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Nonie Darwish

Arab-American writer and public speaker. She is the author of the book NOW THEY CALL ME INFIDEL: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror. She is a public speaker and founder of Arabs for Israel. The outspoken daughter of a shahid (martyr), Darwish attributes her father's death to "the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth". She states her mission is to "promote reconciliation, acceptance and understanding" between Israelis and Arabs.

Brigette Gabriel

Author of the book BECAUSE THEY HATE, president of the American Congress for Truth, Bridgette survived horrendous conditions growing up in Lebanon and fights today to alter our mindsets -- her basic message is that (paraphrased) "Muslims are taught to hate and kill us, and taught to blow themselves up as very young children and we MUST stop this if the future is to change."

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Abortion

Abortion and a Mother's Conscience
--- Johnnie B. Byrd ---
News flash, April 2, 2008: Florida House passes H.B 257 mandating pre-abortion ultrasound tests. Good news for Florida where health department statistics record almost 100,000 abortions annually...

Taxpayer-supported killing
--- Jonathan Falwell ---
Question: Does the federal government have the right to utilize your tax dollars to fund organizations whose core values completely differ from your own?...

Response to caller 'a serious mistake,' says Planned Parenthood
--- idahostatesman.com ---
Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials apologized Wednesday for what they called an employee's "serious mistake" in encouraging a donation aimed at aborting black babies. They also criticized The Advocate, a right-to-life student magazine at the University of California-Los Angeles, for trying to discredit Planned Parenthood employees in seven states in a series of tape-recorded phone calls last summer...

'Abortion is a racist, genocidal act'
--- Jonathan Falwell ---
The words in the headline are not my own. They were proclaimed by Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at a Black History Month event in Washington, D.C., this week. At the event, she noted her intent of rebuffing the modern-day claim that her uncle was an abortion-rights supporter...

Today's unborn blacks: More vulnerable than slaves
--- Ellis Washington ---
While I fully realize that the subject of abortion is an unspoken blasphemy in polite company, nevertheless during this political season I feel compelled to address this most critical issue of modern times. Why? Like slavery, abortion gives one person the power to terminate the life of another under the color of law...

On Morality, Abortion, and Empires
--- Dr. Andrew Harvey ---
On this anniversary of Roe v. Wade let us consider legalized abortion as not just a court case but a sign, and ask, “What does it signify for us as nation, a culture, a civilization?”...

The Twisted Relativism of Abortion
--- Dr. Paul Kengor ---
America this week marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The court case is frequently a matter of debate, especially the breathtaking judicial logic on which it is based. The constitutionality of Roe is just one of innumerable facets of the abortion debate, from the legal to the medical to the theological. Consider, however, another facet: the confusing philosophical basis for the assertion that abortion is a woman’s “choice.”...

Aborted America
--- Star Parker ---
What's the difference between art and politics? The question occurred to me as I left the theater after seeing the surprising new hit film, "Juno."

Anniversary Marks Deaths of Millions
--- Ken Connor ---
This past Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since that fateful decision, over 48.5 million children have perished at the hands of abortionists. One out of every four children conceived in America will be killed by an abortionist. In 2003 alone, more children died from abortion than the total number of Americans who died in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf War combined. Two-thirds of all abortions are performed on single women. Statistically, the womb has become the most dangerous place in America...

Abortion Rates Drop, Bias Doesn’t
--- Kristen Fyfe ---
In reporting the good – nay GREAT – news that the number of abortions performed annually has continued to decline in America, The Washington Post couldn’t refrain from infusing the Page One story with liberal bias...

The Elephant in the Room
--- Ann Coulter ---
Unluckily for McCain, snowstorms in Michigan suppressed the turnout among Democratic "Independents" who planned to screw up the Republican primary by voting for our worst candidate. Democrats are notoriously unreliable voters in bad weather. Instead of putting on galoshes and going to the polls, they sit on their porches waiting for FEMA to rescue them...

The Growing Aversion to Abortion
--- Steve Chapman ---
The abortion debate has raged since 1973, when the Supreme Court gave abortion constitutional protection, but the basic law of the land has proved immutable. Abortion is legal, and it's going to remain legal for a long time...

Abortion-supporting AG resigns over sex scandal
--- WorldNetDaily.com ---
Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison, a Republican-turned-Democrat who was supported by abortion advocates in Kansas in his campaign to defeat pro-life former Attorney General Phill Kline, is quitting over a sex-and-political-influence scandal that now has triggered a decision to hire a special prosecutor...

ACLU

ACLU's absurd definition of 'the people'
--- http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=60160 ---
There are two ways to change laws...

The Grave Threat of the Easter Bunny
--- Tom Purcell ---
Another tradition is making some people uneasy: the Easter Bunny...

ACLU: Gay sex in public restrooms a constitutional right
--- Bryan Fischer ---
The ACLU has submitted a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Sen. Larry Craig, who has been engaged in protracted legal machinations to keep the issue of his guilt in an airport sex sting tied up in courts. All this is in an apparent effort to save face, stave off a Congressional investigation, and generate some thin justification for staying in office to the end of his term...

America

DETECTIVES: Chris Jenkins murder connects dozens around country
--- Kristi Piehl ---
Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men, including some in Minnesota? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say they can prove it...

The Power of Free Speech in Berkeley
--- Debra J. Saunders ---
"I guess they've never heard of free speech," Berkeley City Councilwoman Dona Spring told The Chronicle as she defended the council's 6-3 vote to tell Marine recruiters that they are not welcome in Berkeley -- and that if the Marines stay, they will "do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."...

Hollywood's revisionist history
--- Floyd and Mary Beth Brown ---
As lovers of history, we are always first in line to see a good period movie or biographical film. But over the years, the liberals in Hollywood have moved further toward the fringes of loony left scholarship in the field of historic cinema...

Terrorizing Free Speech
--- Joe Kaufman ---
The freedoms in our country are what set us apart from the rest of the world. But those same freedoms can become endangered by those that have suspect intentions. I know, because I experienced that recently, when, during a protest I led against a group I know to have ties to terrorism, I was served with a lawsuit and a restraining order. At the beginning of next month, at a symposium sponsored by America’s Truth Forum, I will give my first public speech on the matter. The event will be held in the Dallas area, the same place that this unfortunate situation began. In speaking out, I hope to raise awareness at the fragility of our Constitution and hope to move people to strengthen it...

Are Islamist Groups Trying to Influence the Race to the White Ho
--- Steven Emerson ---
BILL HEMMER: Alright, there is a group called the Muslim American Society (MAS). Its stated mission according to its website is to "uplift the individual, the family, and society." But according to counter-terrorism expert, Steve Emerson, there is more to this organization than meets the eye...

Union Leaders Caught with their Hands in the Cookie Jar
--- Larry Farnsworth ---
Washington, DC – The Department of Labor’s union watchdog office, the Office of Labor and Management Standards (OLMS), today announced the conviction of nine union members found guilty of embezzling union funds and the courts have ordered restitutions totaling over $488 thousand dollars...

At Last!
--- Thomas Sowell ---
People for whom indignation is a way of life -- and there seem to be an increasing number of such people -- repeatedly have outbursts of outrage whenever the police fire a lot of shots at some criminal...

Good Politics? Maybe. Good Policy? Definitely Not!
--- David Strom ---
Congress has taken another substantial step toward passing an Energy bill that could spell disaster for American consumers and manufacturers, ensuring a future of rising energy costs and less economic competitiveness...

American Government

Time Warp: Different War, Same Question
--- Paul Greenberg ---
One of the most dedicated, determined and talented American leaders -yes, they still make that kind - was called to testify last week before the diverse collection of politicos known as the Senate Armed Services Committee...

Freedom Is Not the Problem, It Is the Solution
--- Michele Bachmann ---
Doesn’t it seem like year after year, more and more decisions we should be making for ourselves, are instead being made by nameless bureaucrats in Washington?...

Requiem for Sen. Joseph McCarthy
--- Ellis Washington ---
Two weeks ago, the Christian world solemnly celebrated the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Jews the Feast of Purim. Easter has passed; nevertheless, because of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (marked yesterday), my heart is still in a solemn mood, so I will endeavor to memorialize another authentic American hero, a forgotten and complex man...

The High Cost of a Free Lunch
--- Burt Prelutsky ---
Growing up, as I did, in the home of Russian Jewish immigrants, it figures that I’d start out thinking that, by all rights, FDR belonged on Mount Rushmore. But, all these years later, I have concluded that most of America’s woes can be traced back to his presidency, and that the best reason for his being up there along with Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington and Teddy Roosevelt, is that his head was already made of stone...

Democrats’ Inaction on FISA Harms America’s National Security
--- By John Boehner ---
Earlier this month, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle came together to pass an economic growth package to help get our economy moving again. I hoped this same spirit of bipartisanship would extend to other critical issues, with our national security our first and foremost priority. Sadly, this was not to be...

China Trade: Patents, Poisons, and Prescription Drugs
--- Phyllis Schlafly ---
At the MSNBC Florida presidential debate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney posed a very significant question. "As we compete with China, how do we make sure that trade is done in a way that levels the playing field? How do we ... protect American industry and American jobs, and do not cause a departure of jobs from this country?"...

The High Price of Pretense
--- Steve Chapman ---
Washington, D.C. is a place where delusions go to thrive. That explains why Congress and the president are now agreed on remedies that will not work, expending money they do not have, to fix a problem that may not exist...

Nothing Stimulating About This Deal
--- Robert Bluey ---
I wouldn’t want Hank Paulson negotiating on my behalf...

Big Brother to control thermostats in homes?
--- Chelsea Schilling ---
Add thermostats to the list of private property the government would like to regulate as the state of California looks to require that residents install remotely monitored temperature controls in their homes next year.

New Security Rules for Driver's Licenses
--- DEVLIN BARRETT ---
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-9/11 security rules to be unveiled Friday by federal officials...

The Late Great Social Security System
--- Paul Jacob ---
On the Ides of October, the first baby boomer applied for Social Security retirement. A Maryland teacher, born a second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946, will become eligible to receive early retirement benefits next New Year’s Day...

The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence
--- Michelle Malkin ---
Do you know the story of the Incredible Disappearing Border Fence? It's an object lesson in gesture politics and homeland insecurity. It's a tale of hollow rhetoric, meaningless legislation and bipartisan betrayal. And in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, it's a helpful learning tool as you assess the promises of immigration enforcement converts now running for president...

Kiss your bulbs goodbye
--- Joseph Farah ---
I've often said America faces danger from creeping fascism...

Border Wars

Report Uncovers Hidden Cost of Immigration
--- Phyllis Schlafly ---
Are you having a hard time paying your bills, making your mortgage payments, or putting your kids through college?...

Bush pulls rank to finish fence
--- WorldNetDaily ---
The Bush administration plans to cut through the bureaucratic red tape and bypass environmental laws hindering the building of 670 miles of fence along the border with Mexico and finish the section authorized by Congress by the end of this year...

Vodka-maker Absolut apologizes, ends ad showing California, Texa
--- The Associated Press ---
MEXICO CITY: The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers...

In defense of the fence
--- Ilana Mercer ---
Environmental lobbies abhor all by-products of human existence, unless generated by illegal aliens. In that case, the vast latrine and landfill created along the border with Mexico, as millions of illegals defecate and despoil their way to their destinations in the U.S., are just dandy...

Illegal Immigration: Issue or Lifestyle?
--- Bob Parks ---
As I was watching last night’s little hissy fit called a “Republican Debate,” I noted just how out of touch the two main contenders are when it comes to the issues that affect millions of Americans on a daily basis...

Mexican Military and Law Enforcement Agents Barging Over Border
--- Jim Kouri, CPP ---
Judicial Watch, the public interest group created to investigate and prosecute suspects in government corruption cases, recently released a secret a Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Border Patrol report titled, “Mexican Government Incidents: 2006 Fiscal Year Report.”...

Making REAL ID Real…Finally!
--- James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. ---
The 9/11 Commission suggested it, Congress passed two laws requiring it, and the fiscal year (FY) 2008 budget allocated funds to begin implementing it. Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finally announced a plan to establish minimum standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards that are intended to be used for federal purposes (such as passenger screening at U.S. airports)...

Chandler Rapist suspect arrested
--- Katie McDevitt ---
Police arrested a suspect Saturday morning in the high-profile Chandler Rapist case that includes the sexual assaults of at least six girls...

Capitalism-The Great Ideal

Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'
--- Joe Kovacs ---
After three years of clandestine development, a Georgia company is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil...

Free Trade: The Real Economic Stimulus
--- James M. Roberts ---
As Congress considers a second round of economic stimulus measures, it needs to look no farther than the pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. These agreements have been in limbo since congressional leaders delayed action on them last summer...

Capitalism Doesn't Work, Mr. Gates?
--- Lawrence Kudlow ---
Bill Gates, bloviating at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is issuing a clarion call for a "kinder capitalism" to aid the world's poor. Gates says he has grown impatient with the shortcomings of capitalism. He thinks it's failing much of the world. This, of course, from a guy who's worth around $35 billion (give or take a billion)...

Robertson Considers Bid For Norfolk Newspaper
--- Sonja Barisic ---
NORFOLK, Jan. 11 -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson is considering making an offer for the Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper he has criticized for its coverage of him...

Greed, Need and Money
--- Walter E. Williams ---
Demagoguery about greedy rich people or greedy corporate executives being paid 100 or 200 times their workers' salaries is a key weapon in the politics of envy. Let's talk about greed, starting off with Merriam-Webster's definition: "a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed."...

Christianity

Darwinians hysterical over 'Expelled'
--- Phyllis Schlafly ---
Ben Stein is known to many as an actor on Comedy Central. But the funniest part about his recent movie "Expelled" is not any clever lines spoken by Stein but the hysterical way liberals are trying to discourage people from seeing it...

Ben Stein Exposes Richard Dawkins
--- Dinesh D'Souza ---
In Ben Stein's new film "Expelled," there is a great scene where Richard Dawkins is going on about how evolution explains everything...

A History of Popes and Presidents
--- Edward I. Koch ---
There is an old saying, "Youth is wasted on the young."...

Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists
--- Brent Bozell III ---
I confess that when the producers of Ben Stein's new documentary "Expelled" called, offering me a private screening, I was less than excited...

"They Want Jesus Instead": Why Muslims Convert
--- Chuck Colson ---
In church yesterday, as you celebrated Easter, did you notice anything—or anyone—unusual?...

Jesus A Liar?
--- Jonathan Falwell ---
I find the first part of Sen. Obama's recent statement to be quite reasonable. In fact, I don't believe that Christians have cornered the market on decency. (If you don't believe me, try reading some of my e-mails or taking a few of my phone calls!)...

Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
--- uk.reuters.com ---
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday...

Dobson editing radio show to avoid 'hate crimes' laws
--- Bob Unruh ---
"Hate crimes" laws were defeated in Congress just a few months ago. Just a few weeks ago, Frank Wright of the National Religious Broadcasters Association warned, "We must be one in Christ to face the days ahead" because "hate crimes" laws would create untold new liability for Christians...

The Grave Threat of the Easter Bunny
--- Tom Purcell ---
Another tradition is making some people uneasy: the Easter Bunny...

Christians Mark Easter in Jerusalem
--- LAURIE COPANS ---
JERUSALEM (AP) - Christian pilgrims, undeterred by the recent violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, sang and prayed on Easter Sunday at the church believed to be built on the site where Jesus rose from the dead...

Muslim baptized by pope says life in danger
--- Philip Pullella ---
A Muslim author and critic of Islamic fundamentalism who was baptized a Catholic by Pope Benedict said on Sunday Islam is "physiologically violent" and he is now in great danger because of his conversion...

Marxism, American Christians, And Election 2008
--- Austin Hill ---
Barack Obama has a controversial relationship with a Pastor...

Muslim terrorists destroy YMCA, Christian books
--- Aaron Klein ---
In the latest attack on Christians in Gaza, 16 Palestinians forced their way into the YMCA library, stole everything but Christian books and then burned down the building...

Families are running for their lives
--- Olivia St. John ---
In a Feb. 7 press release, a broad coalition of Christian grass-roots organizations boldly banded together urging parents to either homeschool their children or place them in Christian schools. Prominent pro-family crusaders like Phyllis Schlafly, once a proponent of public school reform, are saying it's time to exit public schools...

On the 'sin' of sending kids to public school
--- WorldNetDaily.com ---
The man who helped push the issue of public education onto the national agenda of the Southern Baptist Convention has written a new book that blows the lid off government schools, showing parents the kind of worldview and values their children are influenced by 180 days a year...

Anglican head backs some Islamic rules
--- Julia Duin ---
The archbishop of Canterbury called for applying Islamic Shariah law in Britain in certain instances, saying its use there "seems unavoidable" and may help maintain social order...

Why More Feminists Should Convert to Christianity
--- Mike S. Adams ---
There was a time when the important question of “when life begins” was in dispute. Now that films like “In the Womb” have become widely available to the public, visual evidence forces reasonable people to answer that question by moving further and further back towards the moment of conception. I believe that since conception is the moment when one’s genetic endowment is established, that is when one’s life begins...

'F--- Jesus' not fireable offense?
--- Jonathan Falwell ---
"Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"

How Christians Ended Slavery
--- Dinesh D'Souza ---
Isn't it remarkable that atheists, who did virtually nothing to oppose slavery, condemn Christians, who are the ones who abolished it?...

Attacks on Indian Christians exploding
--- WorldNetDaily.com ---
A new report confirms what Christians in India already feared: 2007 was the worst year since their nation's independence in 1947 for attacks on Christians...

The Virgin Mary: Left-Wing Liberationist?
--- Mark D. Tooley ---
Like most Protestants, Methodists honor but do not typically pray to the Virgin Mary. But an official with the United Methodist lobby office in Washington, D.C., apparently makes an exception for the "sassy sister savior" when she is redefined to embody the Religious Left's political ideals: a Mary socialist...

Taking Christ Out of Christmas
--- Dinesh D'Souza ---
I appeared Friday evening on CNN to discuss "the war against Christmas," a strange and demented war if there ever was one. We've heard about stores that refuse to allow employees to say "Merry Christmas" and communities legally compelled to take down nativity scenes. The specific case under discussion involved a Seattle volunteer policeman--a former Christian pastor turned militant atheist--who has convinced the department to remove the crosses from police chaplains' badges. His argument? Chaplains have to minister to non-Christians as well as Christians. Some people might object to the crosses. Therefore all Christian symbolism is inappropriate...

I'm Happy to Live in a Christian Nation
--- Burt Prelutsky ---
Usually, when people say they’re not religious, they’re looking to pick a fight or at least start an argument. That’s probably because people who identify themselves as atheists or agnostics are often as dogmatic as Cotton Mather and have merely made a religion of their own non-belief...

Secular Europe or Religious America?
--- Dennis Prager ---
Last week, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote a column titled "Secular Europe's Merits," in which he explained why he prefers the secularism of Europe to the religiosity of America...

A Christmas valentine
--- Ellis Washington ---
This essay was written in January 1999 and was originally titled, "Caroline My Valentine." It was written in the dialectical manner of Socrates, in quasi-poetical verse and is basically a short narrative of how the Lord used me to lead my sister-in-law (Caroline) to become a Christian...

Christmas Clashes 2007
--- Kristen Fyfe ---
There’s good news and bad news this Christmas...

The real Father Christmas
--- Jonathan Falwell ---
With Christmas in America becoming heedlessly commercialized, secularized or even outright banned, I want to share five key facts about Christmas and the One whose very name is incorporated in this blessed day...

Vatican: Away with the manger
--- WorldNetDaily.com ---
Christmas eve visitors to St. Peter's Square at the Vatican expecting to see a traditional nativity scene will be surprised to find no stable, no manger, no hay, no sheep and definitely no Elvis...

China Bans Bibles from Olympics?
--- Sher Zieve ---
In another move that both infuriates and attempts to suppress Christianity, China is reported to have banned Bibles officially—for athletes—from the 2008 Olympics...

Ramadan Yea, Christmas Nay
--- Amanda Carpenter ---
Democrats who supported a House resolution to honor Ramadan voted against a similar resolution to honor Christmas and Christianity last night...

Why Atheists Are So Angry
--- Dinesh D'Souza ---
If you haven't seen my “God v. Atheism” debate with philosopher Daniel Dennett, you can view it at Tothesource.org. You should read the comments in response to the debate both on my AOL blog as well as on the atheist site richarddawkins.net. From the atheists you hear statements like this: "D'Souza is a goddamned idiot." "Odious little toad." "D'Souza is full of s**t." "A smug, joyless twit." "Total moron." "Little turd." "Two-faced liar." Etc, etc. Now admittedly the topic of God v. atheism can be an emotional one, but you will find no comparable invective on the Christian side. Why then are so many atheists so angry?...

Single-Issue vs. Comprehensive Conservatism
--- David Limbaugh ---
Since its emergence as a dominant political force in the '80s, the religious right has been a favorite whipping boy of the mainstream media and political left and a sometimes embarrassment to certain conservative elitists. Yet neither group of critics can deny the electoral power Christian conservatives have wielded...

Who's Scared of Christmas?
--- Brent Bozell III ---
At the summit of national power, politicians and bureaucrats are terrified at the idea of endorsing the religious views of the majority of Americans. Our First Amendment forbids the establishment of a state religion, but many of our governing elites are taking it a step further, outlawing its very existence from the public conversation...

Conservativism

Johnson wins London mayoral race
--- BBC News ---
Boris Johnson interviewed after his win...

McCain's Money Mess
--- Robert D. Novak ---
WASHINGTON, D.C -- Big-time Republican contributors are complaining that prospective presidential nominee John McCain is poorly organized for the campaign and off to a bad start in raising money...

Ronald Reagan's America, and Obama's
--- Dr. Paul Kengor ---
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life.... [I]n my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed...." - President Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 11, 1989...

Winning The Cultural War
--- Charlton Heston ---
I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living...

Heston, On Gun Control
--- Charlton Heston ---
Today I want to talk to you about guns: Why we have them, why the Bill of Rights guarantees that we can have them, and why my right to have a gun is more important than your right to rail against it in the press...

Republicans and Blacks
--- Thomas Sowell ---
If Senator John McCain needed to prove that he is a real Republican, he did it when he continued an old Republican tradition of utterly inept attempts to appeal to black voters...

Conservatives swim 'Upstream'
--- David Limbaugh ---
If you want to better understand the intramural battles among conservatives today, there's no better way than to review the historical development of the modern conservative movement. Al Regnery's new book, "Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism," does just that...

20th-century history college students are missing
--- Phyllis Schlafly ---
A recent survey of Britons under the age of 20 reported that more than 20 percent of them believe Winston Churchill, Richard the Lion-Hearted and Florence Nightingale were fictional characters, but that Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur were real people...

Conservatives Really Are More Compassionate
--- George Will ---
WASHINGTON -- Residents of Austin, Texas, home of the state's government and flagship university, have very refined social consciences, if they do say so themselves, and they do say so, speaking via bumper stickers...

GOP: Focus on what's right, not Wright
--- Star Parker ---
Hillary Clinton has reason to be a happy camper. Over recent days, for the first time in months, she has moved significantly ahead of Barack Obama in Gallup's national polling. And, defying Milton Friedman's famous dictum that there is no such thing as a free lunch, she's made these gains at no cost...

The Prince of Polysyllabism
--- Jonah Goldberg ---
William F. Buckley died this week at the age of 82...

William F. Buckley: R.I.P., Enfant Terrible
--- Ann Coulter ---
William F. Buckley was the original enfant terrible...

Before Modern Conservatives, There Was Buckley
--- George Will ---
WASHINGTON -- Those who think Jack Nicholson's neon smile is the last word in smiles never saw William F. Buckley's. It could light up an auditorium; it did light up half a century of elegant advocacy that made him an engaging public intellectual and the 20th century's most consequential journalist...

My Last Word with William F. Buckley Jr.
--- Bill Steigerwald ---
William F. Buckley Jr., the leading political and cultural symbol of American conservatism for almost 50 years, died Feb. 27 at age 82 at his home in Stamford, Conn. He had been ill with emphysema...

Former Paxson Exec Denies McCain Meeting
--- LIZ SIDOTI ---
A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the regulatory delay of a Pittsburgh TV station sale...

The Typhoid Mary of Journalism
--- Michael Reagan ---
If John McCain weren't such a trusting soul he would have wondered why the New York Times endorsed him -- a member of the hated Republican Party -- as their (slightly) preferred candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, especially when he knew they were preparing a slanderous, largely anonymously sourced, story bound to damage his candidacy and his reputation...

Rice Says No Interest in Veep Spot
--- Newsmax.com ---
WASHINGTON -- Condoleezza Rice's name on the Republican ticket is a dream to some, but not a reality she can see happening...

New York Times ombudsman slams article on McCain
--- breitbart.com ---
The New York Times' ombudsman strongly criticized the newspaper's insinuation this week that White House hopeful John McCain had a tryst with a female lobbyist 31 years his junior, nearly 10 years ago...

Some Excellent Advice for McCain and Obama
--- Bill O'Reilly ---
As a pundit who gets paid to give his opinion whether you want it or not, it is my civic duty to dispense some worthy advice to the current front-runners in the presidential race. Let's start with Barack Obama...

Who Is "Fascist"?
--- Thomas Sowell ---
W.E.B. DuBois was so taken with the Nazi movement that he put swastikas on the cover of a magazine he edited, despite complaints from Jewish readers. Even after Hitler achieved dictatorial power in Germany in 1933, DuBois declared that the Nazi dictatorship was "absolutely necessary in order to get the state in order."...

Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain
--- Michael Reagan ---
In 1976 the Ford vs. Reagan campaign for the Republican presidential nomination got so heated it looked as if my father and Jerry Ford would never again talk to one another...

McCain's running mate
--- Star Parker ---
Unity is one of the big themes of the current election...

McCain's rapprochement with the right?
--- Patrick J. Buchanan ---
On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Sen. John McCain stood before thousands of conservatives he has done his level best to anger and alienate for a decade – to ask for their support...

John McCain's CPAC Speech
--- John McCain ---
ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released the following remarks by John McCain as prepared for delivery: Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. It's been a little while since I've had the honor of addressing you, and I appreciate very much your courtesy to me today. We should do this more often. I hope you will pardon my absence last year, and understand that I intended no personal insult to any of you. I was merely pre-occupied with the business of trying to escape the distinction of pre-season frontrunner for the Republican nomination, which, I'm sure some of you observed, I managed to do in fairly short order. But, now, I again have the privilege of that distinction, and this time I would prefer to hold on to it for a while...

From Goldwater Girl To Hillary Girl
--- Ann Coulter ---
Nominating McCain is the gesture of a desperate party. Republicans are so shell-shocked and demoralized by the success of the Bush Derangement Syndrome, they think they can fool the voters by nominating an open-borders, anti-tax cut, anti-free speech, global-warming hysteric, pro-human experimentation "Republican." Which is to say, a Democrat...

Stepping Aside for the Good of America
--- Mitt Romney ---
Below is the text of the speech Governor Mitt Romney gave at the Conservative Political Action Committee Convention in Washington, D.C., yesterday afternoon. -- The Editors...

Show Us the Shining City on a Hill
--- Michael Reagan ---
John McCain has all but wrapped up his party’s presidential nomination. So where does the Republican Party stand at this point in a crucial election year? Well, consider that none of the potential nominees of the party -- except maybe McCain to some extent -- has ever gone out and helped any Republican get elected to anything...

Huckabee Wins All 18 W.Va. Delegates
--- The Associated Press ---
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Mike Huckabee won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday, picking up all 18 national delegates awarded at West Virginia's state GOP convention...

Romney camp accuses McCain, Huckabee of shady West Virginia deal
--- Sam Youngman ---
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign accused Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of “a backroom deal” that gave the early Super Tuesday win in West Virginia to Huckabee...

McCain's Straight Lies
--- Thomas Sowell ---
We have been hearing for years that Senator John McCain gives "straight talk" and his bus has been endlessly referred to as the "straight talk express." But endless repetition does not make something true...

Media Stack the Deck For McCain and Obama on Culture Issues
--- Janet M. LaRue ---
It’s simple. The most competent candidate who comes closest to sharing my core values and political philosophy will get my vote as president. Nobody gets a free ante in the biggest card game of all because of race, gender, religion, or POW status...

The McCain Surge
--- Dinesh D'Souza ---
Remember when John McCain was proclaimed politically dead? The pundits on the left--and even a few on the right--declared that McCain had sunk his promising candidacy by allying himself with Bush and the Iraq war. The wise men told McCain, "Back away from the war. Give up on Bush." McCain didn't, and now look at him...

Memo to Both Parties: Vote for Who's Best, not for Who's "Electa
--- Dennis Prager ---
Many, perhaps even most, Democrats and Republicans are conflicted as to whom to vote for in the primaries...

What Kind of "Experience"?
--- Thomas Sowell ---
The front-runners in both political parties -- that is, Hillary Clinton and John McCain -- are making "experience" their big talking point. But what kind of "experience"?...

John McCain Hates Me
--- Michael Reagan ---
Until last night, when I watched the Republican debate, I had no idea how much John McCain dislikes me and just about everybody else but Rudy Giuliani, who if you believe The New York Times is a pretty good hater himself...

McCain vs. Limbaugh
--- Brent Bozell III ---
You can tell a lot about how the news media feel about conservatives by watching how they talk about Rush Limbaugh. They want his influence curbed. They pine for the day his career hits the skids. They're constantly looking for a moment where they can declare that conservatives no longer have -- that Rush Limbaugh no longer has -- the Grand Old Party in a menacing trance. They don't want Republican candidates seeking a Limbaugh endorsement...

Why You're Going To Vote For John McCain In November And Like It
--- John Hawkins ---
Admittedly the title is a wee bit of an exaggeration. Did I say "wee bit?" I really meant a huge exaggeration. Okay, okay, the title is so over-the-top that I would only write it in a column, not say it in front of an audience of conservatives because people might start throwing garbage...

Cheney's Daughter Joins Romney Camp
--- The Associated Press ---
MIAMI (AP) - Liz Cheney, one of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughters, has signed onto Mitt Romney's presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser...

The Case for Rudy Giuliani
--- Dennis Prager ---
To the extent that I understand how most Republicans think, it would seem that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani comes closer to the Republican ideal than any of the other viable Republican candidates. They are all good and decent men who would be better for America than either of the Democratic front-runners. But it is difficult to see, from a conservative- and Republican-values perspective, what major shortcoming Giuliani brings as compared to the other candidates. And given the obsession of liberal news media with publishing negative reports about Giuliani and frequent praise of John McCain, it would appear that it is Giuliani whom Democrats most fear as the Republican presidential nominee...

Rep. Duncan Hunter drops out of GOP presidential race
--- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ---
SAN DIEGO---- Rep. Duncan Hunter is dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination after a poor showing in the Nevada caucus, his campaign said Saturday...

Six Big Lies About John McCain
--- Michael Medved ---
LIE #1: John McCain isn’t a loyal Republican. TRUTH: McCain has been a stalwart Reagan Republican since he first entered politics in 1981...

A Democrat or a Republican?
--- Larry Elder ---
"I'm writing to you on behalf of my son. In the simplest form, what are the main differences between today's Democrats and Republicans? I get too complicated with my explanations. I don't think these kids really know the difference and just vote for a candidate because he is young, or female, etc. Can you help?"...

Old Warrior, Go Home
--- Debra J. Saunders ---
Rush Limbaugh launches daily rants against John McCain. Fellow conservative radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham dismissed the Arizona senator on Wednesday as the Democrats favorite Republican. Hugh Hewitt blogged on Townhall.com that a vote for McCain is a vote for an old warrior way past his prime and the prospect of three debates against Barack Obama in which the age and energy gap goes unremarked upon while devastatingly obvious...

Wanted: A "Suck It Up" Candidate
--- Michelle Malkin ---
I need a man. A man who can say "No." A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn't mean playing Santa Claus. A man who won't panic in the face of economic pain. A man who won't succumb to media-driven sob stories...

A Conservative Nightmare: Republican Nominee, John McCain
--- John Hawkins ---
Mike Huckabee's campaign manager Ed Rollins has been ceaselessly pilloried on the Right for saying, "It's gone. The breakup of what was the Reagan coalition -- social conservatives, defense conservatives, anti-tax conservatives -- it doesn't mean a whole lot to people anymore."...

Albright: Bush 'One of the Worst Presidencies' in History
--- Jeff Poor ---
Nearly seven years out office, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright pulls no punches bashing the Bush administration’s handling of certain issues – calling it one of America’s “worst presidencies.”...

Goodbye Fred
--- Salena Zito ---
Manchester (NH): Fred Thompson spent most of caucus night in Iowa hovering between third and fourth place -- a far cry from the lofty first-place position he held in Rasmussen's poll of likely Republican caucus-goers last June. It has been a long time since Thompson has made a compelling reason to be in this race. And it should be a very short time before he confesses a compelling reason to exit stage right. A bystander in his own race...

Debate Fight Night Doesn’t Disappoint
--- Amanda Carpenter ---
Sparks flew between the leading presidential candidates of both parties during the Saturday “fight night” debate doubleheader just three days before New Hampshire’s January 8 primary...

Minuteman's Huckabee endorsement draws fire
--- Jerome R. Corsi ---
The surprise decision this week by Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist to endorse the candidacy of Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has a drawn sharp reaction from within the Minuteman movement, which split two years ago over funding...

Mitt wept when church ended discrimination
--- Mike Allen ---
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” today that he wept with relief when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church, announced a 1978 revelation that the priesthood would no longer be denied to persons of African descent...

Will Republicans Go Soft on Spending?
--- Robert Bluey ---
Feeling pressure to wrap up work on 11 of the 12 unfinished appropriations bills that fund the federal government, congressional Democrats will push this week to pass a mammoth omnibus spending package just in time for Christmas...

Educational Issues

Children of the Damned: When Third Graders Attack
--- Doug Giles ---
Nine angelic third graders in a Waycross, Georgia elementary school were harassed by the police this week for plotting their teacher’s bloody demise...

Yes, family values are linked to economics
--- Star Parker ---
A new study shows the central importance of education in getting ahead in our country today...

Academic Intimidation
--- Thomas Sowell ---
There is an article in the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education -- the trade publication of the academic world -- about professors being physically intimidated by their students...

Teacher rants against South, church, Rush Limbaugh
--- WorldNetDaily.com ---
The classroom rantings of a teacher in a California school district who targeted the South, church, Republicans, Christians, conservatives and Rush Limbaugh have triggered a First Amendment lawsuit, according to Advocates for Faith and Freedom, an advocacy law firm...

Mom threatened with jail for teaching kids at home
--- Bob Unruh ---
A homeschooling mom in Utah has been ordered by a judge to enroll her children in a public school district within 24 hours, and have them in class tomorrow, all because of a paperwork glitch that very well could be the fault of the district...

Election Day

Give Great Thought to This Election
--- Armstrong Williams ---
When you cast a vote for the president of the United States of America on Nov. 4, 2008, you will be doing something far greater than just electing someone to the occupy greatest office in the land. You will be making a fundamental choice about the direction of our country for the next generation or more...

Memo to Both Parties: Vote for Who's Best, not for Who's "Electa
--- Dennis Prager ---
Many, perhaps even most, Democrats and Republicans are conflicted as to whom to vote for in the primaries...

Enemies Abroad

Gorbachev signed JP II KGB death warrant
--- polskieradio ---
The weekly Wprost, out tomorrow, shows a politburo document, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev, which appears to warrant a KGB contract killing on John Paul II...

Kim Jong-il builds ‘Thunderbirds’ runway for war in North Korea
--- Michael Sheridan and Uzi Mahnaimiin ---
North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel...

The High School Massacre
--- Jonathan Medved ---
The attack on the Mercaz HaRav high school was a brutal massacre-pure and simple...

Chavez Says US Can Shove Terror List
--- newsmax.com ---
President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. on Friday to put Venezuela on a list of countries accused of supporting terrorism, calling it one more attempt by Washington to undermine him for political reasons. Chavez said the "threat to include us on the terrorist list" is Washington's response to his own successes in the region...

Chavez Orders Bogota Embassy Shut After Ecuador Raid (Update2)
--- Matthew Walter ---
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his country's embassy in neighboring Colombia to close and told his military to move tank battalions to the border after a Colombian air strike into Ecuador, an ally of Venezuela...

March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered
--- IAN JAMES ---
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Warning that Colombia could spark a war, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent tanks and thousands of troops to the countries' border Sunday and ordered his government's embassy in Bogota closed...

Chavez sends tanks to Colombia border in dispute
--- Saul Hudson ---
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez moved tanks to the Colombian border and mobilized fighter jets on Sunday, warning Bogota could spark a war after its troops struck inside another of its neighbors, Ecuador...

Energy Solutions to Help American Families, Not Hugo Chavez
--- John Boehner ---
Middle class families fighting to make ends meet aren't seeing too many signs of relief, especially when it comes to energy...

Gorbachev He's Not
--- Humberto Fontova ---
The announcement this week of Fidel Castro's retirement was a mere formality. You'll recall the identical announcement July of 2006. In fact, many Cuba watchers will tell you that his little brother, Raul, as head of Cuba's Armed Forces, has been mostly running Cuba--the nuts and bolts of the thing--for decades, and more singlehandedly for the past five years...

Fidel Castro: I Am Ready for a Vacation
--- Newsmax.com ---
Fidel Castro said Friday that he's relieved to be stepping down as Cuba's president, complaining that the process of selecting Cuba's next government "had left me exhausted."...

Old commies like new face
--- Joseph Farah ---
Pity poor Hillary. She worked so hard in New Left and Old Left causes in her youth only to be abandoned by the hard-line Communist Party establishment in favor of the fresh new face of Barack Hussein Obama, who seems to toe the party line without even trying – perhaps without even realizing he's doing it...

'A new phase in the arms race is unfolding' says Putin
--- Shaun Walker in Moscow ---
"It's clear that a new arms race is unfolding in the world," said Mr Putin, one that Russia did not start. And he vowed that Russia would respond to the threats by developing newer and more modern weapons that were as good as if not better than those possessed by Western countries. "We are being forced into retaliating ... Russia has and always will have the answers to these challenges," he said...

Environmentalism

Scientist: Earth Cooling, Not Warming
--- Philip V. Brennan ---
A San Francisco-based scientist says that current solar activity strongly indicates that the earth is on the verge of a new ice age...

Journalist notes liberal bias in global warming reports
--- Jim Brown ---
Former CBS News correspondent Bernie Goldberg says the liberal mainstream media is largely ignoring the voices of scientists and academics who are skeptical of the notion that global warming is caused by human activity...

Scientists say polar bears at risk, but threat not imminent
--- afp.google.com ---
OTTAWA (AFP) — A scientific panel Friday urged Canada to act to safeguard the Canadian polar bear, which it recommended designating as a species "of special concern" but not one imminently threatened with extinction...

4. Oscar's Eco-Friendly Fleet
--- James Hirsen ---
The largest fleet of energy efficient cars ever assembled at a Hollywood ceremony will be bringing celebrity attendees to the long-awaited Academy Awards...

Europe-In Decline

Evolution Debate

Ben Stein Exposes Richard Dawkins
--- Dinesh D'Souza ---
In Ben Stein's new film "Expelled," there is a great scene where Richard Dawkins is going on about how evolution explains everything.

Fatherhood

The Incontrovertible Facts About Fathers
--- Janice Shaw Crouse ---
This should be the final word –– 24 scholarly studies covering 22,300 separate sets of data published in the 20 years between 1987 and 2007 report essentially the same finding: active fathers are absolutely essential in preventing behavioral problems with boys and psychological problems in girls...

John Vincent Coulter
--- Ann Coulter ---
The longest baby ever born at the Albany, N.Y., hospital, at least as of May 5, 1926, who grew up to be my strapping father, passed away last Friday morning...

Feminism

Straight Talk About Casual Sex
--- Janice Shaw Crouse ---
It’s not news to anybody these days — not if they watch any television or glance at the covers of the magazines lining the checkout counters at the grocery stores — that we live in a sex-saturated society where supposedly the majority of young people are “doing it,” more often than not without “benefit of marriage.”...

Danica Patrick makes IndyCar history by winning Japan 300
--- JIM ARMSTRONG ---
MOTEGI, Japan (AP) - Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, taking the Indy Japan 300 after the top contenders were forced to pit for fuel in the final laps...

Women Are People Too
--- Marjorie Dannenfelser ---
For me, there’s something slightly embarrassing about Women’s History Month...

Will Feminists Again Attempt To Censor Science?
--- Ashley Herzog ---
How long before feminists try to censor this? Last week, Science Daily reported on a study from Northwestern University which proved “that girls have superior language abilities than boys...and gender differences in language appear biological.” Through MRI scans, the researchers discovered that girls’ brains work harder and use more areas during language tasks than boys’—leading them to conclude that “boys’ and girls’ brains are different.”...

Why Are So Many Women Depressed? Part I
--- Dennis Prager ---
It is widely reported that women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Apparently, more women are clinically depressed than ever before...

Radical, Feminism Wants You Dead
--- Mike S. Adams ---
For years, I’ve argued that those who believe in the First Amendment should avoid the company of women with hyphenated names. The hyphenated name is a sure sign of feminism and, of course, feminism is a sure sign of ignorance (real or feigned) of the First Amendment...

“F” is for Falsehood, Not Feminism
--- Colleen Raezler ---
What does it mean to be a feminist? According to CosmoGirl magazine, it means perpetuating the myths that women cannot think for themselves, that they are simply victims, and that women who stay home to raise their children are “playing Russian roulette with their future.”

Feminist Causes Outbreak of Genital Irritation
--- Mike S. Adams ---
I’m sick and tired of getting propaganda from leaders of the diversity movement at my university. For years, our diversity movement has lacked principle and has invariably excluded certain groups – oddly, while trying to foster “inclusion.”...

Feminism Means Never Having to Say you’re Sorry
--- Mike S. Adams ---
Two years ago, during our annual peer evaluation, a feminist professor suggested (via e-mail) that I may have falsified information in my annual productivity report. She claimed I had listed an article as “in print” without placing any re-prints in my “supporting documents” folder. A few minutes later, she wrote back admitting she had misread my report. I had listed the article as “in press,” which meant that the absence of reprints was simply a function of the fact that the article had not yet been printed...

Islam vs. Women – Where are the Feminists?
--- Sher Zieve ---
During his Columbia University appearance in September – an appearance to which he was actually invited by the university’s administration – Iran’s terrorist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke about Islam’s treatment of women. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Ahmadinejad had this to say: “Women in Iran enjoy the highest levels of freedom.” Really?...

Global Issues

Don't go, President Bush, don't go
--- Paul Jacob ---
Politics, we’re told, is sneaking its pointed little head into the Olympic Games. Oh, my! Next we’ll discover there is gambling going on in Las Vegas...

Pakistan Test Fires Nuke-Capable Missile
--- MUNIR AHMAD ---
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan on Friday successfully test-fired a medium-range, nuclear- capable ballistic missile, an event witnessed by the nation's new army chief, the military said...

Bhutto Assassinated
--- Bill Roggio ---
BENAZIR BHUTTO, the leader of the Pakistani People's party, has been assassinated while campaigning in the military garrison city of Rawalpindi. Bhutto, who was a favorite to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan, was killed along with at least 20 of her supporters and security detail in a shooting attack and suicide bombing as she was exiting the campaign procession in her vehicle...

Islam

What Muslims Really Think
--- Dinesh D'Souza ---
While on the debating circuit pounding atheists--a pastime I am really getting to enjoy--I have just started reading Dalia Mogahed and John Esposito's Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. It's one of the first books to put some real data behind a much-disputed question...

My Encounter With the Enemy in Milwaukee
--- David Horowitz ---
While waiting to speak at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee last night, I was given a tour of the Student Union, the venue for my talk. The Union building also houses the offices of student clubs, funded by mandatory student fees. On the bulletin board outside the office of the Muslim Students’ Association a flyer was posted, which was part of a campaign against my appearance. It was titled “Getting to Know David Horowitz,” and featured a section headed “Who is David Whorowitz?” At the top of the page was an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew in the classic style familiar from the Nazi posters of the 1930s, which have become ubiquitous in the Arab world...

HAMAS
--- DiscoverTheNetwork.org ---
. Islamic terrorist group founded in 1987 . Received funding from Saddam Hussein . Receives funding from Iran . Responsible for many suicide bombings and terrorist acts against Israeli targets

Iranian President Favors Obama?
--- newsmax.com ---
At a press conference during his visit to New Delhi on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asked what he thought the result of the U.S. presidential election would be, replied, "We don't interfere in the other countries' affairs but we think that the American nation seek profound changes in their country."...

Child Bride in Yemen Confronts Sharia
--- Stephen Brown ---
Some countries protect their children and others exploit theirs...

Private Accommodations for Islam
--- R. John Matthies ---
When is it appropriate to critique the policies of private enterprise?...

"They Want Jesus Instead": Why Muslims Convert
--- Chuck Colson ---
In church yesterday, as you celebrated Easter, did you notice anything—or anyone—unusual?...

Iran’s “Moderates”
--- Dan Rabkin ---
With US Vice President Dick Cheney wrapping up his 10-day trip to the Middle East, made in part to allay regional fears of a growing Iranian influence, the Iranians themselves are busy preparing for the second round of parliamentary elections to be held in April (the first round was held on March 14th)...

Aide to Iraq's Sadr: "No handover of arms"
--- Reuters ---
NAJAF, Iraq, March 30 (Reuters) - Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will not hand over their weapons as part of a move to end a week of fighting in Iraq, a top Sadr aide said...

Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics: Vatican
--- uk.reuters.com ---
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday...

Parting Words from Benazir Bhutto
--- Robert Spencer ---
Imagine my surprise several days ago when a reporter asked me for comment on the late Benazir Bhutto’s attack on me in her book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West. I hadn’t read the book, and hadn’t heard of any such attack, but I picked one up last night, and sure enough, there it is on page 245:...

Obama church published Hamas terror manifesto
--- Aaron Klein ---
JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama's Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group's official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America's Declaration of Independence...

Obama: 'Outrageously wrong'to reprint Hamas manifesto
--- WorldNetDaily .com ---
Once again, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is distancing himself from a statement made by his Chicago church and defending himself by saying he wasn't present when the statement was made...

Dutch protest against Islam film
--- BBC NEWS ---
At least 1,000 people have taken part in a demonstration in Amsterdam against the planned release of a film expected to be highly critical of Islam...

Horrific Arab Twist on an Ancient Blood Libel
--- Hana Levi Julian ---
(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority children in Gaza are being raised to believe the ancient Christian blood libel myth about Jews, with a twist: in this version, the Jews don't make matzah from children's blood; they burn them alive...

The High School Massacre
--- Jonathan Medved ---
The attack on the Mercaz HaRav high school was a brutal massacre-pure and simple...

Dutch film to slam Islam
--- Leander Schaerlaeckens ---
BRUSSELS — Europe's uneasy relationship with its Muslim minority faces another blow next month, when Dutch politician Geert Wilders releases a 15-minute film that compares Islam to Nazism and communism...

Are we closer to 1938 than we realize?
--- Laurie Roth ---
What is America's biggest threat? Moral decline, Islamic fundamentalism, national debt and credit nightmares? To some it is simply the "all powerful and intrusive Jews." The Jews control all media, our economy, who gets elected president, our entertainment business and moral downfall, so the charge goes. Of course, we would never dream of turning on the Jews as those pesky Germans did with Hitler at the helm. We are about freedom, civil liberties and equality for everyone, aren't we? We are civilized, and certain types of oppression and evil would never enter our heads...

Muslim TV evangelist preaches Allah of love
--- Carolynne Wheeler in Cairo ---
He is handsome and charismatic, and his velvety voice makes young women swoon. But his young female fans mostly wear headscarves, and while his gatherings look more fitting for a rockstar, they involve lessons from the Koran...

Saudi Arabia Bans Valentine’s Day
--- Deborah Weiss ---
America’s “friend” in the War on Terror, Saudi Arabia, banned Valentine’s Day. The Commission on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, otherwise known as the Religious Police, even banned the color red on February 14th because of its association with the holiday...

Egypt shocked by 'foul-mouthed' Gaza cousins
--- Carolynne Wheeler in Cairo ---
Like many Egyptians, Mohammed Sayeed had always harboured sympathy for his Arab brothers in neighbouring Israeli-occupied Palestine. But that sympathy was tested last month when Hamas blew open the Gaza Strip's land crossing with Egypt and Palestinians crossed the border in droves...

The American Election and Islam
--- Phyllis Chesler ---
This coming American election is not just about universal health care—it is also about the survival of the free world as we have come to know it. And therefore, it is also about Islam...

Jihad, Islamism and the United Nations
--- Jeffrey Imm ---
In the ongoing battle against Jihad, the most important advances are not tactical, but rather those advances that allow us to define, address, and counter the ideology behind Jihadist actions. As the 9/11 Commission report states, "Islamist terrorism is an immediate derivative of Islamism." (Notes, Part 12, Note 3, page 562) Recently, a little-noticed advance in countering Islamist ideology was achieved in the one of the least likely places of all: the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...

Malaysia's "Moderate" Islam Means Racism and Oppression
--- Adrian Morgan ---
In April last year, I wrote about the totalitarian aspects of Malaysia's society. Since that time, the situations described then have been repeated and appear to have worsened. General elections were officially due to take place in 2009, but last month, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi suggested he would be bringing these elections forward. The elections may take place as early as March this year...

Radical Muslims for Obama
--- Joe Kaufman ---
With its similarity to popular online sites such as Facebook and MySpace and its links to a network of grassroots blogs, Barack Obama’s campaign website has been hailed as a testament to the candidate’s transformative politics. But at least part of the senator’s online outreach, “Muslim Americans for Obama ’08,” proposes installing Muslim prayer areas in public places and giving Muslims time off for prayer and has denounced Obama’s colleagues in the U.S. Senate who happen to be Jewish. This segment of Obama's online outreach also has ties to unindicted co-conspirators in terror trials and has recruited Obama supporters from among the ranks of fundamentalist Muslim extremists...

Report: Muslim Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Bollywood Star for Wa
--- FOXNews.com ---
Bollywood star Salman Khan had a fatwa issued against him for allowing Madame Tussauds in London to make his image in wax, the Daily Mail reported...

Saving Major Coughlin
--- Andrew G. Bostom ---
It may not be too late to save the career of a Pentagon analyst of jihad threats whose frank and honest work has gotten him into trouble. Bill Gertz in his weekly “Inside the Ring” column (1/11/08) reported that “Pentagon and military leaders, along with lots of working-level officials, are quietly rallying” in support of Major Stephen Coughlin (USAR), whose plight I have discussed, earlier here. Gertz also makes clear in no uncertain terms, dismissing some rumor mongering, that Coughlin was being accused “falsely” of talking “out of school to the press.” As is his wont, Gertz gets to the heart of the matter:...

UN Gag Order
--- Joseph Klein ---
The Islamic propaganda machine has turned Western democratic values inside out to the Islamists’ advantage. Cloaking themselves in the rhetoric of multiculturalism and tolerance, Islamists succeeded in getting the United Nations General Assembly to pass a resolution late last year condemning the defamation of religions – but the only religion mentioned in the resolution was Islam. This follows in the wake of a declaration by the UN “expert” on racism, who told the UN Human Rights Council last September that “Islamophobia today is the most serious form of religious defamation” and constituted a threat to world peace...

Islamic Misogyny
--- Robert Spencer ---
A Muslim girl has been murdered, and the Left, which claims to care about women and their oppression, is silent...

Virgins for Terror
--- Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook ---
A music video depicting a Shahid (Martyr for Allah) being greeted in Paradise by the Dark Eyed Maidens (Virgins) has returned to Palestinian Authority (PA) television. The return of this of Shahada (Death for Allah) promotion comes at a time the PA leadership may be interested in increasing the motivation of its fighters. The PA fears an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip in response to the continuous firing of rockets at Israeli cities...

Stand By Steyn
--- Robert Spencer ---
The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal have begun proceedings against Mark Steyn, author of America Alone. They are responding to complaints from the Canadian Islamic Congress about an excerpt from the book that was published in the Canadian journal Maclean’s. “The article,” the CIC claims, “subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt,” and was “flagrantly Islamophobic.”...

Exposed: U.S. funded Hamas university
--- Aaron Klein ---
JERUSALEM – An audit has revealed the U.S. government authorized nearly $1 million in aid to a Hamas-controlled university senior terror leaders told WND is openly utilized by Hamas to recruit fighters, manufacture explosives and train on campus grounds for attacks...

Why Does Islam Fall Prey to Radicalism?
--- Sher Zieve ---
With resumed violent riots in France, the Saudi Arabian woman who was recently convicted of having been gang-raped by seven men and has been sentenced by the Islamic Shari’a court to 200 lashes with a whip (a virtual death sentence) and six months in prison – assuming she survives the beating – and the case of Muslims calling for the execution of British teacher in Sudan Gillian Gibbons (who allowed her students to name the classroom teddy bear Muhammad) the chaos occupying the Islamic world is once again slapping the rest of the world in its face. Although Gibbons was convicted by the fundamentalist Islamic court system of “insulting Islam” and sentenced to jail time, over 10,000 Sudanese Muslims took to the streets and clamored for Gibbons’ death with shouts of: “No tolerance! Execution! Kill her, kill her by firing squad!”...

Israel

Israel's sanity among savagery
--- Ilana Mercer ---
On the occasion of Israel's 60 years of statehood, the Australian Parliament unanimously praised the Jewish state for being a robust democracy in a region of theocracies and autocracies. Said Opposition Liberal Party leader Brendan Nelson: "No Australian who believes in the dignity of man, [in] freedom and democratic principles, should ever allow … Israel to be a stranger."...

Israeli City Shocked As Rockets Hit
--- ARON HELLER ---
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) - Residents of this beachside city are still coming to terms with being on the front lines of Israel's battle against Hamas militants...

ISRAEL'S HISTORY AND "RIGHT TO EXIST"
--- DiscoverTheNetworks.org ---
This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines how Israel came into existence, and explains why it is (contrary to the claims of much of the Arab world and the Arab lobby) a nation every bit as legitimate as any other in the world. In his November 30, 2007 article titled "Israel’s Right to the Land" (published by FrontPageMagazine.com), Sean Gannon provides the following analysis of this topic:...

Judicial Activism

Pain, Suffering, and Capital Punishment
--- Bill Murchison ---
Such is the state of modern society that the U.S. Supreme Court gets the job of deciding how much pain the victim of capital punishment feels -- never mind what kind of pain the victim's victims may have felt...

Liberalism -The Left

Wright Controversy Affects the Polls
--- Michael Barone ---
Is the bottom falling out for Barack Obama? It's too early to say that, but there are some disturbing signs...

Obama's Changing Moral Equivalence
--- Charles Krauthammer ---
"I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother." -- Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18...

Obama's Un-Disownable Preacher of Hate
--- Michelle Malkin ---
Barack Obama looked pale and wan at what he called his "big press conference" about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday afternoon. Numb. Chastened. Defeated. Extolled for his eloquence, Obama stuttered and stammered his way through the question-and-answer session. It appeared he was having an out-of-body experience...

The Rev. Wright Just Can't Help Himself
--- David Limbaugh ---
When it comes to the connection between Barack Obama and his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright — or to John McCain's various positions on whether criticizing Obama for his relationship with Wright is fair game — my head is spinning...

The Real Obama Shows Up In San Francisco
--- Newt Gingrich ---
If you go to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then move on to Colombia University and Harvard Law School, you may not understand normal Americans -- that's the impression created by Senator Barack Obama's recent comments...

Obama's New Ideas Turn Out to Be Same Old Same Old
--- Marvin Olasky ---
I've been cheering for Barack Obama in his Democratic war with Hillary Clinton for both positive and negative reasons...

The Democrats' Jimmy Carter Problem
--- Michelle Malkin ---
So much for Jimmy Carter's triumphal peace mission in the Middle East...

Some of My Best Friends Are Liberals. None of Them Are Terrorist
--- Hugh Hewitt ---
When George Stephanopoulos asked Barack Obama about the presidential candidate’s friendship with William Ayers, the Clinton staffer-turned-ABC-talking-head touched off a storm of protest on the left...

Hillary's Radical Skeletons
--- Ben Johnson ---
Integral to Hillary Clinton's triumph in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, Jacob Laksin observed in FrontPage Magazine, was convincing Keystone State voters that she “understood the curious ways of more humble folk.”...

A Living Lie
--- Thomas Sowell ---
An e-mail from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies, Barack Obama is himself a lie...

CARTER CENTER (CC)
--- DiscoverTheNetwork.org ---
. Focuses on peace and health issues around the world . Heavily financed by Arab sources

Obama Slams Cannot Be Dismissed
--- David Limbaugh ---
The dirty little secret about Barack Obama's indictment of flyover country is that he said what liberals, including Hillary Clinton, believe...

Small Town Conservatives: Bitter or Better?
--- Ken Connor ---
If you happen to be a conservative in a small town, you might be chafing at Senator Barack Obama's recent comments at a fundraiser in San Francisco...

Hamas: Carter holds 2nd meeting with chief in Syria
--- BASSEM MROUE ---
Defying U.S. and Israeli warnings, former President Jimmy Carter met again on Saturday with the exiled leader of the militant Hamas group and his deputy...

Obama's Buddy List
--- Guy Benson ---
"John McCain is a good man...

Liberals and Their False Idols
--- Burt Prelutsky ---
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...

If Jeremiah Wright is a Prophet, Isaiah Wasn't
--- Dennis Prager ---
Were the controversial comments made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "prophetic"? That is the claim made by a large number of black and white clergy, by the head of the United Church of Christ and by many other defenders of Rev. Wright...