A recent spat on the Chris Matthew’s television program (“Dancing with the Stars” we believe?) has provided a splendid micro-study of the various bankruptcies which characterize the low-state of political debate currently at play in the last best hope of mankind. May God help us all.
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It appears that the 75,000 Obama worshipers in Portland over the weekend turned up in such numbers mostly to see a free concert by an uber-hip Portland band, the Decemberists (see photo below). The eager MSM didn’t report this fact because it might dampen down the new and wonderful miracle from the book of Obamessiah they are now collectively writing. Most media reports were reminiscent of the style the Soviet poets used to glorify public appearances of the great Stalin.
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Presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday that "we have to get used to the idea that we can't keep our houses at 72, drive our SUVs and eat all we want." Arthur B. Robinson, president and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, has a different response.
“I don’t want to give up eating all I want because of a failed hypothesis,” said Robinson at the National Press Club here on May 19. Robinson said global warming is not a threat to America. He said that the global temperature increased by just .5 degrees in the last century.
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I've never been a fan of John McCain. Not only is he not a conservative, he may have done more damage to the conservative movement than any other Republican over the last few years. Look back at the Gang-of-14, global warming, McCain-Feingold, coddling terrorists at Gitmo, illegal immigration -- on and on and on, and you'll remember John McCain working feverishly with liberals to defeat conservatives.
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One of the most telling pieces of evidence against the Darwinian theory of evolution by random mutation and natural selection is the existence of highly specialized analogous organs in unrelated species. Wings, for example, have evolved on at least three occasions--in winged insects, in winged mammals, namely the bat, and in winged dinosaurs/birds. (I'm assuming for the sake of discussion that birds are related to flying reptiles, so I'm treating them here as one group.) Insects, bats, and reptiles/birds have no immediate relationship with each other, which means that in each instance, the organs and faculty of winged flight came into existence independently.
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Rookie United States Senators and current Democrat frontrunner Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. rightly took a big hit with white voters after the media focused the nation on his relationships with the likes of Rev. Jeremiah A. "God damn America" Wright, Jr. and William "I bombed the Pentagon and wish I'd done more" Ayers and a videotape of Obama telling the elite as a closed-door San Francisco fundraiser that small town Americans clung to religion and guns out of bitter over their economic circumstances was made public.
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Today, for the first time in American history we have two --- count 'em, two --- hard-core Leftists running for the Democrat Party nomination. The Left hasn't had this kind of chance for power since Truman defeated Henry Wallace in 1948. Hillary and Obama are Marx twins who only differ in race and gender.
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Recent congressional losses, President George W. Bush's unpopularity, and bleak generic ballot poll numbers have conservatives fearing the "liberalization" of America – a move toward secularization, the growth of government, stagnation, mediocrity and loss of freedom.
Yet there is still a way to revive the conservative cause. Doing so will require avoiding the traps of pessimism or election-year quick fixes. Conservatives need to stand back for a moment and think about our philosophical first principles.
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Much has been made of Barack Obama’s associations with really questionable people, for example former Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and Obama’s racist, agitator “pastor” Jeremiah Wright, who in addition to his charming hate speech, apparently supports the terrorist group, Hamas.
But this is truly baffling. If the national media is so foursquare behind Obama’s candidacy, as they seem to have been up to now, and are genuinely concerned with Obama’s radical roots, why on earth didn’t they long ago expose Hillary Clinton’s much deeper, lifelong commitment to, and involvement in, virulently anti-American, radical leftist groups? Why aren’t they doing it now?
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"A Victory for Equality and Justice," blared the headline above the editorial. "Momentous," "historic," "a major victory for civil rights," "a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense."
This was the ecstatic reaction of The New York Times to the California Supreme Court's declaration that homosexuals have a right to marry and have their unions recognized as marriages.
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I write as someone who regularly got shot at, rocketed, and mortared by people I didn’t even know who wanted to kill me. I mention this matter only to establish my bona fides to hold forth on such a weighty matter.
My guess is that we have eleven too many “memorial days” of one sort or another, some of which you’ve never heard of and two of which are mercifully defunct, although I know from personal experience among the inhabitants of the holiday catacombs who dedicate way too much time to such things, that the officially defunct ones live on, at some debilitated level.
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BUOYED by their modest electoral success last month, critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocative foreign policy were preparing to launch a series of attacks on him in the Islamic Majlis, Iran's ersatz parliament. But then Ahmadinejad got an unexpected boost from Barack Obama.
Ali Larijani, Iran's former nuclear negotiator and now a Majlis member, was arguing that the Islamic Republic would pay a heavy price for Ahmadinejad's rejection of three UN Security Council resolutions on nukes. Then the likely Democratic presidential nominee stepped in.
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Just recently, a French court ruled that I did not defame France 2 when I said that its news report was a staged hoax. Because I refused to be brainwashed, I was sued for defamation.
This recent victory is a victory for freedom — the freedom to think and to speak one’s mind; the freedom to question what one is told; and the freedom to disbelieve the solemn pronouncements of others when the individual concludes that his reasoning is correct and that the state and the state-run media — and all of the institutions they represent — are wrong.
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The latest audio message from al-Qaeda, reportedly from Osama bin Laden himself, is only the most recent confirmation that the jihadist threat to the West remains real and deadly serious. But the fact that it could take the form of nuclear terrorism should be most worrying to citizens and policy makers alike.
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In its March 26 edition, Press Online published an excerpt from the testimony of one of Hague witnesses about Kosovo Serbs kidnapped by the KLA for organ harvesting…The Hague eyewitness, who personally took part in the harrowing ordeal, testified that trade with vital organs of the kidnapped Kosovo Serbs was conducted under a direct supervision of Hashim Thaci, the current ‘Premier’ of the fake mafia state in southern Serbia.
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Mindful of the timeless advice our mothers gave us, that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all, I have this comment about California Senator Dianne Feinstein: "She’s great for my job security!"
After considering Feinstein for several hours (a profoundly unpleasant task), that’s the best I can come up with.
Of course, if you don’t write immigration reform columns for a living (as I do) then you most assuredly can’t think of a good thing about Feinstein.
Now that I’ve fulfilled my obligation to my mother, I can proceed to the matter at hand: Feinstein and her perverse dedication to guest worker programs and the temporary (ha!) legal status she wants to include in them.
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It's difficult to argue with five separate nonbiased sources, as well as over 150,000 military firsthand witnesses. But some of the public still persist in believing that Iraqi WMDs didn't exist.
First, from The Terrorist Watch(1) we hear from George Piro, the last confidante of Saddam Hussein for eight months leading up to his execution. Piro states that Hussein was indeed trying to acquire nuclear capability, and claimed his WMDs were not usable since 1991.
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The AFL-CIO Will Announce Plans For A $53 Million Effort "To Paint McCain As Anti-Worker Today, according to their newsletter.
The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor union organization, will announce plans Wednesday for a $53 million effort to elect a Democrat to the White House.
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The French Court of Appeals on Wednesday found in favor of Jewish activist Philippe Karsenty, overturning a lower court decision that he had libeled France 2 and its Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin when he accused them of knowingly misleading the watching world about the death of the Palestinian child Muhammad al-Dura in the Gaza Strip in 2000.
“The verdict means we have the right to say France 2 broadcast a fake news report, that [al-Dura’s shooting] was a staged hoax and that they duped everybody – without being sued,” Karsenty told The Jerusalem Post shortly after the verdict was issued at 1:30 p.m. Paris time.
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Will the national news media provide balanced coverage of the Democrats and Obama and the Republicans and McCain this year? To answer we start with two premises, then toss in the wild card.
Premise One: Pennsylvania’s 21 Electoral votes are no longer solid Red. It is one of the states the Democrats must win, but which the GOP, if push came to shove, could do without. Traditionally, Pennsylvania’s politics as memorialized by James Carville, is the two islands of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh surrounded by Alabama. A recent shift of Philadelphia’s bedroom suburban counties from Republican to Democratic now tilts Pennsylvania from Purple to Blue.
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After delivering a scientifically inept global warming lecture in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, greenhouse gasbag Al Gore presented Israel with a 60th birthday gift of custom tailored, regionally-targeted Globaloney.
As adaptable to his surroundings as any desert snake, the shameless Nobel laureate told conference attendees that plunging water levels in their lakes and rivers were the result of -- guess what? Quothe the Goracle:
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John McCain's big speech on Latin America Tuesday projects a leadership that will go down well in our southern hemisphere. Instead of focusing on dictators, he aims to shun tyrants and champion people.
Zeroing in first on democracy's biggest black hole, McCain in Miami warned the Castro oligarchy that "Cuba is destined to be free" and he didn't intend to stand passively nor buttress the Castro regime on its last legs by inviting them to tea in the White House. Winds of change are coming.
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... Kennedy’s one presidential meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, suggests that there are legitimate reasons to fear negotiating with one’s adversaries. Although Kennedy was keenly aware of some of the risks of such meetings — his Harvard thesis was titled “Appeasement at Munich” — he embarked on a summit meeting with Khrushchev in Vienna in June 1961, a move that would be recorded as one of the more self-destructive American actions of the cold war, and one that contributed to the most dangerous crisis of the nuclear age.
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To celebrate July 4th, Americans shoot off fireworks — a colorful reminder of the nation’s often explosive struggle for independence. This month, Israelis have been celebrating 60 years of independence, and any store-bought pyrotechnics are superfluous: The rockets’ red glare can be seen in Israel’s skies night after night, courtesy of Hamas, the terrorist organization that rules Gaza and is openly dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish state.
If we want peace between Israel and the Palestinians, we need to marginalize the radicals and empower the moderates. That’s the conventional wisdom. There’s one problem with it: Moderates wield no power in Gaza.
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While the media will cover heavily yesterday's Israeli announcement that it is engaged in high-level talks with Syria, the real story from the Middle East concerns Beirut. It is a story we ignore at our peril. The US backed Lebanese government suffered a catastrophic defeat and backed down to all of Hizballah demands to end the very crisis it created that has paralyzed that divided nation since November. The democratically-elected and US backed government capitulated to the terrorist group’s demand for new elections and its insistence upon veto power against any move of that new government.
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THE MEDIA KEEP REMINDING US OF THE ISSUES THAT DIVIDE us as a nation: Iraq, different approaches about reviving the economy, socialized medicine, the role of mankind in global warming, gay marriage, social issues, and many others. As Ted Kennedy’s recently diagnosed brain tumor demonstrated, Right and Left are also divided based on whether they display basic human decency when misfortunes befall a member of the other side. The American people seem to be fundamentally cleft about how they treat news of an opponent’s impending death in a conservative manner – with prayer – or a leftist one – with champagne and hate mail.
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I am unapologetically enraged at the brutal indifference of this city to an epidemic of murder. We need candidates and money to challenge every member of the City Council. We need new political blood to stop the bloodshed in the streets of L.A. The current crowd abused the privilege.
Last week, the Shaws, Anita and Jamiel Sr., addressed the City Council urging the passage of "Jamiel's Law" in the hope their son's death may not have been in vain. Based on the rude and contemptible response the council members showed the Shaws and their supporters, looking to the council may be the ultimate exercise in futility.
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In just concluded testimony before the Senate's Judiciary Committee, outgoing Shell Oil Company President John Hofmeister delivered a withering indictment against onerous government regulation - inspired by a radical green agenda - of domestic and offshore oil exploration.
Hofmeister placed the blame for high energy prices and dependence on foreign imports squarely where it belongs, on the backs of legislators stating, "U.S. production has fallen steadily for the last 35 years. Oil production in this country peaked in the 1970s. As U.S. consumption of oil has doubled, domestic oil production has fallen off nearly 40 percent. Why? In large part, this is the result of government policies that placed important oil and gas resources off limits..."
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An attorney and top foreign policy adviser to Sen. Barack Obama is coming under fire for representing controversial figures, including an accused human-rights abuser, an alleged murderer of a U.S. soldier and even the would-be assassin of former President Ronald Reagan.
Greg Craig, who has been termed the "lawyer of the left," represented John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate Reagan in 1981 by firing six bullets at the president as he left a hotel. Craig was reportedly the architect of Hinckley's successful defense in which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, even though reports by the federal prosecution found Hinckley sane.
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Want to understand the oil price spike?
Economists call it “supply and demand.”
If only Congressional Democrats understood the concept.
The Democrat ignorance of basic economics and major supply of class envy was on full display today as it staged the latest circus by dragging oil execs to D.C. for a hearing. So what was the evil oil executives’ “crime” ?
Oil companies are making too durn much money.
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The state of Alaska will sue the U.S. government to stop the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species, arguing the designation will slow development in the state, Gov. Sarah Palin said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Palin said the state will file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington challenging U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's decision to grant Endangered Species Act protections to the polar bear.
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Look at how much the price of oil has risen versus the price of gasoline. Oil’s gain is far outpacing the gain in gasoline. Doesn’t this raise a few questions for Barack Obama, who loves to vilify “Big Oil” and has been talking about a windfall profit tax.
Obama proposes oil companies be taxed on windfall profits from oil sold at or above 80 dollars a barrel, and the revenue be used to help relieve the burden of rising prices on working people, according to his campaign.
How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity and its purpose?
Beginning in the 1940s, the Democratic Party was forced to confront two of the most dangerous enemies our nation has ever faced: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In response, Democrats under Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy forged and conducted a foreign policy that was principled, internationalist, strong and successful.
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(Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) I’ve shown how a political agenda took over climate science primarily through the UN and specifically the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The agenda was spread to the world at the 1992 Rio Conference. Periodic Reports from the IPCC maintained the focus on CO2 and increased the political pressure. Please understand I am not claiming a conspiracy, but rather a cabal, which is defined as a secret political clique pushing a political agenda; in this case, designed by Maurice Strong.
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“China, India, in particular Brazil. They are growing so fast that they are consuming more and more energy, and pretty soon, if their [carbon] footprint even approaches ours, we’re goners. . . . We can’t — drive our SUVs and you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on you know, 72 degrees at all times, and whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra, and then just expect that every other country’s going say OK.
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On the subject of what happens to people when they embrace materialism as a thoroughgoing worldview, let us consider Charles Darwin's own rejection of God and the transcendent, a rejection that Darwin soft-pedaled in his published writings but that was in fact radical, as John G. West demonstrates in the first chapter of Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science. West writes:
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It is the essence of democracy that people should be able to decide the moral rules that govern the nature of a community. If people don't have that power, then they are living under an autocracy.
True, this majority rule is not unlimited. It is limited by what the government has the power to do. Consequently the majority cannot, in general, vote to seize the homes and accumulated savings of rich people. Leaving aside exceptional cases, government cannot mandate how parents how should raise their children. These kinds of power lie outside the scope of government in a free society.
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In 52 seconds, he rattles off what an Obama presidency would mean for our national defense; slowing down of existing programs to build new weapons, cutting "tens of billions" of dollars in "wasteful" spending, scrapping missile defense completely, and setting up an "independent defense priority review board" (you can imagine the anti-defense liberals sitting on that board) to make sure we don't waste any money building "unnecessary" weapons.
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White Christians are "make pretend" believers and conservative Christians emulate the people who killed Jesus, according to articles in a controversial magazine run by Sen. Barack Obama's longtime pastor that paint traditional Christianity as false and racist.
Stanley Kurtz, a National Review Online contributor, concluded after reviewing two years of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trumpet Magazine that the Trinity United Church of Christ pastor practices a black liberation theology brand of Christianity that "sees his own form of Christianity as profoundly different from Christianity as typically practiced by most American whites and blacks."
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Jill Simpson is an unusual woman. A lawyer, she has scratched out an uncertain living in DeKalb County, Alabama. Fellow DeKalb County lawyers describe her as "a very strange person" who "lives in her own world." The daughter of rabid Democrats, she has rarely if ever been known to participate in politics as even a low-level volunteer. Yet today, she is a minor celebrity who is unvaryingly described in the press as a "Republican operative." Those who know her in DeKalb County scoff at the idea that she is a Republican at all.
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"The contrast between the United States and Europe is too striking not to be noticed by even the most superficial observer." To that typically understated comment by George Washington in the earliest, uncertain days of our republic, one can only add a fervent, thank God for the difference. If that seems unduly churlish toward our European friends, then I invite you to dip into Jay Winik's latest book. This erudite, eclectic, and eminently readable look at the momentous events crowded into the last years of the 18th century leaves one overarching impression: Lord, how those people in Europe could hate. Lurching from one vicious bloodletting to another they shot, slashed, and eviscerated each other with glorious abandon as centuries of feudal brutality and institutionalized murder came to a frenzied head.
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BUOYED by their modest electoral success last month, critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocative foreign policy were preparing to launch a series of attacks on him in the Islamic Majlis, Iran's ersatz parliament. But then Ahmadinejad got an unexpected boost from Barack Obama.
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There have been four quarters in the Democratic presidential nomination battle. We’re late in the fourth quarter now, and when it’s over, Hillary Clinton will likely have won three of the quarters — and won the most votes overall — but lost the game.
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All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.
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If you think energy is expensive now, just wait until our next president, working with a Democratic-majority Congress, implements cap-and-trade rules tailored for the greatest possible gain for special interests and the highest possible costs to consumers and taxpayers.
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If an organization stood accused of supporting a fanatical religious movement that seeks to create a global empire wherein women are oppressed, homosexuals are executed, and all faiths other than Islam are expressly outlawed, would that group try to discredit such accusations by providing a public forum for an individual who proudly and vocally embraces precisely those ideals? Yes, if that organization was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), which recently commissioned a religious bigot and apologist for terror named Sheikh Khalid Yasin to speak on its behalf.
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He views Iran's nuclear threat as "tiny." He'd meet with its leader, who is pledged to Israel's destruction. His adviser wants Israel to disarm. Clearly, Barack Obama is running for Jimmy Carter's second term.
If we've been particularly hard on Sen. Obama in recent days, it's because he's a gift that keeps on giving. He consistently demonstrates his lack of qualifications to be commander in chief based on experience, worldview and judgment.
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When he was told that some in the Army were dismissive of press reports on the mistreatment of patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, according to one witness, grew "very, very quiet." Within two weeks, the Walter Reed commander was out of a job.
This kind of decisive silence has been employed by Mr. Gates to good effect in scandals ranging from misdirected nuclear parts to the cremation of both fallen American soldiers and pets at the same facility.
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Violence is spinning out of control is areas along the U.S. Mexico border and now drug cartels are sending a chilling message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die.
The threat appears in recruiting banners that are hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops are receiving additional threats over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, including Mexico’s acting federal police chief.
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Whilst the threat of Islamist terrorism takes up much of the Western world's attention, dialogue, security preparedness and fears the true threat of Islam comes from a mass of people whose polygamous life style is conducive to massive overpopulation. While our Western leaders ponder what newer bigger and better safety measures can be installed - placing CC cameras in every possible location to document our mundane daily activities and pull bottles of "threatening" hand creme from our airport luggage - these same leaders stand with our borders wide open and encourage the full scale muslim colonization of our countries.
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Several times, I've lambasted the Catholic Church and its "pedophile priest" scandal. It was a huge black mark on the Church, and it persists to this day -- far, far too many of those who enabled the child-molesting clergy to continue abusing children and protected them from justice still hold exalted positions within the Church. (Bernard Law, I'm talking about you -- among others.)
But apparently there's another sex scandal going on, involving the sexual misuse of children by adults in a position of authority and trust -- and it's getting nowhere near the attention I think it deserves.
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In their litany of American presidents who met with hostile dictators, supporters of Barack Obama cite John F. Kennedy and his meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. They leave out how it went.
The earnest, young American president wanted to forestall any possibility of misunderstanding and to win Khrushchev's commitment to the international status quo. The blustery, risk-taking Soviet premier wanted to bludgeon Kennedy into making concessions that would further the Soviet goal of global revolution. With such clashing objectives, the two leaders didn't exactly hit it off.
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Since the War on Terror began, American college campuses have been increasingly under the influence of radical leftists allied with Wahhabist Saudi, PLO and other overseas governments that help finance the international terrorist network or act as its cheerleaders. This influence is decidedly anti-US and anti-Israel.
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There is information all over the Democratic Blogs that there is a tape of Michelle Obama "Ranting And Raving Against Whitey" in Trinty United Church of Christ in Chicago. The video has been found by GOP operatives who have been watching almost twenty years of Rev. Wright Tapes. The tapes will be used at the apporiate time during the general election.
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Saudi Arabian human rights advocate Ali Alyami says a negative Saudi influence continues to pervade America.
A strange partnership exists between the Saudis and the United States, according to Alyami of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia. He says the Saudi establishment -- the clerics -- call for Saudis and other Muslims to "go and kill the [American] infidels in Iraq and wherever they are."
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“Modern civilization makes all local cultures anachronistic,” wrote Canadian political philosopher George Grant (1918–1988) in his Lament for a Nation (1965). Grant, who regarded English-speaking Canada’s culture as essentially British, regretted what he considered to be the former country’s dissolution from a nation to a mere part of the U.S., through military, economic, and political relationships in which it was the weaker partner.
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BURMA'S belated decision to allow an ASEAN-led relief effort may go some way to preventing the toll from Cyclone Nargis multiplying from the current figure of 134,000 dead or missing. Nineteen days after the disaster, the ruling junta's callous inhumanity and gross incompetence has kept foreign aid workers out, while more than two million people are hungry, thirsty, homeless and in need of medical help. ASEAN'S shouldering the responsibility suggests a welcome maturing in its view of its regional role.
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It takes little courage — or brains — to join the mob vilifying President Bush. But the Democrats (and Republicans, too) depicting him as villain will one day regret it.
In the eyes of members of both parties, George W. Bush seems to be the cause of everything from the recent GOP special election losses to a flagging economy to today's bad weather.
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There is a lot of anguish among Republicans as they look at the dismal polls and the even more depressing performance of their candidates in various preliminary House races. New books and prophets forecast an end to conservatism, and a need to formulate a new sort of muscular liberalism to meet new challenges. Expect more such nostrums if Barack Obama wins in the fall.
What mystifies is the paralysis of Republicans and their impotent protestations that “Bush did it”. The truth is that Congressional Republicans, responsible for turning principles into governance, deserve to lose—unless they craft clear positions that won’t be compromised and then offer them as alternative choices to the voters this fall. Here are some examples:
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To use an old manner of description, the American elite are "too smart by half." It is absolutely incredible how much damage to an otherwise thriving society can be accomplished by a small group of elitists who consider themselves smarter than everyone else and therefore able to dictate to others what is best for them. Of course, they don’t do this alone, it is fortuitous for them that almost all propaganda machinery is operated by those captivated by elitists and certain in the belief that it is their mission to spread the word and convince the rest that the particular elitist theory of the day prevails among the populace.
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Our culture has been besieged by opponents of Western civilization who wish in the depths of their dark hearts to dismantle the greatest civilization that has ever existed on the face of the planet, to deny us of our destiny, and to do away with our liberties. What our people face now is akin to what the people of Poland faced on September 1, 1939. Though our civilization is not being destroyed through a calculated military assault, it is however being destroyed through a calculated political and cultural assault. If our civilization is to survive, patriots must rise up in its defense.
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When you get older, you find yourself looking with disdain upon the generation that follows. It's only natural - that is, unless you're one of those who buy into the George Benson or Whitney Houston versions of "The Greatest Love of All" and all that "the children are our future" fluff. When you grow up being told how wonderful you are, and have politicians declare their actions are solely for you, it's no wonder they grow up believing they are entitled to everything we have to offer.
I'm not buying it.
I "kicked" my son out tonight.
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Chris Matthews, host of the MSNBC program “Hardball,” (a venue which rivals “Air America in popularity) was on his high horse last week castigating conservatives who followed Rush Limbaugh’s directive to cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
According to Matthews, they should be “ashamed of themselves” for ostensibly sullying the alabaster institution of American democracy which, he reminded us, was bought by “the Founding Fathers and all of the soldiers who fought for this country’s freedom” etc. and should not be thus trivialized.
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First, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune reports that the Minnesota Department of Education is calling-out the Muslim Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA), a public charter school, accusing it of “blurring the line between religion and state by promoting Islam.” Of course the Muslims at Tarek ibn Ziyad, true to their al-taqiyya form, deny everything. Apparently the academy is in violation of Minnesota state law by allowing Friday Muslim prayers on school grounds. This is in addition to the daily 5-minute prayers in the school between Monday and Thursday. The Friday Islamic prayer session lasts for a half-hour and results in the students not meeting state requirements for total time under classroom instruction. The Star Tribune report also points out that “Letting teachers participate, even though they don’t lead prayers, may give students the impression that the school endorses Islam.” Du-uh, ya think? The prayers and the teachers’ presence is probably a mandatory requirement per the local “rightly guided” Imam. I mean, really, is there any question that the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy doesn’t endorse Islam?
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Jeremiah Wright: 'I said to Barack Obama last year, 'If you get elected, November the 5th I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people.''
That's the scare every white American must take seriously if B. Hussein Obama gets PA Ave.
Wright means what he says.
Don't think for a minute that B. Hussein Obama has given up on Wright, his mentor, pastor, uncle-type. As soon as things cool down. Obama will once again be at Wright's feet.
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The law was just a plaything to California’s Supreme Court, and the justices twisted logic into a pretzel as they legalized same-sex marriage by judicial fiat.
The court also exposed the danger created by wishy-washy lawmakers who push “civil unions” or “domestic partnerships” as a supposed middle-ground compromise. That actually is a deadly policy of appeasement. It was the very existence of such laws that the justices used to justify this outrageous decision.
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After a year of falling temperatures, global warming fanatics grow more desperate. From Australia comes a scheme that only can be described as deranged, in my opinion:
IN a doomsday scenario straight out of the Matrix trilogy, top scientist Tim Flannery has claimed humanity may need to blot out the sun to survive global warming.
The former Australian of the Year says sulphur could be pumped into the Earth's stratosphere to keep out the sun's rays and slow global warming, a process called global dimming.
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The Democrat party has a long history of appeasement. You can look back to Jimmy Carter's entire administration, Madeline Albright's meetings with Arafat and Kim Jong-il, and many other instances. Let's not forget Nancy Pelosi's Hermes tour of Damascus. More recently, Jimmy Carter's "give Hamas a chance" tour and Bill Richardson's heartwarming handshake of Chavez continue to show you that the Dems can't stop loving the murderous thug-du-jour. As the Wall Street Journal said,...
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It was as if a dentist had just jabbed at an exposed nerve in a rotting tooth, inducing a shrill howl from his helpless patient.
President Bush, saluting Israel on its 60th birthday, stood before the Israeli Knesset last week and recalled a simple fact of history. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
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You may have heard earlier this month that global warming is now likely to take break for a decade or more. There will be no more warming until 2015, perhaps later.
Climate scientist Noel Keenlyside, leading a team from Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, for the first time entered verifiable data on ocean circulation cycles into one of the U. N.'s climate supercomputers, and the machine spit out a projection that there will be no more warming for the foreseeable future.
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During the past two years, while my nomination to the Federal Election Commission was pending – and before I withdrew last week – friends would call whenever the latest newspaper story or blog post attacking me was planted by political operatives and left-wing advocacy organizations.
They always asked the same question: Why was I putting up with the character assassination that has become the norm in Senate confirmation battles whenever a conservative is nominated for public office?
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Since repudiating his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., at an April 29 news conference, Barack Obama has done everything in his power to minimize the nature of his relationship with Wright. Supposedly, Obama found Wright’s recent and controversial remarks at the National Press Club shocking, unfamiliar, and out-of-character. In fact, we now know that Wright’s controversial remarks were entirely in character, and that regular church attendance, and even limited familiarity with church publications, would have made Wright’s radical views entirely evident. Indeed, a bit of digging now turns up information that makes it next-to-impossible not to conclude that Obama has long been familiar with Wright’s radicalism.
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Between my house and downtown Macon, Georgia, which is a seven minute trip in traffic, I pass seven Asian themed spas, an impressive one per minute. You wouldn’t really notice these places during the day, except for one. They have generally drab exteriors in run down strip malls and they really are not lit up and packed until around eleven o’clock at night.
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What began as a peaceful screening of the documentary, “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West”, Monday afternoon at Columbus (Ohio) State Community College turned to shouts and intimidation as Muslim students confronted students in attendance and Islamofascism Awareness Week event organizers. The video screening was part of Columbus State’s Islamofascism Awareness Week activities hosted by the campus chapter of the Terrorism Awareness Project (TAP), which runs through Wednesday.
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"That's enough. That — that's a show of disrespect to me."
That was Barack Obama, a couple of weeks back, explaining why he was casting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into outer darkness. It's one thing to wallow in "adolescent grandiosity" (as Scott Johnson of the Powerline Web site called it) when it's a family dispute between you and your pastor of 20 years. It's quite another to do so when it's the 60th anniversary celebrations of one of America's closest allies.
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As the U.S. election campaign revisits the question of whether an American president should meet unconditionally with heads of hostile regimes, a drive to haul the Iranian leader before an international court may be picking up steam.
More than two years after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began publicly calling for Israel's demise and questioning the veracity of the Holocaust, at least one government says it is looking seriously at the legal options that may be available.
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More than 31,000 scientists across the United States, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields including atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting "global warming," the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate.
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As of 5/19/08 at 3:11 PM, they’ve deleted the image, which we copied earlier and remains posted below, but the diary post remains. Sorry Kos Kids, no do-overs on the internet.
Those grown-ups at Daily Kos are always willing to have a debate on the merits.
I’m from West Virginia and Senator Byrd is too.
Now that he’s endorsed Senator Obama, the right wing will once again paint Byrd as a flipflopping former klansman.
Michelle Obama is an outspoken black woman who they’re portraying an unpatriotic liberal “elitist”.
United States Marine Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt (center) with his buddies in Haditha, Iraq.
This post is about those who support our troops and those scurrilous reprobates who say they support the troops, and don’t mean a single word of it.
Congressman John Murtha (D-Pa) slandered several United States Marines, including Lance Corporal Justin L. Sharratt, by accusing them of executing innocent men, women, and children in cold blood in Haditha, Iraq on Nov. 19, 2005. Here is the despicable Murtha in his own words.
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Is it beyond humanity or “fair play” that we consider “taking out” certain pesky gnats?
The question is whether it is better to strategically target a terrorist or national leader for assassination, rather than fight a lengthy war of armies. Of course it is argued that Presidential directives prohibit such actions. I counter by saying that this war against the jihad is different from all others, and that “Directives” (like Presidential Executive Order 12333) were for past wars.
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Germany's President Horst Koehler has denounced the world financial market as a "monster" using "highly complex financial instruments" to make "massive leveraged investments with minimal capital". Koehler, formerly head of the International Monetary Fund, seems perplexed about the causes of the present crisis, but I can explain them in a way any German can understand. Derivatives are like sausages. You take the low-quality parts of the pig that you don't want to look at while you are eating them, and grind them up into a package that seems more appetizing.
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In the context of civilizational history, the rise of the West is one of the oldest events. The old colonial powers declined; some of them slid into the category of "former great powers" (France, Germany and arguably Spain and Italy); and others, like Britain - realizing that it could never be a power of global influence again - found its niche as America's sidekick.
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Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.
At a time when Democrats are poised to knock down a historic racial barrier with their presidential nominee, the GOP is fielding only a handful of minority candidates for Congress or statehouses — none of whom seem to have a prayer of victory.
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A tongue-in-cheek comment from my university said if we could just get rid of the students it would be a great place to work. Some environmentalists think if we could just get rid of all the people on the planet it would be a great place to live. Generally over-population is a major part of the environmentalists’ argument that humans are causing all the problems, including climate change. Satire is a good measure of this position typified by the bumper sticker that says, “Save the Planet, Kill Yourself.”
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In case people have forgotten, the Islamo-fascists’ primary motivation for perpetrating the 9/11 attacks was to seriously damage, or destroy the economy of the United States. Why are Congress, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain helping them do it?
America may never become completely energy independent. But to hamper all efforts to move in that direction is more than just willfully stupid. It is an abdication of one of the principle reasons for government itself: to protect us from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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Let us now take counsel of our fears.
We're afraid of ozone and CO2. We're afraid of smog and cigarette smoke. We're afraid of Republicans because they are warmongers, and of Democrats because they are in utter denial of the real world. We're afraid the earth is warming -- or freezing. Our bee populations are now collapsing. A new kind of voracious ant is invading. Only 20,000 polar bears are left in Alaska, way down, from, oh, about 20,000 previously. Flesh-eating bacteria are attacking people in Africa, again. According to the Daily Telegraph of London, we should be afraid of fat people because they pollute more than skinny ones -- don't ask why -- but we're also worried about millions of skinny people who are finally getting their chance to eat better.
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A major child sex abuse scandal has erupted in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Where's the national media?
Steve Thomas Rooney faces 13 felony sex-related counts, including charges that he had unlawful sex with two female students, ages 13 and 14, during the time he was an assistant principal at a middle school. And here's the kicker:
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One of the key challenges facing the United States in its struggle against a global insurgency fueled by Islamic expansionism, Communist expansionism, the web of narcotics and criminal networks and transnational terrorism, is the role deception plays in furthering the agendas and interests of these national and non-state actors. Deception has always been difficult for Americans to come to grips with because of its appeal to the darker side of the human psyche. America has always been an open, free and prosperous nation that generally detests such behavioral practices. When it comes to deception by the enemy, the US has always been ready to fight the “last war” because of our failure to adequately prepare ourselves to the current threat environment.
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American liberals are getting increasingly frustrated with the use of the term “democratic socialism.” But I’m getting increasingly fed up with the improper use of the term “liberal.” John McCain is a liberal. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, like all modern Democrats, are something quite different.
For the record, the term “liberal” originally referred to people like Thomas Jefferson, indicating their undying reverence for “individual liberty” and “personal freedom” above all other notions and their opposition to government power.
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There’s a lot we don’t know about Democratic senator Barack Obama. But there’s also a lot we do. This presidential election swing has lasted more than a year now, and many of us have been watching him since his big speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. We have his record in the U.S. Senate and the Illinois state legislature. His political advent after the Iowa caucuses may have been announced by choirs of angels, but he has an earthly history that’s goes back further than that. In short: We ought to start paying attention to what information we have and stop projecting our hopes and dreams onto his frequent, energizing, but largely empty rhetoric at campaign rallies.
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President Bush’s implied attack on Barack Obama -- comparing those who would negotiate with terrorists and radicals to pre-World War II appeasers -- is being written off as mere heated political rhetoric. That is happening because the president, as is his wont, expressed a correct judgment in incomplete and thus incorrect terms.
Speaking to the Israeli Knesset on May 15, the president said:
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Did you know…Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican? Every civil rights law, beginning in the 1860s through the 1950s and 1960s, was fought against by Democrats? Or the KKK had links to the Democratic Party? Not only are these questions addressed by the National Black Republicans Association (NBRA), but also more surprising facts.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on “contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, Dr. Doudou Diène, has been invited by the U.S. government for a three week visit this month and next to the cities of Washington, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, and San Juan in Puerto Rico. The stated purpose is for Diène to gather first-hand information on racism in America. He is scheduled to hold meetings with governmental representatives, both at national and local levels, and with members of the legislative and judiciary branches as well as with non-governmental organizations, community members, representatives of political parties, academics and other organizations and individuals working in the field of racism and discrimination.
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We live in a dangerous world. According to the European Union, that world will become
exponentially more dangerous in the coming years. An internal EU document leaked to the Financial Times states that Iran will likely go nuclear in the near Future. “Attempts to engage the Iranian administration in a negotiating process have so far not succeeded,”says the document. “At some stage we must expect that Iran will acquire the capacity to enrich uranium on the scale required for a weapons
programme.” The document also suggests that economic sanctions will be useless.
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On May 14 Barack Obama held a private meeting at Macomb Community College with Hassan Qazwini. Qazwini is the leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Debbie Schlussel describes Qazwini as Hezbollah's most important imam and agent in America.
Obama's meeting with Qazwini came to light because of a brief report in the Detroit Free Press (with the photo above) deriving from Qazwini and his mosque. The Obama campaign has not itself posted any news account or press release regarding the meeting on its Obama News page. A Google News search on "Obama Qazwini" shows that news of the meeting has essentially remained a closely guarded secret.
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Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama says Israel is a "constant wound" and a "constant sore" that infects "all of our foreign policy."
Obama, under fire for attracting praise and support for his presidential run from the terrorist group Hamas, spoke to Atlantic Monthly at length about his views of the Middle East.
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A few years ago, Harvard psychiatric instructor Kenneth Levin wrote "The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege." In this illuminating book, Levin examines the Israeli experience of concessionary negotiations with a "peace partner" openly dedicated to Israel’s destruction. He also examines the historical Jewish Diaspora experience in which Jewish populations typically identified with their tormentors and even echoed their anti-Semitism.
Such interactions are driven by a permanent condition of siege mentality, Levin explains, and clearly manifest two kinds of delusional thinking.
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No one, whether a mother, father, or family member touched by reproductive loss, deals with grief and loss in the same way. “I was completely unprepared for the emotional fallout,” says Michaelene Fredenburg, author of “Changed: making sense of your own and a loved one’s abortion experience” about her abortion in a new book on loss experienced from abortion. “For years I suffered in silence,” she remembers.
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Let me get this straight. It's perfectly fair for Barack Obama and his cohorts to repeatedly disparage President Bush's foreign policy as "cowboy diplomacy" but unspeakably horrific for Bush to analogize the Democrats' approach to foreign policy to appeasing Hitler?
When Obama compared Hillary Clinton's threats against Iran to President Bush's threatening "bluster" and "cowboy diplomacy," no one batted an eye.
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As we round the corner to the last five months of the presidential elections (yes, it's been going on forever!), look for the far-left demagogues to attempt to ignite ugly racial passions by playing the race card - actually it'll probably be the entire DECK of race cards. This election shouldn't be about race. Of course it isn't about race at all - it's mostly about how best to move the country forward in terms of our economy and our foreign policy - but you'll never know it by what you'll be hearing.
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The Reagan era in American politics is about to end, and we have George W. Bush to thank for its demise. In this respect, it doesn't matter who wins the Democratic nomination or even who wins the general election in the fall.
I was going to try to write this column without using the word "paradigm," but already I've failed: Regardless of who takes the oath of office in January, the paradigm that reigned for nearly three decades — the notion that government is useless, if not inherently evil — is no longer operative.
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In today’s nanny culture, where individuals are deemed incapable of looking out for their own interests and government is supposedly looking out for everyone’s welfare, wage and hour legislation is an accepted commonplace. But this was not always so.
Back in 1903, the enlightened State of Oregon enacted a law regulating the working hours of women, a supposedly noble endeavor designed to protect the “weaker sex” from exploitation.
The statute provided that “. . . no female [shall] be employed in any mechanical establishment, or factory, or laundry in this state more than ten hours during any one day.”
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The big difference between Republicans and liberal Democrats is the way each party views people. Republicans see us as individuals and respect our God-given human dignity. To left-wing Democrats, we're not individuals; we're members of a herd with all the dignity of a cow or pig, dependent on its owner for daily rations of hay or slop.
Democrats see us as being white or as blacks or as straights or as gays, or as lesbians or as heterosexuals, or as rich or poor, or as Christians or as Jews or as Muslims, or as young or as old, as working or as retired, or as housewives or as career women.
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There is simply no excuse for the tiny portion (19%) of our country’s electricity production coming from nuclear power plants. No excuse… other than rank ignorance.
If Americans understood how safe and “green” nuclear power plants were, and how cheap the energy could be produced, they would be demanding that the government get out of the damn way and allow more plants to be built.
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The Grand Old Party looks, and acts, like the Going Out Party.
After losing three congressional special elections in as many months, in what were assumed to be “Republican” districts, some Republicans are finally waking up to the fact that they have squandered the Reagan legacy and consequently, are about to be relegated to the minority status wasteland they occupied for five decades after WWII.
Republicans lost House Speaker Denny Hastert’s Illinois seat, Rep. Richard Baker’s Louisiana seat, and this week Roger Wicker’s seat in a very conservative Mississippi district. Notably, President George W. Bush carried all three of these districts in 2004.
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As if Saudis flying civilian airplanes into buildings in New York and Washington, DC, were not enough, the Bush Administration is now supporting the development of “ civilian nuclear power” in Saudi Arabia.
In a feeble attempt to deflect criticism, the Administration published its agreement with the Saudis to “Improve Peace And Stability In The Region Through Nuclear Cooperation,” detailing the kingdom’s commitments to participate” in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).”
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How can liberal-progressives believe that Senator Obama will change human nature sufficiently to bring everybody together in domestic political harmony and world peace?
The implicit belief of liberal-progressives is that their socialist religion will, by equally redistributing income and wealth, fundamentally change human nature. Eliminating socialism's version of original sin - private property - theoretically will eliminate aggression, crime, and war.
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Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama is furious—or feigning fury—with the truth again. This time it is over a statement made by President George W. Bush. The statement made by the president to Israel’s parliament last week included chastising those who continue to call for some types of appeasement to the world’s enemies and included the warning: “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
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There is a lot of anguish among Republicans as they look at the dismal polls and the even more depressing performance of their candidates in various preliminary House races. New books and prophets forecast an end to conservatism, and a need to formulate a new sort of muscular liberalism to meet new challenges. Expect more such nostrums if Barack Obama wins in the fall.
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I've been chronicling Barack Obama's embrace by the progressive/radical left for some time now. Thus it's no surprise to me that Obama supporters have turned to artistic iconography to build a cult of personality around the Illinois Senator.
As the Washington Post indicates, Shepard Fairey, the graphic designer pictured above, has created the Democratic primary's "equivalent of the Che poster," an agitprop pop-art image for the Bolshevik-constructivist set.
The Obama cult is the topic of this week's cover story at the Weekly Standard, "Let a Thousand Posters Bloom":
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Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound.
Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new "speech code" for the lexicon in the war on terror, as reported by the Associated Press and now available in the public domain.
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