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The murderous secular humanist religions of Communism and Nazism were spawned by the anti-God/utopian tradition of Revolutionary France. The Black Book of Communism, an 800- page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, graphically details the terror, torture, man-made famine, mass deportations, starvation, and massacres undertaken on behalf of revolutionary utopian ideals. The reality of Communism, which claimed to be an emissary of the Enlightenment, of universal brotherhood, and of happiness for all as envisioned by Gracchus Babeuf, turned out to be not only a sadistic engine for unimaginable evil but also the creator of hells on earth. The...

Did anyone squirm or feel embarrassed when President Obama allowed Dictator Chavez to give him a book about the evils of the United States? The initial diplomatic handshake could be overlooked, but it was definitely embarrassing to watch Obama accepting, with a smile, a gift from this guy who had previously called him an “ignoramus”, and had called another U.S. President “el Diablo” at the United Nations. This blunder, on the heels of his European fiasco where he apologized for the United States’ policies before he took office, raises serious questions about his vision and understanding of what America is...

Obama’s performance as POTUS is pretty convincing, if not Oscar-worthy. From the moment CNN called the election, Obama’s rehearsed swagger emerged. He won; he is entitled to gloat. What’s pitiful is that he really thinks he is in charge. Well before Obama seriously considered a run for President, others evaluated his potential. Khalid Al-Mansour, associate of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest men, helped get Obama into and through Harvard. After Harvard, Chicago’s notorious political machine saw Obama’s potential to become the nation’s first black president. This view was shared by rich liberal power brokers, black...

Let's have a constitutional showdown! Every Congressman swears an oath to "… preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." To a casual observer, these words could be interpreted to mean that laws enacted by Congress should be consistent with the requirements of the Constitution. To the majority of Congress, these words mean something else, or have no meaning at all, because much of the legislation produced in Washington has no relationship at all with the Constitution. If we are a nation founded upon the U.S. Constitution, then our laws should be constrained by the Constitution. If we...

Most of the world is giddy about the inauguration of the first black president of the United States. The media have invested unprecedented airtime to transform this man into a modern messiah. Much of the world sees Obama not simply as the first black president, but as the first president to accept global governance to be more important than U.S. governance. His Berlin speech last July promised "a new global partnership" and a new "global commitment" to "save the planet."

Washington is abuzz preparing for the anointing of Obama and a rerun of the Clinton era. Several nominees for key Cabinet positions did their undergraduate work for Bill Clinton; they are now well-prepared to do the heavy lifting for Obama. Aside from the highly publicized Cabinet appointments, Obama will name nearly 7,000 people to management positions in the various federal agencies. Resource and land management agencies will, once again, become extension offices of environmental organizations. Nearly 30 environmental organizations have already prepared Obama's "green" agenda. And, with expanded majorities in both houses of Congress, Obama expects his left-leaning vision of...

Why freedom won't die in the 21st century When Bill Clinton assumed the presidency in 1993, few people had ever heard the term "sustainable development." When Barack Obama assumes the presidency on Jan. 20, sustainable development will guide the formulation of public policy in city councils, county commissions, state legislatures, the U.S. Congress and the U.N. General Assembly. (Sustainable development) is the reorganization of society around a body of principles and recommendations set forth in a document called ("Agenda 21,)" endorsed by 179 nations in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Sustainable...

Social engineering by government always ends in disaster. Social engineering occurs when government passes laws and regulations that force citizens to behave the way government thinks they should behave. Prohibition is a great example of social engineering. In 1919, government decided that its citizens should not drink "intoxicating liquors." This "government-knows-best" idea produced more than a decade of lawlessness far worse than citizen intoxication. Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Free people in a free market always produce the best products, most efficiently, at the lowest price. Every time government "engineering" intrudes into the market, products, efficiency, price – and consumers...

It is not just a victory for the Democrats; it is a Marxist tsunami. The principles that have guided President-elect Obama to this point are deeply rooted in Marxist philosophy. He is now in the position to infuse government with this philosophy through his appointments and legislative agenda. Democrats Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Frank, and others with recognizable names are only the face of what’s in store. Behind this face is a force teaming with the power to obliterate the U.S. Constitution and the machinery of self-governance it created.

Socialism, according to Karl Marx, is the transition between capitalism and communism. To achieve communism, Marx says, there must be continuing revolution in which the fundamental principal is: The end justifies the means. =============================================================== Counting Chickens before they roost The media keep insisting that their bogus polls show Obama already won the elections, with the only unfinished bidness being . . . having the elections. This 'confidence' must be why they're going after a plumber in Ohio, prying the lids off his garbage cans, rummaging inside his plumbing fixtures looking for clogged pipes containing evidence this obvious Neo-Con Fascist/Zionist/Rove-Halliburton AmeriKKKan...

Socialism, according to Karl Marx, is the transition between capitalism and communism. To achieve communism, Marx says, there must be continuing revolution in which the fundamental principal is: The end justifies the means. For more than half a century, capitalism in the United States has taken a beating from the socialist revolution. Despite the best efforts of conservatives since the Roosevelt era, socialists have made great strides toward converting the nation to socialism. Apparently, the majority of Americans either fail to recognize the transition, or welcome it. The enthusiastic support for Barack Obama, especially among young people, is abundant evidence....

The centerpiece of Barack Obama's campaign is "change." His primary qualification for the office he seeks is his experience as a "community organizer," a state senator for eight years, and a U.S. senator since 2004. To see just what changes Obama wants to bring to the country it is reasonable to look at the values he has demonstrated and the causes he has pursued during his professional career. Obama's community organizing experience began in 1985 in Chicago. He chose to work for ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). A review of ACORN's Peoples Platform reveals much about Obama's...

What a difference a Dem makesBy Henry Lamb web posted May 26, 2008It makes very little difference which Democrat wins the White House.  The next president will push the United States a little further into the web of global governance.  Hillary Clinton is on record in support of global governance.  John McCain has declared his intention to embrace the Kyoto Protocol.  And Barack Obama has introduced the Global Poverty Act (S2433) to bring the U.S. into compliance with the U.N.'s Millennium Declaration.  As much as President Bush is hated by Democrats and Republicans alike, he did keep the U.S. out...

When Hitler set out to conquer the world, it was American blood, treasure and determination that stopped him. When the Soviet Union set out to subject the world to communism, it was American blood, treasure and determination that stopped it. If the Muslim extremists' quest to subject the world to radical Islam is to be stopped, it will, once again, take American blood, treasure and determination. It may be true that the Islamic extremists who call for world domination represent only a minority of the world's Muslims. Minority or not, it is they who drive the Muslim agenda and unashamedly...

In the turbulent 1960s, a civil rights movement arose that resulted in the creation of a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Soon, there were state commissions on civil rights around the country. Then came the U.S. Commission on the Status of Women. Soon, there followed state Commissions on the Status of Women. Perhaps it is time for a Commission on the Status of Freedom. America grew into a powerful, prosperous nation because its Constitution guaranteed to every citizen the freedom endowed by the Creator. While it took a century to extend those freedoms to black Americans, and to women, the...

American Sovereignty, Descent into global mediocrity The Revolutionary War was all about establishing the independence of, and bestowing national sovereignty upon, the United States of America. The U.S. Constitution created a system of limited government that championed individual freedom, which produced the most prosperous and productive civilization the world has ever known. This unique position in the world is rapidly waning. The next presidential election will surely accelerate the rate of descent into global mediocrity. Barack Obama, the current Democrat frontrunner, is a globalist of the first sort. His recent legislative proposal is ample evidence. [to commit a] percent of...

Sex offenders are required to register their premises and report to the government when they move. Similarly, the USDA is implementing a so-called "voluntary" program that requires owners of livestock animals to register their premises and report to the government when any animal is moved off the premises.

Kevin knew that there was no money. Still, he really wanted a basketball. Maybe there was a Santa Claus. No, Mama had made a point several times to say that Santa Claus might not make it to their house this year because he was so busy getting toys to children who didn't even have a house to live in. Besides, Nancy had made it very clear that she just had to have a Barbie set. There certainly would not be enough money for both. Mama was a sales lady at Nathan's. Daddy was ... well, no one knew where Daddy...

In many ways, Al Gore is like the charismatic preacher who mesmerized his congregation every Sunday, but during the week, ministered privately to the needs of neglected housewives to satisfy his own appetite. While sermonizing before the Nobel Committee – and an international television audience – Gore described the hellfire and brimstone of global warming damnation and pointed the way to planetary salvation: the world must have a mandatory "cap-and-trade" regime, he said, administered by the United Nations. Privately, however, away from the television cameras, Gore gobbles up more fossil fuel in a month than is consumed by entire villages...

With all the disappointment experienced during years seven of Republican control in Washington, it is easy to understand why people are again looking to Democrats to set the nation on the right course. What is the right course? According to many Democrats and Republicans alike, the "right" course is anything other than what President Bush and the congressional Republicans want. But is it? Some Washington watchers remember the Clinton era, which ended another 12 years of Republican rule from the White House. The Clinton administration was filled with lobbyists and executives from environmental and social justice organizations. Leaders of the...

Despite the claims of socialists, Democrats and many others, there is no "right" to adequate health care. Rights are endowed by the Creator and are limited to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All other so-called rights are manufactured by governments. Governments are not empowered to grant rights; governments can only limit or extinguish rights. Governments can, however, bestow gifts upon its citizens. But to do so, governments must first take resources from those who have earned them and redistribute those resources to others. HillaryCare, ObamaCare, EdwardsCare and every other form of socialized medicine is inherently fraught with fraud,...

Few people saw it coming. Many are still oblivious. But it is here, and growing: administrative government. What made America great was the creation of a government designed to exercise only the power granted to it by the people who are governed. The Declaration of Independence says it quite clearly: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...." This means that elected representatives make the laws and levy taxes to hire the administrators who administer the laws. This ingenious separation of powers makes it possible for the people who are governed to un-elect...

It is widely agreed that the global mean temperature has increased .07 degree C. over the last century. It is also widely agreed that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from about 280 parts per million, or ppm, to nearly 380. And there is general agreement that at least some, if not most, of the increase in atmospheric carbon is the result of humans burning fossil fuels. Here's where the agreement ends. One side – Al Gore and the global warming doomsayers – contend the warming is the result of the increase in carbon dioxide. The other side contends...

When you hold the biggest stick, freedom is whatever you say it is. Freedom is continually being redefined by the person, the group or the nation that carries the biggest stick. Until the United States was created, people were free to do whatever the king, dictator, warlord or chief allowed them to do. In the new United States of America, however, people were free to pursue "... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," subject only to those restrictions in law to which they consented. And those restrictions applied equally to all. Democrats howled at the president's commutation of Scooter...

For more than 20 years, illegal aliens have crossed the U.S. border by the millions and have successfully avoided thousands of law enforcement officials whose job it is to capture and remove them from the United States. Government has utterly failed to locate, capture or remove the illegals. Despite this spectacular failure – the inability to find 20 million illegal aliens – this same government is preparing to locate, monitor and control the movement of hundreds of millions of livestock animals. Every cow – as many as 100 million – must have a unique numbered identification tag, most likely a...

The nation’s transportation experts have identified the top three priorities: a national freight network; urban congestion; and connecting new urban centers with the interstate system. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, meeting in national conference last month, heard futurists predict that the cost of meeting the transportation needs would be $3.1 trillion over the next 25 years. State and local governments are turning to "public-private partnerships" (PPP) to produce the funding. The City of Chicago was happy to partner with a Spanish-Australian group that paid $1.83 billion for a 99-year lease to operate the Chicago Skyway. The...

The nation's transportation experts have identified their top three priorities: a national freight network, urban congestion and connecting new urban centers with the interstate system. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, meeting in national conference last month, heard futurists predict that the cost of meeting the transportation needs would be $3.1 trillion over the next 25 years. State and local governments are turning to "public-private partnerships," or PPPs, to produce the funding. The city of Chicago was happy to partner with a Spanish-Australian group that paid $1.83 billion for a 99-year lease to operate the Chicago Skyway....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking more and more like the Big Brother government that has infected Washington in recent years. The "2006 Agricultural Identification Survey," recently mailed to thousands of private landowners, is a good example. The instructions for the questionnaire say "Response to this survey is legally required by Title 7, U.S. Code." Title 7 of the U.S. Code is an enormous document, containing 105 chapters, each of which is a lengthy book unto itself. To find the specific requirement, a person would have to read all the way to Chapter 55, Section 2204g, to discover that...

They were sound asleep. Danny and Cindi Henshaw were awakened by a banging on the door at 5 a.m. on Sept. 12. It was the game warden. Danny was arrested for "operating a mammalian hunting enclosure without a permit" and hauled off to be booked. For 16 years, Danny and Cindi have operated the 152-acre Willis River Hunting Preserve near Gladstone, Va. It is a private, completely fenced, wild-boar hunting club. Danny has been among the nation's top 10 archers. He has been featured as a hunter on the "Wild and True" television program. His hunting preserve has hosted hunters...

When the second plane hit the second tower, we all knew – for sure. We didn't know what was in store, but we knew it was not good. We all knew that the world would never be the same. As we all sat transfixed in front of a TV screen, watching the worst horror to ever have befallen our nation, we searched for some kind of reason, for some explanation of the events we were witnessing but could not believe. Before that horrendous day ended, one way or another, we all were resigned to the idea that tomorrow, and every...

It may go down in history as the worst idea of the century: the Security and Prosperity Partnership. In reality, it is a partnership for the perversions of national sovereignty and prosperity. The so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, is designed essentially to erase the U.S. borders between Mexico and Canada, and instead, build a security fence around all of North America. What a joke. The U.S. has demonstrated its inability to control its own borders. Why would anyone in their right mind think for a moment that by entering into a partnership with Mexico and Canada, the borders...

She didn't kill anyone. She didn't rob a bank. In fact, she didn't commit any illegal act. It's what she didn't do that made her an outlaw. We'll call her "Sally" – so the jackboots can't track her down. Sally got up on the morning of Jan. 2 and went about her daily chores – fixing breakfast, feeding the animals and cleaning the house. Aside from the cold, and the new year, everything was pretty much as it had been everyday for many years. But today, Sally became an outlaw without even knowing it. Way back in 2003, the Wisconsin...

A good debate should be like a good tennis match; one side serves a powerful argument, which is promptly returned by a compelling refutation. The volley continues until one side or the other misses, and a point is scored. The most recent congressional battle over opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was a pitiful excuse for a debate. Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., delivered a powerful serve, saying the Energy Information Administration estimated that ANWR contains 10 billion barrels of oil. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., took the floor and said that there is no scientific evidence to support claims that there...

Nancy Pelosi is euphoric in her anticipation of moving into the speaker's office after the November elections. So sure is she of a future Democrat majority that important legislative business may have to wait until the next Congress for action. Between now and November, nothing is as important to Democrats as bashing Bush and the Republican Congress. Republicans can lose control of the House with the loss of only 15 seats; there are at least 30 Republican seats widely seen to be in jeopardy. Should the Democrats regain control of the House, the stage will be set for retaking the...

Shortly after another "mad cow" was discovered in Alabama, there was a rash of articles in the press citing the event as convincing evidence that the USDA's National Animal Identification System should move forward as quickly as possible. Nowhere did any of the articles mention that the NAIS will do nothing to prevent, control or even slow the disease. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, widely known as "mad cow disease," is a chronic, degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of cattle. BSE takes years to develop in cattle, not days or weeks. Moreover, the disease is not contagious. The...

The United States of America is founded on the principles that "just government" power arises from "the consent of the governed," that government is instituted to secure the "unalienable rights" to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Almost since its inception, government has tried to escape from the limitations of power imposed by the "consent of the governed." In recent years, government has almost succeeded in freeing itself from all limitations. Sadly, few people seem to notice – or care.The "consent of the governed" is expressed through the officials elected by the people. The people grant or deny their...

The United States has never been in a war like the current war against terrorism. In previous wars, the enemy could be clearly defined, measured and defeated. In the current war, the enemy has not yet been clearly defined or measured. Whether the enemy will be defeated is an open question. The enemy is much more than the people who blow themselves up to kill infidels. The enemy is the reason these people are willing to blow themselves up. The non-Muslim world cannot comprehend any justification for this self-destructive behavior; the Muslim world delights in the opportunity for martyrdom. The...

<p>It was embarrassing to watch Democrats rally in support of Bill Clinton during the Monica affair, and their rush to defend his perjury before a federal grand jury and his most famous lie, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," before a worldwide television audience. Continues...</p>

Victory in Iraq can be declared when there is an elected representative government in place that controls Iraqi security forces of sufficient strength and experience to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from gaining control of the nation by force of arms.

The American dream that has motivated generations is the hope of owning a home, a sanctuary where the family is safe and the future secure. Millions of people who have scrimped and saved to realize this dream are now faced with a nightmare as sustainable development is imposed upon them. Florida flourished as "snowbirds" flocked to the warm climate to retire. For every millionaire who bought a condo on the beach, a hundred retired factory workers and shopkeepers bought a mobile home in a retirement park to enjoy their remaining days fishing and playing shuffleboard with their neighbors. Some of...

It is quite amusing to watch Nancy Pelosi grab every possible opportunity to stand in front of a TV camera to bemoan what she calls the Republicans' "culture of corruption." Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat leadership are trying desperately to smear President Bush and the Republican party with charges of corruption in relation to the spurious allegations that Tom DeLay and Senator Bill Frist may have done something wrong. It's strange that during the Clinton years, Pelosi didn't say a thing about the "culture of corruption" that permeated the entire Clinton administration. In fact, the Democrat leadership made...

The United States is at war. It is a war we neither wanted, nor started. In fact, we didn't even notice when it was declared. On Feb. 23, 1998, Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States. In his infamous fatwah, he says: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] and the holy mosque from their grip, and in order for...

U.S. sovereignty slip-sliding away -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 6, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Henry Lamb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com It began in 1994. All the attention was focused on the new WTO emerging from the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations. Little attention was paid to the Summit of the Americas meeting in Miami. The assembled ministers agreed to create a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and that it would be completed by January 2005, entering into force by December 2005. For ten years, 34 governments have been conducting negotiating sessions throughout the Americas, fashioning a new trade agreement that...

The Supreme Court’s decision on Kelo vs. City of New London, erases the principle of private property from 200 years of American history. There can be no question that the founders intended private property to be secure from the arbitrary reach of government. The Constitution sets forth the legitimate purposes for which the government may own property (Article I, Section 8), and it stipulates the process by which private property must be acquired. Moreover, the Fifth Amendment requires that just compensation be paid, when private property is taken for public use. The key term here is "public use." Writing for...

The United States is approaching the moment of decision in its relationship with the United Nations. Whether the bloated, corrupt world body fades, as did the League of Nations, or emerges as the supreme government of the world, is in the hands of the United States Congress. The U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal continues to boil, while U.N. peacekeepers' sexcapades exploit victims of civil strife in Africa. Most of the 190 member nations of the U.N. are aligned against U.S. policy – whatever that policy may be – and demand that the U.S. provide "new and additional" funding for a never-ending string...

Congressional reaction to all of the recent U.N. failures is coming together in HR2745 – the Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act of 2005. The bill, named to honor the retiring chairman of the House International Relations Committee, lists 39 specific reform measures, at least 32 of which must be implemented, or U.N. funding will be reduced by 50 percent. Finally, Congress is doing something about the United Nations. In this case, however, "something" may be the wrong thing to do. None of the 39 listed reform measures, nor any of the so-called reform measures offered by Kofi Annan,...

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,...

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry Lamb 'To form a more perfect union' Posted: June 4, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com 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...

Once again, the U.S. Senate has trashed the U.S. Constitution. Judicial nominees require "advice and consent" of the U.S. Senate. Had the founders envisioned the need to require a super-majority for consent, they would have specified that requirement, as they did for treaty ratification and for constitutional amendments. While the Constitution does authorize Congress to establish its own rules of procedure, this procedure must fall within requirements set forth within the Constitution. Until 1917, there was no procedure for stopping Senate debate on any issue. The first "cloture" rule required two-thirds of the Senate to stop debate. In 1975, Senator...

At one end of the street stands the United Nations; at the other end, stands the United States Congress. At issue: whether the U.N.’s diplomatic immunity trumps the subpoena power of the U.S. Congress. Paul Volcker - Kofi Annan’s hand-picked investigator of the oil-for-food scandal - represents the U.N. Henry Hyde - Chairman of the House International Relations Committee - represents the U.S. Volcker has persistently blocked Congressional efforts to secure information about the multi-billion-dollar oil-for-food scandal. Hyde issued a subpoena, which produced several boxes of documents that Volcker says are protected by diplomatic immunity. Volcker wants the documents returned....