HEIL HITLER, HEIL MUHAMMAD by Sujit Das

During the Third Reich (from 1933 to 1945, the prime time of the Nazis in Germany), it was a strict law to greet the Fuehrer with 'Heil Hitler'. People were put into concentration camps if they refused to use this greeting (Schirrmacher, 1992). 'Heil' is the German word for 'salvation', which is extensively used in the German Bible translations. 'Salvation Hitler' or 'Salvation through Hitler' was the message that almost every German daily preached to others. Hitler addressed to his fellowship, “Workers, you must look upon me as your guarantor.” (Hitler’s speech: December 10, 1940. Berlin). The message was clear: everybody should accept that Hitler is the salvation for Germany and for the world.

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Chronicle Columnist Says Obama Will Usher in a New Way of Being on Planet Earth

San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Mark Morford has written a column that is truly unbelievable - and more than a little unsettling. If you had ever thought the Obama rallies were a little "cultish," just read what Morford has to say - which likely speaks for more than a few of his "followers." WARNING: You may gag as you read his enlightened view of Obama:

No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.

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Multiculturalism a dream turned nightmare By Trevor Lautens

This wasn't supposed to happen. It was so well-intended. Ah, but as the founder of Time magazine, Henry Luce, used to say, maybe even thought up himself: "We are punished best for our virtues."

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'GLOBAL WARMING' LAWS WOULD SINK AMERICA'S SOCIETY & ECONOMY!

The crazed ‘Global Warming’ crowd is scaring Americans with their “The sky is falling, the sky is falling” propaganda, which has nothing to do with sound, credible science.

In fact, most of America’s professional meteorologists who forecast our daily weather reports reject ‘Global Warming’ on the grounds that it is “junk science!”

Simply put, where’s the scientific data that ‘Global Warming’ can wipe out civilization and destroy our Planet Earth?

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Stealing the Election From Obama? By Cliff Kincaid

Minneapolis: Barack Obama supporter John Nichols brought “media reform” activists to their feet on Thursday night with wild and strident attacks on the Bush Administration. “George Bush was not elected,” said Nichols, working himself into a frenzy.

Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine and a member of the board of the Free Press, the official sponsor of the National Conference for Media Reform.

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A Constitutional Obamination? :: CFIF

So, it's all but official. Barack Obama is the Democratic Party's nominee to be the next President of the United States.

While most of the ink being spilled and talk being aired is focused on what the political pundits -- as well as their followers in the mainstream media -- deem to be the crises of today (e.g., gas prices, housing downturn, economic collapse and Iraq), there has been hardly a mention of the all but certain fact that the next President will choose at least two, if not three or more, justices to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Michael Reagan on Islam in the West by Lawrence Auster

In this piece, Michael Reagan names the problem and asks the right question. But as with everyone else, with the exception of VFR, VDare, American Renaissance, and maybe a few others, not a word about the obvious solution for the West.

One specific bit of reportage from Reagan (if I understand him correctly) that I have not seen elsewhere: the cop who stopped these Christian evangelists in England is a Moslem. I assume that is what Reagan means when he calls him a "Muslim community support police officer." So, in England, that once-sceptered and once-Christian isle, not only are the natives compelled to truckle to invading aliens, the traitorous British establishment has deputized invading aliens to make them truckle! (I know the evangelists in question are Americans long resident in England while the "MCSPO" in question may have been born there, but that hardly changes the point.)

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“Triple” Legal Immigration? Say It Ain't So, Lou Dobbs! By Brenda Walker

Regular viewers of Lou Dobbs Tonight (LDT) who have a critical eye (like me) have long noticed certain glaring omissions in the weekday news hour show’s almost daily coverage of the immigration issue. While admirably strong on Washington's malfeasance regarding law and borders, LDT’s reports about the cultural and environmental effects of an unrelenting tide of foreigners are rare indeed.

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Socialism, Surrender, and Sleaze by Craig Chamberlain

One really has to hand it to the Democrats. Out of a bad field they picked the worst one possible. Not only did they pick the one with the least amount of experience, they also picked the most radical left winger in the bunch. Considreing Senator Clintons strong finish( Senator Obama only won three primaries after the Reverend Wright controversies and his comments in San Francisco) it makes you think that the Democrats are suffering from buyers remorse. Would the people who so enthusiastically supported him early on support him now?

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Christianity is Not a Chinese Menu by Thomas Brewton

Let's stipulate that I am not equipped to attempt an interpretation of Catholic theology. Nonetheless I believe that all Christians, other than the new-age variety who see no problems with sexual misconduct and similar clear departures from Scripture, would agree that no one should receive communion who is not a believer in Jesus Christ as the resurrected Son of God and the pathway to eternal salvation.

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Help! Organs taken from living people! Paul A. Byrne, M.D.

Recent news reports of responses in persons declared "brain dead" should have alerted everyone that "brain death" is not true death. In at least two cases, the observed response prevented the organ transplantation protocols from going further. Zack Dunlap later reported how he could hear discussions of his death, but he could not respond at that time. Val Thomas had flat brain waves for 17 hours before her response was observed. While these might be of only passing interest to many, it ought to be of grave concern to every citizen of the United States of America, and the rest of the world.

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'Green' website tells when you should die By Bob Unruh

The Australian Broadcasting Company has created a "green" website that tells you when you should die, based on your usage of Earth's resources.

The PlanetSlayer site, which the network calls the "first irreverent environmental website," includes "Professor Schpinkee's greenhouse calculator," which tells a user when he or she should die, based on their lifestyle and consumption of resources.

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The Fine Art of Blaming America for Everything By Ed Lasky

The source of the liberal, far-left mindset, blame America, counsels isolationism in the face of threats, standing down instead of standing up for people in distress who labor under dictatorial rule. This is not a policy that John F. Kennedy would follow. He promised "America would bear any burden, meet any hardship. oppose any foe, in order to assure the surviavl and success of liberty"

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Narcissists With Nukes By Shawn Macomber

The race for the White House has been steadily devolving into something approaching a mediocre reality television show with far too much consequence for months now -- Oh my Gawd, Hillary was voted off American Messiah this week! -- and in the midst of our national mania it is difficult to fathom a time when the presidency of the United States not only fit into the constitutional box designed for it, but even occasionally inspired some degree of humility in those who occupied it.

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Show Trial By David Warren

The writings of Canada's most talented journalist, Mark Steyn, went on trial in Vancouver on Monday, in a case designed to challenge freedom of the press. It is a show trial, under the arbitrary powers given to Canada's obscene "human rights" commissions, by Section 13 of our Human Rights Act.

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What We've Learned About Barack By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Barack Obama has finally secured the Democratic Party's nomination. The question now for voters, and for Republican John McCain, is what have we learned over the past 16 months?

We've learned Mr. Obama is a gifted politician, with a knack for reading the public mood. His success came from tapping in, early, to the country's deep dissatisfaction with the political status quo, and orienting his campaign around a "change" message. Other presidential aspirants – Republican and Democrat – ultimately adopted a version of this tune. But they couldn't match what was by then a well-rehearsed Obama number.

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America Fiddles While The Mid East Burns By Lee Boyland

Glen Miller recorded the song Perfida in 1941. While the song was about a lover’s broken heart:

“With a sad lament my dreams have faded like a broken melody,
“While the gods of love look down and laugh at what romantic fools we mortals be.”

Today, the words might well be:

“With a sad lament our dreams of peace have faded like a broken melody,
“While the gods of war look down and laugh at what idealistic fools we mortals be.”

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How Many Rights Are Democrats Willing to Forfeit? By Frank Salvato

With the announcement that Hillary Clinton is abandoning her quest for the Oval Office the Democrat National Committee (DNC) – and specifically the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee – has effectively selected the candidate for their party. I say selected because, by construct, the decision making process was taken away from the party faithful and placed in the hands of an elitist class of party insiders. These party insiders – superdelegates and the DNC Executive Committee – have literally usurped the will of the people by marginalizing the popular vote in deference to manipulated vote worth and their own self-importance.

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D-Day in Context by Oliver North

Sixty-four years ago this week, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came on the radio and implored Americans to “devote themselves in a continuance of prayer...invoking Thy help to our efforts.” The “effort” of which he spoke was “Operation Overlord,” the “D-Day” landing of 150,000 American and allied troops at Normandy. The risks were so great that Winston Churchill told the people of Britain that, “the invasion has been launched. The result is with God.” FDR described it as “a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”

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Reagan at Point Du Hoc by Human Events

We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

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Rejecting Terrorism, But Not Jihad By Robert Spencer

Much is being made of “The Rebellion Within: An Al Qaeda mastermind questions terrorism,” by Lawrence Wright, in the June 2 issue of the New Yorker. In it, one of Al-Qaeda’s chief theorists rejects terrorism – leading to a cascade of both liberal and conservative voices rejoicing that the end of the war on terror is at hand.

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Haditha: No Massacre, No Cover-Up By Ben Johnson

THIS WEEK YET AGAIN PROVED THE PARTY OF DEFEAT'S KING WEARS NO CLOTHES. On Wednesday, a jury found Lieutenant Andrew Grayson "not guilty" of covering up the (un)massacre at Haditha. The 27-year-old had been accused of multiple counts of making false official statements and one count of attempting to deceive by making false statements. A charge of "obstruction of justice" had been thrown out the day before.

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The Right Road Lost: A Contemporary Inferno Jennifer L. Jackson

While the rise of globalization has led to the merging of markets and cultures, it has also magnified the issues that threaten the sustainability of the globe's inhabitants. 21st Century problems cannot be contained within political boundaries or geographic regions, and cannot be solved without the will of humanity overcoming the flaws of human beings. The seven deadly sins, as identified by the Christians and immortalized by Dante, suggest an unfortunate demise for the international community.

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Sky Games By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Global warming alarmists haven't made much progress in getting lawmakers to join their cause. So naturally they're going to try to use the courts to ram through their agenda.

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Only One Choice In Face Of Nuclear Terror By THOMAS SOWELL

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober — if not grim — assessment of where we are.

Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.

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CAIR's Forced ‘Islamic Awareness’ at Friendswood Junior High! by Denis Schulz

It was an outrage—yes, an outrage! The kids thought they were going to a physical education assembly to be taught the values of good exercise habits or how to do the side-straddle hop but when they got to the gym they found a couple of Scientologists talking about L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics! Well, how could that be? “We seek not revolution,’ said the dianeticists. “We seek only evolution to higher states of being for the individual and society.”

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UK: Preaching the Gospel Is a ‘Hate Crime’ By Adrian Morgan

Recently, an incident was reported in the British press which clearly vindicates the claims by Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, that parts of Britain are becoming "No-go areas" for non-Muslims. The bishop received death threats from Muslims for making his claims, but members of Britain's Muslim establishment - along with some non-Muslim establishment figures - claimed that "no-go areas" for non-Muslims do not exist.

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Tell Me Another One by Jay Tea

One of the hallmarks of Barack Obama's campaign for president is his "judgment." (It's no wonder he touts this as his greatest strength; he certainly has no long record of accomplishments to run on.) He boasts of having opposed the war in Iraq from the very beginning, and this -- along with... um... ah... well, a bunch of other things that escape me right now, show that he has the judgment to lead our nation.

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Ahmadinejad Invites Japan to Prepare for a World Without the US By Patrick Goodenough

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been making headlines during his first visit to Western Europe as Iran's president by attacking the United States and Israel, but he also is trying to use the opportunity to show that he's not as isolated as his opponents would wish.

Ahmadinejad failed to secure meetings with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the Pope while in Rome for a U.N. food conference that ends Thursday, but he did meet with the prime minister of Japan for half an hour.

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Exclusive: Limited US attack on Iranian Revolutionary Guards bases in sight :: DEBKAfile.

Our Washington sources report that president George W. Bush is closer than ever before to ordering a limited missile-air bombardment of the IRGC-al Qods Brigade’s installations in Iran. It is planned to target training camps and the munitions factories pumping fighters, missiles and roadside bombs to the Iraqi insurgency, Lebanese Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza.

Iran is geared up for counteraction.

US intelligence estimates that Tehran’s counteraction will likewise be on a limited scale and therefore any US-Iranian military encounter will not be allowed to explode into a major confrontation. Because this US assault is not planned to extend to Iran’s nuclear installations, Tehran is not expected to hit back at distant American targets in the Persian Gulf or at Israel.

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Personal Freedom Without Political Liberty By R.R. Reno

Sometimes events conspire. In mid-May, the California Supreme Court decided that anything less than marriage for same-sex partners leads to a fundamental discrimination against homosexuals. A week or so later, the Texas courts opined that state officials who removed children from a polygamist Mormon sect may have been motivated by an illegitimate religious prejudice.

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Idaho decency advocates win library fight By Charlie Butts

The Idaho Values Alliance has won a victory against the Nampa city library. At issue were two books, one of them with explicit descriptions of homosexual acts.

Idaho Values Alliance spokesman Bryan Fischer says the books were within reach of young children. "...[a]nd the library staff, despite repeated appeals from concerned families, had made little or no effort to keep this material out of the hands of children," he adds.

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China takes on the US - in space By Alan Boyd

Chinese military experts believe a confrontation in space, probably with the United States, is inevitable. What they haven't said is whether they expect to win.

Two disarmament officials with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) this week accused Washington in an assessment of the global weapons buildup of fueling an arms race aimed at controlling "the commanding heights".

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The Execution of Britain By Fjordman

I will defend all Western and indeed infidel countries against Islamic Jihad, but I admit I feel especially close to Britain, not just because of the long cultural and historic ties between Scandinavia and the British Isles, but also because I appreciate the good that has come out of British culture. It makes me all the more sad to see how humiliated this great nation is today, and how many natives feel forced to leave what once was their country.

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Obama the naive By John R. Bolton

Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.

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Sixth Haditha Marine Exonerated :: JAWA Report

Really? The "evidence" Time gathered from what were most likely terrorist/insurgent propagandists "showed that?" And yet there isn't enough credible evidence to support charges against the Marines Time (and Jack Murtha) insisted were guilty?

Haditha Conviction Scorecard

Truth, Justice, and the American way: 6
Time, Murtha, and other associated forces of evil: 0

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Michelle Obama’s problem with “Whitey” By Bob Parks

Rudy Giuliani may be out of the presidential picture for now, but he may swing the election towards McCain. According to Katy Grimes at Townhall, he has the sledgehammer that just may deliver Barack Obama a knockout punch, again, all because his wife has a big mouth.

The buzz about a tape surfacing of Michelle Obama ranting about “Whitey” together with Louis Farrakhan and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is interesting, if not a deal breaker. When it comes out, Barack will be permanently branded with the Nation of Islam - not a good tag when running for President of the United States.

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My response to the Evangelical Manifesto By Joseph Farah

I feel like I'm running out of descriptive names to call myself.

Quite a long time ago, I quit thinking of myself as a "conservative." I found that label to be ill-matched to my radical view of the world. The Jesus I follow and His disciples turned the world upside down. I want to do that again – and I make no apologies for it.

So, I stopped calling myself a "conservative" and I urged other conservatives to do the same – to abandon a label that pigeonholed them and their view of the world into trying desperately only to hold on to the good that was left rather than restoring good that has been lost.

I clung instead to a theological label that seemed to suit me – evangelical Christian.

But after reading what is being called "An Evangelical Manifesto," drafted and signed by some 75 celebrity Christians, I fear I may have to abandon another comfortable self-description.

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Is This Our Future? By Michael Reagan

Two Christian preachers were stopped from handing out Bible tracts by police officers because they were in a Muslim neighborhood in England.

According to British news reports, the preachers were told by a Muslim community support police officer in Birmingham that attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity is a hate crime.

They were warned that if they came back and were beaten up, it would be their fault, not that of the thugs who beat them.

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Dwarves on the Shoulders of Giants By Chuck Colson

Some years ago, in a Firing Line interview with Bill Buckley, I argued for criminal justice reform. The moderator, Mort Kondracke—who then considered himself a liberal—was astonished. He stammered, “You want prison reform? But you’re a conservative!”

I almost laughed out loud. Kondracke was parroting the ideological stereotypes about liberals and conservatives. And, today, the same confusion dominates the election debates.

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Obama's church must not be forgotten By James Lewis

Senator Obama is now trying to erase his personal history by resigning from his radical Left church, after two decades of active membership -- that's more than 1,000 Sunday sermons over twenty years. The media will do their best to help him fuzz over that history, just as they have tried to eradicate the memory of the Twin Towers and Pentagon assaults seven years ago. Yet the evidence is overwhelming by now that Trinity United is a front for the hard Left, which is trying to turn American blacks into another angry proletariat, to be played and controlled by their new ideological masters.

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

From the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. He has appeared to be the far left's answer to the religious right, the man who would embrace the religion of the majority rather than shy away from it, as Democrat secularists have repeatedly done. For awhile, until Obama's actual "religion" became clear through the rantings of those who have formed his "moral compass", it did appear that Barack Obama would beat the religious right at their own "game."

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Studies Find Conservatives Are More Honest By John Hawkins

This shouldn't surprise many people. According to a Pew Research poll, the liberals who relentlessly advocate higher taxes are three times more likely than conservatives to think it's okay to cheat when paying them. They are more than twice as likely to excuse getting paid under the table so as to keep collecting unemployment benefits. Liberals also have less of a problem with shoplifting and buying stolen goods.

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Obama the naive By John R. Bolton

Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.

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Painfully Inadequate By Thomas Sowell

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober — if not grim — assessment of where we are.

Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When Election Day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.

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Global Warning By David Solway

No one doubts that the environment has been heating up; the controversy it has engendered has to do less with an indubitable fact than with isolating its supposed causes. The trouble is that the “science” involved is highly debatable insofar as it has been commandeered by a political crusade whose underlying purposes are distressingly suspicious. Some of the movement’s proponents, to put it bluntly, are more concerned with saving their wilting careers than saving the planet; others are building new careers at the expense of public credulity, the perks and salaries being just too good to give up.

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CAIR-Chicago's Admission of Guilt By Joe Kaufman

“I’ve been asking myself who I want to vote for this Tuesday and I can’t decide. Of course I won’t get into personal politics right now, given that CAIR-Chicago is a 501(C)3 and I’m speaking in my capacity as the Government Affairs Coordinator...”

Those were the words of (as shown) the Government Affairs Coordinator for the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) and the administrator of CAIR-Chicago’s The Mobilizer, Sadiya Ahmed. They were written on February 1, 2008, two months before CAIR-Chicago violated its 501(c)(3) tax status by posting to its blog an attack on Presidential candidate, United States Senator John McCain.

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US Marine acquitted of all charges in Haditha killings :: Breitbart

A court martial on Wednesday acquitted a US Marine for his role in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha in Iraq in 2005, the sixth man to be exonerated in the affair, a military official said.
Lieutenant Andrew Grayson, 27, was declared "not guilty on all charges" by a jury, said a spokesman for the Camp Pendleton military base in southern California where the hearing started on May 28.

Grayson had been charged with making false statements and attempting to fraudulently separate from the Marine Corps. He was also charged with obstruction of justice, but the military judge dismissed this charge Tuesday.

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Warm and Fuzzy Global Regulation By Bethany Stotts

With Lieberman-Warner coming up for a vote, it becomes all the more important to examine the motivations behind global warming activism. Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, told a Competitive Enterprise Institute audience last week that he believes climate change is the ideal political issue because its dogma cannot be disproven.

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Obama Was Selected, Not Elected By Ann Coulter

Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

When Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election by half a percentage point, but lost the Electoral College -- or, for short, "the constitutionally prescribed method for choosing presidents" -- anyone who denied the sacred importance of the popular vote was either an idiot or a dangerous partisan.

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“Immigration Is The Viagra Of The State”—A Libertarian Case Against Immigration

I want to start off by thanking Hans [-Hermann Hoppe] and Gulchen [Imre, his wife and owner of the equally beautiful Karia Princess Hotel] for hosting this conference and in particular for inviting me to speak here today.

We’re at a peculiar moment in the history of liberty. It’s been almost seventeen years since the Soviet Union collapsed. (I’m acutely aware of this because my son was born that day, making him, as I like to think, the very first post-Communist baby!) At that time, even a life-long American academic socialist like Robert Heilbroner was compelled to confess, in a celebrated essay in the New Yorker magazine, [The Triumph Of Capitalism, January 23, 1989] that the century-old battle between capitalism and socialism is over and capitalism has won.

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The Threshold and the Real World By Abe Greenwald

The Associated Press has an article about the supposed worldwide excitement over Barack Obama’s nomination. Let’s just say the reporter’s polling methodology was less than scientific. Here’s the list of global celebrants:

–An international relations professor at the London School of Economics: “He has a very appealing persona - elegant, fluent, strings lots of sentences together into paragraphs . . . But in terms of (his) actual policies towards the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, China, Europe - actually, we don’t know.”

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Marine cleared over Iraq killings :: BBC

A US military jury has acquitted a marine of charges that he helped cover up the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005.

Lt Andrew Grayson had been charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements - charges he denied.

He had been accused of instructing a sergeant to delete digital photographs of the incident.

Four marines and four officers were initially charged in the case, but the case against five of them was dropped.

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Nidra Poller reports: The end of the al Dura affair? :: Powerline

Nidra Poller is the prominent American writer living in Paris who has written extensively on the al Dura affair in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the New York Sun, the New York Post Post, Makor Rishon, Frontpage, and other outlets. She has forwarded us the following dispatch with a Paris dateline:

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CAIR's "Reject and Renounce" Hypocrisy :: IPT News

News broke Thursday that Republican presidential nominee John McCain had rejected the support and endorsement of Texas-based pastor John Hagee when controversial remarks Hagee made about Hitler and the Holocaust came to light. In a sermon from the late 1990s circulating on the Internet, Hagee used a biblical verse to argue that the Holocaust was God's will, paving the way for the creation of Israel as a homeland for the Jews.

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When Bad Journalism Kills: The Mohammed Al-Dura Story By Frida Ghitis

The irony of great tragedies is that their smallest moments are the ones that truly touch us. Statistics and death-counts impress strategists and historians. But the image of a terrified boy crouching behind his father in the crossfire of armed fighters -- and then dying in his father's arms -- has the power to melt hearts, ignite fury, and move people to action.

Such was the case with Mohammed al-Dura, the Palestinian boy supposedly killed by Israeli soldiers in September 2000 during a gun battle with Palestinians. His story sparked outrage around the world and added fuel to a raging fire that exploded into an even greater inferno after news of the 12-year-old's death. But what if the tragedy did not happen? What if it was all a hoax? History cannot be undone. Perhaps we can at least avoid repeating it.

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Would a Jihadi by Any Other Name Smell as Foul? By Raymond Ibrahim

The terminology we use to describe our enemy in the war on terror matters a lot. A spirited debate is underway among specialists and in the press.

An op-ed published Monday in the New York Times entitled "What do you call a Terror(Jihad)ist?", by P.W. Singer and Elina Noor, attempts to defend the recent State Department memo advising government personal to refrain from using theologically-laden terms-"jihadi," "mujahidin," "caliphate," "Islamo-fascism," "salafi," "wahhabi," "ummah"-when describing Islamic radicals and their motives. Instead, generics-"terrorists," "extremists"-should suffice.

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The First 'I Am My Own God' President? by DJ Drummond

Barack Obama has made a number of questionable statements, including a recent pronouncement in which he seems to count moral values by how well they fit his personal choices. If that portrayal is accurate, then rarely have we seen so self-centered and self-serving a candidate who won his party's nomination to become President of the United States. The office is an exceptionally demanding one, and it often requires a selfless individual to do the job right, so whether Mr. Obama is the delusional narcissist he appears to be is an important question.


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Obamaconomics By Tony Blankley

Last year, Barack Obama said: "I believe that America's free market has been the engine of America's great progress. It's created a prosperity that is the envy of the world. It's led to a standard of living unmatched in history. And it has provided great rewards to the innovators and risk takers who have made America a beacon for science and technology and discovery. … We are all in this together. From CEOs to shareholders, from financiers to factory workers, we all have a stake in each other's success because the more Americans prosper the more America prospers."

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Planned Parenthood's obscene profits By Michelle Malkin

GOP presidential candidate John McCain sounded more like a Democratic presidential candidate (a recurring trend) when he joined the Left's oil industry bashers a few weeks ago. Asked by a North Carolina voter whether he supported a Jimmy Carter-era windfall profits tax, McCain responded: "Um, I don't like obscene profits being made anywhere — and I'd be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax — that's not what bothers me — but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people or industries or corporations that are distorting the market."

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The Father Pfleger Show By Tim Kelleher

Stay tuned. You may yet see a Father Michael Pfleger reality show. I work in Hollywood and can say—with tongue far from cheek—that, right now, some one is either working on or has already made that pitch. Of course, finding a way to work in such genre staples as hot tubs and underdressed women with traumatic pasts, present addictions, and a coiled readiness to bear-hug almost any indignity could pose some challenges to network execs. But this is when the creative minds now running this town rise to the occasion and . . . stupefy.

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Systematic Legal Plunder is One Sure Sign of the End of the Republic by Mondoreb

“The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.”
–Fredrick Bastiat, 1850 in The Law

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Are you investing in terror? By Jim Brown

A spokesman for a leading pro-Israel lobbying group says Republican presidential nominee John McCain should dump his investments in Iran-related mutual funds.

USA Today reported Tuesday that Senator McCain (R-Arizona) and his wife have between $315,000 and $650,000 in three JP Morgan mutual funds with investments in firms doing business with Iran. The paper also reported Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) invested in a mutual fund which owns shares of oil companies doing business in Iran, but decided to sell the investment after being asked about it.

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McCain's pro-Israel comments welcomed By Chad Groening

Jan Markell, the head of a pro-Israel ministry, was very pleased with the speech John McCain made this week to a pro-Israeli lobby group.

In an effort to make inroads with a traditionally Democratic Jewish voting bloc, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He took the opportunity to criticize his November opponent, Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois), on several fronts, including the senator's willingness to meet with Iranian strongman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently said that Israel will soon be wiped off the map.

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Clerks urged to ignore court, follow law By Jeff Johnson

Family advocate Randy Thomasson is advising county clerks in California to ignore that state's recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual "marriage."

Unless they choose to stay their decision, the California Supreme Court's ruling legalizing marriages between homosexuals will take effect June 14. According to news reports, licenses would be issued beginning June 17. Numerous pro-family groups and at least ten states' attorneys general are asking the court to stay its decision until after a November vote on a state marriage protection amendment.

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India: Seizure of nuclear material sends clear message, says report :: ADNKRONOS

India sent a clear message to the world when it seized 1,150 kilogrammes of nuclear grade graphite in Mumbai that was destined for Iran, according to an Indian media report.

The report, published in an Indian newspaper, said the material originated from a third country and India was being used as a transit point.

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Finnish Court Serves Seppo Lehto Two Year Jail Sentence For Insensitivity Against Islam... :: Tundra Tabloid

Finland now stands on the brink of being one of Europe's foremost suppressors of free speech, with both the process and speed in which it has tackled Internet "political thought crimes" over the last year and a half, being nothing short of stunning.

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Obama Campaign Uses Fallen Officers' Memorial as Public Toilet Site :: JAWA Report

So, where do you want the porta-potties for this here rally, sir?

Set them up over there, on that memorial, yeah, that one, with the flag at half-staff:

PORTLAND, OR – Police officers in Portland, Oregon, are still waiting for an apology from Barack Obama after campaign staffers of his recent rally in Portland, Oregon, setup porta potties directly on top of the Portland Police Memorial, which honors the agency’s 25 fallen police officers.

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Nation of Islam activists on Obama camp payroll By Aaron Klein

Sen. Barack Obama employed and continues to employ senior staffers who belong to the Nation of Islam, and the presidential candidate has some "worrying" ties to the controversial group headed by Louis Farrakhan, a former key Obama insider told WND.

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A Britain No Longer Great By Tom Bethell

I would update that by saying that there is nothing that an American in England looks forward to so much as the motorway that leads him to Heathrow. That would be the M25. But you have to worry whenever you take it because the traffic can be so bad that you may miss your flight. If you think freeway traffic is bad here, try the M25 on a bad day.

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The Democrat Party Psychic Delegate Selection Network by Mac Johnson

The Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee met this week to decide whether or not to count the votes of Americans in Florida and Michigan in this year’s national convention tally.

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Party of Defeat By David Horowitz

Most conversations about the coming elections focus on the question of which candidate is most suited to lead the nation as it confronts the challenges and threats ahead. A better question would be to ask whether there is one party– the Democratic Party -- which has demonstrated in word and deed that it is unfit to lead the nation in war at all. Criticism of government policy is essential to a democracy. But in the last five years the Democratic Party has crossed the line from criticism of war policy to fundamental sabotage of the war itself, a position no American party has taken until now.

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McClellan's Mythology By Ben Johnson

Blake Dvorak recently wrote on Real Clear Politics, “The ruckus that Scott McClellan's book has created – or reintroduced – will probably play out like previous ones in that it will add relatively little to the debate but will cause both sides to come out swinging at each other.”

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The Left Eats Its Own Children By Dr. Paul Kengor

The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago is a raucous place. Not long ago, during the Christmas season, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright—stepping back from his repeated proclamation that “God d--- America!”—paused to damn the former president of America: As he gyrated and thrust his hips about the pulpit, Wright mocked Bill Clinton for “riding dirty!” with Monica Lewinsky. It was a curious way of expressing the spirit of the season.

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The Planet Tax By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

The Senate takes up a bill to strangle the economy and mortgage your children's future in the name of saving the planet. Hold on to your wallets and your jobs. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

The U.S. needs a Domestic Energy Development Act, but what it might get this week is a Climate Security Act that makes human sacrifices of the American people on the altar of the environmental earth goddess, Gaia.

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Koran and the Psychopathology of Muhammad, Part I by Sergei Bourachaga

While writing this article I have had the enormous good fortune to interact with several academics in the field of psychology, and scholars with extensive expertise of the Arabic language during the Jahilyah period and post Islamic era. I can’t identify them by name because Islamic fanaticism has often relied on violence to silence views and opinions that do not agree with the likes or dislikes of Muslim clerics or community leaders. But still I have to credit them for sharing their knowledge without any reservation.

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A Disaster, Getting Worse :: Power Line

We wrote here about the economic disaster that goes by the name Lieberman-Warner, the carbon cap-and-trade system now being considered by the Senate. We posted a diagram created by the Chamber of Commerce that exposed the ludicrous complexity and intrusiveness of the proposal.

The bill, as amended by Barbara Boxer, has now gotten even worse. Boxer's amendment adds more than 300 regulations and mandates. The Chamber has accordingly prepared another version of their chart that reflects Boxer's changes. It is a remarkable document; click to enlarge:

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U.S. Conference Of Catholic Bishops Continue To Legitimize Terror Friendly Groups In Muslim Dialogue Hoax

As announced in a PR release by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, "A new round of the Mid-Atlantic Muslim Catholic Dialogue, April 23-24, in Washington, looked at interreligious education in the United States. The meeting, which was convened by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Catholic representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, explored teaching about different religions in private and public institutions." [source, http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-070.shtml]

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Drawing a Line in the Sand Mark Silverberg

Inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters in Gaza, Saraa Barhoum, 11, the sweet face of Tomorrow's Pioneers, an immensely popular hour-long Hamas television children's show says she wants to be a doctor. If she can't, she'd be proud to become a martyr. "Of course," Saraa says, "it's something to be proud of. Every Palestinian hopes to be a martyr." One can dismiss this as the ranting of a brainwashed child, but how does one dismiss the fact that this is the most popular children's TV show in Gaza? How does one dismiss Palestinians sending nine year-old children to retrieve used Kassam missile launchers knowing they will be killed by Israeli retaliatory responses?

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James Carroll Takes Up a Sword Against the Church By William Doino Jr.

Among the destructive myths of modernity is the idea that Christianity caused the Holocaust. Though refuted many times, it continues to circulate. Among its chief recent proponents is James Carroll, whose 2001 book, Constantine’s Sword, was a mammoth effort to breathe new life into the old claim. Now Carroll, with filmmaker Oren Jacoby, has decided to expand his book into a documentary—and the result is ninety-five minutes of unrestrained propaganda.

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Kafirs Must Be Thankful to The Jihadists by Abu Taleb

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

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Carbon Credits Gone Wild :: Clear Fog Blog

Al Gore and a host of politicians, mainly on the Left, want to impose a carbon cap and trade scheme on the American taxpayers. Under the plan, limits would be set on carbon usage and entities that exceed the limits would be forced to buy credits from those that are under the limits. It could be just the beginning. There are several, maybe endless, subsets to a carbon cap and trade market. Here are a couple of possibilities:

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Campus tirade against pro-lifers By Pete Chagnon

The free-speech rights of a University of Wisconsin pro-life club were violated recently, and the incident has been posted on the popular video-sharing website YouTube.

Pointers for Life, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point pro-life club, recently obtained permission from the school to place 4,000 white crosses on campus grounds. The display was meant to symbolize the 4,000 unborn babies who are aborted every day in the United States.

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Prince Charles, defender of Islam By Fazile Zahir

The recent visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip to Turkey was hailed as a great success. The 82-year-old British monarch won favor with the local people by describing Turkey as a "confident and dynamic democracy" and praising close ties between Ankara and London.

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Turkey Spends Millions to Cover Up Armenian Genocide By David Holthouse

Early this year, the Toronto District School Board voted to require all public high school students in Canada's largest city to complete a new course titled "Genocide: Historical and Contemporary Implications."

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13 GOP Senators Oppose "Global Warming" Silliness :: JAWA Report

We've donated our hard-earned cash and volunteered our time to get Republican senators elected in the hope that they'll at least stand in the way of legislative stupidity. What do we get for our investment? Lately, not much. Only THIRTEEN Republican Senators voted in opposition to the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Stupidity Bill:

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The Greatest Threat To Freedom Since Communism by Vincent Gioia

"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity," warns Czech President Vaclav Klaus, "is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."

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More on 'charities for terror' By David Nordell

David Frankfurter was completely correct in making the cynical comment in his recent article here ’Charities for terror,’ to the effect that nobody could know better than the Palestinian Authority about how charities are often used to channel money for terrorist infrastructure and attacks.

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“Media Reform” Targets Conservatives By Cliff Kincaid

Led by a Muslim Democrat, members of the Federal Communications Commission, and Bill Moyers, Phil Donahue, and Dan Rather, a well-funded campaign to move the media in a more left-wing direction will gather in Minneapolis from June 6-8. Thousands of “progressive” activists are expected to attend. Accuracy in Media will cover the event.

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Did Obama Really Leave His Church? :: Faultline USA

Trinity United Christian Church is a resentful, fear-mongering, bigoted, race-baiting, anti-White establishment, anti-Semitic, anti-American, highly politicized, Marxist, Afro-centric, Black Liberation Theology Church with strong ties to the Nation of Islam.

To toss a quote back to Obama. . .“ . . .that’s just not how people should have to operate in their church.”

Well, Obama finally left his church, but then again, maybe not. Not really.

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Cap and Destroy By Larry Thornberry

Yesterday the U.S. Senate began what it insists on calling "debate" (more like serial dopey speeches designed for home consumption) on the worst piece of legislation introduced into that body in the new century. Perhaps worse than anything in the last century as well.

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The Media’s Pelosi Troop-Slander Cover-Up by Seton Motley

Last Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, third in line to the Presidency and currently the highest ranking Democrat, sat down for an 80-minute chat with reporters and editorial board members of her home district’s San Francisco Chronicle. 62 minutes in, Madam Speaker, pontificating on the Iraq surge, offered up the following:

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Munich, 1938 by Patrick J. Buchanan

When President Bush, before the Knesset, used the word "appeasement" to label those who would negotiate with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he invoked the most powerful analogy in any debate over war and peace.

No man wishes to be regarded as an "appeaser."

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The Most Muslim University in America By Reut R. Cohen and Jonathan Constantine Movroydis

At the University of California, Irvine the Muslim Student Union (MSU), a virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American student group, holds several programs which unabashedly support terrorist groups and unjustly denounce Israel, America, and the Western world. MSU events have featured speakers like Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill, Muhammad al-Asi and Amir Abdel Malik Ali, and have had titles such as "Hamas: the People's Choice" and "Israel: The 4th Reich."

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Norquist's Muslim Protégés By Paul Sperry

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government.

While he's managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren't buying their makeover.

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Women demand equal opportunities – to blow themselves to smithereens By Lauren Frayer and Mike Theodoulou

IN A bizarre demand for sexual equality, Islamic women extremists are insisting that al-Qaeda gives them the right to become suicide bombers and terrorists.

Many women have responded with a mixture of anger and dismay to online advice from Osama bin Laden's right-hand man that they should keep to being housewives.

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9/11 is Enactment of Quran 9:111 by Larry Houle

The Islamic paradise is filled with full-breasted, lustrous-eyed virgins who regenerate as virgins after each sex act. Those Muslims, who gain access into Allah's paradise, can sexually enjoy those virgins for all eternity. About the sensual attractions of Islamic paradise, aka Allah's whorehouse, says the Quran:

"As for the righteous (Muslims)... We (Allah) shall wed them to beautiful virgins with lustrous eyes" [Q 44:51-54]


The righteous (Muslims) they shall triumph... Theirs shall be voluptuous women" [Q 78:31-33]


Muslim men are promised 72 young virgins for perpetual enjoyment. For the sake of propriety, I will not include the quotes, but this all is right there in the Qur'an, in Surat 37:40-48, 44:51-55, 52:17-20, 55:56-58, 70-77, 56:7-40, and 78:31.

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Living On Obama's Collective Farm By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

President Kennedy once spoke of a rising tide that would lift all boats. Obama wants us to pull into shore and tie them to a dock.

Worse than that, a disturbing pattern of rhetoric indicates he will not only counsel a draconian lifestyle, but also mandate it.

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Islam & Weapons of Mass Destruction By Randy Taylor

Yes, I know, I didn’t say al Qaeda and WMD’s. The reason being is that al Qaeda is only one of the potential terrorist groups that would like to hit the US with Weapons of Mass Destruction. There are many Islamic entities both Sunni and Shiite that would like to deliver a WMD to a city near you. By the way, the list grows daily.

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The Rush to National Suicide By John D. Turner

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?”

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Are Western Universities Turning Into Madrassas? By John Press

On May 29th, 2008, the U.K. University and College Union’s Congress (UCUC)voted to discriminate against Israeli academics. We should discriminate, but our culturist discrimination should be FOR OUR SIDE! Accepting that both sides of the Israel / Palestinian conflict think they sit on the side of right, we first must acknowledge that a conflict exists. Then we should notice Muslim nations support Palestinians and Israel is Western aligned. Finally the U.K. should notice that it is a Western nation. After this analysis, the UCUC should vow to take the appropriate side in this conflict. These basic culturist steps should be taken throughout Western schools.

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Contrasting Liberty and Tyranny and Written To the Inhabitants of America

Many Americans fail to understand that the battle with the jihadis is, at its root, a war of freedom verses despotism, and that everything dear to us is on the line. An excerpt from Common Sense & the Middle East: Contrasting Liberty and Tyranny.

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What is the West? Part By Ian Jobling

White activists are motivated by a desire to preserve the distinctive culture that whites have created, which we call “the West.” But what is the West? And why is it so precious to us? This article will begin to address this question by exploring the distinctive traits of the Western political tradition. The intellectual and moral traditions of the West will be dealt with in future articles on The Inverted World.

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Obama Acts Like Obama By Jennifer Rubin

True to form, Barack Obama’s explanation yesterday of his reasons for leaving Trinity Church are a model of double-talk. (And the remarkably passive media pack doesn’t make it very hard for him to avoid further scrutiny.) He has, he explained

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Obama’s Lust for the Presidency by Michael Gaynor

Rookie United States Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is the current frontrunner for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination because (1) he ran a strategically smart campaign, initially running as a post-race candidate who happened to be black in overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire and then receiving about 90% of the black vote in the South Carolina Democrat presidential primary (in which the black vote was decisive), ...

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I Know, Let’s Compromise Our Rights Away! By Warner Todd Huston

Columnist Tom Eblen of the Lexington, Kentucky Herald-Leader has proven to the world that he doesn’t know what a “right” is. He thinks it is something that you can “compromise” over. He thinks it is something that can be endlessly tinkered with. He seems not to realize that a “right” is something that is supposed to be insoluble, unchangeable, permanent. Worse, he has equated an American right to the horse raising industry as if the business decisions made by a handful of ranchers is somehow comparable to the observance and maintenance of our rights.

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Barack Obama sought the New Party's endorsement knowing it was a radical left organization :: Redstate

Last week we documented Obama’s 1996 endorsement by the New Party: which raises the question: what is the New Party? It’s easy to allege that this group is closely tied to former communists, but digging in to the New Party and Obama’s involvement, a very dirty picture presents itself. In fact, it is abundantly apparent that Barack Obama not only knew what the New Party was when he sought its endorsement, but through his ties with ACORN, the radical left activist organization, Obama used his radical left connections to get elected to the Illinois State Senate.

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The day of reckoning By Joseph Farah

For the purpose of this column, I am going to define "environmentalists" as socialists disguised as conservationists.

While this definition does not fit all environmentalists, I believe it is accurate to say it characterizes the leadership of a movement that is now threatening our national health and prosperity.

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The Gay Activists Are Headed For The Churches By Harry R. Jackson, Jr.

The next two Sundays, a coalition of radical gay groups comprised of SoulForce, The National Black Justice Coalition, and Equality Riders have coerced two of the nation’s most influential leaders into a closed-door showdown. Two of these groups (Soulforce and Equality Riders) are known for civil disobedience - even getting arrested in the name of GLBT justice. Bill Hybels at Willow Creek Community Church and Rick Warren at Saddleback Community Church will meet with these folks on June 8 and 15, respectively. Although Hybels and Warren will undoubtedly defend the faith boldly, SoulForce and company have set up a symbolic media campaign designed to suggest that conservative churches are bending on their gay relationships and marriage prohibitions.

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America's generosity is unmatched By Star Parker

Americans are hearing so much these days about how bad we are that we're starting to believe it.

In a recent Gallup poll, 68 percent said they are "dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today," and 55 percent said they think that the rest of the world views us unfavorably.

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Our States' Right to Kill the Rapist By Mike S. Adams

Over the course of the last two years I’ve been telling my students about an important case making its way up to the United States Supreme Court. The State of Louisiana has been seeking to execute those who are convicted of the aggravated rape of children. As of this writing the Supremes are approaching a decision in that case – one that would not have been difficult but for the legacy of Chief Justice Earl Warren.

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Chinese Drugs Come With a Dose of Danger By Phyllis Schlafly

"Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures," the title of a congressional hearing on April 29, laid bare a shocking problem: A counterfeit ingredient in a blood-thinner widely used in surgery, combined with the Food and Drug Administration's failure to inspect Chinese imports, appears to be responsible for at least 81 deaths in the United States.

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McCain Trusted more than Obama on Economy, national security By Rick Moran

Rasmussen reports the latest survey on voter attitudes toward the candidates and at the moment, John McCain is besting Barack Obama in several important categories.

On the economy, Iraq, national security, and taxes, John McCain is trusted more than Obama:

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Animal Harm Animal Harm

It has been rare in recent years for me to get more than a few pages into a modern novel before abandoning it; rarer still for me to bother finishing it; rarest of all for me to read it in a single sitting. This book, by an American poet and professor of literature (poetry editor of First Things) is in that final and rarest category.

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The Climate Security Act?: Reject the ignorami :: Pittsburg Tribune

If there indeed is a second Great Depression to come, this will be the government measure that guarantees it arrives with a devastating gut punch.

The U.S. Senate returns to session this week and will take up something deceptively labeled "America's Climate Security Act of 2008." It's a bill designed to combat man-made global warming.

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The death throes of 20th-century ideology By Janet Daley

Apparently, the Government has been sitting on research which made the startling discovery that failing to empty rubbish bins every week produces a rise in disease-carrying rodents and insects. Who, one wonders, actually commissioned this project? Have we not known since the Middle Ages that festering piles of discarded food attract vermin? Why, in heaven's name, are we arguing about this?

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The war-hero president and the pacifist By James Carroll

'I MAY not be able to see you," the partially blind, stroke-impaired Ted Sorensen told a crowd at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston last week, "but I have more vision than the president of the United States." Over 1,000 people gathered to hear JFK's speechwriter discuss his new book, "Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History." Those who expected a satisfying draught of the old Kennedy mystique were not disappointed. In the conclusion to his book, Sorensen writes, "Today's sorry political leadership, so different from JFK's, spurred me on as I wrote, rekindling my memory and reinvigorating my conscience."

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Liberals & Libertarians ‘Dead’ Wrong on National Security By JB Williams

Hillary Clinton was for the war on terror including in Iraq, before she had to become against it to attract her Code Pink feminazi core for a White House bid. Barack Obama says he would have been against it from the start, had he been out of his political diapers at the time those tough decisions had to be made. Both are running on ideological hindsight and campaign rhetoric.

But 300 million Americans expected President Bush alone to make certain that there would be no second 9/11. He has done just that, no matter how politically uncomfortable leftists have made it for him in their quest for political power at any cost.


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The Way Back to a Republican Majority is to the Right by Rep. Mike Pence

I am deeply honored to have this opportunity to address the 41st Annual Silver Elephant Dinner here in South Carolina. I am grateful for the leadership of Chairman Katon Dawson and for the gracious introduction by Senator Jim DeMint. Senator Jim DeMint is a hero to his former colleagues in the House and has done more, in less time, to shake up the United States Senate than any other conservative in recent history.

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Senate Boondoggling on Global Warming by Jed Babbin

Saturday’s follies were a fitting prelude for this week in the US Senate. As the Democratic Party’s “Rules and Bylaws” committee met to decide how best to keep two sets of books on their presidential primary results, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off on its urgent mission to repair the toilets on the International Space Station.

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Doing Business with the Devil by W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

In a segment last week on FOX News Channel’s "The O’Reilly Factor," host Bill O’Reilly continued hammering away at General Electric over its ongoing business dealings with Iran.

According to O’Reilly:

“GE has about $50 million on the table in business dealings with Iran. Doing the math, that means $250 million could have been derived since Iran began killing Americans in Iraq about five years ago.”

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Islam-promoting principal defied order to protect kids

A public school principal in Texas who arranged for an Islamic instruction presentation for students by an organization whose leaders have been linked to terror groups apparently arranged for that indoctrination after being told not to by her district's superintendent, parents have told WND.


The issue developed this week when public school students at Friendswood Junior High in the Houston area were herded into an assembly scheduled by Principal Robin Lowe that suddenly replaced a scheduled physical education class, according to reports.


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Homeland Security Newspeak By BRET STEPHENS

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it's a bad idea to use the word "liberty" when describing America's foreign policy goals. Nor does it much like the terms "Islamist" and "jihadist." Heaven forbid the federal government cause needless offense in the current war against, well, whoever.

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Blasphemy, Islam and the Law: part two By Adrian Morgan

Freedom of thought is of the utmost importance to man's economic, social, and political development. Without absolute freedom for the mind, man is only a miserable slave and a cringing, fawning, hypocritical coward.

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I Question The Timing, Part I By Jay Tea

Well, Barack Obama has pulled a "Peter" and denied his faith. It's not surprising -- the ongoing scrutiny into both the past and present practices of the Trinity United Church Of Christ has damaged Obama's standing with a lot of Americans, especially those who put hold their own faith as very important.

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Blind defense of Koran abrogates reality By Diana West

What interested me most about the official reaction to this month's Koran Sniper story — apologies galore, a kissed Koran for probable former insurgents, a punished soldier — was what it made vivid about our society: American deference to Islam, from the sacralization of Islam's book to the ideology of anti-infidelism, supremacism and totalitarian conquest within it. After all, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond called the sniper's action "criminal behavior," but the only law broken was Islamic law.

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Muslim presentation at Friendswood school draws fire :: Associated Press

Parents of some junior high students are upset they weren't notified about a school presentation on Islamic culture, an omission that violated school district policy.

The parents' letter-writing campaign stems from a May 22 presentation at Friendswood Junior High, where two Muslim women gave a 30-minute presentation about Islamic life as part of a yearlong study of respect, tolerance and culture, The Galveston County Daily News reported Saturday.

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Fears grow that Obama can't win By Paul Harris

With senator Barack Obama poised this week to clinch his party's nomination for President, there are growing fears in some quarters that the Democratic party may not be choosing its strongest candidate to beat Republican John McCain.

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Al-Qaeda chief dies in missile air strike By Jason Burke

An al-Qaeda trainer and explosives specialist involved in a range of European terrorist networks has been killed in Pakistan, the latest senior militant to die in a spate of controversial American missile strikes.

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Disingenuousness and Clarity By Richard John Neuhaus

In an act of raw judicial power, and by a one-vote margin, the California Supreme Court has declared that there is, in California law, a constitutional right for same-sex couples to enter into what the state will recognize as marriage. This despite a recent referendum in which Californians overwhelmingly rejected the idea.

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CONSERVATIVES " WILL YOU VOTE FOR SEN. MCCAIN :: HERRINGPOST Blog

The question that I am asking Conservatives is the biggest question of the campaign will you vote for Sen. McCain. The Conservatives in the Republican Party are angry at Sen. McCain for being a Rockefeller "Liberal" Republican. Sen. Mccain has been a thorn in the side of Conservatives for the last eight years of the Bush Administration. Sen. Mccain was against the Bush tax cuts which are a staple of the Conservative Movement.

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Last Central Powers Veteran dies :: The Poor Mouth Blog

Franz Künstler , the last known veteran of the Austro-Hungarian army and the last known surviving Central Powers veteran died in Germany on Tuesday. He was 107.

Romanian-born Franz Künstler, who served in the Austro-Hungarian army and fought on Germany's side, died after an operation on his intestine in the southern German town of Niederstetten. Künstler, who was the oldest man living in Germany, was born on July 24, 1900 in Soost in what is now Romania and was drafted into the 1st Artillery Regiment of Austro-Hungarian army in February 1918 He fought on the Italian front.

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Obama's communist ties investigated By Chad Groening

An investigative journalist and a national defense analyst are accusing Barack Obama of once having ties with members of the Communist Party USA.

Cliff Kincaid, president of America’s Survival, has teamed up with Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities. Both have compiled evidence of Obama's past ties with Communist Party figures.

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Moving The World By DANIEL JOHNSON

“When you have a good idea, start a magazine.” This, according to our board member Gertrude Himmelfarb, is the motto of her husband Irving Kristol. In a long and fruitful life, he has started three. (Their son Bill has started one, too.) The first was Encounter, which Kristol co-founded with the late Stephen Spender in 1953. It was a transatlantic monthly in which the intellectuals of the free world could debate with one another and their communist counterparts. To write for Encounter was a privilege.

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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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Much of the Religious Left has abandoned its old infatuation with Marxism, having long since moved on to radical environmentalism or performing apologetics for radical Islam. But quaintly, some relics still hang on to the old causes, chief of which is the 50 year love affair with Fidel Castro and his Cuban despotism.

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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.

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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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