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I am preparing a text which I will publish at The Brussels Journal in the not-too-distant future, but I will begin the discussion here first. When I read the various comments at Lawrence Auster’s place and Dennis Mangan’s blog, Takuan Seiyo’s recent piece at TBJ and the latest post by El Inglés at Gates of Vienna, I get the feeling that tensions are building up and that something big is going to happen within the coming generation, probably within the next five to ten years. Since I have been writing about geology lately I will use an analogy from plate...

Review: When China Rules the World, by Martin Jacques While the decades since the Vietnam War may be most known for their startling technological developments, they have also spawned a chic genre of literature: the ‘America is in Decline' tract. What started most prominently with the work of Paul Kennedy has turned into a veritable cottage industry. Tomes in this category have included Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, Bruce Horton's Decline and Fall, and, most recently, Fareed Zakaria's The End of America, which Barack Obama was famously photographed holding last summer. Some of these books argue that the decline...

“One Year Away” Greetings fellow South Florida riders, South Floridians, and Americans, here we are for another monthly installment of our Wheels on the Road (WOTR) political assessment. By the time this piece goes into print WOTR will have celebrated 10 years being the definitive voice of the South Florida biker community. However, more importantly, we will be one year from what will be the most critical mid-term election in our Nation’s history. In the national elections of 2008 we experienced a repudiation of the Bush administration, clear, got it, and can actually understand why it happened. I also realize...

Welcome back to Freedom Radio two heroes of the highest order. Lt. Col. Allen West of the 22nd district of Florida, who will soon, Lord willing be representing us in the House from that state, will join us to update us on his campaign, the issues surrounding the War, and remeniscing about the Free Republic National Convention. Also joining us will be David Bellavia, author of House to House and Executive Director of the Warrior Legacy Foundation. You know why I like this job? I get to hang out with brilliant patriots with conservative values that just happen to be...

Why the Heathen Rage Part 1 By: Pastor Bill Randles “Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The Kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Messiah saying let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us…”(Psalm 2:1-3) The Psalms have ever served me as my prayer book, from the very beginning of my new life in Christ. As I grew in Christian grace, I realized the value of the Psalms for worship, noticing that a good many songs and phrases...

My son who is 10 years old is going to the Montgomery County school system in Maryland this year to give him some wider experience after having all of his previous education in either Israeli or Jewish community schools. It certainly is an experience! In some ways, it seems like a parody of multiculturalism. My children are tough, well-informed and have strong characters, largely informed by an Israeli world view. But they also have a very American persona, though one that may be becoming increasingly rare among upper middle class elite counterparts. Here are some highlights of fourth-grade life in...

Why the heathen Rage…pt1 “Why do the heathen Rage and the people Imagine a vain thing? The Kings of the earth set themselves,and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Messiah saying let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us…”(Psalm 2:1-3) The Psalms have ever served me as my prayer book, from the very beginning of my new Life in Christ. As I grew in Christian grace, I realized the value of the Psalter for worship, noticing that a good many songs and phrases of songs came right out of the...

Time magazine in 2005: A little while later that year.Last night.Then there's West's 2004 bitching about not winning a trophy (American Music Awards), and in 2006 he stormed the stage and complained again -- this time at the MTV Europe Music Awards when he was beaten out for Best Video. (Link.)

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected U.S. calls to freeze all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, angering Palestinians and putting a New York summit in question. Netanyahu's announcement came on the eve of a crucial meeting with President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, who is trying to arrange an Israeli-Palestinian summit on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session next week.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel defied U.S. pressure to halt construction in its West Bank settlements Sunday, with key leaders speaking out in support of the contentious enclaves and preparing to sign orders to allow building of hundreds of new housing units there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are expected to approve orders for about 500 new apartments Monday, said Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the plans have not been finalized.

Allen West to Hold Healthcare Townhall Aug. 18th 7pm You are invited to have a voice in the health care debate Please Join ALLEN WEST F O R C O N G R E S S For a Healthcare Town Hall Meeting Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 7:00 pm South Florida Bible College Auditorium 747 S. Federal Highway Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441

The Telegraph recently made headlines with a survey that suggested that a fifth of the European Union will be Muslim by 2050. This is if anything an understatement of the situation, since once you subtract Eastern European states and focus in on Western European countries such as England, France and Italy... or Sweden, Islam will comprise a sizable enough minority to be considered a state within a state. And even the most pessimistic statistics will grow gloomier if 75 million Turks inside the presently Islamist Turkey will become part of the European Union. Meanwhile always eager to get ahead, Russia...

"On the topic of marraige, population control and families. The Soviets were very much so family oriented. They spent large sums of money ideolizing the childhood and promoting large families. Stalin, though a murderous bastard indeed, even banned abortions. Abortion was legalized later and used as birth control, but only because the defunct Soviet economy could not produce things such as condoms. Regardless, abortions were never promoted or pushed. Indeed, the award of the Hero Mother was given to women with many children and they were lionized as the saviors of Soviet society. This is of course not to say...

Nobama is all over the news. There is no where to hide from his picture, his voice, his marxism. But who is speaking for us? Oh, sure, plenty of us here on FR, on BTR and on terrestrial talk radio. But of those running for office, who speaks for us? I can't say he speaks for you, but he definitely speaks for me, and to me. Lt. Col. Allen West is one of today’s most admired veterans, leaders and speakers. His speech is a direct reflection of his philosophy, leaving no one in question as to where he stands. Excerpts...

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Israel will be a major part of Geert Wilders' next film on Islam, the rightist Dutch legislator said last week in an interview for Haaretz. He praised Avigdor Lieberman, observing "similarities" between Yisrael Beiteinu and the Party for Freedom - a small movement which has grown to become Holland's second most popular. Wilders, a controversial anti-immigration politician, rose to international fame last year when he released a 14-minute film entitled Fitna, which attempts to portray what he considers as Islam's "violent nature." The film, which has been viewed by millions online, provoked mass protests throughout the Muslim world.

The Twilight Zone” Greetings fellow South Florida riders, South Floridians, and Americans, here we are for another monthly installment of our Wheels on the Road political assessment. This month’s title is appropriate because Rod Serling could not have written this script any better. Everyday we wake up and have to ask ourselves, “Are we in some kinda parallel universe”? Actually Serling had an episode which fits appropriately. Therefore I googled up what has to be my favorite Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man”. Here is the synopsis of the episode, which was available upon search. “A race of aliens known...

The West still has no idea what kind of trouble it's in. Singer Susan Boyle, our latest instant celebrity, reminds me of any number of singers I conducted in amateur renditions of the easier Schubert or Haydn masses, or the sort of matron who sings "Katti-Shaw" or "Buttercup" in the local Gilbert and Sullivan production. Musical talent springs up like grass, and engaging voices are a dollar a dozen. That Boyle has come to embody the triumph of ordinary people over obscurity, complete with invitations to appear on Oprah and Larry King, is disheartening. The popular audience in the West...

Lt. Col. Allen West is one of today’s most admired veterans, leaders and speakers. His speech is a direct reflection of his philosophy, leaving no one in question as to where he stands. We hope to create here, a home where excerpts from his great speeches can be easily accessed by all who care to hear words of clarity from a great patriot. Bookmark this site and/or hit the subscribe button and each week you will receive at no charge his latest podcast. What a better way to end a news week than with the uplifting conservative commentary of Allen...

By His Fruits You Shall Know Him: A Defense of Christopher West June 11th, 2009 by Matthew Pinto Over the past few weeks, I have watched a friend and fellow soldier in the Church get assaulted by his own troops, ironically due to his breakthrough appearance on ABC News’ Nightline, the kind of program we in the Catholic media have long been targeting as an instrument for communicating Catholic teaching in general, and Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB) message in particular.As one of his publishers (along with the Daughters of St. Paul and Servant/St. Anthony’s Messenger),...

Recently the Barna Research Group released a study on the religious practices of liberals and Christians. According to the report: "The research...discovered that liberals are more likely than conservatives to develop their own set of religious beliefs rather than adopt those proposed by a church or other entity. A greater percentage of liberals also indicated they are very open to accepting different moral views than those they presently possess." [1] Liberal "Christians" abhor "fundamentalist" Christianity so they cast it aside and adopt their own set of religious beliefs and values. Times have changed, after all, so they feel it's incumbent...

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2008, a group of just under 100 people—Londoners and a few visitors —took a guided tour of the old Jewish East End. They visited, among other sites of interest, the birthplace of my old chum Lionel Bart, the author of Oliver! Three generations of schoolchildren have grown up singing Bart’s lyric:   Consider yourselfAt ’ome!Consider yourselfOne of the family! Those few dozen London Jews considered themselves at ’ome. But they weren’t. Not any more. The tour was abruptly terminated when the group was pelted with stones, thrown by “youths”—or to be slightly less evasive, in the...

Most American "Christians" think in a Western mindset when it comes to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is true that the West has been the place for the spreading of the Gospel for over 1700 years. In his ministry Paul the apostle moved westward as he proclaimed the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. From there it spread westward into Africa and Europe, to the Americas, then unto China and India “full circle.” Although there are many “false gospels,” the True Gospel message (as preached by Paul) is contained in the following scriptures:

In an interview published April 23, 2009 in the Saudi Daily 'Okaz, reformist thinker Ibrahim Al-Buleihi expressed his admiration for Western civilization. The interview was posted on the same day on the Elaph website.(1) Al-Buleihi calls on the Arabs to acknowledge the greatness of Western civilization, and to admit the deficiencies of their own culture. He states that such self-criticism is a precondition to any change for the better. Ibrahim Al-Buleihi is a member of the Saudi Shura Council.(2) Following are excerpts from the interview: "If It Were Not for the Accomplishments of the West, Our Lives Would Have Been...

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Greetings fellow South Florida riders, South Floridians, and Americans, here we are for another monthly installment of our Wheels on the Road political assessment. Just have to tell you, I am freaking mad as hell and implore you all to not take this anymore. If this means I shall be castigated as a “right wing extremist” so be it. Today I received an email containing a story on the US Department of Homeland Security unclassified report, dated 7 April, titled, “Right-wing extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment”. Now most of the mainstream media is...

Every raincloud that passes over her eastern Colorado ranch tempts state Rep. Marsha Looper to break the law. A long, hard drought has settled across the land, and on those rare occasions when the sky opens, Ms. Looper longs to set out some rain barrels to collect the bounty for future use. She'd like to use the rain to grow hothouse tomatoes. But she refrains. "I don't want to get thrown in jail," she explains. It is, in fact, illegal in Colorado to collect rainwater. State law is vague about the penalties, except to say that violators can be taken...

Over the years, some of my wildest critics seem to have assumed I am Jewish. At the same time, some of my closest friends wish I were. So let me set the record straight: I live in New York. I have a wife who craves Chinese food. And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word "chutzpah."

Lt. Col. Allen West just wrote his monthly column for Wheels on the Road, South Florida’s motorcycle magazine on his evaluation of the Washington political scene. LTC West is running for Congress in 2010 in Florida’s Congressional District 22. If you haven't seen any true leadership lately, you're not alone and you certainly need to check this out.

It’s hard to visualize a water crisis while driving the lush boulevards of Los Angeles, golfing Arizona’s green fairways or watching dancing Las Vegas fountains leap more than 20 stories high. So look Down Under. A decade into its worst drought in a hundred years, Australia is a lesson of what the American West could become. Bush fires are killing people and obliterating towns. Rice exports collapsed last year and the wheat crop was halved two years running. Water rationing is part of daily life. This could be western America's future. "Think of that as California’s future,“ said Heather Cooley...

Last week I attended the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) annual meeting in Washington DC. It was my second opportunity to attend this great event. This year the attendance hit an all time high of nearly 9000, and again seeing so many young people generates an astounding energy. Being a former active duty Army officer of some 22 years service we are taught a very important lesson, self-assessment. After the completion of any operation, especially in combat, you conduct an after action review (AAR) in order to objectively develop lessons learned for improvement. With that being said, I would like...

Join in the discussion with Lt. Allen West running for congress in the 22nd district of Florida. Yes support this man who has not, and will not give up. This is the kind of man we need in the House and in Washington. Also catch up with blogger extraordinaire Skye of Midnightblue Says. Why is it the conservababe's are the norm and not the exception. Its a cosmic thing, I know.

Greetings readers, I have held my peace long enough to allow Attorney General Eric Holder an opportunity to rectify his faux pas from last week. I am now compelled to offer my insights into Attorney General Holder’s epidemic of diarrhea of the mouth when he called our Country a “Nation of Cowards”. Whenever I think of fools speaking unwisely I am drawn to the writings of one who is considered the wisest man the world has ever known, not you Bill Clinton. Rather, I speak of King Solomon and his words from the Book of Proverbs. Solomon certainly has some...

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The FBI has issued an alert to 350 law enforcement agencies in the southwest and Salt Lake City for potential Valentine teddy bear bombs after a suspicious transaction at a Wal-Mart last month. Law enforcement sources said authorities also were on the alert at airports in case the suspected bear-bombs might be carried onto airplanes on Valentine's Day. The FBI said a clean-shaven male, possibly of Middle Eastern descent, purchased nine Valentine teddy bears, 20 inches tall, and 14 canisters of propane, 9 inches tall, small enough to fit inside the teddy bears. The man...

A House committee held an important hearing Thursday morning on the issue of "libel tourism." That's the practice of bringing libel suits against American authors in other nations, particularly the United Kingdom, where First Amendment protections do not apply and where the burden of proof is placed on the defendant rather than on the plaintiff. Saudi Arabian businessman Khalid bin Mahfouz has brought several such lawsuits, winning a default judgment against American researcher Rachel Ehrenfeld for her book Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It, and forcing a Cambridge University Press to destroy copies of the...

What Does the Life and Legacy of Abraham Lincoln Mean to Me? Phil Orenstein • February 1, 2009 • Uncategorized The following are some of my thoughts expressed in an essay for the Queens Village Eagle on the upcoming Lincoln Bicentennial Dinner on Feb. 8th and the significance of the Lincoln Essay Contest and LTC Allen West’s keynote address:

From Il Corriere della Sera: Call for directive to prevent episodes like Duomo demonstration in Milan from happening again ROME – Places of worship, supermarkets and shopping malls will join public institutions, political party headquarters and diplomatic premises as being off-limits for demonstrators. Organisers will also have to pay a deposit as a guarantee against damage.NEW RULES – Interior minister Roberto Maroni has proposed new rules for public demonstrations, revealing that he is working on a directive to be sent to prefects and chiefs of police. A week ago, the minister explained to a hearing of the Senate’s constitutional affairs...

New York, NY: The historic Queens Village Republican Club, (http://www.qvgop.org/) the oldest club in America, is proud to announce the Lincoln Bicentennial Dinner on February 8th featuring keynote speaker Lt. Col. Allen West who will be the honorable recipient of the Lincoln Bicentennial Award. This award is being presented by Jed Babbin, editor of Human Events, to LTC West, the person who most emulates the stature of Abraham Lincoln and his principled leadership on Lincoln's Bicentennial birthday celebration. There is no one more suited for this honor than West. With Blagojevich and blueblood Caroline Kennedy in the news, the public...

Note: Video included. January 21, 2009 For hate speech -- after declining to do so last year, which means that Islamic supremacist groups in the Netherlands have kept up the pressure on lawmakers until they got the outcome they wanted. Hate speech, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, and hate speech laws are tools in the hands of the powerful that they can use to silence the powerless and crush dissent. And make no mistake: even though the Muslims in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the West present themselves as embattled victims of racism and "Islamophobia," that...

Sylvain Gouguenheim’s "Aristote au Mont Saint-Michel: Les racines grecques de l’Europe Chrétienne" reviewed by Thomas F. BertonneauLong before the late Eduard Said invented “Orientalism” to exalt Arab culture and Islamic society at the expense of the West, bien-pensants like Voltaire inclined to express their rebellion against the dwindling vestiges of Christendom by representing Europeans as bigots or clowns and raising up exotic foreigners – Voltaire himself wrote about Turks and Persians of the Muslim fold – to be the fonts of wisdom and models of refined life in their tracts and stories. The sultan and dervish look with amused tolerance...

This year Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday will come right before an incredible historic event in America, the inauguration of our Country’s first black President. Being born and raised in Atlanta Georgia and having attended school, Our Lady of Lourdes, right across from Ebenezer Baptist Church and Dr King’s resting place had a profound affect upon my life. Each day I was reminded of the work upon which Dr King embarked to establish civil rights for blacks, and improve rights for all Americans.

In the past few days, Israel has moved back into the Gaza strip with ground forces, in order to put a stop to Hamas rocket attacks across the border. This is almost a carbon-copy repeat of what happened in southern Lebanon after Israel pulled out of there, only to be greeted with rocket attacks from Hezbollah into Israel proper. But in that case, Israel did not crush and finish off Hezbollah, thus incurring the morally blind and hypocritical wrath of much of the West while having accomplished nothing substantial in exchange for it. (And arguably making matters worse, if Hezbollah...

Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Retired) “We are either a united people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which has national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.” George Washington, November 30, 1785

The equation of the actions of Hamas and Israel is disgusting. But take Jews and Israel out of it. Imagine terrorist group A attacking country B, where A is trying to maximize civilian casualties on both sides and B is trying to minimize civilian casualties on both sides. What sort of moral judgment would have trouble distinguishing between the two? The Palestinian victims of this war know better. Watch this video, broadcast on Palestinian TV, no less, of a girl whose 4-year-old sister died next to her in their home. She says, "Hamas is the cause, in the first...

Welcome one and all patriots to the Freedom Radio First Annual Christmas Party. (That's Christmas party, youbetcha! We don't need no stinkin' "Holiday Party"! Join Freeper Honest (me) and my co host Loki and most importantly Lt. Col. Allen West who will talk about his recent decision to run again and more. We'll have the pleasure of speaking with the Colonel, in between rounds of egg nog and Christmas tunes. Yes, it will be a Marshmellow World in Freedomradioland! Join us at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedom at 6 pm est, tonight!

Lt. Col. Allen West Announced on WFTL today on the Joyce Kaufman show that he will be running again for the 22nd district HR seat. Woo Hoo! http://www.850wftl.com/LIVE-ON-THE-AIR---Joyce-Kaufman/1159824 and listen to today's podcast of the Joyce Kaufman show. He also made a surprise call to Spin This on BTR, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spin-this This too is available for review on podcast.

West Point - President George W. Bush made his third visit to West Point Tuesday to speak with Cadets about the state of the military and how the world has changed during his eight years in office. President Bush thanked the Cadets for their service to the country. “You came to this academy in a time of war, knowing all the risks that come with military service,” said the President, who was the commencement speaker in 2002 and 2006. “I want to thank you for making the noble and selfless decision to serve our country.” President Bush met later in...

Is our society losing its way? An interview with psychiatrist and thinker Dr. Theodore Dalrymple. Bernard Chapin: In your essay, “The Roads to Serfdom,” you refer to a famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, who said, “We are all socialists now.” Are we all on the brink of becoming socialists once again? Why do you think, given the oppressive and pernicious nature of this method of governance, it remains politically viable? Dr. Dalrymple: I think it more likely that there will be an increase in corporatism than in socialism. America will not be socialist, but it might be corporatist (there...

"Now that the true character of the US political system is increasingly apparent to the whole world, now that the parasitical nature of its economic system is causing ever greater numbers of victims, now that the lies that underpin the US domination of world politics are finally being exposed, the time has come to take a serious look at what the “US victory over the Nazis” has brought us."