LOSS OF JAMIEL SHAW’S LIFE TRANSCENDS SPORTS By Diane M. Grassi

“I’m safer, somewhat, in Iraq than my son is on the streets of the United States. …My country let me down.”

–Sgt. Anita Shaw, United States Army

March 2, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA was no different than any other in the crime-ridden areas of the City of Angels where the homicide rate has risen by 27% since the same time period in 2007. What differentiates March 2, 2008 from other days, however, is that in areas not well known to be crime-ridden, where residents in communities try to get by in doing right by their neighbors, there is a war brewing for which they are unarmed.

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Constitutional Literacy at Risk By Malcolm A. Kline

Americans’ awareness of their freedoms and where they came from are at a low point and the institutions that once passed on that knowledge are largely to blame. “The public’s veneration of the Constitution is combined with a low level of knowledge,” Andrew Busch, a professor at Claremont McKenna said at the Heritage Foundation last Thursday. “Many did not know there were three branches of government,” he observed, referring to polling data.

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Mccain in a Tie With Democrats, Poll Shows ALAN FRAM AND TREVOR TOMPSON

Growing numbers of people like what they see in John McCain, vaulting him into a tie with the two Democratic presidential contenders just a few months after Republicans faced a steep disadvantage.

The Arizona senator has made a race of the White House contest by attracting disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Thursday. About two-thirds of them have grown disenchanted with President Bush despite voting for him in 2004, including many GOP-leaning independents, while the remaining third usually support Democrats but like McCain anyway.

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Wikipedia's zealots By Lawrence Solomon

The thought police at the supposedly independent site are fervently enforcing the climate orthodoxy.

Nonplused, I investigated. Wikipedia logs all changes. I found mine. And then I found Tabletop's. Someone called Tabletop was undoing my edits, and, following what I suppose is Wikietiquette, also explained why. "Note that Peiser has retracted this critique and admits that he was wrong!" Tabletop said.

I undid Tabletop's undoing of my edits, thinking I had an unassailable response: "Tabletop's changes claim to represent Peiser's views. I have checked with Peiser and he disputes Tabletop's version."

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The Hypocrisy Of Rev. Jeremiah Wright By Marie Jon'

Add the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to the list of race-hustling, misleading double-speaking con men who just so happens to wear a pastor’s collar. Certainly, we are all too familiar with their names. Their demagoguery is infamous. They are often deemed by the media as the leaders and spokespeople of the black community.

In his lust for power, Wright, a haughty man, did irrefutable harm to every parishioner at Trinity United Church of Christ. Whether they know it or not, their minds have been deliberately poisoned by a man who demeans their human worth.

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Conservatism Speaks to America by Jeff Morton

I just responded to the, “Republican Strategy Survey” This particular questionnaire was authorized by the National Republican Senatorial committee. I do appreciate the work that our Republican Senators are doing for the American public but, I have had my fill of hyperbole and failure! We need to do more.

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Workers No Longer Vote for the Left :: The Brussels Journal

[T]he radical Left has disappeared. Communists and greens have vanished, at least from parliament. They do not have a single senator or deputy [in the Italian parliament]. In the stunned eyes of the Rainbow people, the night was made even blacker by the triumph of Silvio Berlusconi, the impressive gains of the Northern League and the hard-to-refute claim of its secretary, Umberto Bossi: “The workers have voted for the Northern League”. Pause for effect: “The workers don’t vote for the Left any more. The Northern League is the new workers’ party”.

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Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists By Brent Bozell III

I confess that when the producers of Ben Stein's new documentary "Expelled" called, offering me a private screening, I was less than excited.

It is a reality of PC liberalism: There is only one credible side to an issue, and any dissent is not only rejected, it is scorned. Global warming. Gay "rights." Abortion "rights." On these and so many other issues there is enlightenment, and then there is the Idiotic Other Side. PC liberalism's power centers are the news media, the entertainment industry and academia, and all are in the clutches of an unmistakable hypocrisy: Theirs is an ideology that preaches the freedom of thought and expression at every opportunity, yet practices absolute intolerance toward dissension.

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Compassion, Conception, and the Democrats By Paul Kengor

It was Des Moines, Iowa, December 13, 1999. The occasion was a Republican presidential debate. The governor of Texas was asked to name his favorite philosopher or thinker. "Jesus Christ," was the quick answer of George W. Bush.

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ITALY'S CONSERVATIVE COMEBACK By AMIR TAHERI

IS the European elite's hatred of Silvio Berlusconi preventing a proper understanding of the significance of this week's Italian general election?
The question isn't fanciful. Much of the media in Western Europe, Britain and the United States reported the election as if something disastrous had just happened in Rome. One reads of "the media tycoon" who has just "snatched an election victory" instead of going to prison for unspecified crimes. The phrase most often used by analysts is stark: Italian democracy is in crisis!

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Barack and the bomber By Byron York

If we’re judged by those with whom we associate, here’s a question:

Would you rather be associated with a ’60s radical who plotted to bomb the Pentagon and to this day believes, as he said a few years ago, “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough,” or would you rather be associated with — slight pause, please — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)?

That was the rather bizarre scenario raised by Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) at Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia.

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The Democrats’ Wimp Factor By Michael Hirsh

The specter of John Kerry in 2004 is beginning to haunt the Democrats in 2008. It is the specter of wimpy campaigns past. It showed up, like Banquo's ghost, at the debate Wednesday night in Philadelphia, particularly when Hillary Clinton joined with ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson to nip away at the edges of Barack Obama's patriotism. Between the questions about Obama's meager association with William Ayers, a former Weatherman, and the suspicions raised by his lack of a flag lapel pin, the likely nominee is slowly being turned into John Kerry. He is becoming, in other words, a candidate who may be mostly right about national security but who will lack the Red State street cred to carry his point—and the election.

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County Sheriff Runs Sex-Slave Operation from Jail -- Guess Which Party? By Warner Todd Huston

Well, this time the AP has really done it. Dateline Custer County, Oklahoma: Sheriff Mike Burgess resigns after authorities charged him with running a sex-slave operation out of his jail using female inmates he bribed for the purpose. So, which party did the AP tell us our crafty entrepreneur was from? Well, they seem to have forgotten to mention it... shocking, I know.

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The Real Obama Story Exposed! (Part 2) By JB Williams

Part I of this series focused on the connections between Barack Obama, his heavy handed socialist cousin in Kenya and Obama’s roll in helping him come to power by way of violence. It covers information posed by an American missionary working in Africa and the African version of who Barack Obama really is...

In closing, I raised the question, where is all that Obama money coming from, since it can’t be coming from the “poor” Americans he claims to represent, and his campaign web site asks what country his donors are from, indicating that they may not be from America.

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Islam Is a Trojan Horse Amil Imani

“Europe will be Muslim in a dozen years,” promises the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Guide (dictator) who is racing full-speed ahead to make as many bombs as possible with long-range missiles capable of delivering their payload anywhere in the world.

This past Friday, Yunis al-Astal, a leading Muslim cleric and Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament, declared on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV that "the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital," would soon be conquered by Islam and Rome become an advance post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas.”



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Global Food Riots: Made in Washington, D.C. by Deroy Murdock

To paraphrase the late, great William F. Buckley, Jr., someone must stand athwart the federal ethanol program yelling, “Stop!” The emergency brake should be pulled -- NOW -- before ethanol wreaks further havoc.

Poor Haitians rioted last week outside Port-au-Prince’s presidential palace, forcing Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis’ April 12 ouster. Haitians are enduring food prices 40 percent higher than last summer’s. Some have resorted to eating cookies made of salt, vegetable oil, and dirt. That’s right: Dirt cookies.

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Citizen Carter’s Ego Trip by Oliver North

"Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes." -- Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1977

More than thirty-one years after he uttered those words, America is still trying to compensate for and minimize Mr. Carter’s mistakes and weaknesses -- the greatest of which appears to be hubris. This week, our much-traveled 39th president ventured as a “private citizen” to the Middle East on a self-described mission “exploring possibilities for peace.” Regrettably, what citizen Carter has succeeded in doing is to encourage our nation’s adversaries, lend credibility to terrorists who have killed our countrymen and disparaged a beleaguered ally.

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Ronald Reagan's America, and Obama's By Dr. Paul Kengor

"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life.... [I]n my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed...."
- President Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 11, 1989

"'God Bless America?' No, no, no, God d--- America.... God d--- America.... God d--- America!!"
- Jeremiah Wright, pastor to Barack Obama for two decades
The spiritual mentors of Ronald Reagan shaped his understanding and vision of America's role in the world. Why would anyone assume the same does not hold true for Barack Obama?

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Selling Terror By Jonathan Schanzer

HEZBOLLAH, THE RADICAL Shiite terrorist organization in Lebanon, is best known for attacking Israelis. But the organization also attempts to gain the support of Lebanese citizens with a sophisticated network of social services, political outreach, and financial aid. And recently, the militia has turned to advertising campaigns to bolster its image.

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THE WHORES OF BABBLE-ON DEMOCRATS AND THE ANTI-CHRIST By: Daniel Sargis

Right before your eyes, you get to see the Book of Revelation played-out on the political stage.

And you thought that this would be a boring campaign season....

It wasn’t until the candidate of “change”, Barack Obama, decided to rub elbows with multi-billionaire Gordon Getty and hundreds of other “regular folks” at a $2300 per head fundraiser that I realized we may be in the midst of the Anti-Christ (these billionaire-millionaire fundraisers occur as Michelle Obama reminds people that, “When you’re given the gift of advocacy, you don’t sell it to the highest bidder.”).

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THE BLACK WOMAN SOCIALIST COLLATERAL DAMAGE By: Alan Stang

No treatise on women would be complete without some comments on the black woman. For years, black neighborhoods across the country have made East Berlin under the Communists look like Caesar’s Palace in Vegas. Going back to the first Watts riot in Los Angeles, in your typical black neighborhoods you find boarded up stores and few or no services, one reason for which is that blacks themselves destroyed those services.

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Pope resolution passes after "life" language removed :: Politico

While Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to Washington received wall to wall coverage, Sen. Barbara Boxer briefly held up a Senate resolution welcoming the pontiff because she objected to language about how the pope values "each and every human life."

The measure later cleared the Senate Thursday afternoon after the sponsor of the resolution, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), dropped the reference to "human life" because some Democrats saw it as a reference to abortion. According to Republican aides, Brownback, a devout Catholic, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution, which was adopted on a voice vote. In fact, Brownback blackberried his staff from the Pope's mass at Nationals Park to direct them to drop the references to human life.

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Barack Obama Dogged by Terrorist Ties :: ANEWTONE

There is an old expression that goes, "A man is known by the company he keeps." In keeping company with Jeremiah Wright, and now with the revelation of ties to William Ayers, what does this say for the man, Barack Obama?

A short history lesson: William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is also a former member of the Weather Underground Movement, previously known as the Weathermen, a radical 1960's Maoist movement dedicated to sparking a revolutionary overthrow of the United States government. The group carried out jailbreaks of members, bombings, and incited riots during their run in the 1960's and 70's.

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Republicans Want to Rein in Spending. No, Really By Duane Lester

Remember when the Repubican party was known as the party of fiscal conservatism? Well, they are trying at least:

The latest effort to restore fiscal responsibility comes in the form of a Spending Limit Constitutional Amendment. The Republican Study Committee (RSC) is targeting out of control federal spending in order to equalize federal government spending with national economic growth.

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Biblical Interpretation in Crisis By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

In Wladimir Solowjew’s History of the Antichrist, the eschatological enemy of the Redeemer recommended himself to believers, among other things, by the fact that he had earned his doctorate in theology at Tübingen and had written an exegetical work which was recognized as pioneering in the field. The Antichrist, a famous exegete! With this paradox Solowjew sought to shed light on the ambivalence inherent in biblical exegetical methodology for almost a hundred years now. To speak of the crisis of the historical-critical method today is practically a truism. This, despite the fact that it had gotten off to so optimistic a start.

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Obama Stands Accused of Conduct Unbecoming a Presidential Candidate [Updates: Chicago Tribune, more MSM] :: No Quarter

I cannot believe that the official campaign for Barack Obama put this video on YouTube to show off the candidate. 1) His language and behavior on this video are juvenile, and 2) He flips off Hillary Clinton in the video.

I cannot recall hearing such whining in my life from the mouth of a major candidate. This man is incapable of withstanding criticism or handling difficult questions. He is not only defensive and inept in his excuses, but he is also petulant — and then he delivers “below the belt” attacks on Hillary Clinton, while condemning such tactics. Which is it, Barack? Are you for or against attack tactics? Or does it only work one way? And is that because YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH, mister (to quote Jack Nicholson, a Hillary Clinton supporter).

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Authors raise concerns about Bush's new stance on 'global warming' By Jim Brown

British author and journalist Christopher Booker says President Bush has needlessly caved to international and domestic pressure from activists who believe global warming is human-induced and a threat to the world.

On Wednesday the president unveiled his new global warming policy that seeks to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, but it is drawing fire from both sides of the debate on climate change. Democrats and environmentalists say the initiative falls short because it does not include a mandatory cap on carbon emissions. Meanwhile, global warming skeptics point out that global temperatures have not continued to rise over the last ten years as they did in the 1990s, so there is no real climate threat for the pesident to address.

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Mission America raising awareness about 'Day of Silence' By Allie Martin

Kaye McGarry, a Charlotte, North Carolina, school board member, wants excused absences for area public school students who stay home next week on the pro-homosexual "Day of Silence."

The "Day of Silence," which takes place April 25, is an annual event sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). It encourages students to observe the day by not speaking as a way to bring attention to the homosexual agenda. McGarry, who is on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board, is asking her colleagues to approve absences for students who choose to stay home during the pro-homosexual observance.



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Jimmy Carter's Alternate Universe By Chris Adamo

If America must be reminded of just how bad things could get under the leadership of a wholly incompetent president, it needs only to recall the disgraceful and humiliating four years of the Carter Administration, beginning in January of 1977. Within the span of a single presidential term, Carter managed to thoroughly decimate the U.S. military, while simultaneously telegraphing the nation's vulnerability along with his absolute reluctance to exercise American power to defend American interests.

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None so blind as a UN rights expert By David Aaronovitch

I WOULD define a moment of double respect as being when, say, the Pope addresses both houses of Congress or - as happened again last week - when that great institution the BBC quotes an expert from that even greater institution, the UN.

The official in question was also the professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, Richard Falk, and his chosen subject was Israel, so I bowed slightly, turned the tap off and put down my razor to hear what he had been saying.

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Thank You Hillary! By Doug Edelman

I never thought I’d ever utter or write these words, but “Bravo, Hillary Clinton!”

Senator Clinton’s debate performance in Philadelphia was her best piece of work of the campaign. She nicely sliced and diced Obama and served him up with a side of rice! So many clips can be culled from the debate for use as a McCain campaign ad against Senator Obama, that the RNC owes Hillary a consulting fee!

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Conservation Loses Out to Global Warming Panic By Dennis T. Avery

A global food crisis looms, as crops are diverted to biofuels. Food prices have soared 83 percent in three years. Thousands of U.S. farmers are pulling their land out of the government’s biggest conservation program to plant millions of acres back to crops and pasture. U.S. environmentalists warn that “years of conservation progress” will be lost as America’s 35-million-acre Conservation Reserve dwindles, especially in the important bird-nesting areas of the northern Great Plains.

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Europe's Moving to the Right by Craig Chamberlain

Silivio Berlusconi has just won a third term as Prime Minister in Italy. This not only brings a strong pro American politician back into office, the Italian voters swept the left from office. For the first time since World War Two the Communists don't have a seat in either the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies. The Socialists are also on the outside looking in.

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Democrats Block Resolution to Commend Pope By Amanda Carpenter

A reliable GOP aide informs Townhall that Senate Democrats are blocking a measure to commend Pope Benedict XVI because of “controversial” religious language used in the text of the resolution.

The Pope arrived in Washington Wednesday for a six-day visit to the United States. He delivered an address on the White House South Lawn that morning to praise the America for preserving religious freedom at home and abroad.

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Saddam and al-Qaeda By Debra Baker

Claims that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda are wrong. Documents just released by the Pentagon prove it.

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The Democrats and Gun Control By DAVID KOPEL

Imagine an election race of Pat Robertson versus James Dobson, each of them appearing at organic grocery stores and Starbucks throughout Massachusetts, with each candidate insisting that he alone deserves the vote of gay-marriage advocates. An equally silly spectacle is taking place these days in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky, as Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama compete for the pro-gun vote.

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Spiraling Toward a Nuclear Exchange By Lee Boyland

Indecision is the path to war. The world is about to repeat errors that led to WWII: talking peace while a dictator prepares for war.

Iran’s President again showed his contempt for the UN by announcing Iran is installing 6,000 more centrifuges that spin at thousands of revolutions per minute. Ahmadinejad fails to say if they are the second generation P-2s or the older P-1s centrifuges. The type doesn’t matter, Iran is on its way to establishing a production line for fissile material—the fuel for nuclear weapons.

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Carter’s Confusion By Clifford D. May

Let’s be fair to Jimmy Carter. Let’s suppose he isn’t indulging in egotistical grandstanding, that he doesn’t harbor a deep-seated bias against Israel, and that he’s not been influenced by the millions of dollars Islamists have provided to his Carter Center. Let’s suppose his freelance diplomacy is sincerely in pursuit of the elusive path to peace in the Middle East.

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The BBC Bows Down to Climate Change by Alexander Deane

One of the most consistent and thorough journalists in the United Kingdom, the Daily Telegraph’s Christopher Booker, recently published an astonishing piece on the BBC and Global Warming (it's the right link - the story's about half way down the page).

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Barack Obama = Karl Marx With a Twist :: The Provocateur

One of the more insightful analyses of Obama's latest gaffe came from Bill Kristol. Among many things that Kristol pointed out, he quoted this from Karl Marx...

Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.”

This quote is of course awfully reminiscent of Obama's own gaffe.


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Massachusetts suffering fallout from universal healthcare program By Jim Brown

A leading healthcare reform expert says she's not surprised that the new universal healthcare program in Massachusetts brokered by former Governor Mitt Romney and Senator Ted Kennedy is running several hundred million dollars over budget.

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Smoking Something: War critics are comfortably numb By Daniel Clark

The summary of a recent Pentagon report says there was "no 'smoking gun'" connecting Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda. One can just imagine how furiously somebody must have lobbied to have that language included, because those are the same three magical words that have been successfully used to convince the public that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.

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Pope's visit renews abortion debate By JOSEPHINE HEARN & RYAN GRIM

In June 2004, as prominent Catholics in the United States debated whether Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry should be allowed to receive Communion, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger weighed in with what appeared to be an unequivocal opinion: No.

If a politician who supports abortion rights attempts to receive Communion, Ratzinger wrote, “the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.”


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Jimmy Carter: Citizen Traitor By Eric Rush

The political left in America is like a deranged passenger on a jetliner who repeatedly attempts to storm the flight deck and crash the plane, but who the crew and other travelers are limited in their ability to restrain due to obscure regulations (whose full implications were unforeseen when they were implemented) which give the unhinged would-be saboteur the right to move about the cabin freely.

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Conservation Loses Out to Global Warming Panic By Dennis T. Avery

A global food crisis looms, as crops are diverted to biofuels. Food prices have soared 83 percent in three years. Thousands of U.S. farmers are pulling their land out of the government’s biggest conservation program to plant millions of acres back to crops and pasture. U.S. environmentalists warn that “years of conservation progress” will be lost as America’s 35-million-acre Conservation Reserve dwindles, especially in the important bird-nesting areas of the northern Great Plains.

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Hunger from harvest failures fault of Global Cooling By Dr. Tim Ball

People tolerate incredibly bad government most of the time. What generally drives them to revolution is a failure of the food supply or food costs beyond reach. Riots in Haiti and elsewhere are already occurring and potential for more increase every day.

Traditionally, it was bad weather, such as the harvest failure in 1789 that became a catalyst for storming the Bastille and triggering the French Revolution.

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Obama: Silence in the face of evil By Peggy Shapiro

"Silence in the face of evil is always on the side of the aggressor."
- Elie Wiesel
Barack Obama, the eloquent speaker who mesmerizes the media, the man whose orations make women swoon, the candidate who promises to embrace dictators and terrorists in conversation, falls strangely silent when his words are needed to stand up against evil, intolerance or injustice. In a dangerous world with evil regimes aspiring to destroy the United States and the values we represent, the silence of an American President would be an
unthinkable disaster.

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The cost of green tinkering is in famine and starvation By Simon Jenkins

Farewell the age of reason, welcome the idiocracy. Only George Orwell could have invented - and named - the government's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) that came into operation yesterday. It is the latest in a long line of measures intended to ease the conscience of the rich while keeping the poor miserable, in this case spectacularly so.

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A Perfect Warning By Julian Krasta

When he first stepped out on the world stage, Barack Hussein Obama seemed to most conservatives both beautiful and disturbing, as one might feel when casting a virgin glance upon a Salvador Dali painting: It makes no sense, it is a bit alarming, but the colors are pretty.

The other day, Barack Hussein Obama made another alarming statement, this one about small-town American voters, which brought out into the open his guilty secret: He is a spoiled and bitter child.

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W Goes Green? by Christopher C. Horner

After being a stalwart opponent of the nonsensical anti-science buttressing the “global warming” industry throughout his tenure, President Bush today is scheduled to announce a multi-part program to combat the man-made climate change that mostly exists in the fevered brows of the Left here, in Hollywood and in Europe.

To paraphrase what Bluto said in "Animal House," “Great. Seven years down the drain.”

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Cuba's Useful Idiot By Humberto Fontova

Last month Dan Rather’s new gig as host of HDNET's “Dan Rather Reports” found him, as so often during his CBS days, “reporting” from Cuba. From Dan we heard of “dramatic changes” down there, of a “remarkable transformation.” “The door (to the U.S.) is open, “explained Dan. “The best time to talk is now.”

Dan was chanting a familiar tune, one we've heard almost nonstop from the MSM's pet “Cuba Experts'” for the past 21 months.

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THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE By: Gordon Bishop

A lot of Democrats are angry at me because my weekly syndicated columns consistently criticize “Liberalism.”

What amazes me is that those who are active members of the Democrat Party long ago gave the Democrat Party to the liberals and socialists, thus destroying the ‘people’s’ party of Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy.

Truman and Kennedy were my “role models” growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s and maturing in the 1960s and ‘70s.

Like the great one, Ronald Reagan declared, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party – the Democratic Party left me!”

Reagan was so Right!

There are actually two parties: The Democrat Party and the Liberal Party.

Both Presidential candidates, U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are liberal Democrats. In fact, Obama is twice as liberal as Clinton, based on their voting records in the U.S. Congress.

First, let’s set the record straight about Democrats and Democracy.

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Phony Moderate Muslim Muzammil Siddiqi Disrespects Holy Father, "Popes come and go" :: PipeLineNews.org

Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, Director of the Islamic Society of Orange County and widely feted within the tainted atmosphere of the "interfaith dialogue" community as a moderate Muslim, once again is betraying his radical roots, attending a today scheduled conference with Pope Benedict XVI under apparent great duress, stating, "our going there is more out of respect for the Catholic Church itself...Popes come and go, but the church is there."

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This political correctness is national suicide By JOHN LANE

In 1942, my father left for North Africa and we moved from our home on Fort Bragg to Charleston. Although I was just a kid, I vividly remember the effect World War II had on our lives.

Gasoline was not expensive but was rationed, as were sugar and most other commodities. Families were issued books of coupons that had to be presented, along with money, to buy most items. Automobile tires were difficult to obtain, and many other things that we had taken for granted were consumed by the war effort.

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Poor Little Female Bloggers by Cassy Fiano

I don't remember how, but a few days ago I stumbled across this blog post about why there is apparently a lack of female bloggers on Glamour's political blog:

I asked around and heard a lot of different answers. Some say it's because the men got a head start. Jen Moseley, the politics editor at Feministing says, "I think there are a lot of female political bloggers out there. But since most of the 'old guard' big political blogs (funny that something 4-5 years old can be considered old now), were started by men, so they're still looked at as the only ones that matter."

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The consensus on sudden infant death

A first-ever gathering of medical specialists and investigators in the field of sudden infant deaths came to an alarming consensus: America grossly undercounts the number of babies who suffocate in avoidable sleeping accidents.

And, the conference in Pittsburgh was told, 80 percent of sudden infant deaths are related to their sleep environment -- most frequently either by sharing a bed with an adult or being placed on an inappropriate sofa cushion or adult pillow.

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Obama's Posters: Message in the Image By Peggy Shapiro

There is something unsettling and very familiar in the Obama poster campaign which has plastered his image over the country. The posters depict the same graphic closeup of the candidate with one block word either "Hope," "Change" or "Progress" at the bottom. I knew that I had seen this before, and then it came to me that this image appropriates the graphic style of totalitarian Soviet propaganda. It recalls the idealzed portraits and personality cult of the "Beloved Leader" such as Stalin and Lenin. The leader, face illuminated by a "holy" light, looks off to the horizon and sees the truth that is not available to his mere mortal followers, who must look up to his image.

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Opium and Revolution By R.R. Reno

Marx famously said, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” The implied analysis has become commonplace. Ordinary people suffer under a system of exploitation, and their hearts cry out for justice. Religion provides a symbolic satisfaction: God hears the cry of the oppressed and will give each due reward in the end (a convenient delay for those presently in positions of power). The people desire revolution, and in the agony of their impotence they project that desire onto a remote, divine figure powerful enough to break the chains of oppression. Like a narcotic, this pious belief in a just God dulls the pain of an unjust world.

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Why Chinese Power Must Be Resisted :: Blogbat

An interesting article on the rise of Chinese soft power can be found here via the Daily Mail.

It among other things points to data which suggests China and India will be the first and second most powerful economies by mid-century, and bemoans a darker world led by the despicable Communist regime from Beijing. Many films have been made imagining what the world would have looked like had the Nazis or the Soviets won their respective bids for world domination and by all accounts, none quite captures the full misery of a planet encased in Sino-Communist hegemonic power.



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Minnesota allows Islamic school to operate on taxpayer monies By Chad Groening

Minnesota ministry founder Jan Markell says political correctness has apparently led her state's Department of Education to allow a taxpayer-funded Islamic charter school in suburban St. Paul.

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Obama Big Money 'Bundler' A Hugo Chavez Supporter, Will Media Report? By Warner Todd Huston |

Adding to the growing mountain of evidence that Barack Obama either intensely dislikes the very country of which he wants to be elected president, or at the very least surrounds himself with those who do, news is breaking that one of Obama's big money donation "bundlers" is virulently anti-military and a supporter of Hugo Chavez -- the well-known Venezuelan dictator famous for his hateful anti-American rhetoric. There is even a photo of Obama "bundler" and Code Pink operative Jodie Evans arm-in-arm with Hugo Chavez. (Evans is the red head in the middle)

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European Leaders Agree to Create Eurabia By Fjordman

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

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Asians Put Foot In Racial Spoils Trough By Jared Taylor

Asians—those smart, hard-working people you’ve always been told believe in merit and would never act like the NAACP or La Raza—have joined the racial spoils system. They have gotten in right at the top, and they are playing dirty. They have extracted pandering promises from all the Democratic candidates for president—promises Al Sharpton would be proud to get for blacks—and have treated the candidates like fools for good measure. Barack Obama is the only Democrat to come out of this with at least a shred of self-respect.

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Israel at 60 - Give or Take a Few Thousand Years By Steve Feldman and Robert Sklaroff

The nation of Israel is about to commemorate its 60th birthday. That's the official, politically correct, line. But to be truly accurate, a cake celebrating the milestone should have more candles than 60 -- thousands more.

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The Democrats' Messiah Complex By Roger Kaplan

It is something of a cliche to say this, admittedly, but is there any shameless sentimentality to which liberals will not swoop? The gun-owning, church-going family men whom the Democrats despise are suddenly the objects of their deepest attention.

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A Question of Character By Jeffrey Lord

"A man running for the Presidency must talk up, way up there."

He also has to tell the truth.

The fact that Illinois Senator Barack Obama doesn't grasp the first point, made by John F. Kennedy to his friend Theodore H. White at the close of White's classic The Making of the President 1960, and simply ignores the second, is providing those of us here in Pennsylvania a startling look at two repeated behavioral patterns of a man who would be president.

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Obama to Middle America: If You Weren’t Such Losers, You’d Think Like Liberals by Mac Johnson

Liberalism is the home and incubator of “multiculturalism” -- the belief that all cultures have value and should in no way be changed by little things like the Western world, or modernity. If you practice a form of herbal voodoo and speak a language with 13 remaining adherants, they’ll argue you should be celebrated, subsidized, and provided with a full-time interpreter should you decide to get a job at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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Hamas' Useful Idiot by Robert Maginnis

When former president Jimmy Carter meets with terrorist Hamas leader Khaled Mashall this Friday in Damascus he will apparently violate two federal laws. His eager defiance of the law threatens Americans at home and our troops abroad.

Muhammad Nazzal, an Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) terror group official in Syria, told the Associated Press that Carter had sent an envoy to Damascus requesting a meeting with their exiled leader Mashaal. Hamas “Welcomed the request.”

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Obama's Greenbacks from Code Pink By Ben Johnson

IF THE MEDIA WERE COMPETENT, THE NAME JODIE EVANS would be as well-known as Jeremiah Wright.

According to Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen, Evans has bundled “at least $50,000” in donations for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. “Bundling” is a process in which people turn over a large number of “individual” political contributions as a group, in the hope of exerting greater influence if their candidate is elected.

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Our global warming rage lets global hunger grow By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard : Telegraph UK

We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.

"The reality is that people are dying already," said Jacques Diouf, of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "Naturally people won't be sitting dying of starvation, they will react," he said.

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Obama Nation By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Is Barack Obama's small-town America really a land of bitter gun-toting, Bible-thumping racists? Or are they just God-fearing American patriots? Maybe we should ask his "typical white" grandmother.

Many pundits call it a gaffe, but we see Barack Obama's remarks to a bunch of San Francisco Democrats about small town people in Pennsylvania as a revelation. The remarks of our first "post-racial" presidential candidate go a long way towards explaining how he could listen to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright talk about the "United States of White America" for two decades.



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CAIR Pushes Phony Charges of Anti-Muslim Hysteria, Hate Crimes by Steven Emerson

Here are some of the highlights:

· CAIR's annual report on the status of Muslim civil rights in the United States repeatedly has included, among what it considers to be acts of anti-Muslim discrimination, law enforcement investigations involving Muslims.

· In its 2002 report, CAIR included the closure of HLF, GRF, and BIF and wrote, "Those who oppose the government closure of the charities believe the government violated the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights." The report also condemned the 2002 SAAR raids. CAIR wrote, "No criminal charges were filed and no evidence was produced to back up the government's actions…. In the view of many Muslims, what transpired was a form of collective punishment targeting Arabs and Muslims."

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Islamic Networks Group - Dialogue As Da'wa By Beila Rabinowitz and William Mayer

Islamic speakers bureaus are proliferating in the United States. They represent the vanguard of a new paradigm in jihad being waged by Islamists under the guise of "dialogue."

This emphasis on "legal" Islamism, the stealth jihad has been dictated in part by circumstances on the ground, where many of the most violent Islamists have been either killed, captured or forced to go into hiding, proving that aggression has been counter-productive.

Among the largest Islamic speaker's bureau - with international reach - is the Islamic Networks Group [ING] which claims to promote:

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Is Islam Compatable With the Modern World? Obama Says Yes :: The JAWA Report

Barack Obama seems to think so. Make sure to read Amy Proctor's comments as well. I think she gets some key points wrong, but they're worth the read.

Obama may be right, but I have serious reservations. It's something that Muslims are going to have to work out themselves.

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Attack of the preschool pervs By Mark Steyn

Is American public education a form of child abuse? The Washington Post's Brigid Schulte reported this month on a student named Randy Castro, who attends school in Woodbridge, Va. Last November at recess he slapped a classmate on her bottom. The teacher took him to the principal. School officials wrote up an incident report and then called the police.

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Gore Admits Financial Stake in Global Warming :: AnotherWitness

Al Gore's estimated fortune is over $100 million. His speaking fees are around $175,000. He also owns a big bundle of Google stock acquired at a very low price. His estimated wealth was only $2 million, partly inherited, when he left office in January 2001. That means his earnings have averaged around $14 million a year for each of the last 7 years.

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Forward this column or get stuck on stupid By Mike S. Adams

If your kid comes home from college one day and tells you that your Christian faith is stupid, welcome to the world in which I live. The college environment does that to our kids. It makes good Christian students stupid. By that I mean it turns them into liberals, atheists, or both. Three out of four Christian kids (that's 75% for those of you who attend UNC-Wilmington) abandon the church when they go to college and only about a third of them return by age 30. In other words, most stay stuck on stupid.

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Ehud Olmert on the Damascus road By Spengler

The only practical way to defeat irregular forces embedded in a civilian population is to destroy the states that back them. That is why America overthrew Saddam Hussein, and also why Israel is considering a pre-emptive war on Syria on the model of 1967.

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Global Harming By Jayme Evans |

Even though science is still debating such lofty theories as Einstein's General Relativity and the exact details and catalysts of Darwin's Evolution, Gore and his disciples have closed the book on global warming. According to them, global warming is the one theory that is no longer subject to debate and if you question it, you're just simply wrong or an imbecile.

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Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket

Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.

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Why Orwell Matters By Victor Davis Hanson

Here is what Sen. Obama said:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."


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Hamas Cleric: 'Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam'

A sermon last Friday by a prominent Muslim cleric and Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament openly declared that "the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital," would soon be conquered by Islam. ...

Palestinian Authority Representative in Lebanon Abbas Zaki Supports Anti-Israeli Attacks and States: We Act According to the Phased Plan. Once We Get Jerusalem, We Will Move On to Drive Israelis Out of All of Palestine

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Europe or Eurabia? By Daniel Pipes

THE future of Europe is in play. Will it turn into "Eurabia", a part of the Muslim world? Will it remain the distinct cultural unit it has been for the past millennium? Or might there be some creative synthesis of the two?

The answer has vast importance. Europe may constitute a mere 7 per cent of the world's landmass but for 500 years, 1450-1950, for good and ill, it was the global engine of change.

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World Backlash Against Ethanol Fuels Building :: The JAWA Report

We all know this is a trick by "the deniers" to destroy and discredit the most altruistic, most well-thought-through, least-hysterical, most perfect, most sustainable government powergrab ever conceived.

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU Commission on Monday rejected claims that producing biofuels is a "crime against humanity" that threatens food supplies, and vowed to stick to its goals as part of a climate change package.
Go, socialists! Let the peasants starve - they probably deserve it because might have automobiles.

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Obama's Dubious Past Goes Mainstream :: Wascally Wepublican

Yesterday in Puerto Rico, a bombshell fell on Barack Obama’s hopes to at least win a small percentage of primary votes in said jurisdiction (he was only receiving 20% of support in the polls). This “bomb” goes by the name of Larry Sinclair and his allegations of homosexuality and cocaine use against Barack Hussein Obama, which happened to go ‘prime time’ yesterday throughout the Island.

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George W. Gore By Alan Caruba

Having betrayed Republicans on all other key issues from education to immigration, the announcement that George W. Bush intends to introduce global warming legislation should come as no surprise.

The Washington Times on Monday reports that, «President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include.»

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EDUCATED WOMEN Rediscovering Marriage as "Greatest Social Liberator" By Miranda Devine

Despite the concerted efforts of social revolutionaries over four decades, marriage is making a comeback, at least for Australia's most educated women.

Career-minded women used to be haunted by the prospect of never marrying, because, according to conventional wisdom, men liked to marry down the social scale.

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They Really Do Plan to Surrender by Matthew Continetti

This time there were no peace marches. There was no MoveOn.org ad in the New York Times calling the commander of coalition forces in Iraq "General Betray Us." There was no suggestion from Senator Hillary Clinton that crediting the commander's report on military progress in Iraq required the "willing suspension of disbelief." There were no votes on cutting off funds for the war. No expectation of passing a timetable for withdrawal.

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Global Food Fights By Alan Caruba

It takes a decent respect for the obvious truth to admit that mankind has no control over the climate. What is occurring, however, based on actual and anecdotal information, is a trend toward global cooling. Between rising food costs driven by an environmental agenda and real, not imagined climate change, the word famine is going to be heard more often.

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A Hard Icon for a Soft Age: Pope Benedict Comes With an Ancient Rebuke By Suzanne Fields

Pope Benedict XVI is an odd man for our season. We hardly live in a religious age, or even in a time of minimal regard for concerns of the soul. But when the pope visits the United States this week, he will be a welcome visitor for more than hundreds of thousands of Catholics who live here. The devout will want to hear him say mass at the new baseball stadium, and the Protestants, Jews and those of no faith will be more than merely curious. Pope Benedict is a tough icon for a soft age, unapologetic for defending the ancient code of morality, virtue and rectitude by which everyone can measure himself or herself.

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Tyranny's Enabler Tyranny's Enabler By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Jimmy Carter’s pathetic need for political rehabilitation following a presidency widely regarded as one of the worst in American history is once again making news. He reportedly will meet this week with Khaled Mashaal, the Syrian-based leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian arm, Hamas – an internationally recognized terrorist organization.

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Atheism Masquerading As Science By Dinesh D'Souza

The problem with evolution is not that it is unscientific but that it is routinely taught in textbooks and in the classroom in an atheist way. Textbooks frequently go beyond the scientific evidence to make metaphysical claims about how evolution renders the idea of a Creator superfluous. Here are some examples that are drawn from my recent bestseller What’s So Great About Christianity.

Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson writes in his widely-assigned book On Human Nature: "If humankind evolved by Darwinian natural selection, genetic chance and environmental necessity, not God, made the species."

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The Democrats' recurring nightmare By Thomas Lifson

Hillary Clinton is getting a big boost from Obama's bitterness fumble. Her case that he is unelectable got a lot easier to make, and she doesn't even have to mention race. Not that Hillary ever gave anyone (except maybe Chelsea) the warm and fuzzies, but she has decades' more practice at hiding her disdain for ordinary folk. After all, moving from Wellesley to Yale to the Watergate hearings, and then going to Arkansas as a politicians' wife must have been quite a baptism of fire when it comes to camouflaging condescension.

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The Pentagon...Whose Side Are They On? By Paul R. Hollrah

In the event there may be those who’ve fallen into a deep stupor from listening to too much anti-war rhetoric in this political season, allow me to mention just a few unpleasant realities.

The American people now find themselves under attack by the most numerous and the most brutal enemy that any civilized nation has ever faced – the only enemy ever to seriously threaten the lives of every man, woman, and child in America.


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The Case of Cory Voorhis by Ross Kaminsky

Cory Voorhis looked me in the eye and said “God Bless America”. It was a remarkable statement from a man whose life has been turned upside down by a justice system which was hijacked by politicians and turned loose on this unsung American hero. When I said to Voorhis that it was remarkable he still felt that way, he pointed to his American flag lapel pin and said, still choked up from the news five minutes earlier, “This is what I stand for.”

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Illegals Kill Freely, While Good Kids Die by Brett Winterble

Los Angeles is currently caught up in a battle against two threats -- the Paparazzi and street gangs. It has chosen to do battle with the paps; it has chosen to duck the problem with street gangs.

Let me first tell you about Jamiel Shaw. Shaw, was, by all accounts a good kid, the story would be unremarkable, except that this story takes place in the city of Los Angeles, a city that has its fair share of lost kids. But Jamiel was different; he was an athlete and a good guy. He was a star footballer at Los Angeles High School, and his dad and his mom (who was serving in Iraq) were rightly proud of their son’s achievements. Columnist Sandy Banks quoted Jamiel’s father in the Los Angeles Times, “'College wasn't an option. He was going to college,'" said Shaw, a high school dropout who passed a general education development test. "'My job was to get him through high school, get him ready. He did everything I asked him to.'"

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The Muslim Students Association at Queensborough Community College By FrontPage Magazine

One of six community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, Queensborough Community College (QCC) is a small, two-year school that offers associate’s degrees in a number of academic fields. Of the 17 undergraduate campuses in the CUNY system, QCC ranks near the top in terms of Muslim student enrollment.

In March 2003, QCC’s Muslim Students Association sponsored a closed meeting on the Queensborough campus. The event was secretly infiltrated and monitored by WorldNetDaily journalist Aaron Klein, who afterward reported on what he had observed there. According to Klein, the MSA QCC event featured a presentation by American-born Abu Yousuf (age 20) and Pakistani-born Muhammad Faheed (age 23), both of whom were U.S. leaders of Al-Muhajiroun,91 an international Islamic fundamentalist organization (closely allied to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda) whose overriding aim was to restore and expand, by means of violent jihad, a Muslim Caliphate (empire) that would operate according to the principles of Sharia, or Islamic law.

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Journalist Asks Bush to Protect Iraqi Christians By Cliff Kincaid

On the eve of the Pope’s visit to the U.S., journalist Raymond Arroyo has taken President Bush to task for his policy toward the plight of Christians in Iraq. Arroyo, anchor of the show, “The World Over,” has aggressively questioned Bush about some of the issues we raised in a recent column. The entire interview will air at 8 p.m. Friday, April 11, on EWTN Global Catholic Network. Here are excerpts from his tough interview with the President:

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Obama's "Civil Rights" Vision: Quotas, Increased Crime, More Socialism By Steve Sailer

Where does Barack Obama really stand on racial issues? Is he the post-racial bipartisan conciliator of his campaign image, or is he the black racial activist depicted in his autobiography?

On this issue, for once, Obama's stance is quite clear.

Acolytes in the Obama Cult are taught that, when proselytizing over the phone for new converts, they should not answer direct questions about what Obama stands for, other than "hope" and "change," but instead should tell the inquirer to go look up the candidate’s policy positions on BarackObama.com.

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The predators walking among us by Lawrence Auster

In June 2006 Tracy Hilliard of Las Vegas was walking home from the store with her 13-year-old daughter. Two young black men approached, and the girl became nervous. But Hilliard, as she later testified, told her daughter not to prejudge people.
At that moment, one of the young men said he was going to rob her. One of the assailants pulled out a .38-caliber handgun, pointed it at the mother and daughter, and then shot Hilliard twice in the back.
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Supreme Court's rebuke of Bush

By Joseph Farah

When President Bush expressed disappointment with the Supreme Court ruling that said neither he nor the World Court had the authority to order a Texas court to reopen a death penalty case involving a foreign national, I was a little puzzled.

I know it was Bush who sided with international law over U.S. sovereignty to set up the case. I know it was Bush who sided with a brutal murderer-rapist over state courts to set up the case. I know it was Bush who sided with Mexico and the World Court over common sense, decency and the rule of law.

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Bright idea: Telling the government what it can do with Gorebulbs

By Michele Bachmann

Doesn’t it seem like year after year, more and more decisions we should be making for ourselves, are instead being made by nameless bureaucrats in Washington? They tell us how to spend our money. They tell us how to run our businesses. They tell us how to raise our families. And now, when you thought things couldn’t become anymore absurd, they even tell us what kind of light bulbs we can use in our own homes.

Yes, that’s right, a recent piece of legislation passed in Washington has outlawed the everyday household light bulb.

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The American Taliban Hard At Work

by Paul Hooson

Just like their extremist counterparts in Afghanistan who seek to repress and stomp on anything that is culturally liberated or progressive, the American Taliban is hard at work here. These cultural fascists seek to use government, law and any other means available to impose their own strict religious views on society as whole and don't respect the rights of others to choose what they consider to be free choices based on their own moral world views and opinions.

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Male Castration = Good; Guns = Bad

by Cassy Fiano

Academia shows how tolerant it is of opposing viewpoints (read: NOT LIBERAL) yet again, this time at Colorado College. For liberals, when you spout idiotic drivel that falls in line with liberal orthodoxy, it's OK. Anyone offended is supposed to just smile and take it. Lip service is given to "diversity" and "tolerance", but those values only go skin deep with libs. Diverse skin color and gender = good, diverse opinions = bad. And nowhere is this kind of attitude more prevalent than on college campuses.

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Obama Swift-Boats Himself

by DJ Drummond

In the late spring of 2004, things looked bright for the Democrats. Media spin was making Americans doubt the war in Iraq, ignore the war in Afghanistan, wrongly believe the economy was in trouble, and the Democrats had settled on Senator John Kerry for their presidential nominee, a decorated veteran who fought in Vietnam. Polls showed Kerry in good position and the Democrats were sure that they were about to regain the White House.

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Was soldier jailed to appease Iraqi ‘allies’?

By Diana West

Recently, I opened an e-mail and read: "I am Sgt. Evan Vela's father. I do no not know if you have followed my son's case but some people have drawn similarities between the Luttrell situation and Evan's."

The father was referring to Marcus Luttrell, whose best-seller "Lone Survivor" tells of four Navy SEALS, Luttrell among them, whose secret mission in Afghanistan was compromised when two Afghan goatherds discovered them hiding deep in Taliban territory. I've written before about the perverse but likely prospect of legal prosecution back home that weighed heavily on the Americans' decision not to save their own lives and their mission by killing the two unarmed Afghans — a "crime" in PC la-la-land, even when "unarmed" still means deadly. After releasing the Afghans, the SEALS were overwhelmed by the Taliban, and in the ensuing carnage, not only were three of the four Americans killed, but so were 16 more U.S. special forces, shot down in their helicopter by the Taliban during a rescue attempt. In his book, Luttrell has immortalized the battle, which I think of as Death by Rules of Engagement.

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Massive worldwide paedophile ring untouched

by Circe

On Lateline 10.25 ABC 5/3/08 reported that a world-wide paedophile ring had been exposed yet the most massive paedophile ring in the world is not only not exposed but receives promotion, protection, funding and support from politicians, academics, religious leaders  (some who even endorse the ring’s laws being incorporated into our laws!!) and others! 

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Taming Islamic Intolerance Through Provocations

by Alamgir Hussain

Freedom of expression, a basic human right, is the most prized achievement of the human society. It is the central marker of the liberal civilized society—achieved solely in Western democracies at the cost of great sacrifice.

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Global Cultural Jihad: The Rise of The Renewed Conservative Movement

By ~Snooper~

Move over Leftinistra. WE ARE COMING FOR YOU! Brace yourselves for your journey to the Abyss of Obscurity. We have had our fill of your Dhimmitude and your Blame America First mantra and your America Sucks silliness but most of all, we absolutely loathe your anti-Americanist morphed form of Anarchy/Socialism/Communism genre of ignorant bellowings of dying cattle. As I have stated and proven time and time again, your "philosophy" of politics and life in general cannot be reconciled with the United States Constitution. Something has to give and it must give soon.

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Moderation Abounds??

By Freedom Ain’t Free

My Google Alert for Moderate Muslims highlighted this  opinion piece from Lebanon, wherein I found  some gems of idiocy reproduced below.

Moderation in abundance among Muslims
Saturday, 12 April, 2008 @ 4:26 PM

The editorial claims to be  based on a Gallup poll, which it neither links to nor clearly identifies. It mentions a book co-authored by  John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed.  [Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think] Those writers have a promo piece in the April 2  L.A. Times, which also fails to explicitly identify  or link to the poll. Do you care to hazard a guess as to who published  their hagiography? No, I won’t tell you, its too obvious.

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No Obamanation Part 1: Barack who?

By Mark Alexander

It is unlikely that Hillary Rodham Clinton can turn enough Demo super delegates her way to defeat Barack Hussein Obama for the Democrat presidential nomination. Her prospects for a big win in the 22 April primary in Pennsylvania are diminishing, and even if there were a Michigan revote and the Florida delegates were seated, it would not put Clinton over the top.

Though Clinton has pledged to “fight to the convention,” having pulled out all the stops she and hubby Bill could muster to sink Obama, the once seeming inevitability of her nomination has faded to black, and she may drop her bid by June.

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Judge Roy Moore blasts 'thought police'

By Allie Martin

The former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court is calling for more Christians in America to be educated and informed about activist judges and the liberal agenda to remove the mention of God from the public square.

In 2003, Roy Moore was kicked out of office for refusing to obey a federal judge's order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building in Montgomery. Now, Moore is chairman of the Foundation for Moral Law -- which represents individuals involved in religious liberty cases, and holds seminars about the Godly heritage of America.

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New Mexico commission orders $6,000 fine for Christian beliefs

A Christian law firm will appeal a ruling by the New Mexico Human Rights Commission fining a photographer who refused to take photos of a homosexual commitment ceremony.

Elaine Huguenin and her husband Jon, who co-own Elane Photography in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are both Christians. So when a lesbian couple asked them to photograph their "commitment ceremony" in Taos, the Huguenins politely refused. In response, Vanessa Willock filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission claiming the Huguenins discriminated against her because of her "sexual orientation." On Wednesday, the Commission found the Christian couple guilty of discrimination under state anti-discrimination laws and ordered them to pay more than $6,000 in costs.

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US edges closer to engaging Iran

By M K Bhadrakumar

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T S Eliot's famous opening lines from The Waste Land come to mind as Washington confirms that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is heading for the Middle East to attend an international conference regarding the Iraq situation, in Kuwait on April 22. This will be no ordinary run-of-the-mill international conference. It's about Iraq. And Rice may well bump into her Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.

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The Divorce Industrial Complex

Americans are generally aware that our Divorce Culture is a documented tragedy, but most seem to think that the availability of so-called "no fault" divorce is just a permanent reality. Few Americans seem to understand that marriage is being undermined by what can be called a "Divorce Industrial Complex" that includes lawyers, counselors, court personnel, and various others.

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Obama's Words Rarely Match His Actions

Democratic presidential frontrunner Senator Barack Obama wants the best of both political worlds, claiming to disagree with while refusing to sever ties to his pastor and (as Obama calls him)  “uncle” – the unrepentant anti-U.S., anti-Israel, anti-white Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Such maneuvering, of course, conflicts with Obama’s claim of being a “unifier.” But there are many other reasons to call out Obama for not practicing the progressive ideology he claims to champion.

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Keith Ellison: More Islam = Less Jeremiah Wright Bashing

I have no idea what the hell this statement from America's only Muslim congressman means:

Ellison went on to say if more people knew of what Islam had to teach, the controversy created by statements from presidential candidate Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, might not have occurred.

WTF does an understanding of Islam have to do with controversial statements such as "G*d damn America" or the most offensive of them all, a long rant on how 9/11 was just the "chickens coming home to roost" for evil America?

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