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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Islamist Propaganda in the K-12 Classrom
  Edukshun piece by OffSite (9/9/10)

A highly disturbing phenomenon is rising in our public school system today with hardly a peep of protest from parents and from our society at large: students are being force-fed a curious and bizarre narrative that presents Islam in a glowing - and historically mangled - light, while Western civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition are demonized and smeared.

Obama’s Tax Plan Will Drive Businesses Out of Business
  Taxes piece by OffSite (9/9/10)

Having plunged the nation into a deep financial crisis with his wild and unrestrained spending of money we do not have - on things the nation does not need - President Obama is now proposing to spend even more, claiming that this time it will work.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Where St. Nicholas Once Stood
  Progressivism piece by Aaron Goldstein (9/8/10)

With all the talk of building a mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center how many of you knew there was a church which once stood in the shadow of the World Trade Center?  And how many of you knew this same church was destroyed during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Americans Wake Up to Islamism
  Islam piece by Daniel Pipes (9/7/10)

The furor over the Islamic center, variously called the Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba House, and Park51, has large implications for the future of Islam in the United States and perhaps beyond.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Higher education bubble poised to burst
  Edukshun piece by OffSite (9/6/10)

Imagine that you have a product whose price tag for decades rises faster than inflation. But people keep buying it because they’re told that it will make them wealthier in the long run. Then suddenly they find it doesn’t. Prices fall sharply, bankruptcies ensue, great institutions disappear.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

‘What Defines Abortion?’
  Progressivism piece by Grant Swank (1/22/08)

Confusion. Is “it” baby or thing?

Ron Paul Could Be Another Ross Perot…
  Elections piece by John A. Ross (1/22/08)

Nineteen percent of Americans voted for Ross Perot in 1991, to send the forty-first president, George H. W. Bush, a message.  The message sent is now a recorded fact of American history; however, we also, effectively, ensured that William Jefferson Clinton would become America’s forty-second president.  Compounding the irony that “Slick Willie,” William Jefferson Clinton, was elected president his wife, Hillary Rodham-Clinton, could be elected The President of The United States by Ron Paul.  Having the same first and last name initials and both being from Texas only reinforces this writer’s rampant paranoia that Lady Bird Johnson has somehow orchestrated all of this.

The Man Who Plays Guitar with His Feet
  Progressivism piece by Cliff Kincaid (1/22/08)

Patrick Wood of the August Review, an excellent newsletter covering political and economic developments, says January 22 could be “Black Tuesday” because of a meltdown in the financial markets. But it’s Black Tuesday for another reason - the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision allowing abortion on demand. We should anticipate that the major media will make economic but not moral collapse into a national story. After all, cultural rot is a rather old story, isn’t it? In terms of Roe v. Wade, it goes back 35 years.

Budget Blues
  Bird-Brain Flu piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Darcy Olsen (1/22/08)

Budget deficit opportunity for creativity, not inaction - After five straight years of being flush with cash, Arizona faces a staggering deficit of about $1 billion. What went wrong?

Our Public Libraries Are Being Turned Into Video Game Arcades
  Edukshun piece by Dave Gibson (1/22/08)

A recent article in my local newspaper about libraries “efforts to woo teens,” caught my eye. Apparently, the works of such luminaries as Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain have been replaced with the Xbox and Nintendo Wii. It is little wonder that our nation’s literacy rate continues to decline.

Using Recession as a Political Scare Tactic
  Progressivism piece by Guest: Mary Mostert (1/22/08)

Recently the war in Iraq seems to have dropped out of the news while the
status of the US Economy has suddenly become the main focus even in the
Presidential caucuses and primaries. Associated Press articles last week
characterized a 306 point drop in the stock market, as a “plunge” that
underscored “deepening concern about the country’s economic health.” What
happened last week was not a plunge. It was a small adjustment. 

Businessman Busted for Harboring Illegal Alien Cop-Killer
  Immigration piece by Jim Kouri (1/22/08)

A Texas businessman, who employed an illegal alien charged with capital murder in connection with the 2006 shooting death of Houston Police Department Officer Rodney Johnson, was arrested Wednesday and charged with harboring an illegal alien here. This case was investigated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Houston Police Department.

We never believed such a terrible thing could happen here
  Immigration piece by Guest: Carolyn Hileman (1/22/08)

You have to wonder if in 1941 if the Jewish people had any indication that their world would literally crash down around them, surely there were rumors, and surely there were people who warned them. I am sure that when someone spoke of such things they were quickly shunned, considered a lunatic and ignored, perhaps they were called rebel rousers, trouble makers even considered a worse threat than this impending doom they spoke of. It must have been very hard to fathom such a thing happening and I am sure that they went about their daily routines believing that no one would be so cruel.

Thompson is in Trouble: And so are ALL other Republicans
  Elections piece by JB Williams (1/22/08)

Fred Thompson was drafted by the conservative base of the Republican Party for two very simple reasons.

Poor Countries Don’t Need Climate Change Welfare, They Need Capitalism
  Progressivism piece by Ayn Rand Institute: Dr. Keith Lockitch (1/22/08)

Irvine, CA--A major theme of the recent climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, is that wealthy, industrialized nations have an obligation to help poor countries adapt to climate change. Delegates agreed to activate an “adaptation fund” to help undeveloped nations cope with projected threats such as disruptions to agriculture and decreased water availability.

The Pothole That Cost Gordon Bishop $800!
  Misc. piece by Gordon Bishop (1/22/08)

Insurance companies try to squeeze as much blood money out of you as they can to fatten their profits - but God help you if you need these predatorial parasites to pay for an accident or anything involving a “settlement.”

Funding Our Own Bankruptcy
  Big Brother piece by Doug Patton (1/22/08)

William Proxmire represented the state of Wisconsin in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1989. His last decade in office, Proxmire became famous for issuing his “Golden Fleece Awards” identifying wasteful government spending. Some of these awards included a National Science Foundation grant funding a study on why people fall in love; a Justice Department study on why prisoners wanted to get out of jail; a National Institute of Mental Health study of a Peruvian brothel; and a Federal Aviation Administration study of the physical measurements of 432 airline stewardesses.

Monday, January 21, 2008

‘Demercrats and McCain, Where will You Be When IslamoFascists and LaRaza Attack?’
  Elections piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (1/21/08)

The Progressive candidates (including McCain) deny that Islamists and LaRaza fanatics are among us?

UN transformation proposed to create ‘new world order’
  NewWorldOrder piece by OffSite (1/21/08)

Gordon Brown has begun secret talks with other world leaders on far-reaching reform of the United Nations Security Council as part of a drive to create a “new world order” and “global society”.

Abortion and America’s Future
  Progressivism piece by Cliff Kincaid (1/21/08)

It was supposed to be big news that the abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years. They did not tell us that an estimated 49 million have died through abortion in America since 1973. But the damage has been felt in other ways. The Supreme Court’s legalization of abortion has undermined the philosophy of God-given rights that made our progress as a nation possible.

Hoisted With Their Politically-correct Petards
  Demercrats piece by Selwyn Duke (1/21/08)

What goes around certainly does come around.  The first black president’s wife isn’t black enough to be immune from charges of bigotry.

Democratic Socialism vs. Republican Socialism
  Elections piece by JB Williams (1/21/08)

Is that our choice in 2008? - The Democrat Party is owned and operated by the Democratic Socialists of America(1). All modern Democrat candidates propose growing the federal government to a social services giant involved in every aspect of individual life and paid for by “the rich.”

A Primary Caucus Primer
  Elections piece by Nancy Salvato (1/21/08)

While a great number of people do not see the value in the Electoral College (And “W” Takes the Series), it is possible an even greater number of people don’t fully comprehend how each political party selects their candidate for president. During the Iowa Caucus, after I heard several people draw a blank when asked to explain how a Caucus works, I decided it might be time to put together a primer on the nominating process. 

Presidential Hopeful John McCain Counting on Voters’ Short Memories
  Elections piece by Jim Kouri (1/21/08)

In the midst of this presidential race, many GOP faithful appear to have forgotten that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and his friend Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) were planning last December to introduce a new immigration bill that is even more liberal than their past “amnesty” bill. They’re calling it a fast-track to citizenship for illegal aliens.

‘Why Is Martin Luther King’s Birthday a National Holiday?’
  General piece by Citizen Conservative (1/21/08)

Although I am most grateful for the paid day off on Martin Luther King day, I have reservations about the propriety of making the occasion of his birth a national holiday.

Time Mag Revives ‘Discovery’ of Christ’s ‘Tomb’ Story
  Progressivism piece by Warner Todd Huston (1/21/08)

In 2006, movie mogul James Cameron lent his name to a “documentary” detailing the “discovery” of the tomb of Jesus Christ and his family. The film was widely panned by archeologists, Christians, Jews and non-believers alike and the evidence of the find has been shown to be highly suspect. But, this doesn’t seem to bother Time Magazine as the monthly is reviving the story once again in Jesus ‘Tomb’ Controversy Reopened(1), a story by Tim McGirk. Naturally, the entire article is written from the perspective of those who take the anti-Christian position on the story and Christians are presented as rejecting the “find” merely out of blind belief while those supporting the interpretation of the find as that of Jesus’ final resting place are presented as serious scientists and academicians. 

President McCain
  Elections piece by Adam Graham (1/21/08)

Republican voters are trending towards John McCain in recent primaries. What would John McCain do as President? Many of his supporters are ignorant of his record, or overlooking it. This column will project what a John McCain presidency would look like.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Canada’s Reign of Terror
  Progressivism piece by Thomas Brewton (1/20/08)

More on high-handed suppression of free speech by Canada’s Human Rights Commission.

I for one will not be considering any of them either…
  Elections piece by Guest: Carolyn Hileman (1/20/08)

Angel Jesus Hernandez, Armando Martinez-Lozano, Juan Felix Salinas, Erik Jovani Martinez, Terapon Dang Adhahn, Victor Benitez, Jose Perez Gonzalez, I am willing to wager that you do not recognize any of those names and I am also willing to wager that none of these names will come up during any debates, but these are friends of senators John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They are such good friends of these senators that one actuarially cosponsored a bill that would have given them amnesty and the other two voted to make it happen. Their reasoning behind this bill was so that these hard working illegal immigrants could better their lives after all they had never hurt any one.

Never count the Clintons out
  Elections piece by Robert E. Meyer (1/20/08)

A recent addition of a conservative publication had a headline theme reminiscent of the late Edgar Allen Poe. The title was “The Fall of House of Clinton.”

The Mourning After
  Elections piece by Chuck Muth (1/20/08)

For those who said the early presidential caucus in Nevada wouldn’t hold any significance, note that it knocked GOP candidate Duncan Hunter out of the race and perhaps sealed Hillary Clinton’s nomination on the Democrat side.  Why?  Because for Democrats, Nevada’s caucus was all about Big Labor.  And the biggest, most active labor union in the state - the Culinary Union - rolled the dice and sided with Barack Obama.  And they crapped out.

Get the Feds Out of Our Schools!
  Edukshun piece by Alan Caruba (1/20/08)

One of President Bush’s legacies that will be judged harshly in the future is his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program that presumably was going to bring America’s school systems up to a national standard of performance.

Economist, Ph.D., Nobel Prize, Millions And Millions Of Dead People
  General piece by Ted Baiamonte (1/20/08)

Muhammad Yunis (economist,Ph.D, Nobel Laureate) is the toast of the international, liberal, anti-poverty, jet set these days. He is primarily associated with the concept of micro financing. Micro financing is very simple: you give a tiny loan, at very modest interest rates, if any at all, of a few dollars each to poor women (men don’t pay back the loans, he says) who use it for some practical business related purpose. The loan is repaid, at which time another loan can be made. Presto chango, in a little time everyone is in a for profit business, and poverty is finally vanquished after all these centuries?

What Else, O Medieval Saudi Oil Potentate? Try These For Starters…
  General piece by Gerald A. Honigman (1/20/08)

A stop along President Bush’s recent Middle East trip - after further pressuring Jews to accept his vision of Abbas’s latter day terrorist Arafatians as being the good cops - took Dubya to the sands of the Saudis and other Arabian Peninsula nations.

1971 Redux
  Bird-Brain Flu piece by Thomas Brewton (1/20/08)

We’re heading back to the disaster of President Nixon’s Keynesian economics of price controls, rampant deficit spending, and punishing inflation.