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Rice vs. Red-ucationBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | January 14, 2004 CONDOLEEZZA RICE IS A “TRUE ILLITERATE,” said a patronizing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. This Marxist thug added that he had asked his comrade Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to mail America’s National Security Advisor samples of Cuban books now being used to teach Venezuelan children literacy to “see if she learns to respect the dignity of the people and learns a bit about us.”Apparently President Chavez is both a racist and a puny macho sexist to make such stupid remarks. His stunted manhood is threatened by criticism from this powerful woman....

"RACE, GUNS, GOD AND GAYS.”  HOWARD DEAN, the frontrunner for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination, in November told a Tallahassee audience that Southerners must stop basing their votes on these four issues. But when he campaigns this week in South Carolina, whose primary vote comes February 2 immediately after New Hampshire’s, Dean plans to bring Jesus into nearly every speech.   Dean made it clear, however, that he would be discussing his Christian faith only in Southern states, the states he stereotyped two months ago as being full of rednecks with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. The reasons for Dean’s...

(Dude, Where’s My Country? By Michael Moore, Warner Books 249 pages, $24.95) MILLIONAIRE LEFTIST MICHAEL MOORE lives in an America different from yours and mine, and not just because wealth has given him an insular life of privilege on liberal Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In Moore’s myopia, the America he sees in Chapter 9 of his latest bestselling book Dude, Where’s My Country? is populated by Leftists like himself. In this "Liberal Paradise" 57 percent of his fellow citizens believe that abortion should be legal "in all or most cases," 86 percent say they agree with the "goals" of the...

Dead Americans¡± InsuranceBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | December 23, 2003 IN "DEAD SOULS," NOVELIST NIKOLAI GOGOL TELLS OF A STRANGE MAN in 19th Century Russia who buys up the contracts of recently-deceased serfs.The land barons were happy to sell in this 1842 novel because this saved them the tax the czar demanded for each serf, living or dead, who for even a day during the latest census had worked on their estates.But what did the mysterious buyer get for his money? Was he the devil acquiring souls for hell? Or purchasing the soul of Mother Russia herself through the paperwork of...

The Art of Religious War By Lowell Ponte FrontPageMagazine.com | December 5, 2003 "RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION MUST DISAPPEAR FROM THE SCHOOLS…. The man who is tied to the dogmas of the Churches need look for nothing from us in the future.” Thus declared the Nazi inspector of Munich city schools in Germany, June 1939. His words appear in the July 1945 U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) study “The Nazi Master Plan,” available online in pdf format in four parts from the “Nuremberg Project” at Rutgers University and the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. “Implementation of this objective started with...

Turkey: Battleground for the Soul of IslamBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | November 25, 2003 PONTEFICATIONS “THIS IS A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF ISLAM ,” wrote London Telegraph columnist Barbara Amiel, in which “Muslims….have as much to fear from militant Islam and its Islamist dictators and strongmen as does the West – if not more.”Terrorist car bombs during the past two weeks in predominantly Muslim Turkey have killed 58 people and injured at least 750. Boasting of their role in these horrors are Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and a Turkish terror group linked to it. These bombs killed Jews at...

General Boykin and the Armor of GodBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | October 17, 2003                                           PONTEFICATIONSTHERE ARE, THE SAYING GOES, NO ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES.  Most of us sacrifice nearly a third of our lives at an air-conditioned job for a paycheck. We thus become martyrs not to God, but to acquire a Mercedes or fancy home or fame or passing pleasures. We find it easy to be cynical and fashionably abstract.The professional soldier is different.  He or she is prepared daily to face two of the most powerful realities a human being can – to kill or be killed.  The warriors...

Wesley Clark and WacoBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | September 23, 2003                                           PONTEFICATIONSHAVE I COMMITTED “LIBEL” against the new Democratic Party presidential frontrunner General Wesley Clark?  Dave Maley of Ithaca, New York, makes that serious accusation in a September 19 email and demands that FrontPage Magazine “take steps to prevent Lowell Ponte from continuing” with such reporting. He bases this charge and demand on what he calls the “provably false information” in 25 words out of one paragraph in two long investigative columns that together add up to 3,927 words.Maley’s entire indictment, in other words, rests on a single factual...

Wesley Clark: General IssuesBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | August 25, 2003                                      PONTEFICATIONS"THE GUY MUST HAVE A BEDROOM AT CNN,” my wife would joke.  It seemed true, because at every hour of the day or night during the Iraq War, retired General Wesley K. Clark could be seen on the Cable News Network as a “military expert” criticizing the Bush Administration. A quick victory in Iraq “was not going to happen,” he told viewers on March 25, shortly  before the quickest blitzkrieg victory of its size in military history occurred.  But his words doubtless brought comfort to the fans of...

Haters of Horowitz & Oprah By Lowell Ponte FrontPageMagazine.com | September 19, 2003 PONTEFICATIONS IN COLORADO LEFTISTS ARE CURSING DAVID HOROWITZ, but nationwide and even in Europe they are cursing popular African-American TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey. The surprising nexus between these two targets reveals just how depraved, intolerant, hateful and hypocritical the Left has become. “The same party that’s been squawking over race-based college admissions now apparently wants universities to check voter-registration rolls when hiring faculty to ensure more conservatives are added to the ranks.” Thus read a September 13 Editorial in the Denver Post, a newspaper with...

PONTEFICATIONS IN COLORADO LEFTISTS ARE CURSING DAVID HOROWITZ, but nationwide and even in Europe they are cursing popular African-American TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey.  The surprising nexus between these two targets reveals just how depraved, intolerant, hateful and hypocritical the Left has become.“The same party that’s been squawking over race-based college admissions now apparently wants universities to check voter-registration rolls when hiring faculty to ensure more conservatives are added to the ranks.”  Thus read a September 13 Editorial in the Denver Post, a newspaper with liberal pretensions of being the New York Times of the Rocky Mountain wild...

Hurricane SheilaBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | August 7, 2003                                    PONTEFICATIONSTHE GRIEVANCE INDUSTRY PROVIDES WEALTH AND POWER for thousands of people.  Always seeking new causes for complaint, recently one of this industry’s greatest impresarios of indignation, raconteurs of resentment, entrepreneurs of enmity and divas of demand found an amazing new reason to scream “racism!” African-Americans like herself ought to feel offended, Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D.-Texas) told The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., because hurricanes are given “lily white” names.  (Among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official names for tropical storms that hit Texas earlier this year were “Claudette”...

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – THE TERRORIST-IGNITED FLAMES, 200 FEET HIGH, produced an inferno so hot that in apartments blocks away windows blew out and plastic window shades melted. More than 400 terrified neighbors fled for their lives through a rain of grapefruit-sized fireballs into what moments before had been the peaceful 3 a.m. darkness of University Town Center, a northern suburb of San Diego, early last Friday. “It looked like sunrise,” said San Diego city Fire Chief Jeff Bowman of what he saw while racing northward to the blaze. “An enormous orange glow covered the entire sky.” The quick response...

“WE WERE READY FOR THE BOMBS, NOT THE LOOTERS,” said Nabhal Amin. As Deputy Director of Iraq’s 70-year-old National Museum of Antiquities, Amin had just watched more than 7,000 years of collected history destroyed or stolen by the storm of lawlessness that swept through Baghdad. The wind tore down Amin’s gates last Thursday. “The several acres of museum grounds were overrun by thousands of men, women and children, many of them armed with rifles, pistols, axes, knives and clubs…,” wrote John Burns of the New York Times. ‘The crowd was storming out of the complex carrying antiquities on hand carts,...