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After eight years in the wilderness, the left expects a clean sweep in the 2008 election -- the presidency (and with it the federal bureaucracy) and larger majorities in both houses of Congress. Looking ahead, liberals are determined to derail potential opposition to their plans to accelerate the deconstruction of America. Consequently, they have targeted talk radio. Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine is just one facet of their scheme to eviscerate the only part of the media controlled by conservatives. Crucial to an understanding of the jihad against talk radio is this: The left will do anything to gag its...

I just got back from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., where conservatives began lining up behind a man who’s been sticking it to us for years. By a process of self-hypnosis, many have managed to convince themselves that McCain is actually one of us. Not for nothing did Benjamin Disraeli call conservatives the stupid party. What part of John McCain do we not get? McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Edwards -- among other socialist, anti-speech, open-borders, enviro-Marxist measures he’s co-sponsored with the hardcore left of the Democratic Party over the years. If Il Duce had served with...

This may just be the year when conscientious conservatives decide sit out the election. It’s a step not to be taken lightly. The idea of a perfect conservative candidate is a dangerous illusion. As an old Democrat ward heeler once told me: “When you’re running for public office and look in the mirror, that’s when you’ll see a candidate you agree with completely.” Most of us are willing to compromise. I voted for Bush in 2000, knowing full well that his “compassionate conservatism” wasn’t conservative at all, but big government with a smiley face. In the expectation that he would...

This may just be the year when conscientious conservatives decide sit out the election. It’s a step not to be taken lightly. The idea of a perfect conservative candidate is a dangerous illusion. As an old Democrat ward heeler once told me: “When you’re running for public office and look in the mirror, that’s when you’ll see a candidate you agree with completely.” Most of us are willing to compromise. I voted for Bush in 2000, knowing full well that his “compassionate conservatism” wasn’t conservative at all, but big government with a smiley face. In the expectation that he would...

Patriots need to learn to say two words -- "treason" and "traitor." The American people need to hear the truth -- that the left has gone far beyond dissent. It betrays America at every turn. Its hatred of our nation -- our history and underlying ethos -- is visible in word and deed. It slanders the republic, lies about our past, undercuts our warriors, revels in American deaths and consorts with the enemy in time of war (aid and comfort, and all that). These reflections are prompted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia University, in the course of...

Three young people died in Newark, the latest casualties in illegal aliens' war on America. But don't expect even this bloody outrage to end the complacency of the political elite - or the MSM - as the alien invasion turns our streets into a slaughter house. Carranza, now in custody, was out on bail on a charge of raping a 5-year-old and was awaiting trial on an aggravated assault charge. Rodolfo Godinez, also arrested, was here illegally. Aliens are responsible for a crime wave that makes Capone's Chicago look like Woodstock: * At the end of 2003, over 267,000 illegal...

THE FORGOTTEN AMERICAN A speech by Don Feder at the Independent Third. Force Conservative Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2007 Posted May 20, 2007 For the past few years, every Memorial Day, my family and I visit the Concord battlefield, a short drive from our home. It seems fitting, as it was here that Americans first fought - and fell - in the cause of liberty. The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson never fail to move me: "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired...

An article in The Wall Street Journal (April 12) breathlessly informs us of the latest fad on the Incredible Shrinking Continent -- "As Religious Strife Grows, Europe's Atheists Seize Pulpit: Islam's Rise Gives Boost To Militant Unbelievers; The Celebrity Hedonist," the headline teases. The "Celebrity Hedonist," isn't geriatric frat-boy Hugh Hefner, but Michel Onfray, a 48-year-old author dubbed "France's high-priest of atheism" in the Journal piece. Reporter Andrew Higgins describes the doyen of disbelief -- commander of the faith-less -- strutting onto the stage of Caen's 500-seat Alexis de Tocqueville auditorium, dressed in black from head to toe, to deliver...

Leftist Jews finally face the real source of anti-Semitism: anti-capitalist, anti-Zionist fist-pumpers. Among the many groups for whom I feel absolutely no sympathy is the Jewish Left – which has lately been agonizing over the prevalence of Jew-hatred at antiwar rallies. Signs comparing Israelis to Nazis and identifying Jews as the enemies of humanity have become de rigueur at (you should pardon the expression) peace rallies. Jewish leftists – at least those who still feel a connection to the Jewish people – are dismayed. An article in the January 27 Contra Costa (California) Times calls our attention to the San...

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...

Democrats Find Their Values Issue By Don Feder FrontPageMagazine.com | October 13, 2006 In the most bizarre twist of a surreal campaign, Republicans could lose control of the House of Representatives due in part to disgraced Congressman Mark Foley’s salacious e-mails to under-aged pages. If that happens, the beneficiary will be the party that has uncritically embraced the gay-rights movement – which in turn embraces other things. Speaking of double standards: In 1983, Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds was found to have had sexual relations with a 16-year-old male page (No mere cyber-stalking for the Bay State perv.) He was censured...

In a recent commentary, former New York Mayor Ed Koch - a Democrat with at least half a brain (which makes him the leading intellectual light of his party) - asked rhetorically, "Why do so many Americans refuse to face the fact that our country is at war with international terrorism?" Because they're liberals? During the Spanish Civil War, as the climactic battle for Madrid approached, Nationalist leader Francisco Franco told a reporter: "I have four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth within the city ready to rise at my call." Franco's comment gave rise to the World War...

In a recent commentary, former New York Mayor Ed Koch -- a Democrat with at least half his brain intact (which makes him the leading intellectual light of his party) -- asked rhetorically, "Why do so many Americans refuse to face the fact that our country is at war with international terrorism?" Because they're liberals? During the Spanish Civil War, as the climatic battle for Madrid approached, the nationalist leader Francisco Franco told a reporter: "I have four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth within the city ready to rise at my call." Franco's comment gave rise to the...

These are heady days at The New York Times and Tokyo Rose Report. The paper, whose motto is “all the news that’s fit to print,” has been making news itself, by exposing a secret government program to monitor financial transactions related to terrorism. Irate Congressmen have been talking about investigations. There have been calls to prosecute those responsible for this blow to national security. But there’s more to the Times’ efforts to subvert America then just tipping off Osama – much more. Take its recent editorial (“The Immigration Road Show”) in which Traitors R Us threw a bizarre hissy fit...

Politicians who want to put illegal aliens on a pathway to citizenship may soon find themselves on a pathway of their own – the high road to political extinction previously trod by Federalists, Whigs and others who lacked the courage to confront reality. A special election in California and the outcome of the Utah Republican state convention are the first shock waves of what promises to be the electoral equivalent of the bombs that took out Al-Zarqawi. The Democrats were expected to win Tuesday’s congressional election in a district 30 miles from the Mexican border. The vote was to fill...

THE DA VINCI CODE - BLASPHEMY HITS THE BIG SCREEN By Don Feder Posted May 19, 2006 The Da Vinci Code -- which opened today -- might be subtitled "Religion for Morons" or "Gnosticism Meets The New Age." It's fantasy posing as reality. The Sony Pictures film is blasphemous, defames the Catholic Church, and promotes neo-pagan Goddess worship. I find it offensive, and I'm not even a Christian. Director Ron Howard (who specializes in visual candy) assures us that Opie's opus will be true to the novel - a pretentious, overwritten piece of trash that makes Bridget Jones's Diary look...

The Senate has reached a “compromise” on illegal immigration. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (who, by his conduct here, just lost the ’08 nomination) called it a “huge breakthrough” – a moral collapse would be more like it. Did anyone ask the American people – who have time and again expressed their anger, frustration and outrage over our porous borders – whether they want a compromise on illegal immigration, on an amnesty for an estimated 12 million criminal aliens? When asked about compromises on the more contentious issues facing the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia responded: How you can...

Last week (March 27-28), Vision America convened a War On Christians conference in Washington, D.C. It was the first to address escalating attacks on Christians from Hollywood, the news media, academia, the courts, and activist groups like the ACLU and Anti-Defamation League. Speakers included scholars, authors, clergy (among them an Orthodox rabbi), lawyers and members of Congress. Delegates came from as far away as South Africa. I was the conference coordinator, as well as a speaker on two panels ("Jews Confront the War On Christians" and "Hollywood: Christians Through a Distorted Lens"). You will be shocked – shocked! – to...

HOLLYWOOD NEEDS MORE MAGIC – THE NARNIA, NOT THE POTTER KINDGrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary By Don Feder In “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” the lion, Aslan, speaks of the “deep magic from the dawn of time” which governs magical Narnia. At the outset, let me say: A) This isn’t a movie review, B) I loved the movie, and C) I won’t get into the controversy about whether director Andrew Adamson eviscerated the book’s underlying Christian message. “Narnia” is about magic – but not in a superficial sense. With notable exceptions, magic is what’s missing in...

On leaving a theater, have you ever been tempted to yell at the other moviegoers, "Hey, guys: Do ya get it? Do you know what this is about?" That's what I wanted to do when the lights came up and the credits started to roll for Michael Bay's just-released sci-fi block-buster "The Island." "Cloning! Embryonic stem cell research! Abortion! Euthanasia!" I wanted to shout. Still, "The Island's" pro-life message is unmistakable. Liberal critics are grumbling about it. Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt complains that "These filmmakers have, perhaps unwittingly, delivered a film certain to give succor to the...