Feds cite Schumer in collapse of IndyMac by Peter Viles

An important angle in the IndyMac failure that may get lost in ominous headlines tonight and tomorrow: federal regulators pointedly cited U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in explaining the bank's failure. In simple language, federal regulators blamed Schumer for a run on the bank.

Here's from the press release issued by IndyMac's regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision: "The OTS has determined that the current institution, IndyMac Bank, is unlikely to be able to meet continued depositors’ demands in the normal course of business and is therefore in an unsafe and unsound condition. The immediate cause of the closing was a deposit run that began and continued after the public release of a June 26 letter to the OTS and the FDIC from Senator Charles Schumer of New York.

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we need to separate Islam from the West :: VFR

Oliver North writing at Human Events says that Union Station in Washington, D.C., unlike other major buildings in the city, has been left vulnerable to a truck bomb attack, and he calls for immediate measures to protect the building. Commenter Ralph Diamond has this reply:

Our transportation hubs are vulnerable to terror attacks?
Point defense is a placebo at best. Not the least because the points we need to defend are limited only by the feral imagination of our evil foe. We must deal with the pathogen of the terror that engulfs us. The pathogen of the terror that engulfs us is Islam.

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The Eco-Nannies’ Energy Plan: Get Off the Grid and Get Off the Planet by Nick Nichols

My wife and I spent Thursday afternoon at the doctor’s office. Our physician not only performs medical miracles, but he is also a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who makes it his business to keep abreast of the high crimes of hypocrisy committed by elected officials and the latest outrages in the court of public opinion. Office visits often turn into mutual rants about the state of politics in America. Our Doc was seeing blood this week over energy; not just gas prices, but the fact that many Americans partake of the leftist Kool Aid on energy—no questions asked.

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The Black Hole of Extreme Political Correctness by Jonah Goldberg

At a recent meeting of city officials in Dallas County, Texas, a small racial brouhaha broke out. County commissioners were hashing out difficulties with way the central collections office handles traffic tickets. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield found himself guilty of talking while white. He observed that the bureaucracy "has become a black hole" for lost paperwork.

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The Democrats' Popularity Fetish by James Kirchick

A major theme of this year's presidential campaign is that the United States has lost the respect of the world and that electing a Democrat, especially Barack Obama, is the way to fix it. "What if we could restore America's place in the world, and people's faith in our government?" asks one Obama ad.

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Fannie Mae Bailout Would Send Tax Dollars to China

The Chinese government is the top foreign holder of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds. Over $376 billion in holdings would be subject to U.S. taxpayer guarantees if the federal government bails out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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Cannon’s Firing: The Treason Lobby Attempts Damage Control By Marcus Epstein

That the defeat of pro-amnesty Congressmen Chris Cannon at the hands of political neophyte Jason Chaffetz was over immigration should be simple conventional wisdom.

Were it not for Cannon’s long and vocal support for amnesty, there is absolutely no reason why Chris Cannon should have had any problem in a Republican primary. Other than immigration, he has near impeccable conservative credentials—with a 96% lifetime American Conservative Union rating. He had oodles of money and outspent Chaffetz 7-1. He had the support of the entire Republican Establishment from George Bush (still popular in Utah) on down. And having the last name Cannon in Utah is like having the name Kennedy in Massachusetts or Byrd in Virginia.

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Kyoto's Long Goodbye :: Opinion Journal

One of the mysteries of the universe is why President Bush bothers to charge the fixed bayonets of the global warming theocracy. On the other hand, his Administration's supposed "cowboy diplomacy" is succeeding in changing the way the world addresses climate change. Which is to say, he has forced the world to pay at least some attention to reality.

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'So Many Men Are Afraid of Nancy Pelosi!' Says Rep. Bachmann by John Gizzi

Last week, I experienced one of the most frustrating assignments in my twenty-nine years as a reporter with HUMAN EVENTS. Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) needs 22 more signers on a discharge petition to get his Broadcasters Fairness Act on the House floor for a vote. I decided to call some of the “Blue Dog” (conservative) Democrats in the House to see if any would help Pence’s measure to ban revival of the Fairness Doctrine (the communications policy ended in 1987 that would require radio stations to present varied political views and discourage small broadcasters from running Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other conservative commentators.

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Let the Energy Buffalo Run Free by Ted Nugent

We've got plenty of energy in America. What we don’t have are statesmen willing to let the free market here capture it, process it and sell it.

Instead of wisely utilizing our abundant energy, America has been strangled by
various federal government bureaucracies, untold reams of burdensome government regulations and counterproductive policies, corrupt environmental special interest groups, and professional politicians who will bend whichever way the prevailing political winds blow.

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The Patron Saint of Terror By Steven Plaut

Toronto, Canada, has been the latest city to be victimized by the Rachel Corrie Lobby. This is an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish lobby that seeks to demonize Israel and blame it for the death of the clueless Rachel Corrie, who died in the Gaza Strip trying to prevent an Israeli bulldozer from uncovering a smuggling tunnel being used by terrorists to bring weapons and explosives into Gaza for the purpose of murdering Jews. Corrie placed herself in a position where the dozer driver could not see her. He struck her accidentally and she later died, probably from incompetent care, in a Palestinian Authority medical facility. Corrie had gone to Gaza as part of a delegation of the pro-terror "International Solidarity Movement," which supports "armed struggle" against Israel's existence.

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Orwell 101 By David Horowitz

A couple of years ago, a student in a Peace Studies course at Ball State, taught by jazz saxophonist George Wolfe, claimed that Professor Wolfe used his class to promote a political agenda, using the classroom to argue against all forms of violence except revolutionary violence, assigning a one-sided text which argued among other things that the word “terrorist” was another term for “guerrilla” and could be applied to the American founders, and offering extra credits and better grades to students who supported his viewpoints. The facts are reviewed here.

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Straight from the Kansas heartland, by way of Rev. Wright's church :: Powerline

Barack Obama is on the air in the Washington D.C. media market with a bio-ad that touts his love of America and describes his values as coming "straight from the Kansas heartland." The ad presumably is aimed at Northern Virginia voters. If Obama rolls up big enough margins in Northern Virginia, he could be competitive against McCain statewide. At a minimum, Obama hopes to force McCain to devote resources to what has long been a reliable Republican state in presidential elections.

The ad itself is vintage Obama, which is to say fraudulent.

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Pew Forum: Plight of Christians in Iraq continues to worsen :: Dhimmi Watch

The report's chief researcher remarks, “It is no small irony, of course, that the Shiite majority that's now a leading force in Iraq was brutalized and suppressed under Saddam, who extensively curbed the Shiites' religious freedoms." But it is certainly less ironic when one takes into account the subjugation of unbelievers under Islamic law, as enshrined in Qur'an 9:29. The U.S. government and other Western powers have remained in willful denial of the notion that Islamic law in full flower -- whether Sunni or Shi'ite -- could institutionalize oppression and inequality under the law. Stories like this are a result which many will insist they could not have seen coming.

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The Red Planet By Joseph Bottum

I’ve always thought there’s an easy way to sidetrack the redefining of human nature by biotechnology. All we have to do is revive the space program and promote the colonization of space. All we have to do, in other words, is offer a different temporal purpose and a more exciting goal.

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Immigration 'as it was' no longer needed? By Chad Groening

The head of an immigration reform organization says the U.S. must take a radically different approach in its immigration policy or face enormous problems in the near future.

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and author of the new book The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal. He contends that mass immigration is simply incompatible with a modern society -- not because today's immigrants are different from the past, but because Americans are.

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Under Suspicion at the Age of Three: The Banality of Liberal By A. Millar

Anyone who keeps abreast of the news in Britain will have become accustomed to the absurd, the insane, and the depressing: the sharp rise in violent crime; criminals routinely escaping with a fine or community service; the erosion of free speech; the destruction of our culture by an authoritarian “liberalism.” “Where will it all end,” someone asked me rhetorically a few weeks ago.

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Death To America? :: By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Among the missiles Iran said it tested this week was a new version of the Shahab-3, one with a range of 1,250 miles and armed with a one-ton conventional warhead.

Mohammed ElBaradei, the Inspector Clouseau of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), recently said Iran could have a nuclear warhead for the Shahab within six months.

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Landham: ‘Global warming is the greatest fraud ever perpetrated’ By Trey Pollard

Count Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Sonny Landham, of Ashland, among those not convinced by arguments of a global warming threat. In a position paper circulated by Landham's campaign today, he argues global warming proponents are aiming to harm Americans and touts several mathematical calculations in an effort to prove the ice-laden continent of Antarctica can never be fully melted.

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Phill Gramm On The Economy :: The Barnyard

McCain's economic advisor gave some serious straight talk on the economy to the Washington Times and while he is technically correct he pointed his finger at the wrong people as Ace points out. The MSM has been whining about the economy under Bush since he took office and has basically brainwashed the public into believing it despite seven years of continued growth. We have NOT been since the end of the Clinton era and are NOT now in a recession.

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Obama Joins Growing List of Mortgage "Sweetheart Senators"

The scandal surrounding the Dodd-Countrywide mortgage bailout bill continues to grow, as news surfaced that Barack Obama received a suspicious deal on a home mortgage in 2005 from Northern Trust in Illinois. Join the discussion on this!

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Five Reasons Why Congress' Approval Rating is Below 10%

Rasmussen Reports released a new survey today that showed Congress has reached an all time low, receiving a dismal 9% approval rating. Here are some possible reasons why.

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Teaching Arabic and Propaganda in American Universities

Learning Arabic should not include lessons in political propaganda. Yet the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and other American universities throws you into a world of longing, abandonment and regret. And that's before you even touch the political issues. Most maps in the standard material do not include Israel.

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Justice Kennedy channels Alfred Kinsey by Ellis Washington

Today’s essay continues my review series of Dr. Wiker’s book, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 Others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). Here I will combine my critique of Kinsey’s work in light of a recent Supreme Court case, “Patrick Kennedy v. Louisiana” (June 25, 2008) that outrageously overruled a Louisiana state statute giving the death penalty to men who rape children under age 12 as a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s “cruel and unusual punishment” provision of the Constitution.

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More About That 550 Tons Of Yellow Cake and Lying Democrats By John Lillpop

My column titled, “Bush Lied? What About That 550 Metric Tons of Yellow Cake, Lefty?” has been widely distributed and commented on over the past several days.Comments received have been predictably partisan: Conservatives generally agree with the points made, while liberals almost universally reject the notion that George W. Bush acted ...

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Cleveland’s New Terror Imam

When Fawaz Damra was deported in early January 2007, he left a sizable leadership void at the Islamic Center of Cleveland, the largest mosque in Ohio where he had served as imam since 1991. Damra was convicted in June 2004 for failing to disclose his ties to three terrorist organizations when he applied for U.S. citizenship and was also named an unindicted co-conspirator in Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian’s terrorism trial. The pair had been captured on video tape raising funds for the terrorist organization and recorded on FBI wiretaps discussing raising funds for the families of suicide bombers. Damra had also been caught lecturing his congregation on how Jews were “the sons of monkeys and apes.”

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Socialized Medicine Looks Inevitable by Elizabeth Scalia

The words “socialized medicine” and “universal health care” have very different effects on one’s heart rate, depending on one’s politics.

If you call yourself a “liberal” or a “Democrat” the words create an uptick in the heart rate that feels remarkably like the first giddy surge of middle school amore. Splurp, plup! goes the heart, and the world is a beautiful place. “Every person will be insured! Every medical need will be addressed! Oh, look! Daisies and puppies! Yay!”

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Beijing-Bound Bush Should Be Ashamed by Gordon G. Chang

Criticism continues to mount over President Bush’s decision, announced last Thursday, to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. John McCain and Barack Obama said they would hold off making the commitment to go, and others said outright that he should not appear at the event. “I think that a president who has said we are conducting warfare in different parts of the world in order to promote democracy and human rights loses credibility when he announces that he is going to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in a country that is the world’s worst human rights abuser,” said Representative Dana Rohrabacher, the plain-speaking California Republican. Radio talk show host Joe Madison was even more direct: “This is the equivalent of a president going to Nazi Germany in 1936. This is absolutely wrong.”

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Exposing the Madness and Hidden Agenda of Public Education By Jim Kouri

Thanks to feckless political leaders in California, the terms "mom and dad" are now completely banned in the public school system and teachers are being ordered to use euphemisms for those terms.

In addition, "husband and wife" are also banned under this new law signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger. The newly signed law also mandates public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose to do so.

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U.N. scheme to make Christians criminals By Bob Unruh

Dozens of nations dominated by Islam are pressing the United Nations to adopt an anti-"defamation" plan that would make Christians criminals under international law, according to a United States organization that has launched a campaign to defend freedom of religion worldwide.

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How the Greens Captured Energy Policy By J.R. Dunn

U.S. energy policy -- to stretch the meaning of the term - is appalling. It has been thrown together piece by piece over the decades to create a system that is dysfunctional, over complex, and internally contradictory. It is a system that victimizes American citizens, cripples the U.S. economy, makes the government a laughingstock, and empowers our enemies worldwide. While it's conceivable that somebody could actually design a policy that would do worse, they'd really have to work at it.

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How McCain Could Win By Richard Baehr

Yesterday, I laid out the very favorable environment for any Democrat running for President this year. I noted that the current Obama lead of 4-5% is very modest, given the structural advantages any Democrat would have in this year's race.

But there is another way to look at the race: namely that absent some of the unique structural or environmental advantages that exist for Democrats this year, John McCain should be running away from Barack Obama.

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Paging Dr. Smith By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

I am back from travels in old Europe and have survived in the pink. Readers of this column will recall that over the last three weeks I have been traveling through France and England. Add Scotland to the pilgrimage. In Edinburgh last weekend I participated in the unveiling of an Adam Smith statue, prominently placed near the top of this famous city's Royal Mile. Smith now overlooks much of this city in which he with other members of the Scottish Enlightenment thrived.

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Global Warming Crisis Continues, Despite Lack of Global Warming :: RWN

Rather than getting our news about the imaginary climate change crisis from the authoritarian propagandists who run the mainstream media, we would be well advised to turn to sources more grounded in reality. South Africa's Engineering News, for example:

During 2008, have we seen many stories in the newspapers about 2007 being particularly warm as a result of global warming?

During 2006, the doomsters were predicting that 2007 would be the hottest year on record, so why have we seen no reports about this?

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Holding Democrats' Feet to the Fire By Greg Lewis

Mary Anastasia O'Grady, in a July 7 Wall Street Journal Editorial Page article entitled, "FARC's 'Human Rights' Friends," makes a convincing case for what many have known for a long time: That so-called "humanitarian" groups around the world are more often than not blinds for terrorist supporters. Under the pretense of monitoring human rights violations, these groups all too often initiate actions that benefit terror groups and work to the disadvantage of, particularly, the United States.

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Holding Liberals Accountable For Energy Woes By Christopher G. Adamo

How long can Congressional Democrats hope to continue their anti-capitalist, anti-American agenda without facing accountability from the voting public? Current indicators are that they intend to hold firm on their signature issues, believing that the public will simply not recognize the correlation between their actions of recent years, and the horrendous economic fallout that ensued as a direct result. And nowhere can this relationship be seen more clearly than in the skyrocketing energy prices currently threatening to squeeze the vitality from the American middle class.

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The 'Fairness Doctrine' and Multiculturalism’s Monoculture by A.W.R. Hawkins

Liberals are chafing at the bit, waiting for regime change in Washington to give them the ability to reinstate the “fairness doctrine;” a regulation which requires talk radio stations to devote equal programming hours to both liberal and conservative formats. All it would take is a Democrat president and a couple of appointments to the Federal Communications Commission to accomplish it.

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Freedom Will Take Center Stage in Las Vegas by Paul Dykewicz

A “World Economic Summit” will be one of the featured events at this year’s FreedomFest, a conference that will host an estimated 1,400 attendees during July 10-12 in Las Vegas. The annual event will include 88 speakers from key areas of interest such as business, investing, and politics.

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An Ally Betrayed By Jacob Laksin

Last week’s daring rescue of 15 Colombian hostages held by the Marxist FARC has been universally hailed as a triumph of military strategy. But at least one group besides the gulled guerilla jailers looks diminished in its aftermath: Congressional Democrats.

While Colombia’s military will rightly reap praise for the rescue, the operation was in no small measure an American achievement. In addition to U.S. satellite intelligence that pinpointed the FARC guerillas’ jungle location, Colombian security forces have benefited from $4 billion in American aid since 2002.

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America: Who really pays the taxes? :: Powerline

In May 1994 John Hinderaker and I took a look at George (H.W.) Bush's tax return in an article for National Review. The article addressed Bush's 1991 tax return, which had been used with gross dishonesty by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Donald Barlett and James Steele in their book America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?. Unfortunately, in their 350-page book, Barlett and Steele never did get around to revealing who really pays the taxes. This despite the fact that the IRS releases the relevant data every year and no one such as Barlett and Steele devoting an entire book to the subject could possibly be unaware of the data.

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Is San Francisco At The Tipping Point? By Brenda Walker

San Francisco has recently gotten overdue censure for being the nation's biggest psych ward masquerading as a city, showing what happens when left-wing border anarchists are allowed to run a major metropolis.

The event which dismayed even the mainstream media: an expensive city program that protected illegal alien Honduran crack dealers claiming to be juveniles from federal authorities. Around the same time, a horrific triple murder caused a Supervisor to assess the city's gang violence as "out of control." The common thread of such wild lawlessness is immigration permissiveness and how San Francisco has taken it to new excess.

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15 Things You Should Know About "The Race" By Michelle Malkin

Only in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."

Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.

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Obama's biggest lie about supporting infanticide By Jill Stanek

On June 25, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked conservative commentator Bill Bennett what question he would ask Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama if he could.

Bennett said he would ask Obama:

Why are you to the left of NARAL, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein when it comes to abortion? Are you really there? ... I got to question the guy's moral judgment who doesn't see a problem with killing a baby after it's been born. … What is the answer to that question?

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U.S. Appeals Court Decision Acknowledges Humanity of Unborn Child By Catherine Wyatt

Vision America Action President Dr. Rick Scarborough today hailed a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit acknowledging the humanity of the unborn child.

The 7-4 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Rounds upholds a South Dakota law requiring abortionists to notify women seeking an abortion in writing that "abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being."

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Evolutionists Fear Academic Freedom By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

Celebrate the courage of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in the fight for freedom. He has shown tremendous courage in signing the Louisiana Science Education Bill, an important blow for academic freedom.

"Our freedom to think and consider more than one option is part of what has given America her competitive edge in the international marketplace of ideas,” said biology scientist Caroline Crocker to the Louisiana House Committee on Education. "The current denial of academic freedom rights for those who are judged politically incorrect may put this in jeopardy.”

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Grill Power By Heather MacDonald

The struggle for women’s equality comes down to this: the men’s grill in the Phoenix Country Club has television and a bar, while the women’s grill has neither of those amenities—though it soon will, following renovation. The New York Times deems the separate and unequal Phoenix grill rooms so laden with national significance as to merit front-page treatment, which it provided on Saturday.

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Complaint Filed Over Obama’s Sweetheart Mortgage Deal :: Red State

The Hill reports complaints were filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Senate Ethics Committee against the Democrats' presidential candidate over Obama's Countrywide-like sweetheart mortgage deal he received from Northern Trust:

Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group, filed the the complaints after The Washington Post reported that Obama received a discount on a mortgage for a Chicago home valued at $1.65 million:

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The Left's FISA Orwellianism :: American Power

As I noted yesterday, there's been an intense reaction by anti-administration extremists to the new FISA bill in Congress, which gained final Senate approval today.

Here's some of today's outrage:

First, there's "The FISA Capitulation Vote, Barack Obama, and These Orwellian Times," from Tennessee Guerilla Women:

Barack Obama promises that his vote to shred the Bill of Rights is not about politics but rather about his sincere belief that shredding the Bill of Rights is a wise and necessary move in order to protect we the people!

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Dead Donkey :: Uppity Women

Clyde has done it again, folks.

He has unveiled the tombstone of the party we once knew and loved, and he has designed the New Official Democratic Party Seal.

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Obama's Move To Invesco Aims to Suppress Voices of Opposition :: Politically Drunk On Power!

Last week Senator Obama announced the move of his acceptance speech to the 76,000 seat Invesco Field. The media, for their part, lifted their head out of the tank long enough to willingly begin drawing comparisons between Obama’s yet-to-be-held acceptance speech and President Kennedy’s Acceptance speech at the LA Coliseum in 1960. Unfortunately the media, in true representation of their view of journalistic integrity, failed to ask the simple question: Why?

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Czech Mate By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Russia's threat to target Prague in response to our missile defense deal with the Czech Republic shows why such a security system is needed and why Barack Obama should not be president.

Russia on Tuesday reacted to the signing of a formal agreement to locate U.S. missile defense radars in the Czech Republic with bluster reminiscent of the Cold War. "We will be forced to react not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods," its Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

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Marietta Set To Re-dedicate Confederate Monument by Calvin E. Johnson Jr.

One hundred years ago the people of Marietta, Georgia dedicated a Soldiers Monument at the local Confederate Cemetery. Marietta Confederate Cemetery is located next to the City Cemetery and Joe Brown Park and from Powder Springs Road, at 1-20 loop; you can see the soldiers memorial flag “Confederate Battle Flag” flying over the graves of honored soldiers from 14 Southern states. ...

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Urgent Plea to John McCain Concerning Illegal Aliens By John Lillpop

Over the past several months, you have campaigned vigorously for the so-called Hispanic vote. Regrettably, that means that you continue to favor a path to citizenship (amnesty) for millions of illegal aliens. In meeting with La Raza, going behind closed doors with Hispanic leaders in Chicago, and by visiting Columbia and Mexico, you have apparently joined your Democrat opponent in a bidding war to determine whom can do the most to appease those who have little or no regard for American sovereignty and the rule of law....

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Next Time You Go to Europe, Don't Embarrass Barack Obama

What is it about Barack Obama’s liberal guilt that causes him to be embarrassed that he is a native speaker of English?

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Memo from Leni Riefenstahl By Clarice Feldman

Dear Mr. Obama: I've been reading of your plans for the Invesco Field mass rally in Denver. I've had some experience documenting such things and am delighted to offer my suggestions. You are the one I've been waiting for.

1. You need a name for this rally.

Surely this will be the hallmark of your governance -- large, well-staged events in which you make very impassioned, high-minded speeches which do not bear parsing for content and which permit no impudent questioning by the media or participants. This,

I can tell you, is a successful strategy.

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Axelrod's Fall Reifenstahl Strategy By Lee Cary

This fall, watch for David Axelrod, Obama's campaign manager, to choreograph at least two post-convention mass events at least slightly reminiscent of the stagecraft of Leni Reifenstahl in 1934 Germany.

Ms. Reifenstahl first heard her idol at a 1932 rally. She was enthralled by his public speaking ability and became a devotee, dedicating her genius to making films that deified The Leader. Her 1934 work entitled "Triumph of the Will," documenting a mass rally in Munich, remains a movie classic with its pioneering dramatic camera work and superbly suggestive imagery.

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Sharks and Unions By Ralph R. Reiland

The big stories here on the beach recently were about sharks and gambling and Donald Trump and gambling.

In shark news, the prize money in this year's South Jersey Shark Tournament was $336,005, plus side bets. The heaviest shark caught was a 582-pound Thresher, winning the top prize of $113,536.

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Making the Best of a Bad Election Cycle By JB Williams

This day has been a long time coming. We’ve arrived at a time in American history when we have reached the bottom of the barrel in terms of political talent and no decent American truly qualified to lead the free world would ever even consider entering the cesspool of national politics.

Americans have never been so disgusted with their federal government - and rightfully so. No matter which party the people have put in power, once in Washington DC, all politicians find a way to sell out the American people for a career ride on America’s best get-rich-quick scheme of national politics.

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Why is the Bush Administration Siding with Campus Radicals? by Flagg K. Youngblood

Last month, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit brought by Young America’s Foundation that sought to compel the Secretary of Defense to cut off federal taxpayer funding to the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) for its ongoing violation of the Solomon amendment. UCSC -- like so many colleges and universities -- refuses to provide military recruiters safe and equal access to school sponsored job fairs.

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ABC, CBS, NBC Skip Report of Benchmarks Met in Iraq :: MRC

For most of the Iraq war, the national media has suggested to the public that there are two sides of the story on Iraq: the version painted by President Bush and his spokesmen, and the "reality" that Americans see in the media. But when things go well in Iraq, do the networks take any steps to acknowledge reality? Or do they keep a lid on the good news?

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The Stealth Jihad in Britain by Robert Spencer

Three years after the July 7, 2005, jihad terror attacks in London, the jihad in Britain is stronger than ever. It is not proceeding by means of more terrorism, but by stealth and by the preemptive surrender of all too many British officials.

The stealth jihad is a deeply-rooted, well-funded and wide-ranging effort to impose Islamic law, Sharia, upon the non-Muslim populations of Western countries. In England, and in America, it sometimes takes the form of an effort to win acceptance for Sharia law by portraying it as a matter of “civil rights” and multicultural “diversity.”

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Obama, Fonda and the "Patriotism of Dissent" By Don Feder

On June 30, Barack Obama gives a speech in Independence, Missouri, proclaiming his "deep and abiding love for this country," and daring anyone to question his patriotism.

The July 7 issue of Time Magazine has a cover story ("The New Patriotism") asserting, "no matter how they define patriotism, Americans should tremble before insisting that any fellow citizen lacks it." If the mainstream media got talking-points from the Democratic National Committee, they could hardly be more on-message.

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Sharia Showdown on Wall Street By Paul Sperry

Sheik Muhammad Taqi Usmani has been a rock star of the Islamic finance world, sitting on the sharia supervisory boards of no fewer than a dozen Islamic banks and financial institutions worldwide.

For nearly a decade, the mufti also has advised the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index, which licenses more than 25 stock funds that comply with Islamic laws forbidding certain Western-style investments. The venerable Dow Jones & Co. first retained him in 1999.

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How Jesse Helms Made a Difference By John H. Fund

If Ronald Reagan was the sunny and optimistic face of modern conservatism, the uncompromisingly defiant exemplar of it was Jesse Helms, who died July 4th at age 86.
While Reagan has undergone a revisionist makeover by many historians who now recognize his accomplishments, Helms is still the conservative liberals most love to hate. But while they still disdain his views, many liberal groups are now using their own forms of the rhetorical and campaign techniques that Helms honed to perfection.

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The Oprahization of Academia by Mary Grabar

I suppose I should not have been surprised that Oprah Winfrey gave the commencement address at Stanford University.

My college classroom, if I follow the dominant pedagogical directives, should resemble Oprah’s emotive coffee klatches. The mantra of workshops and orientations is “Be the guide on the side, not the sage on the stage.” Every time I am advised in an article about pedagogy to be such a “facilitator,” I think of the therapist who “facilitates” a couple with an ailing marriage into pouring out their deepest childhood fears in front of a national audience.

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The Giving Society By Michael Novak

Anyone traveling to Europe this summer will surely marvel at how different it is from the United States—and how Europeans have trouble understanding the difference. “Individualists,” they call Americans, but the facts show far more personal social concern in the United States.

Here’s an example: In Europe, many leave philanthropy to the state. For Americans, the personal element—in giving, volunteering, and philanthropy—form an indispensable principle of democracy.

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Islam Hates You All! by Cassandra

Listen up, you Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Bahai’s, Zoroastrians, Hindus & Sikhs: Islam hates you!
Despite the platitudes that Islam is tolerant, the reality is revealed by Islam’s brutality worldwide.

Why is this so? If we look at the “sacred” texts, we find endless emnity against Jews, Christians, Pagans and Atheists, which translate into actual violence. Jihad against non-Muslims is mandated in Islamic texts.

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4 years of Obama too much, says Bauer By Chad Groening

A pro-family activist and former presidential candidate says people of faith cannot afford to endure four years of Barack Obama in hopes that he will be defeated in 2012. Gary Bauer says it's all about the Supreme Court.

As Barack Obama continues to dominate head-to-head polls with Republican John McCain, many conservatives appear resigned to a November defeat with the hope that like Jimmy Carter, an Obama presidency will be so bad that he can be ousted after one term.

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Forced servitude in America? By Jonah Goldberg

There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to run afoul of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery.

For those who don't remember, the 13th Amendment says: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ... shall exist within the United States."

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Congratulations to Pelosi-Reid Congress on your historic accomplishment :: Pundit Review

Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history.

Meanwhile, in other news….

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Duping Us with Fear to Divide Jerusalem By Tamar Yonah

It was bound to come about. The dream of Bush, Olmert and all the others in the International Community who want to see Jerusalem divided. This could be their dream come true. Get the people to beg for dividing the city.

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The Trojan Candidate By Julian Krasta

The intellectual communities all over the world are waiting in an agony of suspense as to whether John McCain or Barack Obama will be elected the next President of the United States. The suspense is rooted in the hope for granite security and the prospect for lasting peace, which could altogether vanish if, in January 2009, the wrong man raises his hand and takes the oath.

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ACORN Up To Its Usual Voter Fraud Shenanigans Again :: The Barnyard

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, a lefty organizing group that helped Obama get his start is up to its old voter fraud tricks again in Nevada and Pennsylvania. They are active in the get out the vote efforts for Democrats and have been busted several times for fraud and are under suspicion again. It is ironic that a group that has 'Reform Now' as part of its name would engage in illegal voter registration fraud on an ongoing basis.

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Anger and Demands From the Right By Thomas Segel

To say that conservatives are displeased with the GOP candidate for president would be a gigantic understatement. Those considered to be the demented Republican leadership who believe the right wing of the party will soon forget are wrong again. Conservatives are well aware that the same people who have managed to lose everything that was accomplished during the Reagan years are once again ignoring conservatives.

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Exposing the Madness and Hidden Agenda of Public Education By Jim Kouri

Thanks to feckless political leaders in California, the terms "mom and dad" are now completely banned in the public school system and teachers are being ordered to use euphemisms for those terms.

In addition, "husband and wife" are also banned under this new law signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger. The newly signed law also mandates public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose to do so.

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The Nazi War on Christianity in Public Schools By Bruce Walker

The atheist Left in America considers itself the polar opposite of the Nazis of Hitler’s Germany, but the Nazis were viciously radical Leftists who hated any belief system that preached the existence of a loving Creator who enjoined his creatures to love one another. It should not surprise us, then, to learn that the Nazis seventy-five years ago waged an unrelenting and ruthless war against Christianity in schools. I deal with the whole subject at length in my new book, The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity. What follows is a sample of the historical record.

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Is Saddam’s “yellowcake” safe in Montreal? By Judi McLeod

The US military’s painstaking trail of getting 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” out of Iraq across two oceans to its final Canadian destination may not have considered that Montreal is a leading centre for Islamist and Jihadists groups in North America.

The booty, described as “the last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program” arrived in Montreal on the July 4th weekend, where it will remain until Fall.

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Charles Johnson, drawing on left-wing websites, again smears Vlaams Belang by Lawrence Auster

Having seen Charles Johnson in action so many times against supposed "Euro-fascists," particularly the Flemish anti-Islamization party Vlaams Belang, we know his method very well: If you actually want to do something to protect the West from the spreading power of Islam, and not just absurdly complain about "Islamism," AND if you supposedly have some "link" to extremists, fascists, or Nazis, no matter how tenuous or non-existent the link may be, then you yourself are an extremist, fascist, or Nazi and are to be expelled from decent society; and, moreover, anyone who defends you from that false charge (such as journalists Paul Belien, Richard Miniter, and Diana West) is to be labeled a "fascist sympathizer" ...

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Jesse Helms - American Hero by Marc Rotterman

One of my fondest memories of Senator Helms was election night 1990 -- when Senator Helms just defeated former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gant. Let me set the scene…

All the major networks had just "called the race" in Helm's favor. My wife and I, along with other Helms' loyalists and aides, were in a hotel suite in downtown Raleigh watching the returns with the Senator and his wife "Ms. Dot."

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Counties to Supreme Court on 'gay' marriage: Drop dead By Bob Unruh

At least two counties in California have begun reviewing a plan to uphold the state's laws regarding marriage as being between one man and one woman and disregard a state Supreme Court opinion that has yet to be implemented by the Legislature.

In the next step in the state's war over marriage – defined by voters as involving only one man and one woman and by the Supreme Court as two people of either gender – traditional marriage supporters will be attending the Kern County board of supervisors meeting tomorrow when the issue will be discussed.

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Surrender! By Cal Thomas

So this is how it ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.

The most senior judge in England has declared that Islamic legal principles in Sharia law may be used within Muslim communities in Britain to settle marital arguments and regulate finance. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said, "Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law."

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Obama's 'Nuremberg' Complex Rick Moran

Yes, I realize using a Nazi analogy is probably crossing a line somewhere but really, how else can you describe a candidate for President who eschews the forms and traditions of our democracy to substitute the imagry of totalitarian rallies of the past?

On Thursday, August 28, Barack Obama plans to accept his nomination at Invesco Field in Denver, rather than at the Pepsi Center.

It's going to cost the convention committee a lot of money to make the move, but Invesco Field can handle more than 75,000 spectators and will make a much better picture.

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Stealing Freedom: Democrat 'Media Reform' By Lance Fairchok

The usual suspects will be doing the dirty work. Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) or Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) will likely resurrect the failed Media Act (Meaningful Expression of Democracy in America Act) intended to make political commentary unflattering to Democrats more difficult to deliver and easier to suppress through congressional oversight and, of course, litigation. They have been trying for years.

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What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party By Andrew Walden

American voters must make up their minds about what Barack Obama really believes in, if anything. His recent rhetorical concessions to the center further muddy the waters. So we must look to his past teachers and associates for help in understanding the inner Obama.

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Continued Unfitness for Command By Mark Hyman

Perhaps John Kerry and the New York Times should have adhered to the old adage to let sleeping dogs lie. It appears the Times' Kate Zernike used Kerry campaign talking points rather than the facts in her breathless account of how the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "smeared" John Kerry over his Vietnam record during the 2004 presidential campaign. In her 1,283-word "Veterans Fight to Reclaim the Name 'Swift Boat,'" Zernike came across as a Kerry campaign spokesman rather than as an independent journalist.

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The Obamacons By Thomas Sowell

A number of friends of mine have commented on an odd phenomenon that they have observed — conservative Republicans they know who are saying that they are going to vote for Barack Obama. It seemed at first to be an isolated fluke, perhaps signifying only that my friends know some strange conservatives. But apparently columnist Robert Novak has encountered the same phenomenon and has coined the term “Obamacons” to describe the conservatives for Senator Obama.

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Dupes for Obama By Rich Lowry

A signature moment of Barack Obama’s primary campaign came last November in Des Moines, Iowa. He gave a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner that electrified the crowd and gave his campaign a kick that helped win the Iowa caucuses — a victory without which he wouldn’t be the Democratic nominee.

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Handing Victories to Hamas By P. David Hornik

On Thursday, after a Qassam rocket was fired at Israel from Gaza, Israel announced it was closing the crossings into Gaza. The Qassam was the sixth (along with four mortars) fired since the “ceasefire” began on June 19. Israel’s announcement of a closing of the crossings was its seventh since that time.

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FARC You, Hostages Say :: Powerline

The three American hostages who were freed in Colombia last week had a party/press conference today in Texas. They were happy to be home, but also had harsh words for their captors, who held them prisoner in the jungle for more than five years. Marc Gonsalves spoke:

"I want to send a message to the FARC," Gonsalves said. "FARC, you guys are terrorists. You deny that you are, you say with words that you're not terrorists, but your words don't have any value.

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OFFICIAL PANDERING TO THE ISLAMIC HARDLINERS IS POLITICAL COWARDICE By Leo McKinstry

QUESTION: “What is the definition of an Islamophobe?”

Answer: “Someone who objects to being blown up on the way to work.” The politically correct brigade might not like it but there is a large element of truth in that “joke”.

In recent years we have had to endure a constant threat to our society from Muslim extremists who kill, maim and brutalise in the name of Allah. Yet, in the inverted moral universe created by our Left-wing political establishment, any criticism of Islam provokes indignant cries of “racism” or “Islamophobia”.

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Police Say Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor

A Georgia man appeared in court Monday on charges he killed his own daughter for disgracing his family.

Chaudhry Rashid, wearing a red jumpsuit and shackles around his ankles, went before Chief Judge Daphne Walker at the Clayton County Magistrate Court where he was arraigned on a murder charge.

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Obama denies protection for infants of botched abortions By Jim Brown

A pro-life activist in Illinois says Barack Obama has repeatedly mischaracterized his opposition to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act while he was a state senator.

The Federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act was signed into law in 2002 after receiving unanimous support from the U.S. Senate. The measure that forces hospitals to give medical care to abortion survivors -- if warranted -- even received the backing of liberal senators Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts ), Barbara Boxer (D-California), and Hillary Clinton (D-New York).

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America's special grace By Spengler

To ascribe a special grace to America is outrageous, as outrageous as the idea of special grace itself. Why shouldn't everyone be saved? Why aren't all individuals, nations, peoples and cultures equally deserving? History seems awfully unfair: half or more of the world's 7,000 or so languages will be lost by 2100, linguists warn, and at present fertility rates Italian, German, Ukrainian, Hungarian and a dozen other major languages will die a century or so later. The agony of dying nations rises in reproach to America's unheeding prosperity.

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Europe Still Doesn't Get It By Ilan Weinglass

In a development worthy of a longer post, the U.K. Home Office has classified the military wing of Hizballah as a terrorist organization. This is certainly a positive move, but a deeply flawed one reflecting a conceptual blind spot on the U.K.'s part.

Most significantly, "Home Office minister Tony McNulty said the ban does not apply to the political, social or humanitarian activities of Hezbollah." The U.K. still clings to the notion that there is a meaningful difference between the political/humanitarian branch of a terrorist group and its actual terrorist activities. This dichotomy has been shown to be dangerously false and misguided, by Matthew Levitt among others. A detailed examination of the facts, in the case of Hamas, can be found in Levitt's book Hamas, with relevant excerpts here. The TF Blog's Avi Jorisch has explored the role of Hizballah's TV station, Al Manar, in supporting terrorism in his book Beacon of Hatred. If a television station does not count as "political, social or humanitarian" and therefore exempt from this ban, I don't know what does.

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America's Decline in Common Sense by Armstrong Williams

The great patriot Thomas Paine once wrote, “a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” Though Paine was railing against American colonists’ complacency in the face of British tyranny, the same can be said today of many American citizens whose lives are tyrannized by the labyrinthine bureaucracy our society has become. Like the colonists, many Americans have succumb to habits of thought that, left, unexamined, are threatening to steal their liberty. We desperately need a return to common sense in this country if we want to turn things around.

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The Answer: Because they know it's *not real* :: Red State

The Question:
Why is it that the anti-theist Left wing goes nuts shrieking "Church and State" and spouting accusations of "[breaking] with longstanding precedent" by "unveil[ing] a presidential campaign ad infused with deeply religious tones" when they look hard enough, with enough prejudice, at the image below to find a phantom religious symbol in it...


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Birth certificate "painter" mocks Obama claim

In a rambling interview with the Daily Kos -- the blog site that published the supposedly authentic Barack Hussein Obama birth certificate and his own birth certificate manipulations in the same June 12 post, Jay McKinnon, aka opendna, says he manipulated the Obama birth certificate to create a blank Hawaii birth certificate ...

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Teheran tyrant taunts allies: Israel, American "will not dare" attack :: Israel Insider

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted on Monday that Iran would never give up its nuclear rights and dismissed calls for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment, the official IRNA news agency reported.

He scorned the carrot and stick approach of the Western allies: "On one side they (world powers) ask to negotiate and on the other they threaten and say that we must give in to their illegal demands and renounce our rights," he added.

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America’s Universities: Negotiating with Tree-Climbing Criminals Paul

It has happened yet again. Environmentalist extremists have literally taken to the trees in order to “protect” a small greenish area from planned construction work. The culprits this time are protestors at Berkeley, who have spent an incredible 18 months at the top of trees in order to prevent the university from building on the land.

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Democrat Elitists Stand in the Way of Lower Gas Prices By Scott Miller

So I’m Just getting back from a four day holiday, in which I paid at least twice as much for gas to drive the 500 miles as I would have if we had a Congress that cared about the working class… but they couldn’t care less. Americans deserve a Congress that would at least stop being the major cause of the higher gas and oil prices… I’m referring to the Democrats complete legislative blockade of domestic drilling for more oil and natural gas.

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Teflon brothers: Barack and Kwame

Today, I want to return to the issue of Detroit and write about what I consider to be a vulgar double standard local political leadership and activist demagogues use either to prevent a substantive, comprehensive critique of the town or avert real solutions to seemingly intractable big-city problems. ...

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Walking the Road that Buckley Built

Conservative writer Michael Johns pays tribute to William F. Buckley, Jr., who died on February 27, 2008, at age 82. Johns contends that Buckley was the most consequential intellectual and political conservative of the 20th Century, making conservatism the most consequential political ideology of our times.

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Dumbing Down America’s Colleges by Alan Caruba

The process that began in the 1960s to transform America’s elementary, middle and high schools into places where students could literally graduate without being able to read their diploma, where the teaching of mathematics was reduced to mush without rules, and where it was more important for students to feel really good about themselves than having to measure up scholastically with millions in foreign nations, has now reached the campuses of America’s colleges and universities.

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The Socialist Political State in Action by Thomas E. Brewton

Here's a shocker: the rebuilding of the World Trade Center is bogged down in delays and cost overruns.

New York's slow and extraordinarily costly shamble in rebuilding the World Trade Center after 9/11, now almost seven years ago, is a typical example of socialist state planning. This fiasco is a model for what so-called progressive liberals, led by Senator Barack Obama, intend for socialized strangulation of the entire economy.

In its June 30, 2008, edition, the Wall Street Journal reports:

The rebuilding of the World Trade Center will be pushed back into the next decade and will cost up to $3 billion more than planned. The Port Authority is set to release a report detailing significant delays and cost overruns on construction.

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The Struggle for Civilization By Jack Lott

The "War on Terror" is over, even as combat with terrorists continues. Like the "Wars" on Drugs and Poverty, it lingers on the back pages and the TV equivalent, the highbrow channels like Discovery and History. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense quietly gears up for the "long war" that is essential to countering the enemy. The gulf between public perception and the grim reality couldn't be greater or more important to bridge. Public boredom with the combat should not displace the importance of understanding and dealing with conflict within the Muslim world.

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Disconfirmations Disconfirmed: Saddam Had Nuke Program By Randall Hoven

The media have been telling us for years that Saddam had no WMD, so "Bush's War": was based on a "lie." And those who believed Saddam did have WMD or WMD programs were delusional or worse.

But today, on July 6, 2008, the Associated Press reports that

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Obama: Radical in Liberal Clothing By Peter Kirsanow

The reigning media narrative is that because this is a heavily Democratic year, Senator McCain is a clear underdog to Senator Obama. The narrative has almost nothing to do with the appeal of the candidates' respective policies -- and it's clear the Obama campaign is concerned voters will begin to notice.

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Marxists / Socialists / Communists for Obama? By JB Williams

Obama’s useful idiot minions [1] on college campuses across America may have no clue what types of change Obama has in store for America. But every Marxist, Socialist and Communist around the globe, knows all too well…

“We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!”

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Obama & the Rescue of the FARC Captives Rene Guerra

The leftist weasel he is, Barack Hussein Obama, quickly, feignedly congratulated Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for the daring rescue a few days ago of 15 hostages that the Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) had kept captive in the jungles of Colombia, some of them for up to six years.

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Jesse Helms: American Hero by Marc Rotterman

One of my fondest memories of Senator Helms was election night 1990 -- when Senator Helms just defeated former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gant.

Let me set the scene…

All the major networks had just “called the race” in Helms’s favor. My wife and I, along with other Helms loyalists and aides, were in a hotel suite in downtown Raleigh watching the returns with the Senator and his wife “Ms. Dot.”

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Drill! By Michael Reagan

Americans are worried. Americans are angry. Soaring gas prices are seriously crippling our economy and hitting us where it hurts the most -- in our pockets.

We have a right to be angry, but anger is no longer enough. It’s time for rage -- good, old American rage aimed at those elitist Democrats who prefer to see the folks beggared by soaring fuel prices rather than take the action this very real economic crisis demands.

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Communist Party Backs Obama By Cliff Kincaid

Barack Obama’s patriotic tour has run into a snag. More evidence of communist backing for the candidate has surfaced. The latest to emerge publicly in Obama’s camp is Joelle Fishman, the chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Political Action Commission. In a column titled, “Big political shifts are underway,” Fishman says that Obama could lead “a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right” this November and that he is “ready to listen” to the “left and progressive voters” backing him. Fishman makes it clear that the CPUSA is part of this coalition.

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Modern Denial of Human Nature By Rich Carroll

Today's column is aimed at liberal Democrats who enjoy the “good life” and love to sneer at other people as inferior. You know the type whose banter is riddled with characteristic pugnacity and bad taste. The people who walk around cocktail parties sipping champagne, nibbling pate, and rejoicing in their “do-gooder” self-righteousness for discussing the plight of those “poor Mexican Immigrants."

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Learning About the Real Barack Hussein Obama By Vincent Gioia

Not long ago liberal columnist Maureen Dowd learned not to criticize Barack Hussein Obama’s ears. This was just an early warning to news reporters, the entire news media, and ultimately to politically correct opponents of Obama’s election as president, not to say anything negative about BHO.

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Thoughts on July 4, America, and multiculturalism By Roger Kimball

On a trip to Maryland a few years ago, I stopped at Baltimore Harbor with my wife and five-year-old son to see Fort McHenry. This was the site, in September 1814, of the Battle of Baltimore, a decisive episode in the War of 1812. The late April afternoon was glorious: the sky an infinite azure punctuated by a flotilla of stately white clouds.

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Iran and the Coming War by Omar Fadhil

The possibility of military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities is increasing every day: some even expect it could happen as early as the end of this year.

The strange thing is that Iran has been directing most of its recent rhetoric not against the most likely attacker — Israel — but against the United States.

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Iran Wielding ‘Soft Power’ Against America by Lee Smith

“If each Muslim throws a bucket of water on Israel,” said the late Ayatollah Khomeini, “Israel will be erased.” This immortal sentiment, and surreal image, captures the essence of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s public diplomacy campaign these last four years, one of the most effective uses of “soft power” in recent memory.

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Protecting Freedom from Being Devoured by Islam by Larry Houle

Human beings are born free. Freedom of the individual therefore is a fundamental human right. An individual must be allowed to enjoy his life, his freedom as long as it does not temper with another individual's freedom and rights.

Freedom includes the freedom of thoughts and their expression in speeches or any other form. One has the right to reason, to explore and to seek the truth of any question—total freedom of thought. One must be able to think and reason without fear of persecution or prosecution. No one has the right to threaten, coerce, intimidate anyone with torture, prison or death for free expression of views that they do not agree with—no matter how abhorrent those views are to them.

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CIA Given Green Light To Bomb Osama bin Laden :: NTA

The CIA has been given the green light by Pakistan to attack Osama bin Laden with unmanned aircraft armed with ground attack missiles if they can find the terror godfather, it has been revealed.

The US intelligence agency does not have to ask permission from the Pakistani government to attack his hideout, presumed to be in the lawless tribal areas on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

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HOMOSEXUAL AUSSIES BUYING BABIES VIA RENT-A-WOMB WOMEN IN THE U.S. :: RCR

Throughout the history of the entire world man has never witnessed the level of depravity and institutionalized perversion of the dignity of human life that we are now experiencing. There are consequences --both temporal, in the breakdown of the traditional family, and eternal --souls are being lost like flakes of snow.

From dailytelegraph: "More than 100 gay Australian couples have paid $80,000 to create a baby using rent-a-womb women in the US, a fertility clinic says.

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'Gay' McDonald's prompts boycott :: WorldNetDaily

The American Family Association, whose earlier boycott of Ford Motor Co. over its promotion of homosexuality was dropped after company sales fell 8 percent per month for two years, now is asking consumers to stop buying Big Macs and Happy Meals at McDonald's.

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PERFECTION DEMANDED ONLY FROM LITTLE ISRAEL by Chris Powell

Much of the world has disparaged Israel's celebration of its 60th year of independence (renewed independence, actually) by claiming, as one Connecticut newspaper columnist did the other day, that the country "was built over the debris of 400 destroyed villages and the sorrows of 750,000 people, both Christians and Muslims, expelled from their land."

Yes, Israel's re-establishment in 1948 had its dislocations, Jews going here, Muslims going there, and Christians caught in the middle. But not all these dislocations were expulsions. And if the whole Middle East is counted, there have been far more expulsions of Jews than of anyone else.

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Just like anyone else :: Jihad Watch

And of course, Muslims are just like us -- human nature is everywhere the same. But Starbucks coffee, cellphones, and the merry shrieks of children aren't quite enough to dispel the suspicions aroused by the fact that the Islamic Circle of North America was named in an internal Muslim Brotherhood memorandum in 1991 as one of the organizations involved in a "kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions."

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Psychodialysis of Islam and Muslims by The Hypothelian

‘Would we have cared or objected to what Muslims believed in or not had they not stirred in us emotions like fear, disapproval as well as a number of other negative emotions? It is a natural human attribute that when an agent constitutes threat, one tries to examine it closely to learn about it so as to avoid or neutralise it. Fear is an exacting emotion and in the long run it ruins lives. When the agent is another human we can have additional levers in our hands, namely, trying to understand and reason to reach settlement. The Islamic point of view is not subject for negotiating. The Quran is the words of Allah and they have no choice but to follow its dictates.

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Jihad by the Numbers By Edward Cline

In his masterful second volume study of Hitler, Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis, Ian Kershaw discusses a phenomenon called "working towards the Führer," in which every Nazi Party organization, member and office automatically, with little or no prompting or prodding by Hitler or his inner circle, worked to realize the ends and policies articulated by Hitler before and after he rose to power in 1933.

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The Struggle against Jihad and Supremacist Ideologies By Jeffrey Imm

In fighting Islamic supremacism, instead of an approach only based on tactical measures and efforts at clever twists of terminology, what if America had a true strategy that was instead based on the defense of our values on human equality and liberty?

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Which Has More Islamist Terrorism, Europe or America? By Daniel Pipes

"Since 9/11, there have been over 2,300 arrests connected to Islamist terrorism in Europe in contrast to about 60 in the United States." Thus writes Marc Sageman in his influential new book, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press).

This one statistical comparison inspires Sageman, in a chapter he calls "The Atlantic Divide," to draw sweeping conclusions about the superior circumstances of American Muslims. "The rate of arrests on terrorism charges per capita among Muslims is six times higher in Europe than in the United States."

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Why Isn't She Locked Up Somewhere? by Jay Tea

Last Friday, as President Bush was giving a speech to a bunch of brand-new American citizens (wow... imagine becoming an American on Independence Day, with the President himself attending and congratulating you. Makes me almost wish I hadn't been born an American so I could do something like that.), the narcissistic assholes at Code Pink showed up and raised their usual ruckus. And, as usual, the cops hauled 'em off.

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Leaked Report: Biofuels Are the Cause of Global Food Crisis By The Guardian UK

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% — far more than previously estimated — according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.

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The Forgotten Ideology by Tom Piatak

“Socialism will bring in an efflorescence of morality, civilization, and science such as has never been seen in the history of the world.” —Ferdinand Lassalle

Modern American conservatism has been marked by a fascination with ideology. Despite arguments that conservatism is not an ideology or is opposed to all ideology, American conservatives have regularly attempted to systematize their own beliefs. Moreover, they have often attempted to define themselves by reference to ideologies they oppose.

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Obama, the Racist :: Atlas Shrugs Blog

The Orwellian doublespeak that Obama spews in portraying himself as "a uniter" and someone who "will bring this country together" is the polar opposite of everything this man has said and done and would be laughable if it were not so deadly serious. More digging from Atlas reader Laura: ...

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