Friday, July 4, 2008

Greens Add Food Production to Their Hit List

  GreeenIsm item by Dennis T. Avery (7/4/08)

British diesel is a self-inflicted $12 per gallon, biofuels have nearly doubled their food prices, and 40 percent of U.K electrical power will be shut down over the next six years. Now, the same Green alarmists, who warn of man-made warming while the planet cools, demand sharp reductions in Europe’s pesticide use. That will slash Europe’s crop production in half during a global food emergency.

There Should Be No Fairness-Doctrine Secret Agenda

  Big Brother item by Joe Borda (7/4/08)

Off the record the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says that it has no plans to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Nevertheless, earlier this month in a public letter to FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) charged that the doctrine was going to be re-imposed secretly upon broadcast media.

A Weakened Pro-Family Movement

  Progressivism item by Paul M. Weyrich (7/4/08)

Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), the only openly lesbian Member of Congress, is predicting passage of hate crimes legislation and repeal of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) in the next Congress regardless of who is elected President. She told THE WASHINGTON BLADE, the newspaper in the Nation’s capital city appealing to homosexuals, that action on those two measures will be her top priority in 2009.

Wet Powder And Stale Promises

  Immigration item by David Tatosian (7/4/08)

In May 2006 Bush promised a ‘virtual fence’ that was sure to be “the most technologically advanced border security initiative in American history.”

Celebrating The Second Of July

  General item by Bruce Walker (7/4/08)

All good Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, and some good Frenchmen celebrate the Fourteenth of July (Bastille Day), but I know people who celebrated the Second of July, an independence day with a very special, personal meaning.  Those born in America (or France) have a country, but what about a baby born in Bergen-Belsen who never really had a home at all, except that Displaced Persons Camp which had before that been a horrific Concentration Camp?  What home did that baby have?

‘Can America Survive?’

  General item by Alan Caruba (7/4/08)

With the advent of the Fourth of July, I know the expectation is that some patriotic prose is expected. I also know there have been many previous Fourths when Americans could have legitimately asked whether the United States of America would survive.

‘Can Liberty Survive When the People Choose Entertainers, Not Leaders?’

  Election 2008 item by Mary Mostert (7/4/08)

Today is supposed to be a day set aside to celebrate, and remember, the signing of the Declaration of Independence(1). What we seem to have instead is a holiday set aside for entertainment, with nary a mention nor a reading of the document it’s all about.

Obama’s Jimmy Carter Disaster

  Election 2008 item by Samuel Slater Bakhtavar (7/4/08)

Barack Obama has said that he is inclined to meet with the internationally controversial Iranian President at the right time after due preparation and advance work by US diplomats. Contrary to mainstream media views, the President of Iran is virtually powerless. Any candidate for the presidency of Iran must first be vetted by a hard-line group of twelve clerics who are controlled by the un-elected Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei. During the recent election for President of Iran the members of the Guardian Council disqualified over ninety-eight percent of the candidates, including all female candidates and virtually every single reformist. Hence, although Iran has elections, these elections are simply fodder for the mainstream media, providing straw figures to distract foreign politicians like Barack Obama. 

One Man’s Life of Mission

  General item by Thomas D. Segel (7/4/08)

Harlingen, Texas, July 3, 2004:  “The bus maneuvered through narrow streets and on bumpy roads in a seemingly endless trip through pine woods and little hamlets.  Finally after 45 minutes of rattling and swaying, racing downhill and creeping uphill, the bus stopped at the top of a mountain:  Chiboj!”

Once Again, It’s About Associations and Judgment

  Election 2008 item by Frank Salvato (7/4/08)

There has been much ado about Barack Obama’s associations and the judgment used in maintaining and entering into those associations. Obama’s associations with Jeremiah Wright, Williams Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, the Progressive-Left activist group ACORN and his ideological association with Saul Alinsky are all perfect examples of his judgment, his willingness to associate with radical and troubled individuals and organizations. Is it fair to judge Barack Obama by his associations and the judgment used in acquiring and maintaining those associations? Sorry Mr. Colmes, all is fair in love and war...and politics.

Straight Talk on Truth

  Election 2008 item by Lisa Fabrizio (7/4/08)

Two thousand years ago, a man told some local leaders; “The truth will set you free.” Now, those who have been blessed with religious faith understand exactly what He was talking about; yet these words should be universally accepted, even by those in the secular world. After all, only a few hundred years ago, some less worthy but still wise men thought that truth, or truths that were self-evident, were not only important enough to govern a freedom-loving people, but to fight and die for.

Obama and the “Image Thing”

  Election 2008 item by Miguel Guanipa (7/4/08)

At a fundamental level, elections hinge upon the most trusted intuitions voters have about their candidate’s character. In most cases these intuitions are seldom aligned with the truth, as they are loosely based on external appearances and whatever the media chooses to put on its daily feed. Nevertheless, the labeling of a candidate that gains the most currency - in other words, the one that sticks - is the one that, given enough circumstantial evidence to support its tenuous correspondence with reality, will play a significant role in determining either victory or defeat for that candidate. 

‘All to save our planet?’

  GreeenIsm item by Carolyn Hileman (7/4/08)

We have heard for the umpteenth time that we need to cut energy consumption, why everyone from the movie stars to Al Gore has told us how we are just using too much electricity. All of this stems of course from the fact that president Bush did not mandate that we cut back as an attempt to cut costs for the war effort. Time recently had an article talking about how we should turn off our air conditioners because we deserve to sweat since Bush did not make us sacrifice. I must admit some of these people are really starting to make me angry since you and I both know his article was written in a high rise office with A/C on a nice computer and he dares tell us the little people we deserve to sweat. Or dear little Al who is so concerned about the earth that he upped his energy usage, but we need to cut corners somewhere so I say the TV.

Communist Party Backs Obama

  Election 2008 item by Cliff Kincaid (7/4/08)

Barack Obama’s patriotic tour has run into a snag. More evidence of communist backing for the candidate has surfaced. The latest to emerge publicly in Obama’s camp is Joelle Fishman, the chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Political Action Commission. In a column titled, “Big political shifts are underway,” Fishman says that Obama could lead “a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right” this November and that he is “ready to listen” to the “left and progressive voters” backing him. Fishman makes it clear that the CPUSA is part of this coalition. 

Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Baptists, and the Constitution!

  General item by Don Boys (7/4/08)

Americans had won the war with England, written a Constitution under which they would be governed and eleven states had approved it. Virginia and New York approved it with the understanding that a Bill of Rights would be added. The Baptists in those states were the major promoters of a Bill of Rights to guarantee them and others added protection that they believed was missing from the Constitution.

1st Amendment Under Attack By the Democrats/Socialists!

  Progressivism item by Longstreet (7/4/08)

First it was the 2nd Amendment, now it’s the 1st Amendment, under attack by the Democrats/Socialists!  The power hungry, frightened, Democrats/Socialists cannot abide free speech. They cannot exist for very long within a system that champions free speech.  It they do manage to exist, they cannot thrive because free speech is their enemy.  Free speech allows the light of truth to shine, blindingly, upon their falsities, their deceptions, their untruths, and their lies.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Christ Popular in China

  Religion item by Grant Swank (7/3/08)

Believers pray that the risen Christ will overcome Islam’s Allah. Their belief is that the Christ who defied death and the grave will topple all His enemies, including Islam.

‘So Who Listens to Brian, Katie or Charlie Anyway?’

  MSM item by Jack L. Key (7/3/08)

Well, it’s not American voters, and in ever increasing numbers, it seems.

I Hope The Supremes Are Happy

  Judical Activism item by Bob Parks (7/3/08)

With yet another probable rape/murder of a young girl in Vermont, I hope the liberal members of the Supreme Court who voted to spare child rapists of the death penalty slept well last night.

Woman in the Sky: My Renewed Fascination with Amelia Earhart

  General item by Aaron Goldstein (7/3/08)

It was 71 years ago this week, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea for Howland Island on what was to be the penultimate leg of their flight around the world only to vanish, never to be seen or heard from again.

Manifold Dangers Of A Liberal Supreme Court

  Judical Activism item by Christopher G. Adamo (7/3/08)

As far back as Sun Tzu, military strategists have well understood the concept that victory in war does not require the destruction of one’s enemy, but merely convincing that enemy that destruction is inevitable if the fight continues. Similarly, in a dictatorship, absolute control is neither necessary nor, in most cases, even possible. All that is needed for the dictator to endure is the presumption among the underlings that the leader does indeed hold a monopoly of power.

‘Which Has More Islamist Terrorism, Europe or America?’

  Terrorism item by Daniel Pipes (7/3/08)

“Since 9/11, there have been over 2,300 arrests connected to Islamist terrorism in Europe in contrast to about 60 in the United States.” Thus writes Marc Sageman in his influential new book, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press).

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Iran Is Bread Looking For A Toaster!

  Terrorism item by Malcolm Hedges (7/2/08)

Iranian Islamic Dictators are not just threatening Israel and Europe(East and West) , they are threatening the World. Some say they have a grandiose Radical Islamic death wish, whatever if they continue on the same track Iran will become toast.

Munitions Dealers Arrested for Conspiracy to Export Military Aircraft Parts to Iran

  General item by Jim Kouri (7/2/08)

Defendants Hassan Saied Keshari and Traian Bujduveanu were arrested on June 20 and 21 on charges of conspiring to export military aircraft parts to Iran, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

Obama site urges: ‘Revolution’ against U.S. ‘oppressive’ regime

  Election 2008 item by OffSite (7/2/08)

JERUSALEM - Marxists, socialists and communists have created a safe space online to congregate, exchange ideas - including a stated revolution against the U.S. “oppressive” regime - and support their favored presidential candidate.