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Last week, I reported President Bush's shocking change in attitude toward Israel. This week, I want to show you why this should be of great concern to Americans. According to the dictionary, the word "appeasement" means "to prevent further disagreement in arguments or war by giving to the other side an advantage that they have demanded." Perhaps the pressure from Bush's domestic enemies has been too intense. Or maybe he has been receiving bad advice. For whatever reason, some of the Bush administration's policy reversals fit the definition of "appeasement" so closely that it's the only accurate way describe them....

Intel sources see porous border posing major terror threat to U.S. Al-Qaida "communities," like the one busted in Lodi, Calif., have direct ties to other networks in Mexico and Central America, where jihadi terrorists are not viewed as a local threat, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. "South of the Rio Grande Valley there exists a dire situation," said an intelligence researcher who took part in an academic meeting in west Canada Intelligence sources and researchers agree there is hardly any effective cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence establishment of Mexico's President Vicente Fox. Mexican agencies charged...

John O'Neill on records release: 'This is hardly what we called for' Sen. John Kerry's release of Navy records to his hometown Boston Globe newspaper is not the full disclosure sought by critics of his Vietnam war record, says John O'Neill, spokesman for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group of more than 260 veterans who served in Kerry's swiftboat division asked the senator during his presidential campaign last year to sign a Standard Form 180 that would permit anyone to examine his full and unredacted military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center in St....

America has long forgotten the vision that compelled our founders to gather in Philadelphia – "...to form a more perfect union." It was a vision of free people, governing themselves. The quest for political power has taken precedence over the vision of a more perfect union. The purpose of self-governance – "to ... secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity ..." – has been discarded by the politically powerful. The new vision is political power; the new purpose is to control society by limiting individual liberty and denying it to our posterity. For more than a generation,...

During the next 15 years, the United States could see some incredible transformations. Every young adult would be given $80,000 via a new tax on the "rich." Felons would be allowed to vote. A second Bill of Rights would be instituted, complete with a slew of new entitlements to ensure social and economic "equality." And most amazingly, no one will need – or even be allowed – to vote on these sweeping changes. Unelected judges could simply mandate each of them – for our own good, of course. None of these changes are inevitable, but lest you chalk it all...

LGV cases in U.S., Canadian cities point to spike in anonymous sex acts In an eerily similar way to how HIV/AIDS was first spread, a heretofore rare sexually transmitted disease some are calling the "new AIDS" is making its way through the male homosexual community in Canada and the U.S. According to a report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV, has been identified in 22 homosexual and bisexual men in Canada in recent months, all of whom practice risky sexual behavior – including anal sex without a condom, ingesting the drug crystal meth anally and "fisting."...

If the latest polls are to be believed, Hillary Rodham Clinton is the leading candidate to become the next president of the United States. For those of us who have real-life experience dealing with the crimes of the Clinton administration, it's a scary thought. George Bush may be an inept leader with a thoroughly confused sense of priorities, but it has been five years since I have felt personally threatened by the criminal actions of the White House. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The case against Hillary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 2, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com If the latest polls are...

No sexual gratification, so no criminal charges yet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 2, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A 10-year-old Atlanta-area boy was forced to kiss and lick his teacher's toes. And though the teacher, Jody Kilpatrick of Temple Elementary School in Carroll County, has apologized for the incident, a preliminary investigation found no criminal intent since she apparently received no sexual gratification from the physical contact. The child told investigators his classmates physically restrained him and forced him to kiss his teacher’s feet – and the teacher went along with the abuse. "Ms. Kilpatrick asked [my son], did...

Islamic world blasted for protesting Quran 'story,' silence on Jewish incidents JERUSALEM – With Muslims worldwide protesting a now-retracted Newsweek report that claimed U.S. Army interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Quran down the toilet, the father of a rabbi who was murdered while trying to defend a Jewish holy site from Palestinian rioters blasted Muslim leaders yesterday in an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview. Rabbi Zevulun Lieberman, whose son Hillel died trying to save Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus from Muslim rioters, told WND he is "sickened by this Muslim outcry when Muslims have shown the...

'Feminist Christian' regards Bible as 'metaphor' © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Actress Jane Fonda, whose conversion to Christianity was first reported by WND in 2000, distanced herself from "fundamentalists" in a recent interview, saying she regards the Bible as a metaphor, reads extra-biblical gospels and is still searching for a church. Fonda explained to New York Post columnist Liz Smith that she's a "feminist Christian," distinguished from fundamentalists. "I don't want to offend anyone," Fonda said. "But I believe people have different ways of approaching The Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died. And interpreted...

Officials claim car tags property of state so can't endorse religion © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A Vermont man is fighting the state government over its refusal to allow him to have a license plate with a reference to a Bible verse. After receiving a rejection from the state to his request for custom plates bearing "JOHN316," Rutlant, Vt., resident Shawn Byrne appealed to an administrative law judge. When the appeal was rejected Byrne, with the help of religious-liberties law firm Alliance Defense Fund, sued in federal court earlier this year. According to the Rutland Herald, Byrne's attorney, Jeremy Tedesco, last week...

Only 35 percent of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job, according to the latest Gallup survey. The poll, conducted May 2-5, showed 57 percent disapprove of the performance of Congress, the highest disapproval rating since July 1997. The new poll also shows nearly four in 10 say most Republicans and, separately, most Democrats in Congress are unethical. Gallup asked Americans their view of Congress members taking trips funded by lobbyists, an action for which House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has come under fire from Democrats. More than 8 in 10 say it is at least a...

The National Broadcasting Company is continuing its anti-Catholic ways. And not even being subtle about it. Blasphemy is "the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God." Sacrilege is "gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing." On February 22, NBC broadcast an egregiously insulting episode of the sitcom "Committed,” using consecrated Communion wafers as comic fodder. In the name of humor, two of the show's characters flushed a Communion wafer down a toilet! For "good" measure, the show portrayed a priest as a vulgar ignoramus. For Catholics, that Communion wafer literally is the Body...

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com This week, the leading lights of the Intelligent Design movement – Drs. Jonathan Wells and Michael Behe among them – will make their way to Topeka, Kan. There, they will make an appeal to the state's elected school board to allow in-class criticisms of Darwinism and its derivatives, which are now taught not as theory – not even as fact, actually – but as something close to dogma. The ID advocates may very well succeed. The school board now has a 6-to-4 majority sympathetic to a rational challenge to Darwnism. What is more, in the six years...

Author of Bush-supported pact that cedes U.S. sovereignty © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Elisabeth Mann Borgese One of the main authors of the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, not only admired Karl Marx but was an ardent advocate of the Marxist-oriented New International Economic Order, according to a new report. Supporters of LOST – now before the U.S. Senate and backed by the Bush Administration – depict it as a pact that merely guarantees freedom of navigation on the high seas. But a new report issued by Cliff Kincaid of the public policy group America's Survival Inc. identifies Elisabeth...

Islamic leaders demand apology for 'hate-filled remarks' © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Evangelist Pat Robertson is in trouble with U.S. Islamic organizations for saying Muslims should not serve in the president's Cabinet or as judges. Pat Robertson In an appearance on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sunday, Robertson, who ran for president in 1988, said if were elected he would not appoint Muslims to his Cabinet and that he was not in favor of Muslims serving as judges. "They have said in the Quran there's a war against all the infidels," Robertson said. "Do you want somebody like that sitting as...

Billboard for TV newscast has 'CA' crossed out, nation's named added An immigration activist group is drawing attention to a photograph showing a billboard ad for a Spanish-language TV newscast in L.A. on which the "CA" abbreviation after "Los Angeles" has been crossed out and the word "Mexico" added in its place. Purported photo of billboard in L.A. area. An e-mail to supporters of Americans for Legal Immigration states: "We just received this photo of a billboard in CA that reads 'Los Angeles CA' but the CA is crossed out and replaced by the word 'Mexico.' It looks like this...

What if you gave a party and no one came? In a way, that's what happened in San Francisco in a snub of breathtaking proportions. There's no better example of the intrinsic hate of the Catholic Church by the left than what happened – or rather, didn't happen – in San Francisco after the death of John Paul II. First, there still has not been a single, public word of condolence to Catholics or the Church by the city. Then, the archdiocese planned a mass honoring the pontiff and had a wide invitation list despite a short planning time –...

If you spent more each month than you made and got deeper and deeper into debt, but had an asset equal to your debts, like a big expensive boat you never used, what would you do? If you were rational, you would sell the boat. The U.S. government has spent more than it receives in tax revenue for most of the last 75 years, and, as a result, the national debt and the associated interest payments have gotten bigger and bigger. But what is not well known is that the U.S. government also has many trillions of dollars of assets,...

Campus approves Christian group after publicity Had refused recognition because bylaws forbid homosexual behavior After an activist group publicized the case, an engineering school backed off from its refusal to recognize a Christian student group that barred voting members from practicing acts forbidden by the Bible, such as homosexual behavior. The student government of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, or MSOE, decided to grant full recognition to the ReJOYce in Jesus Campus Fellowship student group April 18. The decision came after the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, intervened upon learning the student government had denied RJCF full...