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Articles @ WesternFront AmericaOne of the major problems experienced by the show’s gaggle of bureaucrats is whether or not to ignore liberty in exchange for the capture of terrorists.
For the first time, a U.S. Supreme Court justice is offering some legal insight about the so-called Fairness Doctrine, suggesting the off-the-books policy could be declared unconstitutional if it’s revived and brought before the bench.
Fairness Doctrine ‘unconstitutional’
Except for the God talk, these religious denominations are near clones of the ACLU, Center for American Progress, or MoveOn.org. Name the political issue and these politicized churches have a position on it and a lobbying effort nearly always identical to that of the Far Left. They have a fanatical adherence to this radical political agenda and the zeal to spread the Revealed Word through political activism.
Know Thine Enemy: The “Collaborators” Of The Religious Left
Almost all Western governments now exhibit certain common, antinomian traits. They pontificate ceaselessly. They are averse to standing custom and local habit; they mistrust free transactions and lie in wait for opportunities to interfere in commerce and free trade. Judaism and Christianity irritate them and they seek to repress the symbols of those faiths while making common cause with dubious faiths hostile to Judaism and Christianity.
Ideology and Literature: Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance (1852) and Dick’s VALIS (1981)
Yesterday Iowa became the third state in the Union where individuals can receive a legal document purporting to confer on two people of the same sex the legal status of a married couple.
Aided by an eagerly compliant Democratic-controlled Congress, a sycophantic media, and a bunch of squishy Republicans, President Obama has taken the country on a radical, mind-boggling leap into collectivism.
The 100-Day Assault on America
Lawrence Solomon, author of a book on global warming skeptics, alerts us to the global warming glasnost (his term) underway in the Australian government and press, in the National Post:
Australia does due diligence on Global Warming
I’m tired of people who are busy losing this world war because they are still obsessed with the previous one, which ended generations ago. Anti-Nazism has mutated into a permanent witch-hunt on an imaginary enemy.
The Mexican swine flu pandemic? Oh, that’s soooo yesterday. Global Warming? All those confident "scientific" predictions are falling apart around the world, even as greedy politicians still try to squeeze the last little drops of power and money out of them.
The Great Liberal Pandemonium Machine
This is scary stuff. It is not just a diminution of freedom, but a frontal assault. And it’s only part of the story, the whole of which is even worse.
The man is shameless, among other things. Nobody has done more to poison the debate about the environment, its problems and potential solutions than Al Gore has. Actually, debate is not a word that should be used in association with Al Gore. The word that I should use is debase.
The Transportation Security Administration [TSA] says it has no obligation to release sensitive security information which could compromise airline safety in the federal discrimination case being brought by the so-called "flying imams" in Minnesota.
The Flying Imams’ Tactical Demand For National Security
Since the introduction of bumper stickers calling for us to respect “Mother Earth,” we have been careening towards an all-out deification of nature.
An All-Out Deification of Nature
Since the election, the debate has raged. Who is responsible for the 2008 election debacle and the defeat of the Republican Party?
The Dangerous Good Old Boys of the GOP
Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist. Granted, only a qualified mental health diagnostician can determine whether someone suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and this, following lengthy tests and personal interviews. But, in the absence of access to Barack Obama, one has to rely on his overt performance and on testimonies by his closest, nearest and dearest.
Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
At the cap-and-trade hearings, it was revealed that not everyone will suffer from this growth-killing energy tax. A congresswoman wanted to know why sea levels aren’t rising but Gore’s bank account is.
Cap-And-Trade: Al Gore’s Cash Cow
The Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Auturo Sarukhan, appeared on a CBS news program recently and repeated a lie we have heard for many months about the violence in Mexico. The ambassador says Americans are to blame for the violence wrecked on his country by the Mexican drug cartels because “most of the guns confiscated by Mexican police can be traced back to the United States.” That is not true, but the way that claim has been accepted by American politicians and the mainstream media raises suspicions about a hidden agenda.
Why the Lies About Guns Going to Mexico?
Political personality cults rely on the codependence of their adherents to foster a bond that is hard to sever between the Leader and his followers. It is, therefore, crucial to understand this psychological attachment disorder.
Political Codependence and Cults of Personality
In 1993, a terrorist cell detonated a 1,500-lb car bomb below New York’s World Trade Center (six dead, more than 1,000 wounded) The perps were:
Congratulations, You May Already Be a Terrorist
Since I was a child, I was sure that there were people in my family and in society who were exceptional in one way or another.
The Left’s Myth of American Unexceptionalism
It may seem odd that the profundity of Martin Niemoller could find a fitting application in the unlikely venue of a beauty pageant. But such is the depths to which America has descended as prominent members of its counterculture exercise ever-greater influence on society.
Miss USA And The Ugly Counterculture
You all know the drill. The recent vague and controversial DHS report on right-wing extremism, the cover of which DHS might just as well have put on the Republican Party platform.
Official: Dissent Now Unpatriotic
Once again The New York Times unleashes a not-so-hidden agenda on its reading public. Here the Times is regurgitating the debunked claim that “90%” of Mexico’s recovered guns used in crime south of the border are from U.S. gun dealers.
The New York Times Anti-Gun Agenda
The Administration’s nominee for Legal Adviser to the State Department, Harold Koh, the Dean of Yale Law School, has come under widespread criticism for his advocacy of legal transnationalism.
A World Drowning in Laws: Harold Koh’s Transnationalism
Christina Hoff Sommers writes about a looming liberal war on science. Based on a campaign promise Obama made to feminist groups in October 2008,
On too many issues, Republicans are not offering solid, coherent alternatives to the leftward lurch of the nation.
The "liar, liar pants on fire" argument usually isn’t the most effective. But when it comes to guns, President Obama is lying through his teeth.
Sixteen years ago we were reminded of the deadly danger of having the left-liberals in charge of the police state. The largest massacre of American civilians by the US government since Wounded Knee climaxed on April 19, 1993.
Chuck Norris says he’ll run for President of the new nation of Texas if it breaks apart from the United States of America (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index….). Gov. Rick Perry says he’ll support the secession if Texans want it (http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/new…).
Why Texas will (Eventually) Secede From the Union – And Other States will Follow
The latest Rasmussen poll reports that the lowest number of voters ever polled — one-in-three — believe that global warming is caused by human activity.
It’s Alternative Media That’s Cooling Global Warming Hysteria
On Wednesday, I included mention of a New York Times piece by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, where he was stumping for the UN Firearms Protocol. You’ll note the link is hosted by IANSA, the International Action Network on Small Arms.
Obama using treaties with foreign powers to enact domestic ‘gun control’
"Compounding the felony" is an expression which observes how one’s attempt to extricate himself from one accusation inadvertently admits to a more serious one. In the case of how the Mainstream Media and even how Homeland Security struggles to cover or explicate newsbreaks respectively, they both wind up enunciating snide and derisive remarks to citizens and furnish the very proof of their deep loathing and disrespect of their sovereign. That’s you and me.
The MSM and DHS compounding the felony.
Are You a Terrorist? It’s easy to find out!
Apparently folks like myself who support the “Bill of Rights,” are anti-illegal-immigration and questioners for the truth are being seen as a threat by our dear federal Department of Homeland Security agency. I suppose we had to see this coming when the phrase, “Global War on Terror” became replaced with, “Oversees Contingency Operations.”
DHS Thinks Constitutionalists are Extremists
In the aftermath of the Patriotic Tea Parties, I find it humorous that the anti-Americanists across this nation, including Obama, are either lying about them or living in denial.
Patriotic Tea Parties Have Anti-Americanists Screeching
According to blogger Joe Romm of Climate Progress, websites and writers daring to question greenhouse gas orthodoxy are guilty of endangering the "health and well-being of countless billions of people." And in a surprisingly erratic response to recent criticism, the dangerous "deniers" this modern day prophet of doom singles out for suppression are American Thinker and its new environment editor.
The Planet Cools While Romm Burns
Another Democratic president has shattered precedent. Democratic politicians take great pride in shattering American precedents, and they do so with such regularity that it is surprising there are any precedents left to shatter, except, I guess, for the precedents Democrats establish on the ruins of earlier precedents.
In fact, the only good news is that Richard Phillips has been rescued. The bad news is that what appears to have been a bunch of lawless, plunder-seeking Somalis “yo-hoing” on the high seas is, in fact, a manifestation of the jihad — as attested to by both Islamic history and doctrine.
What Piracy? This Is the Same Old Jihad
I believe the American people, and their every action, are being ruled, regulated, restricted, licensed, registered, directed, checked, inspected, measured, numbered, counted, rated, stamped, censured, authorized, admonished, refused, prevented, drilled, indoctrinated, monopolized, extorted, robbed, hoaxed, fined, harassed, disarmed, dishonored, fleeced, exploited, assessed, and taxed to the point of suffocation and desperation.
The Wrenching Transformation of America
During his visit to Turkey, President Barack Hussein Obama declared, "Whatever we once were, we’re no longer a Christian nation.” His provocative statement was more than just an assessment of America’s religious identity; it was a calculated move to further his political agenda.
Obama’s Purpose In Declaring America A Non-Christian Nation
A favorite guru for the Religious Left is ordained United Church of Christ minister Walter Brueggemann, a professor emeritus of Old Testament at Presbyterian Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia. A critic of "Pharaoh’s Production-Consumption Society," i.e. the modern American free market economy, Brueggemann equates capitalism with materialism — but he ignores coarser materialism of a command and control economy, in which an oppressive state distributes economic benefits according to political calculation.
"Freedom is our goal!" roared commander Pepe San Roman to the men assembled before him 48 years ago this week. “Cuba is our cause! God is on our side! On to victory!” Fifteen hundred men crowded before San Roman at their Guatemalan training camps that day. The next day they’d embark for a port in Nicaragua, and the day after that would be bound for a landing site in Cuba named Bahia De Cochinos. We know it as the Bay of Pigs.
Sunday will mark the 14th anniversary of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that claimed 171 lives – 168 men, women and children and three unborn. It is also a day on which the largest criminal conspiracy and cover-up of the 20th century began and continues today.
Nefarious nexus: The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, DHS & MIAC memos
Inspired by a rant from financial pundit Rick Santelli, a movement sprang up to hold tea parties around the nation to object excessive spending and taxation.
Tea Parties Make a Splash in Austin and Nationwide
The secretary of homeland security equates dissent with extremism. If you’re pro-life or support the right to bear arms, you need to be watched.
A seamless conclusion to the smear job heard ’round the world, thanks to some amazingly fortuitous timing by Founding Bloggers. On a day when the grassroots came out to protest the establishment, it’s fitting that a small indie outfit like FB would end up putting the screws to CNN this way.
What and who exactly are President Obama’s homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You.
You Might Be A ‘Radicalized Right-Wing Extremist’ If… — Michelle Malkin
Obama continues to spew half-truths and downright lies while the media continues to let him get away with it
Obama Cites Debunked Claim That Most Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
The modern world is so full of muddled thinking that liberals aren’t sure if killing pirates is the right thing to do.
Multiculturalism is a relatively modern fad that pseudo-intellectuals (notably in the media and government) like to bandy about to extract respectability.
Islamic belligerence: encouraged by multiculturalism
