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“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” ~Samuel Adams

Friday, May 16, 2008

Barack Obama: the New Great Redeemer
by Gerard Baker
Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet... Never in any of the chapters of this hagiography does a Republican, a conservative, appear in a remotely similar light. These alien creatures by contrast have always been portrayed as cartoonish representatives of the Dark Side of humanity...
Fast forward to 2012: Barack Obama’s America

The War Over the War
by Victor Davis Hanson
The war in Iraq is in its sixth year -- and we, the public, are in our sixth year of reading warring accounts about it...

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Will Congress Outlaw Local Laws?
by William Campenni
One has to admire the Sisyphean tenacity of the Congress as it starts to roll another boulder up the mountain of public opposition to the federal encouragement of illegal immigration. The latest attempt, HR 5515, masquerading under the euphemistic label “New Employee Verification Act” (NEVA) is another unworthy successor...in its insolent attempt to procure cheap labor and voting constituencies for the political ruling classes, Democrat and Republican alike...

Government Stifles the Wisdom of Crowds
by John Stossel
...America's anti-gambling laws are thoroughly hypocritical. States run lotteries -- one of the worst forms of gambling since no skill is involved and the odds are so bad -- while prediction markets, a powerful forecasting tool, are stifled...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

If On the Wrong Track, Why Go Left?
by Dennis Prager
...the future of America entirely depends on what track it is most Americans think is wrong, and if they really believe that the radical "change" Obama and the Democrats advocate will be the right track. If so, it may mark the beginning of the end of the America that our parents and their parents and their parents back to America's founding lived in...

Saturday, May 10, 2008

For Mother's Day, Hug the Children, Not the Trees
by Arthur C. Brooks
...A new trend among some of the world's most eco-conscious is to forgo children for the sake of the planet. In a recent interview with Britain's Daily Mail, one woman who works for an environmental charity told of aborting her baby because she felt it was "immoral to give birth to a child that . . . would only be a burden to the world"...

Friday, May 09, 2008

The Republican Party's Real Problem In A Nutshell
by John Hawkins
...there is one overriding problem that dwarfs all the others, a problem that few people in the leadership of the Republican Party seem to have come to grips with. That problem is that conservatives, who are the heart and soul of the Republican Party, no longer believe that the GOP has their best interests at heart...

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

America’s Unhappiest Millionaire: Michelle Obama’s Gospel of Misery
by Yuval Levin
By her husband’s logic, Michelle Obama must be a heavily armed xenophobic religious zealot, because boy is she bitter...Her husband, of course, manages a peppier and more upbeat stump speech, but in fact the same dark view of American life permeates his rhetoric too. Both Obamas seem to think the country is deeply depressed, and in need of a spiritual, economic, and political savior...

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Michael Moore, Frank Rich, Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee
by Dennis Prager
...the liberal world since the late 1960s (i.e., after the major civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s) has done incalculable damage to black America and to race relations in this country. Whether out of guilt or because of its own racist views (i.e., the unspoken but regularly implied belief in the inferiority of African-Americans), the left-of-center's general attitude toward black Americans has been that they cannot be judged by the same standards as others...

Monday, May 05, 2008

Watch the Web for Climate Change Truths
by Christopher Booker
A notable story of recent months should have been the evidence pouring in from all sides to cast doubts on the idea that the world is inexorably heating up. The proponents of man-made global warming have become so rattled by how the forecasts of their computer models are being contradicted by the data that some are rushing to modify the thesis...

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Townhall.com Weekend Journal
Salem Radio Network
Hugh Hewitt ran through the National Press Club Q&A time with Jeremiah Wright; Dennis Prager examined the trouble this left for Obama; Michael Medved had a brief discussion about the Wright/Obama matter with Rudy Giuliani; Albert Mohler criticizes USA Today article that says religion and children are killing the human race.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Poisonous “Authenticity”
by Heather MacDonald
...By now, Wright’s 9/11 and AIDS diatribes are well-worn—and Obama’s repudiation of them a no-brainer. It is imperative that someone at CNN or the New York Times ask Obama whether he, too, believes that the way to “fix the schools” is through Afrocentric curricula and double standards in student discipline, and whether he, too, believes that blacks only think with the “right side” of their brains.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Codependent Addicts: States and Casinos
by Froma Harrop
...when states ban smoking in all entertainment venues but the casino, they end up securing an especially dependable revenue stream. As public policy goes, this means of taxation is highly unattractive. After all, they are funneling their smoker population into another highly taxed and unhealthy activity...

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Townhall.com Weekend Journal
Salem Radio Network
Dennis Prager and Michael Medved on their shows look deeper into Barack Obama’s comment that: cling “to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations”; Hugh Hewitt tracks with Oprah’s strange spiritualism; There are enormous differences between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party today. While the rhetoric sometimes makes it tough to see through the smoke, Dennis Prager clears up one big difference.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Faith, Democrats, and Double Standards
by Michael Medved
...When it comes to the secular establishment that dominates most American Institutions, however, they’d prefer the sort of faith that makes fewer demands and draws fewer converts, and look more kindly on a religion that’s dwindling than a church that’s clearly on the march. It’s also easy to understand why those who warn against imminent “theocracy” feel far more comfortable with a politician whose well-advertised interaction with the Holy Spirit no one in the country seems to take too seriously.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Time Magazine Fights Carbon Emissions; Military Fights Evil
by Dennis Prager
...Years from now, Time's cover will be regarded as another silly media-induced fear. But, as with Time's 1974 article warning its readers about "another ice age" and its many articles on the threat of heterosexual AIDS in America, Time will just let public amnesia deal with credibility problems. Until then, however, one fact remains: Today, conservatives fight evil and liberals fight carbon emissions. That's what this week's cover of Time is about.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Friday, April 18, 2008

Candidate Superior Jumps the Gun
by Mark Hemingway
If Obama’s remark about voters’ clinging to God and guns because they’re bitter isn’t a disaster for his campaign, Obama and his fellow travelers seem to be spinning overtime to make sure it’s as damaging as possible. Asked about the comment at Wednesday’s debate, Obama still couldn’t address the controversy head on...
Related: Stuttering Democrats Hillary and Obama in Small Town

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Welcome to 'Lawfare' - A New Type of Jihad
by Brooke Goldstein
...The Islamist Lawfare challenge presents a direct and real threat to our constitutional rights and national security. Left unabated, this phenomenon has the potential to seriously hinder public debate on the threat of radical Islam. The United States was founded on the premise of freedom of worship, but also on the principle that one should have the freedom to criticize religion...

The Company He Keeps
by Andrew C. McCarthy
...Judging from the company he chooses to keep, Obama’s change would radically alter this country. He eschews detail because most Americans don’t believe we’re a racist, heartless, imperialist cesspool of exploitation. The details would be disqualifying. So, instead, we get glimpses...

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing
by Andrew Martin
...a reaction is building against policies in the United States and Europe to promote ethanol and similar fuels, with political leaders from poor countries contending that these fuels are driving up food prices and starving poor people. Biofuels are fast becoming a new flash point in global diplomacy...

Chinese Geopolitics and the Significance of Tibet
by George Friedman
...The Chinese have a fundamental national interest in retaining Tibet, because Tibet is the Chinese anchor in the Himalayas. If that were open, or if Xinjiang became independent, the vast buffers between China and the rest of Eurasia would break down. The Chinese can’t predict the evolution of Indian, Islamic or Russian power in such a circumstance, and they certainly don’t intend to find out...

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

How Liberals Lost a Liberal
by Dennis Prager
...The emotional and psychological hold that the Democratic Party and the word "liberal" have on those who consider themselves liberal is stronger than the ability of most of these individuals to acknowledge just how far from liberal values contemporary liberalism and the Democratic Party have strayed...

Monday, April 14, 2008

'Now We Have the Technology That Can Make a Cloned Child'
by Steve Connor
..."At this point there are no laws or regulations for this kind of thing and the bizarre thing is that the Catholic Church and other traditional stem-cell opponents think this technology is great when in reality it could in the end become one of their biggest nightmares," he said. "It is quite possible that the real legacy of this whole new programming technology is that it will be introducing the era of designer babies...

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Townhall.com Weekend Journal
Salem Radio Network
Shelby Steele, author of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win, sat down with Dennis Prager; Rudy Giuliani makes the case for John McCain for President on The Michael Medved Show; Hillary Clinton caught in another lie? Mike Gallagher explains; Harry Reid says that paying taxes is voluntary. Dennis Prager breaks down the lunacy.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Money And School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment
by Paul Ciotti
...All the money spent in Kansas City brought about neither integration nor higher levels of achievement. The lessons of the Kansas City experiment should stand as a warning to those who would use massive funding and gold-plated buildings to encourage integration and improve education...

Oil for War
by Michael Savage
...Iraq's sustainable oil production capacity is almost 3 million barrels per day. The earth beneath Iraqi sands holds more than 112 billion barrels of oil – the world's second largest proven reserves – and unexplored regions could yield an additional 100 billion barrels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Iraq also contains 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. And yet this war has nearly bankrupted our treasury...

Taxpayers Fund Bill Clinton Spending
by Kenneth P. Vogel
...Since 2001, Clinton has received more of almost every benefit available to former presidents — from his pension to his staff’s salaries and benefits to supplies. His $420,000 phone bill and $3.2 million office rent tab both nearly surpassed the totals rung up for those purposes by Bush, Carter and the late former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan combined...

Children Told they are Dogs during Mosque Visit
NIS News Bulletin
...With a view to developing understanding and respect for other cultures among children, primary school De Horizon regularly organises outings to various religious organisations. The chairman of the El Mouchidine mosque told the children from group 7 (aged 10) and their chaperones however that non-Muslims are dogs...

Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Heathrow Plot Trial: Retrospection and Implications
by Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
...The trial is expected to last several months, but several interesting facts already have emerged regarding the plot and the people accused of participating in it...al Qaeda remains fixated on aircraft as targets and, in spite of changes in security procedures since 9/11, aircraft remain vulnerable to attack.

A Mystery in the Middle East
by George Friedman
...All together, these events are fairly extraordinary...it would seem that each side, but particularly the Americans and Israelis, have gone out of their way to signal that they are expecting conflict. The Syrians have also signaled that they expect conflict, and Hezbollah always claims there is about to be conflict...

Wall of Silence Broken at State's Muslim Public School
by Katherine Kersten
...TIZA is now being held up as a national model for a new kind of charter school. If it passes legal muster, Minnesota taxpayers may soon find themselves footing the bill for a separate system of education for Muslims.

GAO Questions Millions Charged to U.S. Government
by Hope Yen
..."When money that was intended to pay for critical infrastructure, education and homeland security is instead being spent on iPods, lingerie and socializing, we must immediately remedy the problem"...

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Petition Blasts Islamic Themes at Flight 93 Site
World Net Daily
...a member of Congress has demanded the National Park Service make changes in its plans. But there's been no substantive response, and now the activists say it's time for the American people to let officials know whether they want to pay for a memorial with a crescent that points to Mecca. The opponents say the configuration comprises a "mihrab," the foundational point for every Islamic mosque. It also includes a tower designed like an Islamic sundial and 44 memorial glass blocks, one each for the passengers, crew and terrorists aboard Flight 93...

Christian Group Sues Google After Search Engine Refuses to Take Its Abortion Adverts
by Simon Caldwell
...Its Dublin-based advertising team replied: "At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain 'abortion and religion-related content'." Google does, however, accept adverts for abortion clinics, secular pro-abortion sites and secularist sites which attack religion...