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The White House Released this statement yesterday from President Barack Obama to commemorate the Muslim holiday of Ramadan: These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country. And today, I want to extend my best wishes to the 1.5...

New bride Chelsea Clinton would do well to keep a close eye on her millions after she marries Marc Mezvinsky this weekend. Of course, Marc’s not responsible for the sins of his father, Ed “Fast Talkin Eddie’ Mezvinsky, who according to the FBI investigators was a “one-man crime wave” for over 20 years. And like a lot of criminals who get caught he’s probably a changed man after six and a half years in a federal prison in Pensacola, Florida. Released in April, 2008 he’s out in time to witness the nuptials at the John Jacob Astor IV estate in...

The internet has been buzzing about the story of Jennifer Keeton. She was a student at Augusta State University, trying to get a degree in counseling. An outspoken Christian, Keeton is not supportive of so-called “gay rights.” She was not shy about expressing her biblical perspective on homosexuality both in and out of class, and the university responded by expelling her. They claim that a bias against homosexuality disqualifies her from a certification in counseling, and gave her the option of undergoing a remediation program, complete with gay sensitivity training (read: brainwashing), or expulsion. And so, Keeton sued the school....

I’m giddy about the Journolist expose. Of course we all knew liberal journalists were cooking the books, but having the proof is such sweet victory for conservatives. In fact, I’m thinking about building a mosque in front of the New York Times as a symbol of our victory. I recall the first time I heard someone accuse the Tea Party of being racist. It was Janeane Garofalo. She was talking to Keith Olbermann right after the first major Tea Party protest on April 15th, 2009. She said the Tea Party followers were all “racist teabagging rednecks,” or something vulgar like...

Baskin Robbins’ 31 flavors have nothing on Glenn Beck. How many varieties of attack will we see thrown at Beck during the course of his career? How many types of accusations will have to be responded to? He’s been called a fool, a racist, anti-Christian, unethical, and now an anti-Semite. In the Left’s relentless pursuit to bring down Beck, they hope they found the silver bullet by making him a Jew hater. In the past few days multiple blogs and news outlets have attempted to paint comments made by Beck as anti-Semitic. Everyone from the Huffington Post to Olbermann to...

Last week, before the airing of an episode of Friday Night Lights on NBC, feminist sites were gleefully discussing the fact that a teen-age character was pregnant and contemplating an abortion. They were not only gleeful, but were actively and proudly rooting for her to have the abortion and for NBC to air the episode. An example from a post at Feministing entitled “I’m rooting for an abortion this Friday night”: "In the real world, abortion is one of the most common surgical procedures in the country and more than a third of American women will have one by age...

Daily Kos is among the largest political blogs in the world. It has well over 200,000 registered users and, whether anyone likes it or not, has some influence within American politics. In the 2006 midterm, for example, they raised money for 17 netroots candidates, winning eight races: Jim Webb (VA-Sen), Jon Tester (MT-Sen), Tim Walz (MN-01), Joe Sestak (PA-07), Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23), Patrick Murphy (PA-08), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), and Paul Hodes (NH-02). Daily Kos helped drive Joe Lieberman from the Democratic party and the mainstream media promotes Daily Kos through Keith Olbermann. It also, of course, helped give Barack Obama...

Bill O’Reilly is clearly continuing his shameless and cowardly surrender to Sharia Law. Daily on his program, The O’Reilly Factor on FoxNews.com, he engages in the standard and phony obfuscations about the jihadi threat the West faces, consistently refusing to honestly name and label the Islamic foundations of the terrorist enterprise. Back in April 2010, he blatantly sided with our society’s dhimmis, blaming South Park for doing the Mohammed shows. Rather than praising Parker’s and Stone’s courage, standing up for their right to make any script they wished, and denouncing the despots who threatened their lives (and the tenets of...

Racist eugenicist and Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger would be so proud: "According to the city Health Department, 2008 saw 89,469 abortions performed in New York City — seven for every 10 live births. Among black women, abortions out number live births by three to two." These statistics from New York City more closely resemble the abortion mill culture of post-communist countries like China and Russia (who have historically devalued the worth of individual human life in favor of the collective good), than the old Clintonian mantra, “safe, legal and rare.” I realize that many people, liberal and otherwise, are...

Yes, Keith Olbermann does read NewsReal Blog. We’ve known this for some time. He’s even read David Forsmark on the air before. Yesterday, I unveiled the first installment in the David Horowitz Digital Library, volume 1 of Meltdown with Keith Olbermann. To commemorate the ebook I presented the Top 5 Olbermann Meltdowns. But in the blogosphere writing and publishing one’s post is only half of the work. Now it was time to promote it. And I knew just who needed to see it.Yesterday I tweeted to Keith: Hey @KeithOlbermann, Check out @newsrealblog the new ebook challenging you: http://tinyurl.com/29zj8dn #tcot And...

Expelled from Saudi Arabia. Unsafe in Europe. The libertarian-minded atheist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not be silenced. In her latest book, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, the former Muslim takes on the Muslim veil (p. 16): The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and burkas, are all gradations of mental slavery. You must ask permission to leave the house, and when you do go out you must always hide yourself behind thick drapery. Ashamed of your body, suppressing your desires – what small space in your life can you call your own? It...

Video: Part three in the series of video fisks of President Obama’s “immigration speech.” Lots of squirrels and straw men. Few (if any) substantive policy proposals or solutions to problems.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues in his op-ed column on Friday, entitled “Myths of Austerity,” that there is no rational case for fiscal austerity in today’s global economic climate: Instead, it rests on what we might charitably call sheer speculation, and less charitably call figments of the policy elite’s imagination Aside from the fact that the “policy elites” in Washington – right up to President Obama himself – are touting fiscal stimulus as more important a priority than getting the public debt under control, Krugman is the one engaging in fantasies of economic recovery through even more robust...

If you thought becoming a Muslim apostate and then spying on Hamas for Israel was difficult, try tangling with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Mosab Hassan Yousef is the latest tragic near-victim of America’s restrictive immigration policy. Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the main founders of Hamas. Mosab is also the most valuable source of intelligence on Hamas that Israel has ever produced. From 1997 to 2007, Mosab provided intelligence that prevented dozens of terrorist attacks and multiple assassinations. During that time he secretly converted to Christianity and abandoned Islam. After he was exposed...

Republicans, and I think the country as a whole, are getting fed up with President Obama and his staff blaming it all on Bush. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s wrong to point out the deficit Obama began with or the fact that he inherited the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama deserves a fair shake—he had a lot on his plate—but he knew that when he was running. After all, he based his campaign on comparing McCain to Bush. Jon Stewart slams the Republicans for their hypocrisy in blaming Clinton for troubles the Bush Administration faced throughout...

This week, I asked the busy author of Losing Our Religion, S.E. Cupp, two questions and she was gracious enough to respond. One: What do atheists do on Sunday mornings? (Sorry, I had to ask.) I have no idea what other atheists do on Sunday morning. I reject all attempts at categorizing this group as homogeneous. Atheists are marked by a LACK of specific value system, so painting them with one brush is a gross misunderstanding of who they are. As for me, I work constantly…so my Sunday morning is not unlike any other morning. I’m at my computer…banging away....

Did you know that deep down inside (when he’s not silencing his opposition, supporting the FARC, sponsoring drug trafficking, and courting Hezbollah and almost every other enemy of the West) Hugo Chavez is a good, admirable man? Yup, he is—according to Leftist filmmaker Oliver Stone. The filmmaker, along with the upcoming release of his “Wall Street” sequel, has a new documentary called “South of the Border” that praises Chavez, Castro, their allies, and highlights other South American leaders. But, apparently the Venezuelan people aren’t as hot on the near-dictator as Stone is: The documentary is bombing in the country. Personally,...

I generally ignore the irrelevant bint known as Miss Gloria Steinem, but Katie Couric interviewed her on Tuesday and thrust her back into the mock-worthy spotlight. Plus, I’m sick fed up with her and “feminists” like her. The emergence of conservative women to the forefront recently has made them particularly unbearable, as they strive to, in every repugnant way possible, diminish said women. This is just the latest from one of them, Miss Gloria Steinem, who unfortunately resurfaced from whatever Birkenstock-clad, soy latte drinking ivory tower she was hiding in: Firstly, good grief, Katie Couric. What an inane question: “Can...

Contrary to myth, when a perfectly good mother is custodially challenged by her child’s father, she is immediately at risk—most certainly in any Muslim country where the custody of children is viewed as a male religious, tribal, and legal right. If the mother has grown up in that country, she knows this can happen, which is one reason why Muslim mothers do not seek divorce and “accept” second and third wives into their homes. Western women are different. Yazmin Maribel Bautista was born in Mexico and moved to Arizona, where she became a naturalized American citizen. Yazmin (a common Mexican...

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin – one of the most influential conservative women of our time – said during a recent appearance on Fox News that she doesn’t have a problem with people smoking marijuana in their own homes. “If somebody’s gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm,” she explained, they should be left alone. It’s great to see Palin adopt a more libertarian view on soft drugs. I wish the conservative movement as a whole would follow in her footsteps. If you believe in liberty and individual, rather than collective responsibility for...