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Return to the Article June 07, 2008The Audacity of the DemocratsBy Rocco DiPippo There was a pre-Lewinsky time, before moral relativism blurred America's vision, when associating with people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers would have automatically excluded someone from attaining the highest office in the land. Back then, anyone with well known connections to such America-averse personalities would have been rejected by a super-majority of the electorate during primary season and almost certainly blocked by the Democratic Party before they could have gotten to within a mile of the White House. But those days -- when patriotic, true...

Why is URUKNET Posting TP Articles? May 1, 2008 The Islamic militant propaganda dissemination outlet (in English!) called “URUKnet” usually translates dubious reports and propaganda from Iraq for English and Italian speaking readers. Well, today I see that they are reproducing a Think Progress (Islamo-Stalinist) post as well as their usual Islamic terrorist, Islamic militant propaganda and lies. You know… to mix things up a bit. Don’t think that the Islamo-Leftist Alliance exists?

The headline may seem like a trick question — even a dangerous one — to ask during an election year. And notice, please, that I didn’t ask whether certain politicians are more honest than others. (Politicians are a different species altogether.) Yet there is a striking gap between the manner in which liberals and conservatives address the issue of honesty. Consider these results: Is it OK to cheat on your taxes? A total of 57 percent of those who described themselves as “very liberal” said yes in response to the World Values Survey, compared with only 20 percent of those...

There are major differences between liberals and conservatives, and that’s why I never know what people such as Barack Obama are talking about when they speak of bringing us all together. And I suspect that Jeremiah Wright’s surrogate son doesn’t know, either. For instance, if I support the surge in Iraq and you insist on bringing the troops home by next Thursday, what’s our compromise? Bringing our troops only partway home? Say as far as the Canary Islands? If you’re in favor of same-sex marriages and I happen to think the whole idea is a very silly joke, where’s our...

The apparent madness of Leftists opposing any drilling for oil in ANWR, where the environmental impact is practically nil and which would immediately begin to ratchet down the price of oil, and Leftists simultaneously railing against big oil companies for high oil prices is only apparently mad. The Left wants the price of oil high. The Left wants the price of all necessities like food and medicine high. The fact that this causes general misery and that this causes particular misery among the lower middle class does not prevent the Left from taking this perverse position. That fact is the...

Let's worry about Islamofascism The resolution adopted by Muslim theologians representing the various schools of Islam at the All-India Anti-terrorism Conference organised by Darul Uloom, Deoband, 'denouncing' terrorism but condoning radical Islam's ghastly excesses, apart from remaining silent on Islamist terrorism in India which continues to extract a terrible price, is of a piece with the Observatory Report on Islamophobia released by the Organisation of Islamic Conference at its recent meeting in Dakar, Senegal. Both documents seek to justify manufactured Muslim rage and lay the blame for the resultant death and destruction at the doors of everybody else but...

WASHINGTON - Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder. "Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave." While political activists...

Last August, during an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Barack Obama was asked whether he'd lead the nation in a "conversation about race" if he were elected president. He demurred, suggesting that Americans were more interested in having a president who would fight terrorism and economic decline than one who acted as therapist-in-chief. It was a pragmatic response from the man trying to become the nation's first black president. He'd never win over substantial numbers of white or brown or even black voters if he seemed overly focused on America's racial divide. But the issue of race...

Eliot Spitzer has remained governor longer than most people expected after 4 pm ET yesterday. When the news broke that the former prosecutor who once bragged of busting a prostitution ring had recently decided to patronize another, most people assumed that his admission would be quickly followed by an exit from the political stage. However, despite numerous calls for his resignation, Spitzer has not yet departed: Stunned politicians in both parties last night called on Gov. Spitzer to resign.Democratic Assemblyman John McEneny (Albany) said:“I don’t think anyone remembers anything like this. The fact that the governor has a reputation as...

In "light" of Nader running... again, here's bit more of the great "honesty" of this liberal fanatic (though this piece was written in 2002). Ralph Nader is a hypocrite where did millionaire Nader get so much money to invest in the first place? ... Nader refused to release his income-tax returns. ... http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26345Actually political wise I think it's good for the GOP that Liberal Nader runs against Liberal Obama...

How do you get 6,000 college students whipped up into a lather? Here's one way: Secretly install low-flow, eco-shower heads in their dorms over winter break. The slow drip has triggered a deluge of complaints in bathrooms all over Stanford University. But a compromise may be ending the water wars. Officials now promise to retrofit hundreds of showers with politically incorrect, higher-pressure nozzles. With a fury normally reserved for the University of California-Berkeley, students complained in an e-mail petition, a letter-writing campaign, a newspaper editorial and meetings with Stanford officials. "It is like showering under a sink faucet," said Christian...

... it gets to make choices about what -- and whom -- to cover. A survey of doctors in Britain's National Health Service show that a significant percentage of providers want government to cut off benefits to the elderly, the obese, smokers, and others: Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives. Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. Fertility treatment and "social"...

(Sick of) OBAMA'S "THE NOTION THAT SOMEHOW"As liberals liked/like to ridicule Rudy (and others) on their vocabulary, it strikes me as odd that the followibng boring one sentence, which is basically Oabama's siganture -- isn't noticed, frankly I am getting sick of it...Nov. 8, 2007Obama: You know, it was hard to take such a claim seriously. I mean, he was specifically referring to a situation in the debate where Senator Clinton offered an answer on immigration, a perfectly legitimate question. Senator Dodd in very civil tones said, "I respectfully disagree." Senator Clinton then appeared to contradict her own answer, and...

<p>In Arabists' rule - Apparently, If you attempt to defend yourself against racist Arabs you are 'the racist'</p> <p>The second point is that the same survey supposedly collected for ACRI asked no questions about Arab racism against Jews. How curious. ...</p>

War on [Islamofascism] terror is real, and deserves concern December 16, 2007 Editor, the Record: Take notice, liberals (specifically the few John Edwards supporters out there). A recent news headline reads: "Thousands in Sudan Call for British Teddy Bear Teacher's Execution." In summary, thousands of practitioners of Islam, the "religion of peace," are calling for the death of an emigrant British teacher for nothing more than naming a teddy bear after Mohammed. This type of irresponsible behavior may not come as a surprise to most sensible Americans, as they realize the threat of Islamofascism is very real, and if not...

Legislators must take a stand and stop the cycle Drivers passing through Georgia often go home with their trunks filled with pecans, peaches, peanuts or other souvenirs. Unfortunately, some also head home with guns, giving rise to the term "iron pipeline" to describe the illegal flow of firearms from Georgia to the Northeast. The state's weak gun laws make it easier for criminals to buy a firearm here than in New York or New Jersey, where tighter controls govern firearm sales. Those states, for example, require background checks for purchases at gun shows, and permits and waiting periods to buy...

Clegg on the slide in Lib pollThe front runner for the Lib Dem leadership was said to be fading yesterday as voting started. Nick Clegg suffered a crisis of confidence after a shaky week. But his camp claimed that the race was still 60/40 in their favour. Meanwhile, a supporter of rival Chris Huhne said it was as "at worst 50/50, at best Chris is edging it". Advertisement Clegg, the Home Affairs spokesman, started as favourite to replace Sir Menzies Campbell, getting the support of most of the party's 63 MPs. But as the contest became dirty this week, he...

Cambridge votes down scouts’ aid for Iraq GIs By Mike Underwood Friday, November 16, 2007 Big-hearted Boy Scouts collecting donations for care packages for U.S. troops are still scratching their heads after being sent packing from polling stations when Cambridge officials ruled their generous effort “political.” “We just wanted to make a lot of troops happy,” said Scout Patrick O’Connor, 16. “I was devastated that someone would think to take (the donation boxes) out,” he said. O’Connor of West Cambridge was one of the Scouts who wanted to collect toiletries, magazines, candy and other items for care packages after one...

Clinton's planted student speaks out, says she just wants honesty - Tue Nov 13 2007 08:17:37 ET The college student who says she was told what question to ask at one of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events--and whose story in her campus newspaper has now made its way around the world--said Monday that "voters have a right to know what happened, adding that she "wasn't the only one at the event who was a plant." In an exclusive taped interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwZ8IcdhUAw David Horowitz - Liberal Arts