The Dumbocrats and Democracy - Annals of dictator Obama Kim Zigfeld

Under the U.S. Constitution as drafted by the American “founding fathers,” a president could run for office and be elected as many times as possible.

But the first president, George Washington, though enormously popular, stepped down voluntarily after two terms. He believed that it would simply be wrong for any president to serve longer than eight years; this would, in Washington’s view, make him more like a king than a president, and Washington had led the American revolution to get rid of the institution of monarchy.

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Darkness at the End of the Tunnel by Gabriel Schoenfeld

Israel has just carried out a major aerial exercise, putting a hundred or so F-15s and F-16s into the skies over the eastern Mediterranean, evidently a rehearsal for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The move follows the statement earlier this month by Shaul Mofaz, Israel's deputy prime minister, that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program is "unavoidable." Israel almost certainly knows the location of some of the critical nodes in the Iranian program that it must hit if it is to set the Iranian effort back by several years. It also possesses the technology to assure that its bombs will fall close to or on their targets. But would such a strike succeed?

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McCain Must Give Up Public Funding by Dave Nalle

In an effort to maximize his fundraising potential Barack Obama has announced that he will finance his campaign entirely with private contributions. While his campaign presented this as a populist move based on his large number of small contributions from individual donors, it was no coincidence that he made the statement while sitting at a roundtable with leaders of Democratic PACs and the president of the AFL-CIO.

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Free Speech in US? Not If Chinese Government Has Its Way by Joseph Ureneck

Recent events in Flushing New York, unnoticed by most Americans except for ethnic Chinese, may alter US-Chinese relations.

For three years the Falun Gong, a religious group banned and persecuted by the Chinese government, has met outside the Flushing public library to encourage Chinese Communist Party members to turn in their Party membership. The activity attracted little attention until the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province and staggering loss of life put a spotlight on the Chinese government’s response.

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Planned Economies Do Not Work - Part III by Kenn Jacobine

The cost of health care in the United States is a perennial issue in presidential election campaigns. Little wonder since money spent on it continues to rise year after year. In 1960 the United States spent just 5.2 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care. By 2007, total spending on health care was $2.3 trillion. This figure represented 16 percent of the GDP. While costs continue to rise, 47 million Americans are still left uninsured. This is quite a quandary – ever rising costs that still do not meet total needs.

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Blame Everyone And Do Nothing By John D. Turner

Finally, after years of waiting, it seems we have an energy plan. The new plan, put forward by the liberals in the Democratic Party is a three part strategy.

First, subpoena the CEOs of the major American oil companies, drag them before investigating committees, and grill them until they confess to collusion in price gouging the American public by making billions of dollars in oil profits at their expense.

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100 Republican Firsts (for Leftwing Dummies) by Ben-Peter Terpstra

Part 1 (1-50): For Mr. Clooney!

1. 1854: Pro-life Americans establish the first major anti-slavery party. The Republican Party is born.

2. 1862: Pro-life politicians are the first to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C. They are Republicans.

3. 1863: Pro-life politicians issue the Emancipation Proclamation, in order to set all slaves free. They are Republicans.

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Domestic Cat’s Ancestors Are in Trouble!

Today’s domestic cat derived from the African Wildcat (Felis lybica). New evidence shows that the wildcat was domesticated around 9,500 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East and Egypt, although it was the Egyptians who truly welcomed the cats into their homes. Not only were they intrigued by the cats’ beauty, they soon realized the cats’ ability to keep the rodent population under control. Cats were soon elevated to deity status and revered as goddesses, such as Bastet the cat goddess.

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Financial Jihad = Shari'a Finance = The Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

The United States and the West cannot win the war against radical Islam merely with the most sophisticated military strategies. Winning requires understanding the role of shari'a and the Muslim Brotherhood in developing a global ideological and political movement supported by a parallel "Islamic" financial system to exploit and undermine Western economies and markets. This movement is the foundation and the major funding source for the political, economic, and military initiatives of the global Islamic movement.

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AMERICA'S CULTURE THIEVES By Daniel Sargis

In response to a recent article of mine I received an email from Bill, a reader, who asked, “Tell me what can be done, aside from outright militant revolution (as recommended by some of our forefathers) by the ones that truly love this country. Talk is cheap. Please advise.”

In general, Bill was asking what a lone and caring citizen can do to alter this great nation’s present course into the loony bin and keep America as a “shining city upon a hill”.

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Joe McCarthy Was RIGHT! By Doug Edelman

The so-called “McCarthy Era” is commonly pictured (and ridiculed) as a bunch of paranoid alarmists running around believing there was a Communist under every rock.

Sadly, they were right, and those Reds have crawled out from under their rocks and taken their seats in the halls of congress – under the auspices of the Democratic Party!

The cat was never more unceremoniously let out of the bag than with Maxine Waters’ recent pronouncement of her intention to SOCIALIZE… er.. ahh… TAKE OVER the oil industry!

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Justices gone wild By Ellis Washington

On June 12, the Supreme Court in the consolidated case of Boumediene v. Bush and “Al-Odah v. U.S., gave the roughly 270 prisoners held at our prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the same constitutional rights as you and I. These foreign terrorists all plotted, planned, fought against and even killed American soldiers, who, now thanks to an oligarchy of five justices, can go before a U.S. federal judges in civilian court to challenge their years-long detention.

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Scientist: 'Global warming' scheme to push global tax By Bob Unruh

A scientist whose reservations about "global warming" have been officially endorsed by tens of thousands of other scientists is accusing the U.N. of using "mob rule" to generate fear-mongering climate change reports intended to scare national leaders into submitting to its worldwide taxation schemes.

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The Fairness Doctrine at Work By William Tate

While some Democrats push to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine, an example of the harmful effects of doing so has played out in the most unlikely of places--the Aspen airport.

For those not familiar with the Fairness Doctrine, it was a Federal Communications Commission policy that required radio and TV stations to, in effect, provide equal time on matters of public importance. A station which did not do so ran the risk of losing its broadcast license, something which Rupert Murdoch once famously compared to having a license to print money.

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LOST at Sea By Doug Bandow

Like a monster in a horror flick franchise, the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), an omnibus treaty originally blocked by President Ronald Reagan, is back! And despite what the doomsday document's delirious spokesmen say, it's about as scary as ever.

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Obama's Supreme Court By Henry Mark Holzer

Last week’s Supreme Court 5-4 decision in Boumediene v. Bush—holding that alien unlawful enemy combatants have a constitutional right to use habeas corpus in American federal courts to challenge their detention—came as no surprise to those of us who have watched the “Living Constitution” virus metastasize since that ideological disease first began to infect the judiciary during the Warren Court era.

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Islamic Saudi Hate Academy By Joe Kaufman and Beila Rabinowitz

In Saudi Arabia, teaching hatred for others is a normal everyday scholastic activity. But what happens when that teaching gets transferred to the United States? One children’s school with branches in Virginia, the Islamic Saudi Academy, has managed to accomplish this with hate-filled texts, a terror-linked website, and students and school personnel that have been involved in radical activity.

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Obama's Bundler, Osama's Enabler By Ben Johnson

SHOULD A MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, WHO HAS PLEDGED HIS SUPPORT FOR OUR TROOPS, REJECT THE MONEY AND SUPPORT of an anti-American extremist who thinks Osama bin Laden had a “valid” argument on 9/11 and says she is currently acting “to undermine the war effort”? Barack Obama should be forced to make that decision about the ample funds he has received from Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.

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Why is Fox News Protecting Obama? By Cliff Kincaid

If Barack Obama wanted to dispel doubts about his national security credentials, he hasn’t done so with the announcement of a new “Senior Working Group on National Security” that includes Dr. Tony Lake, a former national security adviser to Bill Clinton. Lake became a laughingstock for expressing doubts as to whether Alger Hiss, the founder of the United Nations and a top State Department official, was a communist spy. Lake’s doubts led to a controversy that caused him to withdraw his nomination as Clinton’s CIA director.

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A carbon footprint in everybody’s face By Judi McLeod

With all those lights on in his Tennessee mansion, Al Gore reads Canada Free Press (CFP).

Or at least Kalee D. Kreider, “Communications Director/Environmental adviser in the Office of the Hon. Al Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore”, does.

“I am writing to respond to the CFP piece: Gore’s electricity consumption up 10 percent despite “energy efficient” renovations,” said Ms. Kreider.

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Son of The Proposition Nation: The Rule of Law by Lawrence Auster

Over the last several years, the neoconservatives have largely dropped their slogan from the 1990s, originally adopted in response to the immigration debate, that America is a "Proposition Nation"--meaning that American identity consists of nothing but prescription to an idea, the idea of universal individual equality.

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Refuting God's Crucible By Fjordman

This text is written in response to God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis, an American historian and two-time winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. In my opinion the book is largely a waste of money. This essay is not made to review the book as much as it is to refute it. It overlaps to some extent with the text The Truth About Islam in Europe, which I have published at the Brussels Journal before.

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The Audacity of Death By DANIEL ALLOTT

According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist.

Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a "survivor." Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive.

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Obama: Bringing Us Together Over Dead Bodies By Thomas Brewton

A man like Senator Obama, who is so callous with regard to God-given human life, is unworthy of holding public office.

Read The Audacity of Death in the Wall Street Journal to see the extent to which Senator Obama, a scion of the SDS radicals of the 1960s and 70s, embraces the amorality, if not complete immorality, of soulless, so-called scientific, philosophical materialism.

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Supreme Court stages coup d'etat By Joseph Farah

There's only one thing to do when a Supreme Court ruling appears to be outrageously unjust and wrongheaded – as was the case in Boumediene v. Bush, in which the court found in the Constitution a right of foreign enemy combatants to access hearings in civilian U.S. courts during wartime.

I decided to read the ruling for myself.

After doing so, I found there were two important but overlooked aspects of the decision:

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Obama Change : A reversion to the policies of the discredited Left. By Victor Davis Hanson

By this point in the presidential campaign, the public knows that a charismatic Barack Obama wants sweeping “change.” While the national media have often fallen hard for the Illinois senator’s rhetoric — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said he felt a “thrill going up my leg” during an Obama speech — exactly what kind of change can Obama bring if he’s elected in November?

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Sounds of Silence By MARK DUBOWITZ

Welcome to a world where criticism of militant Islam could land you in court or worse. In Vancouver, Canada's venerable Maclean's magazine awaits a hate-speech verdict from a human-rights tribunal for publishing a chapter from syndicated columnist Mark Steyn's best-selling book "America Alone." The accusers charge the author and publisher with "Islamophobia."

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The Enemy Has a Name by Daniel Pipes

If you cannot name your enemy, how can you defeat it? Just as a physician must identify a disease before curing a patient, so a strategist must identify the foe before winning a war. Yet Westerners have proven reluctant to identify the opponent in the conflict the U.S. government variously (and euphemistically) calls the "global war on terror," the "long war," the "global struggle against violent extremism," or even the "global struggle for security and progress."

This timidity translates into an inability to define war goals. Two high-level U.S. statements from late 2001 typify the vague and ineffective declarations issued by Western governments. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld defined victory as establishing "an environment where we can in fact fulfill and live [our] freedoms." In contrast, George W. Bush announced a narrower goal, "the defeat of the global terror network" – whatever that undefined network might be.

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Is the Democrat Party the CPUSA in Disguise? By Alan Caruba

It’s no secret that Democrats are liberal, but when you peel away their devotion to environmental policies that have left America vulnerable to foreign nations on whom we depend for the importation of oil, what has been revealed is an intention to nationalize our nation’s oil industry. That, simply stated, is communism.

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So Stuck on Stupid By Erik Rush

Whether one attributes the success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama to savvy maneuvering on the part of the Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign, Republican ineptitude, a biased press or the influence of shadow governments, in the end the November election’s outcome is going to come down to Americans’ capacity – or lack of capacity – for critical thinking.

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America: Hijacked in Plain Sight Rev.Lainie Dowell

Terrorists are now out of airplanes. Nevertheless, Americans continue to be held up in their travels by so-called intrusive security checks at airports across this nation while terrorists are down on the ground working among people that we think we know. And, as incredible as that may sound, Americans are being held hostage on our own land. We have watched and remained impotent as the Democrat party has mercilessly worked to undermine President George W. Bush and his administration with their courageous effort to combat the terrorist warfare against us at its root (i.e., wherever it is and whoever supports it to harm Americans and the free world).

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GAO Overturns Air Force Tanker Contract by Jed Babbin

Today the Government Accountability Office sustained Boeing’s protest against the Air Force award of the new air refueling tanker contract to Northrop Grumman/EADS. The press release -- which you can read here -- shows that GAO agreed with Boeing that the Air Force had violated government contract law and regulations by making the choice of the too big, too heavy Airbus aircraft based on criteria different from the ones in the Air Force request for proposals.

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China’s Secret War By Stephen Brown

Cyber warfare officially arrived on Capitol Hill last week. Two Republican congressmen, Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia and Rep. Christopher Smith of New Jersey, went public last Wednesday with the news that in 2006 and 2007 their office computer networks had been breached by Chinese hackers.


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Haditha Marine prepares to sue Murtha over smear

With most of the eight Marines charged in the Haditha, Iraq, incident now exonerated, the highest-ranking officer among the accused is considering a lawsuit against Democratic Rep. John Murtha, who fueled the case by declaring the men cold-blooded killers.

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A Danger Of Being Obamatized By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

How disappointing to see trailblazing intellectuals who should know better beguiled by the oratory of a candidate who'd lead this nation to disaster. An exciting politician is no excuse to switch from right to wrong.

John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and UC Berkeley linguistics professor, is one of the nation's most insightful analysts of race and culture.

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Obama's Statements On Terrorism Betrays A Doctrinally Bound Stupidity By WILLIAM MAYER

In comments made yesterday, the freshman Senator offered another unsettling glimpse into the Democrat narrative vis-à-vis Islamic terrorism.

"Let's think about this: these are the same guys who helped engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9-11...What they're trying to do us what they've done every election cycle, which is to use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid."

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McCain calls for building 45 new nuclear reactors By DAVID ESPO

Sen. John McCain called Wednesday for the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 and pledged $2 billion a year in federal funds "to make clean coal a reality," measures designed to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

In a second straight day of campaigning devoted to the energy issue, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting also said the only time Democratic rival Barack Obama voted for a tax cut was for a "break for the oil companies."

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Another House Democrat proposes nationalizing the US oil industry by Kim Priestap

This is the second Democrat who thinks Marxist and tyrannical thug Hugo Chavez has all the right ideas. I know there are people out there who are pointing fingers and screaming "Communists!" as if doing that would scare the Democrats into backtracking, but what they may not realize is that these folks probably don't have a problem with being called communists because, based upon what they're calling for, they obviously seem to think communist ideals are the right ones.

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Legalize All Drugs By John Stossel

The other day, reading the New York Post's popular Page Six gossip page, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: "ABC'S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. … The crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs".

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Still Dancing Around Jerusalem By Jonathan Tobin

There are times when even the most ardent supporters of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem wish the politicians would just shut up.

Not that they mind it when men like Sen. Barack Obama, the putative Democratic nominee for president, waxed lyrical about the Jewish state's capital. When Obama told the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., earlier this month that "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided," he was cheered to the echo.

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House Democrats call for nationalization of refineries

House Democrats responded to President's Bush's call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.
Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.

They also reasserted that the reason the Appropriations Committee markup (where the vote on the amendment to lift the ban) was cancelled so they could focus on preparing the supplemental Iraq spending bill for tomorrow.

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The War on Abstinence By Ryan T. Anderson

The Los Angeles Unified School District doesn’t want Karen Kropf talking to its students. District leaders fear that what she says isn’t “balanced” and that she’s not a certified “expert” in the field. Really, though, they just don’t like her message about teenage sexual self-control and the limited protection of condoms. That, and they’re worried about what the ACLU might say, especially given California’s law against “abstinence-only” education.

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Head of controversial Islamic school arrested :: Associated Press

The director of a Saudi government-funded Islamic school in Alexandria has been arrested and charged with failing to report a child abuse allegation.

The misdemeanor charges come at a time when the private school is under heavy criticism from a federal commission and others over textbooks that allegedly teach violence and hate. Protesters were there Tuesday to call for a federal investigation of its teachings.

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Obama numbered among 'false prophets' By Jody Brown

In a column published last week, Cal Thomas took a verbal swing at Barack Obama's claim to be a committed Christian. "He can call himself anything he likes," wrote the syndicated columnist, "but there are certain markers among the evangelicals he is courting that one must meet in order to qualify for that label."

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Qatada on Wordpress.com: Terrorize Non-Believers! :: JAWA Report

Reading this article about the re-release of Abu Qatada's book in celebration of Britain releasing "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", something seemed familiar (hat tip: CJ's link thingy):

Suspected Al Qaeda leader Abu Qatada is celebrating his release from prison with the release of a book in which he urges Muslims to commit terrorist attacks in the West.

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Fighting Resistance To Voting for Ralph Nader by Joel S. Hirschhorn

In so many ways Ralph Nader deserves to be president of the U.S. more than any Republican or Democratic candidate. For anyone that understands the need to overturn the two-party plutocracy and the corporate money that supports both major parties, Nader is the only credible candidate. He is also the most honest one and the only one that has the best interests of ordinary Americans as his highest priority. Yet most of the millions of independents and progressives that are disillusioned with the two major parties will probably not vote for him in November. Here is the case why the two most prevalent reasons they will use are without merit.

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The Problem with Obama's Father's Day Speech By Bruce Walker

Barack Obama's gave a carefully calculated political speech on Father's Day calling attention to the problem of children growing up without a father. In one important respect, Obama was absolutely right: Far too many children are being raised without the attention, discipline and care of a father in the home. But in another equally important respect, Obama took the easy, fast and safe path in his speech.

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The Unity Weapon By David Bueche

Next time you hear a liberal politician speaking, check your watch and count the seconds until you hear a call for unity. The problem -- we're told -- is that we are divided, and consequently, more interested in fighting than in solving problems.

Barack Obama offers a good, if somewhat self-congratulatory, example from a speech he gave after winning the North Carolina primary election -

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American Exceptionalism By Christopher Orlet

I was sitting at home the other night watching the fine HBO miniseries John Adams and wondering how long before the filmmakers got around to attacking George W. Bush and the War Against Terrorism. I didn't have to wait long. The sixth episode to be exact, in a scene where Thomas Jefferson warns Adams against signing the Alien and Sedition Acts. "You will be trampling on the Constitution," cries a stern Jefferson. Hmm. Where have I heard that before?

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A Culture of Greed By The Prowler

The Senate Ethics Committee intends to open an investigation into the relationship of several Democrat Senators, senior executives, and lobbyists for Fannie Mae, and Countrywide Financial, the home mortgage company, which was purchased at bail-out price by Bank of America.

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McCain's Sea Change On Offshore Oil By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

While Democrats want to continue to outsource our energy supplies to the likes of Hugo Chavez, John McCain wants to repeal the federal ban on offshore drilling. The energy tide is turning.

McCain has rightly called rising energy costs due in large part to restricted domestic supply a national security issue. On Monday, he previewed a Tuesday speech in Houston and said that as commander in chief he would end the federal ban on offshore drilling first enacted in 1981 and continued by every president since.

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Democracy in Decline By Tony Blankley

The broad, sneering European-elite response to the plucky Irish vote to oppose the further centralization of governmental power in the European Union and the emerging opinion in China suggest that from Brussels to Shanghai, democracy may be losing its appeal.

Democracy, broadly understood as government by the people being governed, has been the upward aspiration of Western civilization for about 1,000 years -- and of the rest of the world for about 100 years. Certainly since the Magna Carta in 1215; arguably going back another millennium to when the Germanic tribes selected their chiefs through a more-or-less popular rather than hereditary method.

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Congress and the Countrywide Scandal By DICK ARMEY

Countrywide Financial Corp.'s "friends of Angelo" program provided sweetheart loans to key banking players in Washington, D.C. They included former Fannie Mae chief executive Jim Johnson, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.).

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Haditha Justice By Michelle Malkin

Yet another U.S. Marine, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, had charges dropped Tuesday in the so-called Haditha massacre — bringing the total number of Marines who’ve been cleared or won case dismissals in the Iraq-war incident to seven. “Undue command influence” on the prosecution led to the outcome in Chessani’s case. Bottom line: That’s zero for seven for military prosecutors, with one trial left to go.

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Unlawful Logic By Peter Wehner

Andrew Sullivan criticizes a piece I wrote for National Review Online, as well as a blog post written by Rich Lowry. Here are several points in response.

1. The Supreme Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush was deeply problematic in part because it was a power grab by the Court. It manufactured a Constitutional right for foreign terrorism suspects held outside the United States. Indeed, we are bestowing on unlawful enemy combatants rights that have never before been extended to prisoners of war, who are (unlike terrorists) abiding by international norms.

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Our Declaration of Energy Independence by Newt Gingrich

For Americans, the 4th of July is about more than the birth of our country. It's about the will of the people triumphing over the will of the elite.

It's a day that celebrates a document, the Declaration of Independence, with a revolutionary premise: Governments are created to secure the God-given rights of citizens, not to grant them their rights. On the 4th of July, we all remember what Ronald Reagan told us, that we are a nation with a government, not the other way around.

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Environmentalists Want You to Eat Bugs By Tom Purcell

I speak of a recent article in Time that explains why eating bugs is good for the environment.

As it goes, bugs require "little room and few resources to grow." Bugs are cold-blooded invertebrates, you see. They are efficient. Much more of the grub they eat is converted into edible bug body parts than is the case with our friends the cows.

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Repeal Hate Speech Laws By Robert Spencer

On June 9, a 53-year-old man named Mahmoud Alkhazaleh stood in the middle of a street in Chicago, and refused to get out of the way of traffic. Soon enough a car approached, but when the driver honked at him, Alkhazaleh didn’t move. The driver tried to go around him, but at that point Alkhazaleh allegedly started to hit him and throw rocks at him. And shortly thereafter, three of Alkhazaleh’s sons ran up, started to beat the driver, spit on him, and throw rocks at him.

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Murtha Lied; Marines Were Tried (And Acquitted) By Ben Johnson

At Camp Pendleton yesterday, military judge Col. Steven Folsom dismissed all charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, the highest-ranking officer accused in the Haditha massacre-of-justice. The ruling makes him the seventh of eight accused in the Haditha skirmish to have charges dismissed. In Chessani’s case, his charges were dropped without prejudice – meaning they could be filed again later, but CentCom could not be part of the process, as there had been fear the judge had an inappropriately close relationship with one of the investigators. Chessani had been accused of violating a lawful order and dereliction of duty in reporting the incident.

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Soothsayer ABC’s By Bethany Stotts

The American public continues to be bombarded with fantastic messages of the Earth’s impending doom as a result of global warming, whether it be from Al Gore, Newsweek, or the Washington Post. Last August, it was pictures of burning planets matched by the condemnation of dissenters as skeptics and deniers. Now media outlets claim to know the future as far out as 2100.

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Traditional Values Groups Organizes Protest At Virginia’s Islamic Saudi Academy :: PipeLineNews

A Fairfax, Virginia school, the Islamic Saudi Academy [ISA] which is operating as a religious indoctrination center - a madrassah - was today the scene of a spirited demonstration by a coalition of traditional values groups.

The protest was held to call attention to the nature of the school’s educational methodology, its ties to Saudi Wahhabists and its use of bigoted teaching materials.

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Islam's Global War against Christianity By Patrick Poole

From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new Holocaust. This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust aren't wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs.

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John McCain, Hero Posted by DJ Drummond

Many on the Left have been attacking John McCain viciously. Not his Senate record or positions on the major issues so much, as they have been attacking him for his service in Vietnam. Given Barack Obama's lack of significant accomplishment in anything other than selling books and making speeches, it is hardly surprising that he and his followers would regard McCain's most distinctive service as a threat to Obama's ambition. It is also apparent that most Obama supporters have no real idea of what McCain did as a Navy officer that sets him apart from so many of his fellow veterans. I have written before that I disagree with a number of McCain's political positions, and I dislike the way he has treated fellow Republicans, especially President Bush. None of that, however, diminishes what John McCain accomplished as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

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Scripture as Participation By Peter Leithart

“Participatory” does a lot of work in Matthew Levering’s latest book, Participatory Biblical Exegesis, a contribution to the burgeoning contemporary interest in theological interpretation of Scripture. It refers, above all, to a conception of history that, Levering argues, should serve as foundation for biblical exegesis. In proposing a participatory vision of history, Levering, who teaches at Ave Maria University, challenges ideas that shaped the development of historical-critical biblical scholarship.

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The pope, the president and politics of faith By Spengler

Acting on faith in politics means exactly what it does in personal life: to do what is right even when it is dangerous to do so, when received opinion howls against it, and when the ultimate consequence of such actions cannot be foreseen. After Pope Benedict XVI showed unprecedented courtesy to visiting American President George W Bush last week, much has been written about the Christian faith that binds the pope and the president.

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Dodd knew of VIP treatment since 2003

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said he and his wife knew Countrywide Inc. was treating them as “VIP” customers when they refinanced mortgages on two homes in 2003, but that it did not cross his mind he was getting a financial perk from the sub-prime lender.

Dodd, who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee oversees mortgage lenders, said he did not ask and Countrywide’s representatives did not say what the VIP treatment entailed.

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The Top 10 Public Ineffectuals by CRAIG BROWN

The two most striking aspects of this exclusive online poll were a) the number of readers who tried to take part (very few) and b) the proportion of them (tiny wee) who proved sufficiently adept with the internet to get their votes through. Our poll was in many ways a victim of its own failure. It is notable that two of our top 10 — Steiner and Starkey — have surnames beginning with S, and two — Redwood and Vidal — have Christ­ian names formed of four letters or fewer.

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Terrorism: Italian PM and Christian convert targets of Islamist death threats :: Adnkronos International

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a prominent Italian journalist who recently converted to Christianity, are the targets of new death threats posted on one of the most popular Islamist websites said to be close to al-Qaeda, on Tuesday.

The threats are aimed at Berlusconi and Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born newspaper editor who converted from Islam to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican's Easter vigil in April 2008.

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Jus Post Bello And Its Realpolitik Ramifications By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Let's be clear about matters: I am an adherent of realpolitik in terms of formulating foreign and national security policy. I believe that the primary function of American foreign and national security policy is to foster and promote American foreign and national security interests. That doesn't mean that I am not an internationalist; far from it. It just means that nation-states, in an anarchic world, are obliged to serve as the primary guardians of their own interests and the United States does not differ in this regard.

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A U.N. Khan Job By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Blueprints for a nuclear weapon compatible with the ballistic missiles of Iran, North Korea and other rogue states were found on computers of the notorious Khan smuggling ring. Will a complacent world wake up?

It's clear that it's getting easier to build and use a nuclear bomb. If civilized countries want to stop their biggest cities from becoming radioactive craters, they'd better implement a no-tolerance policy against nuclear proliferation.

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If Michelle Obama Isn’t Racist, What Is She? by Katherine Berry

In Wednesday’s New York Times, Maureen Dowd warns conspiracy-seeking lefties that Obama’s candidacy is sure to incite the GOP to attack his wife, Michelle Obama. As if Obama himself doesn’t provide us with a good enough target. No, Dowd says, the true focus will be on Michele Obama as a “female version of Jeremiah Wright, an angry black woman.”

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“It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed”: Is the U.S. Constitution a suicide pact? By Roger Kimball

So, the United States Supreme Court today decided that detainees at Guantanamo Bay have the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to protest their imprisonment. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy sounds the high-minded note: sure, there’s the threat of terrorism, but “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”

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Patrick J. Buchanan—Pseudo-Historian, Very Real Dissimulator By Victor Davis Hanson

Patrick J. Buchanan got upset that I wrote a column about the World War II revisionists, especially his book, and that of Nicholson Baker’s on the allied “crimes” of bombing German cities. I produce his column by paragraph and then comment in brackets.

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Why You OUGHT to Judge By Frank Turek

At least one lesbian is not happy with me for the case I made last week against same-sex marriage on our TV program. She wrote me this ALL CAPS e-mail with “VERY JUDGEMENTAL” in the subject line:

ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME AND I AM A CHRISTIAN LESBIAN AND HAVE BEEN FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS. STOP JUDGING AND MOVE ON!!! I AM SO TIRED OF ALL YOU UPTIGHT, DO RIGHT, SINNERS JUDGING PEOPLE.

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We are surrounded by a sea of enemies! by Laurie Roth

We are surrounded by a sea of enemies that threaten to destroy us. Just who are they and how do we fight them and survive? First of all, we have seen over years and decades now, Islamic radicals wanting to take out the infidels, Jews and Christians and take over country after country. We have seen their gains, conquering and imperialist spirit throughout the Middle East, Europe, Indonesia and the Philippines. Let us not forget their manipulative gains with assuming “rights” and “speech” laws in Canada, thus manipulating Sharia law courts and action into the mainstream. They are dong the same with some success in the U.S. by manipulating our courts, school curriculum, getting voted into office, suing, threatening and intimidating those who dare to notice strange or dangerous looking behavior and accusing any others questioning anti American behavior as mentally ill…i.e. Islamophobia.

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Paranoid Ranting Global Warming Thugs By Daniel Muniz

"It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on."

Michael T. Eckhart,
President - American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)

The above is an excerpt of a letter that Eckhart sent to Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). In addition to ACORE, Michael Eckhart is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative and he is also part of the World Council for Renewable Energy as its co-chairman.


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Polar Bears More Important Than Western Civilization By Randall Nunn

On Sunday, an article from the Associated Press stated that, less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species, “the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in pursuit of oil and natural gas.” As far the Associated Press (and indeed, all of the mainstream media) is concerned, the survival of Western Civilization in the face of confiscatory pricing by the world’s dictatorships is of small concern compared to the very real threat of annoyance to polar bears. Is it any wonder that readership of the mainstream press is falling?

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Ingraham Speaks Up About Her Silencing on Talk Radio By Howard Kurtz

Laura Ingraham, the most popular woman on political talk radio, has been off the air for two weeks, and not by choice.

Ingraham's syndicator, Talk Radio Network, barred her from her Washington studio after talks about a new contract hit a snag, and some of her fans are mounting a campaign to get her back.

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The Next Attack: Coming Soon By Cal Thomas

When the terrorists attack again - as Homeland Security has repeatedly warned us they will - how many survivors will be consoled because the Supreme Court and the State Department looked out for the "rights" of terrorists before the rights of their dead loved ones?

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Conservatives must act By James Lewis

"These are the times that try men's souls," wrote Thomas Paine on December 23, 1776. It was a deeply demoralizing time for American independence fighters, with Gen. George Washington in constant retreat, always just managing to dodge defeat by the British. Keeping American morale strong was the crucial ingredient for victory then, just as it is today.

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How our Marxist faculties got that way By Edward Bernard Glick

It's August 1968. Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators have just wrecked the Democratic national convention in Chicago and ruined Hubert Humphrey's chances to become President. So what did these Marxist demonstrators and their cohorts elsewhere do next?

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Many a child left behind By David Keene

The news that the District’s representative in Congress has joined with organized labor and liberals within the Democratic Party to demand an end to Washington’s successful voucher experiment shouldn’t come as much of a shock.

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The Science of the UN by Dr. Arthur Robinson

A peculiar and dangerous virus is currently infecting American public discourse. This virus pathologically transforms our language, so that our conversations with one another become garbled, confused, and ultimately meaningless. Words are transformed into something they never were intended to mean, or robbed of their meaning altogether. “Democracy” is set to the meaning of “republic,” “gambling” becomes “investment,” and “vice” becomes the “virtue of diversity.”

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The Media, Ahab Levin and Moby Bush: Part 2 by Jed Babbin

It’s rare that Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mi) suffers from a political tin ear. A week after the Supreme Court’s poorly-reasoned and outrageous decision granting the Constitutional right of habeas corpus to terrorists at the Guantanamo Bay naval base, Levin today will chair a hearing supposedly investigating the “origins of aggressive interrogation techniques.”

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The Enemy Has a Name By Daniel Pipes

If you cannot name your enemy, how can you defeat it? Just as a physician must identify a disease before curing a patient, so a strategist must identify the foe before winning a war. Yet Westerners have proven reluctant to identify the opponent in the conflict the U.S. government variously (and euphemistically) calls the "global war on terror," the "long war," the "global struggle against violent extremism," or even the "global struggle for security and progress."

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A Careful, Exacting Indictment By Jon Kyl

As the president’s term comes to an end, his critics are out to define his legacy in their terms, particularly with regard to Iraq. Of late, their efforts to rebuke the war effort in Iraq seem to have intensified, and no doubt they will continue in the months ahead. The latest rehashes all repeat the same charges we have heard for years now—President Bush and his administration distorted the facts and in doing so initiated the war in Iraq on “false pretenses."

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THE COUNTRYWIDE SIX By John Bender

The news that former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson was one of the sleaze bags who enriched themselves with sweat heart deals on mortgages from Countrywide Financial makes it a bipartisan scandal and eliminates the slim possibility that any of them will be brought to justice.

The ruling political class doesn’t like to bring its members to justice. But if one political party can gain political advantage by going after a few members of the political class who happen to be in the other party, they will grab that opportunity.

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Barack Obama throws a billion Muslims under the bus :: JihadWatch

As noted here yesterday, Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik says that the candidate has a “Muslim background.”

Barack Obama himself, however, says he doesn’t.

This is question of his honesty, but it also raises another question: by all this increasingly implausible denial that he was ever identified as a Muslim, Barack Obama is implying what he would almost certainly strenuously deny if asked directly. He is implying that there is something wrong, something that would raise questions about one’s loyalties, about being a Muslim. He is implying that people would have legitimate concerns about a Muslim President of the United States.

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Lawrence "Springtime for Hitler" Auster gets the LGF treatment by Lawrence Auster

It began with a Southern Poverty Law Center article, "President Obama? Many White Supremacists are Celebrating," that was linked and quoted by Charles Johnson at an LGF thread entitled, "White Supremacists for Obama." The SPLC piece concerns "the assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites and others who make up this country's radical right." Examples of these groups mentioned by SPLC included Vanguard News Network, Stormfront, and the Klan. Thus the article only dealt with figures and movements on the Nazi-like, seriously anti-Semitic right. The piece had nothing to do with traditionalist conservatives, immigration restrictionists, paleocon race realists, and so on.

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Richard Lynn’s The Global Bell Curve—The Explanation That Fits The Facts By Professor J. Philippe Rushton

Richard Lynn’s new book The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ and Inequality Worldwide builds on Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve. Its subject: whether the same type of racial hierarchy in IQ and socio-economic status that Herrnstein and Murray documented in the US is present in other parts of the world. Its answer: they do.

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The Climate Alarmist Manifesto By Marc Sheppard

Just as class struggle forms the nucleus of Marxism, so does it sit at the very core of the Left's climate alarmism. At a glance, the regressive nature of fiscal Carbon control schemes, be they taxation or cap-and-trade, would appear to be antithetical to liberal thinking. But beneath the veneer of both the domestic and international green agenda lies a devious wealth-redistribution plan compared to which all predecessors pale.

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The Hypocrisy of Socialism by Craig Chamberlain

In Jonah Goldberg's most recent column, he talks about how the Senate has finally decided to privatize their food service, which had been run by the government. Bad food, incompetence and high costs were the hall mark of the system. But incompetence and high costs are inherent in any socialistic system.

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The Marxist roots of the global warming scare By Wes Vernon

The late Natalie Grant Wraga once wrote, "Protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for. Protection of the environment may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of measures designed to undermine the industrial base of developed nations. It may also serve to introduce malaise by lowering their standard of living and implanting communist values."

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Einstein's Potemkin villages Fred Hutchison

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a philosophical pantheist, and his theory of general relativity is based upon pantheistic assumptions that rule out a transcendent creator God. Einstein's cosmology has a baleful influence on Western moral culture because it conveys the idea that everything is relative and nothing is absolute. Some Christians of liberal theology have become pantheists and moral relativists as a result of Einstein's influence.

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U.S. State Department Behind International Child Abduction Scandal By Teri Stoddard

Karl Hindle has been working tirelessly for five years and spent more than four hundred thousand dollars investigating his daughter’s illegal abduction to the U.S. What he has uncovered is deplorable. The paper trail shows the United States government is in the business of illegal baby snatching and harboring criminals.

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Defining Insanity Down By Victor Davis Hanson

There were about 110,000 American soldiers involved in storming Iwo Jima. 700-900 were African-Americans, less than 1% of the aggregate force. The Clint Eastwood films of the battle focused on the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi, where African-Americans were not present, and the caves on the Japanese side, where they likewise were not in evidence.

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Search for one-eyed man By Wesley Pruden

In the land of the blind, so the ancient philosopher reminds us, the one-eyed man is king. In our own time, the ignorant, the unaware and the witless ride high.

This is largely the intimidating work of a runaway media, taken over by untutored consultants, marketing men armed only with ignorance and Powerpoint presentations. Every dunce with a laptop computer feels empowered to snuff out the dying light.

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Nuclear bombs are 63 and China is in the market for the new breakthrough weapon By Lev Navrozov

When we emigrated from Russia, U.S. President Nixon went to Russia to “stop the Cold War.” Possibly, we were permitted to emigrate as a Soviet present to him. You see? Owing to him, Russia was moving to the freedom of emigration after the decades when the expressed wish to emigrate was a crime.

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Prosecute the perv judge by Joseph Farah

It's called the U.S. 9th Circus Court of Appeals for a reason.

The reason became more obvious last week when Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, presiding over the trial of a hard-core pornographer, was himself revealed to be posting pornographic images on his family's publicly accessible website.

Kozinski has taken a dismissive attitude toward the whole affair, admitting he posted at least some of the images and dragging his son through the mud by blaming him for others. He didn't apologize. He made excuses, shrugged it off.

Now, he magnanimously has offered to cooperate fully in any investigation.

What happens to the case of the pornographer before him?

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Judicial Supremacy Strikes in Oklahoma By Phyllis Schlafly

The elected representatives in Oklahoma passed a law to stem the tide of illegal immigrants and, faster than you can say "judicial supremacy," a federal judge blocked its enforcement. The court suspended key sections of the law even before it was due to take effect on July 1.

The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act was designed to prevent illegal immigrants from taking jobs from Americans and from evading taxes by working in the underground economy.

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A World Afloat on an Ocean of Oil By Alan Caruba

Considering how much untapped oil is known to exist, not just in the United States, but worldwide, one would think that its current price was some kind of anomaly and it is. It is more the result of speculation than anything else.

The most fundamental fact about oil worldwide is that there is lots of it. Though frequently overlooked, the ability to refine crude oil plays an essential role in the supply and demand equation. More refining capacity is needed worldwide. Finally, there’s the fact that, in general, oil is very expensive to get at and often found in the most inhospitable places on Earth.

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Is Hitler's Ghost In City Hall by John R. Marshall

Collecting property taxes without providing full services is stealing, and also violates both the Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights. A concept that is even more Hitler and Stalin like is “extraterritorial jurisdiction” known as ETJ used by American municipalities. ETJ is synonymous with the word imperialism defined as territorial acquisition by gaining direct control of political or economic life of other areas.

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Habeas is 9/10 of the law by Vox Day

I am no fan of judicial activism. It indicates the complete breakdown of societal law and order, in that it entirely eliminates both the rule of law and even the pretense of democracy in favor of the same rule by decree that characterized ancient monarchies and empires. When the law as written is ignored in favor of whatever a judge, or very small group of judges, declares the law to be, one cannot pretend to be living in a country that is any more constitutional or genuinely democratic than Caesar's Rome or Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

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Political Moral Philosophy - R.I.P. By Ken Connor

"Political moral philosophy" sounds like an oxymoron in the context of our modern, unprincipled politics. Nevertheless, a sound moral philosophy is the vital center of any political movement intent on fashioning a just society. Unfortunately, both political parties today seem to have lost their grip on whatever moral philosophy they once held to be true. Democrats have abandoned their old socialist ideals for a pragmatic approach focused on winning elections by promising new domestic programs and repeating a mantra advocating vague, undefined notions of "change." Republicans have dropped their ideals of personal freedom and limited government in favor of winning elections by rewarding powerful special interests group with earmarks, tax cuts, and limitations on liability for wrongdoing.

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On Reagan's Berlin Wall speech anniversary: Message for today's GOP By Star Parker

For conservatives and Republicans who are wondering what in the world happened to their party, we should recall June 12, 1987.

That day, 21 years ago, President Ronald Reagan stood before the wall dividing East and West Berlin and directed his famous appeal to the leader of the then Soviet Union, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

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Top 10 reasons to blame Democrats for soaring gasoline prices By William Tate

This started out as an attempt to create a light and humorous, Letterman-esque Top 10 list. But the items on the list, and the drain Americans are seeing in their pocketbooks because of Democrats' actions (sometimes inaction) are just too tragic for that.

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Conservatives Must Not Practice the Politics of Despair By J.R. Dunn

Conservatism is the doctrine of least expectations. Conservatives tend to view the world from the bleakest of perspectives. Man is a fallen creature, a rickety bridge between the beasts and the angels, driven by appetites and urges perhaps best not examined too closely. Mankind takes two steps (and sometimes two hundred) backward for each step forward, and often enough, those forward steps are in the wrong direction. Humans are steeped in error, and any change holds within it the danger of catastrophe.

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Obama’s Gospel of Envy By Ralph R. Reiland

Like losers in a shell game, most of us got snookered into looking under the wrong nutshell in regards to the inflammatory and racist sermon that was delivered by Rev. Michael Pfleger during his guest appearance in May at Barack Obama's church in Chicago.

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Democracies Can't Compromise on Core Values By NATAN SHARANSKY

As the American president embarked on his farewell tour of Europe last week, Der Spiegel, echoing the sentiments of a number of leading newspapers on the Continent, pronounced "Europe happy to see the back of Bush." Virtually everyone seems to believe that George W. Bush's tenure has undermined trans-Atlantic ties.

There is also a palpable sense in Europe that America will move closer to Europe in the years ahead, especially if Barack Obama wins the presidential election.

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Militant Atheism at U of Virginia By Warner Todd Huston

The one thing that always makes me wonder about atheists is how upset they seem to get about nothing. After all, they claim that there is no God and that religion is based on myth and foolishness, don't they? They claim it is all "nothing," yet many of them are highly incensed by what they believe is "nothing." Some of them even actively try to destroy "nothing" for everyone else, going about eliminating people's observance, expression, and belief in "nothing." Even constantly taking their case against "nothing" to our courts.

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The Five Follies of Keith Olbermann By Paul A. Ibbetson

For some time now a struggling MSNBC has employed a Bush hating mad hatter by the name of Keith Olbermann. Olbermann appears to be on an endless mission to disparage the president as well as the war on terror, and in doing so has created a very interesting example of the inner workings of the far left liberal.

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Justice Kennedy: A One-Act Play By David Kahane

‘Thank you, thank you very much. I’d like to thank my agent, my manager, my lawyer, my personal assistant, my nutritionist and, most of all, the Academy for this great honor. Winning an Oscar for my script, The Mouse That Roared 2: This Time, It’s Personal, is the culmination of everything you and I have been fighting for. Ladies and gentlemen, comrades in arms — we did it!

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The Mouse That Roared by Susan Easton

The result of Ireland’s crucial vote on the “New Europe” Lisbon Treaty was announced on Friday the 13th. The Irish said NO! despite a rare moment of consensus which saw all three of Eire’s political parties campaigning for a YES vote. From modest cajoling to guilt to dire warnings and outright threats, no ploy was left unplayed. It didn’t work.

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Ireland Saves Europe From Itself by Nile Gardiner

Thomas Cahill’s history, “How the Irish Saved Civilization” may require a second volume after last Thursday’s historic Irish referendum. Ireland’s rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon was a seminal moment in the modern history of Europe, when brave Irish voters spoke out in defense of the nation state. The result was a humiliating rebuff for the cloistered Brussels political establishment which had sought to force a hugely controversial treaty upon 490 million Europeans without a popular vote. It was a stunning demonstration of democracy triumphing over an Orwellian vision of Europe dreamed up by often faceless unelected officials callously indifferent to the views of the ordinary man on the street.

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Dems Running on Empty by Sen. James Inhofe

What a difference three years makes: In 2005, I led the charge against a massive global warming cap-and-trade bill. It was a lonely battle with few GOP members willing to join me on the Senate floor to publicly oppose it.

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Lieberman irks Democrats by criticizing Obama By ANDREW MIGA

Joe Lieberman is fast becoming the Democrats' public enemy No. 1.

The four-term Connecticut senator, who came tantalizingly close to being Al Gore's vice president in 2000, not only has been campaigning for his pal, presumed Republican nominee John McCain, now he's publicly criticizing the Democrats' standard-bearer, Barack Obama. Lieberman has strayed before, most notably switching from Democrat to independent in 2006 to hold onto his Senate seat after a Democratic primary loss.

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Islamization crept into Europe a long time ago by Nahed Selim

Talking about the islamization of society is apparently taboo in the Netherlands, according to Muslima Nahed Selim. Why is that? "I think many Dutch people do not fully understand the term." She hopes that many more warnings will follow Geert Wilders’ film.

In a broadcast by the Dutch Islamic Broadcasting organization (NIO) on March 30th we saw reactions to ‘Fitna’ from Egypt, one of them from a preacher. Apart from the usual talk about respect and causing offence he was also outraged about the title of the film. He wondered whether the ‘director’ realized what fitna meant.

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CAIR’s Congressman Keith Ellison Gives Aid And Comfort To Iran :: PipeLineNews

Keith Ellison, the country’s first Muslim Representative [D-MI] whose motivation became a concern immediately upon him taking office, refusing to take the oath using the traditional Bible, instead opting for a Qur’an, is today quoted in the Iranian press bitterly attacking President Bush’s policies vis a vis the Ahmadinejad government and claiming that the Western press presents a negative view of Islam.

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Less Violent Islamists Are Still Islamists By Ibrahim, Youssef

A fierce debate is brewing among jihadists, it seems. To hear pundits and the CIA boss describe it, the rupture is growing over interpretations by radical theologians about whom to kill and how to do it in the name of God.

It is progress of sorts flushing out mea culpas from repentant Islamists and widening divisions within Terror Inc., but far from advancement toward a triumph in a war of terror.

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A madrassa grows in Minnesota, at taxpayers' expense :: Power Line

The Muslim American Society is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, out of which the genocidal terrorist group Hamas emerged. The Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society has been the source of local controversies involving the purported observance of Sharia in public facilities such as taxis based at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

The Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society also houses a Minnesota charter school in the Twin Cities suburb Inver Grover Heights. The school is Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy -- named for the Muslim general who conquered medieval Spain. As a charter school, Minnesota taxpayers foot the bill for it.

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U.N. Rapporteur Turns to Usual Suspects on "Islamophobia" IPT News

If one were to list the challenges and crises facing the United Nations, bigotry here in America wouldn't crack the top 100. The junta in Burma won't let international aid in to help its citizens in the wake of a devastating typhoon. Civilians continue to face massacres in Darfur. China harshly suppresses protests in Tibet and the diplomatic standoff with Iran over its nuclear program rages. In short, life and death are daily struggles throughout the world.


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Global warming hits Washington hard... with SNOW in June. by Cassy Fiano

One of the wonderful things about global warming is that no matter what happens with the weather, it can always be blamed on global warming. Of course, that only works if you're one of the Goracle's Kool-Aid drinkers. Any kind of weather symptoms whatsoever mean that global warming is real. Really hot? Global warming. Really cold? Global warming. Too many hurricanes? Global warming. Too few hurricanes? Global warming. Flooding due to excessive rain? Global warming. Droughts due to not enough rain? Global warming.

And on and on and on it goes.

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The United States Supreme Court Versus America: Awarding "The Privilege of Habeas Corpus To Terrorists" By Hugh Hewitt

Thursday's 5-4 decision awarding "unlawful combatants" at Gitmo --terrorists-- the "privilege of the writ of habeas corpus" has left millions of Americans stunned. What in the world is the majority of the Supreme Court thinking? Justice Scalia, writing in dissent, was blunt:

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Oil companies spend more on taxes than on oil supply development Christopher Alleva

If didn't know better, I would think the Democrats are really trying to lose this election. First they offered up the cap and trade global warming bill in the Senate that was quickly withdrawn when they realized what a debacle they were creating for themselves. Then this week they planned to use a windfall profits tax to vilify the oil companies and distract the public from their negligence and malfeasance for failing to enact laws and make policies to encourage the production and distribution of the life-blood of the nation- oil.

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Theodicy and the Narrow Escape Syndrome By Richard John Neuhaus

Let it be said at the outset that James Wood is a splendid literary critic, one of our best. One of the things that make him interesting is that he can’t get over the “God problem.” Wood is a product of what I have called the narrow escape syndrome. That is to say, he was reared in a conservative Christian home, has moved beyond that, and is palpably fearful of being drawn back into the faith from which he has narrowly escaped.

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The 7% Solution to Islam Murder Incorporated by Colonel Robert Neville

Unlike many in the 21st Century Capitalist Democratic Free West, Sherlock Holmes in the 19th Century would already have had the precise and correct full measure of Islam, the Koran and Mohammad. "They form an ever darkening triangle and therefore must be dealt with accordingly..."

“What is the object of this circle of misery, violence and fear? It must have a purpose? Or our universe has no meaning, and that is unthinkable. But what purpose? That is humanities great problem, for which reason so far has no answer”. Sherlock Holmes.

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You can’t outsource fatherhood! By Mark Alexander

“It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness.” —James Wilson (1791)

Just after the turn of the millennium, I was reviewing family social data from 1950-2000. Looking at historical trends pertaining to economics, crime and incarcerations, drug abuse, education, physical and emotional health, premarital sex, pregnancy out of wedlock, child abuse and generational patterns of divorce, I was not surprised to find that there was one grid that highly correlated with all the others.

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What's next -- an ice age? By Pete Chagnon

The absence of sunspots has left some scientists scratching their heads about what could be next.

Extremely low sunspot activity and extended periods of no sunspot activity have some scientists wondering how this could affect the weather on Earth. Noted environmentalist and author Lawrence Solomon says there is a vast historical record dating back hundreds of years that could provide some insight to this phenomenon. "There has been a coincidence over the centuries of an absence of sunspots correlating with very cold temperatures, and a presence of sunspots corresponding to warm periods," he explains.

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Education UK – Trying Everything But the Traditional By A. Millar

Former government advisor John White claimed recently that the traditional education timetable should be scrapped, with subjects replaced by what might be called skills-based activities, such as ‘problem solving’ and ‘public speaking.’

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Post Mortem: Signs of Euro-Lisbon Treaty Defeat Already Showing ... :: Tundra Tabloid

The Euro-Weenies are already starting to wail over the early results of the Irish vote on the treaty.

CNN: Politicians from the government and major opposition parties -- all of whom campaigned for the treaty's ratification -- appeared uniformly grim-faced Friday as counting progressed in 43 constituencies nationwide.

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The Food Crisis by Gregory McNamee

These are bad times to be an eater in America, as anyone who has suffered sticker shock at the supermarket can tell you. The cost of necessities such as bread, milk, and eggs has risen steadily in the last two years—by as much as 30 percent in some parts of the country. Vegetables, fruits, meats, cheeses—all are climbing. Even that most sacred of goods, beer, is skyrocketing in cost.

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From “Green Conservatism” to Black Gold By Cliff Kincaid

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been on Fox News and Sean Hannity’s radio show promoting oil drilling in the U.S to help solve our energy crisis. He’s got a “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” campaign drawing hundreds of thousands of names to one of his websites. But this is a new tune.

Gingrich’s book, Real Change, advocates “Green Conservatism,” including a perceived need to “reduce the amount of carbon discharged into the atmosphere” and a public works “green” boondoggle known as the Atlanta Beltline Project.

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