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How the Left Gets the Statue of Liberty Poem Wrong No, it’s not a mandate to wreck America. August 22, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 3 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Being a writer means never knowing what you might be remembered for. Or how badly. That poem that Emma Lazarus became famous for was forgotten, remembered again, and has been misused, quoted out of context and transformed into a battle cry for open borders and a disastrous immigration policy. Its lines about...

The Defective Right   By William R. HawkinsFrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, September 27, 2007 Last weekend, the John Randolph Club held its annual meeting in Washington, DC. It is a project of the Rockford Institute, a group with which I have been associated for a quarter century. The JRC was founded eighteen years ago to bring together traditional conservatives and right-libertarians for a dialogue on issues of common concern. As Rockford President Thomas Fleming noted in his opening speech, the libertarians don’t much attend the JRC these days. Unfortunately, they have been replaced by left-wingers (libertarian and Marxist) whose mission...

Is Keith Ellison actually the first Muslim to serve in the U. S. Congress? According to the national media, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” For example, among the numerous print media stories, the Washington Post proclaimed: “Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress,” and the Associated Press (Pakistan) similarly announced, “Keith Ellison, a 43-year old lawyer from Minnesota, became the first Muslim member of the US Congress.” Among broadcast media, MSNBC pronounced him “the first Muslim elected to Congress,” and CNN reported that, “In a political first, a Muslim has been elected to serve in the U. S....

John Randolph of Virginia once described a colleague, who he said was a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt, as being “like rotten mackerel by moonlight” that both shines and stinks at the same time. Very much the same description could be attached to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. And, in fact, the same description could be applied to the United Nations itself. Maybe the monumental corruption, the anti-Americanism and the bureaucratic incompetence that pervades the U.N. is a good thing, since it might serve to open the eyes of American citizens and Congress much like...

Dead Stalinist honored Posted: June 22, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com When actor John Randolph died last February, I didn't write a word about the man's life or death. I didn't mention that all of the major media obituaries withheld critical information about the character actor. There are so many important issues to write about, even with a daily column, it's hard to keep up. I was tempted to expose the truth about him then. I didn't. But the tributes to this un-American symbol of Hollywood subversion just don't stop. The latest was held in New York on...