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Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr.. Editor
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MOST RECENT ARTICLES
SOME PROMISING SIGNS IN THE U.S. HOUSE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 260, Dec 30, 2010
NEW CONGRESS CAN DEFINE ISSUES FOR 2012
By Christopher G. Adamo
One nightmarish chapter of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Leftwing Liberal leadership in the U.S. national government has
mercifully ended. The “lame duck” congressional debacle is, at last, at an end. And America waits expectantly to see if
all of the efforts of the grassroots to begin the work of restoring the American nation hold any promise of paying off.
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THE ULTIMATE DETERMINANTS OF AN ATTACK PC, Volume XII, Issue # 259, Dec 20, 2010
SWEDISH JIHAD REVELATIONS
By Raymond Ibrahim
Even the most neutral country that has no dealings with Islam is a potential target for a jihadi terror attack; if and when
the country gets attacked is based on if and when the Islamic world resurrects the caliphate — capability and timing
being the ultimate determinants. Once a militarily capable caliphate is established, offensive jihad to subject the world
to Islamic dominion becomes no less obligatory than restricting Western freedom of speech and expression in order to
stifle mockery of Muhammad. In short, it is not about what this or that country does; Islamist animosity for infidels (i.e.,
unbelievers, or non-Muslims) is intrinsic, kept at bay only by circumstance.
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THE ECONOMY & PROBLEMS FOR THE LEFT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 258, Dec 8, 2010
TAX SQUABBLE PUTS AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS
By Christopher G. Adamo
The unprecedented power of this year’s Conservative groundswell has placed Washington Liberals completely on the
defensive, which is a fate they never expected. It was barely two years ago that the future was seemingly in their hands.
Now they must navigate an incredibly difficult course in order to maintain any political viability whatsoever. And, if
Republicans remain firm and on message, the political Left may be steered inexorably towards a no win situation.
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DANGEROUS SECURITY VACUUM IN IRAQ PC, Volume XII, Issue # 257, Nov 25, 2010
HOW THE "SONS OF IRAQ" STABILIZED IRAQ
By Mark Wilbanks & Efraim Karsh
Just as the peremptory dissolution of Saddam's army in May, 2003, without the existence of an adequate substitute,
opened the door to insurgencies of all hues, so the disbanding of the predominantly Sunni popular social movement, the
"Sons of Iraq," which had been instrumental in turning the tide against al-Qa'ida in Iraq during 2007-2008, and the
decision to incorporate SOI members into ministries, rather than the Iraqi security forces, has left a dangerous security
vacuum in Iraq.
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GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICISM GROWING PC, Volume XII, Issue # 256, Nov 22, 2010
CLIMATE CHANGE NO LONGER SCARY IN EUROPE:
It's Not the Climate, but the Tide of Opinion, that's
Changing in Europe & around the Globe
By Dr. Hans Labohm
It is not the climate that is changing, but the tide of public opinion about climate change. And rightly so, (A) because the
scientific evidence simply does not support alarmist claims about "global climate disruption" and (B) because the
outrageous costs of supposed "alternatives" to hydrocarbon-based energy will kill jobs and further hamstring economic
rebirth.
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THE BURQA NOT WELCOME IN FRANCE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 255, Nov 22, 2010
BAN THE BURQA? FRANCE VOTES YES.
By Benjamin Ismail
On July 13, 2010, France's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, approved a bill outlawing the wearing of
"clothing intended to hide the face" in public spaces and slapping a fine and possible jail time on offenders; on
September 14, the bill was also approved by the French Senate. While the bill refrained from mentioning specific
communities or religions, it was common knowledge that it was primarily aimed at the Muslim full body and
face-concealing garments, the niqab and the burqa.
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CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE OF THE PRESIDENCY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 254, Nov 19, 2010
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY & THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
By Congressman Mike Pence
The U.S. Presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often
than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. Its powers
are vast and consequential, its requirements impossible for mortals to fulfill without humility and insistent attention to
its purpose, as set forth in the Constitution of the United States.
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LIBERAL LEFTIST ONSLAUGHT SLOWED DOWN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 253, Nov 17, 2010
LAME DUCK WASHOUT DEMONSTRATES TEA PARTY RESILIENCE
By Christopher G. Adamo
The 2010 post-election “Lame Duck” session of Congress is officially underway, and represents a brief period of time
in which America could conceivably be in the greatest peril of its existence. With nothing else to lose in the immediate
aftermath of this year’s mid-term elections, Democrats had once been expected to utilize the time between November 2
and next January’s convening of the Republican dominated Congress to implement a host of legislative atrocities.
Somewhat surprisingly, relatively few new affronts to the U.S. Constitution and the U.S.A. are on the calendar. While
this is certainly no time for Conservative America to let its guard down, the attack on the nation appears, for the
moment at least, to be subsiding.
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ISLAM'S HIGHLY OBJECTIONABLE LAW CODE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 252, Nov 16, 2010
OKLAHOMANS SAY NO TO SHARIA
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
As Americans learn more about Islam, the aspect they find most objectionable is not its theology (such as whether
Allah is God or not) nor its symbolism (such as an Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan) but its law code,
called the Sharia. Rightly, they say no to a code that privileges Muslims over non-Muslims, men over women, and
contains many elements inimical to modern life.
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OUR PROBLEMS WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD PC, Volume XII, Issue # 251, Nov 15, 2010
JUAN COLE BLAMES THE WEST (AGAIN)
By Drue White
Juan Cole's recent lecture at Auburn University in Alabama was a jarring reminder of the importance of pursuing
accountability from our academics. Speaking in the Haley Center's primary auditorium to a room overflowing with
students and a smattering of aging hippies, Cole provided an hour-long lecture on America's relationship with the
Middle East. The overarching theme of the lecture was that the United States, specifically the Bush administration,
was to blame for our problems with the Muslim world.
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TRUE INTERFAITH DIALOGUE OR DUPLICITY? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 250, Nov 14, 2010
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY HOSTS
ISLAMIC TRIUMPHALISTS
By Alan Jacobs
Audience members in the packed Jewish Theological Seminary auditorium just down the block from Columbia University
might have been gratified to see hijabs and yarmulkes adorning the heads of Muslims and Jews coming together for
interfaith dialogue on the evening of Monday, October 25, 2010. The title of the event, "Islam in America: Assimilation
and Authenticity," drew a large, mixed crowd, perhaps three hundred strong, eager for interreligious conversation. The
anticipation of imams and rabbis in reserved front seats, or students filling other rows to the brim, was understandable --
isn't this, after all, the conversation Muslims and members of other faiths need to start having?
This optimism at the prospect of dialogue between mainstream Muslim organizations and their Jewish and Christian
counterparts resurfaces often, and rarely for good reason. Monday night was no exception.
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THE FEDERAL RESERVE & THE U.S. ECONOMY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 249, Nov 13, 2010
THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S MAGIC MONEY
By Alan Caruba
When the new Congress meets in January, 2011, every pressure possible must be brought to bear on the Federal
Reserve System to stop short-term failed “solutions” before the U.S. dollar is utterly debased.
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GROWING ANXIETY & DESPERATION OF GREENS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 248, Nov 13, 2010
REAL CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY:
Going Beyond Alarmist Climate Disinformation, to
Actively Perpetuate Poverty, Disease, & Death
By Paul K. Driessen
The November 2, 2010, elections resoundingly affirm that America’s top priorities are economic growth, job creation,
and less Washington control of our lives. The elections are likely the final nail in the coffin of the cap-and-tax scheme.
However, even before close election contests could be decided, President Barack Obama announced that he will be “looking
for other means” besides cap-and-tax to address the “problem” of carbon emissions and what the White House now
calls “global climate disruption.” His top priorities include using the “lame duck” session of Congress, as well as
administrative actions, to implement his “climate control” and renewable energy agenda.
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HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS' HYPOCRISY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 247, Nov 12, 2010
SOME RIGHTS CAUSES ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
By Johanna Markind
The American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch present themselves as rights
groups with a general mandate. Their unwillingness to apply the same standards to critics of Islam, Islamists, and the
Muslim world as to those supporting them amounts to hypocrisy and dereliction of a self-imposed duty to promote
rights standards evenhandedly. In the struggle against Islamist attempts to claim special privileges at others' expense,
victims are well advised to seek help from alternative sources to vindicate their rights.
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THE GROUNDS FOR A BURQA BAN IN THE WEST PC, Volume XII, Issue # 246, Nov 12, 2010
BAN THE BURQA? THE ARGUMENT IN FAVOR
By Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Should other Western states follow the Belgian and French examples and ban the full Islamic body and face-covering
veil — or, more specifically, the burqa and the niqab? In other words, should the West ban any and all clothing which
obliterates one's identity? Most Europeans, according to recent surveys, seem to think so. Still, significant numbers,
especially in the United States, and including quite a few feminists, have viewed such a ban as religiously intolerant,
anti-woman, and anti-Western.
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RESURGENCE OF TRADITIONAL AMERICANISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 245, Nov 11, 2010
2010 ELECTIONS: WHERE TO GO FROM HERE
By Christopher G. Adamo
The sheer enormity of the 2010 mid-term elections has caused disfavored political players to scramble and posture.
Some who, only a few years ago, had believed their agenda to be the wave of the future now find themselves
relegated to the political fringe, while a resurgence of traditional Americanism is proving to be the force that defines
and dominates the political landscape.
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ISRAEL -- BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, & SANCTIONS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 244, Nov 11, 2010
HATEM BAZIAN: BERKELEY'S ISRAEL BOYCOTT ADVOCATE
By Cinnamon Stillwell & Rima Green
Hatem Bazian, a senior lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley,
provided the introduction at a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) event at Berkeley on October 26, 2010, called
"What Can American Academia Do to Realize Justice for Palestinians?" Bazian is an endorser of the Israel Divestment
Campaign and a signatory to the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. He is a committed
anti-Israel propagandist and activist.
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WHAT THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS GOT WRONG PC, Volume XII, Issue # 243, Nov 9, 2010
THE BIG GREEN BUS HAS FLAT TIRES
By Dennis T. Avery
If the Big Green Bus hasn’t actually stalled, it’s at least got a couple of newly-flattened tires. And the suddenly-Republican
U.S. Congress’s opposition to energy taxes is only part of it.
It started, of course, after the 1998 El Nino, when global land temperatures refused to trend back upward. It became far more
serous when world thermometers actually turned downward in 2007-2008. The disparity between the computer model
forecasts and real-world temperatures has now become massive.
Then there was Climategate, which gave us a peep into the unscientific maneuverings of the “real climate scientists” in the
IPCC establishment. The revelations seem to have broken the spell the Greens had cast over First World journalists.
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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & THE PRO-ARAB LOBBY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 242, Nov 8, 2010
THE ARAB LOBBY: THE AMERICAN COMPONENT
By Dr. Mitchell Bard
The charge of dual loyalty, a throwback to the longstanding anti-Semitic caricature of Jews as lacking true patriotism, is
one that Israel's enemies have never tired of making against the "Israel lobby" and Jewish-Americans more generally.
Arab lobbyists have been no exception to this rule. It is far easier, after all, to blame a mythological Jewish cabal for
their repeated failure to advance an anti-Israel agenda than to concede that one's arguments are unpersuasive and have,
therefore, been rejected by the majority of Americans. In the final tally, it would seem that most Americans would rather
support their longest and most loyal Middle Eastern ally — and the only country in the region that shares their
constitutional democratic ethos and ideals — than heed organizations which have consistently opposed American values
such as freedom, constitutionalism, the rule of law, representative democracy, and human rights or which are linked to
nations that have, or are seen to have, undermined U.S. security interests.
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ENVIRONMENTALM REGULATION -- THE COSTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 241, Nov 7, 2010
GREENWASHING AMERICA
By Alan Caruba
Every time you see some product being sold as “Green” -- allegedly safer or beneficial for the environment -- you can be
sure that it is more expensive than a comparable product that does the same thing without making this claim.
In a similar fashion, every time you hear a corporation claiming it is concerned about the environment, you can be sure
that it is trying to protect itself against lawsuits from environmentalist groups or Environmental Protection Agency action
that will eat into its profits and dividends.
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THE BIODIVERSITY LIE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 240, Nov 6, 2010
GOODBYE GLOBAL WARMING, HELLO BIODIVERSITY
By Alan Caruba
After three decades of trying to push the global warming scam to a point where billions could be made selling and
trading bogus “carbon credits,” the global schemers have abandoned it, in the wake of 2009 revelations that a handful
of rogue climate scientists were literally inventing the data to support it.
If there is one lesson to be learned from and about environmentalists, it is that they are utterly relentless. The ultimate
goal is one-world government directed from the United Nations by unelected bureaucrats who are soulless strangers
to the truth, to morality, to humanity.
The United States supports this abomination to the tune of billions every year.
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U.S. ENERGY POLICY -- RENEWABLE ENERGY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 239, Nov 5, 2010
TILTING AT WINDMILLS:
In Its Quixotic Quest for Renewable Energy,
The Government Is Picking More Losers Than Winners
By Benjamin B. Phillips
The U.S. Senate continues to consider a range of energy policy proposals, and may take one or more up during the
current post-election “lame duck” session. It is not yet clear which ones will emerge. However, some of the
options include renewable electricity standards, requiring power companies to include renewable energy (wind,
solar, geothermal) as part of their electricity generation mix, and do so in escalating percentages by specific dates –
regardless of whether affordable, reliable technologies actually exist by those dates.
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U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY: EUROPEAN INFLUENCE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 238, Nov 5, 2010
THE ARAB LOBBY: THE EUROPEAN COMPONENT
By Dr. Steven J. Rosen
In the early 1980s, there was a palpable concern among staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) of the looming rise of an Arab-American lobby aimed at challenging the pro-Israel community. The
National Association of Arab-Americans (NAAA), founded in 1972, was at a high point, and in 1980, former U.S.
Senator James Abourezk established the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). In 1985, James
Zogby added the Arab American Institute. Some pundits predicted that AIPAC had finally met its match, and a few
of AIPAC's own top supporters were alarmed. The Arab-American lobby looked as if it was on an upward trajectory.
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REPUBLICAN GAINS IN THE U.S. CONGRESS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 237, Nov 4, 2010
THE BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE OF THE 2010 ELECTIONS
By Christopher G. Adamo
A net sixty-four seat Republican gain in the U.S. Congress is no trifling matter. In a single night, the U.S. House of
Representatives has been transformed from a Leftist hotbed into a Conservative-dominated legislative body, once
again representing the people of the Heartland. And, though the Republicans did not achieve majority status in the
U.S. Senate, they picked up six seats and are well positioned to protect the nation from any new outrages of the
Obama agenda, if they can muster the backbone to do so.
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PROTECTING FREE SPEECH FROM EXTREMISTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 236, Nov 4, 2010
ISLAMIC EXTREMIST TARGETS FACEBOOK USERS
By Daniel Huff
Court documents filed in October, 2010, reveal Islamic extremists have obtained personal contact information on members
of the defiant Facebook group, "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." Zachary Chesser, who provided the
information, pled guilty to "communicating threats" and renounced jihad, but the damage was done. Prosecutors say he
"seriously endangered the lives of innocent people who will remain at risk for many years to come."
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A PARTISAN LECTURE ON THE PALESTINIANS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 235, Nov 3, 2010
STANFORD HOSTS A HATE TALK
By Jonathan Gelbart
University of California-Berkeley History Professor Beshara Doumani came to Stanford University on September 29,
2010, to give a lecture sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies titled, "The Iron Law and Ironies of
Palestinian History."
Doumani laid out his argument that current discourse throughout the Palestinian national movement is too
"state-centric," focusing on Palestinian statehood as an end in itself, without regard for "the lives of ordinary
Palestinians" or whether they support such a goal. The wants and needs of the entire Palestinian diaspora,
Doumani argued — including "those who are citizens in the State of Israel" — must be taken into account in
discussions of a future "Palestine."
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BARACK OBAMA & THE "HOUSE OF ISLAM" PC, Volume XII, Issue # 234, Nov 3, 2010
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ADRIFT IN ARABIA
By Dr. Efraim Karsh
Thus far, President Obama's policies toward the Middle East and the Muslim World have been a resounding failure.
For all his hyped outreach to Arabs and Muslims — from the pledged "new way forward" in his inaugural speech to
his first major presidential interview, given to the Al-Arabiya television network, to his submissive bow to
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, to his instruction to NASA to reach out to the Muslim world — Obama has failed to
win the quiescence, let alone the respect and admiration, of Islamic societies. On the contrary, in line with Osama bin
Laden's handy quip in the immediate wake of the 9-11 attacks that "when people see a strong horse and a weak horse,
by nature, they will like the strong horse," Obama's prestige has been on a downward spiral since the first days of his
Presidency.
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CANADIAN POLITICS & RESISTING ISLAMISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 233, Nov 2, 2010
CANADA VERSUS RADICAL ISLAM:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Mixed Record
By Kathy Shaidle
A warning to those who believe that electing a "conservative" [Conservative Party-led] government automatically will
inspire tougher measures to fight radical Islam: Canadians know from experience that this formula does not always work
as planned.
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PARTY RESISTS ISLAMIZATION & IS PRO-ISRAEL PC, Volume XII, Issue # 232, Nov 2, 2010
GERMANY'S FREIHEIT PARTY JOINS THE FRAY
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
A new German political party, Die Freiheit (The Freedom), had its inaugural meeting on October 28, 2010, in Berlin. I was
in town, so its leadership invited me to be the only non-member of the nascent party to witness and report on its
founding constituent assembly.
As a reminder of how freedoms have eroded in Europe in this age of Islamist terror, a political party that resists
Islamization and supports Israel cannot come into existence in broad daylight. So, like the other 50-plus attendees, I
learned of the event's time and location only shortly before it took place. For good measure, the organizers operated
undercover; the hotel management only knew of a board election for an innocuously named company. Even now, for
security reasons, I cannot mention the hotel's name.
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OBLIGATION TO WAGE WAR AGAINST INFIDELS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 231, Nov 2, 2010
OFFENSIVE JIHAD: THE ONE INCONTROVERTIBLE
PROBLEM WITH ISLAM
By Raymond Ibrahim
A recent MEMRI report titled Arab Columnists: Stop Talking About Offensive Jihad, alludes to the ultimate
problem between Islam and the non-Muslim world: offensive jihad, or jihad al-talab — the Islamic imperative to subjugate
the world. The report opens by saying: "One dominant theme during Ramadan in the Arab world is the discussion, in the
media and in religious circles, of the commandment of jihad and the obligation therein to wage war against the infidels."
It then focuses on two recent op-eds, written by Arab-Muslims, that discuss the need to suppress Muslim talk of
offensive jihad.
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MUSLIMS & THE TRAUMA OF MODERNITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 230, Nov 1, 2010
THE TRAVAILS OF MODERN ISLAM
Some General Issues About Islamic Culture
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The Muslim world is burdened by a sense of glory of its past success and power. It feels acutely the trauma of modernity.
It's looking for excuses. At this moment, Islamism is the favorite solution, but I see it as temporary. This population of
over a billion people is in general stress and turmoil. I expect things will get worse before they get better. But they will
eventually get better.
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OIL PRODUCTION IN IRAQ: CONTINUING DECLINE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 229, Nov 1, 2010
IRAQ'S OIL INDUSTRY
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Iraq's release of its full statistics for oil production in August, 2010, illustrates the continuing decline of its oil industry since
the end of 2009. In August, total output stood at 55.4 million barrels, compared to 61.3 million barrels in December, 2009.
Consequently, government revenue from petroleum has dropped, with earnings at $3.9 billion in August compared to $4.4
billion only half a year earlier.
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COPTS IN A PERIOD OF SEVERE PERSECUTION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 228, Nov 1, 2010
EGYPT CUTS A DEAL: CHRISTIANS FED TO MUSLIM "LIONS"
By Raymond Ibrahim
For centuries, Egypt's Christian, indigenous inhabitants, the Copts, have been subject to persecution, discrimination,
humiliation, and over all subjugation in their Egyptian homeland. In the Medieval Era, such treatment was a standard
aspect of Sharia's dhimmi codes, first ratified under Caliph Omar in the Seventh Century and based on Koran 9:29.
Conversely, during the Colonial Era and into the mid-Twentieth Century, as Egypt experimented with westernization and
nationalism, religious discrimination was markedly subdued. Today, however, as Egypt all but spearheads the Islamist
movement -- that is, as Egypt reverts to its medieval character -- the Copts find themselves again in a period of severe
persecution.
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PROMOTING GOOD, BUT LESS FAMILIAR, IDEAS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 227, Nov 1, 2010
GOP SENATE HOPEFULS OFFERING NEW IDEAS FOR 2011:
These Republicans Are Definitely Not the "Party of No"
(as Cheap Shots Would Have it)
By Deroy Murdock
Whether or not the GOP wins the U.S. Senate, several Republican contenders for the World’s Greatest Deliberative
Body hope to promote some rather unique proposals. Republicans are running on such ideas as repealing ObamaCare,
curbing federal spending, and making permanent the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Those are all fine concepts, but several
candidates have gone beyond the old perennials to promote good, less-familiar ideas.
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BETWEEN THE LINES OF THE RHETORIC PC, Volume XII, Issue # 226, Oct 27, 2010
THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRE-ELECTION CHARADE
By Christopher G. Adamo
Perhaps the best indicators of what is at stake for America in the upcoming mid-term congressional elections can be
found “between the lines” of the rhetoric of Democrats in the final days before America votes. Clearly, the American
political Left is panicking, as evidenced by its increasingly hysterical accusations, its ramped up efforts at vote fraud,
and its reversion to the lowest and most revolting efforts at manipulating its base. A political movement that is
capable of descending to such tactics against those it claims to be its own obviously holds them in even lower
regard than its opposition.
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U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY POLICIES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 225, Oct 27, 2010
GOOD INTENTIONS, HORRIBLE CONSEQUENCES:
Destroying Jobs & Hurting Families, in the
Name of Preventing Climate Change
By Pastor David Rosales
The consequences of our actions matter, both intended and unintended.
We need to keep that in mind, as our nation ponders whether to enact new rules that some say are needed to “break our
addiction to oil,” prevent “dangerous global warming,” and replace hydrocarbon energy with “renewable” power.” These
rules include climate and energy bills that some U.S. Senators want to enact after the November 2, 2010, congressional
elections, and new regulations that the Environmental Protection Agency is already imposing on America’s transportation,
construction, and manufacturing industries.
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WE ARE EXPERIENCING AN AVALANCHE OF LIES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 224, Oct 26, 2010
ADRIFT ON AN OCEAN OF LIES
By Alan Caruba
One of the insights that age provides is that we are all adrift on an ocean of lies from the moment we are born to when we
pass from this world. So much of what we initially “know,” taught to us at home and in school, broadcast via newspapers,
radio and television, in the workplace, and, in particular, requiring us to make decisions about the politicians we select to
govern in our name, are lies.
Americans are now experiencing an avalanche of lies in the form of political ads, media reporting intended to sway the
outcome of the forthcoming elections, and the pronouncements and predictions of various politicians and pundits. Not all
are lying, but it is safe to presume that most are.
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ANOTHER SIX YEARS OF BARBARA BOXER? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 223, Oct 25, 2010
CALL ME FORMER SENATOR BARBARA BOXER:
Just Don't Call Me "Ma'am" or Suggest We
Need Honest, Accurate Climate Science
By Martha Montelongo
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat - California) is on a mission. She intends to control our economy, opportunities,
and lives. She intends to put the U.S. national government in charge of an American energy and free enterprise system
that created more health, opportunity, and prosperity for more people than any other system in history. And she is
determined to replace hydrocarbon energy -- and the tens of millions of jobs it sustains -- with “green” jobs created by
using money confiscated from families, businesses, and our grandchildren to subsidize favored companies and minority
groups that will help ensure that Liberal politicians are reelected in perpetuity.
As Californians head to the polls on November 2, 2010, they should ponder very carefully whether they really want, and
can really afford, another six years of Senator Barbara Boxer.
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OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING DOWN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 222, Oct 24, 2010
OBAMA'S FAILURE AGENDA
By Alan Caruba
What will end, as a consequence of the November 2, 2010, mid-term congressional elections, is Democratic Party control of
the U.S. Congress by the Democrats on January 3, 2011. This definitely will happen in the U.S. House of Representatives
and quite possibly will occur in the U.S. Senate.
What has already ended is Barack Obama’s credibility as President and American national leader. Few people who have
been paying attention believe anything the man says.
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LIBERALISM & THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 221, Oct 20, 2010
CHRIS MATTHEWS REVEALS LIBERAL VISION FOR HUMANITY
By Christopher G. Adamo
While the civilized world rejoiced at the amazing rescue of the thirty-three Chilean miners after they had spent sixty-nine
days trapped in a pit a half-mile underground, some shallow American Liberals sought to make a bit of political hay out
of the event. And, though the despicable effort had no discernable dampening effect on the joyous rescue of the miners,
it did offer a glimpse into the murky thinking of those on the political Left, going deeper than their shameless
opportunism and revealing a disturbing level of contempt for their fellow citizens.
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WEAK DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL PC, Volume XII, Issue # 220, Oct 19, 2010
ISRAEL & CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
How should American voters concerned with Israel's welfare and security vote in the U.S. Congressional elections on
November 2, 2010?
This much is clear after almost two years of Democratic Party control over the executive and legislative branches of
the U.S. national government: Democrats consistently support Israel and its government far less than do Republicans.
Leaving President Barack Obama aside for now (he's not on the ballot), let's focus on Congress and on voters.
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OBAMA AS PRESIDENT & NATIONAL LEADER PC, Volume XII, Issue # 219, Oct 16, 2010
IS PRESIDENT OBAMA JUST A MORON?
By Alan Caruba
We can’t compare Barack Hussein Obama’s grades to those of George Walker Bush or anyone else because Obama's
grades, along with his birth certificate and indicators of his scholastic achievements, have been hidden from public
review.
This is not, however, a defense of George Bush. This is about a question that millions of Americans are beginning to
ask. Is Obama just a moron?
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THE 2010 MID-TERM ELECTIONS & THE GOP PC, Volume XII, Issue # 218, Oct 13, 2010
OBAMA WILL NOT MODERATE AFTER NOVEMBER
By Christopher G. Adamo
With three weeks yet to go before the 2010 mid-term elections, grassroots energy and polling data already portend a
massive sea-change in the political landscape. The Conservative base is eager to reassert itself. This is a striking contrast
to 2006 when a weary and disenfranchised heartland America abandoned the GOP after a dozen years of Republican
compromise and capitulation, leaving the nation in the hands of Harry Reid (Democrat - Nevada), Nancy Pelosi (Democrat
- California), and eventually Barack Hussein Obama.
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OBAMA, PRESSURE-GROUP POLITICS, & LATINOS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 217, Oct 8, 2010
ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE EN ESPANOL:
Liberal Latino Pressure Groups' Campaign Will
Drive up Energy Prices, Kill Jobs, & Hurt Families
By Reverend Sam Rodrigues
An increasingly common tactic by the Obama administration is working in tandem with minority groups (and even paying
them directly and indirectly) to generate letters, press releases, conferences, and other support for the administration’s
expensive, subsidized, job-killing climate change and renewable “green” energy programs. Here is a response to one such
letter, which was sent to the U.S. Congress and White House just this week by a coalition of “progressive” (i.e., Liberal
Leftist) Hispanic groups, in support of EPA’s “endangerment” decision.
This response by the Affordable Power Alliance's Reverend Sam Rodrigues is intended to help voters -- especially in the
Hispanic and other minority communities -- understand what is going on, and how they will actually be hurt by these
socalled “environmental justice” initiatives.
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TERRORIST INFILTRATION & U.S. SECURITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 216, Oct 7, 2010
FAISAL SHAHZAD WARNS AMERICA
By Alan Caruba
Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison on October 6, 2010, for trying to kill a lot of innocent Americans in Times
Square on May 1, 2010. He was completely unrepentant and we need to understand the funhouse-mirror mentality of
Muslims who believe that Allah, through the Koran, has granted them, not just the right, but the duty, to kill
infidels who offer any defense against their outrages.
Full Story
CONSERVATIVES & THE ELECTIONS OF 2010 PC, Volume XII, Issue # 215, Oct 7, 2010
CONSERVATIVE MOMENTUM CONTINUES TO BUILD
By Christopher G. Adamo
With less than a month to go before the November, 2010, elections, a political Tsunami seems imminent. Despite the
Democrats' denial of the overwhelming public rejection of the Liberal agenda, evidence mounts daily suggesting that
“We the People” fully intend to make their pro-America, anti-statist sentiments known on November 2.
Full Story
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 214, Oct 6, 2010
THE RULES OF THE GAME & ECONOMIC RECOVERY
By Amity Shlaes
If the experience of the Great Depression teaches anything, it is that property rights must be firmly established or
else we will not have the kind of economic activity that leads to strong recovery. The Monopoly board
game reminds us that economic growth isn’t mysterious and inscrutable. Economic growth depends on the
impulse of the small businessman and entrepreneur to get back in the game. In order for this to happen, we need a
government whose rules are not constantly changing and snuffing out the willingness of these players to take risks.
We need a government under which the money supply doesn’t change unpredictably, there are not too many “Go
to Jail” cards, and the top hats are confident in the possibility of seeing significant returns on investment.
Full Story
RECIPROCAL DEATH SENTENCES RAGING PC, Volume XII, Issue # 213, Oct 5, 2010
DUELING FATWAS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Reciprocal death sentences raging between Yemen and the U.S.A. offer a glimpse of warfare in the Internet Age.
Anwar al-Awlaki, an Islamist leader in Yemen, stands at an unprecedented crossroads of death declarations, with his
targeting American cartoonist Molly Norris, even as the U.S. government targets him. This is as startling in an Islamic
context, as it is in an American one. The boundaries of warfare are being stretched in novel, strange, and frightening
ways.
Full Story
THE IRAQ WAR & JUAN COLE'S ABSURD THESIS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 212, Oct 4, 2010
JUAN COLE'S DISTORTIONS
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Juan Cole badly misunderstands a recently declassified set of documents regarding decision-making within the Bush
administration between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Nowhere does the memo written by then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and highlighted by Juan Cole
recommend starting a war "under false pretenses," either through "baiting Saddam Hussein into an attack on the
Kurds in the north" or "breathlessly announcing from the White House" a connection between Saddam and Osama
Bin Laden.
Full Story
GOVERNMENT REGULATION & FOOD SAFETY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 211, Oct 4, 2010
WHY TOLERATE DEADLY FOOD BACTERIA?
By Dennis T. Avery
There is a solution to outbreaks of food poisoning — electronic pasteurization. Hitting the fresh food with an electron
beam is cheap, quick, and kills virtually all of the food-borne bacteria on your food. It even kills the bacteria that promote
rotting, so your fresh produce will taste even fresher.
Full Story
IMPORTANCE OF COAL AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 210, Oct 3, 2010
BLACK CROSSES & BLACK DEATHS:
Attacks on Coal Mining & Coal Use Would Trample
on Hopes, Progress, Living Standards, & Lives
By Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., & Niger Innis
Are these people crazy? Are they so disconnected from reality that they don’t understand how vital coal is to jobs, living
standards, civil rights progress, and life itself?
How else can anyone react to a new environmentalist campaign to erect black crosses at coal mines and coal-fired power
plants, to symbolize their opposition to this vital energy source? The Black Cross Alliance (BCA) is little more than
another sordid campaign against affordable energy, especially hydrocarbons. Its policies are misguided at best, harmful
and even lethal at worst.
Full Story
INDISPENSABILITY OF CHEMICALS IN SOCIETY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 209, Oct 3, 2010
THE EPA'S LONG WAR ON CHEMICALS
By Alan Caruba
Virtually all forms of manufacturing require some chemical element, often several. Given the indispensability of
chemicals in society and commerce, does it strike anyone as odd that, if you were born after 1960, there’s a high
likelihood that you grew up being told that “chemicals” are bad?
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A CLOSER LOOK AT CONGRESSMAN ELLISON PC, Volume XII, Issue # 208, Oct 3, 2010
KEITH ELLISON'S STEALTH JIHAD
By Dr. Denis MacEoin
"Who is Keith Ellison?" There are no simple answers. Throughout a checkered career, this Liberal American politician
has adopted many guises and presented different messages. He is an African-American who has moved from the fringe
to the center of politics. He is a Democrat with a predictably Liberal voting record, yet he consorts with groups and
individuals that represent a threat to constitutional democracy and the American Republic. He is a convert to Islam, but
challenges Islamic orthodoxy on numerous issues legislatively. He identifies strongly with his faith, yet the details of
his conversion and his current sentiments as a Muslim are obscure. He considers himself a friend of Israel, but, at
other times, has appeared on the same platforms with speakers vocal in their opposition to the Jewish state and their
support for terrorist groups that have murdered its citizens.
Full Story
ISLAMIZATION OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST PC, Volume XII, Issue # 207, October 1, 2010
THE RUSHDIE RULES: TWO COMMENTARIES
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
From a novel by Salman Rushdie published in 1989 to an American civil protest called "Everyone Draw Muhammad Day"
in 2010, a familiar pattern has evolved. It begins when Westerners say or do something critical of Islam. Islamists respond
with name-calling and outrage, demands for retraction, threats of lawsuits and violence, and actual violence. In turn,
Westerners hem and haw, prevaricate, and finally fold. Along the way, each controversy prompts a debate focusing on
the issue of free speech.
Full Story
"AMERICA'S FIRST ISLAMIC COLLEGE" PC, Volume XII, Issue # 206, Sep 28, 2010
ZAYTUNA COLLEGE & ITS CONTINUING MEDIA CIRCUS
By Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
With its few students and skimpy faculty, as well as its lack of all the usual features of a university -- such as a campus --
why should Zaytuna College have been so favored by American media attention? It appears as a novelty, and not a very
interesting one, at a moment when discussion of Islam has returned to priority status. How can such an enterprise be
needed, considering the plenitude of Middle East Studies courses available at America's existing universities and colleges?
The answer seems to be that Zaytuna College will presumably vindicate the overweening narcissism of Zaytuna Founder
and American Muslim cleric Hamza Yusuf Hanson, while providing a platform for the Islamist ideology of Hanson's mentors,
Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah and, by extension, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.
Full Story
USE OF INTIMIDATION TO STIFLE FREE SPEECH PC, Volume XII, Issue # 205, Sep 27, 2010
IT'S TIME TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST
DEATH THREATS BY ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS
By Ayaan Hirsi & Daniel Huff
Earlier this year, after Comedy Central altered an episode of "South Park" that had prompted threats because of the
way it depicted Islam's prophet Muhammad, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris proposed an "Everybody Draw Muhammad
Day." The idea was, as she put it, to stand up for the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and "water down the pool
of targets" for extremists.
The proposal got Norris targeted for assassination by radical Yemeni American cleric Anwar Awlaki, who has been linked
to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight and also to several of the 9/11 hijackers. This
month, after warnings from the FBI, Norris went into hiding.
Full Story
WHERE TURKEY IS HEADING UNDER THE AKP PC, Volume XII, Issue # 204, Sep 26, 2010
TURKEY'S FUTURE
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Where is Turkey heading under Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP)? Will
Turkey truly uphold constitutional democratic principles the AKP claims to represent and head down the path of
accession to membership in the European Union, or will it become an illiberal and unconstitutional state more akin to
Russia and strengthen its current tilt towards Iran and Syria? The present situation appears to suggest the latter.
Full Story
HUGE WASTES OF TAXPAYER MONEY BY THE DOE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 203, Sep 26, 2010
YOUR INSANE U.S. ENERGY DEPARTMENT
By Alan Caruba
A CNS news story reported that, while speaking at the inaugural meeting of the recently reestablished U.S.
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, Cathy Zoi, an Assistant Secretary of Energy, “pointed to four tactics the Obama
administration intended to use to advance the ‘deployment of clean energy.’ The first three were government subsidies,
special tax incentives, and low-interest government-backed loans for green energy projects.”
The likelihood that any of these “green energy” projects will yield any electrical power comparable to a single coal-fired
or nuclear plant is negligible.
Full Story
FOOD PRODUCTION & THE ENVIRONMENT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 202, Sep 26, 2010
UN MILLENNIUM GOALS FLUNK REALITY CHECK
By Dennis T. Avery
On the 10th. birthday of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, officials are lamenting that the world has made little
progress in meeting them. No one should be surprised.
Goal # 1 is to cut greenhouse emissions by 50 percent. The UN says this is clearly within reach, if there’s the “political
will.” “Economic death-wish” would be a better term. The UN wants us to give up 85 percent of our energy system, and
use expensive, erratic solar and wind that would do little to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Full Story
DECEPTION IMBEDDED IN THE MUSLIM PSYCHE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 201, Sep 24, 2010
THE ULTIMATE LESSON OF EGYPT'S FAKE PHOTO:
The Muslim World Needs a Cultural Reformation,
As Opposed to Merely a Religious Reformation
By Raymond Ibrahim
One of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world, Egypt's Al Ahram, recently ran a fake picture depicting
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak walking in front of U.S. President Barack Obama and a pack of other Mideast leaders.
In fact, based on the original photo, Mubarak, the octogenarian, appeared trailing last.
Why the outlandish deception by an internationally recognized newspaper founded in 1875?
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CONSERVATISM & RINO "REPUBLICAN" ELITISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 200, Sep 22, 2010
O'DONNELL SITUATION SMOKES OUT REPUBLICAN FRAUDS
By Christopher G. Adamo
Whether or not Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell wins her bid for the United States Senate in the November,
2010, general election, her primary victory has already achieved more than could have been accomplished by any
dozen new GOP senators. For the first time in decades, voters are being presented with unassailable examples of the
difference between Conservatism and the treacherous reality of “business as usual” in the Republican Party. And,
given such a choice, real Conservatism is unquestionably advancing.
Full Story
SHIRI'A DENIGRATES NON-ISLAMIC FAITHS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 199, Sep 21, 2010
KORAN BURNING, ISLAMIC LAW, & THE GLOBAL JIHAD:
THREE COMMENTARIES
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Islamic law, the Shari'a, insists that Islam, and the Koran in particular, enjoy a privileged status. Islam ferociously
punishes anyone, Muslim or non-Muslim, who trespasses against Islam's sanctity. Codes in Muslim-majority states
generally reflect this privilege.
No less important, Shari'a denigrates the sanctities of other religions, a tradition manifested in recent years by the
2000 Palestinian desecration of the Jewish Tomb of Joseph in Nablus, the 2001 Taliban destruction of the Buddhist
Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan, and the 2002 Palestinian desecration of the Christian Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem. A 2003 decree -- Fatwa # 40378, posted at The Encylopedia of Fatwas, www.islamweb.net -- ruled
the Bible suitable for use by Muslims when cleaning after defecation. In May, 2010, Iranian authorities
reportedly burned hundreds of Bibles. This imbalance, whereby Islam enjoys immunity and other religions are
disparaged, has long prevailed in Muslim-majority countries.
Full Story
U.S. ENERGY POLICY & RENEWABLE ENERGY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 198, Sep 21, 2010
SUSTAINABLE, AFFORDABLE, ECO-FRIENDLY RENEWABLE ENERGY?
UNSUSTAINABLE COW MANURE!
By Paul K. Driessen
Seek a sustainable future! Wind turbines, solar panels, and biofuels will ensure an eco-friendly, climate-protecting,
planet-saving, sustainable inheritance for our children. Or so we are told by eco-activists and Leftist politicians intent
on enacting new renewable energy standards, mandates, and subsidies during a lame duck session of Congress. It may
be useful to address some basic issues, before going further down the road to Renewable Utopia.
Full Story
FREE SPEECH RIGHTS & HOSTILE AUDIENCES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 197, Sep 20, 2010
IS KORAN BURNING PROTECTED BY FREE SPEECH?
By Daniel Huff
The struggle for civil rights in the U.S.A. forged a national commitment to preserving free speech in the face of hostile
audiences. It is alarming how quickly the Koran burning controversy has melted that resolve.
Initially, everyone from Mayor Bloomberg to the White House affirmed a right to burn the book, even as they condemned
the act. Then General David Petraeus got involved, followed by the FBI, and now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
Breyer says Koran burning may not be protected speech after all.
Full Story
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF CARBON DIOXIDE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 196, Sep 19, 2010
NO SCIENCE, FAKE SCIENCE, & DESTRUCTION OF THE NATION
By Alan Caruba
The attack on coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear fission as sources of energy is a direct attack on the economic success and
prosperity of America. This attack is at a dangerous peak of activity generated by the Obama administration, primarily
through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
There is simply no such thing as “dirty energy.” The push for socalled "clean energy," or "renewable energy," is a
fiction to advance the use of the two worst, most unpredictable and unreliable forms of energy, solar and wind energy.
They exist solely because of government subsidies and mandates. They produce little over three percent of the energy
used nationwide every day.
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MORE HIGH-YIELD FARMING RESEARCH NEEDED PC, Volume XII, Issue # 195, Sep 19, 2010
BIOTECHNOLOGY: TO SURVIVE THE MEGA-DROUGHTS
By Dennis T. Avery
When, O Lord, will the public turn its back on the ill-founded “concerns” of the Green movement that misinformed us
about DDT, salmon extinction, deformed frogs, man-made global warming, and a host of other fake “calamities”? When
will we support more high-yield farming research to meet redoubled world food needs in 2050? Especially since the
alternative would be to plow down more wild species’ habitat to plant additional low-yield crops.
Full Story
U.S.-FUNDED RECONSTRUCTION IN IRAQ FAILING PC, Volume XII, Issue # 194, Sep 16, 2010
NATION-BUILDING: A SUCCESS IN IRAQ?
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Did the U.S. government's spending of $53 billion of American taxpayers' money on reconstruction efforts work in Iraq?
According to New York Times columnist David Brooks, it did. Unfortunately, however, his argument is flawed on
numerous counts by selective evidence.
Full Story
ISLAM'S WORLDVIEW -- LOYALTY & ENMITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 193, Sep 15, 2010
THE SPECTER OF MUSLIM DISLOYALTY IN AMERICA
By Raymond Ibrahim
Islamist enmity for infidels, regularly manifested in the jihad, is by now moderately well known. Lesser known, however,
but of equal concern, is the mandate for Muslims to be loyal to fellow Muslims and Islam — a loyalty that all too often
translates into disloyalty to all things non-Muslim, including the American people and their government.
Full Story
"TEA PARTY" FORCES WASHINGTON TO LISTEN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 192, Sep 15, 2010
RECKONING HONESTLY WITH "TEA PARTY" MOMENTUM
By Christopher G. Adamo
Grassroots Conservatism is alive and well, as evidenced by the “upset” victory of “Tea Party” candidate Christine
O’Donnell over career politician and RINO Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary. The event is already
being labeled an “upset,” although, at the moment, it appears that only the establishment Republicans are upset.
Full Story
HAVE THE LESSONS OF 9/11 BEEN LEARNED? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 191, Sep 12, 2010
THE NINTH SEPTEMBER 11
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
As September 11 comes around each year, those of us who focus on radical Islam inevitably ask whether the lessons
of 9/11 have sunk in – or whether they are fading as the event itself becomes a memory. Are we, in other words,
progressing or regressing in what once was called the War on Terror?
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AMERICA MOVING TOWARD LESS FREEDOM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 190, Sep 12, 2010
TURNING OFF THE (INCANDESCENT) LIGHT OF LIBERTY
By Alan Caruba
All nations must evolve, but the American nation is evolving in the wrong direction, namely, in the direction of statism
and socialism. America is moving toward less freedom of choice and more government control over the choices that a
free market economy requires individuals, families, and private groups to make. America is rejecting its founding
principles, and is doing so on the basis of assumptions that are, in reality, the propaganda lies and distortions
disseminated by the environmentalists and global warming alarmists.
Full Story
MOUNTING TOLL OF DEATHS FROM MALARIA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 189, Sep 12, 2010
THREE BILLION & COUNTING: THE COST OF BANNING DDT
By Dennis T. Avery
Three Billion and Counting is a new documentary film on the awful human cost of banning DDT. The film’s
producer, medical doctor Rutledge Taylor, circled the tropical world, finding that malaria has claimed some three billion
human lives throughout history — and the toll of needless deaths is continuing to mount by perhaps 1.5 million per
year. Moreover, it permanently debilitates millions more. Taylor says malaria treatment is a “tangle of red tape,
misguided prevention policies, and treatment that is ineffective in the face of continual re-infection.” Above all, he
found “willful deafness to the pleas of local populations to help them eradicate the mosquitoes that deliver the deadly
cargo.”
Full Story
PRESIDENT OBAMA & U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 188, Sep 11, 2010
EFRAIM KARSH ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S
FAILED MIDDLE EAST POLICY
By Sean Alexander
President Obama, by speaking ambiguously about the threat Islamists pose to America's national security, demonstrated
that he misunderstands the religion of Islam and its intrinsic imperialistic tendencies. For example, while the Obama
administration rightly argues that America is not at war with terrorism because terrorism is simply a tactic, it also refuses
to look at the Islamist ideology that drives that tactic: the administration winces at the use of the word "jihadist" because
jihad is a fundamental tenet of Islam. However, calls for jihad throughout history have been an act of war, rather than a
call to purify oneself or one's community.
The Obama administration has its head in the sand with respect to engagement with the Muslim world.
Full Story
GROUND ZERO & ISLAMIC TRIUMPHALISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 187, Sep 10, 2010
THEY DESTROYED MY TOWERS!
By Alan Caruba
Those proposing the Ground Zero Mosque demonstrate the arrogance and contempt for Americans and for all
“unbelievers” that lies at the core of Islam, but American leaders of varying religions have fallen over one another to
excuse this exercise in triumphalism.
Full Story
LIBERALISM & THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 186, Sep 9, 2010
A REASONED PERSPECTIVE ON THE MOSQUE
By Christopher G. Adamo
Had the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America occurred during a saner time, the receptiveness of this country
towards any tenets of Islam would have been seriously undercut both in the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe,
and for at least as long as those who witnessed the event were alive to recall it. Yet, in the face of “political
correctness,” rationality has largely been eradicated from the national conversation. In its place, mindless nihilism,
masquerading as post-modern virtue, threatens the culture, and ultimately the nation, with an intentional commitment to
stupidity that portends an inglorious national suicide.
Full Story
BAD LUCK FOR THE "ECO-PROGRESSIVE" FRINGE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 185, Sep 8, 2010
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LEFTISTS, & STREET THEATER "EDUCATION":
The Climate & Renewable Energy Con Is Losing Its Luster,
Prompting Anguish & Desperation
By Paul K. Driessen
It’s been a rough few weeks for the “eco-progressive” fringe.
Static jet streams induced near-record high temperatures in parts of the United States and Russia, but extreme cold
pummeled Seattle, England, and much of the Southern Hemisphere. Perhaps Al Gore, Michael Mann, and Rajendra
Pachauri can turn this hodgepodge into “catastrophic climate change,” but most folks understand it as Mother Nature
and weather.
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THE FUTURE OF ISLAM & ISLAMISM IN THE U.S.A. PC, Volume XII, Issue # 184, Sep 7, 2010
AMERICANS WAKE UP TO ISLAMISM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The furor over the proposed 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.
Full Story
ROLE OF MARTYRDOM IN ISLAMIC WARFARE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 183, Sep 7, 2010
THE SUICIDE BOMBER AS SUNNI-SHI'I HYBRID
By Benjamin T. Acosta
Beginning with the 1979 Shi'i Iranian revolution and the subsequent success of the Sunni mujahideen's resistance to the
Soviets in the 1980s, acts of violence committed in the name of Islam have risen sharply. Increasingly, the role of
martyrdom has taken a central position in violent campaigns conducted by Islamic groups. The suicide bomber has
become the ideal of Islamic martyrdom, simultaneously appalling Western audiences and captivating Islamic ones. What
seems to have gone unnoticed, however, is how the concept of Islamic martyrdom has undergone a transformation that
blends and synthesizes notions that were once limited to one or the other of the main Muslim sects, Sunni and Shi'i.
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SITUATION IN YEMEN FAR MORE URGENT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 182, Sep 5, 2010
FOCUS ON YEMEN, NOT ISRAEL-PALESTINE
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
As Summer draws to a close, much speculation has arisen in the media on the upcoming direct Israeli-Palestinian peace
talks, which the Obama administration hopes will bring about a lasting agreement and a viable Palestinian state within a
year. Meanwhile, news has just come out concerning the start of Qatari-mediated talks between the central government
of Yemen led by Ali Abdullah Saleh and Shi'a Houthi rebels based in the north of Yemen.
Full Story
U.S.A. NOT IN A SUMMER OF RECOVERY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 181, Sep 5, 2010
FEELS LIKE A DEPRESSION TO ME
By Alan Caruba
Between the time that George Washington took the first Oath of Office as President and when Barack Obama did, 1789
to 2009, the United States government had borrowed nine trillion dollars. Since Obama took office, it has borrowed or
imposed nearly three trillion more debt. Tell me he is not deliberately seeking to bankrupt the nation.
Full Story
HIGH YIELD FARMING & THE ENVIRONMENT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 180, Sep 5, 2010
HIGHER YIELDS: THE ONLY FARMING ANSWER
By Dennis T. Avery
Is the Green Movement finally ready to face the global need to triple crop yields over the next 40 years — and drop its
dedication to land-selfish organic farming? Maybe yes, and none too soon. The planet’s wild biodiversity is at stake.
Full Story
OBAMA & THE BASIC RIGHTS OF AMERICANS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 179, Sep 1, 2010
OBAMA'S LATEST OUTRAGE AGAINST ARIZONA & AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
Americans increasingly find themselves subjected to third-world style injustice, including false accusations of wrongdoing
based not on the written law, but on the twisted premises of “political correctness,” which will ultimately overshadow any
effort to restore fairness and integrity to the legal system. The latest effort by the Obama White House to humiliate and
impugn the good people of Arizona, this time on the world stage, cannot be interpreted in any other manner.
Full Story
OBAMA & THE NEGROPONTE DOCTRINE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 178, Sep 1, 2010
WILL OBAMA USE HIS UN VETO?
By Dr. Stephen J. Rosen
Just before dawn on May 31, 2010, a team of Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish ship to enforce a blockade against the
terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza. As they came aboard, the Israelis were assaulted by a violent faction of Islamic
militants. A melee followed in which several of the commandos were seriously injured and nine of the Turkish militants
were killed. The clash was over before the sun came up.
It was still daylight when, 5,600 miles away, the Israeli delegation to the United Nations was summoned to appear before
an emergency session of the Security Council to be chastised for the actions of the commandos.
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COMPARISON OF TWO AMERICAN PRESIDENTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 177, Aug 29, 2010
OBAMA & FDR: THEY REALLY ARE ALIKE!
By Dennis T. Avery
The press has been fond of drawing parallels between Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barack Hussein Obama.
I’ll draw some too.
Full Story
AMERICAN STUDENTS POORLY SERVED PC, Volume XII, Issue # 176, Aug 29, 2010
OUR SCHOOLS: DUMB & DUMBER
By Alan Caruba
As the nation’s children and youth return to elementary and secondary schools, it is increasingly essential that their parents and
communities coast to coast realize how poorly served they are and how their learning environment is increasingly tainted
by a Socialist agenda.
Full Story
THE "TIDAL WAVE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA" PC, Volume XII, Issue # 175, Aug 29, 2010
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A "BIGOT"?
Middle East Studies Professors Attack
Opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque
By Brendan Goldman
If you find yourself asking why the defenders of the ground zero mosque keep recycling hyperbolic accusations of
bigotry, listen to the analysis of many of our nation's "leading" Middle East Studies scholars.
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RESOLUTION OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 174, Aug 26, 2010
ARABS VERSUS THE ABDULLAH PLAN
By Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
The 2002 Arab peace initiative, commonly referred to as the "Abdullah plan," constitutes the most significant and explicit
collective Arab declaration in favor of a peaceful, mutually agreed-on resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict ever made. By
adopting the plan at the March, 2002, League of Arab States's Beirut summit and reaffirming it in Riyadh in 2007, the
collective Arab position towards the conflict has been modified in the direction of a more explicit recognition of Israel.
Notwithstanding the ambiguities of the declaration, especially on the issue of Palestinian refugees, a shift is discernable.
From complete rejection (the "Three Nos" of the 1967 Khartoum summit) to qualified acceptance (the 1982 Fez summit) to
the current expressed willingness to declare an end to the conflict and establish normal relations with Israel, the Arab
states have moved to an officially proclaimed acceptance of the reality of a Jewish state in the region. Attaining a proper
understanding of the initiative, however, requires an examination of the larger contexts in which it was forged.
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS & WORLD SECURITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 173, Aug 26, 2010
HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOMB
By Alan Caruba
Not a single conflict since the U.S.A. dropped two A-bombs on Japan in 1945 to end a war they started has used nuclear
weapons. Rational people, even if they have nuclear weapons, know that using them is probably suicidal. Irrational
people like the Iranian ayatollahs are probably the exception.
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SHARI'A & THE THREAT POSED BY ISLAMISTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 172, Aug 26, 2010
IS NEWT GINGRICH WRONG TO TALK ABOUT SHARI'A?
By Raymond Ibrahim
It hardly matters what Shari'a (Islamic law) really is; all that matters is what today's Muslims believe it is. And a great many
believe Shari'a is tangible and codified, and that it can, and should, be implemented in society. More to the point, telling
apostates and adulteresses — who are regularly executed "according to Shari'a" — that they are really being murdered by
"principles that have rarely, if ever, existed in actual Muslim societies," is hardly reassuring.
Full Story
AN INDICTMENT OF PRESIDENT OBAMA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 171, Aug 25, 2010
DAVID LIMBAUGH'S "CRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY"
By Christopher G. Adamo
Sinister forces are hard at work, seeking to tear the America of freedom, prosperity, and greatness away from “We the
People.” And, if their effort is successful, its horrific effects might never be undone. It is thus imperative that those who
intend to preserve and protect their nation and its Constitution from these attacks be armed with a thorough understanding
of the assault they face, and how to best counter it. In this regard, Americans can do no better than to gird themselves with
the truth and insights of David Limbaugh’s Crimes Against Liberty.
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CRIMES MISREPRESENTED AS HATE CRIMES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 170, Aug 24, 2010
FAKE HATE CRIMES: AN ISLAMIST WEAPON
By Ryan Mauro
While real anti-Muslim hate crimes deserve the harshest of condemnation, claims about anti-Muslim hate crimes
always should be taken with a grain of salt. CAIR and other Islamist groups thrive off of convincing Muslims
that they are under constant assault from roving bigots and an oppressive state. Individual Muslims then feel
empowered to fabricate hate crimes in order to paint themselves as victims.
For Islamists, the fear, isolation, and suffering of the Muslim community are nothing more than weapons to enhance
their own prestige and pursue their political agenda.
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ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 169, Aug 24, 2010
NOT TAKING YES FOR AN ANSWER
By Dr. Efraim Karsh
No sooner had Hillary Clinton announced the imminent resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations without
preconditions, than the Palestinian leadership cold shouldered the U.S. Secretary of State. An emergency meeting of the
Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee, which controls the Palestinian Authority and is chaired by
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, agreed to return to the negotiating table, but threatened to pull out of
the talks if Israel didn't extend the freeze on all settlement activities. "Should the Israeli government issue new tenders on
September 26, we will not be able to continue with talks," chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters.
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ENVIRONMENTALISM VERSUS AFRICAN LIVES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 168, Aug 23, 2010
END ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIMENTS ON AFRICANS!
By Fiona Kobusingye
Africans are being used as laboratory animals in eco-colonialist experiments -- endeavors to prevent malaria without using
DDT or insecticides, to generate electricity without using fossil fuels, and to keep farmers and other people on subsistence
agriculture and limited food supplies, doing so by restricting the use of biotechnology and hybrid seeds.
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OBAMA & U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 167, Aug 22, 2010
MEXICO, BLOODY MEXICO
By Alan Caruba
Beyond the adverse impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. labor market, American taxpayers are spending $52 billion
annually to educate the children of illegal aliens, with local governments taking the biggest hit of nearly $50 billion.
The pressures on the U.S. healthcare system and on the law enforcement agencies are comparable, and the U.S.
government is doing very little to cope with the flood of illegal immigration.
Instead, the U.S. Department of Justice is doing whatever it can to punish states like Arizona for taking even the most
minimal steps to protect Americans. As for the Department of Homeland Security, its preference is to ignore the problem.
We are being ill-served by the Obama administration and are likely to be stabbed in the back by a lame-duck Congress.
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GLOBAL WARMINGS ADVANCED CIVILIZATION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 166, Aug 22, 2010
"EXTREME WEATHER"? NOT YET!
By Dennis T. Avery
For a million years, humans have been using the warming periods to advance civilization. We are comfortable, well fed,
and not competing for caves because those who came before us advanced human society each time the climate provided
a few hundred years of safety. Should we do any less for those who will come after us?
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PROXY WARFARE BETWEEN THE SAUDIS & IRAN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 165, Aug 21, 2010
IRAQ & THE MIDDLE EASTERN COLD WAR
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
With the official end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, what bodes for Iraq's future in terms of its relations to other nations
in the Middle East? One useful way to examine this question is through the lens of what Daniel Pipes describes as the
present "Middle Eastern Cold War."
This new Cold War represents the current ideological division in the Middle East between (1) the "revolutionary bloc," led
chiefly by Iran, Syria, and, more recently, Turkey, and the (2) "status-quo bloc," led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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MOSQUE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO ISLAM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 164, Aug 21, 2010
TOP MUSLIMS CONDEMN GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
AS A "ZIONIST CONSPIRACY"
By Raymond Ibrahim
In a recent article, I argued that the Ground Zero mosque is counterproductive to Islam. The following day, on August 5,
2010, the Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm reported that none other than Al Azhar — one of Sunni Islam's
most authoritative institutions — agrees.
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TALKS BETWEEN ISRAELIS & PALESTINIANS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 163, Aug 19, 2010
BUSH'S GIFT TO OBAMA
By Dr. Steven J. Rosen
The opening of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians, rumored for weeks, is likely to put the spotlight back on U.S.
President Barack Obama's Middle East policy. That isn't necessarily a good thing. The Israeli public does not trust him
and will be looking for signals of his intentions. If he does not restore confidence in the role of the United States, it is hard
to see how American mediation can succeed. Conversely, the Palestinians will be looking for signs that he is willing to
lean on Israel, something the "professional Left" of his own party -- to borrow a phrase from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
-- also would love to see.
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ARABIZATION VERSUS KABYLE AUTONOMY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 162, Aug 18, 2010
DISSIDENT WATCH: FERHAT MEHENNI
By Dr. Denis MacEoin
Almost from the moment of Algerian independence in 1962, the northern region of Kabyle has been subjected to
heavy-handed repression by successive Algerian governments, endeavoring to Arabize the region, restrict use of the
Kabyle language, and suppress the movement for Kabyle autonomy.
Despite government attempts to restrict his advocacy of Kabyle autonomy, Ferhat Mehenni has acquired an
international reputation. In May, 2009, he spoke before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,
where he condemned Algerian policy outright and asked, "Is there a genocidal intention against the Kabyle people
at the top of the Algerian state?"
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DEMOCRATS & THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 161, Aug 18, 2010
PREPARING FOR THE DEMOCRATS' 2010 GENERAL ELECTION ANTICS
By Christopher G. Adamo
Ever since the advent of the Obama administration, and its systematic corruption and destruction of the nation’s
constitutional framework, Americans have fervently anticipated their opportunity to atone for their past sins by way of the
2010 mid-term elections. That season is now upon us. As primary election races are concluded across the nation, and
candidates head into the general election cycle, a drastic sea change can be expected in the conduct of political contests,
as well as their coverage by the media.
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THE NATION-STATE & SHIFTING PARADIGMS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 160, Aug 17, 2010
IMMANUEL KANT VERSUS ISRAEL
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
As someone who deeply appreciates what Western Civilization, for all its faults, has achieved, I puzzle over the hostility
many Westerners harbor toward their way of life. If representative democracy, individual liberty, free markets,
constitutionalism, and the rule of law have created an unprecedented stability, affluence and decency, how come so
many beneficiaries fail to see this?
Why, for example, does the United States of America, which has done so much for human welfare, inspire such hostility?
And why does tiny Israel, the symbol of rejuvenation for a perpetually oppressed people, incur such passionate hatred
that otherwise decent people desire to eliminate this state?
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ARAB COMPASSION FOR THE PALESTINIANS? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 159, Aug 17, 2010
JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE
By Dr. Efraim Karsh
"To a man with a hammer," Mark Twain famously quipped, "everything looks like a nail." To a propagandist, everything
looks like a poll.
No sooner had my latest New York Times op-ed piece, "The Palestinians, Alone," been published than my mailbox
was swamped with polls of all hues aimed at proving the depth of Arab compassion for the Palestinians.
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NEW YORK BEDBUGS & AFRICAN MOSQUITOES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 158, Aug 15, 2010
CRISIS! NEW YORK STYLE VERSUS THE REAL THING:
Our Obsession with Pesticide "Risks" Has Very
Different Consequences for America & Africa
By Paul K. Driessen
Thankfully, bedbugs have not been linked to disease, except sometimes severe emotional distress associated with
obstinate infestations, incessant itching, and pathetic “proactive” advice, rules, and “solutions” right out of Saturday
Night Live.
It is hellish for people of New York City who must live with bedbugs, and can't afford professional eradication like what
Hilton Hotels or New York Mayor Bloomberg might hire. But imagine what it’s like for two billion Africans, who live
24/7/365 with insects that definitely are responsible for disease: malarial mosquitoes.
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AMERICA'S LIFE OR DEATH STRUGGLE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 157, Aug 15, 2010
OBAMA IS AMERICA'S NEW JIM JONES
By Alan Caruba
Americans are resisting the behemoth of the U.S. national government under Obama’s control. The Tea Party movement
is evidence that the American spirit is far from spent. Many states are joining together in legal suits to oppose
Obamacare and to demand the national government shut down the border traffic that is breeding crime and creating
other costs.
It is a life or death struggle for America.
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES THAT CAN'T WORK PC, Volume XII, Issue # 156, Aug 15, 2010
TAXES, DUST, & OYSTERS: FEDS BUSY BUT WRONG
By Dennis T. Avery
My favorite Obama environmental policy dead end is the Chesapeake Bay project. Over the past 30 years, we’ve spent
billions of federal dollars trying to reduce the nitrogen and other nutrients that get into the Chesapeake Bay, with
absolutely no impact on the murky water. The Obama strategy is to double down, as they did with their British-style
“health care reform,” which has failed everywhere, including Britain. But, as the British decentralize their medical
decisions to 50,000 doctors, the Environmental Protection Agency will now install mandatory farm management
requirements around the Bay.
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MORALLY RIGHT TO OPPOSE THE MOSQUE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 155, Aug 13, 2010
OPPOSE THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE?
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
News that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has come out in opposition to the planned construction of a 13-story
"Córdoba House" or "Park51" mosque, two blocks away from "Ground Zero," should prompt us to ask whether it is
truly right to oppose the building of this particular mosque.
To begin with, it should be noted that there is no basis for opposing its construction on legal grounds. That said, a
distinction needs to be made between legality and morality. The key question, therefore, is: would the mosque fulfill
the apparent, declared intention of fostering outreach and mutual respect between people of various faiths?
The answer, however, should be a clear "No."
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NO SCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION FOR CO2 LIMITS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 154, Aug 12, 2010
THE EPA MUST BE STOPPED!
By Alan Caruba
The EPA-proposed regulation of carbon dioxide emissions is based on the global warming fraud, which says that CO2
is responsible for a significant warming of the planet. There is not a scintilla of proof of this and, indeed, the Earth is
presently in one of its natural cycles of cooling, not warming.
Thus, there is no scientific justification for the regulation of carbon dioxide, no matter how many times the EPA says
there is.
If American industry, particularly the targeted power plants and oil refineries, are required to get greenhouse gas
permits, it will put yet another huge sector of the nation’s economy under the thumb of the Environmental Protection
Agency and the radical environmentalist movement -- the most insidious exponents of the global warming fraud,
enemies of any economic growth.
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AMERICA'S CURRENT NATIONAL LEADERS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 153, Aug 11, 2010
OBAMA DID SHAKEDOWN BP & AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
Congressman Joe Barton (Republican - Texas) is one of the few people from either major political party in Washington,
D.C., who should have any credibility left with the American public. On June 17, 2010, Barton infuriated Liberals on
Capitol Hill, and throughout the national media, by asserting that Barack Obama’s demand for twenty billion dollars
from BP, ostensibly as reparation for its massive oil spill, amounted to a “shakedown” of the company. In retrospect,
Barton was proven to be absolutely right.
What the Congressman did was highlight the abject hypocrisy, ineptitude, and completely self-serving mindset of the
Obama administration, as well as its flagrant disregard for the plight of the people who make up real America.
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GLOBAL COOLING, NOT GLOBAL WARMING PC, Volume XII, Issue # 152, Aug 9, 2010
PROBABLY NOT THE "HOTTEST YEAR"
By Dennis T. Avery
The man-made global warming believers have invested 20 years in their campaign to convince us of CO2-driven
climate calamity. To their chagrin, the earth’s temperatures started to trend downward in 2007.
The sunspot index, which has a much stronger correlation with our thermometer record than CO2 (79% versus 22%)
started predicting the cooling in 2000. The sun is still in a long cold-predicting minimum.
In 2008, NASA itself told us that the Pacific had shifted into its cooling mode. The history of the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation indicates a 30-year cooling phase, the opposite of the 1976–1998 warming trend.
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HOMOSEXUALITY & MARRIAGE IN SOCIETY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 151, Aug 8, 2010
THERE'S NOTHING GAY ABOUT BEING GAY
By Alan Caruba
On a strictly physiological basis, nature ordains that there are two sexes, male and female, and they exist for the propagation
of the species. That’s why marriage is regarded as essential to any society.
Since homosexuals must function within our society, one might reasonably assume they would accept society’s need to
maintain marriage as between a man and a woman, but, among militant homosexuals, there has been a growing movement to
require a redefinition of this ancient model.
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U.S. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 150, Aug 7, 2010
THE DUMB POLICIES THAT KEEP COMING:
E15 Ethanol Mandates Would Bring Huge Benefits
for the Few, at the Expense of the Many
By Paul K. Driessen
If 10% ethanol in gasoline is good, 15% (E15) will be even better. At least for some folks.
We’re certainly heading in that direction, thanks to animosity toward oil, natural gas and coal, fear-mongering about
global warming, and superlative lobbying for “alternative,” “affordable,” “eco-friendly” biofuels. Whether the trend
continues, and what unintended consequences will be unleashed, will depend on Corn Belt versus consumer politics
and whether more people recognize the downsides of ethanol.
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ISLAMISM SUBJECT TO GREATER SCRUTINY PC, Volume XII, Issue #149, Aug 6, 2010
WHY THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
TO THE ISLAMIST CAUSE
By Raymond Ibrahim
While vexing to many, the mega mosque set to be built two blocks from Ground Zero has produced one interesting but
unintended consequence: Like the 9/11 strikes a decade before it, the "9/11 mosque" is also creating a stir, is making
people think and talk — about Islam.
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PROSPECT OF MAJOR CONSERVATIVE GAINS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 148, Aug 4, 2010
A CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY FOR 2010 & BEYOND
By Christopher G. Adamo
As Election Day, November 2, 2010, looms, traditional America is conflicted among feelings of anticipation, dread, and
despair. The upcoming elections hold the prospect of major Conservative gains in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House
of Representatives, Conservative gains which could drastically turn the tide on the relentless Liberal attacks against
the American nation. And it is undeniable that such a shakeup in Washington, D.C., is sorely needed.
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MUSLIM CITIZENSHIP & ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 147, Aug 4, 2010
MUSLIMS IN CATALONIA:
THE CHALLENGE OF INTEGRATION & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
A Book by Alex Seglers Gomez-Quintero
Reviewed by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
Alex Seglers argues that a peaceful integration of Muslims in Catalan life is possible, if it is based on Muslim acceptance of
European democratic values. The author writes that guarantees of religious freedom in Europe must rest not on
acceptance of Islamist demands for special treatment, but in demarcating the principle that Muslims may become
citizens, as long as they jettison the tenets of Islamist ideology. As he writes, "Muslim citizenship" and Islamism remain
at odds, producing "hidden conflicts."
Such conflicts include controversies over Islamist proposals for European accommodation to Shari'a-based family law,
with rights to polygamy and an acceptance of forced marriages.
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THE NIQAB AS A SECURITY RISK IN CANADA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 146, Aug 4, 2010
NIQAB SECURITY OUTRAGES AT CANADIAN AIRPORTS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
I visited Toronto in early March, 2010, and, as I left the country, I passed through the usual security check at Pearson
International Airport. What made it different is that the next passengers after me in line were a man, a small child, and a
person in niqab. (I write "person" rather than "woman," as I hardly know who was under the niqab outfit.)
Curious how the niqabi's hidden identity would be handled, I looked back as the trio was dealing with the security
agent. To my astonishment, the agent did not demand to see the niqabi's face, but was content to see those of the man
and child.
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THE CRIMES OF ISLAM & THE TERROR WAR PC, Volume XII, Issue # 145, Aug 3, 2010
SAYING NO TO A GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
By Alan Caruba
The crimes of Islam against all who are not Islamic (and some who are Islamic, thanks to the Shiite-Sunni schism) are
very old and fill the headlines of today’s newspapers.
The Muslims who flew commercial airliners into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did not think they were doing
wrong. They were doing what the Koran and almost every imam with the breath to preach told them to do; they
were killing infidels.
This is why a mosque within steps of Ground Zero is so inherently wrong. It says that the intended victims of Islamic
domination are simply too blind to envision their fate, too fearful to confront evil, to ready to get on the next train to
Auschwitz.
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BEST-KNOWN U.S. APOLOGIST FOR ISLAMISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 144, Aug 3, 2010
JOHN ESPOSITO, ISLAMAPHOBIA, & THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
By Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
John L. Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., is America's best-known apologist for
Saudi Wahhabism, the Turkish Muslim fundamentalist Justice and Development Party (AKP), and Islamist ideologies in
general. To many, he personifies all that's wrong with Middle East Studies in America today.
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THE THREAT POISED BY U.K.-BASED ISLAMISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 143, Aug 3, 2010
BRITAIN'S NEW EXPORT: ISLAMIST CARNAGE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Britain's largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims.
Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster
offers a pungent reminder of the global danger poised by U.K.-based radical Islam.
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BRITAIN -- PRO-ARAB & ANTI-ISRAEL? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 142, Aug 2, 2010
SHIMON PERES VERSUS THE BRITS
By Dr. Efrain Karsh
Shimon Peres, Israel's 87-year-old President doesn't usually arouse antagonism among Europeans.
A tireless peace advocate for decades, and architect of the Oslo Process, he has long presented Israel's moderate face
to the outside world.
Yet, last week, he provoked anger among British politicians and Anglo-Jewish leaders when he told a Jewish website that
the British establishment had always been "deeply pro-Arab ... and anti-Israel," and that this was partly due to endemic
anti-Semitic dispositions.
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ARABS & A PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI PEACE? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 141, Aug 2, 2010
THE PALESTINIANS, ALONE
By Dr. Efraim Karsh
It has long been conventional wisdom that the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a prerequisite to peace and
stability in the Middle East. Since Arabs and Muslims are so passionate about the Palestine problem, this argument runs,
the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate feeds regional anger and despair, gives a larger rationale to terrorist groups like Al-Qa'ida
and to the insurgency in Iraq and obstructs the formation of a regional coalition that will help block Iran's quest for
nuclear weapons.
What, then, are we to make of a recent survey for the Al Arabiya television network finding that a staggering 71
percent of the Arabic respondents have no interest in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks?
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WARMING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST PC, Volume XII, Issue # 140, August 1, 2010
IS AMERICA'S WEST DOOMED TO DROUGHT?
By Dennis T. Avery
Does the modern warming doom the western U.S.A. to drought? Two climate experts have just noted that the region
now has “the worst drought since measurements began,” and they predict a future of soaring temperatures and
declining snow-packs.
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OBAMA MUST BE POLITICALLY NEUTRALIZED! PC, Volume XII, Issue # 139, July 31, 2010
THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE GOVERNMENT
By Alan Caruba
These are truly extraordinary times. With every passing day, we are witnessing what can only be called "the People
versus the Government." The distrust and disdain Americans of all political persuasions feel toward the White House
and Congress is extraordinary.
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POLICIES IMPOSED TO AVOID CLIMATE CHANGE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 138, July 31, 2010
CLIMATE PROPOSALS -- THREAT TO OPPORTUNITY & JUSTICE:
A New Study Documents the Harmful Effects of
"Cap-&-Trade" & "Endangerment" Schemes
By Paul K. Driessen
Some say global warming is the biggest threat facing minority Americans. To the contrary, I believe the biggest threat to
opportunity, justice, civil rights, and the pursuit of happiness is policies imposed in the name of preventing climate
change.
Some say cap-tax-and-trade is dead for the year, and the Environmental Protection Agency won't dare impose job-killing
endangerment rules. I don’t think we are out of the woods yet.
I maintain that my commentary addressing these issues has made a compelling case for the proposition that government
policies which make energy less affordable and less reliable hobble and shackle the pursuit of justice and happiness.
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION & THE BOGUS LAWSUIT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 137, July 28, 2010
REAL AMERICA DID NOT SUE ARIZONA
By Christopher G. Adamo
Selective “enforcement” of the law is a sure sign that those in power are
using the nation’s entire legal apparatus to their own ends. Eric Holder has
engaged in such behavior on multiple occasions, for the expressed purpose of
advancing his own perverse, Leftist, and by definition, anti-American
ideology. That he would do so to stop SB 1070 is an attack on the good
people of Arizona. That he would presume to do so in the name of this United
States is an enormously greater affront, and, in fact, a crime, against every
decent citizen of this country.
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MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING -- EVIDENCE? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 136, July 25, 2010
CALIFORNIA SNOWFALL UNCHANGED OVER PAST CENTURY
By Dennis T. Avery
California’s southern Sierra snowfall has not changed over the past century, according to John Christy, a native
Californian and atmospheric researcher who’s now in charge of the global temperature-measuring satellites. Christy
reconstructed snowfall records at Huntington Lake, California, from 1916–2009. The station’s data since 1972 had
been missing, but Christy found two nearby stations had very high correlations with Huntington Lake. That allowed
him to assess southern Sierra snowfall over nearly the past century.
The station’s annual snowfall averaged 624 centimeters per year, with a non-significant trend of +0.5 cm per decade.
He found similar positive, but insignificant trends, for Spring snowfall, annual stream flow, and precipitation. Nor did
he find any trend in the published regional temperatures.
Where’s the evidence of man-made global warming?
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THE IMPORTANT MUSLIM CONCEPT OF TAYSIR PC, Volume XII, Issue # 135, July 25, 2010
TOP MUSLIM CLERIC QARADAWI URGES WESTERN MUSLIMS
TO "LIBERALIZE" OUTWARDLY, ANYWAY
By Raymond Ibrahim
On Al Jazeera, renowned Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi addressed the important, yet little known,
Muslim concept of taysir (taking the easy way). Qaradawi said that taysir is especially needed in "this era" and
"especially for those Muslim minorities living in Europe and America."
Qaradawi is referring to postponing the enforcement of the harsher aspects of Sharia law (Islamic law) — e.g., subjugation
of non-Muslim infidels, absolute authority over women, jihad, and draconian punishments — that create "hardships"
for Muslims who try to implement them in the West, for instance, by getting them arrested and imprisoned.
In other words, far from "liberalizing" Muslim life, taysir allows only for insincere conformity to Western norms and
standards of behavior. As Qaradawi made clear, to practice taysir is not to renounce Sharia's harsh obligations; it is to
put them on hold till circumstances are more accommodating.
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PUBLIC POLICIES HARMFUL TO THE ECONOMY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 134, July 25, 2010
OBAMA, THE NATION KILLER
By Alan Caruba
The unemployment rate keeps climbing and the polling results for the President and Congress keep falling. Conservatives
are well aware that the Obama administration has relentlessly pursued legislation harmful to the economy, but just how
bad it is and how bad it will become in 2011 may not have sunk in fully for the public in general.
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PUBLIC SAFETY & THE BURQA BAN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 133, July 23, 2010
FRANCE'S BURQA BAN IN CONTEXT
By Raymond Ibrahim
That France is moving toward banning the burqa is a positive development on several fronts: For starters, while many are
the arguments against the burqa — it is anachronistic, misogynistic, etc. — the fact is there have been many instances
worldwide where criminals and Islamic terrorists have facilitated their activities by concealing their identities via the burqa
(which, we are reminded, was originally designed for female "modesty").
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NASA GREATNESS DIMINISHED BY THE LEFT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 132, July 21, 2010
AMERICA'S DECLINE FORTY-ONE YEARS AFTER APOLLO 11
By Christopher G. Adamo
It has been only five months since President Barack Obama publicly announced his
intention to cancel NASA’s Aries program, by which it had planned to return
human beings to the moon on a grand scale. It may be fine to squander
trillions of dollars to subjugate America under a system of Euro-socialist
styled “healthcare,” and eagerly lavish similar amounts on every other
decrepit Leftwing social pipedream, but Obama cannot abide the expenditure
of a tiny fraction of that amount on a program that could rally and inspire
the nation, while ensuring its continued standing at the forefront of modern
technology. So, he has disgracefully consigned NASA to more “politically
correct” purposes.
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TURKEY'S ANTI-ISRAEL & ANTI-SEMITIC POLICY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 131, July 20, 2010
TURKEY IN CYPRUS VERSUS ISRAEL IN GAZA
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Turkish policy toward Israel has cooled since Islamists took power in Ankara in 2002. Their hostility became explicit in
January, 2009, during the Israel-Hamas war. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan grandly condemned Israeli policies as
"perpetrating inhuman actions which would bring it to self-destruction" and even invoked God ("Allah will … punish those
who transgress the rights of innocents").
Turkish verbal assaults augured a further hostility that included insulting the Israeli President, helping sponsor the
"Freedom Flotilla," and recalling the Turkish ambassador.
Turkey's rage over Israel's "open-air jail" in Gaza prompts a question: Is Israel in Gaza really worse than Turkey in Cyprus?
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ARAB OPPOSITION TO A TWO-STATE SOLUTION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 130, July 30, 2010
WHO'S AGAINST A TWO-STATE SOLUTION
By Dr. Efraim Karsh
"Two states, living side by side in peace and security." This, in the words of President Barack Obama, is the solution to
the century-long conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East. Washington is fully and
determinedly on board. So are the Europeans. The United Nations and the "international community" vociferously agree.
Successive governments of the State of Israel have shown their support for the idea. So far, there is — just as there has
always been — only one holdout.
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IRRATIONAL & ABSURD DECISIONS ON DEFENSE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 129, July 20, 2010
OBAMA IS STRIPPING NATIONAL DEFENSE
By Alan Caruba
Under the leadership of President Barack Obama, irrationality is driving decisions affecting our most vital national defense
capabilities. When Obama's Secretary of Defense proposes a veto of an entire defense authorization over an additional
engine for the next generation of fighter jets, we’re witnessing something that’s not just absurd; it’s reckless.
The notion that we can’t afford a second F-35 engine is not true. What we cannot afford is to permit our jet fighter fleet
and our air transport fleet be put at an indefensible risk when the fate of the nation rests upon both.
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THE LACK OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EGYPT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 128, July 19, 2010
THE STRANGE & TRAGIC CASE OF NAGLA IMAM
By Raymond Ibrahim
Uncovering the truth is always a convoluted affair when it comes to the Middle East. Consider the case of the Egyptian
Nagla Imam. Is she a Muslim woman who advocates the sexual harassment of Jewish women, or a Christian woman,
who advocates human rights — especially for fellow women of all faiths?
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"LOW CARBON FUEL" LEGISLATION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 127, July 18, 2010
IT'S REALLY ABOUT CONTROLLING OUR LIVES:
"Low Carbon Fuel Standards" Mean Higher Costs,
Few Environmental Benefits, & Less Liberty
By Paul K. Driessen
Within days, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid intends to bring sweeping energy and climate legislation to the
Senate floor. The legislation is about imposing national “low carbon fuel standards” (LCFS) and forcing dramatic
reductions in the use of oil, natural gas, and especially coal. It would expand on existing
laws, regulations and decrees.
The EPA, the Energy Information Administration, the White House, and Senator Reid insist that America can easily limit
hydrocarbon use and switch to “eco-friendly” wind, solar, and biofuel energy – at low cost and minimal harm to families,
businesses, and jobs. However, their self-serving, other-planet claims are flatly contradicted by a host of studies by
reputable analysts with a solid history of integrity and accuracy.
Full Story
REMOVING FROM OFFICE A NATION'S LEADER PC, Volume XII, Issue # 126, July 18, 2010
RIDDING OURSELVES OF OBAMA
By Alan Caruba
“The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out, leaving a national mood of despair and
disappointment. Americans are dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made right again. Hope
may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a poor supper.” -- Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief, US News
& World Report, July 2, 2010
This from a man who, on Fox News, recently said that he voted for Obama, that his newspaper, the New York Daily
News, endorsed Obama, and that he even helped write one of Obama's speeches!
The problem is an ancient one. How to remove from office a king or, in a republic, an elected leader who has broken the
law and/or is perceived to be a threat to both the present and future of the nation?
Full Story
EXTINCTION OF TRUE JUSTICE IN AMERICA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 125, July 14, 2010
OBAMA & HOLDER WEAPONIZE AMERICAN "JUSTICE"
By Christopher G. Adamo
In the past few weeks, America’s legal system has been subjected to an
avalanche of outrages from the U.S. White House and Department of Justice. But
while each individual event, if considered apart from the others, would be
sufficient to warrant investigations of corruption and gross ethical lapses,
when examined in its entirety, the situation represents a methodical and
premeditated effort to fundamentally reinvent the American concept of
justice.
Full Story
A VEILED CALL FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 124, July 13, 2010
FARRAKHAN DEMANDS REPARATIONS FROM JEWS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Louis Farrakhan recently sent a three-page letter, along with two books, to the heads of sixteen Jewish organizations. In
the letter, Farrakhan announces that the books present an undeniable record of Jewish anti-Black behavior, starting with
the horror of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping, the labor movement of the
North and South, the unions, and the misuse of black people that continues to this very moment.
Full Story
THE ADVERSE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTALISTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 123, July 12, 2010
DESTROYING BIODIVERSITY: THE GREATEST THREAT TO SPECIES
IS NOT MODERN TECHNOLOGY, BUT ENVIRONMENTALISTS
By Paul K. Driessen
The United Nations, the Environmental Protection Agency, the mainstream media, and the Liberal Leftist political establishment
are ignoring the real threats to habitats, species, and biodiversity -- the anti-energy, anti-technology, anti-people agenda of
radical Green ideologues.
Full Story
BARACK OBAMA & THE POLITICS OF RACE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 122, July 11, 2010
OBAMA PLAYS THE RACE CARD
By Alan Caruba
A lot of progress has been made by blacks in America, but the Obama White House and the judicial branch of the U.S.
national government could set back the clock for reasons that are mostly political, but that have a disquieting racial
element.
Full Story
MUSLIM STATES-WITHIN-STATES IN THE U.S.A. PC, Volume XII, Issue # 121, July 9, 2010
MUSLIM ENCLAVES U.S.A.:
Building the American Caliphate, One Enclave at a Time
By Ryan Mauro
It seems almost unthinkable, but Islamist groups are, as we speak, hard at work creating Muslim states-within-states in
the U.S.A. Indeed, this process has been unfolding for a long time across the Western world, through the creation of
isolated Muslim enclaves in both rural and urban areas, as well as through the designation of "no-go zones" where
governments admit to having little authority over Muslims living there, essentially leaving them to function as
autonomous regions.
Full Story
NASA & OBAMA'S COMMITMENT TO ISLAM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 120, July 9, 2010
NASA'S MISSION TO THE MUSLIMS
By Alan Caruba
The news that NASA Administrator, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., had been dispatched to the Middle East to fulfill what he
said was its “foremost” mission, “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with
dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and
engineering” was so appallingly stupid that it defied any legitimate reason for NASA to exist.
Full Story
INTERNATIONAL LAW & FREE SPEECH RIGHTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 119, July 7, 2010
IS THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN JEOPARDY?
By Daniel Huff
The fact that the U.S.A. is a sovereign nation-state makes it hard to believe that free speech, the pillar of American
constitutional democracy, could be in any actual jeopardy from United Nations treaties banning "hate speech" or recent
efforts to proscribe what is being called "defamation of religions." Moreover, the U.S. government has always reserved
the right to ignore any treaty provisions inconsistent with the First Amendment.
The problem is that international law and the First Amendment are not independent issues.
Full Story
OBAMA'S NEW MISSION FOR NASA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 118, July 6, 2010
NASA'S STRANGE PRIORITIES
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Barack Obama's grand speeches in Istanbul and Cairo, as well as his repeated insistence on "respect," made Americans
very aware that he hopes to win Muslim favor. But we did not know how deeply embedded this impulse has become in U.S.
policy, until Obama's new mission for NASA was revealed by Byron York in a recent issue of the Washington Examiner.
Full Story
PALESTINIAN PATTERN OF DUPLICITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 117, July 6, 2010
TRUST THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Under Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization notoriously said one thing to Arab/Muslim audiences and the
opposite to Israeli/Western ones, speaking venomously to the former and in dulcet tones to the latter. What about
Arafat's mild-mannered successor, Mahmoud Abbas? Did he break from this pattern of duplicity or continue it?
Full Story
OBAMA AS THE ULTIMATE DEEP COVER AGENT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 116, July 4, 2010
IS BARACK OBAMA THE ULTIMATE SLEEPER AGENT?
By Alan Caruba
Not far from where I live in New Jersey, in Montclair, Richard and Cynthia Murphy were arrested as Russian sleeper
agents, allegedly in the employ of the SVR, the successor to the famed Soviet KGB intelligence services that waged a
covert war throughout the Cold War.
In all, ten people were arrested by the FBI, suspected of carrying out longterm “deep cover” assignments in the U.S.A.
for Russia.
The ultimate “deep cover” agent, however, may well be Barack Hussein Obama.
Full Story
ADVANCING THE OBAMA ANTI-ENERGY AGENDA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 115, July 3, 2010
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DELIBERATE KATRINA:
BUNGLING THE BP OIL SPILL CLEANUP?
OR NOT LETTING THE CRISIS GO TO WASTE?
By Paul K. Driessen
The Obama administration appears to be trying to perpetuate, intensify, and capitalize on the Gulf oil spill, looking to
advance the administration's radical environmentalist anti-energy agenda. The Gulf States now need to take charge of
the cleanup and their energy, economic, and environmental future.
Full Story
MODERN FARMING BETTER FOR ENVIRONMENT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 114, July 3, 2010
CONFINED LIVESTOCK BETTER FOR THE PLANET
By Dennis T. Avery
If the environmentalist movement really believes humans are warming the planet, studies tell us that Greens must
recant on their criticisms of high-yield farming and confinement feeding. They need to stop demonizing the chemical
fertilizers, the pesticides, the confinement feedlots, and the biotechnology which will be needed to produce twice as much
food — from today’s farmed acres — in 2050.
Full Story
THE OBAMA REVOLUTION TO REMAKE AMERICA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 113, July 1, 2010
THE NEW NEW DEAL
By Dr. Charles R. Kesler
In President Obama, American Conservatives face the most formidable Liberal politician in at least a generation.
Obama won election not as a status quo Liberal, but as an ambitious radical reformer. Far from being content with
incremental gains, he set his sights on major systemic change in health care, energy and environmental policy, taxation,
financial regulation, education and even immigration, all pursued as elements of a grand strategy to “remake America.”
In other words, he longs to be another Franklin Delano Roosevelt, building a New New Deal for the 21st. century,
dictating the politics of his age, and enshrining the Democrats as the new majority party for several decades to come.
Suddenly, the era of big government being over is over; and tax-and-spend Liberalism is back with a vengeance. We
face a $1.4 trillion federal deficit this fiscal year alone and $10-12 trillion in total debt over the coming decade. If the
ongoing expansion of government succeeds, there will also be very real costs to American freedom and to the
American character. The Reagan Revolution is in danger of being swamped by the Obama Revolution.
Full Story
THE NEW ARAB LIBERALS & THEIR FUTURE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 112, June 30, 2010
HALA MUSTAFA & THE LIBERAL ARAB PREDICAMENT
By David Govrin
Liberalism -- in the sense of democratic constitutionalism, the secular state, the open society, and legal guarantees of
individual liberty -- is not and has never been widespread in the Middle East. There have been moments when it seemed
set to open new vistas to countries whose citizens wanted to break free from the chains of traditionalism, dictatorship,
and religious obscurantism. There have been many setbacks, but, in the early 1990s, a group of intellectuals, known in
contemporary Arabic literature as the New Arab Liberals, Al-Liberaliyun al-'Arab al-Judad, was informally established in
the Arab Middle East.
Full Story
THE SUPREME COURT & THE CONSTITUTION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 111, June 30, 2010
SPARE US THE KAGAN CONFIRMATION CHARADE
By Christopher G. Adamo
The U.S. Constitution is far more than just a venerated piece of parchment containing soaring words and phrases, that sits
behind a thick piece of glass in the National Archives. It was, and is, the original and foundational “Contract With America,”
the national charter by which the states mutually agreed to establish a federal union of partially, but substantially,
self-governing states and a central, or national, government for the purpose of arbitrating between the member-states of the
union and collectively representing them among foreign powers.
Full Story
ANTI-SEMITIC UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 110, June 28, 2010
MUQTEDAR KHAN: VOICE OF HATE
By Jared Sorhaindo
On June 17, 2010, Georgetown University held the event "Evangelicals & Muslims: Perspectives on Mission & Partnership"
at its Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The last of its four panel discussions wrestled
with the question: "Can Muslims and Christians be Partners in Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation?"
Full Story
A CALL FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF OBAMA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 109, June 27, 2010
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: A BILL OF INDICTMENT
By Alan Caruba
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All those with business before the court of public opinion will draw near. A bill of indictment has been
issued for Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America. It is a call for justice from the people of the
United States who allege that he is engaged in the destruction of their nation.
Full Story
A JIHADI'S STATEMENT OF DEADLY PURPOSE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 108, June 25, 2010
FAISAL SHAHZAD, JIHADI, EXPLAINS TERRORISM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Jaw-dropping U.S. Court testimony by Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, singlehandedly undermines
Obama administration efforts to ignore the dangers of Islamism and jihad.
Shahzad's willingness to name his Islamic purposes and spend long years in jail for them flies in the face of Obama
administration efforts not to name Islamism as the enemy, preferring such lame formulations as "overseas contingency
operations" and "man-caused disasters."
Americans – as well as Westerners generally, all non-Muslims, and anti-Islamist Muslims – should listen to the bald
declaration by Faisal Shahzad and accept the painful fact that Islamist anger and aspirations truly do motivate the
terrorist enemies of civilized society. Ignoring the fact of the deadly Islamist threat will not make it disappear.
Full Story
THE PHENOMENON OF DOUBLE-MEANINGS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 107, June 24, 2010
THE TWO FACES OF THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
By Raymond Ibrahim
Depending on whether Islamists address Americans or fellow Muslims, the same exact words they use often relay
diametrically opposed meanings. One example: when Americans hear Muslims evoke "justice," the former envision
Western-style justice, whereas Muslims naturally have Sharia law justice in mind.
Islamists obviously use the phenomenon of double-meanings to their advantage.
Full Story
WEAK GOP LEADERSHIP IN THE U.S. CONGRESS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 106, June 23, 2010
ARE ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS ALLERGIC TO LEADERSHIP?
By Christopher G. Adamo
Given the stakes in the upcoming congressional elections of 2010, one has to wonder if John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and
other Republican leaders in Congress could possibly prefer to enjoy the perks of prominence among the minority party,
rather than to be burdened with the responsibilities and political “lightning rod” status that comes with majority party
leadership.
Full Story
ACTION TO PREVENT A NUCLEAR IRAN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 105, June 20, 2010
A MILITARY STRIKE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Whether or not Iran's nuclear buildup will be stopped is the most urgent topic in the Middle East today. As regards the use of military
force to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, there is surprising support for an Israeli or American strike on Iran's nuclear
infrastructure.
Full Story
BP IS ABOUT RISKS & CUTTING CORNERS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 104, June 19, 2010
BRITISH PETROLEUM & THE UNMITIGATED DISASTER
By Alan Caruba
The Gulf of Mexico could turn into a giant dead zone, if some means cannot be found to staunch the flow of oil and toxic
gases emerging from the damaged well beneath the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Industry insiders who understand the
engineering of wells are beginning to speak openly among themselves of an unmitigated disaster.
Full Story
"NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE" PC, Volume XII, Issue # 103, June 17, 2010
CONGRESS & THE WHITE HOUSE ARE USING THE GULF
OIL SPILL TO ADVANCE DUBIOUS ENERGY POLICIES
By Bp. Harry R. Jackson Jr., Niger Innis,
& Rev. Samuel Rodrigues
The White House and Congress are trying to use the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis to advance their cap-tax-and-trade,
anti-oil, pro-renewable energy policy agenda – without regard to vitally important energy, economic and environmental
facts of life, and while ignoring the high costs of carbon taxes and wind and solar power.
Full Story
ANTI-ISRAEL PROFESSORS IN CALIFORNIA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 102, June 15, 2010
TARGET ISRAEL
By Cinnamon Stillwell
In recent months, two University of California campuses, Berkeley and San Diego, have been embroiled in fierce debates
following the introduction of anti-Israel divestiture resolutions by their respective Student Senates. Both were defeated,
but not before a number of California's Middle East Studies academics signed a petition supporting divestment.
The petition is posted at the website for the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which is
dedicated to the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement. The list of names reads like a Who's Who of
California's anti-Israel academics.
Full Story
A TROUBLED DISCIPLINE & BIASED ANALYSIS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 101, June 13, 2010
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS USURP NEW ROLES
TO CENSURE ISRAEL OVER GAZA FLOTILLA
By Brendan Goldman
In the aftermath of the death of nine mercenaries on the deck of the Gaza-bound Turkish vessel, the Mavi Marmara,
Professors of Middle East Studies lined up to denounce the Jewish state. Ignoring overwhelming video and documentary
evidence of the activists' radical agenda and affinity for violence, these professors asserted that the "Freedom Flotilla" of
the six Gaza-bound vessels were on a purely "humanitarian" mission.
Full Story
HOW ISLAM TURNS TRUTH ON ITS HEAD PC, Volume XII, Issue # 100, June 12, 2010
AWAITING ARMAGEDDON
By Alan Caruba
What I have always found astonishing is the way the Arab nations surrounding Israel have attacked the latter repeatedly,
but, nonetheless, regard Israel as the aggressor.
Full Story
CANADA'S CAPITAL OF MULTICULTURALISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 99, June 11, 2010
TORONTO'S LOVE OF DIVERSITY IS TESTED BY ISLAMISTS
By Kathy Shaidle
When multiculturalism was declared Canada's official national policy in 1971, some citizens bristled, but others merely
envisioned "more pavilions at Folkfest." Toronto, already the destination of choice for many immigrants, duly appointed
itself the country's capital of multiculturalism.
Decades later, though, a large influx of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, Somalia, and elsewhere is putting "tolerant"
Toronto to the test.
Full Story
TURKEY & THE GAZA FLOTILLA INCIDENT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 98, June 10, 2010
ERDOGAN & THE ISRAEL CARD
By Steven J. Rosen
The deaths of nine Turkish citizens in the Gaza flotilla incident would have brought a severe reaction under any
circumstances. What is nonetheless striking in this incident is the unbridled anger and fiercely hostile reaction of
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish public. Mr. Erdogan said Israel was guilty of "state
terrorism" and a "bloody massacre." His Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said "This attack is like 9/11 for
Turkey," comparing it to a premeditated act of aggression that took 2,900 lives.
Full Story
AMERICA NEEDS REAL LEADERSHIP PC, Volume XII, Issue # 97, June 10, 2010
BOBBY JINDAL VERSUS BARACK OBAMA: THE REMATCH
By Christopher G. Adamo
Bobby Jindal offers real solutions to real problems. Barack Obama, between parties and
vacations, seeks to seize on those very problems to pontificate and move his
Leftist, anti-capitalist agenda forward. The ideological chasm separating
the two is as glaringly obvious as it was in early 2009. Yet, in retrospect,
what is even more obvious is the ugly consequence of having empowered a
Liberal ideologue whose only true devotion is to himself, when real
leadership is what America needs.
Full Story
TURKISH POLICY & THE FUTURE OF ISLAMISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 96, June 8, 2010
ISLAMIST TURKEY OVERREACHES
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
As typical Islamist-Leftist theater to delegitimize Israel, late May's Turkish-sponsored "Free Gaza" flotilla was tediously
repetitious. As an illustration that Israelis don't understand the kind of war they now must fight, the outcome was
drearily predictable. But, as a statement of Turkey's policies and an augur of the Islamist movement's future, it bristled
with novelty and significance.
Full Story
NO VIABLE SUBSTITUTES FOR FOSSIL FUELS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 95, June 6, 2010
OIL ADDICTION LIES
By Alan Caruba
Next to the huge international hoax about global warming, allegedly caused by carbon dioxide, the biggest lie being told
to Americans these days is that we are “addicted” to oil and that we must convert our economy and society away from
its use.
Americans and everyone else around the world are not “addicted” to oil or other forms of energy sources such as coal
and natural gas. These energy sources are used to maintain and enhance modern life.
Full Story
THE SUNSPOT INDEX PREDICTS GLOBAL COOLING PC, Volume XII, Issue # 94, June 5, 2010
PAY ATTENTION TO SUNSPOT FORECASTS
By Dennis T. Avery
Since 1984, we have known that sunspots correlate strongly with abrupt, but moderate, Dansgaard-Oescher cycles in
the earth’s temperature regime — a 2-4 degree Celsius shift about every 700 years. These changes have produced the
Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warming, the Dark Ages, the Roman Warming, and a whole series of moderate climate
cycles going back at least 1 million years. The sunspot index has a 79 percent correlation with the earth’s temperatures
since 1860, while atmospheric carbon dioxide has only a 22 percent correlation. The sunspot index has been predicting
global cooling since 2000.
Full Story
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DOOMED TO FAILURE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 93, June 2, 2010
THE CHASM BETWEEN APOLLO & THE GULF OIL SPILL:
NO VALID ANALOGY BETWEEN THE OIL SPILL & APOLLO 13
By Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt
President Obama’s administration and its supportive media repeatedly say our 1970 Apollo 13 experience is analogous
to the effort to contain and cap the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Hardly!
The rescue of Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, after an oxygen tank explosion on their spacecraft,
illustrates how complex technical accidents should be handled -- in contrast to the Gulf fiasco. Nothing in the
government’s response to the blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon and its aftermath bears any
resemblance to the response to the Apollo 13 situation by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration and its
Mission Control team at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.
Full Story
UNDERSTAND ISLAM THE WAY MUSLIMS DO PC, Volume XII, Issue # 92, June 2, 2010
OBAMA'S TOP COUNTERTERROR ADVISOR'S INABILITY
TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX BODES DISASTER
By Raymond Ibrahim
The greatest hurdle Americans need to get over in order to properly respond to the growing threat of radical Islam is
purely intellectual in nature; specifically, it is epistemological, and revolves around the abstract realm of "knowledge."
Before attempting to formulate a longterm strategy to counter radical Islam, Americans must, first and foremost,
understand Islam, particularly its laws and doctrines, the same way Muslims understand it — without giving it undue
Western [i.e., secular, constitutional, democratic, civil libertarian, and individualist] interpretations.
Full Story
HOW WILL U.S. JEWS HANDLE THE CHALLENGE? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 91, June 1, 2010
OBAMA, ISRAEL, & AMERICAN JEWS: THE CHALLENGE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The open conflict between the Obama administration and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has created tensions
between the United States and Israel of a kind not seen since the days of the administration of the first President Bush.
And those tensions are placing unique pressure on American Jews, who voted for Barack Obama by a margin of nearly
4-to-1 in 2008, after being assured by Obama himself and by his supporters in the Jewish community that he was a
friend and an ally of the State of Israel, despite his long association with, among others, the unabashedly anti-Israel
and anti-Semitic Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Full Story
IMPENDING LEGAL PROBLEMS FOR AL GORE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 90, June 1, 2010
AL & TIPPER GORE IN SPLITSVILLE
By Alan Caruba
For anyone who has followed Al Gore’s Green Brick Road to the land of Global Warming, there has to be more than a
bit of schadenfreude -- taking pleasure in other’s misfortunes -- on hearing the news that he and his wife of forty
years, Tipper, have separated. However, that feeling is fleeting for reasons that have to do with lots and lots and lots
of money.
Full Story
BACKLASH AGAINST AN ISLAMIST UNIFORM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 89, May 31, 2010
HERE COME THE BURQA BANS
By Dr. David J. Rusin
Call it the fashion trend of the year. Westerners are sick and tired of burqas and niqabs — the face-covering veils worn
by a minority of Muslim women — and they are not going to take it anymore. Most remarkable of all, many politicians
appear to be listening. The result: an unprecedented legislative backlash against this uniform of radical Islam.
Efforts to enact bans, whether on the local or national level, are advancing across the West.
Full Story
EMERGING CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROVERSIES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 88, May 30, 2010
THE COMING CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE
By Stephen J. Markman
As U.S. Assistant Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, I prepared a report for Attorney General Edwin
Meese entitled The Constitution in the Year 2000: Choices Ahead. This report sought to identify a range of
areas in which significant constitutional controversy could be expected over the next 20 years. As critical as I believe
those controversies were, they pale in significance before the controversies that will arise over the next several decades.
The resolution of these emerging controversies will determine whether the U.S. Constitution of 2030 bears any
resemblance to the U.S. Constitution of 1787 — the Framers’ Constitution that has guided the American nation for most
of its first two centuries and has rendered the U.S.A. the freest, most prosperous, and most creative nation in the history
of the world.
Full Story
THE UNPOPULARITY OF PRESIDENT OBAMA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 87, May 29, 2010
OBAMA'S HOUSE OF CARDS
By Alan Caruba
Ever since polls have been taken, there have been U.S. Presidents who encountered disapproval during their terms in
office. Usually history exonerates them to some degree. This is not likely to happen with Barack Hussein Obama.
Full Story
PROGRAMS TO DE-RADICALIZE DETAINEES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 86, May 26, 2010
RADICAL ISLAM: CAN JIHADIS BE REHABILITATED?
By Katherine Seifert
As U.S. policymakers become increasingly uneasy about the fate of the remaining detainees currently held at Guantánamo
Bay, greater attention is being paid to socalled jihadist rehabilitation programs that have been established abroad.
Numerous governments, including those of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Singapore, Canada and Britain, have established
programs that seek either to rehabilitate Islamist terrorists or to prevent further radicalization of jihadist sympathizers.
Full Story
FACILITATING ISLAMISM IN EUROPE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 85, May 25, 2010
HOW ISLAMISTS CAME TO DOMINATE EUROPEAN ISLAM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
American and British backing for Islamists prompts one to warn against the futility of allying with Islamist groups and
networks. However tempting, it invariably harms the West. The lesson is simple: be cognizant of history and do not assist
the Islamists.
Full Story
CLASSIC ANTI-SEMITISM AT COLUMBIA U. PC, Volume XII, Issue # 84, May 24, 2010
ALI MAZRUI: ANTI-SEMITE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The analysis of Jews and "Jewish genius" by Professor Ali Mazrui is rank anti-semitism. How far has academic life descended
that such racist and anti-semitic drivel is considered not just respectable, but estimable?
Full Story
DOING NOTHING WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM PC, Volume XII, Issue #83, May 23, 2010
AVOID THE OSTRICH SYNDROME
By Dr. Babu Suseelan
There are more than one billion Jihadis around the world serving the cause of invisible Allah. In their service to Allah,
Jihadis have killed millions of people and caused enormous economic loses. Jihadis are serving Allah and creating
problems for infidels.
What should we do? Jihadi Imams and Jihadi terrorists have created enormous problems for us. There are many proven,
effective ways to reduce or handle problems created by Muslims. DOING NOTHING IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
Full Story
CLASSIC ANTI-SEMITISM AT COLUMBIA U. PC, Volume XII, Issue # 82, May 23, 2010
REVIVING JEWISH RACE SCIENCE
By Brendan Goldman
"The population of Jews in the U.S.A. is three percent, but
[their 'genius'] leads to their controlling so much power
that even Presidents are scared [of them]. Whether
[President Barack] Obama will be able to escape the notion
that three percent of the country is so powerful that the
top gentile in the land cannot criticize Israel is not clear."
The above statement was made not by a Hamas or KKK leader, but by Ali al-Amin Mazrui, Director of the Institute of
Global Cultural Studies at SUNY - Binghamton. He was addressing the Ifriqiyya Colloquium Conference, held on the top
floor of Columbia University's International Affairs Building, on Thursday, May 6, 2010.
Full Story
HOW RESEARCH MONEY POLITIZES SCIENCE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 81, May 23, 2010
GLOBAL WARMING: CAUSE FOR ALARM?
By Paul K. Driessen, Willie Soon, & David R. Legates
There are troubling aspects of this whole global warming exercise: (1) the vast sums of taxpayer money being spent on
every imaginable issue of scientific, sociological, and policy research and (2) the way the money is spent almost
exclusively to advance the ideology and policy agenda calling for government control and direction of energy use, the
economy, and our lives.
Full Story
PRESIDENT OBAMA & U.S. ENERGY POLICY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 80, May 23, 2010
ENERGY POLICY? WHAT ENERGY POLICY?
By Alan Caruba
The Obama administration’s real energy policy is to have as little energy as possible. The administration is bent on reduction
of America' access to its own energy resources (including coal, oil, and natural gas) and thwarting the building of any new
coal-burning, nuclear, or hydroelectric plants in the U.S.A. -- policy goals combined with a bizarre emphasis on very-low-yield
“alternative” or “renewable” sources in the form of wind and solar energy.
Full Story
A THIRTY-YEAR PERIOD OF GLOBAL COOLING PC, Volume XII, Issue # 79, May 23, 2010
PREPARE FOR A BIT OF COOLING
By Dennis T. Avery
“Global warming is over — at least for a few decades,” geologist Don Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus at Western
Washington University, told the Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change on May 19,
2010. However, he warned us not to rejoice. Colder winters kill twice as many people as hot weather, while crop
production suffers from shorter growing seasons and weather-disrupted harvests.
Full Story
HUMAN RIGHTS & MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 78, May 21, 2010
APOLOGIST FOR GENDER APARTHEID
By Reut Cohen
On May 7, 2010, UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) and the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
co-sponsored the lecture, "Rethinking Arab Women as 'Subjects.'" The talk was delivered by Suad Joseph, a
Lebanese-born professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at UC-Davis, and President-elect of the Middle East
Studies Association (MESA), the principal professional organization for scholars of the region. Joseph, who has
co-edited a book with CNES Director Susan Slyomovics, is considered a pioneer in the field of Middle East Women's
Studies, an accolade which — as is, sadly, often the case — translates into apologetics for the oppression of Middle
Eastern women.
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THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS OF NOVEMBER, 2010 PC, Volume XII, Issue # 77, May 19, 2010
MAY PRIMARIES & THE COMING ELECTORAL TSUNAMI
By Christopher G. Adamo
The spin began even before Primary Day, 2010. According to ABC News, it was an
“anti-incumbent” sentiment. Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Ed Rendell
tried to assign blame to the weather for the impending loss by Arlen
Specter.
But rain and sunshine notwithstanding, in several key May 18, 2010, primary races,
the mood of the general public has been unmistakable. It represents a clear
continuation of the bombshell that hit the Liberal establishment in
Massachusetts and across America in January when Republican Scott Brown
defeated Democrat Martha Coakley. The United States Senate seat held by the
late Edward Kennedy since 1962 was turned over to a Republican.
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COMBATING ISLAMIST INROADS IN THE WEST PC, Volume XII, Issue # 76, May 17, 2010
QUEBEC SAYS "NO" TO THE NIQAB
By Barbara Kay
Whether they admit it or not, virtually all Westerners hate the Islamist niqab and burqa for the anti-democratic ideology
and misogynistic gender relations they signify. Many are increasingly willing to say so.
Parallel to the parliamentary efforts now advancing in France and Belgium, Quebec Minister of Justice, Kathlene Weil,
recently presented in the Quebec National Assembly a proposed new provincial law, Bill 94, which, if enacted by the
Assembly, will ban the niqab — or any face cover — when extending and receiving public services in such institutions
as courts, hospitals, schools, and licensing bureaus.
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ARIZONA STATE LAW & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 75, May 16, 2010
THINKING ABOUT MEXICANS
By Alan Caruba
For some time now, friends have been asking me why I haven’t written anything about the Arizona immigration law,
amnesty, illegal immigration, and Mexicans.
The problem with trying to see all sides of the problem is that, sooner or later, you have to pick a side. That is what
Americans are doing in light of the Arizona state immigration law recently passed by the Arizona State Legislature -- a
law that mirrors a U.S. federal immigration law that, quite simply, is not being enforced.
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THE KERRY-LIEBERMAN CLIMATE BILL PC, Volume XII, Issue # 74, May 15, 2010
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR CLIMATE ALARMISTS
By Paul K. Driessen
The new Kerry-Lieberman climate bill mandates a 17% reduction in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. It first targets
power plants that provide reliable, affordable electricity for American homes, schools, hospitals, offices, and factories. Six
years later, it further hobbles the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy.
Like the House-passed climate bill, the Kerry-Lieberman bill in the Senate requires an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions by
2050. Once population growth and transportation, communication, and electrification technologies are taken into account,
this translates into requiring U.S. emission levels last seen around 1870!
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THE ISLAMIC WORLD'S PREMIER PROVOCATEUR PC, Volume XII, Issue # 73, May 14, 2010
WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MUHAMMAD?
By Raymond Ibrahim
Which is more likely to elicit an irate Muslim response: (1) public cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, or (2) public
proclamations that Muhammad was a bisexual, sometime transvestite and necrophile, who enjoyed sucking on the tongues
of children, commanded a woman to "breastfeed" an adult man, and advised believers to drink his urine for salutary health?
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OPPOSING OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT POLICIES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 72, May 13, 2010
DISMANTLING THE JIHADI TERROR NETWORKS IN PAKISTAN
By Dr. Babu Suseelan
The future of America is not in the hands of the Obama administration, but totally in the hands of strong willed American
citizens. Remember: “evil occurs not only when good men fail to act, but far more often, when good men act in misguided
ways.” We can either remain passive, indolent, and apathetic in the face of Jihadi terrorism, or react strongly against the
appeasement policies of the Obama administration.
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CONSERVATISM VERSUS LEFTWING LIBERALISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 71, May 12, 2010
CONSERVATISM ON DEFENSE WILL ULTIMATELY LOSE
By Christopher G. Adamo
America is at a crossroads, and unless drastic action is taken to reverse
the political direction in which the country is being dragged, the harm
inflicted on it may prove irreversible. No more latitude exists for even
small, incremental Liberal advances. Each new precept of the Obama agenda
represents another nail in the coffin of America’s former greatness.
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MAIN ISSUE OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 70, May 11, 2010
ACCEPTING ISRAEL AS THE JEWISH STATE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
When a major Arab state would finally sign a peace treaty with Israel, it was long assumed, the Arab-Israeli conflict would
end. The Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979, however, buried that expectation; it had the perverse effect of making other
states and also the Egyptian populace more anti-Zionist.
The 1980s gave birth to a hope that, instead, Palestinian recognition of Israel would close the conflict. The total failure of
the 1993 Declaration of Principles (also known as the Oslo Accords) then buried that expectation.
What now? Starting about 2007, a new focus has emerged, of winning acceptance of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state.
Full Story
AN ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 69, May 11, 2010
CAP-&-TRADE: A SCAM BASED ON A SCAM
By Alan Caruba
It is almost beyond comprehension that Senator John Kerry (Democrat - Massachusetts) and Senator Joseph Lieberman
(Independent - Connecticut) will introduce the Cap-and-Trade Act on Wednesday, May 12th, for consideration by the
U.S. Senate. The proposed legislation is being passed off as a “climate bill” with provisions for more oil drilling, but it is
an assault on reality, on science, on common sense, and on any future economic growth of the nation.
Full Story
SHUT DOWN OUR DOMESTIC OIL INDUSTRY? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 68, May 10, 2010
LESSONS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO BLOWOUT
By Paul K. Driessen
Should the U.S.A. stop drilling for oil offshore? We can hardly afford to. We still need to drill, so that we can drive, fly, farm,
heat our homes, operate factories, and do everything else that requires reliable, affordable petroleum. Indeed, over 62% of all
U.S. energy still comes from oil and gas. And we certainly need the jobs and revenues that U.S. offshore energy development
generates.
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ADVOCATING U.S. APPEASEMENT OF IRAN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 67, May 9, 2010
EMBRACING IRAN
By Janet Doerflinger
Flynt Leverett and his wife Hillary Mann Leverett, both former officials of the National Security Council, are prominent
advocates for appeasing Iran, a case they make in a steady stream of articles, public appearances, and postings on their
website, raceforiran.com. After leaving the Bush administration in 2003, the Leveretts utilized their talent for
self-promotion to sell the myth that the Iranian government had made a sterling peace offer that was heedlessly spurned
by the incompetent, warmongering Neo-Cons.
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THE NEW PRESIDENT'S CANCER REPORT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 66, May 9, 2010
PRESIDENTIAL CHEMOPHOBIA?
By Dennis T. Avery
Following President Obama’s pro-organic farming advice would make it impossible for us to feed humanity right now.
Nothing in the plant world grows without nitrogen, and we have less than half enough manure — so we take nitrogen
fertilizer from the air. Lack of nitrogen and too much pest damage (especially weeds) cut organic crop yields by about 40
percent, compared to the crop yields of conventional agriculture.
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ISLAM AS THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 65, May 8, 2010
WHY ARE WE STILL ASKING WHY JIHADISTS
ARE KILLING AMERICANS?
By Alan Caruba
We are now nearly nine years past the Islamist terror attacks of September 11, 2001 -- the attacks that killed some 3,000
Americans in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon -- and seventeen years since the first Islamist terror attack -- a car
bomb -- failed to bring down the Twin Towers.
Jihadists have been killing Americans for a long time, doing so from the 1983 attack on the Beirut Marine barracks to the
attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, the attack on the USS Cole, the recent Fort Hood attack, and now the abortive car
bomb attack in Times Square.
Why are we still asking why?
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CAUSE OF THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 64, May 6, 2010
EFRAIM KARSH'S PALESTINE BETRAYED: A REVIEW
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The Nakba ideology presents Palestinians as victims without choices and therefore without responsibility for the ills that
befell them. It blames Israel alone for the Palestinian-refugee problem.
In Palestine Betrayed (2010), Efraim Karsh argues the opposite case: that Palestinians decided their own destiny
and bear near-total responsibility for becoming refugees.
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WHAT DRIVES ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITY? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 63, May 5, 2010
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO BLOW UP TIMES SQUARE?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, the triad of politicians, law enforcement, and media invariably
presumes that the perpetrator suffers from some mental or emotional incapacity.
Instead, I argue, they should begin with a presumption of jihadi intent. That is, the default expectation should be
ideological passion, not insanity. Spreading Islam and applying Islamic law are the goals. Of course, some crazy
Muslims exist and they do engage in violence, but they constitute a microscopic percentage of the 15,247 Muslim
terrorist incidents since 9/11, as counted by www.thereligionofpeace.com.
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ISLAMIST TERRORISM & MUSLIM CHARITIES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 62, April 30, 2010
EXCUSES FOR ISLAMISTS
By Eric Golub
A conference at UCLA on April 16, 2010, offered "Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in
the War on Terror." The conference proffered the usual apologist fare.
The thrust of the conference was simple: The war on terror has led to a crackdown on Muslim charities, which has had a
chilling effect on Muslims by rendering them unable to engage in Zakat (charity), one of the five pillars of Islam.
Unmentioned throughout this eight-hour infomercial was that the majority of the charities that have been investigated
for financially aiding terrorism were found guilty and that decent Muslims are capable of giving to charities that do not
foment bombings and beheadings.
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PEACE COMES WHEN ONE SIDE WINS THE WAR PC, Volume XII, Issue # 61, April 29, 2010
MY PEACE PLAN: AN ISRAELI VICTORY
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
My peace plan is simple: Israel defeats its enemies.
Victory uniquely creates circumstances conducive to peace. Wars end, the historical record confirms, when one side
concedes defeat and the other wins. This makes intuitive sense, for so long as both sides aspire to achieve their ambitions,
fighting continues or it potentially can resume.
Full Story
DEMOCRATS IN A PANICKED ELECTION MODE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 60, April 28, 2010
DEMOCRAT CABAL DANGLES BAIT FOR UNWITTING REPUBLICANS
By Christopher G. Adamo
With more than half a year yet to go before the pivotal 2010 elections, the
Democrats are clearly in a panicked election mode. Every news story, every
major speech, and every mass mailing makes reference to the fact that the
Republicans are unbending in their opposition to the Liberal agenda, with
the accompanying threat that this will be the basis on which the Democrats
win big in November.
Full Story
EUROPE & THE TYRANNY OF WESTERN GUILT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 59, April 27, 2010
IN EUROPE, REMORSE HAS TURNED INTO MASOCHISM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
"Nothing is more Western than hatred of the West." So writes the French novelist and essayist Pascal Bruckner in his
book La tyrannie de la pénitence (2006), capably translated into English by Steven Rendall and recently published
by Princeton University Press as The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism. "All of modern
thought," he adds, "can be reduced to mechanical denunciations of the West, emphasizing the latter's hypocrisy,
violence, and abomination."
He exaggerates, but not by much.
Full Story
EVERYTHING DIES WITHOUT CARBON DIOXIDE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 58, April 25, 2010
CAP-AND-TRADE TREASON
By Alan Caruba
If you thought that the way the Obama administration and its cohort of Democrats in Congress rammed through the
takeover of the nation’s healthcare system was appalling, prepare to watch the same process applied to Cap-and-Trade.
Your government no longer represents you, the voter, the citizen.
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ELIMINATE THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAMISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 57, April 23, 2010
DEFEATING RADICAL ISLAM: THE HERCULEAN STRATEGY
By Raymond Ibrahim
It is, of course, a good thing to eliminate Islamic terrorists. But will the deaths of individual Islamist leaders — including Ayman
al-Zawahiri or Osama bin Laden himself — eliminate the Islamist ideology that creates them in the first place?
Full Story
IS THE ORGANIC FOOD MOVEMENT A SCAM? PC, Volume XII, Issue # 56, April 20, 2010
LOSING THE ORGANIC DEBATE
By Dennis T. Avery
Will Americans continue to back organic food if it takes 80 percent of the earth’s land area to produce our basic food supplies
organically?
Full Story
THE POWER OF TOTAL REGULATORY CONTROL PC, Volume XII, Issue # 55, April 18, 2010
THE EPA MONSTER
By Alan Caruba
Not satisfied with the authorized powers given it to ensure clean air and water, the EPA has never ceased to seek expanded
powers, culminating soon with a battle over whether it can regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) as a “pollutant.” If the EPA gains
the power to regulate CO2, it will have the power to regulate the activities of every individual and the entire economy of the
nation.
Full Story
A BLATANTLY BIASED ACCOUNT OF THE WAR PC, Volume XII, Issue # 54, March 25, 2010
THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT -- 100 YEARS OF WAR:
A REVIEW OF JAMES L. GELVIN'S BOOK
By Dr. Martin Sherman
Dr. Gelvin, Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of California, Los Angeles, has produced an account of
the Israel-Palestine conflict which is appallingly shallow, shoddy, and slanted.
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PROSPECT OF A FULLY SOCIALIZED AMERICA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 53, March 24, 2010
ARE MCCAIN REPUBLICANS FINALLY "SEEING THE LIGHT"?
By Christopher G. Adamo
As the dark pall of Obamacare descends across
America, those of us with a vested interest in the well being of our nation are
increasingly outraged at how thoroughly its founding principles and
character have been compromised. Despite profuse media coverage extolling
the event, and nightly news coverage that invariably attempts to put a
bright face on the looming prospect of a thoroughly socialized America,
these blissful stories and prognostications of the American nation’s utopian future
ring increasingly hollow. The citizenry is simply not buying any of it.
Full Story
CLIMATE CHANGE & AGRICULTURE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 52, March 23, 2010
FOOD PRODUCTION IN A WARMING WORLD
By Dennis T. Avery
“Radical New Direction Needed in Food Production to Deal with Climate Change!” says the press release. Crop yields may
fall 20-30 percent by 2100, because the earth will be too warm for optimum photosynthesis, warns a February 12, 2010,
"Perspectives" article in the journal, Science -- “Radically Rethinking Ag for the 21st Century.”
Hunger is one of the scare-words always attached to global warming. But a warming world isn’t likely to starve, even with
the larger human population expected in 2100.
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ISLAMIST SUBVERSION OF THE WEST PC, Volume XII, Issue # 51, March 22, 2010
THE PROFESSOR'S ISLAMIST CALL TO BATTLE
By Cinnamon Stillwell
Professor Sherman Jackson specializes in Islamic law and has written and spoken extensively on the subject. Soon after the
September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks, Jackson took the line popular among apologists of militant Islam, stating at a
September, 2001, University of Michigan Teach-in, titled "Terrorism: A Perversion of Islam," that "the killing of innocent
peoples is forbidden by the law of Islam and it has been from the beginning of Islam."
But it turns out that not only is Jackson an apologist, he an outspoken proponent of the Islamist subversion of Western
civilization.
Full Story
THE CALL TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT OBAMA PC, Volume XII, Issue # 50, March 20, 2010
TALK OF IMPEACHMENT
By Alan Caruba
Jeffrey T. Kuhner, President of the Edmund Burke Institute -- a Washington, D.C., think tank -- and a columnist at the
Washington Times, might as well have rolled a grenade down the main aisle of the House of Representatives
chamber. On March 19, 2010, he wrote a column titled, “Impeach the President?”
It is a bold proposal and would end much of the agony that President Barack Hussein Obama has inflicted on Americans.
Full Story
OBAMACARE & THE OBAMA IDEOLOGY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 49, March 18, 2010
WASHINGTON CHAOS PORTENDS OBAMA'S VISION FOR AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
As the nationalized “Healthcare” debacle nears its end game, the people of
America are increasingly shocked and disgusted by the raw ugliness of the
Obama “governing” philosophy. Those platitudes of “hope and change” are
gone, and, in their place, a thoroughly regretful American populace now
witnesses, to its horror, the total desecration of this once triumphal
constitutional republic.
Full Story
OBAMA HAS ANTAGONIZED THE PEOPLE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 48, March 17, 2010
OBAMACARE: DEAD MAN WALKING
By Alan Caruba
Obamacare is the equivalent of the Confederate States declaring secession and the first shots fired at Fort Sumter. That time,
it took a war to restore the Union, but, this time, a huge majority of people -- comprised of Democrats, Republicans,
Libertarians, independents, and those under every other political flag, excepting the U.S. Communist and Socialist Parties --
is opposed to this 2,700 page monstrosity.
Truly, Barack Hussein Obama has brought us all together. Against him!
Full Story
ENHANCING THE FIGHTING POWER OF ENEMIES PC, Volume XII, Issue #47, March 16, 2010
AMERICA'S SHINY NEW PALESTINIAN MILITIA
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
"The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken" – last year, that's what I called American efforts to
improve the Palestinian Authority (PA) military force. Slightly hyperbolic, yes, but the description fits, because those
efforts enhance the fighting power of enemies of the United States and its Israeli ally.
Full Story
ASSAULT ON THE DISCUSSION OF ISLAM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 46, March 16, 2010
CAIR ATTACKS THE FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is up to its usual assault on the discussion of Islam.
Its Philadelphia chapter is holding a press conference on March 17, at which it plans "to announce the launch of a nationwide
campaign to challenge anti-Islam bias in a series of children's books that the Washington-based Muslim civil rights group
says promote 'hostility toward Islam and suspicion of Muslims'."
The reference is to a ten-volume series for middle schools and high schools titled the World of Islam, produced by the
Foreign Policy Research Institute, and published by Mason Crest Publishers.
Full Story
FARMING FOLLOWED THE LAST GREAT ICE AGE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 45, March 15, 2010
CLIMATE WARMING CREATED FARMING
By Dennis T. Avery
The ice cores tell us the invention of farming came about not long after the end of the last Great Ice Age, one of the earth’s key
climate changes. Modern Homo Sapiens had been around for over 100,000 years — but we’ve found no evidence of
farming until after the last big ice sheets melted about 10,700 years ago.
Full Story
THE HEAVY HAND OF SOCIALIST GOALS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 44, March 14, 2010
OBAMA'S IDEOLOGY THREATENS AMERICA
By Alan Caruba
During what can only be hoped will be the final struggle between the Socialist and Capitalist approach to healthcare, the
debate is focused on the cost of Obamacare, its impact on the nation’s economy, its legislative over-reach, and the fact
that it will ration healthcare.
If Obama wins, America loses. If Obamacare is implemented, the socalled “reforms” will ultimately end up killing people
who would otherwise have survived illness or injury. Beyond that, Obama’s efforts to control large segments of the
economy will pick up momentum.
Full Story
INCOME TAX: PUNITIVE & REGRESSIVE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 43, March 13, 2010
WE WANT A "FAIR TAX" NOW!
By Alan Caruba
Both my father and older brother were Certified Public Accountants. Around the dinner table, the Internal Revenue
Service was spoken of as the adversary. “Tax time,” which used to mean a March 15 deadline, was preceded by a period of
long working hours. Over the years the tax laws became so arcane and dense they defy comprehension.
The federal income tax is probably the worst thing that ever happened to the United States in the last century, because it
was always punitive and regressive. It punishes saving. It deters economic growth through investment. It takes the wage
earner’s money before he or she receives their paycheck.
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THE ANTITHESIS OF GREAT LEADERSHIP PC, Volume XII, Issue # 42, March 11, 2010
WAKE UP AMERICA! DEMOCRATS HATE "DEMOCRACY"
By Christopher G. Adamo
Among the many absurdities proffered by Barack Obama sycophants in the media
and throughout the Liberal establishment is the notion that Obama possesses
great leadership qualities. Throughout his public life, he has consistently
proven himself to be the antithesis of great leadership. And, ever since the
“healthcare” debate reached its present impasse, he has resorted to the
manner of pettiness and bullying that would embarrass any truly great leader
of the people.
Full Story
EARTH'S ICE-COVERED REGIONS GAINING MASS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 41, March 8, 2010
OUR GLACIERS ARE GROWING, NOT MELTING:
REFUTING FALSEHOODS FROM AL GORE
By Robert W. Felix
"Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising," said Al Gore, in an op-ed piece in the
New York Times, February 27, 2010.
Both parts of Gore's statement are false.
Full Story
PRESIDENT OBAMA & U.S. ENERGY POLICY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 40, March 7, 2010
BLOWING WIND UP YOUR YOUR SKIRT
By Alan Caruba
One of the keystones of the Obama administration’s energy policies has been a very expensive emphasis on “clean
energy,” sometimes called “renewable energy,” allocating billions to the wind and solar energy producers. Like much of
the “stimulus” bill, that money is a waste.
Full Story
AMERICA'S ENERGY & ECONOMIC FUTURE PC, Volume XII, Issue # 39, March 7, 2010
LOSING JOBS WITH GREEN TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis T. Avery
As Obama’s energy taxes force reductions in coal and oil production, the price of U.S. energy will double and triple — and
so will the costs of the things we buy. Clearly, if the President wasn’t afraid of man-made global warming, we would not
have spent the $4 billion on the “smart grid” at this moment of recession. Nor would we be planning massive and ineffective
wind farms.
We might, instead, be designing new coal-fired power plants with the U.S. Department of Energy’s latest discoveries in
clean-burn technology.
Full Story
DEMOCRATS & THE "TEA PARTY" MOVEMENT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 38, March 4, 2010
PELOSI BACKWARDS ON "TEA PARTIES" & THE GOP
By Christopher G. Adamo
Democrats continue to bounce between (1) occasional brief attempts at pandering
to grassroots America and (2) their more innate reversion to unrestrained
contempt for the beliefs and sentiments of the heartland. In the process,
they reveal a willingness to resort to any concocted lie in hopes of fooling
enough of the people, enough of the time, to advance their insidious agenda.
Full Story
MANIPULATION OF U.S. TEMPERATURE RECORDS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 37, Feb. 37, 2010
U.S. TEMPERATURES: ADJUSTED OR MASSAGED?
By Dennis T. Avery
The global warming alarmists embedded in our government-sponsored research units have already wasted billions of
dollars to endlessly run misleading computerized “climate models.” They have come close to bankrupting our society
through the forced substitution of costly, erratic solar and wind power for coal, oil and natural gas, while we refuse to
authorize new nuclear facilities. Next would come the job losses, as U.S. industries shut down, due to high energy costs,
or flee to Third World countries with no energy taxes.
Now we find that the man-made global warming record, which has supposedly triggered all of this, is “supported” by
government-manipulated temperature records.
Full Story
DESTROYING THE AMERICAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC PC, Volume XII, Issue # 36, Feb. 27, 2010
APPLYING ALINSKY: WHY OBAMACARE MAKES NO SENSE
By Alan Caruba
After seven and a half hours of the Republicans trying to introduce some rationality into the discussion of Obamacare, the
“reform” of Medicare that actually takes trillions out of the present system and adds millions of people into it, the ordinary
American can be excused for being confused, frustrated, and angry.
That’s exactly where President Barack Obama, the Chicago political mafia around him, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi want people to be.
Full Story
POLITICS & THE ART OF TELLING LIES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 35, Feb. 26, 2010
ACCELERATING THE SPEED OF LIES
By Alan Caruba
The greatest domestic challenge to Americans today is the combination of Socialism, a system that has been slowly
introduced into the governance of the nation since the 1930s, and the recent election of a “messiah” promising “hope
and change.”
Beyond and within our shores, the other Big Lie, militant Islam, threatens our freedoms. And it, too, must be resisted
and defeated.
Today, however, Americans need to embrace the U.S. Constitution as never before. It is our shield against despotism
and the lies that advance it.
Full Story
LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM, & A THIRD PARTY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 34, Feb. 25, 2010
ALAN SIMPSON CONTINUES WHERE ARLEN SPECTER LEFT OFF
By Christopher G. Adamo
Former U.S. Education Secretary, William Bennett, is chiding those who are advancing the notion of forming a “third party.”
And he is absolutely right for doing so. Such a rift within the Conservative movement at this critical moment would do more
to propel the Democratic Party Liberal agenda to uncontested political dominance than any ploy envisioned by the American
political Left. Yet, it appears that, despite such a risk, the third-party movement is continuing to effervesce among the
grassroots.
Full Story
USING SCARCE LAND FOR BIOFUELS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 33, Feb. 21, 2010
ANOTHER FAILING BIOFUEL "MIRACLE"
By Dennis T. Avery
Thus far, no alternative energy source works well. Nuclear power seems to be the best hope, and the Obama administration
is finally adjusting to that reality. Even inadequate, erratic sources such as solar panels and wind turbines are less
destructive to conservation than using scarce land for biofuels.
Full Story
THE HIGH COST OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 32, Feb. 20, 2010
THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD
By Alan Caruba
As the massive global warming fraud implodes, the one aspect of it that has not been explored in depth is the equally massive
waste of billions of dollars spent by the United States and nations around the world, we were told, to avoid global warming.
Full Story
UNSUPPORTED CLAIMS IN THE IPCC'S REPORT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 31, Feb. 14, 2010
IPCC SCIENCE SCANDALS AREN'T NEW
By Dennis T. Avery
The supposedly dedicated IPCC “climate researchers” have nearly cost the world trillions of dollars in higher energy costs,
agonies of wintertime suffering for the elderly “energy poor,” and needless deaths for lack of air conditioning in the
summers. They and the Green campaigners came awfully close to destroying human society as most of us have known it.
Full Story
THE ECONOMY & OBAMA'S "SOLUTIONS" PC, Volume XII, Issue # 30, Feb. 13, 2010
OBAMA'S INVISIBLE HOMELESS & HUNGRY
By Alan Caruba
The “solutions” of the FDR years did nothing to relieve the 1930s Great Depression and are widely seen as having extended
it. These same “solutions” are being pushed today by the Obama administration, particularly in regard to increased taxation
at the worst possible time.
For now, the homeless and hungry will remain invisible to most Americans, but the Liberal media will be able to ignore the
situation for only so long, and then it will have to be addressed.
Full Story
GOP "MODERATES" BETRAY CONSERVATIVES PC, Volume XII, Issue # 29, Feb. 10, 2010
REAL CONSERVATISM IS ABOUT PRINCIPLES, NOT PERSONALITIES
By Christopher G. Adamo
Neither the 2006 mid-term Democratic Party gains nor the 2008 electoral catastrophe
represented any national shift to the Left. Rather, they embodied a
widespread backlash against a Republican Party that had done too little to
combat such treacherous ideas. On one major issue after another, from
outrageous spending binges (which, admittedly, now seem minuscule in
comparison to the abominable fiscal excesses of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi cabal)
to the attempts at granting amnesty and defacto citizenship to the twelve
million plus illegal aliens, to the abject abandonment of constitutional
principle in implementing campaign finance “reform,” Heartland America felt
completely betrayed and forsaken by virtually the entirety of the GOP.
Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, supported by a Republican President,
simply should not have allowed such legislative atrocities to occur. Yet, the
Beltway-insider mindset prevailed over traditional Republican principle, and
the sentiments of those lowly peasants in the hinterlands were cast aside.
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IRAN'S PRESIDENT VERSUS ITS SUPREME LEADER PC, Volume XII, Issue # 28, Feb. 8, 2010
WHO RULES IRAN?
By Reza Molavi & Luisa Gandolfo
In the 30-year reign of Iran's Islamic Republic, there have been few controversies as serious as the one surrounding the
2009 elections. The votes that brought Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power for a second term have been challenged, not just
on paper, but by citizens taking to the streets in angry protests that have only been quelled by brute force on the part of
the establishment. Less well known is the upset that followed Ahmadinejad's nepotistic appointment of Esfandiar Rahim
Masha'i to the post of First Vice President. Not long after this, Iran's Supreme Leader,
'Ali Khamenei, demonstrated his personal authority over the entire political system by forcing Ahmadinejad to reconsider
his appointee, leading to Masha'i's dismissal.
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INDIA NO LONGER TRUSTS THE UN'S IPCC PC, Volume XII, Issue # 27, Feb.7, 2010
INDIA SETS UP INDEPENDENT GLOBAL WARMING PANEL
By Dennis T. Avery
India is setting up its own climate research unit, because it no longer trusts the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. I’ve been predicting such a move for years — partly due to the IPCC’s biased science, but more because India
simply cannot afford to curtail its desperately needed and energy-powered economic growth. India’s governmental stability
depends on expanding prosperity for the all of its people. That means more energy, and over half of India’s electricity
comes from coal.
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ENABLING GLOBAL GOVERNMENT & DESPOTISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 26, Feb. 6, 2010
I PREFER LOCAL TO GLOBAL
By Alan Caruba
Perhaps, it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience with the events of the world. Or, perhaps, it
is the spin that has been added to the word “global,” endowing it with an almost spiritual quality.
Mostly, though, I think it is my utter disgust with “global warming,” having spent the better part of three decades striving to
defeat this plot to enable all forms of governmental intrusion into people’s lives and choices.
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WESTERN CRIMINALS WHO EMBRACE ISLAMISM PC, Volume XII, Issue # 25, Feb. 5, 2010
THE LURE OF JIHADISM
By Raymond Ibrahim
Traditionally, one of the reasons ex-cons turn to religion is to change their evil ways. Not so in the case of incarcerated
Western criminal convicts who turn into Islamic terrorists. Consciously or unconsciously, it would seem they embrace
Islamism — and subsequently jihadism — merely to receive divine sanctioning for their otherwise violent and anarchic
behavior, being transformed in the process from petty criminals to major criminals — terrorists and traitors.
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RESTORATION OF FREE POLITICAL SPEECH PC, Volume XII, Issue # 24, Feb. 4, 2010
CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS ARE A THREAT TO LIBERALISM
By Christopher G. Adamo
The reverberations from Republican Senator Scott Brown’s Massachusetts
election had barely subsided when an even greater shockwave was sent
throughout the Liberal world. On Thursday, January 21, the United States
Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned major pillars of the
McCain-Feingold "Bipartisan" Campaign Finance “Reform” Act of 2002, thereby reestablishing the
ability of the people to express themselves freely during election time, and
thus to publicly hold Washington accountable for its actions.
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POLICY AGENDA OF THE GREENS & LEFTISTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 23, Feb. 3, 2010
CRAZY NANCY, CUNNING BARACK
By Alan Caruba
What Americans are witnessing is a calculated agenda to undermine access to the energy the nation requires for present
and future generations and thus undermines the nation's economy, an econpmy that is totally dependent on the sufficient
provision of electrical energy and the ability to utilize the nation’s vast oil, coal, and natural gas reserves.
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A CLOSING WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 22, Feb. 2, 2010
HOW TO SAVE THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY: BOMB IRAN
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
I do not customarily offer advice to a president whose election I opposed, whose goals I fear, and whose policies I work
against. But here is an idea for Barack Hussein Obama to salvage his tottering administration by taking a step that protects
the United States of America and its allies.
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LIBEL SUITS & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 21, Feb. 1, 2010
ISLAMIST LAWFARE DEFEATED IN TEXAS
By Daniel Huff
Libel suits are not normally associated with national security, but a case the Texas Supreme Court ruled on January 15, 2010,
carries just such implications. The suit against internet journalist Joe Kaufman is a prime example of how libel law can be
manipulated to stifle dissemination of information about terrorism and radical Islam.
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U.S. CYNICISM ABOUT IRAQI DEMOCRACY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 20, Feb. 1, 2010
IRAQ -- A WATERSHED ELECTION
By Dr. Michael Rubin
FULL STORY:
After the Iraqi parliament banned 500 candidates from contesting the March 7, 2010, national elections, U.S. Vice President
Joseph Biden rushed to Baghdad to urge Iraqi political leaders to reconsider. While the ban has fueled U.S. cynicism about
Iraqi democracy, such cynicism is unwarranted, especially now.
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WIND NO SUBSTITUTE FOR FOSSIL FUELS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 19, Jan. 31, 2010
A CHILL HITS WIND POWER
By Dennis T. Avery
As I write, a strong wind is blowing across the Alleghany Mountains onto my house. It’s bringing an “Arctic Clipper” that
will drop my temperatures this weekend to a frigid and unusual 6 degrees F. Why can’t I get some good from this chill wind
— with a wind turbine to harvest the “free” energy?
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ECONOMIC GROWTH & PROPERTY RIGHTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 18, Jan. 30, 2010
THE GREAT GREEN LAND GRAB
By Alan Caruba
All across America, various environmentalist organizations have been engaged in schemes to deter development such as
housing, new energy plants, or the horror of a manufacturing facility that might actually employ people. In some states,
the attack has been on farms and ranches, finding ways to punish their owners for improving their land in any fashion,
such as digging a drainage ditch.
Property rights were deemed so essential, so important to the economic future of America, that the Founding Fathers
wrote an Amendment to the United States Constitution to protect those rights, ensuring that private property could not
be taken for public use “without just compensation.”
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IRAN -- THREAT TO PERSIAN GULF SECURITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 17, Jan. 26, 2010
THE GULF STATES IN THE SHADOW OF IRAN:
IRANIAN AMBITIONS
By Patrick Knapp
The Obama administration is caught on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, it has welcomed the Gulf Security Dialogue
(GSD) as a chance to further "mutual interests" with Persian Gulf states, but, on the other, it has sought pragmatic
engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran — the greatest threat to Gulf security. Michael Knights, a Persian Gulf expert at
the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, noted in September that the "rapid advances" of the military forces of the Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) were the result of the dialogue. He predicts that they "may eclipse Iranian capabilities in the Gulf
within ten years." [1] Yet the GSD's initiatives are inadequate and need a foreign policy that stresses relationships and ideals.
If policy within the Gulf is to be dominated by shortterm pragmatic demands, it may turn out to have unwanted consequences
for other alliances in the region. That in turn could well have a negative impact on the United States.
Full Story
AMERICA'S NIGHTMARE -- WHIRLPOOL OF DEBT PC, Volume XII, Issue # 16, Jan. 23, 2010
THE BILL COMES DUE FOR SOCIALISM IN AMERICA
By Alan Caruba
It began as a beautiful cruise to a land of “hope and change,” but it has become a nightmare in which the ship of state is
being deliberately steered toward a whirlpool of debt from which, if Barack Hussein Obama is successful, the American
nation cannot escape.
Full Story
AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST SUPPORTER IS LET IN PC, Volume XII, Issue # 15, Jan, 22, 2010
TARIQ RAMADAN PERMITTED TO ENTER THE U.S.A.
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The Swiss Islamist Tariq Ramadan was about to take up a position at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 2004, when
the U.S. government prevented him from entering the country on the grounds that he had funded two Hamas-related groups.
For five years, his exclusion has been debated and tried. Finally, it was reversed two days ago
Full Story
OPPOSING ADVANCES IN FOOD PRODUCTION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 14, Jan. 21, 2010
GREENPEACE OPS FOR MILLIONS OF BLIND KIDS
By Dennis T. Avery
“A danger to the planet,” of course, is what Greenpeace has called virtually every recent advance in global food production.
At the same time, they claim the earth cannot sustainably feed the people already here. The European Union, to its shame,
has backed up Greenpeace with threats to boycott the farm exports of any country which allows biotech plantings. In India,
rice farmers protested plantings of the new rice, for fear the EU’s ban on biotech foods would block their exports of high-value
basmati rice.
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THE ROLE OF SYRIA IN THE IRAQI INSURGENCY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 13, Jan. 20, 2010
SYRIA'S FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR JIHAD:
SYRIAN TERROEISM
By Dr. Matthew Levitt
It costs a lot of money to run an insurgency. There are arms to buy, attacks to launch, bribes to pay. The local population has
to be won over, and extensive networks have to be actively maintained, often involving members of various groups, criminal
syndicates, corrupt officials, and independent operators such as local smugglers. Explosive devices have to be made, guns
have to be brought in from abroad, volunteers have to be indoctrinated and trained.
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LAWRENCE ON THE U.S.A. IN THE MIDDLE EAST PC, Volume XII, Issue # 12, Jan. 18, 2010
T. E. LAWRENCE: AMERICAN STRATEGIST
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
A fine article by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Lawrence of Arabia: Image and Reality," in The Journal of the Historical
Society, December, 2009, pp, 515-548, traces the reputation of T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) through the near-century
since his remarkable exploits during World War I and his famed recounting of those events in Seven Pillars of
Wisdom (1926). Wyatt-Brown's account of Lawrence's role since 2006, when he had a deep impact on the American
expeditionary force in Iraq, came as news to me.
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THE DAMAGE DONE BY THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 11, Jan. 17, 2010
NOT EXACTLY MOTHER TERESA:
Unethical Greenpeace Actions Threaten the Livelihoods of Millions
By Paul K. Driessen
Greenpeace constantly harasses companies that it deems insufficiently virtuous in advertising their products, protecting the
environment, and promoting their public image. But the Rainbow Warriors’ own actions would frequently merit fines or even
jail time if committed by profit-making businesses.
The Warriors justify their actions as necessary to advancing their legal, legislative, and regulatory agenda – and getting
people and foundations to write a check or click their website’s “donate now” button. Almost anything goes.
The world must be made aware of the harm Greenpeace inflicts, especially on the earth's poorest peoples.
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BAD GOVERNMENT & HUMAN STUPIDITY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 10, Jan. 16, 2010
DISTRACTED BY STUPIDITY
By Alan Caruba
We are stuck with Obama and his merry band of morons until 2012, but we can begin to clean house in Congress in
November, 2010, thanks to the midterm elections.
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INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM (IPT) PC, Volume XII, Issue # 9, Jan. 14, 2010
STEVEN EMERSON -- COMBATING RADICAL ISLAM:
DEFEATING JIHADIST TERRORISM
By Dr. George Michael
Steven Emerson has emerged as a powerful independent force who works with U.S. security services, but carries out
investigations on his own in areas beyond the federal security agencies' reach. He does not take any funds from the
government. In 1995, he established his own think tank, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), which has since
conducted investigations into many Islamist and terrorist groups and individuals. The IPT has stirred up more hornets'
nests than many government agencies. Its acute focus has allowed it to hone in on targets that broader agencies missed.
Emerson's initiative has paid off handsomely.
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LIBERAL DEMOCRATS & THE DOUBLE STANDARD PC, Volume XII, Issue # 8, Jan. 13, 2010
REID UNMASKS REALITIES OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' "SENSITIVITY"
By Christopher G. Adamo
The sanctimony of Liberal Democrats on the issues of race, gender, national origin, and religion is, and has always been,
invoked on an extremely selective basis, surgically targeted for the sole purpose of advancing the Liberal political agenda.
And, as such, it is the epitome of hypocrisy. Ultimately, the fate of its beneficiaries and/or victims is of no consequence to
those at the pinnacle of Liberal power.
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THE INACCURACY OF USDA CLIMATE FORECASTS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 7, Jan. 10, 2010
USDA MISLEADS ON FARMING'S CLIMATE FUTURE
By Dennis T, Avery
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a new report that attempts to forecast the impact of climate change on
American farming in the next 50 years. USDA seems to expect serious climate-related farming problems ahead, but the
recent changes in global climate have been tiny — and in the “wrong” direction! The earth’s temperatures are now slightly
cooler than when NASA’s James Hansen first warned the U.S. Senate about “runaway global warming” in 1988.
Full Story
OBAMA'S POLICY AGENDA & THE 2010 ELECTIONS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 6, Jan. 9, 2010
THE LIES ABOUT GREEN JOBS
By Alan Caruba
The job of every voter in November, 2010, is to remove from office every Senator and Representative that voted for and
supported the Obama administration’s policies, that is, those Obama supporters who run for reelection to Congress.
Then, maybe, we can put America on an economic footing that will generate real jobs and put an end to the Green Lies
about “green jobs,” the proposed legislation inspired by environmentalists, and the existing Green laws and regulations
that are currently killing any hope of economic recovery.
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STOPPING THE DEVASTATION THE LEFT IS CAUSING PC, Volume XII, Issue # 5, Jan. 7, 2010
GOP CANNOT COAST INTO 2010 ELECTIONS
By Christopher G. Adamo
The 2010 mid-term campaign season is now upon America, and none too soon. With two weeks still to go before his term
reaches the one-year mark, the damage President Barack Hussein Obama has inflicted on this nation is almost
incomprehensible. Among those who recognize the degree to which the former greatness of the country is being obliterated,
the congressional elections of this coming November represent the best hope of stopping the devastation.
Full Story
ICE AGES & MAGNETIC REVERSALS PC, Volume XII, Issue # 4, December 7, 2010
NOT BY FIRE, BUT BY ICE
By Alan Caruba
Will the next ice age begin shortly? Depends on what you mean by “shortly” -- because it could be tomorrow or it could be
another two centuries or so. One thing is sure; the Earth’s latest interglacial period is nearing an end.
A magnetic reversal accompanying the new ice age would likely have a devastating effect on planet Earth, including massive
extinction of most forms of life currently existing on the planet.
Full Story
ANXIETY IN THE AFTERMATH OF A NEAR-TRAGEDY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 3, Jan, 6, 2010
SECURITY THEATER NOW PLAYING AT YOUR AIRPORT
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
As hands are wrung in the aftermath of the near-tragedy on a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit, a conversation
from London's Heathrow airport in 1986 comes to mind.
Full Story
SAYING "NO" TO WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION PC, Volume XII, Issue # 2, Jan. 3, 2010
COPENHAGEN DASHES THIRD WORLD EXPECTATIONS
By Dennis T. Avery
In the wake of Copenhagen’s collapse, my wife was asked, “With so many poor people in the world, shouldn’t we share our
abundance — global warming or not?” That’s been the hidden agenda of the Hard Left through the whole global warming
campaign: “spreading the wealth.”
My wife, however, had spent 15 years living in four African countries. She replied she’d never vote to give American money
to Africa’s tribal thugs. It would simply disappear, as have so many billions in government handouts, enriching Swiss bank
accounts not creating sustainable prosperity for the people.
“They aren’t poor because we’re rich,” she says correctly. “Nor are we rich because they’re poor.” In the Pacific Northwest,
early Indian tribes had a culture based on “potlatch.” Whenever anyone had good fortune, they threw a party for the tribe.
The wealth was spread, but no one was better off after the party than before.
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GROOMING OBAMA FOR THE U.S. PRESIDENCY PC, Volume XII, Issue # 1, Jan. 2, 2010
OBAMA'S MAKE-BELIEF LIFE
By Alan Caruba
I have this theory about Barack Hussein Obama. I think he’s led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided
and doors were opened because at some point, early on, somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking,
half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in
politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
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