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Standing Up Against The Anti-Police Axis By Ben Shapiro Wednesday, May 23, 2007 On May 11, in Franconia, New Hampshire, 48-year-old police Cpl. Bruce McKay pulled over a 24-year-old, longhaired ne'er-do-well named Liko Kenney for speeding. The two had met before -- in 2003, Kenney pled guilty to assaulting McKay during an arrest. Now, Kenney blithely informed McKay that he would prefer to deal with another officer. Then he drove off. McKay quickly followed in his patrol vehicle. About a mile down the road, he forced Kenney off the road, then pepper-sprayed Kenney to subdue him. Kenney then pulled out...

Young U.S. Muslims Back Suicide Attacks By Jennifer Harper The Washington Times | May 23, 2007 The first nationwide survey of Muslim Americans revealed that more than a quarter of those younger than 30 say suicide bombings to defend Islam are justified, a fact that drowned out the poll's kinder, gentler findings suggesting that the community is mainstream and middle class. "There are trouble spots," noted Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey of 1,050 adult Muslim Americans -- two-thirds of whom were foreign-born -- January to April. The results were released yesterday. "We should...

Cornel West joins black anti-Semites - Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:02 AM A group of black anti-Semites has announced a demonstration to protest the 40th anniversary of the "illegal occupation" of the West Bank (story and statement below). Every word in the statement put out by West and his Israel-hating, terrorist-loving friends is a lie. In 1967, the Arab states launched a war of aggression against the state of Israel using the West Bank as a corridor for their aggression. Their goal was the obliteration of the Jewish state. But Israel won what is now known as the Six Day...

The John Doe Manifesto By Michelle Malkin Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Note: Earlier this month, six publicity-seeking imams filed a federal lawsuit against US Airways and the Metropolitan Airports Commission in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Muslim clerics were removed from their flight last November and questioned for several hours after their suspicious behavior alarmed both passengers and crew members. Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten reported last week that the imams, advised by the grievance-mongers at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also plan to sue "John Does" -- innocent bystanders who alerted the authorities about their security concerns. Rep. Steve Pearce,...

Don't Knuckle Under to the Enviro-Luddites By David Limbaugh Tuesday, March 6, 2007 In spiritually weak moments, I sometimes envy the blind faith of the environ-zealots, even if the object of their faith is hardly sacred. For all their self-congratulation over their allegiance to science and the scientific method, they flatly violate the spirit of scientific inquiry in their approach to environmental issues. Of course they cloak all of their claims with the cover of science. They accompany their manifestos with endorsements from hundreds or thousands of scientists, who serve as the functional equivalent of human shields to insulate their...

Disgruntled soldiers were “cherry picked” By W. Thomas Smith, Jr Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Sean Hannity has – pardon the cliché – hit the nail on the head. This past Sunday on his new program, Hannity’s America (9:00 pm Eastern on FOX News), he took to task CBS’s recent 60 Minutes piece that featured a handful of active-duty soldiers speaking out against the Iraq War. “CBS left out several important parts of the story,” said Hannity. “The most glaring omission is that of context.” He went on to describe how the 60 Minutes segment was introduced by correspondent Steve Kroft,...

Premature politics By Thomas Sowell Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Some of us had just gotten used to the fact that it is now 2007, when all sorts of people started acting as if it is 2008. Polls keep coming out showing who is the front-runner among the many Democratic and Republican candidates for their respective parties' presidential nomination. Why all this hype, this early, about front-runners? Has everyone forgotten the old saying, "In politics, overnight is a lifetime"? Some of us are old enough to remember "front-runner Ed Muskie" and "front-runner Gary Hart," not to mention "President Dewey." However inaccurate...

The Republican Party must get Back to Basics By Michael Zak Friday, January 12, 2007 As the Republican Party tries to recover from crushing defeat in the mid-term elections, a little historical perspective is in order. Halfway through his second term, an unpopular Republican president saw his party lose its majority in the House of Representatives, ending more than a decade of congressional control, and Republicans wondered why they had lost the “fire in the belly” of just a few years before. I’m referring to President Ulysses Grant and the mid-term elections of 1874. That year, the Republican share of...

The Anti-Profiling Agenda By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | January 12, 2007 Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) has been named to the House Judiciary Committee. Ellison said in a statement: “I look forward to pursuing a progressive agenda in the committee, including the restoration of American citizen’s civil liberties that have come under increasing attack over the past six years.” The American citizens Ellison, the nation’s first Muslim congressman, has in mind are likely Muslims who charge that they have been subjected to unjust scrutiny and inconvenience in the aftermath of 9/11. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shares this view: she has...

Worse than Watergate -- But Invisible in the Media By Alan Nathan FrontPageMagazine.com | January 5, 2007 President Clinton’s Former National Security Advisor was caught stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archives (before the 9/11 Commission could read them), but his actions have garnered less media attention than a fly breaking wind. Sandy Berger illegally removed four documents, hid them under a construction trailer for later retrieval, then cut three of the four with scissors upon returning to his office. He admitted to lying about it when first questioned by their officials, according to a December 20, 2006,...

Death Does Wonders for a Legacy By Michael Reagan FrontPageMagazine.com | December 29, 2006 Saddam Hussein is a lucky man – in no time at all he can expect to have his reputation vastly improved. And he can thank the hangman who awaits him on the gallows. Prior to that moment when he breathes his last, his reputation will be in shreds. He has, rightly, been seen as a monster. The mere act of his dying, however, will enable his supporters to smooth over his role in those troublesome times when he was slaughtering his own people by the hundreds...

Boys of the Taliban By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | December 29, 2006 Just recently, the Taliban issued a new set of 30 rules to its fighters. Many of the instructions were to be expected: rule No. 25 commands the murder of teachers if a warning and a beating does not dissuade them from teaching. No. 26 outlines the exquisite delicacy of burning schools and destroying anything that aid organizations might undertake -- such as the building of a new road, school or clinic. The essence of the other rules are easily left to the imagination, basically involving what militant Islam...

>At first I thought this was funny...then I realized the awful truth of it. >Be sure to read all the way to the end! >Tax his land, >Tax his bed, >Tax the table >At which he's fed. > >Tax his tractor, >Tax his mule, >Teach him taxes >Are the rule. > >Tax his cow, >Tax his goat, >Tax his pants, >Tax his coat. > >Tax his ties, >Tax his shirt, >Tax his work, >Tax his dirt. > >Tax his tobacco, >Tax his drink, >Tax him if he >Tries to think. > >Tax his cigars, >Tax his beers, >If he cries,...

Christ the Contrarian By Doug Giles Saturday, December 23, 2006 When Jesus Christ got injected into the human mix two thousand plus years ago, from the cradle to the cross, He was a lightning rod of controversy. His incarnation heated up the culture war more than O’Reilly could ever dream of doing. Immanuel’s arrival upon the scene caused demon inspired, political idiots to try to kill Him while He was still cooing and pooing in His pampers. The dragon no likey his party getting ruined, and ruin it the Prince of Peace did. The initial message the Wonderful Counselor preached,...

THE GLOBAL JIHAD - AND WHY WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER A speech by Don Feder to the Americans for A Safe Israel National Conference ("America And Israel - The Present Danger"), New York City, December 3, 2006 Posted December 19, 2006 You have a problem. It's a problem shared by Jews in Hebron, Serbs in Kosovo, Hindus in the Kashmir, Catholics in Lebanon and Americans walking the streets of New York. Consider the inter-connectedness of the following incidents, all of which took place in the past few months: * In Indonesia, three Christian school girls were beheaded. * In...

Hillary Clinton Says She Wouldn't Have Voted For Iraq War December 18, 2006 4:02 PM ABC News' David Chalian Reports: As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democratic nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq by saying that she "wouldn't have voted that way" if she knew everything she knows now... www.drudgereport.com Clinton has often been asked if she regrets her vote authorizing military action and she usually answers that question with an artful dodge, saying that she accepts...

Allende: The Untold Story By Humberto Fontova FrontPageMagazine.com | December 14, 2006 To read the mainstream media lately you'd think Augusto Pinochet's villainous henchmen, while twirling their pointy black moustaches and snickering maliciously, overthrew a Chilean "President" (Salvador Allende) somewhere on the order of Jimmy Carter. Then they lined up 3000 harmless sociology professors and innocent leftist parliamentarians and shot them, for the sheer heck of it. The real story, as you might imagine, is a tad more complicated—despite the media/academia Black Legend regarding Chile. Upon Stalin's death in 1953, Chilean Communists held a "Homage to Stalin" in Santiago's Baquedano...

The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness By Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD Monday, December 4, 2006 Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr.,a forensic psychiatrist, explains the madness of liberalism in his new book The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. You can read an excerpt below, and read more at his website libertymind.com. Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates with passion. Of special interest, however, are the many values about which the modern liberal mind is not...

The Minneapolis Six Sabotage Airline Security By Janet Levy FrontPageMagazine.com | November 28, 2006 At the Minneapolis airport prior to the Thanksgiving holiday on Tuesday, Nov. 21, six imams who had been attending a conference of the North American Imams Federation were handcuffed and removed from U.S. Airways Flight 300 bound for Phoenix. The clerics were escorted off the plane at the request of the pilot after passengers expressed concern about the imams’ actions in the Minneapolis-St. Paul terminal and on the plane. According to airport spokesman Paul Hogan, the imams gathered in the boarding gate area and were “praying...

America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on By Dennis Prager Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran. He should not be allowed to do so -- not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization. First, it is an act of hubris that perfectly exemplifies multiculturalist activism -- my culture trumps America's culture. What Ellison and...