Archive for March, 2007
Global Warming? Journalism? Don’t Make Me Laugh!
By Alan Caruba
As a very young man, fresh out of college and the army in the mid-1960’s, I found myself employed as a rookie reporter on a weekly newspaper in New Jersey. I had never taken a course in journalism in my life, but I could write. The managing editor of the newspaper group that serviced a number of communities taught me all I ever needed to know about journalism. He taught me to be skeptical of everything and everyone.
Not distrustful. Skeptical. People will tell you the truth they believe or want you to believe. They may be wrong. Or they may be deceitful. There’s a difference. However, when error and deceit combine, there is a purpose, an agenda, and it exists, as often as not, to acquire wealth and power despite the harm it will leave in its wake.
Posted in Obamination: Barack Obama’s Black Supremacist Connection
by Erik Rush
How many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was the member of a church that professed the following credo?
- 1. Commitment to God
- 2. Commitment to the White Community
- 3. Commitment to the White Family
- 4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
- 5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
- 6. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
- 7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
- 8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
- 9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
- 10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
- 11. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
- 12. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
The question is rhetorical, of course. The answer is that such a candidate wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected dog catcher (apologies to America’s animal rescue and public safety personnel) let alone President, because that candidate would be instantly branded a racist, among the most vile and frightening of white supremacists.
Take This Job and Shove It
by Thomas Lindaman
I have an important announcement to make. I’ve talked long and hard with my family and friends about the implications of this decision and they all support my decision.
I will not seek the Presidency in 2008.
By the way, that sound you hear is a collective "Whew!" coming up from around the world. Sure, I have more charisma and common sense than Joe Biden and I’ve done as much as Sam Brownback, who we all know is famous for…that thing he did that one time with that other guy. You know, the guy who always wore pants? But after careful reflection, I’ve decided that I’m not qualified to be President in 2008.
The minimum age to be President is 35. Right now I’m 37, so I meet the age requirement, but I don’t meet an important requirement: I don’t want the gig.
Democrats to Place US Troops in National Guard Border Position
by Sher Zieve
The US National Guard has been insanely prohibited from using its weapons against armed drug dealers and others at the US-Mexico border. They have been warned that they are to only provide support for the US Border Patrol. This dictate came from the US government and, presumably, the Mexican government as well. Now, Democrat leaders are planning to apply this policy to US troops fighting terrorists in Iraq.
In an attempt to usurp and end the Executive branch of government’s Constitutional powers and ability to wage wars, Democrats are planning to issue legislation that would take all US troops out of a combat role and place them into the tenuous and hazardous position of a ‘support role’—only. Note: We presume this attempt to seize power from the President of the United States only applies to Republican presidents.
Civil Serpents: Beware of Snakes Bearing “Liberties”
by Daniel Clark
There's a reason it's called the American Civil Liberties Union, and not the American Constitutional Rights Union. The ACLU and other liberal organizations like to say that they're defending the Constitution, but since the language of that document seldom coincides with their agenda, they've needed to devise a rhetorical fallback position. Hence the term "civil liberties," a concept whose definition is essentially a matter of individual choice.
Take a look at the controversy surrounding the NSA surveillance program. Critics charged that it violated the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures," as guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. The flaws in that argument are both vast and plentiful. Electronic communications do not fit into the categories of "persons, houses, papers, and effects." Furthermore, the monitoring of those communications cannot be characterized as a search or seizure, and few people would consider the surveillance of phone calls and e-mails from known members of al-Qaeda to be unreasonable.
What, Me Zionist?
by Erik Rush
On Sunday, February 4, 2007, several news agencies reported that Ardeshire Hassanpour, a prize-winning Iranian nuclear physicist, had likely been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. These accounts originated from Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting, L.L.C.), a U.S. security company that provides intelligence services to the international businesses community. The details of his death are sketchy, of course, but Hassanpour, a principal in Iran’s current effort to enrich uranium, apparently died under mysterious circumstances due to some sort of gas poisoning.
You may remember my January 16, 2007 column entitled The Law of the Jungle in which I lauded with fond remembrance the days during the ‘Seventies and ‘Eighties when Mossad’s assassination of foreign terrorists in true James Bondian (if perhaps less classy) fashion was a regular occurrence.
Global Warming: Just Another Liberal Orthodoxy
by Christopher Adamo
An astounding range of absurd ideas have been incorporated into the "mainstream" of modern America, based not on any inherent merit, but rather on the benefits to liberalism that can be derived from them. So much of today’s "conventional wisdom" represents neither convention nor wisdom, but instead results from a fundamentally leftist worldview, combined with a truly juvenile dosage of wishful thinking.
Consider, a few such pillars of the liberal faith, and more specifically how fragile they quickly become when placed under the hot lights of honest scrutiny.
As the American culture continues to crumble, we are incessantly reminded that "our diversity is our strength." Tell that to the people of the Balkans where, prior to U.S. intervention, centuries old feuds and tribalism had rendered the region little more than a wasteland of unending bloodshed between bickering "warlords."
Loyalty to an Ideal or to a Person?
by Randall H. Nunn
The Republican Party suffered a blow in the 2006 elections, losing control of both houses of Congress. Many have hoped that the party would analyze the results of that election and correct the problems before the 2008 elections. However, the signs thus far are not encouraging, as the party leadership seems fractured, indecisive and unsure of itself. Rather than trying to focus on core principles and representing the base that elected them, too many of the Republican leaders are pandering to interest groups and adjusting their positions based on polls and conventional wisdom as laid down by the mainstream media. As a result, a large segment of the Republican base is becoming even more frustrated and alienated from the leadership.
More Protests from Mexico, More Concessions to Muslims
by Sher Zieve
Osvaldo Aldrete Davila is an admitted Mexican drug dealer who regularly transports Marijuana and other illegal narcotics across the US-Mexico border. In February 2005, US Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who said Davila had a gun, fired on Davila and the drug dealer fled back across the border. It was later discovered that Davila had been hit, in one of his buttocks, by a bullet. The US Border Agents, not Davila, were convicted of "violating Davila’s civil rights".
For testifying against the Border Agents, drug dealer Davila was given immunity from prosecution on his own drug charges. Instead, Agent Ramos was sentenced to 11 years in prison and Agent Compean received a 12 year prison term. Davila is expected to renew his drug trade, as soon as possible. Note: The Mexican influence at the US border is growing even larger.
The Ethanol Debacle
By Alan Caruba
Hating so-called “fossil fuels”, coal, oil, and natural gas, with a passion, the environmentalists have perpetrated every deception possible and, among them, is the notion that Americans can avoid destroying the Earth if they just fill up the tanks of their automobiles with ethanol.
As I have pointed out in the past, the world is not running out of oil and, here in the United States, we have enough reserves of coal to provide electricity and other needs for centuries to come. So who has the new Democrat majority in Congress declared persona non grata? The oil industry. Their proposed “answer” to our transportation energy needs is ethanol.