Southwest to Mexico :: WorldNetDaily

A new ad for Absolut vodka reconfigures North America according to the aspirations of many Mexicans, who believe the U.S. Southwest was stolen and should be returned.

Over a redrawn map of the U.S., the ad by the Absolut Spirits Co. declares, "In an Absolut World," noted columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin. ...

Snake in the Grassley By Bob Emrich

Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa recently demanded that popular religious leaders Creflo Dollar, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, and Benny Hinn, among others, comply with an unprecedented congressional request for their financial records. ...

Haditha: The Collapse of a Liberal Fiction by Michael Reagan

You’d hardly know it if you relied on the mainstream media, but the government’s case against the Haditha Marines took another body blow last Friday that may be the beginning of the end for this whole sorry attempt to severely punish eight heroic United States Marines for doing what they are trained to do. ...

The Fabulist Vs. the Saint By Charles Krauthammer

Hillary Clinton met her Waterloo at Tuzla. She'd been regaling audiences with tales of a dangerous landing under sniper fire in Tuzla 12 years ago and then running for cover. None of this occurred. When CBS provided the tape, she was forced to admit to "a misstatement." ...

Supreme Court Rules Against Foreign Precedent Warner Todd Huston

In 2003, then Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor famously posited that our judicial system should take into account foreign court rulings when deciding American cases prompting outraged conservatives to denounce her idea as endangering American sovereignty and destroying the Constitution of the United States of America. This year, the Roberts led SCOTUS has made an important decision that will serve to forestall that possibility. ...

Risky Misreading of Democrat Turmoil By Chris Adamo

Rush Limbaugh is enjoying the ensuing success of his “Operation Chaos,” his ongoing effort to weaken the political prospects of the Democrats by prolonging party infighting between the Hillary and Obama camps. But despite Limbaugh’s exuberance, the Democrat Party is alive and well, and could under the right circumstances, resuscitate itself very quickly. ...

Liberals Love Loons and Liars by Michelle Oddis

Barack Obama still remains a favorite among Democrats despite the recent exposure of his relationship with controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, now infamous for his anti-American jeremiads. Real Clear Politics national poll averages still place him two percentage points above Clinton with 45% to her 43%. ...

Global warming 'dips this year' By Roger Harrabin :: BBC

Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.

The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.

This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. ...

The Violence of Double Standards By Joseph Bottum

We should start raising money for a secret Christian commando force—the special-action arm of the Poor Clares, maybe, or the rapid-response team of Beeson Divinity School.

Well, probably not. But why, in fact, shouldn’t we? Violence works, after all. The mere threat of violence works. ...

CEI counters Gore's 'global warming' ad blitz By Pete Chagnon

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is re-launching an ad campaign that is designed to raise awareness to the threats posed by Al Gore's "global warming" agenda.

According to a press release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection recently launched a $300 million ad campaign that seeks to build support for policies that "restrict energy through higher prices and reduced supplies." But in response to that ad campaign, CEI has released a counter ad that "contrasts Gore's energy-consuming lifestyle with the life-and-death need for energy in developing countries." ...

‘Islam is not a religion, it is a sect’ Ehsan Jami

The controversial PvdA politican and founder of the Committee for Ex–Muslims Ehsan Jami (22) dominated the headlines this summer. Jami, who has called prophet Mohammed a “criminal” and Islam a “sect”, went into hiding after he was allegedly assaulted by three men of immigrant descent on 4 August. ...

WHO ARE WE? By: Daniel Sargis

Not incredibly, in its recent article, Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race, the New York Times is now pandering to tribalism. 

Talk about reaping what you sow....

It’s little wonder why the stock price of the NYT has collapsed by 50% over the last 5 years while the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased by 50% in the same period. ...

Who Is Influencing John McCain? AIM Report

It’s not the kind of endorsement that a Republican presidential candidate should welcome. But former Clinton State Department official and alleged Russian dupe Strobe Talbott says that Senator John McCain and Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are all “moderate pragmatists” in foreign policy “with the demonstrated ability to reach across party lines.” ...

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Article Links for Thursday 4-3-2008

In spite of his words: Rev. Jeremiah Wright By Marie Jon'

It seems that the image of Reverend jeremiah wright (former pastor of presidential candidate barack Obama) is being expiated after offending Americans with his inflammatory, bigoted and anti-american words. The divinity wagons have been circled to protect the bombastic preacher in spite of his words. ...

Knock, Knock, Knocking on Europe's Door—Geert Wilder's Campaign to Save The West By Brenda Walker

The War for Europe is heating up. Despite the somnambulism of many Europeans themselves, immersed in comfortable lifestyles, immigration realist Geert Wilders is stirring the pot to arouse the public before it's too late.

And there's nothing like telling the truth about Islam to arouse people. ...

Obama was 'quite religious in Islam' By Aaron Klein

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam?

The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. ...

In the Company of Heroes By Kyle-Anne Shiver

"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering."
    - Carl Jung

Last weekend, I was profoundly privileged to be in the VFW Post in Nashville, Tennessee with a roomful of the some of the most intelligent, reasonable and sane human beings I have ever encountered.  These men seemed to shun the term "hero." 

Yet, what other word could possibly suffice? ...

Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy By Marc Sheppard

On the surface, Sunday's 60 Minutes puff piece did little more than cheer the pending rollout of Al Gore's all-out 300 million dollar green media blitz.  But on a deeper level, it also provided disturbing new insight into just what drives this man's unwavering and unfounded obsession. ...

Plymouth Crock By Hal G.P. Colebatch

Britain's great culture war continues to become simultaneously more totalitarian and more ridiculous.

A recent development is that the Plymouth Council for Racial Equality, funded by the Government's Commission for Racial Equality, the main power-house of Britain's Race Relations Industry (one of the country's major growth industries at present), is attacking the fact that a nearby pub has been named after the Elizabethan sea dog Sir John Hawkins, a companion of Sir Francis Drake and one of the chief British Admirals who defended England against the Spanish Armada. ...

The Patriotism Problem By JOE KLEIN

When he was really rolling in February, Barack Obama would close every speech with a peroration about the importance of hope. The setup always seemed a bit defensive to me — an attack on the pundits and party elders who thought he was too idealistic, a "hopemonger" who needed to have the "hope boiled out of me." ...

Hearts and Minds, Again By DANIEL HENNINGER

Is it uncharitable to suggest that when the fighting erupted in Basra last week between Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and the U.S.-trained Iraqi army, some opponents of the war hoped it would become George Bush's Tet Offensive? That is, a battle whose military details are largely irrelevant, but whose sudden violence "proves" to voters that a U.S. military commitment is unwinnable and should be abandoned? ...

The Wisconsin 'Tragedy' :: WSJ

Governor Jim Doyle called the result of Wisconsin's state Supreme Court election "a tragedy." It's surprising to hear how little he thinks of his constituents, who had the sense to depose one of the court's ultra-liberal justices and in the process helped toughen the standards for judicial accountability. ...

We Must Shield Our Defenses and Prepare for the Worst By Julian Krasta

While the three presidential candidates scuttle towards the big prize, the real-time issue of national defense against terrorist aggressors here and abroad remains the front-row topic.

Since time in memorial, legions of men of fractured ambition have left carpets of corpses in their wake because of ill-conceived, all-consuming greed, envy and hate. These same neuroses survive today. The disparity now is, tormentors are equipped with weapons of mass destruction and are sway to deluded impulses to gun down and eviscerate the sleeping giant, America. ...

CEI Fights Sierra Club Demands for CO2 by Richard Morrison

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and more than a dozen other conservative groups filed an amicus brief March 21 against a Sierra Club petition demanding that EPA regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new electric power plants. (The amicus brief can be read at CEI.org.) ...

The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine By FrontPage Magazine

The Muslim Student Union (MSU) at the University of California - Irvine (UCI) was founded in 1992 by a group of Muslim students who said they wanted “to establish a presence on campus.” Today MSU seeks to “build an environment that enhances good, discourages bad, and provides networks of resources, knowledge, people, and companionship to its members.” Toward these ends, MSU offers “daily congregational prayers, daily free iftars the evening meal for breaking the daily fast during Ramadan that serve over a hundred Muslims, over eight weekly classes, a quarterly magazine Alkalima, coalition building with other clubs on campus, and a gateway to the larger Muslim community …” MSU also provides career advice and a study/tutoring program to help Muslims at UCI. ...

Chinese Spy 'Slept' In U.S. for 2 Decades By Joby Warrick and Carrie Johnson

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the "perfect sleeper agent," though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security clearance. Colleagues remembered him as a hard worker who often took paperwork home at night. ...

Comrade Climate Commie Returns :: sdkruiser

When I first heard that Al Gore was going to spend $300 million on something I naturally assumed he was treating himself to a light lunch. No such luck. Chicken Little/Large is back to peddle his doomsday crap and tell us that the weather is going to kill earth. ...

Defending Family Values and Representative Sally Kern :: Humbled Infidel

There has been a lot of nationwide attention paid to State
Representative Sally Kern's comments regarding what is becoming an
obviously well financed and planned attack on traditional family
values. Those behind this effort have gone on the attack and suggested
that Kern is a hateful person who should resign from office. ...

Letter to a Secular Nation By Mike S. Adams

In his short book, Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris begins by talking about the torrent of hate mail he received in response to his previous book, The End of Faith. He has this to say about the worst of it: ...

Democrats Have Kept Racism Alive By Nina May

There was a big problem with Barack’s mea culpa speech in Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White. He failed to mention that over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery. He didn’t mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded the Republican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those who had been in bondage. ...

Time to Make a Deal with Osama bin Laden! By John Lillpop

Owing to the fact that far too much Muslim blood is being shed in the war on terror, I say it is time to make a deal with Osama bin Laden. Let’s work with all due diligence to end the hostilities and bring our troops home. ...

Funding Freedom's Demise By Henry Lamb

Youngsters who are just entering the work place have never known the difference.  Baby-boomers and beyond, know that government rules and regulations have increased exponentially, and continue to squeeze freedom from almost every endeavor.  Few people recognized the incremental constrictions, nor the institutions and processes that apply the pressure. ...

This is a Cultural/Religious War By Ted Belman

Moshe Feiglin was in New York on 9/11. Two weeks later he wrote this profound article, Why America Has Already Lost the War. For him it was a cultural/religious war. The same war that Israel had been fighting for a century and losing. Islam destroyed the greatest symbol of the West, he wrote, namely the Twin Towers and nothing less would do but to destroy Mecca, Medina and al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. ...

McCain Travels the World — and Impresses by James Kirchick

John McCain traveled the world last week — visiting Iraq, Jordan, Israel, France and Great Britain — hoping to demonstrate to voters at home his foreign policy chops and to people abroad his intent to repair damaged alliances. Seizing upon McCain’s remark that Iran trains Al Qaeda operatives. the media missed the bigger story: the largely positive reception that McCain received overseas. Rather than confirm to the world that he is the scary right-winger many of them envisioned, McCain instead reassured his hosts that his presidency would be markedly different than the current one.

Identity Crisis: Can European Civilization Survive

The European Freedom Alliance was established during the conference “Identity Crisis: Can European Civilization Survive?”, which was held in Rome. The Alliance is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and will develop and administer new programs and activities which advance and defend the cause of freedom and liberty in Europe. It will also administer a legal networking project and a scholarly and research institute that will conduct academic investigation into EU policies and actions. ...

The New York (Islamic) Times: How Propaganda Works to Ensure The Subordination of Women by Phyllis Chesler

At a time when Islamists are at full jihadic throttle, the New York Times recently featured a mild and lovely article about the proliferation of home schooling among Muslim communities in America.

How do we cut down on honor murders in the West? According to some people, you do whatever it takes to keep the girls from dishonoring their families so that their families do not have to honor-murder them. ...

Media 'Depression' By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Scary headline in Monday's Times: "As Jobs Vanish And Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record." Scarier headline in Britain's Independent: "USA 2008: The Great Depression."

Why didn't the Times editors just say: "Economy In Shambles — It's All Bush's Fault"? Or the Independent condemn the president for his war on the poor? ...

The 'Recession' Is a Media Myth By John R. Lott, Jr.

But over the last half-year, the media and politicians have said we were in a recession even while the economy was still growing.

Gas prices are going up. The economy is slowing. Talk of recession is seemingly everywhere. While the majority of people rate their personal finances positively, consumer confidence in the economy has plunged to a 16-year low, well below what it was during the last year of the Clinton administration when we were in a recession. ...

Green Lobby Fraud by Jeffrey Folks

Here I am in the sunny South, sitting inside in the midst of a late-winter blizzard. In most of the eastern U.S., in fact, this has been the coldest winter in memory. Since 1998 temperatures in the northern hemisphere have been trending down, and predictions for the next 20 years point toward colder than normal temperatures. We may well be entering a period akin to the Little Ice Age, a time of widespread crop failures, hunger, and lower life expectancies due to disease. In response to this crisis, the Democratic Congress is busy passing new taxes that make it more expensive to heat homes, fuel cars, and grow food. ...

Modernization and Its Discontents by Thomas Brewton

Anthony Daniels’s At the Forest’s Edge on the New Criterion website 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 and 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. ...

Where Are the Prophets? By Peter Leithart

The question of my title is not a lament. My question is not, Why are there no more prophets? I have something more literal in mind: Where do we find prophets, and, specifically, where do we find them in the Bible? What is their physical and social location? ...

If Only We’d Voted Democrat in 1972, We’d All Know How to Speak Russian By Yomin Postelnik

Everyone would like to have a presidential candidate we can always agree with.  In the end, however, when two clear choices emerge, the responsible thing to do is to fight hard for the candidate you believe will best serve, govern and protect this nation. ...

The age of the immigrant spy By Sreeram Chaulia

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. - Sun Tzu in Art of War, Chapter XIII
One March 25, Chinese-born engineer Chi Mak was sentenced to over 24 years in prison by a Californian court for plotting to obtain American naval submarine technology and illegally exporting it to China. The case offered a rare peek into the new multipolar world espionage system that is more complex than that of the bipolar Cold War-era. ...

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Article Links For Wednesday 4-2-2008

Schwarzenegger in Denial On Illegal Alien Costs By Edwin S. Rubenstein

Ahnold is at it again. The governor of the state with one-quarter of all U.S. illegal aliens says it would be a “big mistake” to blame them for the state’s looming $8 billion budget problem:

“I can guarantee you, I have been now four years in office in Sacramento, I don’t think that illegal immigration has created the mess that we are in.”

Memo to the Gov: When it comes to analyzing the cost of illegals, California has been here, done that. ...

Global Warming for Kids By: Philip V. Brennan

I wonder if Sen. John McCain, who has fallen hook, line, and sinker for Al Gore's shameful global warming scam, is also on board for the scare-the-dickens-out-of-the-kids campaign being waged by Mr. Gore's acolytes.

In an Oct. 26, 2007, speech on the Senate floor, McCain's colleague Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., zeroed in on the scare campaign, but I guess McCain wasn't listening. ...

The Left Trades Places By Larrey Anderson

One sign that the left is losing (and subconsciously knows it) is the prominence of conspiracy thinking in its fantasies.
When I was in the ninth grade I decided to run for student body president of my junior high school, and became suddenly and vitally interested in all things political.  My father's friend had given him some copies of American Opinion, the John Birch Society magazine.  I read them cover-to-cover.

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McMansion Marxism By George Neumayr

Black liberationists who pour bile upon America rarely want to leave it, preferring to wallow in the "white" wealth they claim to distrust than risk penury and persecution in their imagined Marxist paradises. ...

Evolution of Religious Bigotry By Jonah Goldberg

I just watched "Fitna," a 17-minute film by Geert Wilders, head of the Dutch Freedom Party, which takes a hard-line stance against Muslim immigration.

Released on the Internet on Thursday, "Fitna" juxtaposes verses from the Koran with images and speeches from the world of jihad. Heads cut off, bodies blown apart, gays executed, toddlers taught to denounce Jews as "apes and pigs," imams calling for global domination, protesters holding up signs reading "God Bless Hitler" and "Freedom go to Hell" -- these are just some of the powerful images from "Fitna," an Arabic word that means "ordeal." ...

Red, White & Black? By Paul R. Hollrah

On March 23, 2007, a reception was held at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The occasion was the official opening of the archives of the Communist Party USA. The keynote speaker was Gerald Horne, noted Communist and contributing editor of the Communist Party journal, Political Affairs. ...

We are Losing Our Country...Can We Save It? By Chris North

We are losing our country. This surely comes as no surprise to any number of conservative writers and others who may have come to the conclusion that our country is being stolen from us.

It seems, though, that a majority of Americans fail to grasp the fact that we are in a fight to the finish for our very existence. Else why do so many of our fellow citizens fail to exercise their right to vote and take so little interest in what our elected officials are doing – or not doing – in our behalf? ...

Who’s the White Barack Obama? by Ned Rice

Countless Americans were horrified recently when Geraldine Ferraro said of Barack Obama, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” Among the horrified were untold thousands of English teachers who noted that, since the verb was in the subjunctive mood, Ferraro should have said, “If Obama were a white man.” Since then, it has also been suggested that Ferraro’s remark wasn’t merely ungrammatical, it was racist. ...

The Coalition of Defeat and the Congressman of Surrender By Mark D. Tooley

The “Win Without War Coalition,” including 40 Religious Left groups and secular allies, is imploring Congressman John Murtha to slash funding for the U.S. presence in Iraq.  Murtha chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. ...

The Iranian Web of Influence in the United States By Hassan Daioleslam

On March 21, 2008, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced its decision to penalize three Iranian-connected companies as "they knowingly exported three U.S. origin aircraft to Iran in violation of the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) and are preparing to re-export three additional U.S. origin aircraft to Iran in further violation of the EAR." ...

The MSA at Berkeley By FrontPage Magazine

The Muslim Students Association of UC Berkeley says that its mission is to support “those who wish to understand, appreciate, and practice their Islam without compromising their morals and beliefs”; to educate non-Muslims “about the misconceptions regarding Islam and the Islamic way of life”; and to “foster a social community for Muslims. ...

CodePink April Fools' hoax backfires By KRISTIN BENDER

That seems to be the consensus of many who were on the receiving end of a bogus announcement Tuesday by the radical anti-war group that the embattled U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in Berkeley was caving to the pressure of weekly protests and leaving town. ...

Video: Jihad USA: Homegrown Terror :: JAWA Report

The Fox News documentary hosted by E.D. Hill about the threat of homegrown terrorists. The threat is real and homegrown jihadis nearly always get their start online. The video is in four parts posted below. Watch it all and pass it on. ...

Muthanna Al-Hanooti, Another CAIR Official Indicted On Terrorism Charges :: PipeLineNews

Saddam Spy Hanooti Greeted By First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

March 29, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Council on American Islam Relations [CAIR] is in the news again, this time because the former director of its Michigan office, Muthanna Al-Hanooti, has been indicted on federal terror charges.

Obama's church founded on radical creed By S.A. Miller

The church where Sen. Barack Obama has worshipped for two decades publicly declares that its ministry is founded on a 1960s book that espouses "the destruction of the white enemy." ...

Dispatch from the Eurabian Front By Thomas Landen

The Austrian authorities have indicted politician Susanne Winter on charges of incitement and degradation of religious symbols and religious agitation. This offence carries a maximum sentence of two years. Last January, Ms Winter said that the prophet Muhammad was “a child molester” because he had married a six-year-old girl. She also said he was “a warlord” who had written the Koran during “epileptic fits.” ...

CONSTITUTIONAL DEFERENCE TO ISLAM By Stephen C. Coughlin

Thought by Western analysts and decisionmakers to be ancillary to the actual conduct of policy for most Middle Eastern Muslim countries, Islamic law’s status turns out to be constitutionally established in most of them. “Extremists” and Islamist who know this reasonably claim that if the Western-style constitutions of many Muslim countries were properly followed, they would have to yield to Islamic law. ...

Turning off global warming fears By JAY AMBROSE

All over the planet recently, people turned off electric lights to illustrate alarm about human-caused global warming, and the symbolism, it seems to me, is dead-on right about the possible consequences not of warming itself, but of hype about warming. Progress could become regress, and figuratively speaking, the world could go dark. ...

The city that liberalism ruined By Rich Lowry

It could be an item on a David Letterman Top Ten List of "How to Know Your Mayor is Headed for a Major Scandal" — he's known as the "Hip-Hop Mayor."

That's what they call Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, now famous for text messages detailing the affair he had with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick had denied the relationship under oath in a lawsuit brought by two police officers Kilpatrick allegedly fired to cover up his personal misconduct. He has been indicted on eight felony counts including perjury and obstruction of justice. ...

Egg Donors and Human Trafficking By Michele Clark and Jennifer Lahl

Whenever most people hear the term “egg donor,” they usually consider this a good thing, as most of us assume that anyone who donates is altruistically motivated and thus engaged in something intrinsically good. And besides, it’s for a great cause, so everything is all right, yes?

Nothing could be further from the truth. Sadly, egg donation has less to do with altruism and more to do with the exploitation of women–particularly young women and often poor women who are usually facing large debts or just trying to make ends meet. ...

British policy advisor says Gore is in 'panic' mode By Jim Brown

British environmental analyst Christopher Monckton says Al Gore's latest attack on global warming skeptics shows the former vice president and other climate alarmists are "panicking." 

On Sunday, CBS News correspondent Leslie Stahl asked Al Gore on the television show 60 Minutes what he thinks of people like Vice President Dick Cheney who doubt that global warming is caused by human activity. ...

Arabs battle West over free speech at UN :: Israel e News

Muslim nations meet opposition from EU, US in proposing restrictions to be imposed on negative comments about Islam. US: 'Resolution attempts to legitimize criminalization of expression'

On Tuesday Arab and Muslim countries defended a resolution they pushed through at the United Nations, to have the body's expert on free speech police individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam. ...

Europe's Muslim Radicals: The Next Generation By Abigail R. Esman

"American kill," said the five-year-old boy. "Bush I kill." And as his proud father watched, beaming, he demonstrated how to cut the evil American's bare throat.

So it was in a Birmingham, England, home – as recorded secretly by British security services a few months ago while investigating the child's British-Pakistani father, Parvis Khan, then a suspect in a plot to kill a Muslim British soldier. This week, after his plan had been thwarted by MI5, Khan was sentenced to life in prison.

And what will become of the boy? ...

British report says record immigration brought little or no economic benefit :: Herald Tribune

Record levels of immigration to Britain have brought little or no economic benefit, a parliamentary report published Tuesday said, disputing the government's position that immigration has helped the economy.

The report, by the Economic Affairs Committee, said that no evidence had been found to prove that "net immigration - immigration minus emigration - generates significant economic benefits for the existing U.K. population."

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Google Against Anti-Censorship Proposal By Blogoscoped

TechCrunch and Barrons.com report that Google has recommended a no vote against a proposed anti-censorship, as well as a human rights, shareholder proposal. The proposal titled Internet Censorship suggests Google should institute policies including the following minimum standards:

1) Data that can identify individual users should not be hosted in Internet restricting countries, where political speech can be treated as a crime by the legal system. ...

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Article Links For Tuesday 4-1-2008

Winning The Iran-In-Iraq War By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The surge strategy produced an astonishing turnaround in Iraq. Now the challenge is defeating Iranian-backed Shiite militias trying to undo that progress. Naturally, Democrats recommend surrender. ...

Treason Lobby Trying to Muscle MainStream Media Into Banning Immigration Reform Patriots By James Fulford

There's a new website called wecanstopthehate.org which is trying the old guilt-by-association trick to delegitimize all anti-immigration arguments and arguers—including not just us at VDARE.com, but also including the more circumspect/ wimpier organizations like CIS, FAIR, and NumbersUSA, which may see us as radical.  ...

A Giant Mosque for Strasbourg By Tiberge

A giant mosque is being built for the city of Strasbourg. Joachim Véliocras writes at Islamisation that the Regional Council of Alsace, consisting mainly of UMP members, voted in favor of a 420,000 euro subsidy for the construction of the Grand Mosque of Strasbourg. The UMP is President Sarkozy’s party. ...

Does Obama know America? By James Lewis

When I hear liberals talk about this country I don't recognize the place. It's just as if they never talk to their own neighbors or go to their local market. The Left seems to constantly misunderstand normal people in a really paranoid fashion. ...

SCANNING FOR TERRORISTS :: The Real World

This entire warrantless wiretapping issue is as big a HOAX as any ever perpetrated upon the American people. The spin, lies and exaggeration that surrounds the "discussion" is both disgustingly partisan and foolish beyond belief relative to the safety of our citizens.

Let's begin by reviewing some of the facts about what this actually entails: ...

Demeaning of Life By James Bowman

The "Free for All" page of the Saturday Washington Post has become mainly a forum for the politically correct to complain that their exquisite sensitivities have been rudely violated by some Post reporter or editor who has failed, say, to include the pronouns appropriate to both sexes or who has made the mistake of mentioning a woman's appearance. Last Saturday, one Bill Crews of Washington wrote to remind us that, as he put it, "Not Everyone Is Straight": ...

The West's cowardice toward Islam By Henryk M. Broder

There's a key for every lock, just as there's a perfectly fitting label for everyone who refuses to fit in. At the moment, the term "right-wing populist" is hot. Everyone and his brother is calling Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders by that name at the moment, but hardly any commentators or reporters have taken the time to explain what a "right-wing populist" actually is. And what distinguishes it from other political standpoints like, for instance, "left-wing populists." ...

Destroying Detroit By Rich Lowry

It could be an item on a David Letterman Top Ten List of “How to Know Your Mayor is Headed for a Major Scandal” — he’s known as the “Hip-Hop Mayor.”

That’s what they call Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, now famous for text messages detailing the affair he had with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick had denied the relationship under oath in a lawsuit brought by two police officers Kilpatrick allegedly fired to cover up his personal misconduct. He has been indicted on eight felony counts including perjury and obstruction of justice. ...

Compulsion to Corruption By Lance Thompson

During the 2006 campaign, no Democrat could grant a print, radio or television interview of more than a dozen words unless it contained the phrase "culture of corruption." Capitalizing on Republican congressional scandals like the outrageous graft of Duke Cunningham and the overblown scandal of Mark Foley, Democrats filtered every news event through the "culture of corruption" spin. They promised to "end the culture of corruption" if only the voters would elect them. The Democrats rode the mantra to majorities in both houses. ...

MI Speaker Employs State Paid Thugs to Stop Recall By Warner Todd Huston

Here is a story that details how far Democrats will go to destroy the people's ability to be heard in government. It also shows Democrat's penchant to abuse their power, their blatant waste of government funds, and the incestuous relationship that the anti-democratic process unions have with Democrats. ...

SCOTUS Tells Foreign Court to Butt Out by Ted Cruz

Over the past few years many Americans have become deeply concerned that judges have begun relying more and more on foreign law to decide questions of U.S. constitutional law. One doesn’t have to be a constitutional scholar to object to foreign laws and foreign courts -- laws that are not enacted by our democratic government and judges who are not selected as our Constitution provides -- ruling on Americans’ rights and the powers of American government. ...

Will Europe Resist Islamization? By Daniel Pipes

Some analysts of Islam in Western Europe argue that the continent cannot escape its Eurabian fate; that the trend lines of the past half-century will continue until Muslims become a majority population and Islamic law (the Shari‘a) reigns. ...

The Party of Defeat’s Haditha Lie Crumbles By Ben Johnson

THE COLLECTED TALES OF AMERICAN ATROCITIES, WHICH LEFTISTS RELY UPON THE WAY OTHERS SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES FOR SOLACE, is getting shorter. Like allegations of torture at Guantanamo, Koran desecration, and detainee murders in Afghanistan, the Haditha “massacre” is increasingly being exposed as a fairy tale. ...

AN OAF FOR ALL SEASONS By Norman Liebmann

Inasmuch as the necessity for a tie-breaking compromise Democrat candidate for President looms as a possibility, Al Gore is rattling the bars of his cage once again. It is suspected he always had another run for the Oval Office in mind but was just a little slow “getting off the blocks”. ...

Courting Ruin by Jay Tea

Well, it's happened again. The Islamists are waging a fresh war in Western courts to get their way.

Actually, that's not quite true. They've managed to scare enough people that they're willing to do the Islamists' dirty work for them: some Dutch people are threatening to sue Geert Wilders if his film exposing Islam's dirty little secrets triggers a Muslim boycott of Dutch products in general. ...

The stupendous idiocy of talking to maniacs who just want to destroy us By Melanie Phillips

At the National Theatre, a new play by the former radical playwright Howard Brenton, Never So Good, paints a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of the Sixties Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who as a young man opposed Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. ...

All right, where is the worldwide Muslim indignation over this film? :: Jihad Watch

Here is open bloodlust and Islamic supremacism, in a film produced by Muslims for Muslims -- indeed, for Muslim children. Will the OIC denounce this film? Will Ban Ki-Moon and Louise Arbour?

If not, why not? ...

The Fitna Firestorm by Robert Spencer

Fitna in Arabic means discord or upheaval; it is also the name of a new sixteen-minute film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders that appeared last Thursday, and has done nothing since then but … create fitna. The expected riots and violence did not materialize: in Karachi, a quixotic band of just over three dozen jihadists chanted “Death to the filmmaker,” but so far that has been about it on the street level. ...

The Mirage By David Hazony

What if Condoleezza Rice came to Jerusalem, and nobody cared?

When you have been watching the peace process for enough years, you start to wonder whether anything is ever serious. So here was Rice asking Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for confidence-building measures, accordingly he announced the removal of 50 West Bank roadblocks and several key checkpoints, leaving the Secretary of State “amazed.” Yet on the same day, he also announced the resumption of building in major settlement blocs, in flat contradiction to his previous commitments. ...

Can Anyone Define "Politically Correct"? By Harris Sherline

I've been trying to understand exactly how the term "Politically Correct" (PC) is defined.  What is it, specifically?  Who determines what is correct and what is not?  Are there regular meetings of some PC board or committee?  Who appoints or elects them?  Is there a guide or dictionary that is used to determine what is correct and what is not? ...

Your Child Is Not State Property By Thomas E. Brewton

Rocked by a nationwide storm of criticism, the Los Angeles County court that declared homeschooling illegal in California has agreed to rehear the case in June.  At issue is Justice H. Walter Croskey's Feb. 28 decree, which ordered the parents of "Rachel L." to send her away to a public or private school, where she can get a "legal education." ...

Another Haditha Marine Cleared of All Charges; Murtha still in good standing with Dem colleagues :: Pundit Review

Charges dropped against Marine in Haditha case

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Charges against a US Marine involved in the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha were dropped on Friday, just moments before the start of the soldier’s court martial. ...

The Problem of Western Civilization By Kyle Bristow

Western civilization seems to be deathly ill with a problem that has yet to be diagnosed. Some people suggest that the rise of Islam is the principle problem that faces the Occident in contemporary times. Other people suggest that a secularization of the Western people is the main quandary. Still others suggest that a balkanization of American culture is the primary dilemma. In my opinion the aforementioned problems are only symptoms of the true problem, which is that Westerners lack the willpower to defend their civilization. ...

Hostile-To-Reason Academics Fear Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged by Craig Biddle

“Gifts with Strings a Knotty Issue,” is the latest in a recent stream of articles about academics going berserk because BB&T, under the direction of CEO John Allison, has made contributions to universities with the stipulation that Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged be included somewhere in the schools’ curricula. For those who have not yet read Atlas, let me begin by saying a few words about the novel in order to set the context necessary for understanding the hostility of certain academics toward the book. ...

LiveLeak restores “Fitna”; Video: Indonesians call for Wilders’s death by Allahpundit

Lawhawk salutes, as do I. That’s an awfully quick turnaround; I can only assume the Brits have hooked them up with security for the foreseeable future.

On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film “fitna” from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. ...

The Real Taboo By Ian Jobling

Last week, Condoleeza Rice called slavery America’s “birth defect.”

Rice acts as though she were bravely fronting our taboos on race. However, her remarks are utterly generic and cliched. Americans plainly have no difficulty talking about the evils whites have committed against blacks. In fact, we are totally obsessed by this aspect of our history. Our history textbooks, our popular media, and the thousand and one slavery museums that have popped up around the country revel in the gory details of death during the Atlantic passage, whippings, and rape that were undeniably part of the reality of slavery. ...

Silence from post-election Zimbabwe deafening By Judi McLeod

According to Zimbabwe’s independent newspaper The Zimbabwean, Morgan Tsvangirai has toppled President Robert Mugabe with 58 percent of the popular vote. 
Tsvangirai received 467,000 votes to Mugabe’s 300,000 in Saturday’s general elections. ...

Historical Reality vs. a National “Birth Defect”  By Arnold Ahlert

Last Friday, Condoleeza Rice stated that we still have a racial problem in this country due to a national “birth defect” resulting from slavery. “Black Americans were a founding population. Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together–Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding,” said the Secretary of State. ...

Pipes's penetrating discussion of the meaning of Fitna by Lawrence Auster

In a long blog entry that was first posted last December 29 and then repeatedly updated through March 27, Daniel Pipes has followed the Perils of Pauline tale of Geert Wilders's efforts to screen Fitna. Pipe's items are all about the Dutch government's and the Muslims' responses to the movie, the threats, the efforts to suppress it, and so on.

Then, at the end of the blog entry, Pipes writes: ...

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Global Cultural Jihad...the Saga Continues By Snooper

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? ...

Will President Obama Wreck America? Not If Confronted By An Informed Citizenry By Steve Sailer

Senator Barack Obama's image as a "racial reconciler" seems to rest largely on the happy mixed race home in which he grew up, where young Barack worked on grooving his golf swing under the stern but caring tutelage of his ex-Green Beret dad while his anti-Communist immigrant mom washed his golf shirts so he'd look nice in the tournament. ...

A Truly Endangered Species By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

So Al Gore is launching a 3-year, $300 million ad campaign to frighten us all into doing what he says (not what he does) to counter global warming. It is a safe bet this spectacular propaganda endeavor will feature prominently polar bears who will be described as endangered species due to the impact of climate change on their ever-less icy habitat. ...

Questions that Bother Oprah and Today's New Age Thinkers By Frank Pastore

I have a few questions—but they are not about whether Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle or Marianne Williamson are good, smart and nice people. I’m sure they are. My concern is about the ideas they hold—since good, smart, nice people can hold false beliefs and be wrong about all kinds of things. Sometimes, even the most important things.

I have questions about their worldview. ...

Ultra-Rich Cash in on Global Warming Hoax By Alan Caruba

Recently I emailed a gentleman who is highly regarded, nationally and internationally, as one of the top strategic, military and economic long-range thinkers of our times. He is the author of several bestselling books about the way globalization is impacting the lives of the Earth’s population. ...

Obama's indoctrination By Ralph R. Reiland

The Department of Justice reports that approximately 8,000 blacks were murdered in the United States in 2005. In one year, that's exactly double the total number of American military deaths during the entire five years of the war in Iraq; in one year, that's 10 times the average number of American military deaths per year since the start of the war. ...

Criticism and Islam By AFSHIN ELLIAN

'Fitna" has arrived.

Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders put the 15-minute movie about the Quran on the Internet Thursday night. But for weeks before anyone saw it, the Dutch flag was burned around the Islamic world. Iran's undemocratically-elected parliament endorsed a boycott of the Netherlands, and Web sites linked to al Qaeda called for terrorist attacks. ...

Islam & the Iranian Dilemma By Amil Imani

Since its inception fourteen hundred years ago, Islam has been at war with the people of this planet. Millions of people have been literally butchered with the sword of Islam.

Some may argue that all religions at one point in time have committed crimes against humanity. That may be so, but none of the existing world religions' foundation has been based upon shedding the blood of its innocent conquered. ...

Agents of Division Bring Devastating Change By JB Williams

For more than 200 years, a nation of immigrants from all parts of the world, all races, all cultures, all religions and all languages, have stood together as one people united only by a simple single set of principles and values that made them the most free, prosperous and powerful people on earth. No matter their backgrounds, their past, they chose a brighter future united in the common purpose of individual rights and rejected the chains of division. ...

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Today Is Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Day By Lee Cary

On January 30, 2007, Senator Barack Obama introduced the Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 in a speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate.  In describing the proposed legislation he said,

"This plan would not only place a cap on the number of troops in Iraq and stop the escalation, more importantly, it would begin a phased redeployment of U.S. forces with the goal of removing all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008. ...

Bobby Jindal -- Change You Can Believe In by Erick Erickson

The contrast between Barack Obama and Bobby Jindal could not be more stark. On the campaign trail this year, Obama serves up messages of hope and change. Last year, running for Governor of Louisiana, Jindal did the same. But Obama’s hope and change consists of platitudes. ...

A Primer on the Religious Left By Dr. Paul Kengor

The "religious left" is at least as difficult to define as the religious right. There are conservative Christians who are pacifists. There are other Christians who are theologically conservative but who support pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli positions. Today's religious left probably is larger and more influential in American politics than the religious right, which the left tarred with a neo-conservative brush. There are Protestants, Catholics, and Jews on the religious left. ...

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. ...

Caribou sets snowfall record By Julia Bayly

It’s official. The 2007-08 snow season in northern Maine is one for the record books. Just in time for the start of spring.

The old record of 181.1 inches of snow recorded in Caribou, set in 1955, was shattered by noontime Friday when the National Weather Service in Caribou recorded 182.5 inches of snow since the start of the season.

It didn’t stop there. ...

“Everything Will Be in Ashes” By Gordon G. Chang

Today, Pyongyang threatened to destroy archrival South Korea. “Everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, once our advanced pre-emptive strike begins,” promised an unidentified North Korean military analyst. The remarks, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, cap days of escalating tension on the peninsula. Yesterday, the North threatened to cut off all dialogue between the two states. Pyongyang pinned the blame for its bellicose words on recent comments by Kim Tae Young, the new chairman of the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. ...

THE HIGH PRICE OF OIL DEPENDENCE By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross 

A poll conducted last week finds that more than three out of four Americans now believe that the U.S. is in a recession. There are numerous reasons for the present economic downturn, but surely one significant factor is the steep increase in energy prices. Oil prices have more than doubled in the past fifteen months, rising from around $50 a barrel in early 2007 to about $110 a barrel today. ...

 

Informed Decisions By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Al Gore says that those of us who are skeptical that man is warming the planet have a flat-Earth mind-set. But if Gore would open his mind, he'd learn that more than likely the opposite is true. ...

U.N.-Believable Choice By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The newest adviser to the U.N. Human Rights Council hates democracies and loves dictators. The only right he wants is to bash the United States and Israel. Truly, the inmates are running this asylum. ...

Mein Koran: New cartoons in honor of Wilders' 'Quran Film' by Billy Rojas

Worldwide Muslim reaction is now building against Dutch politician Geert Wilders' movie, "Fitna," which was released on March 27, 2008. Approximately 1,200,000 people saw the film in the first 24 hours via Internet, originally on one site but now spread to numerous sites of may descriptions. ...

CAIR Remains Apologist for Terrorist Hamas, Seeks To Silence Critics by Steven Emerson

To say that The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has contorted logic and language to avoid criticizing its early patron, the terrorist group Hamas, would be damning enough. But the full truth is even worse: CAIR and its leaders have, over the years, actively supported Hamas positions and regularly done their best to discredit critics of militant Islamic activity.

Those ties with Hamas are at the center of today's installment in our examination of CAIR's history and activities. ...

Fitna the movie defeating Islamic censorship By Andrew Walden

Nothing makes people want to see something more than banning it, or even better yet, telling them they may not be able to handle it (remember the Blair Witch Project?). On that basis, the new film Fitna, must be pulling in internet viewers by the tens of millions. ...

Islam & the Iranian Dilemma :: IAN

Since its inception fourteen hundred years ago, Islam has been at war with the people of this planet. Millions of people have been literally butchered with the sword of Islam.
Some may argue that all religions at one point in time have committed crimes against humanity. That may be so, but none of the existing world religions' foundation has been based upon shedding the blood of its innocent victims. ...

Death Benefits by Jay Tea

If you divide the total number of abortions provided by Planned Parenthood in 2006 by 365, you find out that they performed an average of 793 abortions a week -- presuming they operated 24/7/365. If you knock off weekends and holidays, it's probably closer to 250 days, which brings the total up to 1158.6. That converts to roughly, five years worth of American casualties in Iraq every three and a half DAYS.

‘A Rank Falsehood’ 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." ...

Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Makes $1 Billion Income for First Time by Steven Ertelt

A new annual report from Planned Parenthood shows the nation's largest abortion business has made over $1 billion in income for the first time in its history. The non-profit pro-abortion group shows the historical gain in its new annual report covering 2006-2007.
While Planned Parenthood made $972 milion in its 2005-2006 annual report, last fiscal year it brought in $1.017 billion. ...

Asia Sets Up First Grad School to Fight 'Culture of Death' By Ethan Cole

An institution set up to train students to fight abortion and low birth rates recently opened in South Korea, becoming the first bioethics graduate school in Asia.

Pro-life champion H.E. Nicholas Cardinal Cheong – whom the school is named after – said he hopes the school will train “students [who] will serve to overcome the culture of death and contribute to the proclamation of the good news of life in the light of the Catholic principle of respect for human life and dignity,” according to AsiaNews. ...

More Democrat ‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy By Mark Alexander

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.” —John Stuart Mill

From the “keen sense of the obvious” department at Harvard University, researchers at the Kennedy School of Government reported this week what anyone with a lick of common sense already knew: When Democrats and their Leftmedia instruments of propaganda openly condemn Operation Iraqi Freedom, they embolden our enemy. ...

9th Circuit upholds constitutionality of Ten Commandments monument By Allie Martin

Attorney Steve Fitschen is applauding a federal appeals court that has upheld the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments display in a northwest Washington city. ...

The new Brahmins By Chan Akya

Imagine if you fancied the roulette tables in Macau, but had a nasty habit of losing US$10,000 every time you landed there. Most sane people would get some kind of psychiatric treatment that prevented them from ever getting to Macau under those circumstances. Supposing though that a rich uncle compensated you for all your losses in Macau and also paid for your travel and hotel stay. Are you likely to return to Macau after losing a whopper this week, or not? ...

Jeremiah Wright And The Irony Of Black Racism By Ira Heller

Barack Obama is supported by multitudes of Americans so eager to demonstrate their “liberal” benevolence that they gave him their votes on faith, before they had any substantial knowledge of who the man really is. Enter into the picture the images of Obama’s beloved minister of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, spewing his hateful venom to his delirious mass of followers. ...

McCain’s Incoherent New World Order By Cliff Kincaid

In his March 26 speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, McCain never mentioned the need to preserve American sovereignty. He could have reassured conservatives by stating his forthright opposition to Senate ratification of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, which provides for international control over billions of dollars worth of oil, gas and minerals and undermines American claims to North Pole riches. But he chose not to. ...

Obama's Pastor A Product Of Privilege, Not Poverty By  Morton A. Klein

The world now knows that for nearly 20 years, Senator Barack Obama has attended Chicago’s Trinity United Church and that his pastor was Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In his March 18 speech on race, Obama criticized some of Wright’s statements but also essentially excused and rationalized his sermons on the basis that many African-Americans growing up in past decades experienced prejudice, discrimination, lack of economic opportunity, etc.

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