Article Links For Friday 4-11-2008

Liberal Talk Radio’s Very Bad Week by Steve Gill

The important spring ratings period for radio is not exactly starting out with a bang for the already beleaguered liberal talk radio format. Millions of dollars have been poured into liberal talk networks by Democrat Party activists determined to create a supposed counterbalance to conservative talkers. ...

Islam and the Evolution of Europe’s Far Right by R. John Matthies

What is to account for the success of Europe’s Far Right? The attention the news media have devoted to the story of Islam in Europe has never been greater. And displeasure over concessions granted to Europe’s Muslims, fear and loathing of Shari‘a (Islamic) law — and fears that Europe, in the rush to embrace the Other, may lose herself — appear to be driving the continent’s electoral agenda. ...

MUSLIM SCHOOL PAID BY TAXPAYERS By J. Grant Swank, Jr.

StarTribune.com’s Katherine Kersten reports that a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights Minnesota is regarded as a public school.
Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) is definitely an Islamic institution getting tax money. Why? It’s another Muslim intrusion, taking advantage of a democracy. But school officialdom should stop it now....

Barack Obama married his 'mother' By Ted Belman

Spengler points out that Obama’s women reveal his secret
“Cherchez la femme,” advised Alexander Dumas in: “When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman.” In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama’s women reveal his secret: he hates America.
Apparently Michelle Obama has been known to put down Obama or “bitch-slap” him as Spengler suggests but she has high praise for his now deceased mother whom, she says, was possessed of “naivete”. ...

Liberal Fascism by Bernard Chapin

Should fascism come it will arrive with a happy face and a smile, as our Nanny Staters will trample any person or family who gets in the way of their keeping us all safe. A review of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. ...

Sierra Club Sellout Worse Than Ever By Brenda Walker

The top organization allegedly protecting America’s magnificent natural heritage and vital resources does nothing of the kind.

The Sierra Club has evolved from being a nonpartisan defender of US land, water and wildlife to being left-wing globalists in plaid shirts and hiking boots, crippled by a failed ideology of progressive utopianism and a leadership increasingly corrupted by money and power. ...

World Bank President chides west for Bio-Fuels program By Rick Moran

Just about every time we do an article or blog post about the bio fuels boondoggle here at American Thinker, we hear it from supporters of ethanol that the program does not affect the price of food.
Well, the President of the World Bank doesn't think so. Robert Zoellick criticized Europeans and Americans for diverting agricultural land away from growing food in order to pursue the elusive goal of saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Gangs & Illegal Aliens: A Powder Keg Ready to Explode Rose Pedenko & Tanya Simon

As most of us sat quietly in the comfort of our homes on Sunday, March 2, at approximately 8:45 P.M., in the Arlington Heights suburb of Los Angeles, Jamiel Shaw, Jr. was murdered – shot in the head by two Hispanic gang members. Sitting quietly at home once meant a high degree of safety. With the rate of gang infestations across America on an unstoppable rise, safety is no longer a part of our lives either inside or outside our homes. ...

Oil Drilling America by Deroy Murdock

How much more pain must Americans endure before our masters in Washington let oil companies punch a few holes in the Alaskan tundra? Must we shiver pennilessly in the dark before we may extract new domestic petroleum deposits? Or shall we simply keep buying $111 barrels of oil from people who want us dead? ...

Radical Islam and Our Cultural Suicide By Kathy Shaidle

Our society’s impulse towards suicide continues unabated, as those on the side of Western civilization are the ones continuously being silenced, while homegrown jihadists express their venom with increasing impunity.

Case in point: “the gleefully vicious and clownish jihadist Yousef al-Khattab,” as author and JihadWatch.com founder Robert Spencer calls him. ...

The United Nations: Islam’s Gestapo By Stephen Brown

Nepotism, corruption, anti-Semitism and now censorship.

While the United Nations has disgraced itself over the years with sporadic eruptions of the first three negatives, it added another one last March 28 when its Human Rights Council passed a disturbing resolution that directs the body’s expert on free speech to report on “individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam.” In effect, the UN will now become the Islamic world’s censorship watchdog, snooping out undefined acts of Islamophobia around the globe. ...

Petraeus and Crocker Meet the Real Enemy By Michael Reagan

There must have been times when Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker thought they were back in embattled Sadr City when they faced Democrats on Capitol Hill this week -- no Iraqi insurgents or al Sadr militiamen could have been more hostile.
No wonder. The goals of the Democrats and both al Qaeda and al Sadr insurgents are the same: the defeat of the United States in the war in Iraq. ...

TO SOCIALISM BELONG THE COMMUNISTS AND NAZIS By Roderick T. Beaman

‘Nazi’ is a contraction of ‘nationalsozialistische’ or national socialist in German. It was originally meant as a derisive contraction but today it serves another purpose; to avoid confronting what the ideology actually was and to sanitize the word ‘socialism’. The entire term for the party is ‘The National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP)’.

I’ve always found it interesting that the Jews are the second most reliable Democratic voting bloc in the country, the first being the blacks. In the 2006 midterm elections, about 80% of America’s Jews voted Democratic. ...

Africa’s Aid Problem By Bethany Stotts

William Easterly’s 2006 book, White Man’s Burden, places the amount of aid sent to Africa over the last 50 years at over $2.3 trillion dollars—yet poverty, corruption, and the AIDS crisis continue to be insurmountable problems there. Foreign aid’s ongoing failure to spark change recently incited Edward Luttwak to declare that things would improve if only the international community would leave Africa alone. “If anybody cared about Africa what they really would want to do is to do the very opposite: do everything possible to bring about the disappearance of the state,” Luttwak said at a CATO institute event. ...

Pelosi's War By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The cowardly start more wars than the courageous. Nancy Pelosi's craven altering of House rules to kill off Colombia's trade pact brings that danger to the Andes. If war breaks out, her name will be on it.

April 10 may end up as a date which will live in infamy. The Speaker of the House not only refused to step forward and be counted on approving the vital Colombia free-trade agreement, she ran away from letting anyone else vote on it. ...

Reverend Lee :: Power Line

A virulent hatred of the Jewish people runs rampant in the black community. It is manifested, for example, in the anti-Israel statements of Barck Obama's spiritual mentor and in his Hamas-friendly church bulletin. In the speech that was prompted by the videos of Reverend Wright's sermons, Obama described Wright's comments as "not only wrong but divisive" and "a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam." ...

Islam's Reality, And It's not A Show By ibn Misr

1400 years ago, The Christian Copts, were the majority native populations of Egypt. Actually, the name "Egypt" is a derivative from the name "Copt" (you can research it on Google). In other words, it's the Copts that gave Egypt its name.

Then, few thousand killer thugs, hungry, bare footed, covered with rags, came unprovoked from arabia, not with korans and interpreters to preach a religion, but with swords and spears, to kill, delight in blood, rape, abduct and send thousands of young girls and women to arabia as sex slaves, The Copts lost their country, and the thugs became the masters. ...

A Mystery in the Middle East By George Friedman

The Arab-Israeli region of the Middle East is filled with rumors of war. That is about as unusual as the rising of the sun, so normally it would not be worth mentioning. But like the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day, such rumors occasionally will be true. In this case, we don't know that they are true, and certainly it's not the rumors that are driving us. But other things — minor and readily explicable individually — have drawn our attention to the possibility that something is happening. ...

ACLU shot down in court; Baptist home continues to receive funding Jeff Johnson

The American Civil Liberties Union has lost another round in its ten-year legal battle to stop Kentucky taxpayers from funding care provided by a non-profit Baptist group to at-risk children.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit in 1998 to stop the Commonwealth of Kentucky from paying for part of the services provided by Kentucky Baptist Home for Children. Tim Tracey, litigation counsel for the Christian Legal Society, says the ACLU's argument was a familiar one. ...

Hey, why bother with a trial? By Mark Steyn

As revealed here a few weeks ago, the investigative unit of the Ontario "Human Rights" Commission recommended to the Commissioners that they not proceed against Maclean's for having the temerity to publish an excerpt from my book. The Commissioners have now released their final ruling and have decided not to hear the case. Of course, being apparatchiks of the pseudo-"human rights" establishment, they couldn't leave it at that. So they added the following: ...

The End for Obama? :: GOPublius

Bill Clinton, once hailed as America’s “first black president,” has been disavowed by a once adoring black community. Geraldine Ferraro has been accused of being a secret racist.  Oprah Winfrey is labeled a feminist sell-out. The major campaigns eagerly pander to racial and socioeconomic groups, and try different combinations of divide and conquer strategies.  Black Americans are for Obama, and overwhelmingly admit that it’s a vote based on race, women are for Clinton and overwhelmingly admit that it’s a vote on gender. ...

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Article Links For Thursday 4-10-2008

Pendleton 8 Exposed–The Real Story, Part 1 :: Euphoric Reality

Two years ago the nation was shocked to hear of Marines coming home from the battlefield in shackles. This is not how we treat our heroes, not when they are highly decorated, highly trained, and even more experienced. It was preposterous, we said, to charge Marines with murder for shooting the enemy. Isn’t that what we train them to do? ...

From Tom Burnett Sr: A petition to stop the Flight 93 Memorial :: Dhimmi Watch

The planned Flight 93 Memorial contains extensive Islamic symbolism. It is an insult to my son Tom, and to the other murdered heroes of Flight 93 who stopped Islamic terrorists from destroying the White House or the Capitol that terrible September day.

Please consider signing this online petition that I and some compatriots have put together. It calls for a new memorial design, and for investigation of the present design. If you want to do more, feel free to forward or post this appeal. ...

Eliot Spitzer, David Brooks, and the “Coming White Underclass” by Nicholas Stix

The white poor, working, and lower-middle classes, the guys who step up and serve as policemen, firemen, jail guards, infantrymen, Marines, and in the special forces, those are the guys that the Bill Clintons, George W. Bushes, and Eliot Spitzers think are idiots. ...

Leftist Evangelicals On Obama Bandwagon by Frederick Meekins

Just because some white liberals are going out of their way to vote for Barack Obama for no other reason than that he happens to be half-black, some within the Evangelical leadership are once again beating on their drums about congregations being too split along racial and ethnic lines. ...

A Nuclear Fait Accompli: Taking the Nazi Road to War By Dr. Brian Melton

Recently, Iran announced that it has once again begun to expand on its controversial uranium enrichment program. It plans to vastly increase the number and quality of centrifuges in its plants, but once again assures the nations of the world that its intentions are entirely “peaceful.” I feel certain that the worst the Iranians will face is another wild round of vicious report-writing at the U.N. and saber rattling by Bush and his allies. In the end, Iran will most likely receive a strongly worded note, which it will pile with all the others it has received. In practical terms, nothing will happen, the centrifuges will spin away with ever increasing efficiency to their “peaceful” end, and the West will continue to wander wistfully down a path that the Nazi’s led it down within some people’s living memory. ...

Evil Money By Deroy Murdock

Turn your clock back 70 years. Imagine that Wall Street banks and brokerage houses sold Nuremberg-compliant bonds and stock funds in 1938. American Nazi sympathizers bought financial instruments certified by Berlin-based advisors as free of “Jewish profits” from, say, Salomon Brothers and Bloomingdale’s. ...

Obama Promises to Dismantle Our Armed Forces by Robert Maginnis

YouTube has an undated 52-second clip of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barrack Obama outlining his plans for America’s national defense. Obama’s presentation demonstrates either total naivete about important national security programs or he is just pandering for votes among the extreme left.

Watch Obama’s message and consider some inconvenient facts about his national security promises....

Iran: Taking the Nazi Road to War By Brian Melton

Regarding a proposed invasion of Czechoslovakia in April, 1938, Adolf Hitler said: "Fait accomplis must convince foreign powers of the hopelessness of intervention.?  

Recently, Iran has announced that it has once again begun to expand on its controversial uranium enrichment program. It plans to vastly increase the number and quality of centrifuges in its plants, but once again assures the nations of the world that its intentions are entirely “peaceful.” ...

Better SAVE Than Sorry By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Why would nearly 50 Democrats not allow legislation they co-sponsored to get to the House floor for a vote? Because their boss, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, doesn't want meaningful immigration reform that protects our borders.

It's a tad unnatural for House Republicans to be pushing a so-called discharge petition to force a vote on a piece of Democratic legislation. But such is the case with the Secure America with Verification and Enforcement Act, or SAVE, authored by freshman Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina.

Substitute teacher blows the whistle on publicly-funded Minnesota madrasa :: Dhimmi Watch

Recently I wrote about the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) in Minneapolis, which appears to be an Islamic academy that receives public funding. I depended for my information largely on the work of the indefatigable and courageous journalist Katherine Kersten, who now has new information about this school.

"Teacher breaks wall of silence at state's Muslim public school," by Katherine Kersten for the Star Tribune (thanks to all who sent this in): ...

Why Is The Department Of Homeland Security Funding The "Hardening" Of Florida Mosques? By William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz

The Department of Homeland Security - [DHS] a cabinet level department - was created, with legislation signed into law by President Bush on November 25, 2002 as part of a governmental reorganization conducted post 9/11.

As part of this plan seven heretofore independent agencies have been rolled into this new bureaucracy - the Transportation Security Administration [TSA], U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration, U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard. ...

Student attacked for anti-illegal immigration stance by Cassy Fiano

Usually, when teachers assign politically charged homework, students are supposed to rigidly toe the liberal line. I guess Melanie Bowers didn't get the message, because she decided to do her project on anti-illegal immigration. Her poster said, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration." A group of latino students got angry, and jumped her in the hallways, hitting her, and threatening to rape and kill her. When Melanie reported the incident and asked to call her parents, school officials refused and told her to go back to class. Unbelievable on so many levels. Here's the story: ...

When Higher Education Isn’t By R.R. Reno

Law professors are the last intellectuals. While most academics grind away in their disciplines, the folks in the law schools seem to have the confidence and freedom to think and write about things far removed from the technical world of law. Stephen Carter at Yale writes novels. Alan Dershowitz at Harvard is a member of the book-a-year club. Richard Posner is now a judge, but he remains the paradigmatic law professor: a man to write books with theories about everything. ...

'Slippery slope' of homosexual agenda infiltrating Pentagon, says observer By Chad Groening

A conservative military watchdog says the Pentagon has set a disturbing precedent in allowing a homosexual member of Congress to take her "domestic partner" with her on a congressional fact-finding trip to Europe. 

According to Politico.com, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) successfully intervened with Defense Secretary Robert Gates in order to get Tammy Baldwin's (D-Wisconsin) "domestic partner" Lauren Azar on the military flight in question. ...

The message of 'Fitna' By Henrik R Clausen

Now the much-anticipated mini-movie 'Fitna' by the Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been out for a couple of weeks. Since this didn't cause the world to end, it seems timely to go through it and figure out what the fuss was about, and what the message of the movie really is. ...

The Funny Side of Islam: Muhammad and the Hadith By Fjordman

Iranian Islamic leader the Ayatollah Khomeini once said that “There is no fun in Islam.” I disagree. Islam can be quite funny; it just isn’t intended to be so. I have long said that Islam’s weakest point is mockery. Any enemy will reveal what he fears the most, if you listen to him closely. Muslims fear criticism or mockery of their religion more than they fear death. ...

The Siren Call of Censorship for Peace :: JAWA Report

Indian website Techtree reports that the predominantly Muslim country of Indonesia has banned YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, et. al. for allowing posting of the anti-Islamist video Fitna.

But Techtree's reporting carries a large dose of blame-shifting:

Before you upload an anti-Allah/Quran article, video, or cartoon, do think about whether the people affected by it will be able to view it. Or perhaps how much loss you're about to cause the Web site and people who use it, that hosts the blasphemous content in Muslim countries.

Got that? ...

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Article Links For Wednesday 4-9-2008

Put a Shine on This, Madam Speaker By Eric Rush

Our inimical lich of a House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at it again last week, subtly sabotaging our military’s efforts in Iraq, potentially demoralizing and compromising our troops in a transparent election year political ploy. On April 4, Pelosi admonished General David Petraeus not to «put a shine» on developments in Iraq when he and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testify before Congress this week. Petraeus and Crocker’s report will ostensibly illustrate Iraq’s political and military progress since their last report to Congress in September. ...

An Absolut Outrage By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

A vodka maker's ad campaign in Mexico is more than a marketing faux pas that offends many Americans. There's a real movement out there that feels our Southwest is really occupied Mexico.

The first rule of marketing is know your customer base. So when the makers of Absolut vodka began an ad campaign in Mexico featuring what a map of North America might look like "In An Absolut World," it was well aware it might appeal to many Mexicans there and here.

Your Tax Dollars Funding Terror by Patrick Poole

A strategic partnership between a prominent Department of Defense research institute and organizations tied to terrorism reveals the problem with the federal government's Islamic outreach programs. ...

College Mind Police Live to Brainwash Another Day by Candace de Russy

University of Delaware freshmen are made to undergo a "treatment" of political and cultural indoctrination. A scandal? You bet. Too bad nothing's being done about it. ...

Global White Population to Plummet to Single Digit—Black Population to Double :: National Policy Institute

As a percentage of world inhabitants the white population will plummet to a single digit (9.76%) by 2060 from a high-water mark of 27.98% in 1950.

The study was conducted by William H. Regnery, Mark Stradley, Dean Stradley, and the NPI Staff. The methodology is described in a footnote.

Using 2010 as the base reference the big gainer in the population derby will be blacks or sub-Sahara Africans. This group will expand almost 133% to 2.7 billion by 2060. By the middle of this century blacks will represent 25.38% of world population which is up dramatically from the 8.97% they recorded in 1950. ...

Boycott the United Nations! Fjordman

The United Nation’sSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Wilder’s movie Fitna as “offensively anti-Islamic,” and said that “There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence.” Does that mean that the UN is now going to ban the Koran, which does both? As Robert Spencer commented, “What exactly is ‘hate speech’ about quoting Qur’an verses and then showing Muslim preachers using those verses to exhort people to commit acts of violence, as well as violent acts committed by Muslims inspired by those verses and others?” ...

Western Civilization Rising Kyle Bristow

It has been argued by concerned patriots that Western civilization is in decline and will eventually die. This has been a recurring theme in books such as Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, James Burnham’s The Suicide of the West, and Patrick Buchanan’s The Death of the West. What these authors all have in common is that they believe that Western civilization is on the slippery slope to ruin. ...

A Return From The Feminist Abyss? Prof. Nicholas Stix

In her 1998 book, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, Wendy Shalit argues that not money, but modesty (read: chastity) makes the world go ‘round. Shalit sees the loss of female sexual modesty as having made girls and women miserable, and invited men—who hardly need such an invitation—to treat them badly. In the name of a more “authentic” sexual culture, everyone’s “doing it,” yet almost everyone’s miserable. ...

What is the opposite of a mensch? by Lawrence Auster

Barack Obama had a perfect opportunity to show that he wants to take America "beyond race," by saying that an Obama delegate's having called two neighborhood boys who were climbing dangerously in a tree "monkeys" was not a big deal and that black people need to get over this kind of thing. He could have said that he doesn't want America to be a society in which people must live in fear of having their careers and lives damaged over innocent and ordinary remarks. Instead he did this: ...

Random Thoughts By Thomas Sowell

Most of the problems of this country are not nearly as bad as the "solutions" -- especially the solutions that politicians come up with during election years. ...

I Dream of Obama by Lee Culpepper

Remember Barbara Eden’s hit character “Jeannie” materializing from a cloud of pink smoke? Well, I wonder if Obama’s stupefied supporters envision the same vaporous entrance each time their candidate with the magic wallet pops up on stage. Seriously, how else can they explain their belief that Obama could actually grant and fulfill all their government-sponsored wishes? Only silly television shows, children’s fairytales, and socialist fantasies have the sort of hope where magic - or less believable, the government - can fix people’s problems. ...

Sen. Obama coddles evil By Ben Shapiro

Yesterday morning, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran was busily installing 6,000 new centrifuges for development of nuclear material. Further, Ahmadinejad stated, Iran would begin testing a new type of centrifuge that works five times faster than ordinary centrifuges. ...

A Faltering Freedom Agenda by Radwan Masmoudi

WHATEVER THE ACTUAL results of Egypt's municipal elections yesterday, the fix is in: President Hosni Mubarak made sure that even the most moderate and reform-minded candidates would be shut out of the process. The charade of democratic elections in Egypt typifies the Bush administration's faltering freedom agenda for the Arab world. ...

The slick trick behind global frauding By James Lewis

In Stalin's Russia any dissenter from the Party Line was guilty. Innocence had to be proved. It's a standard tyrant's trick. During the reign of Oliver Cromwell in England, witchhunters did not have to prove that their victims were guilty. The accused witches had to prove their innocence. ...

Obama's other spiritual mentor and the Catholic Church By Rosslyn Smith

Another far left clergyman, Father Michael Pfleger, has joined his Southside Chicago friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the media spotlight, thanks to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The national political media first noticed F. Pfleger when he spoke at a raucous welcome home for Rev. Wright, follow his recent media firestorm. ...

To Seek a Newer World By Mark Silverberg

On September 11, 2001, this nation was attacked by an enemy whose vision of the future, whose culture and value system, and whose concepts of life and death are a universe apart from ours. In Gaza City earlier this month, an Israeli air strike killed two Hamas terrorists who were about to launch missiles at the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon. One of those killed was a son of senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya. At the funeral of his son, al-Haya said, "I thank God for this gift. This is the 10th member of my family to be martyred". And in Pakistan, a jihadist wrapped a baby in an explosive belt and detonated it killing scores of Muslims. ...

Petition blasts Islamic themes at Flight 93 site :: WorldNetDaily

A group of concerned citizens has been raising alarms about the Islamic elements planned for the Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., for years. And a member of Congress has demanded the National Park Service make changes in its plans. ...

Obama Is No King By Christopher Hitchens

When Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, I was 19 years old and fancifully considered myself to be far to the left of him. Notwithstanding that, he felt to me like one of my moral elders and tutors (as he still does). When I was first asked to sign a petition to make his birthday a national holiday, on a Manhattan side street in 1970, I was 21 and signed with pride. ...

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: It Was Never about Borders Ruth S. King

In its sixtieth year, Israel is a nation in retreat.

Since anniversaries beget nostalgia and retrospection, there will be invocations of the epic rescue of the wretched survivors of the Holocaust and the oppressed Jews from Arab countries; of the almost impossible victory of David against an Arab Goliath in 1948; of the lightning victory of 1967; of the come from behind victory in Yom Kippur 1973; of the rescue of the hostages in Entebbe; of the incredible destruction of Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, all of which were the source of pride and renewed confidence for Jews in every corner of the world. ...

Darwin’s Kool-Aid By Matt Barber

There’s a shakeup in the cult of neo-Darwinist pseudo-science, and that endearing, monotone high school teacher of “Ferris Bueller” fame is doing the shaking.
With his new feature documentary, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” (opening in theaters April 18), Ben Stein — actor, economist, presidential speechwriter and all around really smart guy — squares off with some of the world’s most prominent anti-theist elites as he gets to the heart of the question, “Who are we, and how did we get here?” ...

Political Loathsomeness By Walter E. Williams

Do any of the prospective nominees of either party deserve respect from the American people? The answer partially depends on your knowledge, values and respect for the U.S Constitution. ...

The Siren Song of Populism By Lee Cary

He took possession of the Democratic Party with the mesmerizing power of his oratory as his followers screamed, waved their arms, threw their coats in the air, and rallied to his call that, “This community is ready for healing.” ...

Making Business a Crime By HARVEY SILVERGLATE

When rumors of a liquidity crisis at Lehman Brothers began to circulate in late March, company spokeswoman Kerrie Ann Cohen was unusually circumspect in her public responses. "There are a lot of rumors in the marketplace that are totally unfounded," she told this newspaper. ...

'Algoreism' For the Masses by Lynn Woolley

The earth has a fever! Global warming is unequivocal! The world’s scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice! The discussion is over! These outrageous statements form the basis of a new hysteria that has taken root across the planet -- even to the point of infecting all three remaining candidates for the U.S. presidency. ...

UNBRAINWASH YOURSELF By Alan Stang

Again and again in these columns I have respectfully reminded you that the main reason this country is now on its knees is the communist government schools. We could not have arrived at the end of the plank had not those schools cooked our brains from the beginning. The communist media left and right – from the Communist Broadcasting System and the Communist News Network to Loopy Laura and Limbag – would not be enough. It could not have been done without the communist schools. ...

Cold War on Campus By Malcolm A. Kline

The latest survey on academic bias has sent academics into their usual state of denial despite evidence of same that frequently stares them right in the face. “Taken together, 40 percent of the Americans in the survey said professors often use their classrooms as political platforms,” Robin Wilson of the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on April 4th of a Gallup poll. ...

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Article Links for Tuesday 4-8-2008

Good science isn't about consensus By Don Aitkin

AUSTRALIA is faced, over the next generation at least and almost certainly much longer, with two environmental problems of great significance. They are, first, how to manage water and, second, how to find acceptable alternatives to oil-based energy. Global warming is not one of those two issues, at least for me, and I see it as a distraction.

I am going against conventional wisdom in doing so. But Western societies have the standard of living, the longevity and the creativity we have because we have learned that conventional wisdom has no absolute status and that progress often comes when it is successfully challenged. ...

The Club of Tyranny :: Spectator UK

The UN has once again negated any claim it can make to representing freedom and justice in the world and protecting human rights. Last week, the whimsically named UN Human Rights Council turned freedom of expression into its extinction and in so doing removed the last vestiges of its own credibility. ...

The New Pyramid Builders By Edward Cline

A mile-high tower will rise in a desert port town, and Americans will be helping to finance its £5 billion construction cost. It will rise in the town Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, halfway up the length of the Red Sea.
At 5,250 feet, it will be twice the height of another tower being erected in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on the Persian Gulf. A few miles north up the Sea from Jeddah is Rabigh, where about 40,000 workers are constructing the world's largest petrochemical plant as part of King Abdullah Economic City, itself part of a $500 billion plan to turn Saudi Arabia into a "powerhouse" industrial giant. Other massive construction projects are underway in Kuwait and other Persian Gulf countries. ...

Obama's Global Poverty Act by Edward Cline

I rarely write commentary from anger, preferring a properly objective, psuedo-dispassionate approach to a subject deserving my attention. But news of the details, nature and scope of pending legislation in the U.S. Senate has caused me to make an exception to that rule.
As though Americans were not already burdened with:

• Extortionate and confiscatory taxes wherever they turn on virtually everything they earn, purchase, or do, from the local level on up to the federal level;
• Myriad regulations, controls and arbitrary rules that hamper or obstruct their productivity and their lives; ...

Biofuel Madness: Environmentalism exploited for political purposes By Dr. Tim Ball

The rush towards biofuels is threatening world food production and the lives of billions of people, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser said yesterday. Professor John Beddington put himself at odds with ministers who have committed Britain to large increases in the use of biofuels over the coming decades. In his first important public speech since he was appointed, he described the potential impacts of food shortages as the “elephant in the room” and a problem which rivaled that of climate change. ...

Polls Show Students Rejecting Conservatism—Except For National Question By Kevin Carter

Anyone who has paid any attention to the MSM’s election coverage in recent weeks is familiar with the spin:  Republicans (and Hillary Clinton supporters for that matter) are old, boring, overwhelmingly white, and destined to be swept off the stage of history by a rising tide of multicultural-minded young people, led by their hero and savior Barack Obama.

The same spin appears in immigration coverage: young people are accepting and welcoming of immigration, those opposed are old and out of touch. ...

Making Big Bucks Through Abortion by Jonathan Falwell

Question: Does the federal government have the right to utilize your tax dollars to fund organizations whose core values completely differ from your own?
Answer: Absolutely. In fact, just this week it was revealed that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s most prominent abortion provider, received an astounding $336 million in government (both federal and state) grants. But get this: Planned Parenthood took in more than $1 billion last fiscal year, according to its own annual report, for the first time in its history. ...

'Abortion is not healthy' By Joseph Farah

Anyone who reads my column regularly knows I am an ardent opponent of abortion.

Frankly, I don't know how any civilized person could justify the murder of the most innocent form of human life – preborn babies in the womb.

Yet, today in America, and throughout the world, killing unwanted, unborn babies is the norm. It is widely accepted. It is often subsidized by governments. It is a ritual practice of sacrifice like in the biblical days of Baal. ...

Doublethink and the Liberal Mind By Ed Kaitz

Recent polls are showing that by a good 60% margin, Barack Obama is seen as a candidate who can "unify" the nation.  This may be the most brilliant example of what George Orwell called "doublethink" in the recent history of the Democratic Party.  Think about it: for over thirty, maybe forty years the American public has been variously sermonized and threatened by crusaders in Obama's same party into embracing not unity, but "diversity."  Call it what you will - brilliant or duplicitous - it is still a masterful political achievement.

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Mark Penn's Transgression  By George Will

Hillary Clinton's campaign, which is a guttering candle, has suffered a perhaps extinguishing gust of ill wind. Her principal strategist has been forced to resign from that role.

Mark Penn's sin was to be caught doing something sensible, surreptitiously. That is the only way Democrats can do sensible things regarding trade when their party is pandering to organized labor. Penn's downfall makes him a member of a species which many Democrats insist is large and about which Democrats theatrically grieve: Penn is a casualty of free trade. ...

America’s Fifth Column By JB Williams

America has a growing enemy within. This enemy is referred to by experts as America’s Fifth Column. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the term Fifth Column refers to “A clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity [unity] by any means at their disposal.”

As Britannica notes, the term is credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth column,” intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.

To Seek a Newer World Mark Silverberg By Mark Silverberg

On September 11, 2001, this nation was attacked by an enemy whose vision of the future, whose culture and value system, and whose concepts of life and death are a universe apart from ours. In Gaza City earlier this month, an Israeli air strike killed two Hamas terrorists who were about to launch missiles at the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon. One of those killed was a son of senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya. At the funeral of his son, al-Haya said, "I thank God for this gift. This is the 10th member of my family to be martyred". And in Pakistan, a jihadist wrapped a baby in an explosive belt and detonated it killing scores of Muslims. ...

Obama's Extreme Liberalism Still Under the Radar by Sean P. Trende

The thing that drives Republicans craziest about Barack Obama is that they can see it coming. They know that behind the dulcet intonations of togetherness and unanimity lies a politician whose beliefs are uniformly liberal. Over time, they suspect, the smooth talk will give way to everyday politicking. But will it be before Barack the President will shows himself to be something entirely unlike Barack the Candidate? ...

Pinocchiobama by Erick Erickson

Barack Obama seeks to portray himself as a new type of politician. He wants to lead us, he says, with hope for the future, change in the present and repudiation of the past eight years so that America can exchange the failed policies of the last eight years for those of the past one hundred years, He seeks, if you will, to transcend politics. ...

The UN's Attack On Our Freedoms By Joseph Klein

Al Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, just recently declared on one of the websites al Qaeda uses to spread its propaganda that “the United Nations is an enemy of Islam and Muslims.”

Strange that Zawahri would kick a gift horse in the mouth. In fact, the UN is one of the best friends that Zawahri and his Islamic cohorts have today on the world stage. It has become the enemy of Israel and of Western democratic values. Dominated by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council in particular provide political cover for virtually every crime against humanity that the Islamists commit. ...

Will Leftist Evangelicals Demand Believers Get On Obama Bandwagon? By Frederick Meekins

Just because some white liberals are going out of their way to vote for Barack Obama for no other reason than that he happens to be half-black, some within the Evangelical leadership are once again beating on their drums about congregations being too split along racial and ethnic lines. ...

Doctor Kissinger Is Wrong Again by DJ Drummond

When I was growing up, I was taught to respect the assumed intellect and genius of Henry Kissinger. It was only later that I began to see his limits and failings as a strategist. Granted, all humans make mistakes and we all have limits, and frankly the difference between a wise man and a foolish one, often comes down to the wise man knowing his limits. Which reminds me, I don't see any evidence that Dr. Kissinger ever admitted making mistakes or failing as a strategist. ...

Horror and humiliation and Chicago By Spengler

What causes the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to imagine that "the government gives [young black men] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, [and] passes a three strikes law" to incarcerate them? It is the same kind of unbearable grief that still causes white Southerners to believe that their ancestors fought the Civil War for a noble cause? It is too humiliating to think that the miscreants had it coming. ...

Europeans funding anti-Israel hate and violence :: Israel Today

Various reports published last week showed that European governments and mainstream media are funding Palestinian Arab individuals and organizations that encourage hatred of Israel and perpetuate the Middle East conflict. ...

Expert: "We're brainwashing our children" about global warming By Bob Swanson and Doyle Rice

Another post from guest blogger Rick Neale of Florida Today, from the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando:

William Gray, the well-known Colorado State University hurricane forecaster, routinely uses the annual National Hurricane Conference as a platform to bash global warming. In a statement to Florida Today, Gray argued that the scientific consensus on global warming is bogus — and "a mild form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree" that mankind is in danger. ...

2008: The year the world will cool down :: Daily Mail

The world will experience global cooling this year, according a leading climate scientist.

The head of the World Meteorological Organisation said La Nina - the weather phenomenon which is cooling the Pacific - is likely to trigger a small drop in average global temperatures compared with last year. ...

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army By Cliff Kincaid

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries. ...

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Universal Health Insurance: Just Don't Get Sick By Alan Caruba

Okay, let’s say that President Obama or Hillary is in office and Congress has passed a bill that requires everyone to have health insurance. Gas is up over $4.00 a gallon, food prices are sky high, and, if you’ve recently graduated from college, you are paying off loans at $1,000 per month.If you’re a homeowner, you have a mortgage, property taxes, and a stack of other bills. You’ve got to decide between paying the mandated premium or being able to drive to work, buy food, holding onto your home, or keeping the bill collector from your door. ...

Creating a European Indigenous People’s Movement By Fjordman

An American friend of mine has proposed that native Europeans should create a European Indigenous People's Movement. I have hesitated with supporting this because it sounded a bit too extreme. However, in more and more European cities, the native population is being pushed out of their own neighborhoods by immigrant gangs. The natives receive little or no aid from their authorities, sometimes blatant hostility, when faced with immigrant violence. In an age where the global population increases with billions of people in a few decades, it is entirely plausible, indeed likely, that the West could soon become demographically overwhelmed. Not few of our intellectuals seem to derive pleasure from this thought. ...

Absolut Mexifornia  By Vox Day

According to the increasingly useless Wikipedia, my May 2006 column opposing a border fence and pointing out the practical possibility of the mass deportation of illegal aliens is one of my most notable accomplishments to date. And despite the incompetence of the left-wing college girls who increasingly control the content of the online encyclopedia, the ongoing northern migration from Central and South America indicates that this judgment may not be entirely wrong. ...

Tehran's murderous role :: THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL

The explosion of violence which started in Basra and spread to other cities across Iraq late last month is just the latest reminder of the destructive role that Iran is playing in the region. The violence began when the Iraqi Army attempted to disarm Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, a radical Shi'ite militia with longstanding ties to Tehran. Nearly 500 people died in five days of fighting which began March 25 and spread to Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. ...

Iraq and Its Costs By JOE LIEBERMAN and LINDSEY GRAHAM

When Gen. David Petraeus testifies before Congress tomorrow, he will step into an American political landscape dramatically different from the one he faced when he last spoke on Capitol Hill seven months ago.

This time Gen. Petraeus returns to Washington having led one of the most remarkably successful military operations in American history. His antiwar critics, meanwhile, face a crisis of credibility – having confidently predicted the failure of the surge, and been proven decidedly wrong. ...

Vanities of the Warmists By Jon Caruthers

The conceit that scientists and bureaucrats can use the power the state to manage nature has lead to disaster in the past, and will again if the global warmists keep getting their way. ...

Climate Activist Got BBC to Change 'Global Temperatures Decrease' Article By Noel Sheppard

NewsBusters has just learned that a British "climate activist" was responsible for getting the BBC to radically alter its "Global Temperatures 'To Decrease'" article last Friday.

Re-traumatizing blacks to serve the Left By James Lewis

Keeping people on the boil makes for very powerful group politics, which is why demagogues and tyrannical regimes do it all over the world. But there is an awful cost. ...

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. ...

America’s Fifth Column By JB Williams

America has a growing enemy within. This enemy is referred to by experts as America’s Fifth Column. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the term Fifth Column refers to “A clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity [unity] by any means at their disposal.”

Will Petraeus and Crocker End Clinton’s Campaign? by Jed Babbin

The Democrats fear tomorrow. Not only in the metaphysical sense, but literally. Tomorrow, Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker will report again on the situation in Iraq. And before a session of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Petraeus and Crocker will face two of the three competitors for the presidency. ...

Don't Abandon Iraq by John McCain

On the eve of the new Petraeus-Crocker testimony, Sen. John McCain says calls for premature withdrawal from Iraq are the height of irresponsibility and a failure of leadership. ...

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate By Kathy Shaidle

Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, became a household name last month when ABC News reported on some of Wright’s inflammatory sermons. As his applauding congregation cheered him on, the former leader of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ condemned the U.S. government for “killing innocent people” and for treating American citizens, especially blacks, as “less than human.” “God Damn America,” Rev. Wright preached. ...

Jihad Comes to Wall Street By Alex Alexiev

If you’ve seen Geert Wilders’s film Fitna, you may not have noticed a single headline amongst all the bombings, beheadings, and earnest expressions of Islam’s eventual world domination: Halal-fund: investments for Muslims. But the investment vehicles referenced are an essential part of radical Islam’s efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within. And Wall Street, barely out of the woods from its disastrous run-in with sub-prime mortgages — and having lost one of its historic investment houses, Bear Stearns, in the process — is now chasing the very kind of “sharia finance” against which Wilders's movie warns, a business line that may eventually wind up being even more calamitous than the subprime-mortgage fiasco. ...

Travel to Mexico at your own risk! :: Bear Creek Ledger

It isn’t like this is new news, just that the US State Department is finally willing to admit the danger with our neighbor to the south. There’s a battle going on with Mexican drug cartels and corrupt Mexican government officials. Don’t worry though, the US is sending the corrupt government of Mexico $1.4 Billion to arm and train their military. Once trained and armed, the military joins the drug cartels to attack US Border Patrol and local law enforcement. ...

Liberalism and the Deceit of Power By Robert Klein Engler

A few green shoots poke up from the dry lawn near Lake Street, as if to question the sun, "Is it spring, yet?"  I see them on my way to class.  Something stirs underground.  Soon, in the words of Gerald Manley Hopkins, the green will "shoot long and lovely and lush." ...

Obama Doesn’t Want You to Defend Yourself by Bob Owens

Though it should hardly come as a surprise considering his past record and rhetoric, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama further cemented his left-wing foundations Wednesday by stating that he is firmly against Americans defending themselves with legally concealed firearms. ...

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. ...

The Real Cost Of Immigration By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

As some experts tell Congress to fight a possible recession with more immigrants, a respected economist warns that immigration's costs are grossly underestimated — because the government won't study them.

Set for release Tuesday is a report published by Social Contract magazine, "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: An Analysis of the Costs to 15 Federal Departments and Agencies." ...

Iraq Is a Mess. But Germany Was, Too By David Stafford

Smash the enemy, deliver victory, topple the dictator, destroy his regime, eliminate his evil ideology, and establish peace and democracy. Oh, and -- almost forgot -- do this several thousand miles away on a distant continent while also fighting another life-or-death struggle elsewhere. Meanwhile, make sure to keep in step with our allies. And one last thing: Bring the troops back home as soon as possible. ...

The Chill Is On By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Global warming? Don't worry about it. It's over. No longer does Al Gore have to fly around the world in private jets emitting greenhouse gases to save the world from — greenhouse gases.

The United Nations World Meteorological Organization is reporting that global temperatures have not risen since 1998. That would be the same temperatures that models from the U.N.'s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change said would be scorching the earth into an unlivable wasteland — except for those coastal areas flooded by seas gorged with water from melting ice sheets. ...

THE ASSAULT ON TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE--BY MUSLIMS IN EUROPE :: Real Clear Religion

Traditional marriage, which is essential for the survival of Western Civilization, is under assault not only from the secular pro-homosexual left but also from Islam. Here is a report on the spread of polygamy throughout Europe via Islam. ...

Leaders' Statements Illustrate CAIR's Extremism, Anti-Semitism by Steven Emerson

Repeated statements by CAIR's leaders illustrate the group's extremist and anti-Semitic positions.

Today's installment in the Investigative Project on Terrorism's detailed analysis of the self-proclaimed civil rights group, the ninth in a series, presents a compilation of those statements.

Here are some of the highlights: ...

The UN Inhuman Rights Council by Alamgir Hussain

Islamic leaders, in the recently concluded OIC summit in Dakar (13-14 March), adopted "A Ten-Year Program of Action" to meet Challenges facing the Muslim Ummah. The Action plan, among other goals, calls on the United Nations to combat Islamophobia, and to enact laws to counter defamation, denigration and stereotyping of Islam, including penalties as deterrent. ...

The lost history of the Crusades By Robert Sibley

Thousand-year-old events don't usually make headlines. But when U.S. President George W. Bush used the word "crusade" to describe the campaign against Islamist terrorism, suddenly an ancient conflict became a hot-button topic. ...

Marxist roots of Black Liberation Theology By Anthony B. Bradley

What is Black Liberation Theology anyway? Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright catapulted black liberation theology onto a national stage, when America discovered Trinity United Church of Christ. ...

Condi is a dangerous incompetent By Diana West

I wonder if Condoleezza Rice was surprised by the headlines over her comment to The Washington Times that America suffers from a national "birth defect" — namely, the practice of slavery at the time of the nation's founding. ...

Fear of democracy By Caroline B. Glick

The West stands by idly as its foundations are being rent asunder.

Last Friday the UN's Human Rights Council took a direct swipe at freedom of expression. In a unanimous 32-0 decision, the Council instructed its "expert on freedom of expression" to report to the Council on all instances in which individuals "abuse" their freedom of speech by giving expression to racial or religious bias. ...

AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right by Edward C. Green and Allison Herling Ruark

Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions. Referring to the hyperepidemics of Africa, an article in The Lancet this fall named “ten myths” that impede prevention efforts—including “Poverty and discrimination are the problem,” “Condoms are the answer,” and “Sexual behavior will not change.” Yet such myths are held as self-evident truths by many in the AIDS establishment. And they result in efforts that are at best ineffective and at worst harmful, while the AIDS epidemic continues to spread and exact a devastating toll in human lives. ...

AN EASY LIAR By Rick Moran

I never would have thought it possible to say but I believe now it is a powerfully good thing that our presidential nominating process is such a long, drawn out affair.

How else were we ever going to confirm that Barack Obama is a most accomplished and shameless liar? ...

Anti-Semitism is on the Rise in Europe : A Deeper Look

Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, but its especially noticeable in Europe. There is a definite connection between hatred of Israel and hatred of Jews in general-- both inflammed by media coverage that is strongly biased against Israel. ...

Al Azhar spends $10 billion on Islam while Egyptians can't find bread By ibn Misr

Egypt, the land of the greatest civilization that gave the world the wonders of the Pyramids and the Library of Alexandria, that has been known to be the light of the world. Once It was swept by fundamental islam, expelled the Jewish population, oppressed and keep persecuting the native descendants of ancient Egyptians, the Copts (both Jewish and Copts that made Egypt the most thriving, economically and culturally in the Middle-East). ...

Obama's Stance On Wright Worse Than Hillary's Bosnia Falsehood By:  Ed Koch

I am dumbfounded that there has been no drop in Barack Obama’s standing in the polls following revelations that he sat in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and did nothing, publicly or privately, to voice disagreement with Wright’s hate speech.

Indeed, Obama’s poll numbers are going up. The most recent CNN national poll shows Obama with 50 percent and Hillary with 40 percent of likely Democratic voters. ...

Coming soon: superfast internet By Jonathan Leake

THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. ...

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