Thursday, July 31, 2008

Governor Deval Patrick: "Together We Can" Have Racial Preferences By Matthew Richer

Those who wonder what to expect from a Barack Obama White House should start paying attention to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, currently the nation’s only elected black governor.

Governor Patrick and Senator Barack Obama have long been close friends and political allies. In fact, Obama was recently accused of plagiarism for excessively "borrowing" from a speech Deval Patrick delivered during the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign. Obama even modeled his campaign motto "Yes, We Can" on the Patrick campaign’s motto "Together We Can" although Patrick did not have a Spanish language version, as Obama does ("Si, se puede").

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

When did Obama stop taking drugs? :: WorldNetDaily

obama-0161 Barack Obama admitted using drugs in his autobiography but never revealed if or when he stopped, points out an explosive new book on the Democratic presidential candidate written by the co-author of 2004's "Unfit for Command," the Swift Boat exposé that impacted John Kerry's campaign for the White House.

"I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years," Obama wrote in "Dreams From My Father," in a section of the book about his college days. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

One world? Obama is on another planet By JOHN BOLTON

Obuma_Campaign_Button Sen. Barack Obama said in an interview the day after his Berlin speech that it "allowed me to send a message to the American people that the judgments I have made and the judgments I will make are ones that are going to result in them being safer."

If that is what the senator thought he was doing, he still has a lot to learn about both foreign policy and the views of the American people. Although well received in the Tiergarten, the Obama speech actually reveals an even more naive view of the world than we had previously been treated to in the United States. In addition, although most of the speech was substantively as content-free as his other campaign pronouncements, when substance did slip in, it was truly radical, from an American perspective.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Environmentalists' Hold on Congress by Walter E. Williams

Let's face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it's a different story with groups such as Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy. When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they are well organized, loaded with cash and well positioned to be a disobedient congressman's worse nightmare. Their political and economic success has been a near disaster for our nation.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Can Britain Survive Multiculturalism? :: EuropeNews

When former drug dealer and now born again Christian Paul Ray wrote in his blog that the Muslim drug gangs in his hometown of Luton were "savages," he was arrested on suspicion of a hate crime.

"It's ok for the Muslims to do what they're doing, and no one arrests them, but then if we start saying and disagreeing with what's actually happening, then we're breaching community cohesion and we get arrested for it," he explained.

Ray fled Britain after this interview, because of threats against his life from Muslim gangs.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Interview with an Ex-Vampire Novelist By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Anne Rice, famous for such erotic novels as The Vampire Chronicles, has in recent years returned to the Catholicism of her childhood and begun work on a series of novels about the life of Jesus Christ. The first volume, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, received a less-than-positive review in the pages of First Things. But the second volume, Christ the Lord: On the Road to Cana, was better received. Here is an interview she gave to Fr. Dwight Longenecker exclusively for First Things.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Hopium helps you forget several unpleasant facts By John Kass

thhope It's true. Yes, I'm a journalist. And that led to the harder stuff. Then one day, Barack phoned the Tribune and called me "bro."
Now, I'm addicted to hopium.
So if you're addicted to hopium, or you're worried that your loved ones might fall prey to its power, then please click on this link for the hard left's Moveon.org commercial for Barack Obama

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Obamacrats Have A Stealth Bomber :: A McCain Democrat’s Journal

“Even if they wanted to give away American sovereignity, Obama and the Congressional Democrats couldn’t do that without a Constitutional amendment, or at least a vote of the people . . . could they?” The answer to that question may shock you, so brace up: yes, they can.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama, I Am The One The World Is Waiting For :: The Barnyard

It seems Barack has spent way to much time in front of swooning crowds and talking to sycophantic press corps so much so that he has come to believe his own hype. Even some in the leftwing media are starting to pick up on the overly egotistical arrogance of the guy, WaPo's The Trail blog reported these amazing words to the Democrat caucus.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour By Dana Milbank

Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.

Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

A Patriotic Immigration Reformer’s Thoughts On The New Case Against Immigration By Paul Nachman

A few months ago, I had a discussion with a candidate for Attorney General in Montana about the foreseeable problem of illegal immigration into our largely-pristine state. He invited me to "send all the information you have on the issue."

The temptation was to respond: "How many semitrailers—or, perhaps, terabytes of disk space—do you have?"

Instead, I tried to impress upon him that mass immigration, both legal and illegal, is much bigger than mere "issue"—because it poses an existential threat to America's societal security, the country's "ability to preserve its essential nature and identity under changing and adverse conditions," in the words of the late John Attarian. Regular readers of VDARE.COM know this. And the site's archives document it in painstaking detail.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama’s Audacity of Fake Centrism by Bernard Chapin

Centrist Barack Obama? Well, I suppose that phrase of ideological incoherence is no more fabulous than anything else we hear pertaining to the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. His current masquerade as a moderate might well be the only “audacity” his campaign contains. Few candidates are so burdened by a history showcasing radical affiliations and associations. Indeed, the would-be savior’s established voting record reveals him to be anything but a conservative, and one media outlet even rated him the most leftward-leaning member of the senate.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Defending Taiwan Is Defending America by Gordon G. Chang

Last week, Paul Wolfowitz, now chairman of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, predicted the Bush administration would follow through on its promises to sell Taiwan weapons included in a $11 billion arms package. The package had been approved in April 2001 but has languished for various reasons. Initially, political infighting in Taipei prevented the government from making necessary budget appropriations for the purchases. Recently, however, Washington has shown reluctance to go forward. “President Bush treats commitments as commitments,” Wolfowitz, the controversial former deputy defense secretary, said. “I would just predict these will be approved.”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Britney Hussein Obama Spears By Karen Hathaway Pittman

Oops, he did it again: fresh out of a tone-deaf rehab-session with the Democrat Congressional caucus, Britney Hussein Obama Spears is busy gobbling up all the airtime on my TV screen, filling it up with his obscenely famous face … and his fluffy meringue fillers. That’s right: this seasoned juvenile performance artist just hit-me-baby-one-more-time – with yet another throaty rendition of his number-one platinum remake: “Yes, We Can!” Followed (and preceded) by the obligatory uh. I mean, how many times can we stand to hear this same syllable being played over and over? In between raptly choreographed, rehearsed refrains, this flaccid-tongued phenom is stuttering his way, it would seem, into the White House.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Obama Madness Is Over By Rev. Lainie Dowell

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is not going to be the President of the United States. He is never going to be qualified. He has not only said in his own mind that he will be the President but much worse. He believes that he is already the President. However, many citizens of the United States recognize him for the destroyer he really is. Instead of being a healer, he brings with him all the hurt, pain, and harm not only for Americans but for the world.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

A Country At Mercy Of Environmentalists By WALTER E. WILLIAMS

Let's face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it's a different story with groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy.

When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they are well organized, loaded with cash and well positioned to be a disobedient congressman's worse nightmare. Their political and economic success has been a near disaster for our nation.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama's Global Tax By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

We are citizens of the world, Sen. Obama told thousands of nonvoting Germans during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. And if the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) he has sponsored becomes law, which is almost certain if he wins in November, we're also going to be taxpayers of the world.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

If You're Going to San Fran, Be Sure to Bring Your Ak-47's By Caspar Weinberger Jr.

In the 1960’s, Eric Burton and the Animals sang “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure and wear some flowers in your hair.” Today, the lyrics should read: “If you’re an illegal immigrant who wants to commit triple murder in broad daylight and not be deported, probably not even face the death penalty, be sure and live in San Francisco.”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Rush: Force of Nature By Ted Nugent

Four of nature’s most powerful forces to reckon with are a sow grizzly with cubs, a coiled rattlesnake at close range, Ted Nugent driving a rental car, and Rush Limbaugh seated in his command module ensconced behind the golden “EIB” microphone.

Surely one of life’s greatest rewards is driving idiots and intellectual cotton balls of all political stripes berserk by simply being who you are. As C.S. Lewis once wrote, “Enemy occupied territory -- that is what the world is.” In other words, we live in a target rich environment. No human alive has caused more angst and frustration to liberals, socialists and mangy hippies than radio trailblazer Rush Limbaugh. I'm glad he doesn't play guitar.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Who Killed the Constitution? By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D., the New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution and Virginia’s American Revolution. An associate professor of American history at Western Connecticut State University, Dr. Gutzman has written for numerous popular and scholarly publications and appeared as an expert in the documentary film “John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman, Jurist.” He is the co-author (with Thomas Woods) of the new book Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The War on Words By Deborah Weiss

During the past year, several federal agencies – including the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the National Counter Terrorism Center – have declared a war on words. Specifically, these agencies have issued memoranda discouraging their employees from naming the enemy in the War on Terror. The prohibition included words such as “jihad,” “Islamist,” “Islamofascism,” and “caliphate,” among others.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Have We Gone Insane? By Michael M. Bates

Last week’s poll sponsored by Time magazine and the Rockefeller Foundation found 85 percent of the respondents believe the country is on the wrong track.  Time’s Web site carried a story on the study that noted:

“Most intriguing, a majority of those surveyed believe in the power of Big Government to solve the biggest problems of our time. They support major government investments that create jobs — 82% favor public works projects — and they remain sympathetic to the economy’s victims: 70% say more government programs should help those now struggling.”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Debut of the pint-sized Climate Nazis By Judi McLeod

image It’s mid-summer and global warming alarmists are going right into the tree house to recruit your children to their never-ending, the-sky-is-falling cause.

This time it’s the well-paid bureaucrats at one of Britain’s biggest utility corporations.

Launched in the weekend papers, full colour ads by “Britain’s brightest energy company,” npower, urges vacationing school children to sign up as “climate cops”.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Frank Marshall Davis Network in Hawaii By Andrew Walden

In a July 14 news release the “Honolulu Community Media Council” (HCMC) denounces Accuracy In Media and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for “shoddy journalism and smear tactics.” HCMC, headed by Chris Conybeare of the University of Hawaii, “finds” that “there is no substance to the claim” that “Frank Marshall Davis was a lifelong Communist and a mentor to (presidential candidate Barack) Obama.” 

Conybeare may be hoping that nobody else knowing the post-WW II history of Hawaii is willing to talk. Davis, it turns out, was just one member of a network whose works continue to exert influence to this day. 

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama tied to Iraqi government fraud? By Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama's office engaged in six months of negotiations with a company controlled by convicted criminal Tony Rezko to lobby the U.S. government to push through a nixed $50 million contact to train Iraqi security personnel at a site in Chicago.

The contract was awarded to Rezko's company while Aiham Alsammarae, a long-time, close Rezko friend and a contributor to Obama's campaign, served as Iraq's U.S.-appointed electricity minister.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama's Pilfered Prayer Note By HILLEL HALKIN

The flap over the publication by the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv of a photograph of a pilfered prayer note inserted, as per Jewish custom, by Senator Obama in a niche of Jerusalem's Western Wall on his visit to Israel last week has its comical aspects. Not least of these was the claim made in its defense by Ma'ariv, a secular newspaper accused by the Western Wall's rabbi of violating the privacy of Mr. Obama's relationship with God, that it did not really matter because Mr. Obama isn't Jewish. It would be fascinating to hear the rabbi and Ma'ariv's lawyers argue this question in court.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Democrats' Energy Charade By MICHELE BACHMANN

Earlier this month the House of Representatives voted on an energy bill called the Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands (Drill) Act. The good news, for those of us who actually want to do something to lower gas prices, is that it failed.

The bad news is that Democrats will try again before the November elections. We can expect more legislation that claims to increase production, but in reality offers a framework of heavy regulation, litigation and union rules that could prevent new energy supplies from getting to market. And we can expect legislation that would likely hamper current oil and gas exploration.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S. By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national security panel has warned.

In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee and in remarks to a private conference on missile defense over the weekend hosted by the Claremont Institute, Dr. William Graham warned that the U.S. intelligence community “doesn’t have a story” to explain the recent Iranian tests.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Why do nations exist? By Spengler

Why do nations and peoples exist, and why do particular nations exist in particular forms? Under the principle of national self-determination, more sovereign nations raised their flags during the past century than at any time in history. Many of them will not survive the next century. The old national states defined by language and ethnicity are in steep decline. Each of the world's three most populous countries, China, India, and the United States, defies conventional definition in its own way.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Bin Ladens of the Balkans, Part II By Michael J. Totten

I met Shpetim Mahmudi at a covered outdoor cafe on a cold day in late spring in the ethnic Albanian region of Macedonia. Black clouds hung low over the city of Tetovo. Fat rain drops pelted the sidewalk and the awning over my head as I shivered in my light black leather jacket. “Let's go inside,” he said, “where it's warmer and drier.”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama's Ongoing Foreign Policy Implosion By David Limbaugh

There is one unexpected gift that John McCain's presumptive nomination brings to the GOP. McCain was certainly not my choice, but if any other Republican candidate were running, it's unlikely we'd be seeing as much emphasis in the campaign on foreign policy, and Obama's unfolding incompetence in this area might have escaped essential scrutiny.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Physicians say personhood begins at fertilization :: OneNewsNow

Colorado for Equal Rights has announced the support of over 70 physicians and pharmacists, including neonatologists, family physicians, ob-gyns, pediatricians, and other physicians nationwide. These physicians have stated that they concur with the statement: "A 'person' includes any human from the time of fertilization."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Paper, rapped for outing Obama note, claims campaign pre-approved leak :: Israel Insider

What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Barack Obama campaign. Maariv, the second most popular newspaper in Israel, was roundly criticized for publishing the note Obama left in the Kotel. But now a Maariv spokesperson says that publication of the note was pre-approved for international publication by the Obama campaign, leading to the conclusion that the "private" prayer was intentionally leaked for public consumption.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Global Warming and the Faith of the Brainwashed Nathaniel Shockey

That global warming has continued to captivate the media, car companies, energy companies and so many more demonstrates how enormously brainwashed Americans are.

Still convinced that “the entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming,” like Al Gore purported?

Please.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Mexico's Version Of La Cosa Nostra Spreads Like A Virus by Jim Kouri,

The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country.

Several of the senior leaders of the organization are believed to be based in Mexico, although they enter the US occasionally to oversee the operations of lieutenants of the crime family.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

"Tough Love" for Nicholas Kristof by Lee Green

In his July 24th piece, "Tough Love for Israel," New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof puts on display his lack of knowledge regarding the recent and past history of Israel and its neighbors. Or perhaps he just chooses to "forget" since those messy facts get in the way of his simplistic view of Israel as the major obstacle to peace.

Kristof notes that Israel's security measures have reduced terrorism, but that they "bolster Hamas" and undermine "reasonable" Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. This is the same Abbas who sent a letter of congratulations to the family of the recently released Samir Kuntar, the terrorist who bashed in the head of a four-year-old girl.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Will Obama Apologize To Qaeda? To Surviving Nazis? The LA Times Wants To Know :: Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Does Barack Obama believe it’s time for America to apologize to al Qaeda?

Does he share the increasingly vocal calls of his fellow liberals that Americans should not just apologize to Osama and his followers but pay reparations as well? Having cited the U.S. treatment of Nazis, does he now believe the U.S. government should be subjected to a class action suit by his trial lawyer allies on behalf of any surviving Nazi soldiers or their descendants?

You think I’m joking, right? Wrong.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Act Now! Say NO to House Speaker Pelosi By Jay Sekulow

I want to bring you a late update from Capitol Hill on the efforts to ensure that the Fairness Doctrine is not reinstated.

Several important events occurred this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi clearly indicated that she opposes any effort that opposes the Fairness Doctrine - including the push to get a House vote on the Broadcaster Freedom Act, which is important legislation that would permanently prohibit a return of the Fairness Doctrine. The problem is Speaker Pelosi and others have kept this important measure bottled up in the House.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Islam is Killing Free Speech in the West by Vladimir Val Cymbal

Truth is no defense when speaking and especially writing about Islam or the actions of its followers. Some countries, like Canada, have set up special courts to handle those free speech criminals. If one Muslim is 'offended' the actions of the countryman are suspect and he is forced to defend himself. Not all the cases get the coverage that Mark Steyn's case got. Here in America we would not have known about it if it were not for Mark being on such radio programs as the Sean Hannity program.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Deconstructing Obama By Kyle-Anne Shiver

Deconstruction, I'm told, is still all the rage on college campuses throughout the Land. Part of the broader movement of postmodernism which has attempted to tear down the old certainties upon which Western Culture is founded.

The academics' pet theory of the past 30 years has touched numerous facets of our society.  These thorny deconstructionists have managed to convince many an American college student to sacrifice his God-given common sense and Judeo/Christian values on the altar of presumed white male privilege, from which these students are admonished they now must actively disengage.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Ich Bin Ein Pretender By Larry Thornberry

Last week Barack Obama piled up more frequent flyer miles than in most campaign months. But did he win any votes by photo-opping and crooning his way across the Mideast and Europe in a week-long game of Let's Play President?

Well, some. Maybe. The initial polls taken concurrent with and after Obama's trip showed he gained a little during the week, finishing at 49-40 over McCain, according to Gallup. This constituted Obama's largest lead over McCain, demonstrating that a well-planned hustle will almost always net you something.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Man of the Year: Rush Limbaugh By Mark R. Levin

Rush Limbaugh’s detractors never learn. They’ve tried everything to come between Rush and his more than 20 million listeners, intending to destroy his appeal and impact. But it’s a hopeless, almost laughable endeavor. They led boycotts against his advertisers -- yet his show continues to generate more revenue than any other on radio. They pressured his affiliates to drop his program, but he’s still heard on more than 600 stations -- more than any other talk host. They tried to keep him off Armed Forces Radio, of course, but he has the most popular program on the military’s radio network.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

World Citizen Obama By Frank J Gaffney Jr.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s single most illuminating statement in the course of a just-completed overseas tour was his self-description during the stop in Berlin as a “citizen of the world.”  Widely interpreted as nothing more than an innocuous expression of solidarity with his adoring, post-nationalist hosts, this declaration is actually just the latest indication that Senator Obama embraces a vision of his own country and its role in the world that should be exceedingly worrisome to America’s citizenry.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Avoiding 'CSI Kandahar' By Andrew C. McCarthy

We don’t have to pass anything,” smirked Jerrold Nadler to Newsweek. “Let the courts deal with it.”
The key House Democrat seems ever ready to lend a terrorist a helping hand. Just ask Susan Rosenberg, the Weather Underground bomber he helped convince Bill Clinton to commute her 60-year sentence. But now it’s our troops — who Democrats are forever saying they “support” — who need a helping hand. So here was Nadler, giving his usual thumbs-down to a Justice Department plea that Congress provide them, and the nation, with something other than the usual empty words.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

You Don’t Say! By Jennifer Rubin

Richard Cohen, who apparently has been covering the presidential race for over a year, has made a troubling discovery: Barack Obama hasn’t accomplished anything. Ignoring the “experience doesn’t matter” mind-rays from the Obama media control operation, Cohen then frets that Obama’s one example of political courage wasn’t so courageous:

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Lukewarm Churches Mirror Society By Bonnie Alba

Over the last century, Christian churches in America have metamorphosed from standing out and being different from the surrounding society and culture, to blending a little bit of this and little bit of that taken from present-day cultural mores, instead of God’s Word to man.

        The recent comprehensive Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey demonstrated some surprising, if not astounding, statistics.  That is, if the survey is accurate and asked the right questions.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The NEA Spells Out Its Radical Policies By Phyllis Schlafly

The nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association, attracted 9,000 delegates to its annual convention in Washington, D.C. over the Fourth of July weekend.  Delegates sported buttons with provocative slogans such as "Gay marriage causes Global Warming only because we are so hot!", "Hate is not a family value," "The 'Christian Right' is neither," and "Gay Rights are civil rights."

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The 21st century Pardoners Tale: a complete comparison between Indulgences and Carbon Credits By Dr. Tim Ball

Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342 - 1400) is among the giants of English literature recognized for his perceptive and realistic stories about human nature. He did this by creating individual characters who were a broad representation of groups of people. Like Shakespeare, he produced stories that are instantly recognizable at any time in history and in any society.  In his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales he introduces a number of characters traveling together on a pilgrimage. He does this with what Paul Johnson describes as, “ a lethal combination of satire, irony, and sarcasm.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Monday, July 28, 2008

A winning proposition :: Powerline

The conventional wisdom notwithstanding, McCain already has gained the upper hand on one economic issue -- drilling for energy. In a slumping economy where consumers are paying $4 dollars for a gallon of gas, this may be the most important economic/domestic issue of the campaign, and McCain is on the popular side of it.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Great Global Warming Swindle: Alarmists Lose Another Round in Ofcom Ruling Roger F. Gay

In March 2007, Channel 4, United Kingdom, aired The Great Global Warming Swindle. The documentary, which boldly alleges that global warming is not caused by human activity and that there is no climate crisis, quickly became an international success; selling in 21 countries and distributed openly via the Internet.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Final Battle Against Slavery by Denis Schulz

Abe Lincoln was opposed to the extension of slavery into the territories. So was William H. Seward with his talk of a ‘higher law’ than the US Constitution. Salmon P. Chase was opposed to the extension of slavery.

So was John Brown. “I, John Brown, am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood,” he said on his way to the gallows. Thomas Jefferson said, “Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.” George H. Thomas was a Virginian who remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War. Thomas commanded the Army of the Cumberland during the Battle of Nashville.

 

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.

During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times. "I've been working my entire adult life to help build an America where economic justice is being served," he said at the group's 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Offshore Oil Drilling: Cleaner than Mother Nature Deroy Murdock

Painfully high vehicle- and jet-fuel prices are propelling popular demands for extracting the estimated 18 billion barrels of petroleum that rest beneath America’s coastal waters. After rescinding previous executive-branch objections, President Bush said July 14, “the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the U.S. Congress.” Capitol Hill Democrats claim offshore drilling poses unacceptable ecological risks. This is yet another overblown worry.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Decline of Art; the Decline of Culture By Kyle Bristow

Throughout its history the West has been blessed with leaders in the arts. Rembrandt, Mozart, and Shakespeare, among many, many others are such leaders, but the West today lacks real artists. In the postmodern West, degenerate “artists” have embarked on a campaign to pervert the definition of art, and this perversion of modern-day Western art has put Western culture in jeopardy.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Yale’s Dhimmi Applicants By Mark D. Tooley

The National Council of Churches is boasting of its participation in Christian-Muslim dialogue at Yale Divinity School running July 28-31.  Hosting the lovefest is Yale Professor Miroslav Volf and his Reconciliation Program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, who together organized last year’s Christian response to a manifesto by Muslim clerics addressed to Christians called “A Common Word Between Us and You.”   Volf and his Yale seminary colleagues persuaded several hundred clerics and academics to sign their responsive “Loving God and Neighbor Together: A Christian Response to ‘A Common Word Between Us and You.’”

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Defund Sanctuary Cities By Michael Reagan

Three good men are dead thanks largely to San Francisco’s outrageous sanctuary-city policy, which forbids city authorities from notifying federal immigration authorities when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes they commit, and it’s time for President Bush to crack down on all the cities in the United States that follow this absurd policy.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

RADICAL LEFTISTS ARE KEEPING GAS PRICES HIGH By: John Bender

Colorado Senator Ken Salazar, a Democrat, got pissy last week after broadcast journalist and political commentator, Rush Limbaugh, rightly pointed out that Salazar and other political hacks are preventing America from tapping our vast domestic resources and becoming energy independent, lowering gasoline prices, and creating new high paying jobs. Nor did he like it that Mr. Limbaugh pointed out that Salazar campaigns under the false flag of a moderate but once in office votes with the radical leftists like Reed, Palosi, Boxer, and Obama to keep America dependent on imported oil. 

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Dems "Interfaith Service" to Include Atheists? By Lee Duigon

How do you include atheists in your nationally-televised interfaith religious service?

That’s the question plaguing logic-challenged Democrats.  The interfaith service is to open their national convention on August 24, and is meant to convey to the American people that the Democratic Party really does have a heart for God, as long as God doesn’t make too many demands on them.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The 21st century Pardoners Tale: a complete comparison between Indulgences and Carbon Credits By Dr. Tim Ball

Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342 - 1400) is among the giants of English literature recognized for his perceptive and realistic stories about human nature. He did this by creating individual characters who were a broad representation of groups of people. Like Shakespeare, he produced stories that are instantly recognizable at any time in history and in any society.  In his most famous work, The Canterbury Tales he introduces a number of characters traveling together on a pilgrimage. He does this with what Paul Johnson describes as, “ a lethal combination of satire, irony, and sarcasm.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Special Report: Red Faces Over Obama’s Red Mentor By Cliff Kincaid

In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis’s commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Political Commentator from India blames interest on Anti Semtisim, and that Islamic Banking is “highway robbery” by Allyson Rowen Taylor

Aside from his anti Semitic remarks, he is truthful that Islamic Finance and it’s rules and laws are just a filter and smokescreen. Islamic banks make interest and money just like every other bank. It is just a way to incorporate Shariah laws into the economy under the guise of “Ethical Investment” Actually, it is totally unethical because it is built on a lie.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Greens are Going Crazy by Alan Caruba

It’s hard to ignore the fact that the Greens are going crazy, not just in the United States, but around the world. They are increasingly frantic over the opposition being voiced against global warming, one of the greatest hoaxes in modern history.

The Greens have bet everything on global warming as the reason for giving up the use of long established sources of energy such as oil, coal and natural gas. The object has been to slow everything the modern world calls progress.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Academic fraud in black schools By Walter E. Williams

"Hard Times at Douglass High," is an HBO documentary that aired last June. It captured much of the 2004-2005 school year at Baltimore's predominantly black Frederick Douglass High School. The tragedy is that what is seen in the documentary is typical of most predominantly black urban schools.

Douglass' students are four to five years below grade level. Most of its ninth-graders read at the third-, fourth- or fifth-grade levels. In 2006, only 24 percent of its students tested proficient in reading, in math just 11 percent, and that's an improvement over previous years

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Ibrahim: Islam's appeal and Captain Hook :: Jihad Watch

pirate.jpg

In recent headlines, three American converts to Islam—Gregory Patterson, Levar Wasington, and Kevin James—were recently arrested and tried for intending to wage jihad against the U.S. They are by no means the first American converts to Islam to go terrorist.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

What Can We Do? by Baron Bodissey

The essay below, written by Westerner, was originally posted on Lawrence Auster’s blog in October 2007. Last winter the author asked me to re-post it here at Gates of Vienna. In the thick of events I put it aside for later, and then forgot about it. Westerner wrote me again yesterday to remind me, so here it is.


But first I’d like to talk about Westerner’s proposed program in order to clarify my own stance towards it.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Sweet Land of Liberty, Of Thee I Weep... And Plead By Steve Schippert

“This, we will defend.” It is a common refrain among brothers in arms. Yet, more pressing than the visible threat from terrorists and the states which sponsor them, we are at serious risk of losing sight of what “this” is while we call on those few dedicated men and women who defend it honorably and without hesitation. We appear at grave risk of losing our way. Right now.

In the Hamdan trial at Guantanamo Bay, we learn that bin Laden’s driver, captured and now on trial, said in interrogation that the United States could have killed bin Laden on more than one occasion in the 1990’s. The context is a far greater reflection upon us than our enemies.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Alternative Energy, Alternative Doomsday by Phil Harris

If you live under the false premise that doomsday will never come, some basic laws of nature (concerning energy) may be appropriate for you to note. Roughly speaking, since I am no physicist and neither are most of you, Entropy is the tendency of a system to move from a higher state of potential energy to a lower state. It measures the "unavailability" of a system's energy to do work. Anything (energy-wise) that is useful must move to a higher state of Entropy, or it is useless to us.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama Hands McCain The Quota Issue. Will He Use It? By Steve Sailer

Predictably, Senator John McCain's presidential campaign isn't picking up much traction. Running on a platform of Four More Years of George W. Bush's grand strategy of invade-invite-in hock is a less than knockout concept.

Yet, also not surprisingly, McCain hasn't completely slipped beneath the waves in the polls—because a substantial fraction of the electorate retains a healthy skepticism about Barack Obama.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

A journey into the far hells of liberalism by Lawrence Auster

Are you feeling strong--strong enough to travel into the heart of liberal darkness? Then you might be ready to read Newsweek's horrifying, compelling article about 15-year-old Larry King of Oxnard, California. Born to a drug-using mother and an absent father, raised by foster parents, and also half "African-American" (though apparently few people knew it), Larry was an extremely troubled, self-identified "gay" who was permitted by the authorities of E. O. Green Junior High School--particularly a lesbian assistant principal--to act out every sexual perversity, including wearing make-up and three-inch high heels in school and making conspicuous sexual passes at other boys, until, one morning in English class, he was shot dead in cold blood by a 14-year-old classmate.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

David Crockett, Indians, and Us :: The Heritage American

It seems to me that when I was growing up in the 1960s and 70s, even as one radical social change after another was setting in motion the disaster of the present, a certain core culture and way of life continued relatively unchanged for most people. As I look back upon my own childhood in small-town America during that period, I imagine that it was not so different from the 1950s. Our fathers worked and we kids ran around the neighborhood watched by our mothers as they did housework. We played many of the same games our parents had played. Not only that, 1950s culture itself was still present on TV and radio.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Overgunned by Jay Tea

Last week, the US Navy announced that its vaunted "next-generation" destroyer, the DD-1000 or "Zumwalt" class of ships, would be discontinued after only two ships were built. Originally, they had hoped to put 32 of these hulls in the water, but constantly rising costs finally took their toll on the ships.

This got me to thinking about something that has been preying at the back of my mind for some time: what the hell should we be doing with our defense budget?

The primary mission of our armed services is to defend our nation and our interests wherever necessary, by whatever means necessary. And those means are most often through force, or the threat of force.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Arab leaders caused refugee problem By Joseph Farah

I've written about the world's collective amnesia" when it comes to the so-called "root causes of the Middle East crisis."

The conventional wisdom today suggests the new state of Israel in 1948 was to blame for the creation of the Arab refugee problem.

The mantra is repeated endlessly by U.S. State Department apparatchiks, Israel's enemies around the globe and even by well-meaning, guilt-ridden Jews.

The entire Middle East peace process is based on this notion – that repatriation of Arab Palestinians in a new homeland of their own will solve the conflict.

There's just one problem with the concept: It's patently untrue.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Crime skyrockets in 1 county, plummets right next door :: WorldNetDaily

One of the wealthiest counties in America reports crime skyrocketing by 22 percent in the first quarter of 2008, while its neighbor saw crime plummet by 19.3 percent in the same time period – coinciding with a get-tough policy on illegal immigration.

Prince William County in Northern Virginia, a bedroom community for the nation's capital, made national news late last year with a crackdown on illegal immigration that supervisors believed was triggering higher crime and lower living standards.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

General Electric and Al Gore Scheme to Undermine Domestic Oil Drilling by Tom Borelli

The silver lining in the cloud of high energy prices is the growing public support for domestic development of natural resources. Opinion polls, including data from California, show Americans are increasingly inclined to support drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf and in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

In an effort to increase the domestic supply of oil and also to pressure Congressional Democrats not to extend the offshore ban, which expires September 30, on July 14 President Bush eliminated the executive order preventing offshore drilling.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Public Lecture on Islamic Science by Victoria Lovejoy

Before I talk about the speaker at the next public lecture at Melbourne University, I would like to make a few observations. 

Islamic Science1.    I am puzzled by the title ‘Islamic science’, as I believe science, the pursuit of knowledge based on evidence, belongs to all of us. We do not have Hindu, Christian or Jewish science, so why have Islamic science? Admittedly we have Hindus, Christians and Jews who are scientists, but they are continuing the tradition of rational enquiry, which has in former times been in opposition to religion - one only has to think of Galileo as an example. But the world’s great scientists, from Isaac Newton to Thomas Edison to Albert Einstein, were not acting in the name of religion, but out of a quest to expand the boundaries of human knowledge.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

A Turkish theater for World War III* By Chan Akya

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is on record stating his ambitions to make his country a modern and secular state modeled on the Turkish republic under Kemal Ataturk. Ironically, even as that goal appears mind bogglingly unachievable for Pakistan, recent events will conspire to push Turkey in the direction of Pakistan; into becoming a breeding ground for a new class of Islamic militants. The transition of Turkey into a new front for Saudi interests will follow typical ideological, strategic and political trends.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Death of Freedom? by Michael D'Virgilio

We live in a time when most Americans have lived their entire lives immersed in a culture that is positively hostile to their values. Public and higher education, every venue of entertainment, media, and the arts, and the ubiquitous legal environment all conspire to undermine the values that created the greatness that is America. To this point the predominant attitude toward culture on the right has been open hostility, given voice and popularized in a speech by Pat Buchanan at the 1992 Republican convention in Houston.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The '60s won't go away By Victor Davis Hanson

What more can anyone say about the 1960s and all its legacies?

Those who protested some 40 years ago often still congratulate themselves that their loud zeal alone brought needed "change" to America in civil rights, the environment, women's liberation and world peace. Maybe. But critics counter that the larger culture that followed was the most self-absorbed in memory.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

The Obama-philes: Barack’s Leftmedia Sycophants By Mark Alexander

Having previously asserted that the primary anthropogenic (human) contributor to global warming is Albert Arnold Gore, I am now prepared to qualify that statement. Given all the hot air expelled by Barack Hussein Obama during his Middle East tour this week, it’s apparent that Gore now has some stiff competition.

Obama’s campaign stops in Iraq and elsewhere in the region would qualify as nothing more than silage for satirists were it not for the big three MSM talkingheads worshiping his every utterance. Of course, Leftmedia sycophants are nothing new to Democrat presidential campaigns.

Typical of the coverage was NBC’s description of the campaign trip as a “Tour of Duty.”

And the print media weren’t far behind.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

From the Director of "300" ...

[H/T JAWA Report]

 

Sphere: Related Content

Questions! Questions! Ever More Questions About the Way We Are Now by Clyde N. Wilson

Just asking—

What happens to a “service economy” when people no longer have the money to pay for service?

What happens when “precision” bombs and missiles are not really as precise as they are supposed to be?

What happens to a country where judges make up the law as they go along?

What happens to a country when presidents, governors, and mayors only enforce the laws they like?

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

IDF kills Hamas mastermind of Dimona bombing in Hebron :: Israel Insider

IDF soldiers killed Shihab Natsheh, the mastermind and bombmaker of the suicide terrorist attack in which a Dimona woman was killed in February. He had previously been jailed for terrorist activity in Israel, but had been released as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinians before the attack.

 Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Worshipping Idols: The Christian Life Challenge by Thomas E. Brewton

"We must reject comfortable ritual and live the Christian life," says Captain Brian Thomas, leader of Stamford's Salvation Army unit.

An effective Salvation Army leader who desires to lead souls to Jesus Christ can't mindlessly and endlessly repeat old rituals. In Captain Thomas's case, that meant dropping the old Salvation Army standard of the brass band playing on street corners to draw the unchurched into church services. Not enough people in today's circumstances respond.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Generosity is good, Zakat is bad by Henrik R. Clausen

Zakat, one of the "Five Pillars of Islam", is a religious tax introduced for the benefit of the poor and needy, as well as for the advancement of Islam itself, is often quoted as one of the best elements of Islam. This essay sets out to examine the gap between the stated intention and reality.

Historically, Zakat being one of the five 'pillars' of Islam, is the holy tax introduced by Muhammad. A bit of background information seems in order.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Harvesting Our Rotten Fruit By: J.J. Jackson

For years liberals of all stripes from socialists to communists to all out fascists have been planting seeds in our society. It became clear to them in the early part of this century that America was not quite ready for the revolutions that swept their fellow travelers into power across the globe in places like Russia, Germany, France and Italy. Something about the right of the people to keep and bear arms still being believed in at the time put serious kinks into that plan. So they opted for a more subtle approach on America’s shores.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Grade Eight Exam 1895 — Could you pass it?

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina , and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Obama’s Acorn: A Leftist Social Reform Group :: The Union Label Blog

After seven years of hiding corruption, ACORN has admitted Dale Rathke, brother of founder, Wade Rathke had embezzled nearly $1 million from the company. The embezzlement was only known to a few and was hidden from the remainder of the ACORN board. Unfortunately the wide scale corruption doesn’t even start with the embezzlement. The embezzlement is part of a much longer line of illegal activity.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Real Conservatism: The True Meaning of the General Welfare Clause By BRYAN P. BJORNSON

How and what is this change that has made our government one that our Founding Fathers would have found revolting? It is a change in what the General Welfare Clause means and what it allows our government to do. When our Constitution was written it listed, in Article 1 Section 8, what our government has the authority to do. Anything that is not on the list is not allowed! By keeping to that list, as our government did for 160 years, we had the limited government that our Constitution created. We no longer have a limited government. What we have now is a government of bloated bureaucracies.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

America for Sale by Ben Steverman

American companies are on sale. Foreign buyers are circling, taking advantage of a weak U.S. dollar and a depressed stock market to snap up U.S. companies at discounted prices.

Recent big deals include the July 13 acquisition of Anheuser-Busch (BUD), the owner of Budweiser and other iconic American beer brands, by Belgian brewer InBev (INBVF) for $52 billion. On July 21, Swiss biotech company Roche Holdings (RHHVF) said it will swallow the rest of San Francisco-based Genentech (DNA) that it doesn't already own for $43.7 billion. And on July 23, Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings (TKOMF.PK) announced plans to buy U.S. insurance company Philadelphia Consolidated Holding (PHLY) for $4.39 billion.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

BAMN! War Against Freedom, Liberty and People’s Rights by Liberally Conservative

BAMN is a Left-Wing organization in the image of Liberals and Barack Hussein Obama.

What is BAMN? In their own words:

“Coalition to defend affirmative action, integration, and immigrant rights. And fight for equality By Any Means Necessary.”

A total of 24 states allow voters to change laws on their own by collecting signatures and putting initiatives on the ballot. It’s healthy that the entrenched political class should face some real legislative competition from initiative-toting citizens. Unfortunately, some special interests have declared war on the initiative process, using tactics ranging from restrictive laws to outright thuggery, writes John Fund in the Wall Street Journal.

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Obama: Pentagon "Hints," BO "Distracts," HuffPuff "Deceives" :: Maggie's Notebook

Does anyone think the Pentagon issues "hints" to a Presidential candidate? In an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer, Hemmer asked Obama to clarify why he did not visit a U.S. Military hospital when in Germany. Obama said the following:

There was a hint [from the Pentagon] that it might end up being perceived as a political issue, because of some blowback we've received...

And he says:

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content

Al Gore, Egregiously Pushy A**hole :: The Barnyard

Those are not my words but Penn and Teller's in their latest edition of Bullsh!t. The video is here courtesy of Newsbusters, you might have to install some new video software and reboot but it is worth it to so see them blast on Al Gore and his econinnies. If you get the home page after the download put Penn and Teller into the search box and then click on "Being Green".

Full Article ...

Sphere: Related Content