Republican John McCain's endorses proposal for global compact of more than 100 democracies :: TCV

Gaining ground this political season is a proposed League of Democracies designed to strengthen support for the next president's overseas agenda and ensure a global leadership role for the United States.

John McCain, the virtually certain Republican presidential nominee, has endorsed the concept of a new global compact of more than 100 democratic countries to advance shared views and has discussed the idea with French and British leaders.

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Texas children roped into Islamic training By Bob Unruh

Public school students at Friendswood Junior High in the Houston area have been roped into Islamic training by representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations during class time, prompting religious leaders to protest over Principal Robin Lowe's actions.

Pastor Dave Welch, spokesman for the Houston Area Pastor Council, confirmed the indoctrination had taken place and called it "unacceptable."

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Reality Check on the Mullahs By Amil Imani

There is so much smoke around the Iranian Mullahs' bomb that it makes Tehran's smog feel like a fresh ocean breeze by comparison. Here is a partial list of misconceptions about the Mullahs, their capabilities and intentions about the bomb affair.

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Blame Bush for McClellan By C. Edmund Wright

Has there ever been as much chatter among the pundits about someone as light weight, un-talented, inconsequential (and utterly predictable) as Scott McClellan? I mean, who was he again? Oh yeah, that boring, un-engaged pasty little white dude who mumbled through the daily press briefings after Ari Fleisher and before Tony Snow. I remember him now. I used to wonder how in the world it was that the President found someone so totally unimpressive to help fight his media battles.

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Sharia by stealth — Ontario turns a blind eye to polygamy By John Turley-Ewart

It’s an issue the Liberal govenrment of Ontario, led by Premier Dalton McGuinty, doesn’t want to deal with — polygamy in the Muslim community. Last week the Toronto Star told the story of Safa Rigby, a 35-year-old mother of five children who recently learned her husband of 14 years had two other wives. Ms. Rigby’s life is in tatters. She followed her husband’s advice that she leave Toronto and live in Egypt for a year on the grounds that it would be better for their children to spend more time in a Muslim country. Now she knows it was a ruse. He used her time there to marry two other women.

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The Aftershocks of Gay Marriage by Gary Bauer

Journalists often talk about whether a story has “legs.” Whether it has the ability to walk forward and affect events weeks or months into the future.

Astonishingly, there’s been little talk about the long-term effects of the California Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. But, looking beyond the ruling’s most obvious implication, the redefinition of marriage, the decision foreshadows a nation in which all citizens will not only be asked to tolerate same-sex marriage, but be required to promote it.

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UN-Believable UN-Believable by Oliver North

When the so-called mainstream media doesn’t want you to know something they simply spike the story -- meaning they just don’t cover it. That’s what’s happened to the good news from Iraq. American Heroes in flak jackets and helmets and their Iraqi counterparts are asserting rule of law for millions of grateful Iraqi civilians once tyrannized by Al Qaeda terrorists and Shiite militias. In short, we are winning. That’s the good news that isn’t news.

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Drill Here, Drill Now by Jed Babbin

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s petition to Congress demanding the removal of government obstacles to increasing our energy supplies is gathering momentum by the minute, while the Democrats’ do-nothing Congress wants to raise fuel prices.

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Horror In Hamburg By Stephen Brown

A young female form lying crumpled on a sidewalk. Blood flowing from multiple stab wounds. Police cars. Ambulances. Flashing lights. Emergency personnel working frantically to save an innocent life that had barely begun.

It is a scene that is becoming all too common in Western Europe with its growing Muslim population, as the northern German city of Hamburg experienced in May yet another horrifying honor murder of a young female.

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Whitewashing the Thai Jihad By Robert Spencer

In a story Wednesday on a jihadist attack on a wedding party and other jihad activity in Thailand, Agence France Presse added a concluding paragraph that was typical of mainstream media coverage of the Thai jihad and of jihad activity in general. For while AP, Reuters, AFP and the rest never saw a piece of Palestinian propaganda they didn’t like, they also never saw a jihad they couldn’t whitewash.

AFP’s concluding paragraph blandly placed all the blame for the conflict on the non-Muslim Thai government:

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THE CRIME OF BEING WHITE By Selwyn Duke

Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment” for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response, including emails from those with their own stories to tell about persecution inspired by what I will call caucaphobia. A couple of these accounts are so compelling – compared to one even Sampson’s problems pale – that I’ve decided to publish them in this piece (both readers allowed me to use their names; their correspondence has been edited for punctuation, grammar and style). These are the stories the mainstream media won’t tell, straight from the front lines of the culture war. They give voice to a persecution whose name most dare not utter.

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The Network Behind the Bush-bashing Book By Cliff Kincaid

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist “journalist” named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin.

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Why Obama Can Never Leave His Church :: Wake up America

The Obama camp and most of the OBAMA-tanked MSM were confidently chanting the refrain that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story, and subsequent questions about Obama’s church membership, “Is a dead story”! They said that the story would definitely NOT be an issue in the national election. WRONG!

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AZ State Bar accused of serious ethical misconduct for obstructing illegal immigration enforcement by Rachel Alexander

The Arizona State Bar is attempting to stop Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas from enforcing illegal immigration laws by investigating him. Top legal ethics experts, including a former State Bar President, former State Bar Chief legal counsel, former Attorney General, and former Chief Justice of the AZ Supreme Court, have found no merit to the investigations.

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Investigate Big Congress, Not Big Oil By Alex Epstein

With gasoline prices exceeding $4 a gallon in some states, politicians are responding as usual: Blame Big Oil First. Several prominent senators have once again summoned industry leaders to Capitol Hill, subjecting them to yet another barrage of rhetorical questions, interruptions, accusations, and sermons. The lawmakers' goal, claims Sen. Patrick Leahy, is to identify "causes of the rising price of oil on which Congress can act." But the foregone conclusion is that "price gouging," "collusion," and "market manipulation" by Big Oil, or speculation by financiers, is responsible.

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In Search of Villains for Rising Food and Oil Prices by Walter Williams

In searching for villains for rising food and oil prices, some commentators have turned to speculators, namely people trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and similar exchanges around the world. A sample of the claims: "Biofuels and droughts can't fully explain the recent food crisis -- hedge funds and small investors bear some responsibility for global hunger." "The global food crisis is likely to persist if speculative investment by the corporate world is not reined in soon, warned a top expert responsible for reporting to the United Nations on human rights violations." "Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger."

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Loyalty to Self Over Country By Frank Salvato

Like it or not, we live in an extremely self-centered society. If you take issue with this statement just watch how pedestrians enter into crosswalks during rush hour. Ignoring that pedestrians only have the right of way when they are within the crosswalk, today’s bipeds don’t hesitate at all to walk directly in front of moving vehicles, expecting to be protected from trauma by their imagined “right” to occupy a space versus a 4,000-lbs. vehicle. While this example illustrates how being self-centered--or arrogant...or vacuous--can cause personal harm, these same character flaws can cause harm to the country.

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Czech President's "Inconvenient Challenge" to Al Gore By Christopher Adamo

Since leaving office, former Vice-President Al Gore has gained enormous stature within certain circles on the world scene, acquiring it per the standard liberal formula. Taking up his “Earth in the Balance” cause, he produced the feature length movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” which is replete with fantastic prophesies of doom for the planet unless America immediately regresses to third-world squalor.

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Combat-Ready By Max Boot

I confess I haven’t listened to all 80 minutes of this interview with Nancy Pelosi. But my CONTENTIONS colleague Abe Greenwald tells me that, in addition to crediting Iranian munificence for the growing stability in Iraq, the Speaker made the following statement:

The undermining of our military strength is just staggering. We don’t have one combat-ready unit in the United States to go to protect our interests wherever they are threatened, or those of our friends .

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A Bleak Future By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Imagine an America where the government decides what profits are acceptable. Imagine our country with the oil industry nationalized. Impossible? Not with Democrats in control of Washington.

One California Democrat, saying out loud what many on her side of the aisle have been thinking for some time, has threatened to seize the oil industry.

"This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uh . . . would be about . . . basically taking over and the government running all of your companies," Rep. Maxine Waters told oil executives on May 22 during yet another show-trial congressional hearing.

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Climate Debate Rejects Science For Ideology By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere, but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.

Predictions of catastrophe depend on models. Models depend on assumptions about complex planetary systems — from ocean currents to cloud formation — that no one fully understands.

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Dangerous naivety :: Spectator UK

The New Republic has published an article by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank which claims that al Qaeda is unravelling because former supporters are turning against it, and that as a result Muslim moderates are on the march against the jihadis. While there is undoubtedly some truth in their argument, in that – as we can see in Iraq – the mass killings of Muslims by al Qaeda are clearly turning increasing numbers of Muslims against it, the authors’ apparent naivety and ignorance have nevertheless led them to some dangerously wrong conclusions, particularly in their analysis of what is happening in Britain.

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How do you spell F-R-A-U-D? By Cal Thomas

Fraud: "deceit, trickery ... or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage."

The HBO movie "Recount" tells the story from the Democratic Party point of view that the 2000 presidential election was improperly won by George W. Bush because of the trickery of his fellow Republicans and the Supreme Court. That has been shown to be untrue by no less a source than the reliably liberal and pro-Democratic New York Times, but facts rarely influence propaganda.

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United Methodism on Abortion By Paul T. Stallsworth

The United Methodist Church’s General Conference is composed of nearly 1,000 delegates (lay and clergy) from around the world. It assembles every four years and determines—after deliberating and voting—what The United Methodist Church is to teach and practice, and how the church is to order its life, during the next quadrennium. The Book of Discipline (2004) makes this clear: “No person, no paper, no organization, has the authority to speak officially for The United Methodist Church, this right having been reserved exclusively to the General Conference under the Constitution.”

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When You See These Videos You Will Never Vote for Barack Obama by Bill Dupray

Couple of disclaimers up front. Obama can go to whatever church he wants. He can believe whatever he wants. He does not use the same rhetoric as Reverend Wright, Louis Farrakhan, or Malcolm X, and likely does not share their views on every issue.

What disqualifies Obama from becoming president, however, is that his church practices Black Liberation Theology. We are entitled to the basic assumption that he subscribes to views of the church he chose and attended for 20 years.

The following videos show Obama, Wright, Farrakhan, and Malcolm X. The last three believe that blacks need to be separated from whites and society needs to be reordered by doing damage to white Americans. The videos leave you with a visceral understanding that Black Liberation Theology, Barack Obama’s faith, calls for the undoing of society as we know it. It is flagrantly, even proudly racist. Adherents to this faith do not want to unite anything, but they are certainly calling for Change. In a big way.

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Obama: I Was for Meeting with Ahmadinejad Before I Was Against It By Scott Miller

Barack I’m-a-lover-not-a-fighter Obama is a foreign policy illiterate. One would think that the guy would spend…like 15 minutes at least… boning up on foreign policy issues before he decided to run for President.

His latest flip-flop was on his pledge (that we have on tape) that he would meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venuzuela, and Cuba without preconditions. This from Reuters:

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Ads combat Senate climate bill By Pete Chagnon

A conservative, free-market advocacy group is airing radio and television ads to counter a Senate bill on climate change.

The ads, sponsored by the Club for Growth, target climate-change legislation that is sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman (ID-Connecticut) and John Warner (R-Virginia). The proposed bill -- labeled "America's Climate Security Act" (S. 2191) -- seeks a 71 percent reduction in greenhouse gas by 2050, and the goal would be met by imposing a cap and trade on CO2 emissions from power plants, transportation, and other various industrial sources.

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Britain to be an Islamic State by 2038? By Erick Stakelbeck

So says the Church of England's official newspaper (via Jihad Watch--the original C.O.E. link doesn't seem to be available):

If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and therefore needs a share in any religious establishment to reflect this. The progress of conservative Islam in the UK has been amazing, and it has come at a time of prolonged decline in church attendance that seems likely to continue.

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Non-Solutions to Non-Problems By Alan Caruba

A desperate push is underway to enact the Climate Security Act sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CN) and Sen. John Warner (R-VA). It would impose cap-and-trade mandates on anything that generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and that pretty much includes everything involving energy use, including backyard barbequing.

Just what “climate security” is remains a mystery. It suggests that humans actually have something to do with the climate and only idiots believe that. If that were true, there would be no tornadoes tearing up the mid-west or hurricanes threatening the east coast. There would be no droughts, no blizzards, and other weather phenomena.

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You Must Remember This By Clifford D. May

There’s an anniversary this week we might do well to recall. On May 29, 1453 – just 555 short years ago -- troops led by Mehmed II broke through the walls of the ancient Christian capital of Constantinople.

Mehmed the Conqueror – as he would be known from that day forward -- rode triumphantly into the city on a white horse. Soon, churches would be converted into mosques. Constantinople would become Istanbul.

“For the West this was a dark moment,” writes historian Efraim Karsh in his masterful book, Islamic Imperialism. “For Islam it was a cause for celebration. For nearly a millennium Constantinople had been the foremost barrier – physically and ideologically – to Islam’s sustained drive for world conquest and the object of desire of numerous Muslim rulers.”

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When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists by Michael Weiss

Back in 1784, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had to decide whether to appease or stand up to armed Middle Eastern pirates. Sound familiar?

John McCain and Barack Obama are now engaged in a long-distance dispute over whether talking to America’s enemies is integral to America’s security (with neither one wishing to talk to poor Hillary Clinton any longer).

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Thirty-eight Obama Falsehoods--and Counting By Michael Ashbury

1.) “Selma got me born” - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
(Google ''Obama Selma'' for his full March 4, 2007, speech and articles about its various untruths.)

2.) Father was a goat herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well-educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

3.) Father was a proud freedom fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

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European Parliament Bans Opposition By Fjordman

The European Union, the "free trade organization with a few added extras," is officially turning into a pan-European dictatorship. The Daily Telegraph reports:

The European Union assembly's political establishment is pushing through changes that will silence dissidents by changing the rules allowing Euro-MPs to form political groupings. Richard Corbett, a British Labour MEP, is leading the charge to cut the number of party political tendencies in the Parliament next year, a move that would dissolve UKIP's pan-European Eurosceptic "Independence and Democracy" grouping. Under the rule change, the largest and most pro-EU groups would tighten their grip on the Parliament's political agenda and keep control of lavish funding.

The EU already has clear authoritarian leanings and is moving in a totalitarian direction with astonishing speed.

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Ruben Navarrette—Where’s He At? By Allan Wall

Well, according to his profile on the Washington Post Writers’ Group:

"Ruben Navarrette Jr., a columnist and editorial board member of The San Diego Union-Tribune, is a fresh and increasingly important voice in the national political debate. His twice-weekly column offers new thinking on many of the major issues of the day, especially on thorny questions involving ethnicity and national origin.

…..Navarrette draws on both his knowledge of policy and politics and his life experiences to provide meaningful and hard-hitting commentary. He is a gifted and widely sought speaker on Latino affairs..."

In demand as a speaker, on May 23rd, Navarrette is scheduled to deliver the address at the graduation of the University of California at Merced.

Navarrette was born in California, is a native speaker of English, has his bachelor’s and master’s from Harvard, and is said to be one of only 10 syndicated Hispanic writers in the U.S.A.

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Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx By Kyle-Anne Shiver

What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.
Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time."
- Karl Marx; essay, The Jewish Question; 1844

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You Can't Appease Everybody.... By Ann Coulter

After decades of comparing Nixon to Hitler, Reagan to Hitler and Bush to Hitler, liberals have finally decided it is wrong to make comparisons to Hitler. But the only leader to whom they have applied their newfound rule of thumb is: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

While Ahmadinejad has not done anything as starkly evil as cut the capital gains tax, he does deny the Holocaust, call for the destruction of Israel, deny the existence of gays in Iran and refuses to abandon his nuclear program despite protests from the United Nations. That's the only world leader we're not allowed to compare to Hitler.

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'North American Parliament' under way By Jerome R. Corsi

A group supporting North American integration is holding its fourth annual "North American Model Parliament" for 100 university students from the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

The North American Forum on Integration, or NAFI, began is "Triumvirate" sessions Monday in Montreal's City Hall with a plan to conclude Friday.

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Barack Obama in the Carpet Bazaar By Joel J. Sprayregen

For over five years, European powers have been negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program. The result is painfully clear: Iran is five years closer to possessing nuclear weapons. This is the context in which debate about negotiations with Iran should be understood.

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Obama's Ties To ACORN More Substantial than first believed By Rick Moran

You've heard of Moveon.org and Code Pink - two radical leftist groups seeking to elect out and out socialists to public office and who are fierce opponents of the capitalist sysetm.

But have you heard of ACORN?

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is mostly a city-based group that you may know from their illegal voter registration efforts in several states during the 2004 election.

But this group also is involved in schemes to impose drastic, left wing dogma on the rest of us through political action.

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Where the Evidence Leads By Logan Paul Gage

Antony Flew has long been my favorite atheist. That may be an odd thing for the son of a minister to say, but then again, Flew's father was a minister also. For over 60 years, Flew has been a bugbear, a sort of John McCain maverick, defying theists and atheists alike. Flew, who began his career at Oxford, rejected the smug atheism of logical positivism that blithely dismissed all theological statements a priori as meaningless -- neither true nor false. Flew opted for an atheism that stood on its own two feet; an atheism of reason and evidence.

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Obama's Revisionist History By KARL ROVE

This week's minor controversy about Barack Obama's claim that an uncle liberated Auschwitz was quickly put to rest by his campaign. They conceded that it was a great uncle whose unit liberated Buchenwald, 500 miles away.

But other, much more troubling, episodes have provided a revealing glimpse into a candidate who instinctively resorts to parsing, evasions and misdirection. The saga over Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Exhibit A. In just 62 days, Americans were treated to eight different explanations.

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McClellan's Publisher a Liberal: Advances Soros & Slams Limbaugh By Brent Baker

Peter Osnos, who wrote Wednesday that he “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on McClellan's new book published by PublicAffairs which Osnos founded, is a liberal whose publishing house is affiliated with the far-left The Nation magazine and the publisher of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. PublicAffairs has a roster of authors who are nearly all liberals and/or liberal-leaning mainstream media figures, including six books by far-left bank-roller George Soros.

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Martians Must Have Noticed Why Didn't We? by Caspar Weinberger Jr.

On Sunday we landed a spacecraft on Mars. After a trip covering 422 million miles and lasting for over ten months, the unmanned but extremely high tech payload known as “Phoenix” touched down safely on the Martian landscape precisely where our scientists desired.

Though the press essentially ignored it, this was a huge accomplishment. One would think that an American technological achievement of this magnitude would be seized upon by both the sitting administration in Washington and by all those now running to replace it.

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Hamas Loves Obama For a Reason by Monica Crowley

A few weeks ago, the chief political strategist for Hamas, Ahmed Yousef, expressed delight bordering on glee at the idea that Barack Obama might be America's next president.

"Actually, we like Mr. Obama," he said. "We hope he will [win] the election."

Sensing the disaster in this, the forces of liberalism that Must Protect Barry at All Costs, rallied to his defense, intimidating anyone who might raise the fact that one of the world's most lethal terrorist groups has just endorsed him. Nobody, they intoned, should point this out. Pointing it out is below the belt.

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Indiana Photo ID Law Works by Todd Rokita

As the Indiana polls opened at 6:00 am on May 6, opponents of Indiana’s Photo ID law eagerly anticipated word from our more than 5,500 precincts that the state’s requirement that all voters show a photo ID at the polls was causing havoc. It’s what they told the United States Supreme Court would happen. To them, it was time to watch Indiana’s most highly anticipated presidential primary in generations collapse under the weight of the requirement.

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The Hate Sheikh's Tour By Patrick Poole

In the early 1980s, the Ohio Division of Travel and Tourism announced a new state tourism slogan: “Ohio, the Heart of It All”. This slogan takes on several new layers of meaning now that international hate sheikh Khalid Yasin has decided to continue his “Islamic Hatred in the Heartland” tour by spending this week delivering his message of hatred, bigotry and violence in mosques all around Central Ohio.

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The Bullet Counters By Thomas Sowell

"Killing an Unarmed Man." That is how the front-page headline in the New York Times characterized an incident in which a man tried to run over a policeman with his car and was shot by three policemen on the scene, including his intended victim.

An automobile is a deadly weapon. If you are killed by an automobile, you are just as dead as if you had been shot through the heart.

A phrase like "an unarmed man" makes a talking point— as if matters of life and death should be discussed in terms of how you can spin a talking point.

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Cloning Without Conscience: The New British Embryology Bill By Christopher Tollefsen

For several hundred years, beginning in the fourteenth century, Spanish kings prohibited the breeding of mules, a practice that was thought to jeopardize the purity of Spanish horses. The Jesuit political philosopher Francisco Vitoria, lecturing in the first half of the sixteenth century, evidently found these prohibitions amusing and, in his discussions of the nature of law, made somewhat merciless fun of them: “Human laws derive in some way from the natural law. It is a natural law that the commonwealth be defended; from this derives the human law which prohibits mules.”

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How To Defeat The Global Jihadists MICHAEL BURLEIGH

While America prepares for the next wave of terrorist attacks, Britain is sleepwalking. Yet it is not too late to avert disaster

I have recently spent time talking with senior Pentagon officials and others involved in counter-terrorism. Their intellectual seriousness, and the global scope of their concerns, are strikingly different from those of their British counterparts, who are obsessed with “community cohesion” and the “radicalisation” of young Muslims. On these issues, the views of the non-Muslim majority population are largely ignored — except as potential “Islamophobes” with little or no say in the matter.

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When Winning Isn’t an Option! Flirting with the War on Terror By JB Williams |

The most advanced military power on earth has not been allowed to win a war since WWII. Winning offends people, namely the losers. Therefore, in a politically correct world, winning is not an option.

Instead of defeating enemies, we now seek to appease them first, and contain them when they refuse to be appeased. Winning is not an option… It hurts people's feelings.

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Barak calls on prime minister to step aside :: Israel Today

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down, saying the prime minister was incapable of leading the country while dealing with his personal matters at the same time.

“I don't think the prime minister can at the same time lead the government and handle his own affairs. Therefore, acting out of concern for the good of the country, and for fitting norms, I believe the prime minister must disconnect himself from the day-to-day running of the government,” Barak said.

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Navel-gazing and the financing of legal terrorism By David Nordell

If the sign of having made it as a celebrity is to be featured in the pages of ’Hello!’ or ’OK!’ or some similar gossip rag, best of all on the front cover, then the sign of having done something significant in the real world, or at least being involved in something significant, most surely be to be written about in the ’Economist.’

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Navel-gazing and the financing of legal terrorism By David Nordell

If the sign of having made it as a celebrity is to be featured in the pages of ’Hello!’ or ’OK!’ or some similar gossip rag, best of all on the front cover, then the sign of having done something significant in the real world, or at least being involved in something significant, most surely be to be written about in the ’Economist.’

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Which Will It Be America: Cheap Tomatoes or Rule of Law? By John Lillpop

As America’s war on terror president, George W. Bush is perfectly right to be obsessed with homeland security as a means for combating terrorism.

Unfortunately, the president’s concern applies only to borders in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not here at home.

Although the president has ordered more than one hundred fifty thousand (and counting) American men and women to serve in harm’s way 10,000 miles from home, and has spent nearly one half trillion dollars of taxpayer money on the war, he refuses to secure America’s borders and to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

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Poisonous Plutocracy Pushes Economic Inequality By Joel Hirschhorn

The biggest political issue receiving no attention by the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates is the powerful plutocracy that has captured the government to produce rising economic inequality.

Both major parties have enabled, promoted and supported this Upper Class plutocracy. Myriad federal policies make the rich super-rich and the powerful dominant in both good and bad economic times. Meanwhile, despite elections, the middle class sinks into one big Lower Class as the plutocracy ensures that national prosperity is unshared.

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Life and death in the Bible by Spengler

Theology was dethroned as queen of the sciences two centuries ago. This splendid book supports the case for restoration. How are we to make sense of a world in which the raw issues of life and death - secular society's failure to endure life, and traditional society's embrace of death - overthrow the trifling calculus of political science? The world has buried Karl Marx's economic man and Sigmund Freud's libidinous man, and the shovel is ready for Martin Heidegger's "authentic" man. Levenson and Madigan show instead Biblical man in his confrontation with death, and in so doing hold up a mirror to us.

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ACLU: Cops = Terrorists By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The ACLU says police who enforce immigration law are "terrorizing communities." Seeing cops as terrorists is the tip of the iceberg of the group's radical ideology.

The Cybercast News Service reports that ACLU legislative counsel Joanne Lin, speaking May 19 in Washington, declared that "local law enforcement has been given the green light to engage in racial profiling."

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Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas takes on liberal AZ State Bar by Andrew P. Thomas

In a joint press conference with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced that he has filed a complaint with the Arizona Supreme Court against the Arizona State Bar Association. Thomas stated the Bar has launched a retaliatory investigation against him due to his efforts to require Superior Court judges to enforce Prop. 100, No Bail for Illegal Immigrants Who Commit Serious Crimes, which passed with 78% of the vote.

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Many Americans, including Members of Congress, are completely unaware that any day now the radical leftist San Francisco 9th Circuit Court is expected to rule once again on the constitutionality of reciting “under God” in our nation’s Pledge of Allegiance!

The 9th Circuit originally ruled against “under God” in 2002 after atheist Michael Newdow filed a lawsuit claiming that his daughter was being forced to hear the word “God” in the classroom. The wacko 9th Circuit decision was eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court because Newdow had no legal standing to bring the lawsuit in the first place. He was never married to his daughter’s mother and did not have custody. (By the way, his daughter and her mother Sandy Banning attended a Calvary Chapel church at the time and had no problem reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.)

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UN’s IPCC preying on people’s ignorance By Dr. Tim Ball

In previous parts of this series (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8),I identified the deliberate process by which climate science was hijacked to establish a political agenda of undermining developed industrialized nations. Maurice Strong and then others used UN agencies to control the science and the politics by proving the byproduct of those nation’s industries, specifically CO2, was causing catastrophic global warming and climate change. The urgent need throughout was not to understand climate but to find a clear human signal in the scientific data.

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The State of Englishness By A. Millar

A few days ago (Friday, May 23rd) 18 year-old Ben Smith was stopped, in a routine check by a police officer, while driving his Vauxhall Corsa to his home in Melksham, Wiltshire. The officer found nothing amiss, but noticed an England flag on the parcel shelf (which Mr. Smith used to cover his music system from potential thieves) and ordered him to remove it. According to Smith:

He saw the flag and said it was racist towards immigrants and if I refused to take it down I would get a £30 fine. I laughed because I thought he was joking, but then I realized he was serious so I had to take it down straight away. I thought it was silly – it's my country and I want to show my support for my country.

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Paradise Lost: Crowdifornia 2008 By Brenda Walker

Not so long ago—before the Immigration Profligacy Act of 1965 took hold, and before Washington decided to stop enforcing the law against illegal aliens—California was Eden, even for average folks.

The late demographer Meredith Burke wrote in The Union Sells Out The Little Man—and the Nation [San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2000] about the life her parents had in post-war Los Angeles:

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Unwritten Constitution Under Assault by Thomas Brewton

No society can survive without a consensus about right and wrong, about what constitutes moral conduct. That consensus is the unwritten constitution of society, the content that gives meaning to a written constitution, the meat on the bones of the structure of government.


Without that consensus there can be only a disparate group of people with little or no attachment to their new homes. That is what we see increasingly, here and in Great Britain, under the impact of a tsunami of immigration from alien cultures and religions.

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No Memorial Day for America's Unborn by Reed R. Heustis, Jr.

A United States Federal holiday, Memorial Day falls on the final Monday of the month of May. Americans all over the nation remember and honor the casualties of all their nation's wars and military battles, and well they should.

Some of America's wars may not have been fought for the noblest or most moral of reasons, but many of our nation's military participants faithfully discharged their duty to endeavor in what they believed was right, and they obediently did so unto death.

Memorial Day is their day. May they be honored.

But what about the millions of American babies who continue to be murdered in their mothers' wombs? Are they honored?

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Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx By Kyle-Anne Shiver

What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.

Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time."
- Karl Marx; essay, The Jewish Question; 1844

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True liberals must be appeasers By James Lewis

"There he goes again," sighed Ronald Reagan in a TV debate with Jimmy Carter, just before the American people decided they had enough of Jimmy. Well, here we are again, thirty years later, and here Calamity Jimmy goes again, and again, and again. Ronald Reagan might just give that little grin and duck of the head, and remind us that we've seen this Daffy Duck cartoon before.

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Blue Planet in Green Shackles By Vaclav Klaus

It is a great pleasure to be here. Let me thank all those who helped to make the English translation and publication of my book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles" possible, especially Fred Smith and his Competitive Enterprise Institute, and those who co-organized the presentation of it in this very prestigious place. I am really excited to finally hold in my hands - after the Czech, German and Dutch editions - the English version of my book.

The authors often claim that their books speak for themselves. I cautiously agree and will, therefore, speak not about the book itself but about my motivations to write it.

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Fashion Crime By Michelle Malkin

I’ve been a fan of Dunkin’ Donuts for years. Their Munchkins are heaven. Their coffee is better and cheaper than Starbucks. And the company’s management has taken a brave and lonely stand in support of immigration enforcement — refusing to hire illegal aliens and blowing the whistle on applicants with bogus Social Security numbers.

So it was with some dismay that I learned last week that Dunkin’ Donuts spokeswoman Rachael Ray, the ubiquitous TV hostess, posed for one of the company’s ads in what appeared to be a black-and-white keffiyeh.

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The ACLU v. Good Judges by Ericka Andersen

Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum believes appointing the right federal and local judges is more important than electing members of Congress or the President. In a forum last week, they explained why.

Activist judges have stopped children from saying the pledge of allegiance in their classrooms, stripped the Ten Commandments from displays in the public domain and kept religious symbolism out of the public eye. Christmas has become “winter holiday” and the Boy Scouts of America have faced numerous lawsuits for refusing to hire gay scout leaders.

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Barack's Little Lady By Michael Reagan

Barack Obama, the left’s new Moses, has come down from his lofty mount to proclaim a new commandment: “Thou shalt not criticize my wife, Michelle.”

Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Obama tried to remove a potentially troublesome issue from the campaign -- his wife.

Told that “certain Republicans” have questioned the lady’s patriotism, Obama told anchor Charlie Gibson, “If they think that they're going make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable. These folks should stay off my wife.”

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U.S. TROOPS INSPIRE PROS OF THE BASEBALL DIAMOND By Diane M. Grassi

On the heels of Memorial Day 2008 and in anticipation of the 232nd celebration of United States Independence Day on July 4th 2008, Americans traditionally give thanks to our nation’s military service members.

And traditionally, Major League Baseball, (MLB) partly due to where its season falls on the calendar, including May and July, through its various teams provides public ceremonies and military displays prior to game times, during 7th inning stretches and with post-game fireworks on these holidays, in honor of U.S. active-duty troops and veterans alike.

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CLASSIC brainwashing by Jean Valjean Vandruff

CLASSIC brainwashingJean Valjean Vandruff Brainwashing was foundational to the atheistic Communist and Nazi parties. It brought them to power and kept them in power until, at enormous expense in blood and wealth, they were militarily defeated. They believed, and proved, that something repeated incessantly, over and over again, will be believed. If people hear that the Jewish race is the cause of all their problems enough times – literal vermin that must be exterminated – most will become convinced that it's true, and eventually they will act on that belief, not questioning it. That is a perfect example of brainwashing, and it has happened, in this illustration, almost worldwide.

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A Vice President for Abortion by Robert D. Novak

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, whose Roman Catholic archdiocese covers northeast Kansas, on May 9 called on Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to stop taking Communion until she disowns her support for the "serious moral evil" of abortion. That put the church in conflict with a rising star of the Democratic Party, often described as a "moderate" and perhaps the leading prospect to become Barack Obama's vice presidential running mate.

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Barack Obama's communist connections By Wes Vernon

The frontrunner for this year's Democrat presidential nomination burst upon the scene from out of nowhere only in recent months. Two or three years ago, Barrack Hussein Obama was an unknown outside his Chicago bailiwick and in some other Illinois quarters. Even his time in the Illinois State Senate was unremarkable.

So what do we know about him?

As this column has noted (see "Violent chickens roost on candidates' shoulders" — April 21, 2008), Senator Obama has some Marxist skeletons in his closet.

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Barack Obama Is Afraid Of What He Might See In Iraq By Dan McLaughlin

John McCain is a believer in seeing things with his own eyes, as a result of which he has visited Iraq several times during the current war (at least 7 at last count). McCain wrote in his 1999 memoir about how much his grandfather and father, both admirals, valued the ability to go face-to-face with the men on their ships and commanders and field troops on the ground to learn more about the men in their command and the developments in the war they were fighting (World War II and then Vietnam). It's a lesson he's carried through to his role as a Senator and now presidential candidate supporting the mission in Iraq.

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The candidates and the communists [forgotten but not gone] By Cliff Kincaid

Sen. McCain’s communist connections consist of bombing the communists during the Vietnam War and then being shot down, badly injured, captured, and tortured by them. On the other hand, Sen. Barack Obama was mentored by an identified Communist Party member in Hawaii who had functioned as a Stalinist agent. That was before Obama developed cordial relationships with communist terrorists who openly supported the communist regime that tortured McCain and killed 58,000 of our fellow Americans.

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McCain, Hagee, Parsley and CAIR By Joseph Farah

John Hagee certainly has some unusual ideas.

I'm glad he no longer writes for WND, as he once did regularly, because upon learning he believes Adolf Hitler was God's instrument to get the Jews back to the Middle East, I would be sorely tempted to discontinue his column.

For once, I can't fault John McCain for rejecting his endorsement.

However, there was another celebrity pastor whose endorsement was rejected by McCain that I must question.

His name is Rod Parsley, and, for the life of me, I can't see what he did wrong. In fact, Parsley has been excommunicated from the McCain campaign for expressing a standard, biblical Christian viewpoint about Islam.

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Risk in Foreign Ownership of Transportation Infrastructure By Paul Weyrich

The Reason Foundation estimates that States of the Union are facing a $9 billion a year shortfall to deal with infrastructure, mainly roads. Governors aren't sure what to do about the problem. The public is intolerant when it comes to raising taxes. From the public's point of view, tolls are taxes, so raising tolls is also politically radioactive. As a consequence more and more Governors are turning to so-called private/public investments. The latest to turn to this "solution" is Pennsylvania's Governor Edward G. (Ed) Rendell. At least he has been popular. But what of his announcement that the Albertis Group of Spain was the winner of major competition to lease portions of the Pennsylvania Turnpike? The multiyear lease could bring in as much as $18 billion, depending on how much of the Turnpike is leased.

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Pork Projects Thrive in Democrats' Spending Scam by Kevin Hassett

Politicians have two ways of responding when they are caught doing something that outrages voters: They can stop the behavior or they can find a way to continue it in a manner that's difficult for voters to observe.

On wasteful spending, the Democrats have chosen the latter course, and in so doing, have revealed indefensible and fundamental biases in the methods Congress asks the Congressional Budget Office to employ.

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Czech President Klaus ready to debate Gore on climate change :: earth Times

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. "I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation," Klaus said. "So I'm ready to do it."

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Michelle Obama is fair game By Jonah Goldberg

Lay off my wife."

So says Barack Obama about his controversial spouse, Michelle.

The Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination has a grating tendency to dismiss any inconvenient fact as a "distraction" and to label every stinging criticism as "divisive." So even if he didn't have a husband's natural desire to defend his wife, he'd still probably denounce criticism of Michelle as beyond the pale.

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National Review "Determined" To Ignore Realities Of Genetics By Steve Sailer

Symptomatic of the intellectual and moral decline of National Review into just another dispenser of the conventional wisdom is its latest cover story Escaping the Tyranny of Genes, [June 2, 2008], an ambitious but remarkably muddled attack on the human sciences.

Remember—this was the magazine that, under then-editor John O’Sullivan devoted its cover to a symposium on The Bell Curve instead of the simultaneous GOP Congressional takeover. No doubt that’s a reason O’Sullivan was purged.

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The New Inquisition By David Brog

The recent controversy over Pastor John Hagee is about much more than one man and his "crazy" (John McCain's word) comments. The nature of the attacks on Pastor Hagee and the rapidity with which they spread and hardened into the ugliest of conclusions revealed something far deeper and far more disturbing about our public discourse on faith in America.

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More Biofuelishness By Paul Chesser

With food and gas prices skyrocketing, several state climate commissions are ignoring the backlash against the suddenly antiquated policy of plant-enhanced petrol, as they hope to stop the alleged future global warming catastrophe.

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CAIR's Continuing Mystery by Robert Spencer

Some mysterious dealings at the Tampa chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) highlight some of the peculiarities of that unsavory group. As terror expert Steve Emerson’s Investigative Project has noted, Ahmed Bedier, up until recently a rising star in the organization, has left his position as the executive director of CAIR-Tampa, and no one is saying why. Since Bedier has espoused numerous questionable positions in the past, could this parting of the ways could herald a new attempt by CAIR to leave behind some of its more radical positions?

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How the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan

Europe, the Mother Continent of Western Man, is today aging and dying, unable to sustain the birth rates needed to keep her alive, or to resist conquest by an immigrant invasion from the Third World.

What happened to the nations that only a century ago ruled the world?

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Harry Reid: Promise Breaker by Jed Babbin

Call Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell old-fashioned. When someone promises him something, the Kentucky conservative expects the promise to be kept. But that is too much to expect of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

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The UN’s Legacy of Appeasement By Joseph Klein

If Senator Barack Obama thinks that the lessons of World War II have nothing to teach him about the dangers of appeasing the enemies of democracy, he need only look at how the United Nations is making the world a more dangerous place today by coddling Islamic extremists. However, it does not look like Obama is opening his eyes to appeasement at the UN any more than he is willing to learn from history.

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Hatred in the Heartland By Pendra Lee Snyder

As reported last week at FrontPage by Patrick Poole, “Islamic Hatred in the Heartland,” the Dayton, Ohio-based Masjid at-Taqwa held a fundraising event on the campus of Sinclair Community College featuring international hate sheikh Khalid Yasin. The mosque’s fundraiser managed to draw over 275 people to an auditorium that seats about 300. American Congress for Truth-Dayton chapter president Ruth Quast and I attended the event to see exactly what message our Muslim neighbors were bringing into our community.

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Iraq Rising By Jacob Laksin

A fascinating scene played out in Basra, Iraq, last week. Troops from the Iraqi Army stood sentinel over the once restive city as followers of rogue cleric Muqtada al-Sadr muttered dispiritedly that they had been driven from power. In this Sadrist fiefdom, the erstwhile epicenter of a Shiite insurgency that many doubted could be contained, the Iraqi army was now law.

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Most Likely to Succeed — and Serve, and Sacrifice by David J. Rusin

Those who assume young men who choose the military don't have what it takes to succeed in other areas haven't heard of the remarkable servicemen from Chaminade High School.

Honoring the brave Americans who have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan requires more than passive acknowledgment. We must also actively defend them from ongoing attempts to disparage their service. Of the numerous smears directed against our troops, the most pernicious is that they lack the intelligence, education, or opportunities to succeed in anything else.

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Why the Mullahs Will Keep on Fighting Us, and Destroying Iran By Michael Ledeen

As you know, I’m a big fan of “Spengler,” the elegant and cultured columnist for “Asia Times.” He’s just come out with a new think piece on Iran, which comes to the right conclusion (that is, the same one I have), but greatly confuses the issue of why the mullahs do what they do.

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Embracing Liberalism - The Rush to National Suicide

In an effort to make absolutely sure that he hasn’t missed someone to offend, President Bush recently reversed his ANWAR policy, and has decided to put the area off-limits to drilling because of its “ecological sensitivity”. This of course, begs the question, “if we can’t drill in a postage stamp sized piece of land out in the middle of nowhere, where can we drill?”

Don’t expect any relief at the pump any time soon.

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Dehumanizing Humanity By Thomas E. Brewton

Darwinian evolutionary doctrine and its concomitant faith in the godless political state as the savior of mankind ironically, in practice, reduce human existence to the law of the jungle: survival of the fittest.

Darwinian natural selection has been used repeatedly since 1859 to justify strong-arm political tactics leading to dictatorial tyranny. In National Socialist Germany, for example, Jews were declared unfit to survive, and that declaration was rationalized on the basis of Darwinian “science” and its offshoot, eugenics.

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What’s the Harm in Talking? By Dr. Richard Benkin

What is the harm in talking after all? We hear that from the political left time and time again. It is the oft-repeated and “too-oft-implemented” position of former President Jimmy Carter, and it is the sort of thinking that led him to meet with terrorist leaders in Syria recently. While the talks predictably produced nothing of substance, they encouraged our enemies. First they indicated that US resolve to oppose them as a moral imperative is weak; second, they suggested that this moral weakness can become US policy with the right occupant in the White House.

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The Deception and Lack of Integrity of Jodi Kantor and the New York Times By Yomin Postelnik

In my previous column, “Rarely Do I Agree With the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - An Open Letter to the New York Times,” I sought to expose how a New York Times article by Jodi Kantor had used fraud and deception to portray those hesitant about voting for Barack Obama as racists. Unfortunately, I had no idea of just how far and dishonest she and the Times had been, something I found out only upon further investigation.

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Condoleezza Rice and the jettisoning of the Bush Doctrine by Stephen F. Hayes

Shortly before 10 A.M. on October 9, 2006, George W. Bush read a statement from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House. He fixed his face to look resolute. The previous day, in spite of its many promises over many years to discontinue its nuclear program, North Korea had tested a nuclear weapon.

"The United States condemns this provocative act," Bush declared. "Once again North Korea has defied the will of the international community, and the international community will respond."

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Reforming Terror By Joe Kaufman

Over time, an obvious rift has formed between members of the Islamic and Jewish faiths, mostly due to an intense hatred of Israel and not-so-subtle anti-Semitism emanating from the Muslim community. One fairly large group of Jews, the Reform Jewish Movement, has sought to change this, by extending an olive branch to its enemies. The result has been a strange partnership between the Jewish group and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization with a dangerous past – and present.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HYSTERIA IS POLITICAL By Henry Makow

Imagine if every time there was a case of food poisoning at McDonald's, it made the evening news. But food poisoning at Burger King got no mention at all. What would you conclude?

The same applies to domestic violence. Even though women initiate violence against men in almost equal numbers, most of the publicity is devoted to women as victims.

This is because feminist activists, funded and empowered by Rockefeller social engineers, want to stigmatize men and marriage in the eyes of young women. They want young women to Eat at Lesbian Jill's or Single Jane's but definitely not at Joe's. This is how mass behavior modification works.

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Defend your values, while you still can by Marsha West

Militant homosexuals are shutting downfree speech. They've been targeting speakers, workshops, and conferences. Basically anyeventwhere a conservative view on homosexuality is presented by a speaker, or discussed/debated during a workshop is fair game. Gritty 'gay' radicals are troubled thatpeople will hear the conservative side of the argument that says, 'gays can change.' In the last month several news sources reported that some 'gays' and lesbians intent on muzzling free speech have started rioting. Once they've taken over, 'queer activists' march around clapping, screaming, beating on pots and pans and chanting at the top of their lungs, 'We're here, we're queer. Get used to it!' and 'H--l no, we won't go!'

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A New Argument About Immigration By Phyllis Schlafly

Many arguments, pro and con, about how to deal with illegal aliens have been passionately debated over the past couple of years, but there are still other arguments that need public exposure. Mark Krikorian presents a new argument in his forthcoming book called "The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal."

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The Noble and The Eloquent Dead By John B. Dwyer

Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day. Three years after the Civil War ended the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans led by Major General John A. Logan, established it as a day for decorating the graves of the war dead. In May 1868 the first major observance was held at Arlington National Cemetery. However, towns in both the North and the South such as Waterloo, NY and Columbus, GA claimed to have been first to commemorate their fallen soldiers. Who was first is of no consequence, only that they were united in their desire to honor them. On May 30, 1870 Maj. Gen. Logan gave an oration towards the end of which he said: "Let us then all unite in the solemn feelings of the hour, and tender with our flowers the warmest sympathies of our souls! Let us revive our patriotism and strengthen our loyalty by the example of the noble dead around us."

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Return From Samarra By Jeff Emanuel

Last November 1, The American Spectator published an exclusive account of four American paratroopers who'd fought to thwart a massive al Qaeda kidnap-and-execution operation in the Iraqi city of Samarra.

Caught completely by surprise and outnumbered at least ten to one by heavily-armed fighters, the four young soldiers -- Sergeant Josh Morley, Specialist Tracy Willis, and then-Specialists Eric Moser and Chris Corriveau -- fought a pitched and protracted rooftop battle that left at least a dozen terrorists dead, and made the surviving Americans into heroes.

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Conservative Books Just In Time For Summer by Elizabeth Kantor

Like gorgeous daffodils, wonderful new conservative books are bursting out all over this spring. Fresh ideas, or at least elegantly formulated perennial truths -- “What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed,” in Alexander Pope’s fine phrase -- offer fresh inspiration even to those of us conservative enough to suspect that there’s nothing new under the sun.

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Burial at Arlington by Douglas Stone

I had the privilege of attending a burial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery the other day. The veteran being interred wasn’t special, except to family and friends. And he was special to his countrymen simply because he was an American and a veteran of World War II -- one of the thousands who pass away each day.

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America in Ashes? By Christopher S. Carson

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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NPR'S CHINA REPORTING: AN INSULT TO 9/11 VICTIMS By: John David Powell

With the death count from last week’s earthquake in China at 51,000 and possibly rising, and with more than five million Chinese homeless, the following comments may sound cold and crass; but, please know they are not meant to minimize the horrors and sufferings of the victims and their families. For what it’s worth, my maternal grandparents came from China. End of disclaimers.

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The Candidates’ Communist Connections By Cliff Kincaid

Senator McCain’s communist connections consist of bombing the communists during the Vietnam War and then being shot down, badly injured, captured, and tortured by them. On the other hand, Senator Barack Obama was mentored by an identified Communist Party member in Hawaii who had functioned as a Stalinist agent. That was before Obama developed cordial relationships with communist terrorists who openly supported the communist regime that tortured McCain and killed 58,000 of our fellow Americans.

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Mexico is Soon to be a Bigger Problem By Alan Caruba

As if the constant flow of illegal aliens and drugs from Mexico were not already a huge problem for the United States, it is about to get worse. When Business Week took notice of Mexico’s dwindling oil reserves and failed national oil company, Pemex, in its May 5th edition, it signaled a problem whose significance is as great as the one involving an invading population.

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High Time for a Reality Check By Joanne Mandel

Rosie O’Donnell’s outlandish claim that radical Christianity is just as much a threat as radical Islam drew a pointed response from one British columnist.

“While evangelists may say that gay people are wicked, damned to hellfire or the like, I don’t know of any internationally renowned Christian leaders who are calling for the imprisonment and killing of gay people,” he wrote, whereas the supposedly ‘moderate’

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, says they should all be killed “in the worst manner possible.”

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Congressional Attack Dogs Bark Up Wrong Tree! By [Blog Catalog Profile: Doug Edelman] Doug Edelman

Once again, in response to constituent outcry over gasoline prices, Oil Company executives have been hauled before Congress to get their posteriors ripped into by self-serving grandstanding Senators.

Senator Leahy went so far as to question the salary of the execs – as if this was in some way relevant.

But these self-appointed watchdogs are barking up the wrong tree. The Oil Companies are not to blame for our pain at the pump!

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Whistles, bells, and red lights flashing By Marie Jon'

Apologists for Obama say where he attends church and what he exposes his children to have nothing to do with being president. They are mistaken. It has everything to do with being president.” — Ronald Kessler

Americans who know the values and benefits of living a spiritual life are familiar with claims that Barack Obama is a kind of a Messianic transfiguring leader who wants to unite all Americans. Many however, wonder why he would gravitate to a religious theology which, unfortunately, is centered upon the color of a person’s skin. Does The Almighty distinguish people’s difference one from another? “There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)

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A Palestinian State: Launching Point For Al-Qaeda Terror Against The United States By Louis Rene Beres

President Bush – while waging a “war on terror” − remains determined to create a Palestinian state. Yet, Palestine would quickly become a primary launching point for terrorism against the United States, as well as Israel. Gaza is already the site of expanding new forms of tactical and strategic cooperation between Hamas and Al-Qaeda. Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Lebanon are also witnessing an Al-Qaeda push to infiltrate and establish core terror bases.

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Not So Fast on the Qur'an Apology.... By Robert Spencer

Last Saturday, Major General Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, issued a formal apology to leaders in Radhwaniya, in western Baghdad, after an American soldier used a Qur’an for target practice.

The soldier said he didn’t know that the book he used was a Qur’an, but military brass rejected this and announced plans to reassign the soldier to duty within the United States.

During what CNN called the “apology ceremony,” Major General Hammond told the assembled Iraqis: “I come before you here seeking your forgiveness. In the most humble manner I look in your eyes today and I say please forgive me and my soldiers.” A member of Hammond’s staff kissed a Qur’an and presented it to the Iraqi leaders, calling it a “humble gift.”

Assuming that the soldier really did know that the book he was shooting at was the Qur’an, this story illustrates many things:

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Fighting Spirit By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

As support flags for the Iraq War even in the face of victory, it may help to look to south to Colombia, where the public still supports its military and celebrates victories. The fighting spirit helps to win.

Colombians have been fighting at least as tough a war on terror as the U.S. in Iraq. It has gone on since 1966, and it loses about 600 soldiers a year, often from grisly terrorist torture-killings. Young Colombians are subject to a draft and richer ones pay war taxes that equal 2% of GDP.

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Safe From Truth By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

House Democrats have passed a bill to stifle the good news that we're winning in Iraq. They are so invested in losing that they apparently fear a popular backlash against them from victory.

Congress seems to be acting out the role of Col. Nathan R. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson in the film "A Few Good Men." When pinned in covering up a murder, Nicholson famously yells back at Tom Cruise, playing the interrogating attorney: "You can't handle the truth!"

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Kafirs Must Be Thankful to Jihadists for Murdering, Enslaving and Raping Them by Abu Taleb

For many years, I have been saving articles about Islam from websites, including websites belong to the moslems. Now I want to share two of the most outrageous statements from the moslems on the websites, although the links to the articles may no longer exist.

The first, taken from website www.islam-qa.com on the article “Question #21961: The wisdom behind jihad” which belongs to the Saudi ulamas as follows:

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Muhammad in Islam’s own writings: His sex-life, sexual abuse and pedophilia by Larry Houle

Muslims believe that the Koran is the eternal word/laws of god to acts as a divine guidance for mankind about how to live a moral, righteous life. Prophet Muhammad, the highest perfection of human life and the prototype of the most wonderful human conduct in Islamic belief, emulated the guidance of Allah perfectly. Let us investigate how did the prophet live Islam; how did the prophet apply the eternal teachings of god in his daily life? In this search for the historical Muhammad, we will utilize the Islam's holy books, it’s own writings.

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Minnesota's Suicidal Slide to Dhimmitude by Denis Schulz

A dog is a dhimmi’s best friend, a Muslim a dhimmmi’s worst enemy. How many times do Americans have to be told that…once a week…every day…constantly? They don’t seem to get it. Nor are dogs high on Islam’s list of beloved animals. Pooches are 6th on Islam’s list of unclean things—two notches below non-Muslims. How many times do Americans have to be told that? Should it be more than once a day? How forgetful, the Americans.

Muslims are forbidden to touch dogs. It is dog germs? No, it is something Mohammed said. So a word of advice to Timmy and Lassie—when the raging flood waters sweep little Mohammed down the Red to certain death at the falls, save your breath, your efforts will not be appreciated and if you are successful you will be cursed for all eternity and suffer a painful doom.

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Bassem Youssef - A Disgruntled Arab Employee's War Of Subversion Against The FBI By William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz

For five years now, Bassem Youssef - a Coptic Christian - chief of the agency's Communications Analysis Unit [CAU] and its highest ranking level 4 Arab speaker, has been carrying on a harmful, so far legally fruitless, public war of attrition against his employer, intent upon proving he is the victim of discrimination and related fallout, solely based upon his Egyptian ethnicity.

In the days after September 11, Youssef became convinced that he had been denied promotion to a position within the Bureau's International Terrorism Operations Section [ITOS] for which he thought he was uniquely qualified because of his Arab language skills. This led to his filing of an Equal Employment Opportunity lawsuit and in 2003 another, under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act alleging discrimination and job retaliation.

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Europe Shall Bleed, Once Again By Amil Imani

Me and my brother against my cousin; me, my brother, and my cousin against the other. This is an old Muslim saying and Muslims live by this motto. To be sure the people of the "religion of peace" find the world full of “other,” to oppress and kill, both within as well as without the Islamic Ummah.

Civilized peoples’ idea of the “other” is the exact opposite of that of Muslims. All over Europe, for one, people have been singing the praises of multiculturalism; the idea that everybody should bend over backwards to accommodate the different in society. However, the different in this case are the hordes of invasive Muslims, with their rigid medieval ideas about every aspect of private and public life.

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Islam 101: The Aims of Islam By Ron Marlar

To virtually all of us in the West, even to those at very high levels in our government who are charged with the responsibility of knowing, Islam is poorly known and therefore not understood. It is our contention that, until we fully understand Islam, we will not be able to address it properly.

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Obama's metastatic gafffe By Charles Krauthammer

When the House of Representatives takes up arms against $4 gas by voting 324-84 to sue OPEC, you know that election-year discourse has entered the realm of the surreal. Another unmistakable sign is when a presidential candidate makes a gaffe, then, realizing it is too egregious to take back without suffering humiliation, decides to make it a centerpiece of his foreign policy.

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Your car can't run on Congress' hot air By Mark Steyn

I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress. That was my first mistake. If memory serves, there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137, and on the whole that's less rigged. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz knew the routine: "I can't say that there is evidence that you are manipulating the price, but I believe that you probably are. So prove to me that you are not."

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Climate change spreads to Jupiter, Mars :: WorldNetDaily

Does Al Gore know about this?

While the former vice president is leading the charge for drastically changing the way humans do business in a bid to avert catastrophic, man-made global warming, scientists reported today there is noticeable climate change taking place on Jupiter, too.

The news follows reports as far back as three years ago that ice caps on Mars are also retreating much as some of the ice in the Earth's Arctic circle.

There's one striking difference between Earth and the other two planets, however. Neither Jupiter or Mars has any people – and no artificial activity creating so-called "greenhouse gases" like carbon dioxide.

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The Heroes That Dwelt Among Us By Lance Fairchok

This Memorial Day our nation has been at war for over five years against a brutal and intractable enemy. Most Americans know only what they hear in news sound bites and see in flashing images on TV, as the attacks of 9-11 fade from our memory and no sacrifice is required of our citizens; the battles our soldiers fight become part of the background noise, the evils they shield us from distant and unreal.

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Please, We’re Not That Kind of Evangelical By Richard John Neuhaus

It may turn out to be the stuff worthy of mention in half a news cycle or it may be a lasting point of historical reference. In terms of its political significance, I expect it will be the former. In terms of the long history of evangelicals trying to situate themselves within what they view as the larger culture, I expect it will have at least a minor place in any future discussion of our religious and cultural circumstance.

“An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment” was rolled out at the National Press Club on May 7. I will have a more thorough discussion of it in the forthcoming issue of First Things, but a few brief reflections may be of interest.

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Islam destroys Aboriginality - Negative impact of Islam: Part 2 of 3 by Circe

The first encounter with Muslim traders disrupted Aboriginal ‘balance’, left evil in their world and a belief that they were ‘black’ and would be forever impoverished and dominated. eg:

“In the here and now, there will always be strife, poverty and domination by Others. This, I suggest, is a previously unrecorded legacy of contact between Aborigines and Indonesians.” Australian Folklore 11, 1996 131)
(See Part 1)

Why would Aborigines convert to an ideology that was so disruptive and destroyed their self-respect and sense of control? Because they don’t know the truth about this Arab supremist ideology that has destroyed cultures the world over! Islam plays on any sense of alienation or anger, that’s why it’s so good at recruiting from jails! The negative impact of Islam both on Aboriginal culture and throughout the world is hidden.

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Profiles in Valor—Memorial Day 2008 By Mark Alexander

It is not surprising that many Americans no longer observe Memorial Day with reverence. Schools no longer teach civics, the courts exclude God (officially) from the public square, and the Leftmedia and malls “celebrate” Memorial Day with commercial sales.

Indeed, Memorial Day has been sold out by many.

Founding Patriot John Adams wrote, “I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means...”

But is it?

Indeed it is.

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So. Baptists revive school exodus issue by Allie Martin

A resolution has been submitted for the upcoming business meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, which calls on parents to rescue their children from indoctrination in sexual deviancy in California's public schools.

The resolution was submitted by Dr. Voddie Baucham, Jr., and Bruce Shortt, two well-known critics of government-run schools -- or as Baucham calls them, "the pagan schools." (See related article) It points to recent legislation approved in California, known as SB 777, mandating that all students in public schools be taught that homosexuality is normal and should not be condemned. Also, earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeals determined parents in that state have no legal right to home school.


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School's out forever ... for NC illegals By Chad Groening

A North Carolina-based immigration organization is commending state Attorney General Roy Cooper for ruling that the North Carolina Community College System should bar illegal immigrants from attending its colleges.

The ruling came following a lengthy debate that began in November of last year when the North Carolina Junior College system announced it intended to admit illegal aliens.

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'Dear American Voter' – George Soros Says The World Should Pick Our President By Warner Todd Huston

We've seen it over and over, people in Europe who imagine that they should be allowed to vote U.S. presidential elections. Some of these people imagine that they should have a voice in our elections because, they say, America is so supremely powerful that the man who becomes our president makes decisions that will impact the entire world. Now some far left think tanks and foundations have created a so-called "non-partisan" website called "Dear American Voter" for foreigners to make videos aimed at letting Americans know how they feel about our elections.

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Methodist Madness By Ryan Jones

Antagonism toward Israel by the United Methodist Church is not a new development. Methodist leaders have been among the Jewish state's most vociferous detractors, even referring to the nation's modern rebirth as "the original sin" in a recent failed proposal for denominational divestment from Israel.

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