THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA

An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis

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

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POLITICAL VIOLENCE & INSTABILITY IN POST-QADDAFI LIBYA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 154, Sep 28, 2012
LIBYA IN THE AFTERMATH
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that led to the death of the American Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, illustrates that, despite the poor performance of Islamists in the elections back in July, the country still faces a serious internal terrorist threat from ideological militants who either operate with freedom from central government control or have entered into the ranks of the new Libyan security forces.

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REPUBLICAN "MODERATES" INTENT ON MOVING THE GOP TO THE LEFT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 153, Sep 26, 2012
CONSERVATIVES SHOULD CHEER ROMNEY'S 47% "GAFFE"
By Christopher G. Adamo

An ominously large group of Republican “moderates” are intent on moving the GOP to the Left, in order to eliminate any real contrast between America's two major parties. By this, they hope to escape ridicule from the Liberal press, though historically they have never enjoyed equal status with the undiluted Liberalism of Democrats (and they never will). Nevertheless, they seize any opportunity to fawn, and thereby show themselves superior to the crude and primeval principles undergirding real Conservatism.

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THE EMPTY PROMISES OF SOCIALISM & COLLECTIVISM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 152, September 17, 2012
CAN LIBERALS "WISH" SOCIALIST UTOPIA INTO EXISTENCE
By Christopher G. Adamo

California is in the midst of a monstrous debt crisis, the inescapable result of its leading Democrats having gambled on an annual deficit less than $9.2 billion (an immense sum in itself), but now facing a shortfall of nearly twice that amount. For the good of the country, anyone who is actually surprised at this development should be barred from voting in any election until they can pass a third-grade remedial math exam.

The inevitability of the California crisis has long been glaringly obvious to all but the most ideologically blinded Leftists. Unfortunately, the government of the Golden State is overwhelmingly dominated by just such individuals. As a result, the implementation of any viable fix has become an impossibility. California will undoubtedly continue down its current disastrous course to eventual financial implosion.

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THE INCREASINGLY SECTARIAN DIMENSION OF THE CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 151, Sep 18, 2012
THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

That the conflict in Syria has taken on an increasingly sectarian dimension over time is undeniable. For example, the New York Times recently interviewed children of Sunni Syrian refugees in a camp in Jordan, expressing their desire to exact revenge on the Alawite community (to which Bashar Assad belongs). On YouTube, one can find numerous videos uploaded by opponents of the regime, in which suspected operatives and supporters of the Assad government have been tortured into confessing that they are Shiite, whether they are or not.

In May, a particularly gruesome video emerged in which some Syrian rebels beheaded a captive suspected of backing the regime, denouncing him as a rafidi (a derogatory term for a Shiite). The video did not garner any real mainstream coverage because it was falsely presented in an online article as showing the killing of a convert to Christianity in Tunisia, even though it was apparent that the speaker's accent did not suggest any kind of Maghrebi origin (or even Iraqi, as some speculated; on the contrary, the accent is distinctly Syrian). Further, nowhere in the video was the victim denounced as a Christian.

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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY FOCUSED PRIMARILY UPON POLITICAL DAMAGE CONTROL       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 150, Sep 18 2012
DISASTROUS FOREIGN POLICY REFLECTS DISASTROUS PRESIDENCY
By Christopher G. Adamo

No doubt, it is believed at the highest levels of the Obama administration that its exhibitions of Liberal Leftist enlightenment in U.S. foreign policy will usher in a golden age of mutual respect and understanding among the nations of the world, just as the collectivist domestic policy is still expected to eventually create a socialist utopia within our shores. Unfortunately, reality is slow to impress the idealistically blind. If the devastation on Main Street over the past four years is not sufficient to persuade these committed Leftists, it is hardly likely that the venomous anti-American attitudes of the “Arab Street” will infuse common sense into their thinking either.

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THE RELIGIOUS IDENTITY OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 149, September 14, 2012
OBAMA'S MUSLIM CHILDHOOD
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Has Obama "always been a Christian" or did he "become a Christian" after college? Self-contradiction on so fundamental a matter of identity, when added to the general questioning about the accuracy of his autobiography, raises questions about veracity; would someone telling the truth say such varied and opposite things about himself? Inconsistency is typical of fabrication: when making things up, it's hard to stick with the same story. Obama appears to be hiding something. Was he the areligious child of irreligious parents? Or was he always a Christian? A Muslim? Or was he, in fact, something of his own creation – a Christian/Muslim?

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UNRWA -- ITS ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE PALESTIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 148, July 10, 2012
LESSENING UNRWA'S DAMAGE
By Dr. Daniel Pipes & Dr. Steven J. Rosen

UNRWA's most consequential problem is its mission. Over 63 years, it has become an agency that perpetuates the refugee problem, rather than contributing to its resolution. UNRWA does not work to settle refugees; instead, by registering each day ever more grandchildren and great-grandchildren who have never been displaced from their homes or employment, artificially adding them to the tally of Palestinian "refugees," it adds to number of refugees aggrieved against Israel.

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DENYING A JEWISH PAST TO SITES & HOLY PLACES IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 147, July 9, 2012
THE BATTLE OVER SILWAN: FABRICATING PALESTINIAN HISTORY
By Shaul Bartal

On August 26, 2010, a violent clash broke out between Jewish and Arab residents of Silwan, a predominantly Muslim village outside the southern end of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. The name derives from the biblical "Shiloah" and its subsequently Graecized "Siloam."

On the face of it, the sparring that erupted over a gate built illegally by Arab residents may seem like a miniature version of the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over who controls the Holy Land. But reducing the struggle to a mere real estate dispute misses a critical point in understanding the persistence of the larger conflict. For the battle of Silwan is a microcosm of a larger fight, one in which one side, the Palestinian, seeks to erase the existence of the other — not merely through traditional armed conflict, but also by rewriting history.

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THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF THE ISLAMISTS IN THE MALDIVES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 146, July 2, 2012
ASSESSING THE MALDIVES
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

In the Maldives, the trends on the ground point to the growing influence of the Islamists, who clearly have sympathizers and supporters in the army and police. They also indicate the acceptance of the current President based on how unwilling he is to tackle Islamism head-on, or perhaps even in any fashion. The possibility of an Islamist president after next year's elections seems to be on course.

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IRAQ'S OIL INDUSTRY & THE FUTURE OF THE IRAQI ECONOMY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 145, July 1, 2012
ASSESSING IRAQ'S OIL INDUSTRY
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

Contributing 60 percent of GDP, 99 percent of exports and over 90 percent of government revenue, the oil industry is by far the most vital sector of the Iraqi economy, with proven petroleum reserves of 143 billion barrels and a potential to recover and refine a further 200 billion barrels. The existence of substantial oil reserves in the area of Mesopotamia has been known since at least the end of the nineteenth century, with the monopoly of oil exploration and production originally lying in the hands of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), which was owned by a consortium of foreign oil companies, until the Baath government completely nationalized the IPC in 1972. It should be emphasized that, since that time, the oil industry has remained a state-run enterprise in Iraq.

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THE MIDDLE EAST'S LOSS OF ITS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AT PRODUCING OIL       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 144, July 1, 2012
WILL THE MIDDLE EAST LOSE ITS IMPORTANCE?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

The high probability is that Professor Paul D. Miller's advice that U.S. policymakers "look with more complacency on the rise and fall of particular regimes across the Middle East and North Africa" will not be listened to anytime soon.

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THE FATE OF CHRISTIAN MINORITIES IN MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 143, July 1, 2012
MUSLIM PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS: MAY, 2012
By Raymond Ibrahim

Because the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching epidemic proportions, "Muslim Persecution of Christians" was developed to collate some — by no means all — of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes: (1) Intrinsically, to document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians. (2) Instrumentally, to show that such persecution is not "random," but systematic and interrelated — that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.

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IMPLEMENTATION OF OBAMACARE WILL COST $1.76 TRILLION OVER A DECADE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 142, June 30, 2012
OBAMACARE -- THE LIAR'S TAX
By Alan Caruba

The most singular aspect of Obamacare is the way Democrats, from the President on down, consistently lied about the fact that it was a tax. Interviewed by George Stephanopolos on ABC News, September, 2009, President Obama was asked if he rejected the criticism that it was a tax increase. “I absolutely reject that notion,” was his reply.

No need to quote the others. They all lied. It took the U.S. Supreme Court and, in particular, Chief Justice Roberts, to call Obamacare a tax in the process of eliminating the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as a justification for imposing this burden on Americans.

As CNBC’s Larry Kudlow was quick to note, “Twenty new or higher taxes across the board are bad for economic growth, bad for job hiring, bad for investors, and bad for families,” adding that, when “you tax something more, you get less of it.”

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GOVERNANCE UNDER EGYPT'S FIRST POPULARLY ELECTED PRESIDENT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 141, June 29, 2012
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM EGYPT'S MORSI
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

What to make of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi's election as President of Egypt? What seems to be the most likely outcome is something analogous to the "constitutional settlements" of the early Roman Empire. That is, the military, like the Emperor Augustus in antiquity, will entrust to itself management of foreign policy, while granting Morsi (and a Parliament, if new elections are allowed) -- akin to the Senate in Rome -- considerable autonomy with regards to the direction of domestic affairs, even as the military has assumed control over the drafting of the Constitution.

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AMERICANS MUST STAY VIGILANT & ENGAGED IN THE U.S. ELECTORAL PROCESS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 140, June 28, 2012
THE DEMOCRATS' "DAMAGE CONTROL" HAS BECOME AN EMBARRASSMENT
By Christopher G. Adamo

Overall, it is probably a good thing that Nancy Pelosi not only stays in the U.S. Congress, but, as House Minority Leader, retains the highest Democratic Party position in the Congress. As a result, she remains sufficiently prominent for the nation to be continually reminded of how bad things in Washington, D.C., can really get, if Americans do not stay vigilant and engaged in the electoral process, in order to keep such mindless Leftists in the minority. Last week, she inarguably made this case once again.

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STRATEGY & TACTICS OF ASSERTING PALESTINIAN NATIONHOOD & STATEHOOD       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 139, June 27, 2012
FOUNDING NATIONAL MYTHS: FABRICATING PALESTINIAN HISTORY
By Dr. David Bukay

The vast literature proving the historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel has been extensively manipulated and distorted as part of the Palestinian politics of nationalism. Propaganda, indoctrination and socialization, both domestically and internationally, are essential parts of the strategy and tactics of asserting Palestinian nationhood and statehood. By appropriating to themselves the values, traditions, and historical facts that belong to the Jews, Palestinians have managed to fabricate a "legitimate" history and political traditions out of nothing, while denying those of Israel.

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OBAMA'S PLAN FOR A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN U.S. AUTO MILEAGE STANDARDS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 138, June 26, 2012
EPA'S NEW CAFÉ MILEAGE STANDARDS KILL:
They Will Prevent Many Families from Buying Cars,
& Leave More Grieving for Lost Loved Ones
By Deroy Murdock

The Obama administration plans a significant increase in federal auto mileage, or CAFÉ, standards. The much higher standards will boost car prices taking cars right out of the hands of some 6.8 million drivers. Far worse, the smaller, lighter, more plasticized cars and light trucks that these rules will put on the automotive market will be more dangerous – thus increasing traffic accident deaths and injuries.

Let’s hear it for Washington’s latest “smashing” success!

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HOW THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CAN BE EXPECTED TO GOVERN EGYPT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 137, June 25, 2012
THE EVILS OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD:
EVIDENCE KEEPS MOUNTING
By Raymond Ibrahim

Egypt's longtime banned Muslim Brotherhood — the parent organization of nearly every subsequent Islamist movement, including al-Qa'ida — has just won the nation's Presidency, in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Morsi. That apathy reigns in the international community, when once such news would have been deemed devastating, is due to the successful efforts of Muslim apologists and subversive agents in the West who portray the Muslim Brotherhood as "moderate Islamists" — irrespective that such a formulation is oxymoronic, since to be "Islamist," to be a supporter of draconian Sharia, is by definition to be immoderate.

Obama administration officials naturally took it a step further, portraying the Muslim Brotherhood as "largely secular" and "pluralistic."

Back in the real world, evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood is just another hostile Islamist group bent on achieving world domination through any means possible is overwhelming.

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THE UNITED NATIONS' RIO+20 CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 136, June 26, 2012
DODGING ANOTHER UN BULLET:
The Future We Want Offered Sustained Power
& Money Grabs in the Name of Sustainability
By Paul K. Driessen & Duggan Flanakin

The UN’s Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development is finally over. CFACT was there from start to finish -- in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte -- interviewing, educating, and working hard to defend the rights, liberties, and opportunities of hard-working Americans and the billions of poor people who want to take their rightful places among the Earth’s healthy and prosperous inhabitants.

This article is both a post mortem on the conference – and a cautionary tale about the kind of “global governance” that environmentalist activists and UN bureaucrats had planned for us -- and will almost certainly seek to implement at the next UN summit on global warming, sustainability, biodiversity, or some still undefined looming global cataclysm.

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RADICALIZATION OF MUSLIM-AMERICANS -- THE THREAT TO THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 135, June 25, 2012
U.S. CONGRESSMAN AL GREEN CALLS FOR HEARINGS ON
"RADICALIZATION" OF WHITE CHRISTIAN WOMEN
By Raymond Ibrahim

During a Homeland Security Committee hearing last week on the "Radicalization of Muslim-Americans," Texas Congressman Al Green (Democrat) criticized the hearings as biased and unfair to Muslims, suggesting that the only way to justify them is if Congress would also conduct a "hearing on the radicalization of Christians."

Though Green's position may seem balanced, in fact, it reveals a dangerous mix of irrationality, moral relativism, and emotionalism — all disastrous traits in a U.S. Congressman.

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COULD WE BE LIVING IN THE LAST YEARS OF AMERICA'S INFLUENCE & POWER?       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 134, June 24, 2012
AMERICA'S FEARFUL FUTURE
By Alan Caruba

The world is teetering on a new Great Depression. Constitutional democracies are at risk. In the 1930s, there were an estimated two billion people worldwide. Today, there are seven billion people in the world; the pressures to feed them and meet their other needs have increased exponentially. It strains relations between nations and within them.

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FEARS OF ISLAMIST PERSECUTION OF EGYPT'S CHRISTIANS ON A GRAND SCALE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 133, June 20, 2012
EGYPT -- ISLAMISTS VERSUS COPTS:
An Animosity That Seeks Any Excuse to Attack
By Raymond Ibrahim

As Egypt's presidential elections come to a close, with the Muslim Brotherhood claiming presidential victory, the future of Egypt's indigenous Christians, the Copts, looks bleak.

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IDEOLOGIES, AGENDAS, & REGULATIONS PROMOTED AT THE RIO+20 SUMMIT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 132, June 20, 2012
RIO+20 -- THE GREATEST THREAT TO BIODIVERSITY:
99% of Species & Humans Ill-Served by the
0.1% UN & Environmentalist Elites
By Paul K. Driessen & David Rothbard

The UN's Rio+20 gabfest on “sustainable development” and “biodiversity” seeks to impose far-reaching energy, environmental, and economic policies on developed and developing countries alike – in large part by claiming the policy changes are essential to prevent mass extinctions of vital plant and animal species. However, as this article demonstrates, their claims are not just incorrect or even fabricated. The Greens’ policies would also perpetuate poverty, misery, disease, and premature death in the poorest nations on earth – and pose the greatest danger of all to the very species the Greens claim they want to protect.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, STATISM, THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 131, June 20, 2012
OBAMA UNMASKED OVER TIME BY "GAFFES"
By Christopher G. Adamo

The Liberal media is in full damage control mode, owing to President Barack Obama’s latest blunder. Assessing the nation’s ongoing economic struggles during a June 8 press conference, he flatly stated “The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local governments.” It must be understood here that the real blunder was not his completely reversed portrayal of the abysmal private sector business climate in comparison to the realm of government jobs. Rather, it was the fact that he let this very telling bit of information slip, and thus revealed yet another bit of evidence marking him as a classic statist.

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THE TOTALITARIAN REGIME ENVIRONMENTALISTS ADVOCATE FOR HUMANITY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 130, June 19, 2012
EARTH SUMMIT BABBLE
By Alan Caruba

Why anyone still believes anything the UN Environmental Program and its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has to say is one of those great imponderable questions. To prepare you for the flood of totally idiotic predictions to which you will be treated during the June 20-21 Earth Summit, here are just a few, and I strongly advise you to ignore all of them.

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A SUPPOSEDLY ERODING SUPPORT BASE FOR IRAQ'S PREMIER NOURI AL-MALIKI       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 129, June 19, 2012
NO CONFIDENCE IN MALIKI?
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

Nouri Al-Maliki's position as Iraqi Premier will remain safe. The disagreements dividing Al-Maliki's opponents are likely to persist for at least many months to come. In truth, therefore, the attempts to initiate a no-confidence vote against Maliki are little more than a waste of time.

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FROM THE 1979 IRANIAN REVOLUTION TO THE CURRENT ARAB REVOLUTIONS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 128, July 18, 2012
PARALLEL BETRAYALS: IRANIAN REVOLUTION & ARAB SPRING
By Raymond Ibrahim

The Iranian Revolution began as a heterodox affair, with different revolutionary factions and different ideological agendas, but it ended with the rise of a totalitarian Islamic "republic."

Sound familiar? This is precisely what is happening today in Egypt, where the one unifying goal of the revolution was the overthrow of the Mubarak regime; where many Egyptians are secularist, democratic, Christian, etc., and certainly do not want an Islamic government; and where the Islamists, like the Muslim Brotherhood, are busy reassuring everyone that all their freedoms will be preserved.

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DECOUPLING OF WELL-BEING FROM RESOURCE EXTRACTION & CONSUMPTION       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 127, June 18, 2012
"SUSTAINABLE JUSTICE" = REDISTRIBUTION OF SCARCITY:
The United Nations Rio+20 Agenda Means Less Freedom,
Happiness, True Justice, & Human Rights Progress
By Paul K. Driessen & Duggan Flanakin

Just this week, the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives released a new report to the United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit on Sustainable Development. The executive summary of No Future Without Justice begins with the heading, “The World Is in Need of Fundamental Change.” The document then offers “solutions,” which include “universal fiscal equalization” and a “massive and absolute decoupling of well-being from resource extraction and consumption.”

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FIVE MONTHS FROM AN ELECTION TO REMOVE PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM POWER       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 126, June 17, 2012
OBAMA DELIBERATELY DESTROYING AMERICA
By Alan Caruba

It has taken three and a half years into Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency for most Americans to realize that he has been deliberately destroying America by driving up the nation’s debt and deficit, reducing privately held wealth, forcing millions onto the public dole, undermining its moral structure, and weakening the nation’s reputation internationally.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TERRORISM & ISLAMIC TEACHINGS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 125, June 15, 2012
ISLAMIC TERROR VERSUS NORWAY MASSACRE: CHICKEN OR EGG?
By Raymond Ibrahim

Ever since last year's Norway massacre, when Anders Breivik killed some 70 people, the relativists and Muslim apologists of the world felt exonerated: for here at last, thought they, was proof positive that terrorism had nothing to do with Islamic teachings per se. If Christianity cannot be blamed for Breivik, why blame Islam for al-Qa'ida?

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UNWAVERING PALESTINIAN REJECTION OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 124, June 14, 2012
THE RHETORIC OF NONSENSE: FABRICATING PALESTINIAN HISTORY
By Dr. Alexander H. Joffe

As regards the Israeli-Arab conflict, it is often stated that peace can only come when Israelis and Palestinians recognize one another's historical narratives. Claims regarding the Neolithic Palestinian nation indicate this is unlikely to occur, either in the future or in the past. In the meantime, anti-reality continues to spread.

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THE U.S.A. & THE WEST HAVE NO DOG IN THE CONFLICT BEING WAGED IN SYRIA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 123, June 13, 2012
STAY OUT OF THE SYRIAN MORASS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

As the Syrian government makes increasingly desperate and vicious efforts to keep power, pleas for military intervention, more or less on the Libyan model, have become more insistent. This course is morally attractive, to be sure. But should Western states follow this counsel?

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CHRISTIANS KILLED BY AN ANIMOSITY BASED ON RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 122, June 12, 2012
A TALE OF TWO AMERICAN MARTYRS
By Raymond Ibrahim

Apologists for Islamic persecution of Christians regularly argue that the animosity is not driven by religion, but rather a "sectarian" divide, by any number of "indigenous" factors — poverty, intertribal conflicts, political machinations, etc. Other times, persecuted Christians are portrayed as Zionist agents and rapists, spies and traitors — anything other than people killed for their Christian faith.

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WESTERN MEDIA & BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S MOST PRODIGIOUS PROPAGANDISTS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 121, June 12, 2012
ASSAD'S HOULA PROPAGANDA
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi & Phillip Symth

Throughout the Syrian conflict, Western media sources have accepted bait provided by Bashar al-Assad's most prodigious propagandists, who regularly weave tales of anti-Assad, al-Qa'ida-style groups' expelling or murdering members of minority groups. These claims touch on issues that play well for Bashar Assad's regime, especially the claim that, without the regime, the country will turn into Iraq.

The outcome of Assad's removal, assuming that Syria or even its Sunni heartland can hold together, may well be a new Sunni Islamist regime. However, this does not excuse the regime's attempts to disseminate patent falsehoods.

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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE DANGER IT POSES TO THE AMERICAN NATION       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 120, June 12, 2012
DAVID LIMBAUGH TRIUMPHS WITH "THE GREAT DESTROYER"
By Christopher G. Adamo

The U.S. Constitution, which was established in 1789 and has been upheld through the two centuries since at an enormous cost of sweat, toil and even blood, currently faces a mortal threat greater than a World War or any other menace from abroad. It is no exaggeration to contend that the looming dangers to the United States of America, manifested in the deeds and goals of the administration of Barack Hussein Obama, exceed any peril this nation has previously faced. And, if allowed to proceed unchecked, they ultimately portend the demise of the great nation we have known it to be.

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WIND & SOLAR ENERGY MUST BE BACKED UP BY TRADITIONAL ENERGY SOURCES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 119, June 10, 2012
ONLY IF THE WIND IS BLOWING
By Alan Caruba

Simply put, wind and solar energy is a fool’s dream, and one that must be backed up by traditional energy sources at all times, in the event the wind isn’t blowing or during the nighttime or if clouds obscure the sun, causing solar energy to cease producing electricity. Only an idiot would want to be dependent on wind or solar to provide a reliable source of electricity.

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YET ANOTHER REMINDER OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD'S DOUBLE STANDARDS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 118, June 8, 2012
GREATEST CHURCH SOON TO BE MEGA MOSQUE?
By Raymond Ibrahim

If merely keeping a historically Christian/Western building — that was stolen by Islamic jihad — as a neutral museum is seen as "ill-treatment by the West," on what basis can Muslims and non-Muslims ever "dialogue"?

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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CHANGE TO THE LEFT, TO A COMMAND ECONOMY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 117, June 6, 2012
OBAMA FORCED A CHANGE NOT WANTED
By Alan Caruba

Barack Hussein Obama promised to transform America with an ill-defined message of change during his 2008 campaign. As Americans discovered what that change involved, they began to reject it. It was a change to the Left, to Liberalism, to Socialism.

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THE GENUINE CONTEMPT THAT AMERICAN LEFTISTS HOLD TOWARD THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 116, June 6, 2012
DAVID AXELROD: DEMOCRATS OWN RACIAL TOKENISM
By Christopher G. Adamo

Every so often, prominent Liberals unwittingly divulge their true ideology in its raw ugliness. And, when that happens, America must sit up and take note. It is not the flowery assurances of “social justice” or the promised bestowal of goodies from government coffers that motivates them, but the accrual of power that they expect to enjoy as a result. In reality, they have absolutely no intention of uplifting the “little guy,” but rather seek to keep him in his present condition, always awaiting a change of circumstances after the next impending election, as long as he dutifully sells his votes to the Democrats.

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THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT & ITS THREAT TO CANADA'S ECONOMY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 115, June 5, 2012
CANADA LEADS THE WAY ON THE PIPELINE NO-BRAINER
By Alan Caruba

Let’s tip our hat to the Canadians who have concluded that environmentalist lobbies, think tanks, and charities are doing more to harm Canada’s interests by means of the environmental treaties and laws they have worked so hard to impose on that nation and ours. We Americans could learn a valuable lesson from our neighbors to the north.

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CORN ETHANOL RAISES GAS & FOOD PRICES SIMULTANEOUSLY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 114, June 5, 2012
CORN ETHANOL & A NON-WARMING EARTH
By Dennis T. Avery

The earth has failed to warm at all for 15 years now, and American farmers are afraid of losing the “renewable fuel” mandate for corn ethanol — which has given them record crop prices and incomes since 2007. So, they’re proposing a new entitlement designed to ensure that they’ll never lose money again. Their proposed new federal farm bill would guarantee that farmers’ incomes don’t decline — and, if future farm prices rise even more, the Feds’ guarantee would ratchet up too.

Thus, if the U.S. Congress should decide the planet isn’t parboiling itself after all, the taxpayers would be on the hook for even more farm subsidy than today. Forget about that federal debt problem. Everyone else can pitch in to cut government spending, but farmers shouldn’t have to. Never mind that they’re now earning more than the average American, and have far more net worth.

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THE BROAD LINES OF U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY TOWARD MILITANT ISLAM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 113, June 3, 2012
TWENTY YEARS OF ILLUSION ABOUT ISLAMISM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

The broad lines of U.S. government, other government, and generally establishment policy toward Islamism were laid down on June 2, 1992, when Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Edward P. Djerejian, delivered a major speech, "The U.S. and the Middle East In a Changing World," at Meridian House International, in Washington, D.C. After some throat clearing about the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kuwait War and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Djerejian gave what has been called "the first major U.S. government statement on fundamentalist Islam" and, in just over 400 words, sketched out a policy that has been held to with remarkable consistency over the subsequent 20 years.

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AMERICA'S ECONOMY & PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HOPE OF BEING REELECTED       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 112, June 3, 2012
OBAMA'S BLACK FRIDAY
By Alan Caruba

Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, marked the beginning of the Great Depression, but, for Barack Obama, last Friday, June 1, 2012, was Black Friday because the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, announced that only 69,000 jobs were added to the American economy in May, 2012, well below expectations that it might reach 150,000. The official unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2 percent, but it is actually far closer to 15 percent.

The news means that Obama’s hope of being reelected ranges between slim to none. Beyond the current numbers, on Friday CNS News reported that 766,000 more women are unemployed than when he took office in 2009.

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'S USE OF SCHUTZSTAFFEL TACTICS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 111, May 30, 2012
ARMED EPA AGENTS VISIT ASHVILLE, N.C., MAN
By Alan Caruba

Do we really want an EPA that uses Nazi SS tactics against a citizen who has merely indicated an interest in contacting one of their administrators to comment on what he had said during a lecture?

Do we really want an EPA whose working “philosophy” regarding the oil and gas industry is to “crucify” it in order to regulate it and, as we know, is trying to thwart drilling, as well as to end the coal industry that provides an energy resource that produces one half of all the electricity in the nation?

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SOCIALISM & COMMUNISM, AS ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, HAVE NEVER WORKED       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 110, May 27, 2012
THE WORLD AS A PLAYPEN
By Alan Caruba

From the U.S.A. to Europe, Asia to South America, the global economic outlook has not been this bad since the days of the Great Depression, which was also a global phenomenon.

It is as if we are all living in a giant playpen and the problem is that too many nations — including our own — have too many people who prefer to remain infants, taken care of from birth to death.

It’s called Communism or Socialism, and it has never worked, not in the last century, nor in this one.

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THE UN'S CLAIMED CLIMATE CHANGE EVIDENCE DOES NOT HOLD UP       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 109, May 26, 2012
MY SECOND-MOST-REMARKABLE MOMENT
By Dennis T. Avery

I had my second-most-remarkable moment while at the Heartland Institute climate change skeptics’ conference in Chicago last week. The conference was terrific, for climate scientists, geologists, economists, NASA engineers, and interested attendees. The highlight for me, though, was Sebastian Lunning, who co-authored Germany’s best-selling new book The Cold Sun: Why the Climate Catastrophe Won’t Happen.

Lunning’s co-author, Fritz Vahrenholt, made the headlines. He’s a veteran German Leftist who has now publically renounced man-made global warming. Vahrenholt protested chemical factory residues in the 1970s, and has lately managed a big wind farm array. But when he was invited to advise the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he tried to correct some of the IPPC’s reporting errors. They told him to kiss off.

Miffed, he looked more closely at the UN and its claimed climate evidence. He found it didn’t hold up.

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THE ISLAMOPHOBIA RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION PROJECT (IRDP)       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 108, May 25, 2012
UC BERKELEY & THE "ISLAMOPHOBIA" LOBBY
By Cinnamon Stillwell

The Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP) — a program of the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender (CRG) — recently held its third annual conference, "Critical Discourses on Islamophobia: Symbols, Images, & Representations." As in previous years, speaker after speaker decried an imaginary racist, imperialist, Orientalist Western juggernaut, while disregarding the very real predations of Islamism.

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THE 2012 ELECTION & OBAMA'S SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 107, May 22, 2012
WHY OBAMA'S SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE" GAMBLE BACKFIRED
By Christopher G. Adamo

In what now appears as the worst blunder of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign (and the entire effort has, thus far, been less than stellar), he announced on ABC News last week that he has “evolved” to the position of supporting same sex “marriage.” Perhaps such rubric resonates in certain countercultural conclaves as superior to “I was against it before I was for it,” but to the rest of America, this charade was as transparent as cellophane, merely shameless political posturing.

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CALIFORNIA IN THE MIDST OF A MONSTROUS DEBT CRISIS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 106, May 17, 2012
CAN LIBERALS "WISH" SOCIALIST UTOPIA INTO EXISTENCE?
By Christopher G. Adamo

California is in the midst of a monstrous debt crisis, the inescapable result of its leading Democrats having gambled on an annual deficit less than $9.2 billion (an immense sum in itself), but now facing a shortfall of nearly twice that amount. For the good of the country, anyone who is actually surprised at this development should be barred from voting in any election until they can pass a third-grade remedial math exam.

The inevitability of the California crisis has long been glaringly obvious to all but the most ideologically blinded Leftists. Unfortunately, the government of the Golden State is overwhelmingly dominated by just such individuals. As a result, the implementation of any viable fix has become an impossibility. California will undoubtedly continue down its current disastrous course to eventual financial implosion.

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THE TRUE ORIGINS OF ISLAM -- WHY ISLAM IS SO PROFOUNDLY POLITICAL       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 105, May 16, 2012
UNCOVERING EARLY ISLAM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the Hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, lacked historical validity. Rather than provide reliable details about Muhammad's life, Goldziher established, the Hadith emerged from debates two or three centuries later about the nature of Islam.

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THE CHURCH OF GLOBAL WARMING IS CRUMBLING DOWN AROUND THE ECO-NUTS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 104, May 16, 2012
CLIMATE NAZIS
By Alan Caruba

What is it with the radical environmentalists, or “global warmists” -- Al Gore and his clones, who keep insisting that the Earth is warming, that too much carbon dioxide (CO2) will be the death of us and that we have to immediately stop burning “fossil fuels,” if we are to save the planet? They are the most relentless liars on the face of the planet.

They want us to cover the surface of the U.S.A. with solar panels and the mountains with wind turbines in order to generate the energy needed for everything we do. These Green energy alternatives are so wonderful they are producing a mere three percent of our current needs, require government subsidies and loan guarantees to exist, and tend not to be all that great when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.

So, why are we still hearing from this discredited and disgraced bunch of charlatans and buffoons?

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CONTROVERSY OVER THE ANALYSES OF GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 103, May 15, 2012
BIG CITY LIBERAL
By Dennis T. Avery

The Heartland Institute, a Chicago Libertarian think-tank, put up a billboard outside Chicago on May 3, 2012, that showed a photo of a raddled-looking Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The cut line said, “I believe in man-made global warming. Do you?”

The Heartland Institute had hoped to stir controversy over the “settled science” of the global warming alarmists, and it succeeded — but the billboard was removed after the first day, amid a fluster of outrage from global warming alarmists. A flow of harsh emails is being sent to everyone ever associated with the Heartland Institute.

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ENVIRONMENTALISM, ECONOMICS, SCIENCE, & CHRISTIANITY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 102, May 14, 2012
USING EARTH'S BLESSINGS TO BETTER MANKIND & PLANET:
Rational Thought Underlies Conservative Christian Views
on Climate Change & the Environment
By Dr. David Russell Legates

The economy does matter as much as the environment. Good environmental stewardship requires sound financial footing – and improving and safeguarding human health and welfare requires maintaining a strong, vibrant, innovative economy that can sustain continued environmental progress.

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RIOTS -- BLACK ATTACKS ON WHITES IN CITY AFTER CITY ACROSS THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 101, May 12, 2012
THE RISE OF BLACK-ON-WHITE VIOLENCE
By Alan Caruba

It is just too easy to pass off as "black anger" the increasing frequency of race riots in the U.S.A. It is racism and the Zimmerman-Martin killing is just the tip of the iceberg. Despite decades since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 -- legislation that was passed to redress the wrongs of the past against black Americans, some blacks retain a malignant hatred directed against whites.

Colin Flaherty's The Return of Race Riots to America and How the Media Ignore It portends that the Summer of 2012 could reflect this trend. It is a warning to the leaders in both the black and white communities to condemn it and to the nation’s media to do something other than ignore or exploit it.

The reality is that we are going to be hearing a lot more from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan -- who thrive on such violence -- and the real tragedy is that millions of law-abiding black citizens will be branded by such behavior.

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THE SELF-CENSORSHIP EXERCISED BY THE MEDIA WHEN DEALING WITH ISLAM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 100, May 10, 2012
THE BBC BROADCASTS ITS OWN DHIMMITUDE
By Dr. David J. Rusin

Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias. Even more striking than the number of controversies involving suppression of Islam-critical speech on its channels are the frank acknowledgements that BBC policy is shaped by fear.

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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PRO-GAY MARRIAGE POSITION & THE 2012 ELECTION       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 99, May 9, 2012
GAY MARRIAGE IS OBAMA'S POISON PILL
By Alan Caruba

Let the chatteratti and political pundits say what they will, dancing around the issue of gay marriage on Barack Obama’s chances of reelection as U.S. President, but I will tell you plainly that he has swallowed a poison pill.

Gay marriage is a deal-breaker for a vast swath of American voters that includes Catholics, as well as the black and Hispanic communities. Urbanites and suburbanites may say that they are okay with gay marriage, but what they tell pollsters and what they say privately among friends and family is far different. Americans may want to be tolerant, but their distaste for the gay lifestyle and incessant demands for acceptance is deeply offensive to most people.

Thanks to what will be seen as a historic gaffe by Vice President Joe Biden, the President was put in a vice as he was seen to vacillate — evolve — his position regarding gay marriage, but elections often turn on such issues.

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THE GLARING EVIDENCE OF LOOMING FINANCIAL DISASTER IN THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 98, May 9, 2012
THE ARTIFICIAL EIGHT PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS IMMATERIAL
By Christopher G. Adamo

Liberal media minions are atwitter over the manufactured unemployment statistic which has been steadily lowering in recent months and now approaches the eight percent milestone. Prominent Conservatives have also noted the suspiciously timed “drop” in the nation’s unemployment, and are expressing dismay over its blatantly fabricated nature. Yet, at the same time, they are concerned over its possible effects on the reelection prospects of Barack Obama.

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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION ENDEMIC TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 97, May 6, 2012
IS FAST & FURIOUS THE NEXT WATERGATE?
By Alan Caruba

When suspects in a crime are interrogated, they often develop memory loss. When the crime is running guns to drug cartels on both sides of the border, the crime involves the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol officer, Brian Terry; Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Jaime Zapata; and countless Mexican citizens.

Katie Pavlich has written an extraordinary expose, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2012). Pavlich -- a reporter with extensive contacts within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) -- has meticulously documented a story that should result in contempt-of-Congress action against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and possibly U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano as well.

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MOST OF WHAT PASSES FOR THINKING ABOUT FOOD IS FULL OF AIR       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 96, May 6, 2012
LOCOVORE'S DILEMMA: A DIFFERENT VIEW ON BUYING LOCALLY
By Dennis T. Avery

Most of the malnourished in the world are eating organic food because they have nothing else. They and their wildlife suffer keenly because of no fertilizer and terribly low yields. Affluent parents often try to get “healthier” food for their children by paying more, but all of our food here in the affluent West is safe and healthy. Do folks in poor countries live longer, healthier lives on their organic, seasonal diets? Longevity statistics say quite the opposite.

How are people in the less affluent parts of the world going to be fed in the next 50 years? The world’s population is in its last expansion. Two billion people are getting rich enough to eat meat and drink milk. We’ll have to double global food output or abolish most of the world’s wildlife in order to try to feed everyone. Does anyone think organic farming can do it?

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IS THE TYRANNICAL ISLAMIST REGIME IN IRAN LIKELY TO ENDURE?       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 95, May 3, 2012
REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN?
By Brendan Daly

There is every reason to believe that the Islamic Republic's days are numbered. The current government, lorded over by the religious Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i, and his Guardian Council of aging Mullahs, who can overrule any policy change by the pseudo-elected President, seem wildly out of touch with the general populace. Not only are the youth of Iran — some 70 percent of whom are under the age of thirty — chaffing under the "guardianship of the Islamic jurists" (Velayet-e-Faqih), but so is the economy, due to sanctions imposed by the West, in response to the regime's insistence on pursuing its nuclear program. Inflation has long been out of control and trade and tourism a tiny fraction of what it could be, and, yet, the establishment has, on the whole, shown little interest in sacrificing militant, revolutionary principles for economic, and, indeed, political expediency. Can this approach be sustained, in view of the tightening economic noose around Tehran, and at what cost?

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THE EXTREME INSTABILITY OF THE CURRENT POLITICAL CLIMATE IN THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 94, May 2, 2012
THE U.S. VICE PRESIDENT:
Myths & Misguided "Conventional Wisdom"
By Christopher G. Adamo

The nation has now reached that milestone of the presidential campaign in which major speculation is taking place regarding the choice of a running mate for presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney. And, while the ultimate decision will, of course, fall to Romney, a great deal of bad advice is being offered by party players operating under wholly wrongheaded presumptions and exhibiting a total lack of understanding of the potential to negatively impact the campaign.

Across the political aisle, the political winds of the 2012 campaign cycle are such that an admittedly small possibility exists that Barack Obama might feel compelled to jettison Joe Biden, his current Vice-President, and opt for a more suitable alternative. Of course, in most peoples’ minds, the principal contender is Hillary Clinton. And, even if such conjecture is proven to be completely baseless, it is nonetheless illustrative of the extreme instability of the current political climate, and the critical need to fully grasp its significance.

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THE PATH TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR PEOPLE & WILDLIFE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 93, May 1, 2012
BJORN LOMBORG ADOPTS HIGH-YIELD FARMING
By Dennis T. Avery

Bjorn Lomborg and his Copenhagen Consensus have just joined one of the smallest clubs in today’s world: people who believe that high-yield farming is the path to a sustainable future for people and wildlife -- despite, and even because of, its pesticides, chemical fertilizers, irrigation dams, and blast-freezers.

Dr. Norman Borlaug, the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner, led international efforts in cross-breeding higher-yielding and disease-resistant grain crops. The new seeds, together with fertilizer, irrigation, and pesticides tripled crop yields on the good-quality soils around the world. It was the most amazing humanitarian gain in human history.

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OCTOBER SURPRISE CONSPIRACY THEORY FURTHER DISCREDITED       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 92, April 24, 2012
GARY SICK: DISCREDITED BUT HONORED
By Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi

New and previously unreported faults in Gary Sick's research have been unearthed and reported herein, material which further discredits the October Surprise conspiracy theory. Sick has responded on his blog. A rejoinder has been written, where the author rebukes Sick's retort and addresses his new allegations.

The socalled October Surprise plot that briefly enthralled the American public twenty years ago is one of the most influential political conspiracy theories in U.S. history. As the story goes, fearful that the release of fifty-two American hostages in Iran before the November, 1980, presidential election would secure President Jimmy Carter a second term in office, the campaign of Republican candidate Ronald Reagan agreed to funnel weapons to the Islamic Republic in exchange for a delay in the hostage release until after the vote.

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AFGHANISTAN & U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 91, April 24, 2012
AFGHANISTAN: THE DEFINITION OF MADNESS
By Alan Caruba

Why did George W. Bush invade Afghanistan? Answer: Occurring just after the Islamist terror attack of September 11, 2001, in which 2,977 Americans lost their lives, a CIA team was inserted into Afghanistan fifteen days later to begin a campaign against the Taliban, who had allied with Al-Qa'ida and provided sanctuary for Osama bin Laden while the terror attack on the U.S.A. was planned. A U.S. bombing campaign in Tora Bora followed but bin Laden escaped into Pakistan.

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NIZAR NAYOUF & AL-HAQIQA ARE NOT HELPING SYRIAN CHRISTIANS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 90, April 23, 2012
NIZAR NAYOUF, AL-HAQIQA, & SYRIAN CHRISTIANS
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

In an April 6, 2012, article for Ha'aretz I wrote with two co-authors, I traced the widely circulated claim that 90 percent of Christians had been ethnically cleansed from the Syrian city of Homs by Islamist militants back to a site known as al-Haqiqa (Arabic: The Truth). This site, despite claiming to oppose the Assad regime, while being critical of the Syrian opposition, is accurately described by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) as a "pro-Assad" site.

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PRESIDENT OBAMA & THE CURRENT STATE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 89, April 22, 2012
BLAMER-IN-CHIEF
By Alan Caruba

We teach children to acknowledge and accept blame when they do something wrong. It is an important and useful trait in life. Those who do not learn this remain emotionally stunted children their entire life. I am, of course, speaking of President Barack Hussein Obama, and I shudder to think of the continued damage he can do to the American nation during his remaining months in office.

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PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIAN MINORITIES IN PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIM COUNTRIES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 88, April 20, 2012
HOW THE MEDIA WHITEWASHES MUSLIM PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS
By Raymond Ibrahim

When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media (MSM) has a long paper trail of obfuscating; while they eventually do state the bare-bone facts — if they ever report on the story in the first place, which is rare — they do so after creating and sustaining an aura of moral relativism that minimizes the Muslim role.

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THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT AS A REAL THREAT TO FREEDOM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 87, April 18, 2012
ECO-COMMUNISM CELEBRATED ANNUALLY ON EARTH DAY
By Alan Caruba

I came of age in the 1950s during a period when U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy was raising hell about Communists in the U.S. national government. He was spectacularly inept, often made intemperate and inaccurate charges, but, for the most part, he was right. He managed to alienate his fellow Republicans and earn a slap-down from then President Dwight David Eisenhower. By around 1953, his fifteen minutes of fame were up. His bombastic personality undermined the seriousness of the issue.

Senator McCarthy was all bluster, but the publication of The Venona Papers: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors in 2001 revealed that his charges of widespread infiltration of the U.S. State Department and even the White House during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman years were true. Venona was the U.S. code name given secret Soviet spy communications that had been recorded during and after World War II. In 1995, the National Security Agency began releasing the documents.

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR "PITCHFORK REBELLION" AGAINST PESTICIDES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 86, April 18, 2012
PESTICIDE ADVENTURES AT TRIANGLE LAKE
By Dennis T. Avery

The American Farm Bureau Federation sent me a recent column that said appointees of President Obama have been demonstrating what farmers and ranchers have known for years: that too many government agencies have become havens for activists not interested in the basic functions of safety and commerce, but in “reshaping” our society.

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WARN AMERICA OF THE LOOMING DANGERS OF OBAMA'S POLITICAL IDEOLOGY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 85, April 18, 2012
AN OPEN LETTER TO MITT ROMNEY
By Christopher G. Adamo

Heartland America, and particularly your staunchest Conservative critics, are diligently looking for reasons to rally to you. But they will abandon such an effort if that means forsaking Conservatism or ignoring the real dangers Liberalism poses to this country.

So, for the sake of this nation, all of the ideals it embodies and all of the promise it has offered, seize the opportunity now presented to you and use it, not in a futile quest to ingratiate yourself to the Liberal media and “bipartisan” D. C. political establishment, but to fight the good fight and bring America back from the brink.

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OBAMA & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY & FOREIGN POLICY IN AFGHANISTAN       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 84, April 17, 2012
CAN AFGHANISTAN BE RESCUED?
By Dr. Wahabuddin Ra'ees

U.S. President Barack Obama entered office with a bold plan to combat Afghanistan's escalating insurgency, empower its government, encourage a political resolution of the conflict, and secure the cooperation of neighboring Pakistan — all in time for U.S. troops to withdraw by the end of 2014.

This new Afghanistan-Pakistan (AfPak) policy has yet to deliver on its promise. While the U.S. military surge swept insurgents out of their southeastern strongholds, the rebels have responded with terror attacks and assassinations reaching into the heart of Kabul. Washington has accelerated its training of Afghan security forces, but most U.S. aid still circumvents the Afghan central government, weakening its authority. With a political settlement nowhere in sight and Pakistani support for armed extremists unabated, Washington's options for preventing a Taliban takeover have narrowed.

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CLOSE TO 90 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S GLACIERS ARE GROWING       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 83, April 17, 2012
GLACIERS ON ASIA'S LARGEST MOUNTAIN RANGE GETTING BIGGER,
AS ARE GLACIERS AROUND THE WORLD
By Robert W. Felix

Satellite data shows that glaciers in part of the Karakoram Range on the China-Pakistan border are putting on mass, defying (supposedly) the general trend toward glacier shrinkage.

In an article entitled “Slight Mass Gain of Karakoram Glaciers in the Early Twenty-first Century,” researchers from the National Centre for Scientific Research and the University of Grenoble admit to “an anomalous gain of mass” for the Karakoram glaciers.

This is in direct contradiction to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which claimed that ice from most of the region could disappear by 2035.

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THE INCREASINGLY PROMINENT PROFILE OF ISLAMIC POLYGAMY IN THE WEST       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 82, April 16, 2012
THE GAY MARRIAGE ISSUE HAS ISLAMISTS EYEING POLYGAMY:
Radical Muslims Seeking Their Own Definition of Marriage
By Dr. David J. Rusin

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum got jeered for comparing the legalization of same-sex marriage to that of polygamy, but, whether or not the comparison is rationally sound, thoughts of the former's facilitating the latter bring a smile to many Islamists. If the definition of marriage can evolve in terms of gender, some Muslims ask, why not in terms of number?

Islam sanctions polygamy — more specifically, polygyny — allowing Muslim men to keep up to four wives at once. Though marrying a second woman while remaining married to the first is prohibited across the Western world, including all 50 U.S. states, a Muslim can circumvent the law by wedding one woman in a government-recognized marriage and joining with others in unlicensed religious unions devoid of legal standing.

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THE IMPOSITION OF SHARIA -- THE UNALTERABLE GOAL OF ISLAM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 81, April 16, 2012
SWING LOW SWEET SHARIA
By Nidra Poller

In October, 2011, an extraordinary opportunity to apprehend the ill-defined "Middle East" conflict was offered in the form of a play within the play. Discourse was disabled by flesh and blood images acting out the drama with exquisite unity and perfect casting. Playing the role of Israel, Gilad Shalit, courageous survivor of five years of unspeakable deprivation, emerged frail and pale, but gloriously resistant. The little that we know of the conditions of his imprisonment is already too much. Kidnapped at the age of 19 near the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel (two IDF soldiers were killed in the cross-border attack), held in some sort of dungeon, starved of human company, starved of daylight, undernourished, not even given eyeglasses with which to see the ugly contours of his constricted world, Gilad stood before us, a miraculous survivor. The celestial light of dignity suffused his flesh and bones with metaphysical force.

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THE ENVIRONMENTALIST & MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 80, April 16, 2012
OVERTHROWING ENVIRONMENTALISM
By Alan Caruba

Environmentalism has become a modern religion and its “cap and trade” scheme to sell worthless permission slips for the emission of socalled “greenhouse gases” — based on United Nations Kyoto Protocol calling for a reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere — is being rejected by many nations .

As it has become common knowledge that CO2 is vital to all life on Earth and plays no role in affecting the climate, ordinary people have concluded that global warming in particular and environmentalism in general constitute a giant fraud.

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HARTFORD SEMINARY'S HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISLAMISM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 79, April 15, 2012
HARTFORD SEMINARY'S SHAMEFUL TIES TO SYRIA'S DICTATOR
By Stephen Schwartz

The Hartford Seminary has occupied a leading position among theological faculties around the American nation in accommodating Islam, particularly in its radical forms, since appointing its first Muslim faculty member more than twenty years ago. Today, that accommodation extends to the murderous regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

Hartford maintains a highly questionable relationship with an Islamic religious and Arabic-language school, the Al-Fatiha Islamic Academy in Damascus, approved by, and allied with, the Assad family. Founded in 1956, Al-Fatiha promotes aggressively Sharia-based finance (Islamic banking) and denounces the current international financial system.

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ENVIRONMENTALIST PROPAGANDA & MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING THEORY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 78, April 15, 2012
BARACK OBAMA'S ECO-LIES
By Alan Caruba

As the nation and the world closes in on Earth Day, April 22, 2012, a tsunami of Green propaganda will overwhelm us with all the usual lies about global warming — now called climate change — and calls to reduce the use of all fossil fuels in order to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions.

This Big Lie ignores the fact that there is no relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) and the climate. CO2 reacts to climate change. It does not drive it. The Big Lie ignores the fact that the Earth has been cooling for fourteen years.

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UNPLEASANT THINGS ABOUT U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 77, April 15, 2012
AMERICA ELECTED AN IGNORAMUS
By Alan Caruba

Whole books can and will be written about Obama’s ignorance and failures of judgment that Americans will have to live with for a very long time, especially as future generations try to dig out from his tripling of the national debt, the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression, and a housing market that has yet to have rebounded.

Add in gas prices Americans have never seen since gasoline was invented to power our cars, and you have a man who is not what he claims to be and is too stupid to be the President of the United States, let alone serve as a White House tourist guide.

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NEW TAXES & RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. OIL COMPANIES NOT IN OUR BEST INTEREST       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 76, April 14, 2012
"GREENBACKS" ENERGY BOONDOGGLES VERSUS REAL ENERGY:
Government Tax & Subsidy Schemes Waste Billions.
We Need Real Energy & Jobs.
By Paul K. Driessen

The Obama White House and the Democratic Party-controllrd Senate seem fixated on surreal politics, when it comes to energy, tax, and economic thinking.

This article examines a recent Senate attempt to eliminate normal business expense tax deductions for five major oil companies – despite the adverse impacts that such tax hikes would have on domestic oil production, tax and royalty revenues, jobs, and and pump prices for gasoline. It then contrasts that anti-oil effort with the huge subsidies that the White House and many in Congress want to perpetuate for wind power.

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ISLAM, THE GRAND MUFTI, & THE STRICTURES OF SHARIA LAW       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 75, April 12, 2012
ISLAMIC ADULT BREASTFEEDING FATWAS RETURN
By Raymond Ibrahim

The same source that compelled the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia to declare that all churches must be destroyed, is the same source that advocates "adult breastfeeding": Muhammad and his teachings.

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OBAMA'S PROBLEM IS ABOUT HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, NOT TAX FAIRNESS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 74, April 12, 2012
KARL MARX PREACHED "FAIRNESS" TOO
By Alan Caruba

By framing the tax debate in terms of fairness and attacking Mitt Romney’s wealth, President Obama is pandering to his greatest constituency — the stupid among us. He was elected on the basis of a lot of gauzy, vague promises of hope and change, and with the adoring support of the mainstream media.

President Obama’s blather about “fairness” is straight out of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto with their emphasis the redistribution of wealth and the end of private property.

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THE EPIDEMIC OF DELIBERATE VOTE FRAUD PROMOTED BY LIBERALS IN THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 73, April 11, 2012
ERIC HOLDER'S END GAME: STEALING THE NOVEMBER ELECTION
By Christopher G. Adamo

James O’Keefe has struck again. And, once more, he deserves a medal for his heroic operation.

This time, O’Keefe spotlighted the epidemic of deliberate vote fraud that Liberals have promoted throughout the country in recent years, and which portends the destruction of its foundations, if not soon confronted and corrected. And, though O’Keefe did not take his sting operation directly to the U.S. Department of Justice, by making his case so profoundly, he essentially put the nation’s highest law enforcement office on notice that it will be held accountable for its action, and perhaps more so for its inaction, when presented with such incontrovertible evidence of rampant criminal malfeasance at the voting booth.

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PEACEFUL COMPETITION IN FREE MARKETS AS THE ALTERNATIVE TO DARWINISM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 72, April 9, 2012
DARWIN VERSUS FREE MARKETS
By Dennis T. Avery

U.S. President Barack Obama says the Republicans want to throw everyone under the wheels of a Darwinian “survival of the fittest” machine. He says the dog-eat-dog of the free market will be bad for blacks, Latinos, women, and the handicapped.

He’s got it exactly backward. Peaceful competition in free markets is the alternative to Darwinism! Darwin believed in “superior species” winning out by crushing the “weakest.” But human behavior changes much faster than evolution. Free markets, especially, empower everyone to use their special talents, time, and abilities to the fullest. Then everybody prospers — not just special segments of the population.

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"HATE SPEECH" LAWS LEADING US TOWARD DESTRUCTION OF FREE SPEECH       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 71, April 8, 2012
ROUND THREE OF THE TRIAL OF LARS HEDEGAARD
By Ann Snyder

The fact that the world's thought police are willing to go after speech even in the private sphere reveals just how intent they are to impose their Political Correctness-limitations on the rest of us — truth, public debate on critical issues, and now privacy be damned. If you failed to understand where "hate speech" laws were leading us, let this turn of events underscore the point for you.

The lesson Lars Hedegaard's prosecution is teaching us is not about the punishment of one man. It is a lesson about the state of freedom of speech in the West today.

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THE SYRIAN UPRISING & ETHNIC CLEANSING OF CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 70, April 8, 2012
SYRIAN DISINFORMATION ABOUT CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Oskar Svadkovsky, & Phillip Smyth

Recent reports out of Syria have warned of the ethnic cleansing of 90 percent of the Christian population of Homs, the city that has been ravaged by the conflict between Assad's forces and armed opposition groups since the uprising against the Baathist regime began in February, 2011. The responsibility for the mass killings and expulsions has been pinned on an armed opposition group known as the "Al-Faruq Brigade."

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THE DAMAGE BEING DONE TO THE U.S. ECONOMY BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 69, April 7, 2012
HOW (& WHY) OBAMA HAS IMPEDED ECONOMIC RECOVERY
By Alan Caruba

Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Barack Hussein Obama has impeded a rebound in the growth of the American economy, and he has done it by applying all the wrong, Socialist “solutions” that extended the Great Depression from 1929 to 1941.

For Obama, this has truly been a crisis that would not be allowed to go to waste. What he has done has been to impose Obamacare in the face of massive rejection, to oversee the loss of two million jobs, and to increase the national debt to levels that put the United States of America on a crash course to financial collapse.

It would be naïve to think he did not know what he was doing. If one wanted to bring the U.S.A. to its knees, he would pursue Obama’s policies of the past four years.

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ISLAMIC TERRORISM OR JIHADISM IS NOT A BYPRODUCT OF WEAKNESS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 68, April 5, 2012
COURTROOM TERROR
By Raymond Ibrahim

Apologists often try to explain away Islamic terrorism as a byproduct of something else. The usual argument is that, because Muslims are politically, socially or militarily weak — the archetypal example often given is Israel vis-à-vis the Palestinians — they have no choice but to resort to terror to strike at their stronger adversaries. In other words, they resort to terrorism simply to even the odds — hence the argument that terrorism is the "weapon of the weak."

Though this narrative is widely accepted, it is demonstrably false.

Contrary to popular belief, Islamic terrorism is not a byproduct of "weakness," but rather the typical approach to those who transgress the bounds of Sharia. Whether one man "blaspheming" Muhammad in a Muslim-majority nation or whether an entire nation existing on land perceived to be Islam's (as in the case of Israel), terror is never far behind for those transgressing the bounds of Sharia.

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GLOBAL WARMISTS -- THEIR DREAMS OF WORLD DOMINATION FALLING APART       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 67, April 5, 2012
THE UTTER DESPERATION OF GLOBAL WARMISTS
By Alan Caruba

The global warmists are increasingly desperate and ruthless, as their dreams of global domination are falling apart.

In Europe, and here in America, all their schemes to replace the real production of electricity with solar panels and wind turbines are being rejected. Their plans for herding populations into cities and onto mass transit meet with resistance. Parents are objecting to their eco-curricula in schools. Al Gore has become a joke.

Consider this: If the radical environmentalists and global warming ideologues were in charge, anyone who voiced dissent from their global warming-climate change lies would be in concentration camps, undergoing “re-education,” being “treated” with mind-altering drugs -- or would be dead.

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HONEYMOON BETWEEN THE TURKISH & SYRIAN REGIMES COMING TO AN END       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 66, April 4, 2012
TURKISH-SYRIAN RELATIONS GO DOWNHILL
By Dr. Damla Aras

As Syria sinks deeper and deeper into the throes of civil war, the decade-long honeymoon between Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) and Bashar al-Assad's regime has all but ended. Fearing the possible spread of the revolt to Turkish territory, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu cold-shouldered their hitherto feted ally, openly siding with the rebels. They sheltered thousands of refugees fleeing government repression, including scores of military defectors, conferred with opposition leaders, and even threatened military intervention should the Baathist regime in Syria continue its brutal crackdown. In August, 2011, Erdogan warned that "we reached the end of our patience"; three months later, he lauded the "massacred" rebels as "martyrs," prophesying that "the Syrian nation will reap the results of its glorious resistance." As President Assad ignores these admonitions, has Turkey reached the limits of "soft power" and will it revert to the instruments of hard power to find stability on its southern border?

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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S TIRADE AGAINST THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 65, April 4, 2012
OBAMA'S QUEST TO CONSOLIDATE & EXPAND THE POWER
OF THE U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
By Christopher G. Adamo

Theories abound as to the motives and significance of Barack Obama’s April 2, 2012, tirade against the United States Supreme Court. Perhaps the most plausible, given the timing of the events, is that one of the “justices” sympathetic to the Obama regime leaked word that the Supreme Court had struck down Obamacare in large part, or in full. In response, Obama could be attempting to publicly stay ahead of the Supreme Court, since its decision will not be officially announced until June, 2012.

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CONTEMPT FOR JEWS, ISRAEL, & AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 64, April 3, 2012
UCLA HONORS SHARIA APOLOGIST KHALED ABOU EL FADL
By Cinnamon Stillwell & Judith Greblya

Academic self-congratulation reached new heights at the University of California at Los Angeles on March 21, 2012, with "An Event Honoring Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl." Abou El Fadl — Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law and Chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA — was feted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA School of Law Journal of Near Eastern and Islamic Law, the UCLA School of Law Muslim Law Students Association, and the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program. Eighty students, professors, and community members gathered to commemorate "the world's leading authority on Islamic law and Islam, and the prominent scholar in the field of human rights," according to the event description. In reality, Fadl is an apologist for radical Islam, who routinely denies valid concerns over the human rights abuses inherent to Sharia (Islamic) law, while charging its critics with "Islamophobia."

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UNWILLINGNESS TO STARE ISLAMIST TERRORISM IN THE FACE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 63, April 3, 2012
IT'S NOT ROAD RAGE, IT'S TERRORISM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

A recurring problem of Western politicians, law enforcement agencies, and mainstream media with Islamist terrorism is their unwillingness to stare it in the face and ascribe murder to it. Westerners ignoring the religious and ideological roots of Islamist terrorism carries a heavy price that the nation-states of the West must pay.

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THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM HAS GENERATED A WAR ON SCIENCE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 62, April 3, 2012
FAKEGATE: THE WAR ON SCIENCE
By Alan Caruba

Generations of Americans have been raised to venerate science and those who have enhanced and extended our lives through its application. The rise of environmentalism, however, has generated a war on science, first by distorting it, and then by propagandizing the “findings,” “studies,” and resulting claims based on them.

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NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT CLAIMS THAT WEATHER IS BECOMING MORE EXTREME       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 61, March 31, 2012
THE UN CLIMATE PANEL & "EXTREME WEATHER"
By Dennis T. Avery

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted last week it had no evidence to support the various claims that the planet’s weather is becoming “more extreme.” The new IPCC report on weather extremes reads: “While there is evidence that increases in greenhouse gases have likely caused changes in some types of extremes, there is no simple answer to question of whether the climate, in general, has become more or less extreme.”

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THE SYRIAN UPRISING & PROSPECTS FOR REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 60, March 30, 2012
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD REBORN:
THE SYRIAN UPRISING
By Dr. Yvette Talhamy

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad struggles to contend with a massive popular uprising, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB) is poised to dominate whatever coalition of forces manages to unseat the Baathist regime. Though, in many ways, the Brotherhood's official political platform is a model of Islamist moderation and tolerance, it is less a window into the group's thinking than a reflection of its political tactics. Unlike its parent organization, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which often kept its ideological opponents at arm's length, the SMB has repeatedly forged alliances with secular dissident groups, even as it secretly tried to negotiate a deal with the Assad regime to allow its return from exile. Since the moderation of its political platform over the past two decades has clearly been intended to facilitate this triangulation, it does not tell us much about the ultimate intentions of the Syrian Brotherhood.

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U.S. ENERGY & ECONOMIC REGULATORY POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 59, March 29, 2012
REAL AMERICAN ENERGY & REAL AMERICAN JOBS:
Domestic Oil & Gas Production, Plus Fuel Exports
Equals Real Jobs & Revenue
By Joe Wurzelbacher

Instead of embracing fantasy energy policies, President Obama needs to step into the real world. He should welcome expanded development of our vast oil and natural gas resources, increased oil imports from Canada, and the lower fuel prices this would bring.

Everyone would benefit – even his own dismal approval ratings.

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ENVIRONMENTALISM VERSUS HORIZONTAL DRILLING & HYDRAULIC FRACTURING       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 58, March 28, 2012
FRACKING -- AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO GREEN DOGMA:
Misleading Claims about Shale Gas Development
Serve Dogma, but Not The Public Interest
By Paul K. Driessen

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has generated significant discussion over ongoing and proposed development activities in the vast Marcellus Shale region of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia. Numerous pressure campaigns have been launched against this game-changing technology – necessitating accurate responses that can clear up some of the misconceptions and outright fabrications about fracking and its many positive implications for U.S. and global energy, jobs, and economies.

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DESTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN NATION BY THE ENVIROMENTALIST MOVEMENT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 57, March 28, 2012
THE EPA WRECKING BALL
By Alan Caruba

The Environmental Protection Agency is using its power to advance the objective of the environmentalist movement to deny Americans access to the energy that sustains the nation’s economy and is using the greatest hoax ever perpetrated, global warming — now called “climate change” — to achieve that goal.

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THE ACTIONS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION REVEAL THE PATH TO TYRANNY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 56, March 28, 2012
AMERICA GRAVELY THREATENED BY ACTIVIST GOVERNMENT
By Christopher G. Adamo

As America watches in suspense, the United States Supreme Court is taking up the case of whether or not Obamacare is, in whole or in part, unconstitutional. In an abominable degeneration of the former greatness on which this nation was founded, its fate as a free republic now rests in the hands of nine appointed jurists. And though each has sworn an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” once in office they are under absolutely no legal compulsion to do so.

It is therefore no surprise (though completely appalling) that Obamacare, a flagrantly unconstitutional piece of legislation which violates every precept of the American ideal, will very likely be decided by an almost evenly split court. The nation waits helplessly as its foundations are either maintained or eradicated by this single body. And, should the High Court decide for Obamacare and against America, “We the people” are left with no legal redress.

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U.S. ELECTIONS: A GROWING CONNECTION BETWEEN LEFTISTS & ISLAMISTS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 55, March 27, 2012
DENNIS KUCINICH: LEFTY FOR RADICAL ISLAM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Can we expect to witness future Democratic Party candidates promising to espouse Muslim interests (as defined by CAIR and its ilk) to the White House? I expect so. More broadly, one sees a growing connection between the political Left and radical Islam. Among many other trends, a longterm sorting out of votes is currently underway. Arabs and Muslims, for all their sympathy for Republican economics, will vote Democratic, and Jews, for all their agreement with the Democrats on abortion, will vote Republican.

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WHEN AMERICANS KILL VERSUS WHEN MUSLIMS KILL -- A DOUBLE STANDARD?       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 54, March 25, 2012
OMID SAFI'S EXQUISITE ART OF MORAL EQUIVALENCY
By Winfield Myers

Last week, Omid Safi, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, used his blog "What Would Muhammad Do" at the Religion News Service to claim a moral equivalency between Fort Hood jihadist Major Nidal Malik Hasan and U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. "When Americans Kill vs. When Muslims Kill" is a morally repugnant attempt to claim a double standard in the way Americans react to mass murder. In this, Safi echoes the party line of the Middle East Studies establishment, which blames the West for the Middle Eastern region's political and technological backwardness, while largely ignoring the region's systemic social problems, from the subservient roles of women to the glorification of terrorism.

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EROSION OF THE POWERS RESERVED TO THE STATES BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 53, March 24, 2012
OBAMACARE VERSUS THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
By Alan Caruba

In a nation where Congress has already determined how much water your toilet tank can hold and whether you can purchase a 100-watt incandescent light bulb, the assertion of federal power is now so great and so unbounded that a case concerning the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), brought by 26 states, will decide whether, in fact, there are any rights or powers left to the states.

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CAN ARABS BE LOYAL CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL?       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 52, March 22, 2012
ISRAEL'S ARABS: LIVING A PARADOX
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Israeli Arabs live two paradoxes. Although they suffer discrimination within Israel, they enjoy more rights and greater stability than any Arab populace living in their own sovereign countries (think Egypt or Syria). Second, they hold citizenship in a country that their fellow Arabs malign and threaten with annihilation.

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THE ABSOLUTE EVIL THAT LIES AT THE HEART OF ISLAM & ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 51, March 21, 2012
"DESTROY ALL THE CHURCHES"
By Alan Caruba

What current generations in the West and around the non-Islamic world are witnessing is the absolute evil that lies at the heart of Islam, repeated on a daily basis. It is most evident in the Middle East, from where the threat emanates; but it is a part of the daily life of Europe, where an increasing Muslim population will reverse many of the advances of Civilization, the Rule of Secular Civil Law, Constitutionalism, and Representative Democracy the West takes for granted.

It is the greatest folly to dismiss an Islamic call to “destroy all the churches” as just the uttering of some Muslim madman. The call lies at the very heart of Islam’s total contempt for any other religious faith — Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Bahai — and its determination to rule the whole of the world’s population through terror and intimidation.

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THE RYAN BUDGET & THE COMPLETE REPEAL OF OBAMACARE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 50, March 21, 2012
WHY THE LEFT ABHORS THE RYAN BUDGET
By Christopher G. Adamo

The transparently choreographed Liberal/Democrat hysterics over the proposed Federal Budget of Representative Paul Ryan (Republican - Wisconsin) might seem a bit excessive and drenched in paranoia, given that the measure has zero chance of ever being enacted. Yet, in light of the successes of America’s grassroots during the past three years, it does indeed represent a potential first step towards dismantling the Leftist nanny state, or social welfare state, that has brought this country to the brink of societal collapse and financial insolvency.

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REALITY-BASED ENERGY POLICIES NEEDED TO LOWER PUMP PRICES IN THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 49, March 19, 2012
LOOKING FOR SCAPEGOATS WILL NOT LOWER PUMP PRICES;
Exporting Gasoline & Diesel Fuel Creates Jobs & Prosperity.
By Paul K. Driessen

With unemployment still outrageously high, and pump prices over $4 per gallon in many cities, President Barack Obama, Democratic Party politicians, Leftwing Liberals, and environmentalists are desperately hunting for scapegoats, to keep their anti-hydrocarbon policies in place and themselves in power.

Their gambit may play well with some elements of the American electorate. However, more and more people are starting to understand what is really going on. Paul Driessen's commentary should bring that process further along – by presenting the real reasons for our pain and suffering -- in terms that even diehard radical Liberal Leftists might understand.

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WHY THE U.S.A. SHOULD NOT SUPPORT THE "OPPOSITION" TO ASSAD       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 48, March 18, 2012
THE FATE OF SYRIA
By Raymond Ibrahim

What is the alternative to Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria? Just consider which groups in Syria are especially for or against Assad — and why.

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THE CONDITION OF THE U.S.A. & OBAMA'S REELECTION CHANCES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 47, March 18, 2012
WHY OBAMA WILL LOSE IN NOVEMBER
By Alan Caruba

President Obama will lose his bid for reelection in November, 2012. It may be a very close election or it may be an overwhelming rejection, but the polling numbers and the state of the economy will be the deciding factors.

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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY -- ENERGY, ECONOMIC, & NATIONAL-SECURITY POLICY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 46, March 13, 2012
THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE AS AN AMERICAN BELLWETHER
By Christopher G. Adamo

The average American cannot help but struggle under the load of a flagging economy, exacerbated by starkly higher gasoline prices. Yet, this frustration is only compounded by President Obama’s derisive mocking of the sole remedy, which is an immediate lifting of onerous restrictions on oil exploration and production. However, such infuriating callousness and indifference is merely a harbinger of the predictable hardships that will surely ensue on every front if Obama, with his unbridled contempt and hostility towards the greatness of America, is allowed a second term.

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THE SORRY STATE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 45, March 12, 2012
A FAILING GRADE FOR AMERICA'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
By Alan Caruba

The nation’s educational systems are imploding from pre-school to kindergarten, elementary school to middle school to high school. Entire generations are either dropping out or graduating without the skill levels to compete in a world where students in other nations are learning how to run circles around their American counterparts.

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INVENTIVENESS & PERSISTENCE NEEDED TO ADAPT TO FUTURE DROUGHTS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 44, March 12, 2012
AFRICA: THE NEXT MEGADROUGHT
By Dennis T. Avery

Africa is suffering serious drought again — in both the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya) and in West Africa’s Mali. How bad is the drought likely to get?

Three years ago, the New York Times reported a study of the lakebed sediments in Ghana’s Lake Bosumtwi. Lead author Tim Shanahan of the University of Texas said Africa gets serious drought every 30 to 65 years — but “changing Atlantic sea-surface temperatures” are capable of triggering “much longer and more severe future droughts.”

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AMERICA VULNERABLE TO FUTURE ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 43, March 10, 2012
IGNORING ISLAMO-FASCISM AT OUR PERIL
By Alan Caruba

A great deal of the problem is that Americans believe that Islam is a "religion." Historically, it has been a cult of conquest that merges its belief system with a political agenda in which Sharia law is intended to be imposed throughout the world. Its early, swift spread was based on terror and warfare.

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LIBERALISM, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, & AMERICA'S MORAL DECLINE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 42, March 7, 2012
HOW AMERICA FAILED SANDRA FLUKE & HER KIND
By Christopher G. Adamo

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil." (Isaiah 5:20)

Twenty seven centuries ago, the Prophet, Isaiah, sternly forewarned of the perils of what we now call “political correctness.” And, clearly, the human condition has not “evolved” into anything higher since then. In this past week, America has been subjected to a tirade of Leftwing Liberal sanctimony and hypocrisy unprecedented in recent years, attesting to the glaring perversity with which the American political and cultural Left propagates lies and distortions to advance its agenda. And when, in this process, truth itself becomes a casualty, all who abide in truth will eventually be victims.

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PAST MISTAKES MADE IN THE ANALYSIS OF ARABS & THEIR CULTURE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 41, March 6, 2012
THE ARABS AS SEEN FIFTY YEARS AGO
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

"Once mellowed and moldering, the far-flung civilization of the Arabs is being swept today by invigorating winds of change. A fruitful kind of disorder is replacing the old fixed patterns of life." Those contemporary-sounding words were published in 1962, in a glossy, picture-laden, 160-page book titled The Arab World and produced by the Editors of Life magazine.

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THE VIKINGS & THEIR STRUGGLES WITH ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE CYCLES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 40, March 5, 2012
THE VIKINGS: VICTIMS & VICTORS
By Dennis T. Avery

It’s ironic that we remember the Vikings best for one small failure — their frozen far-north Greenland colony. We should, instead, be praising the Vikings for struggling through the cold and stormy Dark Ages, for designing those fabulous dragon ships, for swaggering their way through the abundance of the Medieval Warming — and ultimately for leaving many of their descendents in warmer locations to survive the Little Ice Age.

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RELIGION AS A CENTRAL COMPONENT OF THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 39, March 4, 2012
RELIGION & THE 2012 ELECTIONS
By Alan Caruba

The Founding Fathers believed that only men of “virtue” could lead America and only citizens who practiced virtue in their lives could preserve and protect the American Republic. They were right.

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EPA CARBON DIOXIDE RULES, PSEUDO-SCIENCE, & JUDICIAL CHALLENGE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 38, February 28, 2012
EPA LOSING ITS WAY ON GLOBAL WARMING:
EPA's Carbon Dioxide Rules Endanger Human Health & Welfare
By Craig Rucker

Legal challenges by states and industry groups over the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could and should be decided in the challengers’ favor. Whether that will happen in this highly politicized, semi-scientific matter of “dangerous manmade global warming and climate change” remains to be seen. Regardless of what the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., decides, the case will almost assuredly return to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the outcome is equally uncertain.

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CONFLICT RESOLUTION & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ARAB CONFLICT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 37, February 28, 2012
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN THE NEWS:
UCLA "Conflict Resolution" Program Features
Anti-Israel Professors on Both Sides
By Cinnamon Stillwell

On one side we have a professor who believes Israel should no longer exist as a Jewish state, and on the other a professor who also believes Israel should no longer exist as a Jewish state.

Looks like there won't be any conflicts to resolve after all.

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THE WISEST & MOST HUMANE COURSE OF ACTION TO FOLLOW       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 36, February 28, 2012
RESETTLING THE MUJAHEDEEN-E KHALQ OF IRAQ
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Tragedy looms as Iraqi authorities threaten by April 30, 2012, forcibly to expel 3,400 Iranians, members of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq. MeK members rightly fear for their lives if pushed across the border into Iran, for the Iranian regime criminalizes membership in the MeK and abominates the organization, its determined foe.

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ANTI-ISRAELI PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATED BY RICHARD FALK       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 35, February 27, 2012
RICHARD FALK'S IMAGINATION TRUMPS TRUTH IN LECTURE ON ISRAEL:
FALK'S IMAGINATION GONE WILD
By April Kaza

Richard Falk, Princeton University Professor Emeritus of International Law and United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, is well-known for his hostility towards Israel. A recent lecture at Stanford Law School entitled, "Imagining Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Why International Law Matters," provided a platform for more of the same vitriol. Falk's solution for how to achieve "peace" in the Middle East was to "move from the domain of reason and analysis to the domain of imagination," which, throughout his lecture, trumped facts, analysis, and history.

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IMPOSSIBLE FOR BIOFUEL TO REPLACE FOREIGN OIL IMPORTS       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 34, February 25, 2012
LOWER THAN POND SCUM
By Alan Caruba

Pond scum is not a rational substitute for oil, and spending $14 million on pond scum production as a fuel is beyond absurd. It is the same confidence game as selling “carbon credits” to avoid the hoax of “global warming.”

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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- ITS AGGRESSIVE TURN TO THE HARD LEFT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 33, February 15, 2012
OBAMA'S BIRTH CONTROL CONTROVERSY: THE BIG PICTURE
By Christopher G. Adamo

In the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election debacle, in which George W. Bush was declared winner after a month of Liberal efforts to overturn his razor-thin victory in Florida, the Democratic Party took an aggressive turn to the political Left. Many explanations of their strange behavior centered on the notion that they were responding in blind rage over their inability to steal the election. But what, at first, seemed to be little more than a hysterical tantrum eventually emerged as a well-crafted and effective political strategy.

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THE SUN, NOT VOLCANOES, HAS CAUSED THE LITTLE ICE AGES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 32, February 14, 2012
UNKNOWN VOLCANOES CAUSED THE LITTLE ICE AGE?
By Dennis T. Avery

Here we go again. Regular readers will remember that, a couple of weeks ago, Christopher Columbus was being blamed for the Little Ice Age (AD 1300 to 1850). Now, a new computer “study” announced that volcanoes caused the Little Ice Age! A research team led by Dr. Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado says eruptions of four volcanoes just before AD 1300 spewed huge amounts of sulphates into the air, which cooled the Arctic and “grew” the Arctic ice sheets and glaciers.

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WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO DRIVE A STAKE IN THE HEART OF ENVIRONMENTALISM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 31, February 13, 2012
THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX IS NOW KILLING PEOPLE
By Alan Caruba

By Friday, February 10, 2012, an estimated 500 Europeans had died from the freezing weather gripping the continent. This is the price they and British citizens are paying for embracing the global warming hoax, spending billions for wind power when they should have been building coal-fired and other sources of energy to heattheir homes and businesses.

I and others have been warning for years that the Earth has been cooling since 1998 and that the planet is on the cusp of a new ice age because the average length of an interglacial period of warmth between such ages is now coming to an end after the passage of some 11,500 years.

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ENVIRONMENTALISM AS AN ATTACK ON AMERICAN ENERGY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 30, February 11, 2012
AMERICA'S GREEN ENEMIES
By Alan Caruba

It was good news that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the nation’s first nuclear power plants on February 9, 2012, clearing the way for the construction of two reactors by Southern Company at its Plant Vogtle site near Atlanta, Georgia. The bad news is that these are the first new nuclear plants since 1978!

In a nation with a growing population and increasing need for electricity to power homes and businesses, it is nothing less than insane to not include nuclear energy in the mix of providers. Environmentalists immediately attacked the announcement, using the usual scare campaigns.

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THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE & THE AMERICAN NATIONAL INTEREST       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 29, February 8, 2012
THE JOBS THING THAT SURE DIDN'T LAST LONG:
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Jobs, Promotes More
Wind & Solar Subsidies -- What to Do Now?
By Paul K. Driessen

While a lot of articles have been published about the Keystone XL pipeline, it’s still a hot discussion item, and deservedly so. Trying to quantify or explain the President’s decision to deep-six the project and all the jobs, oil, and national security interests is not an easy task, nor a lesson that voters should forget before November, 2012.

This commentary presents both some needed background and an additional perspective that is quite different from what has been seen in the media, thus far. It addresses the question of what TransCanada should do now. It suggests that the Canadian company should take direct positive action at the local and state level, and also take the distinctly American action of suing the U.S. government for improperly denying the permits.

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MEDIA HYPOCRISY & THE 2012 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 28, February 8, 2012
WHY RICK SANTORUM CONNECTS WITH THE HEARTLAND
By Christopher G. Adamo

Even before the final results had been determined in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, the Liberal media cabal was in high gear, incessantly reminding America that the decisive wins by Rick Santorum were not legally binding. Thus, his incredibly strong showing did not officially guarantee a windfall of delegates for him at the Republican National Convention. Of course, only a few weeks back, these same people were falling all over themselves, trumpeting the significance of Mitt Romney’s “win” in the Iowa caucuses, which, likewise, did not accrue delegates to any candidate. Even more significantly, they all went completely silent regarding Iowa, once the actual count revealed that Romney in fact did not win, but was edged back to second place, behind Santorum.

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EU SHOULD SUPPORT GREECE'S DEVELOPMENT OF ITS ENERGY RESOURCES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 27, February 7, 2012
KASTELORIZO: MEDITERRANEAN FLASHPOINT?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

That Athens controls the island of Kastelorizo, a wisp of land off the coast of Anatolia, implies the Greek government could (but does not yet) claim an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Mediterranean Sea that reduces the Turkish EEZ to a fraction of what it would be were the island under Ankara's control.

Were Athens to claim its full EEZ, Kastelorizo's presence would make its EEZ contiguous with the EEZ of Cyprus, a factor with great import now, at a moment of massive off-shore gas and oil discoveries. Kastelorizo, with an EEZ, benefits the emerging Greece-Cyprus-Israel alliance by making it possible to transport either Cypriot and Israeli natural gas (via pipeline) or electricity (via cable) to Western Europe without Turkish permission. This has taken on special urgency since November 4, 2011, when Turkey's Minister of Energy, Taner Yildiz, announced that his government would not permit Israeli natural gas to transit Turkish territory; Ankara will likely also ban Cypriot exports.

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DIRECT MILITARY ACTION AGAINST EGYPT & IRAN NEEDED       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 26, February 7, 2012
TAKING HOSTAGES: TEHRAN IN 1979; CAIRO IN 2012
By Alan Caruba

As someone who vividly recalls the Iranian “students” who took our diplomats hostage in 1979 and the 444 days it took to get them back, the repeat of this by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, putting 19 pro-democracy, non-government organization (NGO) Americans on trial on trumped up charges has an ugly repetitive feel to it.

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GREENHOUSE GASES CONTINUE TO ACCUMULATE IN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 25, February 5, 2012
RESPONSE OF PLANT SPECIES TO CO2 LEVELS
By Dennis T. Avery

The earth has stopped warming, but the greenhouse gasses continue to accumulate at higher levels in the atmosphere. In fact, it seems certain that the planet will have rising levels of atmospheric CO2 for the foreseeable future. No country has actually produced substantial cuts in its greenhouse emissions, and Asia continues to strongly increase its output of industrial gasses. Nor have any of the “renewable” energy sources been cost-effective enough to survive the coming budget cuts in Europe and the U.S.A.

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THOUGHTS ON THE LIKELYHOOD THAT ISRAEL WILL STRIKE IRAN IN 2012       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 24, February 4, 2012
PANETTA PREDICTS AN ISRAELI STRIKE ON IRAN
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

It's not every day that someone like the U.S. Secretary of Defense forecasts an ally's move, but this just happened when Leon Panetta said that he believes, in the paraphrase of a Washington Post reporter, that "there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June."

Were the Israelis to attack Iran, Obama's response could have major electoral implications. Were he to approve or (especially) join in the attack, he would scramble the 2012 presidential elections to his advantage. Were he to condemn the Israelis, however, he would likely pay a price.

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THE GOP COMPASS MUST POINT IN ONE DIRECTION: OBAMA'S DEFEAT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 23, February 4, 2012
THE LOONEY TUNES VERSION OF THE GOP CAMPAIGN
By Alan Caruba

I have begun to think of the Republican presidential campaign as a series of Looney Tunes cartoons being replayed again and again. They are filled with a combination of laughs and the fantastical, self-defeating violence of Wily Coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner.

As the primary season moves along, I sometimes think that far too many Republicans have temporarily lost their minds. Three years of Barack Hussein Obama will do that to you.

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EPA'S FLAWED RULES MUST BE CHALLENGED & REVERSED       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 22, February 3, 2012
AGENDA-DRIVEN "SCIENCE" AT THE EPA:
Newly Proposed Air Pollution Rules Impose
Exhorbitant Costs For Illusory Health Benefits
By Dr. Willie Soon & Paul K. Driessen

It has become increasingly obvious that EPA’s real goal is to assert its authority over ever-increasing segments of our economy; reinterpret medical and scientific studies to fit its regulatory agenda; and replace as many coal-fired power plants as possible with costly, unreliable renewable energy systems.

American voters, elected officials, and courts need to challenge these radical, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, demand an end to EPA’s distortion of science and reality – and reverse these flawed rules.

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EGYPT'S MILITARY REGIME BLAMING ITS OWN VIOLENT ACTS ON THE U.S.A.       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 21, February 2, 2012
U.S.A. ACCUSED OF RUNNING OVER EGYPTIANS
By Raymond Ibrahim

There is absolutely no truth to reports that U.S. Embassy employees or diplomats in Egypt were involved in hit-and-run incidents using U.S. diplomatic vehicles, injuring or killing protestors in January, 2011, in Cairo. There is also no truth to statements alleging that the keys inside U.S. diplomatic vehicles are coded and can only be used by U.S. Embassy employees. On January 28, 2011, a number of U.S. Embassy vehicles were stolen. After these vehicles were stolen, there were reports of the vehicles being used in violent and criminal acts.

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NO COMPELLING SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENT FOR REDUCTION OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 20, January 30, 2012
SIGNING GLOBAL WARMING'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
By Alan Caruba

It has taken a very long time for most of the public to come to the conclusion that they have been the object of an elaborate hoax. America polls demonstrate that global warming is at the very bottom of their concerns these days. In time, wind and solar power, electric cars, biofuels, and other environmentalist delusions will join that list.

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THE EROSION OF AMERICA'S COMMON VALUES SINCE SINCE NOVEMBER, 1963       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 19, January 29, 2012
THE NEW AMERICAN ELITE
By Alan Caruba

We have been the product of the cultural capital bequeathed to us by the system the Founders laid down -- a system that says people must be free to live life as they see fit and to be responsible for the consequences of their actions; that it is not the government’s job to protect people from themselves; that it is not the government’s job to stage-manage how people interact with one another. Discard the system that created the cultural capital, and the qualities we have loved about Americans will go away.”

The system, of course, is free-market capitalism, deregulation, and lower marginal income tax rates -- all within the context of the U.S. Constitution. It is under attack by the President of the United States and a cohort of civil service and industrial unions, along with Liberal members of Congress.

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A NEW BIOTECH DISCOVERY ENABLES FUEL ALCOHOL TO BE MADE FROM SEAWEED       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 18, Jan. 29, 2012
WILL SEAWEED BE THE BIOFUEL SOLUTION?
By Dennis T. Avery

Researchers may have broken the biofuel barrier. A new biotech discovery enables ethanol to be made from a common variety of brown seaweed. This would by-pass the biggest problem with corn ethanol and biodiesel — the world’s shortage of cropland. The new ethanol process uses the familiar E coli bacterium working on kombu, a variety of edible brown kelp, which is common in the world’s seas and oceans. It has been grown and harvested commercially by such countries as China, Japan, and Korea for hundreds of years. If you like sushi, it is the brown wrapping on your favorites.

The new process can turn a mixture of kombu and water, with the E. coli added, into a solution of about 5 percent ethanol in two days. Distill the ethanol from the water; put the water back into the ocean and “Voila”! Better yet, this happens at low temperatures, between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius. Thus the ethanol can be produced without the use of additional costly energy — a big advantage over the current efforts to produce cost-effective ethanol from algae.

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THE DOE HAS NO TRACK RECORD OF POSITIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 17, January 27, 2012
DO WE NEED THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION?
By Dr. Charles Murray

The case for the U.S. Department of Education could rest on one or more of three legs: its constitutional appropriateness, the existence of serious problems in education that could be solved only at the federal level, and/or its track record since it came into being.

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OBAMA MAY WELL HAVE GROWN WEARY OF BEING U.S. PRESIDENT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 16, January 25, 2012
DOES OBAMA WANT TO LOSE THE ELECTION? YES!
By Alan Caruba

It seems like a bizarre notion, but does Barack Obama want to lose the presidential election in November, 2012? I think he does!

One is struck by the way Obama has visibly aged in the job. He may well have grown weary being POTUS (President of the United States).

By any rational standard, one would say he wants a second term, but Obama has always operated in a fantasy world, where mere words are supposed to translate into reality. And he has repeatedly talked about being a one-term President.

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OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATS DEVOTED TO ADVANCING THE LIBERAL AGENDA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 15, January 25, 2012
THE DETERIORATING "STATE OF THE UNION" PARODY
By Christopher G. Adamo

The annual charade known as the “State of the Union Address” has clearly become the most telling example of everything that ever went awry within the U.S. federal government over the past few decades. Compared to the constitutional premise on which the State of Union Address is based, the fraudulent and politically tainted monstrosity presented to the Congress and the American people this week represented a total departure from its originally stated purpose. Yet, it was typical of the rash of nanny state excesses obsessively advanced by the Obama regime.

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THE NEW POLITICAL REGIME IN EGYPT & HOW IT WAS CREATED       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 14, January 24, 2012
DON'T IGNORE ELECTORAL FRAUD IN EGYPT
By Daniel Pipes & Cynthia Farahat

When Egypt's legislative lower house, the People's Assembly, convened on January 23, 2012, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent. This astounding figure, however, reflects less the country's public opinion than it does a ploy by the ruling military leadership to remain in power.

In a recent article ("Egypt's Sham Election," December 6, 2011) we argued that, just as Anwar El-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak in the past "tactically empowered Islamists as a foil to gain Western support, arms, and money," so do Mohamed Tantawi and his Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) "still play this tired old game."

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OBAMA'S "ENERGY POLICY" GUARANTEES ECONOMIC DISASTER       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 13, January 21, 2012
DESTROYING AMERICA BY DENYING ACCESS TO ENERGY
By Alan Caruba

It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world’s greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior as they do everything in their power to restrict access and drive energy producers out of business.

It is common sense that a nation that cannot produce sufficient electricity to turn on its lights and power its manufacturing sector will be destroyed, if current Obama administration regulations and actions continue. Our vital transportation sector and all others that utilize petroleum-based products will suffer, too.

While President Obama babbles about millionaires and billionaires, everyone will be impoverished by the loss of jobs and revenue our energy sector produces now and can produce in the future.

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NATURAL GAS, ELECTRICITY, & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 12, January 20, 2012
TIME TO LAUNCH A NEW ERA IN AFRICA:
Instead of More Foreign Aid, Africa Needs
Self-Initiative & Energy & Economic Development
By Cyril Boynes, Jr.

The modern world runs on electricity. It’s time for Africa to take its rightful place among the healthy and prosperous nations of the world. Africa's growing supplies of natural gas could help make that happen.

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THE FUTURE OF WIND TURBINES & WIND ENERGY       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 11, January 18, 2012
CHARLES MANSION ENERGY:
It's Time to Apply Endangered Species, Wildlife,
& Economic Laws Fairly & Equitably
By Paul K. Driessen

Put bluntly, wind energy is unsustainable. It kills unconscionable numbers of bats, raptors, and other birds. It requires billions in perpetual subsidies – and billions more for (mostly) gas-fired backup generators. It impacts millions of acres of scenic, wildlife, and agricultural land – and depends on vast amounts of raw materials, whose extraction and processing further impairs global land, air, and water quality. Its expensive, unreliable electricity kills two jobs for every one supposedly created.

A far more rational public policy would cut out the costly, unreliable middleman. It would forget about wind turbines, simply build more gas, coal and nuclear generators, to generate reliable, affordable, sustainable electricity – and apply the same economic and environmental laws fairly and equitably to all energy sources.

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ARAB IMMIGRATION INTO ISRAEL -- THREAT TO ISRAELI SECURITY & SURVIVAL       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 10, January 17, 2012
ENDING THE PALESTINIAN "RIGHT OF RETURN"
By Dr. Daniel Pipes

Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel's population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo Accords offered a little-noted family-reunification provision that turned this trickle into a river: 137,000 residents of the Palestinian Authority (PA) moved to Israel in 1994-2002, some of them engaged in either sham or polygamous marriages.

Israel has two major reasons to fear this uncontrolled immigration.

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WHAT BINDS TOGETHER THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 9, January 17, 2012
THE U.S.A. IS ON A SUICIDE WATCH
By Alan Caruba

The United States of America, the greatest engine of wealth the world has ever seen, is bankrupt. The U.S. national debt exceeds the Gross Domestic Product, the sum total of all revenue generated by goods and services.

The President has asked that the debt ceiling be raised another trillion or so, and Congress will comply. That, I submit, is insane.

I also submit that, since Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009, the nation has been witness to the economic insanity personified in the man and in the Democratic Party-controlled Congress that was his partner until 2010, when the control of the U.S. House of Representatives was wrested away by the Tea Party movement and its support for Republican candidates.

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THE HISTORY LESSON THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS IGNORING       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 8, January 15, 2012
PRESIDENT OBAMA WEAKENS U.S. MILITARY
By Alan Caruba

“Si vis pacem, para bellum.” If you want peace, prepare for war. The adage is attributed to the 4th or 5th Century Latin author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus’s tract De Re Militari, Book 3. This fundamental wisdom is being ignored by President Barack Obama, one of two recent U.S. Commanders-in-Chief who never spent a day in uniform, let alone under fire.

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RICK SANTORUM'S VERSION OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 7, January 12, 2012
DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF SANTORUM'S "BIG GOVERNMENT CONSERVATISM"
By Christopher G. Adamo

Rick Santorum is no advocate of the “big government” that confiscates private property and redistributes it in the name of “social justice.” Yet, he understands that government must be “big enough” to fulfill its constitutional role, if the nation is to survive and flourish. Many of his critics are wailing and gnashing teeth over the dismal path the nation has recently taken. Yet they stubbornly refuse to admit that no shortcuts exist by which it can be restored.

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A RABIDLY ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB PROPAGANDIST AT UCLA RETIRES       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 6, January 10, 2012
FAREWELL TO UCLA'S SONDRA HALE
By Cinnamon Stillwell

The rabidly anti-Israel University of California, Los Angeles, Anthropology and Women's Studies Professor Sondra Hale has retired. Her list of dubious achievements is long, and, over the years, Campus Watch has chronicled a good number of them.

UCLA now has an opportunity to make amends for Hale's years of agitprop and politicization of her discipline by filling her position with someone who will pursue disinterested, rigorous scholarship.

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OBAMA RUNNING FOR REELECTION AGAINST AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 5, January 7, 2012
BARACK MACHIAVELLI
By Alan Caruba

The Founding Fathers, authors of the Constitution of the United States of America, were obsessed with any form of government that could become too powerful, too willing to use force to oppress citizens. They had cause. They had fought a long war against the greatest major world power of their age, the British Empire, which was ruled by a king with nearly absolute power. America's Founders fashioned an instrument of government which was designed to ensure that the U.S. President could not rule by edict and which defused power among the three branches of the U.S. national government -- legislative, executive, and judicial -- and between the national government and the semi-autonomous member-states of the American federal union, the United States of America.

We have a U.S. President currently running for reelection against Congress, Wall Street, Republicans, and the right of citizens to be free of an overly intrusive government.

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HOW THE EPA OPERATES: IT LIES ALL THE TIME, SPREADING PROPAGANDA       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 4, January 5, 2012
EPA'S KILLER MACT
By Alan Caruba

To understand how the Environmental Protection Agency operates, one must first understand that it lies all the time. Its “estimates” are bogus. Its claims of lives saved are bogus.

It thrives on scare-mongering to a public that is science-challenged, but the science remains and the EPA must be challenged to save the nation from the loss of the energy it needs to function. It must be challenged to unleash the huge economic benefits of energy resources — coal, oil, and natural gas — that can reverse our present economic decline.

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ROMNEY AS THE "CENTRIST" CONTENDER FOR THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 3, Jan 5, 2012
THE REAL IOWA CAUCUS WINNER: "NOT ROMNEY!"
By Christopher G. Adamo

In a fitting epilogue to Mitt Romney’s eight-vote “victory” over Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucus, the former Massachusetts Governor has received an endorsement from Senator John McCain (Republican - Arizona), who some might remember as the 2008 “Republican” presidential nominee. Such a ringing affirmation from a politician who epitomizes every negative aspect of the Republican “Establishment” will eventually do Romney more harm than good. Yet, he is not likely to perceive it that way.

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A SUCCESSFUL SOUTH SUDAN COULD BECOME A VALUED ALLY OF THE WEST       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 2, January 3, 2012
SOUTH SUDAN -- ISRAEL'S NEW ALLY
By Daniel Pipes

It's not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem, capital of the most besieged country in the world, but Salva Kiir, President of South Sudan, accompanied by his Foreign and Defense Ministers, did just that in late December, 2011. Israel's President Shimon Peres hailed his visit as a "moving and historic moment." The visit spurred talk of South Sudan locating its Embassy in Jerusalem, making it the only government anywhere in the world to do so.

This unusual development results from an unusual story.

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THE ADVANTAGES OF GRIDLOCK IN AMERICAN POLITICS & GOVERNMENT       PC, Volume XIV, Issue # 1, January 1, 2012
HOW NOT TO GO CRAZY IN 2012
By Alan Caruba

Election years tend to create a level of frenzy concerning the selection of the nominees and the outcome. The media feed this in order to keep readers reading and viewers viewing. The history of American elections has always been one of vituperation between the parties, so there is nothing new about this. Indeed, since so much depends on it, the political free-for-all is a healthy exercise.

It can, however, make for a difficult environment in which to go about one’s life; the air filled with charge and counter-charge, polls going up and down, and a general sense that something is very wrong with the way the government functions.

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