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WHITE GUILT IS DEAD Free at last, free at last! By Tom Adkins Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric. Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America's flirtation with neo-socialism. But there's a massive silver lining in those magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America: The Era of White Guilt is over. This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn't give a...

Is there such a thing as guilt? Is there such a thing as finding out just how guilty someone is of wrong doing by associating that person to organizations and people who are proven guilty of wrong doing? Oh yeah! If a bank is robbed and the perps caught, and one of the perps merely drove to and from the crime scene, is the driver guilty of the crime by association involvement in the crime? Absolutely. Just for the sake of exploring guilt by association, let’s presume for a moment that the driver makes a claim that he/she didn’t know...

But the [liberals'] main argument is that Obama’s race is what is keeping McCain close. I personally believe it is the other way around. Obama’s race is the only thing keeping Obama close. Contrary to popular belief, Republicans are not racists. And if Obama loses, you can’t blame the GOP with racism. The GOP base aren’t going to vote for Obama, regardless. Nothing to do with skin color; everything to do with party loyalty. Republicans don’t vote for Democrats and vice versa. No, if Obama loses it will be within his own party. There are many “good-old-boys” that vote Democrat...

I've taken to referring to myself in on-line political threads as a proud member of the "You're a racist if you don't support Obama" club - Geraldine Ferraro, founding member; William Clinton, Senior Alumnus. How many of you have been called out as 'racist' for not supporting his majesty? I'm just curious.

Is Ralph Nadar Right About Obama Using White Guilt? by Delores WilliamsJune 26, 2008 06:28 PM EDT (Updated: June 26, 2008 06:37 PM EDT) For my new readers, let me disclose from the top that I am not an Obama fan. I refuse to pull the lever for him because I think he is unqualified, lacks judgment, and borders near the unethical and illegal too often. Having said that, is Ralph Nadar right when he says that Obama is using "white guilt" and trying to talk "white." I think I have a split decision on that. As far as...

And fix things they did. Today, white Democrats like Harriet Christian are angry as she (and many others) believes an unqualified black man is being shoved down their throats, while a more qualified white woman (with more popular votes) is being kicked to the curb. Others believe whites have it in for their black candidate who is winning the delegate count. Knowing Democrats (and the Clintons) as we do, this will not be fixed in a way that will end in a Kumbaya moment. The Denver Fire Department will surely be on alert during the Democrat National Convention. "And they...

When did "liberal guilt" get such a bad reputation? You hear it all the time now from people who sneeringly dismiss whites who support Obama's candidacy as "guilty liberals." There are, of course, many reasons why whites might support Obama that have nothing to do with race. But what if redeeming our shameful racial past is one factor for some? Why delegitimize sincere excitement that his nomination and potential election would represent a historic civil rights landmark: making an abstract right a reality at last. Instead, their feeling must be disparaged as merely the result of a somehow shameful "liberal...

LONDON, May 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the May 2 installment of his regular health feature in The Times, Dr. Thomas Stuttaford responded to a reader who complained of a loss of interest in sex following an abortion. "Though my boyfriend and I agreed it was the right thing to do, I feel guilty and I've gone off sex," wrote the questioner. Dr. Stuttaford responded by saying that loss of libido after an abortion is "so common that it can almost be said to be expected". Asked if the feelings would pass, Stuttaford wrote, "It is possible, but by no...

For a United States Senator, Barack Obama has been doing a lot of explaining about the company he has kept for the last 17 years or so. Take some Joe Blow Alderman off the streets of Chicago and examine his friends and acquaintances and you’re bound to come up with a couple of unsavory characters that straddle the line of legality with regard to city contracts or their business dealings. But Obama is not some regular Machine pol juicing the way for his ward heeling friends so they can grow fat and rich at taxpayer expense. He is a United...

Major UK Newspaper Caught by Bloggers Censoring Its Own Graphic Abortion By Hilary White September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With Britain facing its 40th anniversary of the legalizing of abortion, this October the issue is finding its way into the mainstream British press. Today's Daily Mail, whose "small-c" editorial policy makes it Britain's largest circulating daily newspaper, is carrying a series of interviews titled, "What WE think of abortion - by the women who had them..."The story covers interviews with six women, two of whom say they have "no regrets", chronicling the horrors of abortion. But a US blogger is calling...

Harry Potter: The Archetype of an Abortion Survivor By Marie Peeters-Ney, MD and Philip G. Ney, M.D., M.A., FRCP(C), FRANZCP, RPsychOriginally published in Catholic Insight December 2003Republished with permission and encouragement of authors One could speak about a worldwide "Harry Potter phenomenon," appearing soon after the Pokemon craze. The object of this discussion is to reflect on the possible reasons for the remarkable popularity of Harry Potter. Can the current craze be only due to good marketing skills? Does this book have exceptional literary value? Could the book be an indicator of a deeper cultural trend?  We wish to hypothesize...

Environemental Organizations Generate Green Guilt to Push More Population Control Want everyone to become "eunuchs for the green kingdom" by Colin Mason Front Royal, Virginia, August 27, 2007 (pop.org) - If asked what function the San Francisco-based Sierra Club performs, most of its 1.3 million members would probably reply "protecting the environment," or "raising awareness of endangered species," or words to that effect. Yet, in their 2007 legislative report for Minnesota, the Sierra Club spent nearly 3 pages describing legislative initiatives that have virtually nothing to do with the environment. Rather, this section deals almost exclusively with population issues or,...

Why did he do it? Why conjure up unquiet ghosts? Why now? Vietnam is not only, as President Bush rather flatly put it, “a complex and painful subject” for Americans. The V-word is lodged in folk memory as an unwinnable war that America should never have fought, that wasted blood and treasure, and that, most woundingly, bitterly split the nation. Vietnam, even today, is a powerful political toxin. Probably the only American politician who can talk about Vietnam without risk is the war hero John McCain. John Kerry tried the “veteran who wants out of Iraq” line in the 2004...

Stop The Apologizing Already Apologies must be in this year, Danes sorry for looting and pillaging MORE than 1200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. On Wednesday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise. The Danish Minister for Culture, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to celebrate the arrival of a replica Norse longboat, apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted. "In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship but we are not proud of the damage to the people of Ireland that followed in the...

How can you not love those secular progressives. They've taken a human condition that has bedeviled mankind for centuries and solved it in one fell swoop. Various cultures deal with sin and guilt in vastly different ways. Certain Arab cultures flagellate themselves till they draw blood and thus achieve cleansing. Catholics are given proscribed penance and absolution. Christians, thank God, have Jesus who died for their sins. Secular progressives, having chosen man over God, are thus left in a peculiar situation. The closest the left comes to religious observation is obeisance to 'Mother Earth,' so they have had to figure...

The Remedy for Paralyzed Sinners, Fallen Saints, and Provincial Christians God did his most deadly work to destroy hopelessness and futility and provincial cowardice. He gave up his Son to torture and death. A perfect life, a perfect death, and the decisive work was done. But there are millions who are numb to hope because of the God-belittling things they have done and how ugly they have become. They don’t lift lofty arguments against God’s Truth; they shrug and feel irretrievably outside. They don’t defy God consciously; they default to cake and television. Except for the periodic rush of sex...

When Dick Morris was asked last week on Fox News why he thought Obama is becoming such a rock star, he had a two word answer: 'White guilt'. Morris went on to say, "I asked Clinton back in 2004 why he thought Colin Powell was such an appealing candidate. Clinton attributed it to white guilt". Morris has a point. As Shelby Steele outlined in his book of the same name, "Because white guilt is a vacuum of moral authority, it makes the moral authority of whites contingent on proving a negative." So the rush is on to prove how 'free...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- White men dominate the leadership positions in college sports, a new study says, with women and minorities making only slow progress moving into the top jobs. Athletic directors, conference commissioners and university presidents overwhelmingly are white, the study released Wednesday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport found.

Hutton Gibson has been making a three-hour drive each week for the past year from his home in Summersville, W.Va., to rural Westmoreland County, a round trip of more than 300 miles, just to attend Sunday Mass. Now, the 87-year-old Gibson plans to have his own church in Mt. Pleasant Township. The church is St. Michael the Archangel Chapel, now located in a ranch-style brick home along Route 982 South between the villages of Lycippus and Weltytown. Gibson is no ordinary parishioner. Gibson is the father of actor-director Mel Gibson and a follower of an ultraconservative branch of Catholicism that...

I don't usually post anecdotal cases of liberal dementia-- mainly because they are not constructive or informative excepting in that it gives us something to snicker over. But, this one is sticking in my brain a bit, so I want to mention it. Last Saturday evening I accompanied my wife to her book club meeting. Once a year they invite the husbands to attend and after they talk about the book for a few moments, it becomes a dinner party. About twenty guests, all in their 40's to 60's (except for me, I'm still 39 until September 15th!!!) And all...

Contrary to Jack Kemp's thesis, the greatest civil rights challenge of our time is not granting congressional representation to the District of Columbia. It is helping black Americans throw off the chains of liberalism, which for nearly 50 years has caused enormous harm to the black community, and held back the social and economic advancement of blacks while other minority groups in our society were developing, achieving, and prospering.

Federal Housing Agency and Residents File Complaints Saying the Program Is Biased Against Hispanics Federal housing officials said yesterday that they are investigating whether a two-year-old program to combat crowded housing in Manassas is unfairly targeting Hispanic families in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a complaint Tuesday alleging a pattern of discrimination. Yesterday, a group of Manassas residents and civil rights advocates filed 11 more complaints, saying that the city has selectively enforced its overcrowding rules and other ordinances against Hispanic residents in what amounts to a systematic campaign of...

There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II. For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power (the nuclear option aside) in the wars we fight. And this seems only reasonable given the relative weakness of our Third World enemies in Vietnam and in the Middle East. But the fact is that we lost in Vietnam, and today, despite our vast power, we are only slogging along--if admirably--in Iraq against a hit-and-run insurgency that cannot stop us even...

Jason Buberel was racked with guilt that his car spews carbon dioxide and, he believes, furthers global warming. So Buberel pays $50 a year to TerraPass, a Menlo Park start-up that promises to use the money to fund projects that reduce carbon emissions and otherwise offset the carbon emissions of Buberel's car. ``I do believe that humans are contributing to global warming,'' said Buberel, 35, who lives in Sunnyvale. ``But I'm not so concerned about it that I would radically change my lifestyle to be carbon emissions free. ``This was an easy way.'' --snip-- Someone who drives 12,000 miles per...

An abortion can cause five years of mental anguish, anxiety, guilt and even shame, a BMC Medicine study suggests. University of Oslo researchers compared 40 women who had had a miscarriage with 80 who chose to have an abortion. Miscarriage was associated with more mental distress in the six months after the loss of a baby - but abortion had a much longer lasting negative effect. Pro-choice campaigners said there was no evidence abortion directly caused psychological trauma. The researchers said their work underlined the importance of giving women information about the psychological effects of losing a baby - either...

Oslo, Norway (LifeNews.com) -- Another study has confirmed the fact that women who have abortions suffer from mental anxiety, guilt, shame, and distress years later. Those negative emotional feelings can last as long as five years after the abortion or even longer, the Norwegian study found. The study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, in Norway compared 40 women who suffered a miscarriage and 80 women who had abortions. Researchers questioned them 10 days, 6 months, two years and give years after what happened. The survey found that women who had miscarriages felt more negative emotions shortly after the event...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - At Little Rock Family Planning Services, the women filed in without making eye contact, a demographic that remains unrecognized. Leah works in a clothing boutique. Alicia is in high school. Tammy pulls espresso. Regina is a sergeant in the Army, recently home from Iraq. Far from Washington and the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., here in Little Rock on an August weekend, 26 women from as far away as Oklahoma joined the more than one million American women who will probably have abortions this year. Their experiences, at one of only...

The US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was meant to kick-start the Cold War rather than end the Second World War, according to two nuclear historians who say they have new evidence backing the controversial theory. Causing a fission reaction in several kilograms of uranium and plutonium and killing over 200,000 people 60 years ago was done more to impress the Soviet Union than to cow Japan, they say. And the US President who took the decision, Harry Truman, was culpable, they add. "He knew he was beginning the process of annihilation of the...

<p>SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton's pals stress that she's not a target in the criminal case against former chief fund-raiser David Rosen — but Democrats have the jitters because she could still pay a hefty political price.</p> <p>"Whether or not he's convicted, it reminds people of the downside of the Clinton years — the mess. We're a political party looking to move into the future and getting dragged back 'ceaselessly into the past,' to quote 'The Great Gatsby,' " said a top Democratic strategist.</p>

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's former wife wiped away tears on Wednesday as she testified that the pop icon called her for help after the broadcast of a damaging British documentary in 2003 and that she agreed in the hope of seeing their family reunited. But Debbie Rowe said that contrary to prosecution assertions she was not bullied into giving an interview about her famous ex-husband and refused to follow a script. Rowe, the mother of two of Jackson's three children, smiled at the singer as she took the witness stand and identified herself as "Deborah Rowe-Jackson." Prosecutors...

Panel says men can sue strip clubs over extra fees Ruling allows pair who used credit cards to pay for lap dances to seek refunds By ROMA KHANNA Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Two men who sued more than a half-dozen strip clubs because of extra fees charged for lap dances got some good news from a Houston appeals court. But that could be bad news for other lap-dance fans, who may want their appreciation for that art form kept confidential. A three-judge panel of the 14th Texas Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Paul Brian Meekey and Michael Fulmer should...

Today's Attack on Tom DeLay Involves Guilt by Association By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Morning Editor April 8, 2005 (CNSNews.com) -- Get out your pencils: You'll need to draw a chart to keep this story straight. The gist is this: The Campaign for America's Future, a liberal policy group, is challenging House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to "explain his relationship" to Brian Darling, the former counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez. Darling wrote the Republican strategy memo that said intervention in the Terri Schiavo case would be a "great political issue" for Republicans. Martinez, a Florida Republican, said he never read Darling's...

BTK Suspect's Arrest Upsets Kan. Church By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Sunday, February 27, 2005 (02-27) 17:40 PST Wichita, Kan. (AP) -- They worshipped next to Dennis L. Rader for years, sharing the same pews and singing from the same hymnals. They knew him as a Cub Scout leader, a respected church official, a kind friend. Now, members of Christ Lutheran Church must confront the possibility that 59-year-old Rader is something else: The BTK serial killer, blamed for 10 deaths in the Wichita area from 1974 to 1991. "We feel dismay, anger, devastation, utter shock and disbelief. The very...

The Imperial City When Good News Feels Bad After Iraq’s vote, New York liberals are in a serious moral-ideological-emotional bind. And the only way out is to root for Bush’s victory. After the blizzard and before the fashion shows, you may have heard, the elections in Iraq went off extremely well. Remember? Or, like most New Yorkers, perhaps you let that fact slide from your consciousness as quickly as possible . . . Hey, speaking of Fashion Week, what is it with this renaissance in corseting? Seriously: The success of the elections poses a major intellectual-moral-political problem for people in...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

About this time of year I start to feel like crap. The holidays arrive, and along with hideous plastic illuminated Santas and creepy blue icicle lights returns the painful memory of Grandpa’s last Christmas. I remember it well. You see, I wasn’t there. I volunteered to work at the newspaper that day because a) I needed extra money, b) I wanted to score bonus points with the boss and c) I figured no one would miss me. Back then, in my early 20s, family gatherings seemed more an obligation than times to be treasured. How I wish I’d gone. It’s...

I made it on Blogs for Bush again. This time it's in the October 28, 2004 (today) B4B section. Now, I've come clean with my guilt!! Thank You, President Bush Written by guest blogger Mike McConnell of Kokonut Pundits. I would like to use this opportunity to apologize. But technically I voted for you before I voted for Gore. But the coin flip I did at the polling place that day has haunted me ever since it landed "tails" and Gore got my "vote." But the realization of how much bigger you really were as President suddenly came to fruition...

Lawyer: Malvo To Drop Appeals, Admit Guilt Attorney Says Teenage Sniper Ready To Accept Life Term POSTED: 5:26 pm EDT September 24, 2004 McLEAN, Va. -- A lawyer for teenage sniper Lee Malvo said he plans to admit guilt in one of the Washington-area sniper slayings. He also said Malvo will drop all of his appeals of his convictions in another of the shootings. Attorney Michael Arif said Malvo realizes "he's not going anywhere" and that he is ready to accept a lifetime in prison. A plea hearing is set for next month. Malvo is charged with capital murder in...

Compare & Contrast(Regular type from the Guardian article and italic type from the frontpagemag article) On Saturday, June 19, 2004 it was reported Anonymous (an anonymous senior intelligence official [supposedly] from the Bush administration) "is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands." Progressives find it easier to blame the Israeli or American governments for their mistakes than to stare long and hard into the face of radical Islamist evil. People often...

SOME ADDITIONS TO THE COURSE CATALOG CJ 421 Victimology II - This course will examine the offender as a victim of society instead of as a criminal. Special emphasis will be on court bias and police brutality. ED 400 Teaching Young Republicans - This course will look at the difficulty teachers face as they attempt to teach Young Republicans with speacial emphasis on the students' narrow mindedness and hatred. BIOL 223 Functional Anatomy II (Sexual Anatomy) - This course will examine the reproductive system and explore how lesbianism is not only normal, but is the best method of birth control...

Last week's episode of the Sopranos featured a conversation between the daughter, Meadow Soprano, and her unemployed live-in boyfriend. While discussing his out-of-work status, the character says that he won't go to work at McDonald's because he doesn't want to take a job from a minority. I was struck by just how condescending and patronizing this is. I grew up in a relatively non-political black household. My parents are more religious than political. However, like most blue-collar black men, my father leans Democrat if anyone ever asks. I grew up believing in affirmative action and I actually liked Bill Clinton...

Public's cynicism about media has become a pressing concern By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 4/14/2004 At a time when public distrust of the news media appears to be at a dangerously high level, there is evidence of a deep and fundamental disagreement between those who produce news and those who consume it. Although most journalists believe quality and values are vital elements of their work and see themselves as providing an important civic function, the reading and viewing public seems to think of journalism as a bottom-line-driven enterprise populated by the ethically challenged. Last month, the Washington-based Project for Excellence...

CHOOSING BARABBAS   by James Kiefer   "Not this man, but Barabbas!" It is often said that Christianity is at its roots anti-Jewish, that it encourages hatred for Jews by teaching that they are responsible for the death of Jesus. Moreover, it is said, this is not just a distortion of the Christian faith by a few misguided fanatics -- it is the teaching of the New Testament itself. In this essay, I should like to examine in what sense, if any, this is so. Before examining the question of how the Christian Scriptures interpret the events, where they...

Here is a storm in a teacup for you, reported at great length on page one of the New York Times business section, February 7. The actual teacup is Dewey Ballantine, a law firm of the kind known around New York as "white shoe," which is to say, old (founded 1909), very expensive, and very respectable. Don't even think of taking that dispute with your auto mechanic to Dewey Ballantine. That's not the kind of law they do. To quote from their website: "Dewey Ballantine's New York client base includes such companies as The Walt Disney Company, General Electric Company,...

It was a dark dream full of movement: The jury walks in and hands up the verdict, the judge mouths the words on the paper, the assassin nods his head forward and backward and closes his eyes. The parents cry in happiness, and the government lawyers are struck dumb. The spectators look at each other in astonishment. The dream jumps. In a suburban home sits a witty and competent man whose life was quite ruined by the young man who nods and closes his eyes and hears that he is not guilty of committing ruin. The dream ends with a...

Friday, December 5, 2003, Wall Street Week on PBS -- Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. wrote the book. He is, it seems shocked at the gap between the rich and the poor. He said on PBS’s Wall Street Week Without Louis Rukeyser, that he hoped the new rich kids would turn out more like the 1910 generation, aware of the responsibility that being rich puts on them. What is this “responsibility?” Why, giving the money to foundations. Now, we know the difference between WSW with Louie and WSW without Louie. It is the difference between a capitalist and a Bolshevik who...

"When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for. That is, at the end of the first Gulf War, we knew what he had. We knew what was destroyed in all the inspection processes and that was a lot. And then we bombed with the British for four days in 1998. We might have gotten it all; we might have gotten half of it; we might have gotten none of it. But we didn't know. So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N....

Lithuanians, Jews, Nazis, the Holocaust, and Collective Guilt By Andrew L. Jaffee, August 14, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. - Jesus of Nazareth, from the Gospel of John "All Jews are communists." "All Lithuanians are Nazis." Have you heard these things said before? I have. A recent visit to the State Jewish Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania spurred me to think very carefully about collective guilt and the Holocaust. Being an American of both Lithuanian and Jewish ancestry has sometimes put me in an awkward position. First, I'm born and raised American--you know,...

The New Republic, at its best, offers pieces of observation such as “idiocy watch” whereby the reader is amused by the stupidity of the scions of pop who offer moronic opinions about 9/11 such as it being a magnificent artistic statement or that Osama Bin Laden would not be so violent if we could just get him in touch with his true loving nature [sic]. At its worst, it produces articles like Michelle Cottle´s Guilty Verdict about the Jayson Blair imbroglio at the New York Times. Her piece is valuable because it offers us an inside glimpse of the theory...

Out of the many lies that attempt to steer and modify us everyday is the myth of "white privilege." I believe that there is nothing so destructive as this prevarication. It implies that all Caucasians are born with a silver spoon in their mouths and that anything they are given is the result of our "racist" society. This misassumption has created a predisposition among many Caucasians to apologize for everything that they do and to act as if they are lucky to have escaped punishment for crimes they never committed. Let me first unequivocally state that this is the least...