THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA

An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis

Volume IX, 2007

Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor



Conservative & Free-Market Analysis of Government, Politics & Public Policy, Covering Political, Legal, Constitutional, Economic, Cultural, Military, International, Strategic, & Geopolitical Issues

AMERICAN POLITICS, U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY, & THE THREAT TO AMERICA'S FUTURE AS ONE SOVEREIGN NATION:  WHY AMERICA'S POLITICAL ELITES FAVOR OPEN BORDERS & GIVE SHORT SHRIFT TO GENUINE CONCERNS FOR U.S. BORDER CONTROL, NATIONAL SECURITY, & PRESERVING AMERICA'S COMMON NATIONAL CULTURE -- WHY SOCALLED "IMMIGRATION REFORM" LEGISLATION PROPOSED IN THE U.S. CONGRESS INVARIABLY TURNS OUT TO BE BILLS TO GRANT AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS ALREADY HERE IN THE U.S.A. & TO ENCOURAGE THE CONTINUING & UNCONTROLLED FLOW OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ACROSS AMERICA'S BORDERS -- WHY DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS FAVOR FAVOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION & GRANTING AMNESTY & U.S. CITIZENSHIP TO ILLEGAL ALIENS -- WHY REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS PURSUE THE SAME IMMIGRATION POLICY AGENDA -- HOW UNSCRUPULOUS POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS ARE PROMOTING THE BALKANIZATION & DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA -- WHAT WE MUST DO ABOUT THIS SERIOUS THREAT TO THE AMERICAN NATION
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Volume IX, Issue # 100, May 30, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BORDER SECURITY:  ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE PALESTINIANS' CURRENT CONDITION OF POVERTY, MISERY, & STATELESSNESS:   PALESTINIAN BEHAVIOR BEFORE & AFTER 1948 -- WHAT IS ESSENTIAL TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S ACQUIRING THE ABILITY TO HELP THEMSELVES IMPROVE THEIR PRESENT CONDITION:  THEIR TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR COLLECTIVE DESTINY
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Volume IX, Issue # 99, May 29, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE REAL PALESTINIAN "CATASTROPHE"

By Cameron S. Brown & Asaf Romirowsky



WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY DEFINING THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ AS A CIVIL WAR?  WHAT PARADIGM SHIFT IN UNDERSTANDING THE CONFLICT WOULD BE REQUIRED?  WHAT IMPORTANT AMERICAN STRATEGIC INTERESTS ARE AT STAKE?  IF IRAQ IS EMBROILED IN A SECTARIAN CIVIL WAR BETWEEN SHI'ITES & SUNNIS, SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT SHI'ITE PARTIES OR A SHI'ITE-DOMINATED IRAQI GOVERNMENT?  WOULD AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & IRAQI SUNNI ARABS BE IN THE U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST?  SHOULD U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ CONTINUE, OR SHOULD U.S. & COALITION TROOPS BE WITHDRAWN?
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Volume IX, Issue # 98, May 28, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IS IRAQ IN A CIVIL WAR?

By Dr. David A. Patten



MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE IN THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ & IN THE SUBSEQUENT ENDEAVOR TO BRING TO THAT COUNTRY THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  WHAT AMERICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS FAILED TO FORESEE AS CONSEQUENCES OF THE INVASION & OCCUPATION -- WHAT THEY FAILED TO COMPREHEND ABOUT IRAQ & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE CURRENT CHAOTIC SITUATION IN IRAQ -- ALAN CARUBA'S ARGUMENT THAT AMERICA SHOULD WITHDRAW ITS MILITARY FORCE FROM IRAQ & LET THE IRAQIS DEAL WITH THE CHAOS
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Volume IX, Issue # 97, May 27, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAQ:  MISTAKES WERE MADE

By Alan Caruba



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & ANTI-INSECTICIDE ACTIVISM VERSUS HUMAN HEALTH IN AFRICA:  POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THE ANTI-INSECTICIDE MOVEMENT OPPOSE THE USE OF DDT TO CONTROL MOSQUITOES & PROTECT UGANDANS FROM MALARIA -- OPPOSING & OBSTRUCTING ANTI-MALARIA PROGRAMS THAT SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES
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Volume IX, Issue # 96, May 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHY DON'T THEY VALUE HUMAN LIFE?
Activists Who Oppose DDT Prolong Malaria, Misery, & Death in Africa

By Fiona Kobusingye



CHILD CARE & REARING, THE POLICY AGENDA OF THE POLITICAL LEFT, & THE LOSS OF PERSONAL FREEDOMS OF AMERICANS:   LEFTWING LIBERAL STATISTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLAN FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL & DIRECTION OF THE NURSERY -- HILLARY CLINTON'S GRIM ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF PARENTING -- HER ADVOCACY OF GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN CHILD CARE & REARING -- WHAT ALL OF THIS INDICATES:  POWER-GRABBING BUREAUCRATS ARE STILL ON THE PROWL, AWAITNG ANY OPPORTUNITY TO INTERVENE INTO & MICROMANAGE THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE
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Volume IX, Issue # 95, May 24, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

"HILLARY YOUTH CORPS" IN THE MAKING

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE OIL COMPANIES, MARKET ECONOMICS, & THE U.S. PUBLIC INTEREST:  THE PETROLEUM COMPANIES' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CONVENIENCE OF AMERICAN DRIVERS & ENERGY CONSUMERS, TO PROMOTION OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH & HUMAN HEALTH, & TO THE ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & GENERAL INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN NATION -- MARKET CONDITIONS AS THE DETERMINANT OF THE PRICE OF GASOLINE & OTHER PETROLEUM PRODUCTS -- THE ALMOST CERTAIN CONSEQUENCE OF LEGISLATION CONSTRAINING THE ABILITY OF OIL COMPANIES TO SET PRICES ACCORDING TO SUPPLY & DEMAND:  RATIONING, WITH LESS GASOLINE AVAILABLE & LONG LINES AT THE GAS PUMP
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Volume IX, Issue # 94, May 23, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A KIND WORD FOR BIG OIL

By Alan Caruba



CLIMATE CHANGE, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY: WILL THE EARTH SOON BE FACING CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE, DUE TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS PRODUCED BY INDUSTRY, TRANSPORTATION, & OTHER HUMAN ACTIVITIES?  WILL THE PLANET BE SUBJECT TO MASSIVE OVERHEATING, HUGE SEA LEVEL INCREASES, & MILLIONS OF LOST SPECIES?  WHAT IS GOING ON -- HUMAN-INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE, OR NATURAL WARMING & COOLING CYCLES LINKED TO SOLAR ACTIVITY?
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Volume IX, Issue # 93, May 23, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EIGHT MONTHS TO SAVE THE PLANET

By Dennis T. Avery



ENERGY SOURCES & AMERICAN PUBLIC POLICY:  PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE USE OF COAL AS A MAJOR SOURCE OF ENERGY -- A CABAL OF NATURAL GAS COMPANIES SEEKING ENACTMENT OF LEGISLATION THAT WOULD FORCE ABANDONMENT OF COAL-FIRED ELECTRICAL GENERATING PLANTS & THE MASSIVE SWITCHING TO NATURAL GAS-FIRED PLANTS -- AIDING & ABETTING THE IDEOLOGY & POLICY AGENDA OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, WHILE WORKING TO CREATE AN ENERGY SHORTAGE & DRIVE UP ENERGY COSTS & THEREBY WEAKEN THE COMPETITIVE POSITION OF U.S. MANUFACTURERS, INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS IN THE U.S.A., IMPOVERISH AMERICAN CONSUMERS, & FILL THE COFFERS OF THE NATURAL GAS COMPANIES -- SPECIAL INTERESTS VERSUS THE GENERAL INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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Volume IX, Issue # 92, May 23, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE "COAL IS FILTHY" AD-SCAM:
Gas Company Ad Campaign Could Impact
U.S. Energy Policies & American Consumers

By Paul K. Driessen



THE MIDDLE EAST, ISLAMISM, & THE TERROR WAR AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST: FACING A DEADLY ENEMY DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST MUST BE DESTROYED -- FIGHTING THE JIHADIST ENEMY AT HOME & ABROAD -- WHY THE AMERICAN HOMELAND IS VULNERABLE TO FURTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS, REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF TROOPS WE HAVE IN IRAQ -- RELEVANCE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION & OPEN BORDERS TO THE CONTINUING VULNERABILITY OF THE U.S.A. TO TERRORIST ATTACKS -- THE FUTILITY OF EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN IRAQ & BRING TO THAT COUNTRY THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
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Volume IX, Issue # 91, May 20, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FIGHT THE ENEMY IN IRAQ, OR HERE?

By Alan Caruba



THE SALE, OR LONGTERM LEASE, OF AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO INTERNATIONAL FINANCIERS:  TRANSFERRING FROM THE TAXPAYERS TO PROFESSIONAL BUREAUCRATS THE POWER TO MAKE DECISIONS ON FISCAL POLICY -- TURNING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OVER TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS THAT ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE VOTERS -- DESTROYING THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY & SUBJECTING THE PEOPLE TO OPPRESSIVE TAXATION
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Volume IX, Issue # 90, May 19, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NATIONAL SELLOUT; NATIONAL TRAGEDY

By Henry Lamb



THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER:  WORLD GOVERNMENT & INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM -- TRANSFORMING THE UNITED NATIONS INTO A GLOBAL GOVERNMENT, WITH AMPLE POWER & AUTHORITY TO KEEP EVERYTHING UNDER TIGHT CONTROL & DIRECTION -- GIVING THE NEW WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL & DIRECTION OF COMMUNICATIONS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, & MILITARY DEFENSE & SECURITY -- INTERNATIONAL REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH & POLITICAL POWER -- THE DEMISE OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, RULE OF LAW, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MARKET ECONOMIES, & FREE EXPRESSION OF VIEWS & OPINIONS
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Volume IX, Issue # 89, May 17, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DAWN OF THE ERA OF COMMON-ISM

By Tom DeWeese



POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, PRAGMATISM, & THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2008: THE ENDEAVOR TO DOWNPLAY OR CONCEAL THE LIBERALISM OF A PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER & GIVE HIM A CONSERVATIVE IMAGE -- WHY THE RUSE DID NOT WORK IN PAST PRESIDENTIAL CONTESTS & IS NOT LIKELY TO SUCCEED IN THE 2008 RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY -- RELEVANCE OF THE EXPERIENCE OF LIBERAL DEMOCRAT MICHAEL DUKAKIS IN 1988 TO THE TACTICS OF LIBERAL REPUBLICAN RUDY GIULIANI IN THE CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
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Volume IX, Issue # 88, May 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RUDY GIULIANI HAS HIS "DUKAKIS MOMENT"

By Christopher G. Adamo



ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AS A MAJOR CRISIS FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS CITIZENS:  HOW DOES THE UNCONTROLLED & UNIMPEDED FLOW OF ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE COUNTRY CONSTITUTE A SERIOUS THREAT TO AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY?  WHAT BURDENS DOES ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IMPOSE ON CURRENT NATIVE-BORN & NATURALIZED U.S. CITIZENS?
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Volume IX, Issue # 87, May 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TOO MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS

By Alan Caruba



EGYPT:  POLITICAL REGIME & POLITICAL OPPOSITION -- DICTATORSHIP, POLITICAL DISSENT, & GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT -- THE EGYPTIAN POLITICAL REGIME AS ONE OF THE WORST SUPPRESSORS OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON THE INTERNET -- THE CASE OF ABDUL KARIM NABIL SULAYMAN
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Volume IX, Issue # 86, May 15, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DISSIDENT WATCH:  ABDUL KARIM NABIL SULAYMAN

By Jeffrey Azarva



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM VERSUS HUMAN HEALTH:  THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S DISEASE PREVENTION POLICIES ARE UNDER ASSAULT BY POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THE ANTI-INSECTICIDE MOVEMENT -- ANTI-PESTICIDE ACTIVISTS & CO-CONSPIRATORS SEEK TO REVERSE THE 2006 DECISION TO RESTORE DDT TO WHO'S MALARIA-FIGHTING ARSENAL
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Volume IX, Issue # 85, May 14, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PRO-MALARIA FORCES RESURFACE AT WHO:
Proposals to Ban Life-Saving Chemicals Would Cost Countless Lives

By Paul K. Driessen & Cyril Boynes, Jr.



GLOBAL WARMING & GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, PARTISAN POLITICS, & U.S. PUBLIC POLICY:  CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, IN LEAGUE WITH POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, ARE POISED TO MANDATE A CAP-&-TRADE PROGRAM, SUPPOSEDLY IN ORDER TO OFFSET CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS -- WHAT ARE THE HORRORS OF SUCH A PROGRAM?  IF ENACTED, HOW WOULD IT AFFECT AMERICAN CONSUMERS?  WHO ARE THE GREATEST SUPPORTERS OF CAP-&-TRADE EMISSION CREDITS?  FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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Volume IX, Issue # 84, May 13, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE GREAT CAP-&-TRADE SCAM

By Alan Caruba



ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, TERRORIST INFILTRATION, HOMELAND SECURITY, & THE PROPOSED NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD SYSTEM:  CHARACTER OF THE PROPOSED NATIONAL ID SYSTEM -- IF ADOPTED, WOULD THE SYSTEM PROTECT AMERICA FROM TERRORIST INFILTRATION & ACTS OF TERRORISM?  WOULD THE SYSTEM STOP OR SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE U.S.A.?  WOULD IT PROTECT INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY?   CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS WITH THE PROPOSED SYSTEM -- WHY THE STATES ARE IN GROWING REVOLT AGAINST THE PROPOSED NATIONAL ID
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Volume IX, Issue # 83, May 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OPOSSITION TO NATIONAL ID CONTINUES TO GROW

By Tom DeWeese



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS:  THEIR IDEOLOGY, PSEUSOSCIENCE, POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, & POLICY AGENDA -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM AS A MAJOR OBSTACLE TO HUMAN PROGRESS & HUMAN WELL-BEING -- THE GREENS' ASSAULT ON ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & HUMAN HEALTH -- HIGH TIME TO RE-EXAMINE THE POSITIONS OF GREENPEACE ON GENETIC ENGINEERING, BIOTECH FOODS, & HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING
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Volume IX, Issue # 82, May 10, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SAVING LIVES THE GREENPEACE WAY

By Dennis T. Avery



CENTER-RIGHT CANDIDATE NICHOLAS SARKOZY'S VICTORY IN THE RECENT FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:   ONLY A FIRST STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE IN FRANCE & OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- FOR EUROPE TO PREVAIL OVER THE INSIDIOUS CULTURAL ONSLAUGHTS THAT PRESENTLY THREATEN IT, WHAT IS REQUIRED?  A MAJOR SHIFT FROM THE NIHILISM OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT & A RENEWED RESOLVE TO STAND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENT OF MILITANT ISLAM
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Volume IX, Issue # 81, May 9, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SARKOZY VICTORY:  TIMELY REPRIEVE, OR DYING GASP?

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA:  HOW THE U.S.A. HAS APPLIED ITS POWER MILITARILY & THROUGH THE TRADECRAFT OF SPYING -- A STRING OF BLUNDERS & FAILURES UNDERMINING THE POLITICAL CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES & SUSTAINS EFFECTIVE U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY -- THE FAILURE OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS TO LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST
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Volume IX, Issue # 80, May 6, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RECENT HISTORY OF THE U.S.A.:  FORGOTTEN LESSONS

By Alan Caruba



IRAN, THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE GROWING DEBATE OVER WHETHER THE U.S.A. SHOULD PURSUE A POLICY OF FORCIBLE REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN -- THE RISKS & CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. MILITARY ACTION TO ACCOMPLISH IRANIAN REGIME CHANGE -- THE VIABILITY OF DETERRENCE & DIPLOMACY AS ALTERNATIVES TO MILITARY ACTION -- PROSPECTS FOR THE SUCCESS OF IRANIAN EFFORTS TO DEMOCRATIZE IRAN, ESTABLISH THE RULE OF LAW IN THAT COUNTRY, & FORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS & DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY UPON THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP
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Volume IX, Issue # 79, May 4, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SHOULD REGIME CHANGE BE PART OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY?
ONLINE DEBATE

Discussants:  Robert S. Litwak & Michael Rubin



POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, PROPAGANDA, PUBLIC POLICY, & HUMAN HEALTH:  POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, THE ANTI-PESTICIDE MOVEMENT, THEIR PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA, & THE THREAT THEY POSE TO HUMAN HEALTH -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & ANTI-PESTICIDE ACTIVISTS WHO OPPOSE THE USE OF PESTICIDES IN AMERICA'S SCHOOLS WOULD ELIMINATE PROTECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM THE VERY DANGEROUS & LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES SPREAD BY RATS, MICE, & ROACHES -- NO EVIDENCE THAT PESTICIDES APPROVED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS CONSTITUTE ANY DANGER TO HUMANS
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Volume IX, Issue # 78, May 3, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PESTICIDE-FREE SCHOOLS:  FULL OF RATS & ROACHES?

By Alex A. Avery & Dennis T. Avery



LEFTWING LIBERAL IDEOLOGY & PROPAGANDA VERSUS THE AMERICAN NATION: AMERICAN LIBERALISM AS A MAJOR FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE FIRES OF ANTI-AMERICANISM CURRENTLY BURNING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT:  ITS DELIBERATE MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THE U.S.A. & ITS HISTORY -- LIBERALS WORKING TIRELESSLY TO PUT THE WORST POSSIBLE FACE ON EVERYTHING WORTHY OF AMERICA'S FOUNDING & HERITAGE -- LIBERAL & MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISTORTION OF AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE VARIOUS CONFLICTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- THE ONGOING ENDEAVOR OF THE LEFT TO UNDERMINE AMERICA'S POSITION & NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE WORLD AT LARGE & THEREBY JEOPARDIZE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY & SURVIVAL
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Volume IX, Issue # 77, May 2, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LIBERALISM FORMENTS CONTEMPT FOR AMERICA

By Christopher G. Adamo



ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON, SYRIA, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE SECOND LEBANON WAR AS A FALTERING, INDECISIVE WAR RESULTING FROM ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC FOLLIES & OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCES -- THE ISRAELI POLITICAL & MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S LACK OF A CLEAR CONCEPT OF WHAT VICTORY OVER HEZBOLLAH ENTAILED -- HOW ISRAEL SQUANDERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE REGIONAL SCORES & MAINTAIN UNQUESTIONED ISRAELI DETERRENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRENGTHS & ADVANTAGES UPON WHICH ISRAEL CAN BUILD & PREPARE TO ATTAIN A CLEAR & DECISIVE VICTORY IN THE NEXT ROUND WITH HEZBOLLAH & THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME
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Volume IX, Issue # 76, April 30, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOW ISRAEL BUNGLED THE SECOND LEBANON WAR

By Dr. Efraim Inbar



VIEWING THE U.S. INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AS ONE BATTLE IN A LONG WAR: ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT IT IS TIME FOR A STRATEGIC WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ, THAT WE NEED TO BRING OUR MILITARY FORCES HOME IN ORDER TO RETRAIN, REBUILD, RE-EQUIP, & EXPAND THEM TO MEET THE CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD IN THE LONG WAR WITH ISLAMISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 75, April 29, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAQ:  IS IT A WAR OR A BATTLE?

By Alan Caruba



POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, PUBLIC POLICY AGENDAS, & AMERICAN PARTISAN POLITICS: LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM, & THE 2008 ELECTION -- WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MUST DO IN ORDER TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITIES IN 2008: REMAIN FIRM IN UPHOLDING THE RULE OF LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM, FEDERALISM, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY & JUSTICE UNDER LAW, & THE OTHER FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC -- UNEQUIVOCALLY SUPPORT MEASURES TO ENSURE AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY, U.S. BORDER CONTROL, STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS, AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY, VICTORY IN THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMISM, & PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & ELSEWHERE -- REMAIN LOYAL TO & STEADFASTLY SUPPORT THOSE THINGS THAT BOLSTERED THE CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY -- REJECT SOCALLED "MODERATE REPUBLICANS" & THEIR PROPOSED COMPRISES WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERALISM -- UNMISTAKABLY DEFINE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS THE PARTY OF AMERICANISM & HIGH PRINCIPLE & AS A SHARP CONTRAST & CLEAR ALTERNATIVE TO THE INCREASING LEFTWING LIBERAL TILT OF THE DEMOCRATS
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Volume IX, Issue # 74, April 26, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TUMULTOUS EVENTS & REPUBLICAN FORTUNES

By Christopher G. Adamo



AMERICA'S FIRST CLASH WITH MILITANT ISLAM:  THE IRANIAN ISLAMISTS' SEIZURE OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN TEHRAN IN 1979 -- THE POLITICAL FORCES THAT ACTED UPON THE CARTER PRESIDENCY TO CAUSE IT TO FEEL THAT THERE REALLY WAS NOTHING THE U.S.A. COULD DO ABOUT THE SITUATION -- COULD & SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAVE PUNISHED THE IRANIANS MILITARILY?  DID THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION PLAY INTO THE IRANIANS' HANDS BY PLACING THE WELFARE OF THE HOSTAGES ABOVE ALL OTHER AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?  IN THIS REGARD, WHAT LESSON SHOULD WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE MANY ISRAELI EXPERIENCES?
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Volume IX, Issue # 73, April 25 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHEN A REPORTER IS JUST A REPORTER:
A Report on Mark Bowden's Briefing & Address to the
Middle East Forum on his Book, Guests of the Ayatollah

By Patrick Bowden



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY:  THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS' PREDICTION OF CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY A BUILD-UP OF HUMAN-EMITTED CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE -- THE HISTORIC & SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE OF A MODERATE, NATURAL 1,500-YEAR CLIMATE CYCLE REFUTE THE CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING CLAIM ADVANCED BY POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS
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Volume IX, Issue # 72, April 24, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE NEW MATH ON GLOBAL WARMING

By Dennis T. Avery



THE MIDDLE EAST:  ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE -- THE ORIGIN OF MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL TRADITIONS & STRUCTURES -- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT & MODERN GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS -- THE TENSION BETWEEN THE AUTHORITARIAN RULE OF CENTRALIZED STATE GOVERNMENT & THE COUNTERVAILING POWER OF LOCAL ENTITIES -- THE CONTEMPORARY BATTLE BETWEEN EXCLUSIONARY & CONSENSUAL GOVERNING SYSTEMS
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Volume IX, Issue # 71, April 23, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MIDDLE EAST STRONGMEN -- ANCIENT & MODERN:
A REVIEW ESSAY

By Tony Badran



POLITICS, ECONOMICS, & PETROLEUM SUPPLY:  THE MYTH OF "PEAK OIL" DEPLETION OF EXISTING & FUTURE UNDISCOVERED RESERVES OF OIL -- WHAT DETERMINES THE KEY FACTORS THAT AFFECT OIL SUPPLY & PRICES -- AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS, INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE FLOW OF OIL TO THE WORLD MARKET -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA TO RESIST BEING STAMPEDED BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS, ENERGY ALARMISTS, & LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS INTO EMBRACING SUCH HALF-BAKED SCHEMES AS GOVERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED ETHANOL PRODUCTION OR SUCH PIPE DREAMS AS WIND & SOLAR ENERGY
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Volume IX, Issue # 70, April 22, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IS THERE REALLY AN ENERGY CRISIS?

By Alan Caruba



JUSTICE DEFILED; JUSTICE DENIED:  ABUSE OF THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM BY CORRUPT & OVERLY AMBITIOUS PROSECUTORS -- THE NEED FOR MUCH GREATER PROTECTION OF LAW-ABIDING AMERICANS FROM THE EXTREME ABUSES PERPETRATED BY UNSCRUPULOUS POWER MONGERS LIKE MICHAEL NIFONG & PATRICK FITZGERALD WHO WILL GLADLY ANNIHILATE THE LIVES & LIBERTIES OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS IN RUTHLESS PURSUIT OF CAREER & POWER
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Volume IX, Issue # 69, April 19, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NIFONG, FITZGERALD, & AMERICAN "JUSTICE" DEFILED

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE CONDITION NECESSARY FOR PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN ARABS & ISRAELI JEWS:  THAT PALESTINIAN SOCIETY EXPERIENCE A BREAKTHROUGH IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT & VALUES, A BREAKTHROUGH ACCEPTING THE PERMANENT EXISTENCE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HONEST RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS ARE NORMAL & NATURAL, & ALLOWING FOR THE GROWTH OF AN ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS & POLITICALLY INFLUENTIAL PALESTINIAN MIDDLE CLASS
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Volume IX, Issue # 68, April 17, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

By Asaf Romirowsky



AMERICA'S INTERNAL SECURITY APPARATUS & THE TERROR WAR:  THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY & THE ISLAMIST THREAT WITHIN THE U.S.A. -- MUSLIM POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS INSIDE U.S. BORDERS & THE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORK THAT OPERATES WITHIN THOSE LOCALITIES -- HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAUCRACY IN UNCOVERING THE JIHADIST PLANS & CONSPIRACIES OF AMERICA'S DEADLY INTERNAL ENEMIES & PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 67, April 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOMELAND SECURITY IN TEWKSBURY, NEW JERSEY

By Alan Caruba



THE BARZANI FAMILY:  KURDISH POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL TREACHERY, & KURDISH NATIONALISM -- SWITCHING ALLIANCES AS PART OF THE BARZANI FAMILY POLITICAL CULTURE -- MASOUD BARZANI AS AN EXTREMELY UNREALIABLE ALLY OF THE U.S.A.
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 66, April 14, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE BARZANI CHAMELEON

By Kamal Said Qadir



ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  ARE THE WESTERN CONCEPTS OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, & HUMAN RIGHTS COMPATIBLE WITH EITHER ISLAMIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OR A STRICT, LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS DOGMA?  CAN MUSLIM SOCIETIES DEVELOP & SUCCESSFULLY OPERATE STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES?  THE THEORY OF JOHN L. ESPOSITO -- EXPOUNDING & AMPLIFYING THE THEORY -- ISLAMIST REJECTION OF THE THEORY -- THE ESPOSITO THEORY VERSUS REALITY -- HOW THE THEORY & ITS APPLICATION ENDANGER AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & THE SURVIVAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 65, April 13, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CAN THERE BE AN ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY?
REVIEW ESSAY

By David Bukay



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & THE ANTI-INSECTICIDE MOVEMENT VERSUS EFFECTIVE MOSQUITO & DISEASE CONTROL IN AFRICA:  HOW THE WORK OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & ANTI-INSECTICIDE FANATICS HAVE HAD RESULTS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF GENOCIDE PROGRAMS CARRIED OUT BY TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL REGIMES -- THE CONSEQUENCE OF RACHEL CARSON'S ERROR & THE BANNING OF DDT USE:  THE NEEDLESS DEATHS OF AT LEAST THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE FROM MALARIA & YELLOW FEVER IN THE TROPICS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 64, April 12, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RACHEL CARSON & THE MALARIA TRAGEDY

By Dennis T. Avery



THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, PARTISAN POLITICS, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  HOW THE POLITICAL STRATEGY & TACTICS OF PARTISAN DEMOCRATS WEAKEN AMERICA'S DEFENSES IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, ISLAMISTS, & THE COMMON GROUND THEY SHARE IN THEIR MALEVOLENCE TOWARDS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- THE DEEP-SEATED ALLIANCE THAT HAS EMERGED BETWEEN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT & MILITANT ISLAM -- HOW LIBERALS AID & ABET ISLAMISTS IN THEIR GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 63, April 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE LIBERAL/ISLAMIST WAR AGAINST AMERICA

By Christopher G. Adamo



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM VERSUS NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY, & PRIVATE PROPERTY:  POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, IN LEAGUE WITH UNITED NATIONS BUREAUCRATS & OTHER INTERNATIONALISTS, ARE SEEKING TO USE UNESCO & WORLD HERITAGE SITES TO IMPOSE THE ENVIRONMENTALIST POLICY AGENDA ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AT THE EXPENSE OF AMERICAN NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, & CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS -- HIGH TIME FOR THE U.S.A. TO RECLAIM ITS SOVEREIGNTY THROUGH ABROGATION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE TREATY & ANY OTHER TREATY OR AGREEMENT THAT ALLOWS U.N. DECISION-MAKING & ACTION TO SUPERCEDE AMERICAN DOMESTIC PUBLIC POLICY & THE BASIC RIGHTS OF AMERICANS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 62, April 9, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NEW WORLD HERITAGE SITES PROPOSED

By Henry Lamb



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & THE ANTI-CHEMICAL MOVEMENT:  POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS CONTINUE THEIR CAMPAIGN AGAINST PRACTICALLY ALL CHEMICALS USED IN AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY & HOUSEHOLD CLEANING, INCLUDING CHLORINE, WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO THE PURIFICATION OF DRINKING WATER -- ENVIRONMENTALISTS SEEK TO EMININATE THE USE OF LAWN CARE PESTICIDES & REMOVE PROTECTION AGAINST VARIOUS WEED SPECIES & THE DISEASES THAT ATTACK LAWNS -- REFUTING ENVIRONMENTALIST PROPAGANDA:  EXPLAINING HOW HEALTHY, GREEN LAWNS PROMOTE HUMAN HEALTH, ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, & A WHOLESOME ENVIRONMENT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 61, April 8, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE WAR ON AMERICA'S LAWNS

By Alan Caruba



MODERN EGYPT:  ITS HISTORY, POLITICS, POLITICAL REGIME, PUBLIC POLICY, & POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, & ISLAMISM IN EGYPT -- RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 60, April 7, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EGYPT IN BOOKS:  REVIEW ESSAY

By Jeffrey Azarva



AMERICAN POLITICS, CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM, & THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2008:  FRED THOMPSON, CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE & FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM TENNESSEE, APPEARS ON THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SCENE, UPSETTING THE APPLE CART OF THE GOP "PRAGMATISTS" & PRESENTING AMERICAN VOTERS WITH THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE 2008 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WILL BE A PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVE & GENUINE CONSTITUTIONALIST -- LIFTING THE HOPES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S GRASSROOTS SUPPORTERS, WHO LONG FOR A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF REAGANITE CALIBER & PHILOSOPHY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 59, April 6, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHY FRED THOMPSON'S DAY HAS ARRIVED

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE "NEW DIRECTION" PROCLAIMED BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY IN THE U.S. CONGRESS:  MOVING THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES TOWARD DEFEAT IN IRAQ, THE U.S.A. TOWARD THE LARGEST FEDERAL TAX INCREASE IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY, & THE ENTIRE WORLD TOWARD ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE, A DISASTER TO BE CREATED BY SERVING THE IDEOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & IMPOSING SEVERE LIMITS ON THE USE OF ENERGY DERIVED FROM FOSSIL FUELS -- CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBAL-WARMING ALARMISTS, & THEIR GRAND DESIGN FOR A NEW DARK AGE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 58, April 5, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OUT OF THE PAN, INTO THE FIRE

By Henry Lamb



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, GLOBAL WARMING THEORY, GREENHOUSE GASES, & THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT:  IN MASSACHUSETTS V. EPA, A 5-4 DECISION RENDERED ON APRIL 2, 2007, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT RULED THAT GREENHOUSE GASES ARE POLLUTANTS & ORDERED THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY TO RECONSIDER ITS REFUSAL TO LIMIT EMISSIONS FROM NEW CARS & TRUCKS -- THE SUPREME COURT'S BAD DECISION, BASED ON POLITICAL PROPAGANDA & UNSOUND SCIENCE, GIVES THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS A VICTORY OVER AMERICAN WORKERS & CONSUMERS -- UNLESS RESCINDED, THE DECISION WILL CAUSE AN ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE IN THE U.S.A.
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 57, April 3, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S BAD SCIENCE & BAD DECISION

By Alan Caruba



WHY DO IRANIAN LEADERS & OTHER ISLAMISTS BEHAVE LIKE UNCIVILIZED BARBARIANS?  THE ANSWER LIES IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAM:  HOW THE MUSLIM "RELIGION" CAME INTO BEING, HOW & WHY IT HAS SPREAD OVER A VAST AREA OF THE GLOBE, & HOW ITS HARDCORE ADHERENTS HAVE CONDUCTED THEMSELVES BEFORE & SINCE THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY FAILURE OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST TO RESPOND VIGOROUSLY TO IRAN & THE ISLAMIST THREAT -- ANNIHILATION OF OUR ENEMIES SHOULD BE AMERICA'S SOLE PURPOSE IN WAGING WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST OR ANY OTHER PLACE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 56, April 1, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHY IRANIANS TAKE HOSTAGES

By Alan Caruba



SAUDI ARABIA:  ITS BIPOLAR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE CONTINUING DEPENDENCE OF WESTERN ECONOMIES ON IMPORTED OIL, OF WHICH SAUDI OIL FIELDS ARE AN IMPORTANT SOURCE -- THE REPULSION OF MANY WESTERN LEADERS & POLICYMAKERS TO SAUDI SUBSIDATION OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 55, March 28, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SAUDI ARABIA IN BOOKS:  REVIEW ESSAY

By Simon Henderson



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM VERSUS HUMAN HEALTH & ECONOMIC GROWTH: POLITICAL ENVIRONMEMTALISTS, ANTI-INSECTICIDE PRESSURE GROUPS, & OPPOSITION TO THE USE OF DDT -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, & OPPOSITION TO ENERGY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- USING SCIENTIFIC DATA TO DEMOLISH THE CENTRAL PREMISE OF GLOBAL WARMING THEORY -- GREENHOUSE GASES:  CAUSE & EFFECT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 54, March 27, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FORTY YEARS OF PERVERSE "SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY":
Environmentalist Crusades Against DDT & Fossil Fuels
Hurt the People & the Planet

By Paul K. Driessen



ENVIRONMENTALISM, HYBRID CARS, & ECONOMIC REALITY:  THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY, ENERGY SUPPLIES, AUTOMOBILES, & COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE & MARKET ECONOMIES -- WHY MOST PEOPLE, IN CONTEMPLATING THEIR PURCHASES OF AUTOMOBILES & OTHER PRODUCTS, ARE NOT LISTENING TO THE PROPAGANDA OF ENVIRONMENTALISTS CLAIMING THAT CONTINUED USE OF FOSSIL FUELS WILL CAUSE CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING & DESTROY THE EARTH -- THE FALSITY OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST CLAIM THAT THE EARTH IS RUNNING OUT OF OIL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 53, March 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHY HYBRID CARS AREN'T SELLING

By Alan Caruba



KEMALISM:  SECULARISM & NATIONALISM AS THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF MODERN TURKEY -- THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN HARDLINE KEMALISTS & GROUPS RESISTING SECULARISM & NATIONALISM -- LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, & ISLAMISTS CHALLENGE STRICT ADHERENCE TO SECULARISM & NATIONALISM AS BEDROCK PRINCIPLES OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC -- THE GROWING INROADS OF POLITICAL ISLAM -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE ARMENIAN HERITAGE WITHIN TURKEY -- CONTINUING MANIFESTATIONS OF TURKISH NATIONALISM -- TURKEY & EUROPE --THE SEARCH FOR A COMMON DENOMINATOR THAT CAN UNITE TURKISH SOCIETY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 52, March 22, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TURKEY IN BOOKS:  REVIEW ESSAY

By Fikret Erkut Emcioglu



ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, AMNESTY, & VOTER UNREST:  WIDESPREAD & GROWING DISCONTENT AMONG AMERICAN VOTERS OVER THE UNCONTROLLED INFLUX OF ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE U.S.A. & THE CONTINUING EFFORTS OF DEMOCRATIC & REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL TO SECURE CONGRESSIONAL ENACTMENT OF AMNESTY LEGISLATION LEGITIMIZING THE STATUS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THE U.S.A. -- WHAT IS REALLY WEAKENING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & CAUSING IT TO LOSE ELECTIONS:  REPUBLICAN SUPPORT FOR GRANTING AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS, REPUBLICAN ABANDONMENT OF CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLE, & THE FAILURE OF REPUBLICAN INSIDERS TO FIGHT TO PROTECT & PRESERVE AMERICA'S NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY & ITS COMMON NATIONAL CULTURE & IDENTITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 51, March 21, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CAN THE AMNESTY JUGGERNAUT BE STOPPED?

By Christopher G. Adamo



TRADITIONAL JUDEO-CHRISTIAN MORAL VALUES & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: HOW FAR HAS AMERICA STRAYED FROM THE MORAL VALUES WE CLAIM TO HOLD IN ESTEEM & IN COMMON?  DEBATING THE ISSUES RELATED TO MORAL DECLINE IN AMERICA:  REDEFINING MARRIAGE TO INCLUDE HOMOSEXUAL COHABITATION -- REMOVING THE WORD "CHRISTMAS" OR "EASTER" FROM THE CELEBRATION OF TRADITIONAL HOLIDAYS -- LEGALIZING THE KILLING OF THE UNBORN THROUGH ABORTIONS -- THE PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT OF MOVIES & TELEVISION PROGRAMS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 50, March 18, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA'S MORAL VALUES WORRY EVERYONE

By Alan Caruba



ISLAM IN THE U.S.A.:  THE BATTLE THAT IS GOING ON FOR THE SOUL OF EXTREMISTS & MODERATES WITHIN THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY -- A GROWING SENSE OF "OTHERNESS" IN THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 49, March 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE NATURE OF RADICAL ISLAM:
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross' Personal Take
on the Character of Islamism

By Bryan Schwartzman



SEPTUAGENARIANS -- HUMAN RESOURCES & THE MATTER OF AGE:  STEREOTYPES & THE EMPLOYMENT POLICIES OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, PRIVATE CORPORATIONS, & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ARE PREVENTING LARGE NUMBERS OF HIGHLY SKILLED & EDUCATED SENIOR CITIZENS FROM MAKING USEFUL CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN SOCIETY -- WASTING THE KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS OF THE "KIDS" WHO GREW UP PRESERVING TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES -- ENCOUNTERING THE GROSS IGNORANCE OF A YOUNGER GENERATION THAT OFTEN SEEMS ONLY TO KNOW WHAT IT HAS "LEARNED" FROM TELEVISION & MOVIES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 48, March 14, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IS 70 THE NEW 50?

By Alan Caruba



THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, & DEGENERATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS:  LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' ABUSE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS IN ORDER TO WEAKEN THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS & REGAIN CONTROL OF ALL THREE BRANCHES OF THE U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATS SEEKING TO ENHANCE THEIR POLITICAL POWER & REGAIN DOMINATION OVER DECISION-MAKING ON MATTERS OF NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY -- THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY OF DISTORTION, CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, &, ULTIMATELY, CRIMINALIZATION OF OPPOSING POINTS OF VIEW -- THE WEAKKNEED & INEPT REPUBLICAN RESPONSE TO THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM, DEMOCRATIC PROSECUTORS' ABUSE OF THE AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC OFFICE, & THE RESULTANT TRAVESTIES OF JUSTICE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 47, March 14, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA'S OMINOUSLY DIVERGING CONVERSATIONS

By Christopher G. Adamo



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, ORGANIC FOODS, & HUMAN HEALTH:  ORGANIC FOODS PUSHED BY POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, ORGANIC FOOD ACTIVISTS, & THE ORGANIC FOOD INDUSTRY POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO HUMAN HEALTH -- WHAT THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE PROVES:  ORGANIC FOODS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN FOODS DERIVED FROM CROPS CULTIVATED WITH THE USE OF CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS, ARE NO BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN ARE PRODUCE FROM CONVENTIONAL, NON-ORGANIC FARMS, & ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO SPREAD DEADLY BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 46, March 13, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DEADLY ORGANIC SPINACH

By Alex & Dennis T. Avery



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & THE ANTI-CHEMICAL MOVEMENT VERSUS HUMAN HEALTH:  ENHANCING THE LONGEVITY OF INSECT & RODENT PESTS & ELIMINATING HUMAN DFENSES AGAINST THE DEADLY DISEASES THESE PESTS SPREAD -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & ANTI-CHEMICAL IDEOLOGUES IN GOVERNMENT & INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES USE THE SOCALLED "PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE" TO RESTRICT THE SALE & USE OF PESTICIDES, HERBICIDES, WATER-CLEANING CHEMICALS, & CHEMICALS USED IN PLASTIC -- THE COMING OF ANOTHER GREAT PLAGUE, WHICH WILL KILL COUNTLESS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 45, March 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NEW DARK AGE

By Alan Caruba



IRAQ, IRAQI KURDISTAN, ETHNIC FEDERALISM, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. SUPPORT FOR KURDISH NATIONALISM & ITS DRIVE TO BRING ABOUT AN INDEPENDENT & UNITED KURDISTAN -- THE KURDISH NATIONALIST DRIVE & ITS THREAT TO TURKEY'S NATIONAL SECURITY & TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 44, March 10, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ENABLING KURDISH ILLUSIONS

By Dr.Michael Rubin



SCHOLARSHIP ON CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN SOCIETY, POLITICS, & FOREIGN POLICY:  A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE -- SEPARATING THE GOOD BOOKS FROM THE BAD BOOKS -- DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SOUND ANALYSIS & FLAWED ANALYSIS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 43, March 8, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAN IN BOOKS:  REVIEW ESSAY

By Dr. Patrick Clawson



PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS & THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:  DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS PANDER TO THEIR PARTY'S LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL & IDEOLOGICAL BASE, WHILE LIBERAL LEFTIST RINOS (REPUBLICANS IN NAME ONLY) SEEK TO MANEUVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY INTO ABANDONING ITS CORE CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES & NOMINATING A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WHO WILL BE MORE APPEALING TO NORTHEASTERN LIBERALS -- WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT OF SUCCESS IN THE RINOS' ENDEAVOR TO UNDERMINE REAGAN CONSERVATISM & SECURE NOMINATION OF A SOCALLED "MODERATE" AS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN THE 2008 ELECTION?  MOVING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TOWARDS IRRELEVANCY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 42, March 7, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

2008 PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS & RINO PIPEDREAMS

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE LOW QUALITY OF ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE U.S.A. TODAY: HIGH TIME FOR A MOVEMENT TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF AMERICA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM STATE TEACHERS' UNIONS, INCOMPETENT TEACHERS, DISHONEST SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS, & WASHINGTON POLITICIANS -- REPEAL THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT & RETURN CONTROL OF THE SCHOOLS TO THE STATES & LOCAL COMMUNITIES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 41, March 4, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE NATIONAL SHAME OF OUR SCHOOLS

By Alan Caruba



PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL & STATE LEGISLATION ATTACKING AMERICAN NATIONAL CULTURE & SOVEREIGNTY:   REPUBLICAN AS WELL AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS ENDANGER AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY & GIVE SHORT SHRIFT TO AMERICA'S TRADITIONAL VALUES -- THE POLITICAL CLASS SEEKS TO PERPETUATE THE UNCHECKED, MASSIVE FLOW OF ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE U.S.A. -- THE SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE" ISSUE AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TACTICS BEING EMPLOYED BY COUNTERCULTURAL ELEMENTS IN THE STATE GOVERNMENTS TO DESTROY AMERICAN CULTURE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 40, February 28, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA BEING DESTROYED BY STEALTH LEGISLATION

By Christopher G. Adamo



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, GLOBAL WARMING PROPAGANDA, & POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION IN AMERICA'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS:  USING LIES, DISTORTIONS, INACCURACIES, & PSEUDO-SCIENCE TO TEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS A MAN-MADE HORROR THAT WILL DESTROY THE EARTH & ITS INHABITANTS -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS, & POLITICALLY BIASED TEACHERS TEAM UP TO DISSEMINATE GLOBAL WARMING PROPAGANDA AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN -- FILLING THE CHILDREN'S MINDS WITH CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING SCARE STORIES IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THE AGENDAS OF ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGUES & SELF-SERVING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 39, February 27, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FORCING GLOBAL WARMING NIGHTMARES ON CHILDREN

By Tom DeWeese



THE EARTH'S CLIMATIC FUTURE: FURTHER GLOBAL WARMING OR THE COMING OF A NEW ICE AGE? WILL HUMANITY & CIVILIZATION BE DESTROYED BY AN OVER-HEATED PLANET OR BY A THICK SHEET OF ICE?  THE POLITICAL & ECONOMIC AGENDA OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, WHO CLAIM THAT THE EARTH & ITS INHABITANTS ARE DOOMED TO EXTINCTION BY A PERIOD OF CATASTROPIC GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY GREENHOUSE GASES RESULTING FROM INDUSTRY, TRANSPORTATION, & OTHER HUMAN ACTIVITY:  SEVERE RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF ALL ENERGY DERIVED FROM FOSSIL FUELS -- DESTRUCTION OF A THRIVING PERIOD OF ECONOMIC GROWTH & INTERNATIONAL TRADE -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY VERSUS TRUE SCIENCE & HUMAN PROSPERITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 38, February 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AN ICE AGE VERSUS GLOBAL WARMING

By Alan Caruba



ISLAMIST TYRANNY & OPPRESSION IN IRAN:  IRAN'S ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME CONTINUES ITS SUPPRESSION OF DISSIDENTS -- A CASE IN POINT:  THE REGIME'S REACTION TO MANSOUR OSANLOU & THE TEHRAN BUS DRIVERS' STRIKE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 37, February 23, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DISSIDENT WATCH:  MANSOUR OSANLOU

By Dr. Michael Rubin



AMAZING EPISODES REFLECTING THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' COMPLETE LACK OF CREDIBILITY & INTEGRITY:   GLARING INCONSISTENCIES & CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BEHAVIOR OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST LEADERS, INCONSISTENCIES & CONTRADICTIONS THAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEVER POINT OUT TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC -- CURRENT ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES DETERMINED, NOT AS THE RESULT OF THE CONCERNS & NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, BUT, RATHER, ON THE BASIS OF THE EXPLOITABILITY OF SUCH ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES IN THE ONGOING ENDEAVOR OF LIBERALS TO ENHANCE THEIR POLITICAL POWER & INFLUENCE, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE SAFETY & SECURITY OF THE AMERICAN NATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 36, February 22, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DEMOCRATS STILL PLAYING GAMES WITH CRITICAL ISSUES

By Christopher G. Adamo



WESTERN EFFORTS TO INDUCE IRAN'S POLITICAL REGIME TO END ITS ACCELERATING NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM & THE USE & SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM:  THE FUTILITY & OUTRIGHT DANGER OF THE WEST'S SEEKING ENGAGEMENT & DIALOGUE WITH THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP -- THE IRANIAN REGIME'S EXPLOITATION OF ENGAGEMENT & DIALOGUE TO ADVANCE ITS AGENDA & CONTINUE THREATENING WORLD PEACE --THE WEST'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF POLITICS IN IRAN -- FAILURE OF WESTERN ANALYSTS TO COMPREHEND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE IRANIAN REGIME'S IDEOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 35, February 21, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAN:  TABLE TALK

By Dr. Michael Rubin & Danielle Pletka



AL GORE AS AN APOSTLE OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING THEORY -- ONE OF THE MORE PSYCHOTICALLY DELUSIONAL OF THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS:  PREDICTING RAPID, CASTASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING WHEN THE EARTH IS ACTUALLY NEARING THE END OF AN INTERGLACIAL PERIOD & ON THE CUSP OF OF A NEW ICE AGE -- THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT GORE'S PREDICTION:  THERE IS NO KNOWN OR PROVABLE SCIENCE THAT SUPPORTS HIS GLOBAL WARMING-RELATED CLAIMS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume IX, Issue # 34, February 18, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE STRANGE WORLD OF AL GORE

By Alan Caruba



ACADEMIC FREEDOM VERSUS PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT & EXPRESSION, & ADHERENCE TO WESTERN VALUES:  ACADEMIC FREEDOM AS A MEANS BY WHICH RADICAL ACTIVIST, DISLOYAL PROFESSORS & STUDENTS SHIELD THEMSELVES FROM OVERSIGHT, ACCOUNTABILITY, & THE DEMANDS OF GENUINE SCHOLARSHIP -- THE REAL MEANING OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM, AS CURRENTLY APPLIED:  FREEDOM FOR PROFESSORS TO POLITICALLY INDOCTRINATE THEIR STUDENTS -- FREEDOM FOR ACADEMICS TO CURTAIL SPEECH THAT THEY FIND TO BE UNPLEASANT & UNACCEPTABLE -- FREEDOM FOR RADICAL CAMPUS GROUPS TO ENGAGE IN PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS, RIOTING, & OTHER DISRUPTIVE ACTIVITIES -- FREEDOM TO CRITIQUE DIRECTED MOSTLY AGAINST ISRAEL, AMERICA, & EFFORTS TO DEFEND WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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Volume IX, Issue # 33, February 15, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SCHOLAR ACTIVISM

By Asaf Romirowsky



AMERICAN POLITICS, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, & PREPARATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2008:   POLITICAL PRINCIPLES & MORAL VALUES VERSUS PRAGMATISM & POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY -- THE PROBLEM WITH THE GOP'S NOMINATING A "MODERATE" (I.E., LIBERAL) AS ITS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE 2008 ELECTION -- WHAT WILL BE THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERSHIP'S TURNING IT'S BACK ON THE PARTY'S CONSERVATIVE BASE & GIVING SHORT SHRIFT TO THE CONSERVATIVES' STRONGLY-HELD POLITICAL & SOCIAL PRINCIPLES?  WHAT WILL BE THE LIKELY RESULT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ELITE'S IGNORING THE CONCERNS & VALUES OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT?
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Volume IX, Issue # 32, February 14, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GOP "FRONTRUNNERS" & THE DIXIE CHICKS

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE SECURITY & PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP:  WHAT IS IT?  TOM DEWEESE ARGUES THAT THE SSP IS THE BEGINNING OF THE ECONOMIC & POLITICAL UNIFICATION OF CANADA, MEXICO, & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO A SINGLE NORTH AMERICAN ENTITY, A UNION WHICH WILL DEPRIVE PEOPLE OF THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS & OTHER BASIC NATURAL RIGHTS & WILL DESTROY NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, FEDERALISM, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, & AMERICA'S MARKET ECONOMY
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Volume IX, Issue # 31, February 13, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A NORTH AMERICAN UNION?

By Tom DeWeese



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, GLOBAL WARMING THEORY, & AMERICA'S POLITICALLY BIASED MAINSTREAM "NEWS" MEDIA:  LEGIONS OF LIBERAL LEFTIST OR OTHERWISE MIXED-UP, SOCALLED "JOURNALISTS" IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAVE SWALLOWED HOOK, LINE, & SINKER THE GLOBAL WARMING THEORY OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & ARE HELPING THE LATTER DISSEMINATE THEIR DECEPTIVE PROPAGANDA -- HOWEVER, A GROWING NUMBER OF CLIMATE SCIENTISTS ARE CHALLENGING & DISPROVING THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS' CLAIM THAT THE EARTH IS RAPIDLY HEATING UP, DUE TO EMISSION INTO THE ATMOSPHERE OF GREENHOUSE GASES PRODUCED BY INDUSTRY, TRANSPORTATION, & OTHER HUMAN ACTIVITY
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Volume IX, Issue # 30, February 13, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GLOBAL WARMING?  JOURNALISM? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!

By Alan Caruba



RECENT BOOKS ABOUT IRAQ, THE IRAQ WAR, IRAQI POLITICS, CULTURE & SOCIETY, & UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ:  SEPARATING THE GOOD BOOKS FROM THE BAD BOOKS -- DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SOUND ANALYSIS & FLAWED ANALYSIS
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Volume IX, Issue # 29, February 13, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAQ IN BOOKS:  REVIEW ESSAY

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE ISLAMIST WAR TO CONQUER & DESTROY THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE WORLD'S FUTURE PEACE & SECURITY:  THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST CONQUER & ANNIHILATE THE EVIL & DEADLY FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- IF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DECIDES TO REDUCE LARGE PORTIONS OF BAGHDAD TO RUBBLE & OBLITERATE BIG CHUNKS OF IRAN, HISTORY WILL LIKELY SAY HE WAS RIGHT TO DO SO
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Volume IX, Issue # 28, February 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE

By Alan Caruba



THE MIDDLE EAST, HAMAS, TERRORISM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  HAMAS' OPERATION OF A TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP OVER THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- HAMAS' CONTINUING ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ENDORSEMENT OF MISSILE STRIKES ON ISRAELI CIVILIANS -- HOW THEIR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF HAMAS & OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS HAS REAPED HUGE DIVIDENDS FOR IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, & OTHER MUSLIM STATES OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- HOW WESTERN EQUIVOCATION, VACILLATION, & LACK OF RESOLVE CONTRIBUTE TO TERRORISM & DICTATORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S ABANDONMENT OF ITS PROMOTION OF THE RULE OF LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM, FREE & UNFETTERED ELECTIONS, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, & HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES
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Volume IX, Issue # 27, February 8, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HAMAS' INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY WORKS

By Dr. Michael Rubin



AMERICAN POLITICS, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, & LEFTWING LIBERALISM:  THE MOST RECENT CATECHISM OF TRUE-BELIEVING LIBERAL LEFTIST IDEOLOGUES:  CALL FOR MANDATORY ACCEPTANCE OF "CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE," "GLOBAL WARMING," & ALL OF THE STATIST PRECEPTS OF THE LIBERAL PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA NEEDED TO "FIX" & HENCEFORTH "PROTECT" THE EARTH & ITS ENVIRONMENT -- STATISM, THAT IS, CENTRAL CONTROL & DIRECTION OF THE ECONOMY BY THE GOVERNMENT, PROPOSED AS THE AVENUE TO RESOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES -- WITH THE 2008 ELECTION CAMPAIGN SEASON ALREADY GEARING UP, DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS ARE RAPIDLY COALESCING WITH POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN PROMOTING GLOBAL WARMING MASS HYSTERIA & SEEKING TO SILENCE THEIR CRITICS
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Volume IX, Issue # 26, February 7, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GLOBAL WARMING:  JUST ANOTHER LIBERAL ORTHODOXY

By Christopher G. Adamo



INCENTIVES TO SUPPORT PROPOSED "CLIMATE CONTROL" LEGISLATION:  POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR ALLIES IN CONGRESS BUILD NUMEROUS GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES, TAX BREAKS, & OTHER PORK INTO ENERGY & GLOBAL WARMING LEGISLATION -- WHY MORE & MORE COMPANIES & ORGANIZATIONS ARE CLIMBING ABOARD THE CLIMATE CHAOS "CONSENSUS" BANDWAGON TO "SAVE THE EARTH" FROM "CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE" -- DISCOVERING PERSUASIVE REASONS TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 25, February 6, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GLOBAL WARMING ETHICS, PORK, & PROFITS:
Global Warming Alarmism Generates Political & Financial Incentives

By Paul K. Driessen



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, THE UNITED NATIONS, & THE THEORY OF GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY:  THE MOST RECENT REPORT OF THE UN'S INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CONTROL -- THE IPCC'S ASSERTION THAT HUMANS ARE OVERHEATING THE PLANET, A CLAIM LACKING EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IT -- THE DEMAND THAT THE U.S.A. HELP STABILIZE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY REDUCING AMERICA'S ENERGY CONSUMPTION BY EIGHTY PERCENT -- HOW SCIENCE & THE EARTH'S NATURAL HISTORY REFUTE THE IDEOLOGY & PROPAGANDA OF THE POLITICAL ENVIROMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS -- WHY THE LATEST UN CLIMATE REPORT SHOULD BE REJECTED
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Volume IX, Issue # 24, February 5, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SHOULD WE BELIEVE THE LATEST UN CLIMATE REPORT?

By Dennis T. Avery



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, & PUBLIC POLICY:  THE OVERPOWERING & DESTRUCTIVE FORCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT PROCEEDS TO CONVINCE THE WORLD THAT MODERNIZATION, INDUSTRIALIZATION, & GLOBALIZATION ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH & SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO AN ABRUPT HALT -- THE BIG LIE OF HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING TRIUMPHS AS MASS INSANITY OR WILLING & DELIBERATE IGNORANCE REPLACES SCIENCE, COMMON SCIENCE, & RATIONALITY -- AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, POLITICIANS, & CORPORATIONS JOIN THE BANDWAGON FOR ENACTMENT OF "CLIMATE CONTROL" LEGISLATION THAT WILL HAVE NO IMPACT ON THE WORLD'S CLIMATE, BUT WILL HAVE THE EFFECT OF DESTROYING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, THE UNITED NATIONS, & THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
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Volume IX, Issue # 23, February 4, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE GREEN JUGGERNAUT

By Alan Caruba



TURKISH POLITICS & THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM:  THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO TURKEY AS A SECULAR STATE -- THE ISLAMIST ROOTS OF TURKEY'S RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY -- PRIME MINISTER RECEP ERDOGAN'S USE OF THE AKP SUPERMAJORITY IN THE GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO ERODE THE INSTITUTIONS & MECHANISMS AT THE HEART OF TURKISH SECULARISM -- ISLAMIZING EDUCATION & THE JUDICIARY -- AKP POLITICAL CORRUPTION -- DECLINING AKP POPULARITY & THE COMING SHOWDOWN -- WILL MILITARY INTERVENTION BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT AN ERDOGAN PRESIDENCY? WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT THE SITUATION IN TURKEY?
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Volume IX, Issue # 22, February 4, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WILL TURKEY HAVE AN ISLAMIST PRESIDENT?

By Dr. Michael Rubin



ISLAMIST TERRORISM & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE VERY HIGH PROBALITY THAT THE U.S.A. WILL, IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SUFFER YET ANOTHER MAJOR ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACK, AN ATTACK DWARFING THE ENORMITY OF THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 -- HOW THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT IS UNDERMINING AMERICA'S RESOLVE TO TO APPROPRIATELY RESPOND TO THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- HOW DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS ARE ENCOURAGING THE ISLAMISTS TO ATTACK OUR NATION AGAIN -- WHAT AMERICA MUST DO IN ORDER TO PREVENT ANOTHER MAJOR TERROR ATTACK & WIN THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM & BARBARISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 21, January 31, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA AFTER THE NEXT ATTACK

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE UNITED NATIONS, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY: UN REPORTS SHAPED BY POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS -- HOW CREDIBLE ARE THE UNITED NATIONS & THE UN'S INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE?  HOW RELIABLE ARE THEIR REPORTS ON CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING?  HOW VALID ARE THEIR PREDICTIONS THAT, BY 2080, THE EARTH WILL BE SUBJECT TO CRITICAL FOOD & WATER SHORTAGES?
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Volume IX, Issue # 20, January 30, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WE'RE DOOMED.  WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

By Alan Caruba



FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ARABS & THE JEWS:  A POLICY THAT IS PRO-ARAB & ANTI-ISRAELI -- FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY AT ODDS WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE CHARACTER & LONG HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE -- THE PRO-MUSLIM ATTITUDES & VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DIPLOMATIC & POLITICAL ELITES -- WHY THE FRENCH, IN INTERNATIONAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE LAST THREE OR FOUR DECADES, HAVE OBSTRUCTED EVERY WESTERN INITIATIVE & POLICY & THEREBY FACILITATED VIOLENCE, TERRORISM, & WAR -- WHY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN IRAQ & YASIR ARAFAT IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROLE OF FRANCE IN BRINGING ABOUT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN -- THE FRENCH PENCHANT FOR HARBORING ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS & APPEASING GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC STATES
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Volume IX, Issue # 19, January 29, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BETRAYAL -- FRANCE, THE ARABS, & THE JEWS:
A BRIEFING BY DAVID PRICE-JONES:
SUMMARY ACCOUNT

By Mimi Stillman



UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, ISLAMISM & THE ISLAMIC WORLD, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  WHAT THE U.S.A. MUST DO IN ORDER TO MORE EFFECTIVELY HELP PROTECT WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT AMERICA NEEDS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM WAGING WAR & STEP BACK TO DETERMINE WHAT THE NEXT CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION SHOULD BE
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Volume IX, Issue # 18, January 28, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

COOLING OFF THE WAR FEVER

By Alan Caruba



RECTIFYING THE LOW QUALITY OF UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS:  THE ARGUMENT THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, RATHER THAN CONTINUE EXPANDING ITS INTELLIGENCE BUREAUCRACY, SHOULD PRIVATIZE MOST OF THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS NOW CARRIED ON BY THE GOVERNMENT -- WHAT WOULD BE THE ADVANTAGES OF PRIVATIZATION?  HOW WOULD PRIVATIZATION AFFECT AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY?
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Volume IX, Issue # 17, January 28, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

U.S. INTELLIGENCE REFORM:  PRIVATIZE THE CIA

By Dr. Michael Rubin



FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT JAMES EARL CARTER & HIS PROPAGANDA WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, ISRAELI POLITICIANS, & ISRAEL'S SUPPORTERS:  CARTER'S FLAWED ANALYSIS OF MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- ALLOWING POLITICAL BIAS & IDEOLOGY TO GET IN THE WAY OF FACTS -- MANIPULATION OF FACTS, DISTORTIONS, & FALSEHOODS TO SUPPORT PRE-CONCEIVED NOTIONS & ARRIVING AT DESIRED CONCLUSIONS -- INVENTING HISTORY & EXCUSING SUICIDE BOMBINGS & OTHER ACTS OF ARAB TERRORISM -- DEMONSTRATING DECEITFULNESS, CRASS CONCEIT, POMPOSITY, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, MEAN-SPIRITEDNESS, PSYCHOTIC ANIMOSITY TOWARD ISRAELIS & AMERICAN JEWS, & A STRONG BIAS IN FAVOR OF THE ARAB SIDE IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT
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Volume IX, Issue # 16, January 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MY PROBLEM WITH JIMMY CARTER'S BOOK

By Dr. Kenneth W. Stein



HOW THE DEMOCRATS CAN BE DEFEATED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL & CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF 2008:  TRULY CONSERVATIVE, PRO-AMERICA, & PRO-FAMILY REPUBLICANS RUN FOR & WIN NOMINATION IN THE 2008 REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES &, AS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENCY, HIGHLIGHT & EXPOSE THE VULNERABILITIES OF THE DEMOCRATS -- CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS MUST FOCUS ON & CALL THE VOTERS' ATTENTION TO THE LEFTWING LIBERALISM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, INCLUDING THE DEMOCRATS' (1) TRIVIALIZING & EVEN IGNORING PROVEN DANGERS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AT THE HANDS OF ISLAMISTS, (2) DEFEATISM REGARDING THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM & REGARDING UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ, (3) COLLABORATION WITH POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS IN THEIR DRIVE TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION & THEREBY RUIN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, & (4) ADVOCACY OF ABORTION ON DEMAND & THE LEGITIMMIZATION OF HOMOSEXUAL DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS AS "LEGAL MARRIAGES' -- REPUBLICAN LEADERS MUST TOSS OUT THE UNINSPIRING "STRATEGY" OF COMPROMISE WITH & CAPITULATION TO THE DEMOCRATS' LIBERAL LEFTIST AGENDA, CONSISTENTLY & PERSISTENTLY STRIVE TO BLOCK THAT AGENDA, & VIGOROUSLY EXPLOIT THE DEMOCRATS' LIABILITIES
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Volume IX, Issue # 15, January 24, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HILLARY CLINTON & THE DEMOCRATS
TELEGRAPH THEIR VULNERABILITIES

By Christopher G. Adamo



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & THE USE OF ETHANOL, OR GRAIN ALCOHOL, AS A MOTOR FUEL:  POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR ALLIES IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SEEK ENACTMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION CREATING ARTIFICIAL MARKETS FOR & MANDATING USE OF ETHANOL AS A MOTOR FUEL -- HOW SUCH LEGISLATION, IF ENACTED, WILL WREAK HAVOC ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY -- SEVEN IMPORTANT REASONS WHY ETHANOL IS NOT THE ANSWER TO AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION ENERGY NEEDS -- WHY CONGRESS SHOULD NOT PANDER TO THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS' OPPOSITION TO CONTINUED U.S. RELIANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS AS ENERGY SOURCES
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Volume IX, Issue # 14, January 22, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ETHANOL DEBACLE

By Alan Caruba



THE IDEOLOGY OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM IN CONFLICT WITH TRUE SCIENCE & ECONOMIC REALITY:   ADHERING TO HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING & CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE THEORY, LEADERS OF THE NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY, IN LEAGUE WITH THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR PRESSURE GROUPS, ARE POISED TO RAM THROUGH CONGRESS HEAVY-HANDED LEGISLATION MANDATING SHARP REDUCTIONS IN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, LEGISLATION WHICH, IF ENACTED, WILL HAVE A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY & ON THE HEALTH OF AMERICANS -- SEEKING TO IMPOSE ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE UNREASONABLE CONTROLS DEMANDED BY THE KYOTO PROTOCOL & THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION -- IMPOSING IMPOSSIBLE REQUIREMENTS & PUTTING CLIMATE-CHANGE IDEOLOGUES & ALARMISTS & THEIR FELLOW TRAVELERS AMONG POLITICIANS & BUREAUCRATS IN CONTROL OF EVERY HOUSING, HEATING, COOLING, TRANSPORTATION, MANUFACTURING, & CONSUMER DECISION
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Volume IX, Issue # 13, January 21, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AN ECONOMIC SUICIDE PACT FOR EUROPE & THE U.S.A.:
Climate Alarmism Threatens Intense Pain, for No Environmental Gain

By Paul K. Driessen



RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST: WHERE DOES THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT STAND IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMISM & THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM?  ARE RUSSIA & THE U.S.A. INCREASINGLY UNITED BY COMMON VALUES?  IS RUSSIA REALLY A PARTNER IN THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM?  OR, HAS THE KREMLIN BECOME AN IMPEDIMENT TO THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIST TERROR & TO U.S. EFFORTS TO PROMOTE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  HOW RUSSIA'S ACTIONS VIS-A-VIS THE MIDDLE EAST CAST DOUBT ON RUSSIAN MOTIVATIONS?
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Volume IX, Issue # 12, January 19, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RUSSIA & THE MIDDLE EAST

By Igor Khrestin & John Elliott



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM VERSUS MEETING U.S. ENERGY NEEDS AT REASONABLE PRICES:  A MANIFESTATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS & THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, WHO OPPOSE USE OF ANY FORM OF ENERGY DERIVED FROM FOSSIL FUELS OR NUCLEAR FISSION -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATS & "MODERATE" REPUBLICANS, IN LEAGUE WITH LOBBYISTS REPRESENTING ENVIRONMENTALIST ORGANIZATIONS, SEEK CONGRESSIONAL PASSAGE OF LEGISLATION WHICH, IF ENACTED, WOULD IMPOSE UNREASONABLE BURDENS & RESTRICTIONS ON THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY & ELECTRICAL POWER COMPANIES & RESULT IN SHARP INCREASES IN THE HEATING & TRANSPORTATION COSTS THAT AMERICANS HAVE TO BEAR
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Volume IX, Issue # 11, January 18, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

STRANGLING THE ENERGY BABY

By Alan Caruba



PUBLIC PROSECUTORS' ABUSE OF THEIR AUTHORITY & DENIAL OF JUSTICE TO AMERICAN CITIZENS:  PUBLIC PROSECUTORS EXERCISING THEIR AUTHORITY NOT IN THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE, BUT, INSTEAD, IN THE PURSUIT OF PERSONAL & POLITICAL AGENDAS -- PURSUIT OF INVESTIGATIONS WHEN PROSECUTORS ARE WELL AWARE OF THE LACK OF EVIDENCE TO WARRANT THE INVESTIGATIONS -- DISTORTATION OF CASES THROUGH THE PROSECUTORS' SUPPRESSION OF HIGHLY PERTINENT EVIDENCE -- SMEARING & DEFAMING TARGETED INDIVIDUALS IN PRE-INDICTMENT & POST-INDICTMENT PUBLIC STATEMENTS -- GRAND JURY SHOPPING TO FIND A JURY THAT WILL INDICT THE INDIVIDUAL UNDER INVESTIGATION -- PROSECUTORS WHO ARE PARTISAN DEMOCRATS TARGETING REPUBLICAN OFFICEHOLDERS IN ORDER TO UNDERMINE THEM POLITICALLY & OBTAIN THEIR REMOVAL FROM OFFICE
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Volume IX, Issue # 10, January 17, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NIFONG, FITZGERALD, & EARL:  AMERICAN JUSTICE DENIED

By Christopher G. Adamo



ISRAELI STRATEGIC MILITARY POLICY:  UPON WHICH POLICY SHOULD ISRAEL RELY IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO ENSURE ITS OWN DEFENSE & SECURITY & END OR SIGNIFICANTLY MITIGATE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, A POLICY OF STRATEGIC DETERRRENCE, OR ONE OF STRATEGIC RESTRAINT?  PAST EXPERIENCE:  SUCCESS OF ISRAEL'S POLICY OF MILITARILY RESPONDING WITH DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE TO CROSS-BORDER TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ISRAEL -- FAILURE OF THE POLICY OF STRATEGIC RESTRAINT
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Volume IX, Issue # 9, January 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE END OF ISRAELI MILITARY RESTRAINT:
OUT WITH THE NEW, IN WITH THE OLD

By Or Honig



POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, THE WEATHER, & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY:  THE CLAIM OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS, & OTHER ALARMISTS THAT CHANGES IN THE WEATHER ARE EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT CARBON DIOXIDE & OTHER GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS PRODUCED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY WILL BRING ABOUT CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE & GLOBAL WARMING, UNLESS SOMETHING IS DONE TO LIMIT DRASTICALLY THE USE OF ENERGY DERIVED FROM FOSSIL FUELS -- NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITIES IN THE U.S. CONGRESS & THE DANGER OF THEIR PASSAGE OF LEGISLATION IMPOSING ON INDUSTRY SUCH SEVERE LIMITS ON ENERGY USE & THEREBY RUINING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
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Volume IX, Issue # 8, January 14, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA GOES INSANE OVER THE WEATHER

By Alan Caruba



AMERICAN POLITICS, POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, & AMERICA'S FUTURE:  HOW SELF-SERVING POLITICAL ELITES & SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., PERVERT U.S. GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS & NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY, SEEKING THEIR OWN ADVANCEMENT, ENRICHMENT & EMPOWERMENT, WITH LITTLE OR NO CONSIDERATION FOR THE DIRE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THAT MIGHT BEFALL THE REST OF THE AMERICAN NATION -- HOW THE DECISIONS & ACTIONS OF THESE WASHINGTON ELITES & INTEREST GROUPS UNDERMINE AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY & THREATEN THE LONGTERM SURVIVAL OF THE U.S.A. & ITS NATIONAL CULTURE -- IMMIGRATION POLICY AS AN EXAMPLE -- THE REPUBLICANS' LOSS IN THE NOVEMBER CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS, NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITIES IN THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS, & THE VOTERS' MESSAGE THAT THE REPUBLICANS FAILED TO GET -- WHAT THE VOTERS REJECTED:  NOT CONSERVATISM, BUT, RATHER, THE REPUBLICANS' CONCESSIONS TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERALISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 7, January 10, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WASHINGTON VERSUS AMERICA:
THE "TWO-PARTY" REALITY

By Christopher G. Adamo



ISRAEL, ISRAELI JEWS, & ISRAELI ARABS:  THE STATE OF ISRAEL DOOMED BY DEMOGRAPHICS -- THE ARGUMENT THAT THE RAPIDLY GROWING MUSLIM ARAB POPULATION WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL MAKES VERY UNLIKELY THE LONGTERM SURVIVAL OF THE JEWISH STATE
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Volume IX, Issue # 6, January 7, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHO IS AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN?

By Alan Caruba



AMERICAN POLITICS & THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE:  THE PLAN TO ASSEMBLE A CONGRESSIONAL COALITION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATS & SOCALLED "MODERATE" REPUBLICANS TO PASS AN IMMIGRATION BILL GRANTING BLANKET AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS CURRENTLY IN THE U.S.A. & PUTTING THEM ON A FAST TRACK TO AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP -- THE ROLE OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IN THIS EFFORT TO LEGISLATE A LEGITIMIZED STATUS FOR UP TO TWENTY MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS -- WHAT WOULD BE THE PROBABLE IMPACT OF ENACTMENT OF SUCH LEGISLATION ON THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? WHAT WOULD BE THE LIKELY LONGTERM CONSEQUENCES FOR AMERICAN SOCIETY & AMERICAN NATIONAL CULTURE?
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Volume IX, Issue # 5, January 5, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PRESIDENT BUSH & CONGRESSIONAL LIBERALS
PLOT IMMIGRATION "TIME BOMB"

By Christopher G. Adamo



IRAN:  STAGE-MANAGED DEMONSTRATIONS, POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, & THE WEAKNESSES OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME -- HOW THE U.S.A. & THE WEST CAN CAPITALIZE ON THE REGIME'S WEAKNESSES & THEREBY EFFECT THE OVERTHROW & DESTRUCTION OF A DANGEROUS ENEMY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE ROLE OF THE VOICE OF AMERICA IN EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING SUCH A STRATEGY -- WHY AMERICA & THE WEST SHOULD NOT BE DETERRED BY THEIR DESIRE FOR DIPLOMACY, DIALOGUE, & ENGAGEMENT
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Volume IX, Issue # 4, January 4, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOW TO MAKE 2007 AHMADINEJAD'S
LAST YEAR IN POWER

By Dr. Michael Rubin



DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICS, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, & GLOBAL WARMING THEORY:  MAKING SURE THAT THE PLAN OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR ALLIES AMONG LIBERAL DEMOCRATS TO RETARD AMERICA'S USE OF FOSSIL FUELS AS ENERGY SOURCES WILL BE FORCED UPON AN UNWILLING AMERICAN PUBLIC -- PRESSURE TO FORCE THE U.S.A. TO RUIN ITS ECONOMY IN ORDER TO ACCOMODATE THE ERRONEOUS THEORY OF HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING -- THE THREAT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION POSED BY THE CONCERTED EFFORT TO SILENCE THOSE WHO CHALLENGE & DISSENT FROM THE THEORY
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Volume IX, Issue # 3, January 3, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GLOBAL WARMING ON STEROIDS

By Alan Caruba



THE ENEMY WITHIN:  RADICAL ISLAMIC CLERICS OPERATING IN THE WEST -- ISLAMISTS, ISLAMIC POLITICS, & THE FUROR OVER PUBLICATION OF THE DANISH CARTOONS DEPICTING MUHAMMAD -- THE FUROR AS AN ISLAMIST ASSAULT ON WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- ISLAMISTS IN A WESTERN SOCIETY ANALOGOUS TO CANCER CELLS IN A HUMAN BODY -- HIGH TIME FOR WESTERN SOCIETIES TO DISCARD THE CRIPPLING & SELF-DESTRUCTIVE LIMITATIONS, RESTRICTIONS, & TABOOS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, ESPECIALLY WHEN DEALING WITH THE THREAT TO INTERNAL SECURITY POSED BY THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN
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Volume IX, Issue # 2, January 2, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AFTER THE DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY

By Pernille Ammitzboll & Lorenzo Vidino



IRAQ & THE U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION:  MISSION ACCOMPLISHED; TIME TO DEPART -- THE ARGUMENT THAT, SINCE THE U.S.A. HAS SUCCEEDED IN REMOVING SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM POWER & HAS DONE ALL IT COULD TO ASSIST THE IRAQIS IN ESTABLISHING A STABLE GOVERNMENT & A NEW ARMY & POLICE FORCE, U.S. MILITARY FORCES & THOSE OF OUR COALITION ALLIES SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ SWIFTLY, BUT DECIDEDLY -- IF THE IRAQIS PROVE UNWILLING TO OPERATE A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT & INSIST ON WAGING A CIVIL WAR TO DETERMINE WHO CONTROLS IRAQ, THEN LET THE SUNNIS, SHIITES, & KURDS FIGHT IT OUT & KILL EACH OTHER OFF -- IF THE ENSUING REGIONAL CONFLICT EXHAUSTS OR DESTROYS ISLAM'S MILITARISTIC INTENTION TO DOMINATE THE ENTIRE GLOBE, AMERICA & THE WEST WILL BE THE ULTIMATE WINNERS
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Volume IX, Issue # 1, January 1, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TIME TO LEAVE IRAQ

By Alan Caruba




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