THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr.. Editor
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OBAMA & FLAWS IN U.S. INTERNAL SECURITY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 208, Dec. 30, 2009
THAT ANNOYING ISSUE OF "HOMELAND SECURITY"
By Christopher G. Adamo
In the aftermath of a near miss from yet another Islamic terrorist, the blatant incompetence and callous indifference of the
Obama White House is not creating nearly the stir that was generated by the network anchors following Hurricane Katrina
during the second term of President George W. Bush. Nevertheless, the evidence is glaring, and like the “Climate Gate”
revelations of wholesale fraud from England’s East Anglia, Climate Research Unit, this story will not remain hushed forever.
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GLOBAL WARMING THEORY IS A FRAUD PC, Volume XI, Issue # 207, Dec. 28, 2009
TAXPAYER ROBBERY GATE: SENATOR BOXER IS COMPOUNDING
THE CLIMATEGATE SCANDAL WITH COVER-UP & OBSTRUCTION
By Paul K. Driessen
Aside from ideologues, hydrocarbon haters, Gaia worshipers, profiteers and power-grabbing politicians, most of the sentient
world is beginning to realize that the hysteria over global warming disasters is based on dubious to fraudulent temperature
data, analyses, models, reports, and peer reviews.
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ISLAMISM'S DISGUISED MESSAGE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 206, Dec, 27, 2009
SHAMELESS ISLAMIST DOUBLESPEAK RAGING ON:
HEZBOLLAH'S "NEW" MANIFESTO IN CONTEXT
By Raymond Ibrahim
So long as Western political leaders, diplomats and intellectuals, in all their naivete or arrogance, continue believing their
ideals are universally shared, irrespective of all evidence otherwise — from the antithetic dictates of Islamic law to al-Qa'ida's,
Fatah's, Hamas', and Hezbollah's open advocacy for it (in Arabic at least) — the indignity of the West's assuming an effete
and, from an Arab point of view, emasculated role in an Islamic-dominated world order is quite likely to be seen as a small and,
quite possibly, temporary price to pay for "peace in our time."
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THE THREAT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 205, Dec. 23, 2009
DEFEATING JIHADI TERRORISM
By Dr. Baby Suseelan
Recent media reports indicate imminent Mumbai type Jihadi attacks in major cities of the world. Nowhere is the tension and
fear from Jihadi attacks more evident than in the major cities of New York, London, Zurich, Madrid, Rome, Mumbai, and New
Delhi.
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DISAPPOINTMENT & GROWING FEARS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 204, Dec. 12, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR IN THE OVAL OFFICE
By Alan Caruba
Americans and the rest of the world have had a year in which to watch Barack Obama and it has been one of constant
disappointment and growing fears. That trend is unlikely to change.
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"SCIENTIFIC" GROUPS -- GROWING OUTRAGE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 203, Nov. 19, 2009
GALILEO SILENCED AGAIN: THE AGU IS
SENDING SCIENCE BACK 400 YEARS
By Dr. Willie Soon & Dr. David Legates
This commentary underscores the sad state of affairs within even our most venerable scientific organizations, when it
comes to alleged man-made catastrophic global warming. Their all too frequent reaction is to censor, intimidate,
and silence any voices that rise to question claims by Al Gore, the UN IPCC and others who are using this issue to raise
revenue and restructure the world’s energy and economic systems.
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CONSERVATISM & THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 202, Nov. 18, 2009
PALIN, CONSERVATISM, & THE DISCONNECTED GOP
By Christopher G. Adamo
For nearly two decades now, and particularly in the wake of the 2000
presidential election debacle, Democrats have been pursuing a diabolically
simple political strategy. In short, they moved to the hard Left, knowing how
reflexively the “mainstream” Republican response would be to follow them.
But, of course, the GOP would pathetically claim that, by doing so to a lesser
degree than the Democrats, it would somehow retain the mantle of
“Conservatism.”
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CLIMATE CHANGE & THE MODELERS' THESIS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 201, Nov. 17, 2009
AN ALARMIST MODELER'S HISTORY OF CLIMATE CHANGES:
Climate Changes & Their Causes Through the Ages,
As Explained by Al Gore & Modelers
By Paul K. Driessen
If carbon dioxide is the primary cause of global warming, it must have played that role throughout history. The challenge is
to discover the sources of that CO2 climate villain in the past. This brief summary of key events is intended to aid in that
quest, and explain how the Al Gore-James Hansen thesis worked through the ages.
This article is largely tongue-in-cheek, but it contains important lessons for readers – and for anyone who may still be
straining to explain climate change and global warming disasters by resorting to carbon dioxide as the sole or principal
cause.
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ETHANOL & THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 200, Nov. 16, 2009
GREENS AGAIN BAIT & SWITCH ON ENERGY
By Dennis T. Avery
Back during the bad old Bush Presidency, the eco-movement loudly endorsed ethanol, particularly cellulosic ethanol, as a
good eco-substitute for gasoline. Now, they’ve changed their minds. They’re finally admitting that you can’t grow ethanol
and food on the same acres. If you’re going to add ethanol to your shopping list, you need to clear more land to grow the
feedstock. When forest or grassland is cleared and plowed, huge amounts of carbon stored in the soil gas off into the air.
If Global Warming is man-made, this is a serious problem.
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ACADEMIC ANALYSIS OF ISLAMISM -- ERROR PC, Volume XI, Issue # 199, Nov. 15, 2009
FORT HOOD & THE ACADEMIC APOLOGISTS
By Cinnamon Stillwell
In the wake of the horrific attack at the Fort Hood military base in Texas earlier this month, and the mounting evidence that
the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was motivated by Islamist beliefs, the media has turned to Middle East Studies
"experts" for enlightenment. Instead, what the media, and, by extension, the American public, has received is the moral
relativism and obfuscation that too often meets any effort to address Islamism or jihadism in an intellectually honest
manner.
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UNDERMINING THE FREE MARKET SYSTEM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 198, Nov. 14, 2009
A MAN-MADE FINANCIAL DISASTER
By Alan Caruba
America's present difficulties began on September 15, 2008, in a calculated attack that got Barack Hussein Obama elected
President of the U.S.A. and was immediately followed by all the subsequent efforts to grow the federal government ever
larger to make more Americans dependent upon it. The Obama administration has increased the national debt more than
all previous Presidencies combined.
There is a determined effort under way to undermine the free market capitalist system that made America the greatest
economic and military power in the world. Both the Obama White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress are parties
to it, but the identities of those who launched that September attack remain hidden.
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THE GOP & ITS CONSERVATIVE BASE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 197, Nov. 11 2009
LESSONS LEARNED FROM NEW YORK DISTRICT 23
By Christopher G. Adamo
Contrary to the propaganda regularly offered as “analysis” by the Liberal media/Democratic Party axis, the backlash against
Republicans in 2006 and 2008 was by no means an embrace of the mindset of the political Left. The American people
overwhelmingly identify with Conservatism, but no longer with Republicans, who all too often disavow any loyalty to it.
Having vainly attempted to ingratiate themselves with the political “Center,” GOP “moderates” lost touch with the
Conservative base.
America is ripe for a reestablishment of those former ties. But it remains to be seen whether the Republican Party will recognize
and seize this opportunity to return to its roots and return to power. It would be a welcome change.
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THE WEST & THE MEANING OF "JIHAD" PC, Volume XI, Issue #196, Nov. 9, 2009
ISLAMIST PERFIDY & WESTERN NAIVETY
WHICH IS MORE LETHAL?
By Raymond Ibrahim
Islamist perfidy is only to be expected; Western naivety, on the other hand, which, if anything,
should have begun to dissipate in our post-9/11 world, has burgeoned to the point of nearly making the former unnecessary.
For while there is no doubt that Islamists (and their misguided Western cronies) distort the meaning of jihad, increasingly,
even when the true meaning is in plain sight, America's leaders and media still fail to discern it. In other words, apathy — or
willful blindness — regarding jihad has become so deep-seated in the West that Islamists need no longer actively dissemble.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA & U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 195, Nov. 9, 2009
DON'T TAKE NETANYAHU TO THE WOODSHED
By Steven J. Rosen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington, D.C., on Sunday, November 8, 2009, following weeks of
speculation about whether he would be met by U.S. President Barack Obama during the visit. When his plane took off,
there was still no word from the White House. Finally, at the last minute, the President's staff confirmed that there would
be a brief meeting late Monday night.
With Obama's "trust" ratings among the Israeli public sunk below 10 percent, compared with ratings in the 70 to 80 percent
range for past Presidents like Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, one might have thought that Obama would seize the
opportunity of Netanyahu's visit as a chance to warm the relationship with the country he describes as the United States'
No. 1 ally in the Middle Eastern region. Instead, the delayed response and brief Monday meeting were quickly deemed in
the Israeli press as a full-fledged snub.
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THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 194, Nov. 9, 2009
EXTREME ACTIVISTS TAKE THE REINS AT EPA
By Alex Avery & Dennis T. Avery
The Environmental Protection Agency, in a George Orwellian move, has just announced that it has suddenly decided to
put the herbicide atrazine through yet another regulatory wringer, despite having just completed a comprehensive,
multi-year regulatory review of the safety of atrazine begun in 1994. The timing suggests that politics is the overriding
concern.
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VICTIMIZATION VERSUS ISLAMIC DOCTRINES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 193, Nov. 9, 2009
SUDDEN JIHAD OR "INORDINATE STRESS" AT FORT HOOD?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
When a Muslim in the West, for no apparent reason, violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about
motives. The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting
that some kind of oppression caused Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, to kill 13 and wound 38 at Ft. Hood, Texas, on November
5, 2009.
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ENERGY POLICY -- PUTTING AMERICA AT RISK PC, Volume XI, Issue #192, Nov. 7, 2009
ENERGY ABCS: PLAYING AMERICANS FOR FOOLS
By Alan Caruba
I have long harbored strong doubts about the knowledge that most Americans possess regarding the sources of energy
they largely take for granted. We flip a switch and the lights go on. We pull up to the gas pump and drive away. We use
machines that are totally dependent on having enough electricity to power entire cities as well as rural communities.
Since all successful economies depend on abundant, affordable energy, why is the Congress preparing to pass a
cap-and-trade bill, renamed to suggest “clean energy” and “national security” is relevant to imposition of a huge tax on
the use of energy by all Americans?
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ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST AS A NATION-STATE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 191, Nov. 4, 2009
ISRAEL & THE FAMILY OF NATIONS
A BOOK REVIEW
By Seth J. Frantzman
It is one of the great shames of the modern world that there is still a question as to whether Israel has a right to exist in its
present form or any form at all. Despite the relative insecurity of the country militarily, this problem was absent during the
first twenty years of Israel's existence. The actual threat to Israel's survival by the Arab armies meant that, on an intellectual
and international level, there were fewer calls for its destruction, at least outside of the Arab and Muslim world. With the
exception of some radical voices in the West, such as historian Arnold Toynbee's 1961 comparison of Israel to Nazi
Germany, there were relatively few intellectuals in the West that called for the destruction of Israel or attempted to
undermine its foundations as a Jewish, democratic state.
Recent years have seen a rise, in academic circles and student movements throughout the Western world, of a general
cultural shift against the existence of Israel.
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ISLAMIC FANATICISM -- A CONTINUING THREAT PC, Volume XI, Issue # 190, Nov. 2, 2009
EVERY DAY IS GROUNDHOG DAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
By Alan Caruba
In the movie, “Groundhog Day,” the main character wakes up day after day, trapped in the same events, desperately looking
for a way out of that living nightmare. It’s a very good metaphor for the Middle East.
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U.S. ECONOMY -- U.S. ENERGY & TAX POLICY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 189, Nov. 1, 2009
WHAT'S THE REAL COST OF GLOBAL WARMING TAXES?
By Dennis T. Avery
The Leftish Brookings Institution and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce basically agree that the energy taxes in the House
Waxman-Markey bill could total $9 trillion over ten years. As an economist, I look at these forecasts and wonder “How can
we possibly know?”
These estimates cover only the costs of the “user permits” that companies will have to buy. They don’t even try to
measure the massive reduction in our economic output as energy costs double and triple with scarcity.
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TALKING WITH THE WEST'S ENEMIES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 188, Oct. 30, 2009
MOGAHED'S EXCUSES DON'T ADD UP
By Cinnamon Stillwell
As reported last week by Campus Watch, Dalia Mogahed, appointee to President Obama's Council on Faith-Based
and Neighborhood Partnerships, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and
co-author, along with Georgetown University's John Esposito, of Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really
Think, appeared (by phone) earlier this month on the UK-based Islam Channel television program, "Muslimah Dilemma."
Ibtihal Bsis, the show's host, is a member of the Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir; Mogahed's fellow guest, Nazreen Nawaz, is
the group's national women's media representative. Given these affiliations, it's no surprise that the discussion included
such extremist fare as the promotion of sharia law for — of all things — protecting women's rights, condemnation for
secular pluralistic democracy, and the revival of a mythical caliphate as the answer to the Muslim world's woes.
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THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAKISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 187, Sep. 8, 2009
LEADER OF NONE:
Obama's Global Warming Policies Have Few Followers.
By Paul K. Driessen
“Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change,” President Obama has
asserted. “We will make it clear that America is ready to lead.”
The President and Al Gore are certainly ready to lead. But how many will follow?
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JIHADISTS AS ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 186, Sep. 7, 2009
THE MAKING OF ISLAMIST TERRORISTS
By Dr. Babu Suseelan
Islamic terrorists are enemies of the human race. We are justified in uniting together with whatever means are necessary to
punish and even exterminate such brutal lunatics.
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OBAMACARE & THE SOCIAL WELFARE STATE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 185, Sep. 2, 2009
OBAMACARE: WHEN GROWING OLD BECOMES A "CRIME"
By Christopher G. Adamo
As Obama-style government expansion and bloat continues, the requirement for citizens to
“contribute” to its operation will likewise increase. Consequently, the
dehumanization of ever-larger segments of the population will inevitably
follow, beginning with the elderly and infirmed, but certainly not remaining
limited to those groups.
Clearly, it is imperative to immediately turn the tide on this monster, not
only with respect to health care, but in every facet of its scheme to subdue
and control the people. This manner of “change” holds the potential to
destroy the soul of America.
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COMMUNIST PENETRATION OF AMERICA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 184, Sep. 2, 2009
OBAMA'S COMMUNISTS
By Alan Caruba
“Tailgunner” Joe McCarthy, a 1950s U.S. Senator from Wisconsin who lent his name to any effort to expose
America’s internal enemies, was right. At the height of his fame, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy said the U.S.
government was shot through with Communists, many of whom were participating in a vast espionage effort
orchestrated by Soviet agents, operating under the direction and control of the Soviet foreign intelligence
apparatus headquartered in Moscow.
Were there Communists and spies for the Soviet Union in the U.S. government? Yes, but we would not learn more
until a young U.S. Senator from California, Richard M. Nixon, identified Alger Hiss, a high-ranking U.S. State
Department official, as one.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the records that became available to historians and other scholars
confirmed McCarthy’s worst fears.
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DESTROYING THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 183, Sep. 2, 2009
RELEASE OF THE LOCKERBIE BOMBER &
DEATH OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE
By Dr Michael Rubin
On August 20, Scottish authorities freed Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in
the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Even though he was sentenced to life in prison, he served just over 11 days for each of the 270 men, women, and
children killed on the ill-fated airliner, or in the village below.
Documents show that what the British government said was a compassionate release for a cancer-stricken man had
more to do with British commercial interests.
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OBAMA & SELECTION OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 182, Aug. 29, 2009
OBAMA'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL "CZARS"
By Alan Caruba
Here’s a question that has been nagging me for months. Are Obama’s ever-growing number of “czars” constitutional?
I am not a constitutional scholar, but I have read the document known as the Constitution of the United States.
As I read it, the U.S. Constitution is very specific about whom the President may appoint, and he can do so only within
parameters “established by law” and this applies specifically to the “heads of departments.” I interpret this to mean
Cabinet Secretaries, all of whom must be vetted and approved for their positions by the U.S. Senate.
The Republican National Committee’s Conservative Caucus recently passed a resolution expressing their concern,
noting: “The U.S. Constitution explicitly states that government officers with significant authority (called ‘principal
officers’) must be nominated by the President and are subject to a vote of the U.S. Senate.”
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AN ISLAMIST GETS FIRED BY THE DUTCH PC, Volume XI, Issue # 181, Aug. 28, 2009
TARIQ RAMADAN REPUDIATED
By Stephen Schwartz
In an important development for the fight against extremist Islam in the West, the Dutch City of Rotterdam and
Erasmus University in Rotterdam have dismissed Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born Islamist academic, from his two
local jobs.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 180, Aug. 27, 2009
AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL STANDING FOUNDERS UNDER OBAMA
By Christopher G. Adamo
Once again, a dosage of reality is needed to properly assess the real effect
that Barack Hussein Obama is having on America’s standing among the sovereign nation-states of the
world. And, as usual, the truth is far less glowing than the Liberal media
enclave would have us believe.
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ZAKAT -- FINANCIAL AID TO VIOLENT JIHADISTS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 179, Aug. 25, 2009
WHEN WILL WESTERNERS STOP WESTERNIZING ISLAMIC CONCEPTS?
By Raymond Ibrahim
Well meaning Americans would do well to cease interpreting age-old Muslim doctrines — from jihad to zakat —
according to their Western epistemology and, instead, rely on the standard rulings of mainstream Islam, as
articulated by its authoritative schools of jurisprudence. That is, after all, what Muslims do.
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WHAT PUBLIC POLICY SHOULD NOT TRY TO DO PC, Volume XI, Issue # 178, Aug. 24, 2009
TAXPAYER CASH FOR CLUNKER IDEAS -- FIRST CARS, NEXT POWER PLANTS:
WASTING NATURAL RESOURCES TO PROMOTE ECOLOGICAL IDEOLOGIES
By Paul K. Driessen
It has supposedly finally been deep-sixed, as the chorus of objections grew ever louder. But the cash-for-clunkers
program wasted billions of dollars America doesn’t have – and offers some valuable lessons for what public policies
should not attempt to do.
Just in time, too – because the next cash-for-clunkers program may be just around the corner, courtesy of T. Boone
Pickens and Ted Turner, who want to prevent global warming catastrophe, by junking “clunker” power plants, while
padding their bank accounts with more consumer and taxpayer dollars.
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KEEPING THE PEACE & MAINTAINING ORDER PC, Volume XI, Issue # 177, Aug. 23, 2009
AMERICA'S EMPIRE OF TRUST
By Alan Caruba
We cannot defend America and our allies by hoping for the best. We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who
solemnly sign peace treaties, and then systematically break them. If we wait for threats to U.S. national security and
world peace to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans,
and confront the worst threats before they emerge.”
That is the definition of “Pax Americana,” and it is the mission of the American Empire.
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THE DRIVE FOR NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 176, Aug. 19, 2009
THE REAGAN-PALIN MODEL OF LEADERSHIP
By Christopher G. Adamo
The healthcare fight is far from over. Barack Hussein Obama has invested the
entirety of his political capital into his aggressive strategy for passing
some form of medical socialism during his term as President. Yet, it is clear that the
playing field has changed and the Democrats are now completely on the
defensive.
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OBAMA'S DISASTROUS FOREIGN POLICY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 175, Aug. 18, 2009
COUNTERTERRORISM IN OBAMA'S WASHINGTON
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Implementation of the inept foreign policy of the Obama administration toward the Middle East and the Islamist global jihad being waged
against the U.S.A. and the West spells extreme danger for Americans, American interests, and American allies. The very bitter
consequences of the Obama administration's mistaken and illogical foreign policy soon enough will become apparent.
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WESTERNIZING CONCEPTS UNIQUE TO ISLAM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 174, Aug. 17, 2009
THE DARK SIDE OF ZAKAT: MUSLIM "CHARITY" IN CONTEXT
By Raymond Ibrahim
From what American schoolchildren are being taught by their teachers to what Americans are being told by their
Presidents, concepts unique to Islam are, nowadays, almost always "Westernized." Whether the product of naivety,
arrogance or downright disingenuousness, this phenomenon has resulted in epistemic (and thus endemic) failures,
crippling Americans from objectively understanding some of Islam's more troublesome doctrines.
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U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST PC, Volume XI, Issue # 173, Aug. 16, 2009
NORTON MEZVINSKY'S LAMENTABLE LEGACY, & HIS FUTURE
By Asaf Romirowsky
A newly formed "educational think tank," the International Council for Middle East Studies (ICMES), is poised to
influence U.S. policy toward the Middle East in ways that could further harm American interests in the region. It will
be led by Norton Mezvinsky, a radical anti-Zionist who recently retired after a 42-year-career teaching Middle East
History at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). If Mezvinsky remains true to form, ICMES will advocate for
holding U.S. policy hostage to the fallacy that Israel is always at fault for the region's troubles.
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ISLAM -- THE MIDDLE EAST'S KEY PROBLEM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 172, Aug. 15, 2009
THE MIDDLE EAST MAZE
By Alan Caruba
The central problem affecting the Middle East and much of northern Africa where Arabs rule is Islam. The Islam of the
Middle East is utterly resistant to change.
What too many in the West desire for the Islamic Middle East is not attainable. The West wants the region to adopt a
measure of justice and freedom that took hundreds of years to develop in its own area of the world. As a huge
population of young Arabs seeks some measure of real freedom, they will likely turn to revolution and rebellion to
achieve it. Or they may unite through sheer numbers to impose Sharia law on the West in a misguided attempt to
determine their own fate. This factor is already transforming Europe with its growing Muslim population.
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TERRORISTS IN U.S. & CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 171, Aug. 13, 2009
TERRORIST IN THE IVORY TOWER?
By Cinnamon Stillwell
Do the ranks of Middle East Studies Professors in North American universities include terrorists? If the
allegations against University of Ottawa Professor Hassan Diab are proved true, the answer will be yes.
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LIBERAL MEDIA'S SUPPRESSION OF THE TRUTH PC, Volume XI, Issue # 170, Aug. 12, 2009
OBAMA CONSIDERS REAL AMERICA "THE ENEMY"
By Christopher G. Adamo
The glaring duplicity in mainstream media coverage of the current chaotic “healthcare”
debate is unparalleled. When a lone gunman shoots an abortionist, the
nightly news incessantly recounts the event for weeks, insisting that the
brutal action most certainly reflects a universal mindset among any and all
who call themselves pro-life. But let the people of heartland America rise
up in unprecedented numbers at Democratic Party “town hall” meetings and voice their
sincere opposition to the attempt by President Barack Obama and the political Left to implement
socialized “health care,” and they are derided as merely a loud, but
insignificant, “fringe.”
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PERPETRATING THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX PC, Volume XI, Issue # 169, Aug. 8, 2009
I ACCUSE!
By Alan Caruba
I applaud those many courageous scientists from various disciplines and all others who have stepped forth to
denounce the global warming theory with the presentation of legitimate science. The entire world is in their debt.
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THE INNATE IMPERIALISM OF ISLAMIC LAW PC, Volume XI, Issue # 168, Aug. 6, 2009
WHY SHARIAH MUST BE OPPOSED
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Those of us who argue against Shariah are sometimes asked why Islamic law poses a problem, when modern Western
societies, long ago, accommodated Halakha, or Jewish law. In fact, this was one of the main talking points of those
who, in 2005, argued that Shariah should become an accepted part of dispute resolution in Ontario, Canada.
The answer is easy: a fundamental difference separates the two. Islam is a missionizing religion, Judaism is not.
Islamists aspire to apply Islamic law to everyone, while observant Jews seek only to live by Jewish law themselves.
Two very recent examples from the United Kingdom demonstrate the innate imperialism of Islamic law.
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AMERICA & THE INTERNAL ISLAMIST THREAT PC, Volume XI, Issue # 167, Aug. 5, 2009
ISLAMIST GROUPS PUSH CONSPIRACY THEORIES
IN HOMEGROWN TERROR CASES
By Brendan Goldman & Shireen Qudosi
The Islamists' penchant for conspiracy theories is not benign: it is a calculated effort to deny inconvenient truths
and an excuse to remain passive in the face of homegrown terrorism. By blaming the FBI for radicalized members of
their religious community, the Islamists effectively discourage American Muslims from complying with their country's
efforts to ensure their security and that of their fellow citizens.
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THE AMERICAN NATION IN DEEP TROUBLE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 166, Aug. 1, 2009
THE PERFECT STORM
By Alan Caruba
The term, "the perfect storm," has come to mean how circumstances and bad judgments come together to create
havoc and death.
I have begun to conclude that America is caught in a perfect storm. It didn’t occur overnight, but it has rapidly
reached a point wherein the very life of the nation is at stake.
The tipping point, if I may be permitted another cliché, was the election of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the
U.S.A.
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THE GOP "ELITE" & ITS OPPOSITION TO PALIN PC, Volume XI, Issue # 165, July 29, 2009
WHY SARAH PALIN THREATENS THE "ESTABLISHMENT"
By Christopher G. Adamo
The Republican Party continues to amass expertise in losing elections. Its
current reticence in getting behind the momentum of Sarah Palin, now the
former Governor of Alaska, unequivocally proves the point.
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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY -- ALREADY A FAILURE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 164, July 26, 2009
FIRST BRAT: IT'S ALL ABOUT OBAMA
By Alan Caruba
I am not one for making predictions, since they tend to come back to bite you, but I will predict that Obama’s is already
a failed presidency. He’s already a lame duck. As one of the Blue Dog Democrats in Congress put it, “We’re trying to
save the party.”
The Republicans have played their slim hand of cards quite well. They can smell the blood in the water and all they need
now are some appealing candidates; some older guys with good resumes. Youth, it turns out, is over-rated.
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JERUSALEM -- JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, OR MUSLIM? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 163, July 25, 2009
THE JERUSALEM QUANDARY
By Alan Caruba
The quandary of Jerusalem is that three major religions lay claim to it. To be Jewish, to be Christian, even to be Muslim,
Jerusalem is considered holy, but its long history has been a litany of bloodletting as claimants sought to legitimatize
their faiths with its possession.
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CLIMATE CHANGE & ENERGY LEGISLATION PC, Volume XI, Issue # 162, July 25, 2009
TROPICAL RAINS DAMPEN ALARMIST AGENDA
By Dennis T. Avery
The Obama carbon taxes will cost the U.S.A. trillions of dollars and may permanently cripple our economy. They’re
meant to “save the planet” from excess greenhouse gases — but new evidence from tropical rain patterns seems to
further refute the claims that recent global warming has been man-made.
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GLOBAL WARMING & RENEWABLE ENERGY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 161, July 23, 2009
FORESTS OF CONCRETE & STEEL:
Many Words Could Describe Wind Energy & Green Jobs.
"Sustainable" Is Not One of Them.
By Paul K. Driessen
As the national and congressional debate over global warming and renewable energy heats up, there has been a
proliferation of ads and pronouncements, extolling the supposed virtues of wind energy, as a substitute for coal, oil,
and natural gas in generating the electricity that powers so much of America.
Two vital realities have been ignored in these adulations. Actual experience with wind-based power systems has been
expensive, job-killing, and disappointing. And the raw material needs of a wind-based energy system are leagues
removed from assertions that the system would be eco-friendly and sustainable. Indeed, moving to wind power would
result in our landscapes being blanketed with forests of concrete and steel.
Full Story
OBAMA'S RADICAL VISION FOR AMERICA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 160, July 22, 2009
OBAMA UTOPIA BUILT ON EMPTY PROMISES
By Christopher G. Adamo
As the “healthcare” debate reaches its contrived crescendo, Barack Hussein Obama is
proving to be the perfect con man. In every instance, he tells adoring
crowds and media sycophants what they want to hear, often contradicting last
week’s statements with this week’s damage control sound bite. And,
considering that his poll numbers have remained above single digits, it must
be conceded that, to some extent, the ploy is working.
Nevertheless, over time, Obama’s vision for America has materialized. It is
an ugly picture. Fantastic promises of lavish government provisions for
every citizen (and non citizen) eventually reveal themselves to be a
well-crafted veneer overlaying bureaucratic nightmares from which no
law-abiding citizen can hope to escape. In stark contrast, no real “benefit”
is to be reaped from this encroaching monster.
Full Story
THE DANGER OF ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN PC, Volume XI, Issue # 159, July 22, 2009
IRAN -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS & IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. POLICY:
Testimony Before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee
By Dr. Michael Rubin
The danger is apparent. Should Israeli officials believe that the West will stand aside as Iran achieves nuclear
capability and that a nuclear Islamic Republic poses an existential threat to the Jewish state, they may conclude that
they have no choice but to launch a preemptive military strike -- an event that could quickly lead to a regional
conflagration from which the United States would have difficulty remaining aloof, regardless of the White House's
intentions.
Full Story
FAMILIARITY WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLDVIEW PC, Volume XI, Issue # 158, July 22, 2009
OBAMA'S PUZZLING APPROACH TO THE MUSLIM WORLD
By Raymond Ibrahim
Prior to the 2008 presidential election, many hailed Barack Obama's Muslim roots, his "otherness," as strategic to
endearing the Muslim world to the U.S.A. In fact, his unique ability to appreciate the Islamic world's epistemology —
his experiences, not his name — was the real bonus. Unfortunately, not only is he not making use of this advantage;
he is spearheading the reverse — apologies, concessions, and soft talk — all which will inevitably promote an even
more assertive Muslim response. Yet, he, of all American Presidents, should — indeed, does — know better.
Full Story
ISRAEL -- OBAMA'S POLICY OF CONFRONTATION PC, Volume XI, Issue #157, July 21, 2009
TOUGH LOVE IS NO LOVE AT ALL:
Why Obama's Approach to Israel Is Collapsing, Rapidly
By Dr. Stephen J. Rosen
The Obama administration is still on the wrong track, as regards Israeli settlements. Days ago, Israel's new
ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, was warned that the United States wants a halt to construction of
20 apartments in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. Netanyahu responded: "There is no ban on Arabs
buying apartments in the west of the city, and there is no ban on Jews building or buying in the city's east." How
could the Obama administration believe that any major Israeli political party could possibly agree to making any part
of Jerusalem a Judenrein, i.e., an area to be purged of Jews? Just how far do Obama and his Leftist henchmen plan to
go with their pro-Arab and anti-Semitic policy of confrontation with Israel?
Full Story
EMPIRES, WARS, & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 156, July 19, 2009
HOW EMPIRES DIE
By Alan Caruba
It’s always a good idea to review one’s assumptions about the world in which one lives, such as the current
politically correct view that Islam is “a religion of peace” and that the barbarity of Al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and other
Arab groups is an anomaly, the result of their incorrect interpretation of the Koran. Their interpretation,
however, is quite accurate, and the Koran is a call to arms and battle plan for the conquest of the world.
Full Story
NEED TO RECLAIM THE AMERICAN HERITAGE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 155, July 15, 2009
APOLLO 11 & AMERICA, FORTY YEARS LATER
By Christopher G. Adamo
If real America truly wants to reclaim its culture and its heritage from the diseased mouthpieces of the political Left and
its “useful idiots” of the pop culture, it can start by giving proper credit to its real heroes, starting with the men of Apollo
11 who first journeyed to the moon, along with all those others throughout the country who, by their talents, diligence,
and commitment to the greatness of America, dared to send them there.
Full Story
OBAMA ON ISRAEL'S WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 154, Juky 3, 2009
CUT BIBI NETANYAHU SOME SLACK:
Why Obama's Hard Line on Israeli Settlements Is Counterproductive
By Dr. Steven J. Rosen
Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel's Prime Minister on March 31, 2009. Within weeks, the Obama administration
launched a high-profile public campaign to confront Israel's new leader on the issue that most divides the two
governments: Israel's settlements in the West Bank.
It was an unusual way to welcome the new leader of a close friend of the United States. Why did the Obama team veer
so sharply off the normal course? Diplomacy toward an ally normally begins with building relations of trust on areas
of agreement, and only later engaging discreetly on issues where there are sharp differences.
Full Story
THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY -- THREAT TO AMERICA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 153, July 1, 2009
DID AMERICA REALLY WANT THIS?
By Christopher G. Adamo
Throughout most of the two hundred and thirty three years since that first
Independence Day, a significant number of Americans have indulged in the
luxury of ignoring the entire political scene, caring not whether the
particular administration in power leans Left or Right. This was mainly due
to the forethought of the Founders, who, in their wisdom, established binding
limits on the actions of government through the Constitution. Therefore,
regardless of who held the reins of power, deviations in the direction of
the country would probably remain within safe perameters.
Unfortunately, this relative safety inherent in American life eventually led
to ignorance and complacency, which made it inevitable that eventually a
leader would emerge who held the nation’s founding principles, along with
the entire concept of limited government, in total contempt. Barack Obama
hates everything good about America, its former standing in the world, and
the ideals of morality and freedom for which it once stood.
Full Story
IRANIAN PROTESTS & THE NEW TECHNOLOGY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 152, June 26, 2009
IRAN, TECHNOLOGY, & REVOLUTION
By Dr. Michael Rubin
The Islamic Republic of Iran knows it is unpopular, and knows its vulnerability to technology. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps stepped in to cancel a 2004 contract granted to Turkcell to create an independent cell phone network in Iran. Only this
past year, did the Iranian government bless the introduction of multimedia messaging services in the Islamic Republic. It
could be a decision the Islamic Republic will not live long enough to regret.
Full Story
OBAMA'S SOCIALIST AGENDA FOR AMERICA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 151, June 25, 2009
OBAMACARE: DO OR DIE FOR AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
With so much coverage of the current debate on Barack Obama’s attempt to
impose nationalized healthcare (socialized medicine) on America, it may seem that little else can
be said on the subject. Yet, it needs to be discussed, and its manifold
dangers explained to the American people. It is impossible to overstate the
significance of this battle. If successful in establishing this pinnacle of
his socialist agenda, Obama will unleash a “change” on the country from
which it may never recover.
Full Story
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD IRAN PC, Volume XI, Issue # 150, June 23, 2009
SILENCE IS NOT NEUTRALITY:
Obama Needs to Support Freedom in Iran
By Dr. Michael Rubin
President Barack Obama promised to transform America's image in the world. Excising freedom and liberty from our
brand is not the way to do it. Remaining silent is not neutral; it is casting a vote for the status quo in Iran, including
the primacy of the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It is time for Obama and Congress to
speak loud and clear in defense of freedom.
Full Story
LOOMING PASSAGE OF CLIMATE LEGISLATION PC, Volume XI, Issue # 149, June 22, 2009
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S CLIMATE CHANGE CON-JOB
By Paul K. Driessen
Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations with computer simulations,
and hired PR flacks to promote its new “wonder drug.” News stories, congressional hearings, and congressional
subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly so.
But where “climate catastrophe” and government “science” are involved, the standards change. Junk science, falsified
data, worthless computer disaster scenarios and phony news stories are rewarded – not punished.
Americans are being made victims of the biggest con-job and propaganda campaign in U.S. history. It’s vital that they
become aware of the facts, so that they can take action.
Full Story
THE LINE BETWEEN CARTER & OBAMA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 148, June 21, 2009
FROM JIMMY CARTER TO BARACK OBAMA: A HORROR STORY
By Alan Caruba
In October, 2010, Americans will have an opportunity to neuter President Barack Hussein Obama -- this narcissist, this
pretender in the White House. It is time to prepare for the midterm elections. It is time to take America back from the
Liberals that are ruining it.
Full Story
DRAGGING AMERICA TOWARD COLLECTIVISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 147, June 20, 2009
AM I BORING YOU?
By Alan Caruba
The rate of change occurring in the U.S.A. since Barack Obama took the Presidential Oath of Office in January, 2009,
has been astonishing, and it has been bad for America in almost every way. This determined effort to introduce
changes swiftly suggests that, if given the normal discussion and debate, most, if not all, would have been rejected.
Given a rubber stamp Democratic Party-controlled Congress, however, Obama knows he has a small window of
opportunity in which to enact changes that essentially seek to replace capitalism with statism and socialism.
Full Story
REGIME CHANGE CHANGE IN IRAN -- OBSTACLES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 146, June 20, 2009
PROTESTS AREN'T ENOUGH TO TOPPLE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
By Dr. Michael Rubin
Street protests in Iran are important, but are themselves not enough to force change. The Supreme Leader will not be
swayed because he considers himself accountable to God, not to the people. Indeed, even the Islamic Republic's
clerical establishment is irrelevant in this calculus. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's invocation of folk religion --
his appeals to the messianic Hidden Imam, for example -- is a way to bypass senior religious figures who, according
to Shiite theology, will be among the greatest obstacles to the Hidden Imam's return. Nor does the Supreme Leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pay too much heed to his fellow clerics in Qom. They have always refused to bestow on
Khamenei a level of religious legitimacy to match his ambition. Today, the majority of Iran's grand ayatollahs oppose
the concept of theological rule. Not by coincidence, the majority are now in prison or under house arrest.
Full Story
IRAN -- WHAT WILL THE OBAMA STRATEGY BE? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 145, June 19, 2009
DON'T MEDDLE, BUT HELP CREATE
A TEMPLATE FOR IRANIANS TO ACT
By Dr. Michael Rubin
As the Obama administration crafts its Iranian strategy, it should not repeat the mistakes of the past. The Bush approach
lacked cohesion and coordination. A month after President George W. Bush declared Iran part of the "axis of evil,"
the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State said Iran was a democracy. And, although the White House talked tough --
much to the ire of the pro-engagement crowd -- the Bush administration engaged the Islamic Republic more than
any administration since Jimmy Carter's, thereby losing the trust of those seeking more sticks than carrots.
Regardless of his ultimate policy, President Barack Hussein Obama must realize that the gap between rhetoric and
reality is inversely proportional to credibility.
Full Story
LET'S NOT DISTORT THE WORDS OF THE POPE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 144, June 18, 2009
RESPECTING THE FAITHFUL VERSUS RESPECTING THE FAITH
By Raymond Ibrahim
During the Pope's recent Mideast visit, the media reported that he has "deep respect for Islam." That exact phrase
appeared in the Associated Press, AFP, BBC, the Jerusalem Post, the Washington
Times, and Al-Jazeera.
Yet, he said no such thing; instead, he mentioned his "deep respect for the Muslim community." There's a world
of difference between respecting a religious group and respecting their religion, and the Pontiff knows this.
Full Story
LIBERALS SEEK TO DISCREDIT DICK CHENEY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 143, June 17, 2009
PANETTA COMMENT TELEGRAPHS AMERICA'S PRESENT WEAKNESS
By Christopher G. Adamo
Once again, a prominent Liberal Leftist Democrat is projecting his sordid political
tactics and those of the Democratic Party on the opposition. In an interview for next
month’s issue of The New Yorker magazine, CIA Director Leon Panetta asserted
that former Vice-President Dick Cheney might welcome another major terrorist
attack on America, as a means of validating his criticism of misguided Obama
administration “security” policies.
Cheney has had the entire Liberal cabal up in arms, ever since his May 21, 2009,
speech to the American Enterprise Institute in which he bluntly warned of
the dangers posed by Obama’s naive and ideologically driven decisions
relating to the terror war.
Full Story
WHEN MILITARIES COALESCE WITH ISLAMISTS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 142, June 15, 2009
IS THE MILITARY BULWARK AGAINST ISLAMISM COLLAPSING?
THE MILITARY IN POLITICS
By Dr. David Bukay
During the past thirty-five years, democracy may have taken root in Eastern Europe, East Asia, Latin America and
much of sub-Saharan Africa, but the Middle East has largely been left behind. Except for Israel, Middle Eastern
countries have long histories of authoritarianism, influenced by both culture and religion. In modern years, this has
manifested itself in the rise, if not of direct military rule, then of states supported by militaries focused more on
inward threats than on external enemies. Middle Eastern militaries, whether in Algeria, Egypt or Turkey, have served
as the main bulwark against the spread or empowerment of Islamists. However, Western policymakers must prepare
for the day that the regional militaries will switch sides, casting their lot with Islamists, rather than more secular
autocrats.
Full Story
TRIUMPH OF ADVOCACY OVER ANALYSIS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 141, June 14, 2009
THE OBAMA EFFECT? IRAN'S ELECTION RESULT PROVES
THE U.S. FORMULA IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS NOT WORKING
By Dr. Michael Rubin
On June 4, 2009, U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama declared, "I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning
between the United States and Muslims around the world." Awed by Obama's rhetoric, many commentators --
blogger Juan Cole and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, for example -- suggested that an "Obama Effect" could
usher in a new era of hope and change in the Middle East, and a pro-American outcome in Lebanese elections
earlier this month seemed to cooperate with the theory.
After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection in Iran, we can now say with confidence: There is an Obama Effect, but
it has less to do with reform and more to do with American arrogance and the triumph of advocacy over analysis.
Full Story
A CARBON EMISSIONS TRADING PROPOSAL PC, Volume XI, Issue # 140, June 14, 2009
AUSTRALIA LEADS MEDIA DEBATE ON GLOBAL WARMING
By Dennis T. Avery
A major country is getting media debate on the science of global warming for the first time ever, thanks to
Australia’s Senator Steve Fielding. As one of a half-dozen swing votes on Prime Minister Kevin Michael Rudd’s
massive carbon tax bill, Fielding recently spent his own money to attend an international conference of climate
skeptics in Washington, D.C.
“It seems every Australian has an opinion on the Rudd [Labor Party, Center-Left] government’s emission trading
scheme,” wrote Senator Fielding in The Australian on June 8, 2009. “The one question, however, that no
one seems to be asking, is whether or not we even need an emissions trading scheme at all?”
Full Story
THE GOP & THE END OF THE REAGAN ERA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 139, June 11, 2009
HOW NEWT GINGRICH SABOTAGED THE "GINGRICH REVOLUTION"
By Christopher G. Adamo
At this seminal moment in the life of the Republican Party and the American nation, GOP
insiders are revealing a total moral and philosophical bankruptcy, and an
appalling level of cowardice. Heartland America is desperately looking for
someone possessing sufficient wisdom and courage to rise up as the leader
who will stridently confront the Liberal political machine that is
systematically dismantling our beloved nation. Unfortunately, no leading
Republican has displayed the necessary spine to take on this battle.
Full Story
JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, & WAR PC, Volume XI, Issue # 138, June 8, 2009
ARE JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY AS VIOLENT AS ISLAM
By Raymond Ibrahim
During Medieval times, the Crusades, by the Modern World's standards, were violent and led to atrocities --
atrocities under the banner of the Cross and in the name of Christianity. But the Crusades were a counterattack on
Islam. Muslim invasions and atrocities against Christians were on the rise in the decades before the launch of the
Crusades in 1096.
Full Story
THE GLOBAL WARMING TRADE WAR BEGINS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 137, June 7, 2009
OBAMA HAS LAUNCHED THE GREEN TRADE WAR
By Dennis T. Avery
The global warming trade war has started — quietly, but just as surely as we knew it would. The Obama administration
is now subsidizing U.S. milk and cheese exports in a way that will punish New Zealand, which depends on its efficient
grass-fed dairy exports for close to one-third of its total income. The reason? U.S. corn ethanol mandates have pushed
American feed grain prices so high that the Obama administration felt it had to “give something” to U.S. dairy farmers.
Full Story
GLOBAL WARMING THEORY RECONSIDERED PC, Volume XI, Issue # 136, June 7, 2009
WEATHER MALARKEY
By Alan Caruba
I have never been able to figure out why people who know that the forecast for the local weather is likely to be wrong
by the afternoon of the same day or within 48 hours still believe that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change can accurately predict what it will be ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
Full Story
THE U.S. SUPREME COURT & JUDICIAL ACTIVISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 135, June 3, 2009
SOTOMAYOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE:
WHY BOTHER WITH THE CONSTITUTION?
By Christopher G. Adamo
As the confirmation ritual of Sonia Sotomayor continues to play out, it is becoming grimly apparent that the only
relevant issue, her worthiness (or, more accurately, her total lack thereof) as a guardian of the United States
Constitution, will be no more of a consideration for Republicans than it ever was for Barack Hussein Obama.
Flowery rhetoric and her heart-wrenching biography notwithstanding, if Obama ever had any concern whatsoever for
the nation’s founding charter, he never would have nominated a radical judicial activist like Sotomayor in the first
place.
Full Story
CAP-&-TRADE ENERGY TAXATION PC, Volume XI, Issue # 134, May 31, 2009
NEW ZEALAND MAY GO BUST OVER GLOBAL WARMING
By Dennis T. Avery
No country in the world would risk as much for “global warming” as New Zealand, if it goes ahead with the
cap-and-trade energy taxation installed by former Prime Minister Helen Elizabeth Clark’s now-departed Labour
Party-Progressive Party coalition government.
New Zealand’s economy is almost completely dependent on its farm exports: lamb, dairy products, beef and
high-end white wines. Half of New Zealand’s carbon emissions come from cattle and sheep. If New Zealand taxes
its cows and sheep hundreds of dollars per animal for methane emissions and manure handling fees, Argentina
would almost immediately displace New Zealand’s farm exports. Argentina has more grass, more cattle, the
potential for more lambs, a surging wine industry — and no Kyoto Protocol obligations.
Full Story
POWELL -- TROJAN HORSE WITHIN THE GOP PC, Volume XI, Issue # 133, May 28, 2009
CHENEY, LIMBAUGH, & THE LIBERAL PAPER TIGER
By Christopher G. Adamo
If the Republican Party does intend to incorporate the ideologies promoted
last week by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, it should first change
its mascot from an elephant to a horse, specifically of the Trojan variety.
Despite the seemingly impressive credentials that Powell proudly touted in
defense of his “Republican” authenticity, his singular purpose has been to
find the most advantageous strategic position from which to undermine the
Conservative agenda. And that place is within the Republican Party.
Full Story
ENERGY POLICY & GLOBAL WARMING HOKUM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 132, May 27, 2009
CLIMATE CHANGE "MORALITY": THE DUPLICIOUS POLITICS
OF MONEY, POWER, CONTROL, & CORPORATE RENT-SEEKING
By Paul K. Driessen
Republicans recently invited Lord Christopher Monckton, former Science Advisor to U.K. Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, to counter Al Gore’s testimony before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. But Gore froze like
a terrified deer in headlights, and Committee Chairman Henry Waxman told the U.K. climate expert he was uninvited.
The Liberal Democrats' hypocritical cowardice simply reflects a recognition that their entire energy rationing crusade
would collapse if they ever allowed real debate on the science and morality of global warming alarmism.
Full Story
CURRENT MADNESS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PC, Volume XI, Issue # 131, May 23, 2009
WHEN GOVERNMENT GOES INSANE
By Alan Caruba
I have this theory that, every so often, governments go insane. Usually, they have someone who is already demented
heading up the government, but it takes a majority of the elected body to enact crazy laws and it takes the government
apparatchiks to engineer the systemic failures, the wars, and the crazed rush off the cliff.
The U.S. presidential and congressional elections of 2008 are a splendid example of this.
Full Story
CAMOUFLAGING THE LIBERAL AGENDA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 130, May 21, 2009
THE DESPERATE DEMOCRAT FACELIFT
By Christopher G. Adamo
All is not rosy on the political Left. Barely four months into the Obama
administration and America’s grassroots is thoroughly fired up. Democratic Party
leaders, while largely pretending to ignore the effervescing public
sentiments or denying their significance on the nightly news, clearly are
becoming nervously aware of the situation. Once again, a major effort is
underway to change or camouflage the reality of the Leftwing Liberal agenda, since, in
its real form, it will only outrage and alienate a majority of the American population.
Full Story
ISLAMIST LAWFARE THREATENS FREE SPEECH PC, Volume XI, Issue # 129, May 20, 2009
"LAWFARE" GAINS GROUND -- UN RESOLUTIONS
ON "DEFAMING" ISLAM ARE A CASE IN POINT
By Brooke M. Goldstein & Aaron Eitan Meyer
Along with a number of individual lawsuits aimed at silencing critics of Islamist terrorism and its funding, freedom
of speech is under siege, not only in the United States, but throughout the West -- and the ideology behind this
dangerous threat is Islamism, or radical Islam. And, while steps have been taken to counteract some forms of this legal
warfare, or "lawfare," there is a distinct need for a counteroffensive.
Full Story
THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION PC, Volume XI, Issue # 128, May 19, 2009
GOVERNMENT IS BAD FOR BUSINESS
By Alan Caruba
Why would the leaders of U.S. automobile manufacturing companies, two of whom are facing bankruptcy, gather
around President Barack Hussein Obama as he signed legislation requiring higher mileage per gallon, when surely
each knew that there is a finite amount of energy to be secured from a single gallon of gasoline?
They knew, too, they would have to build smaller, lighter, deadlier cars for anyone driving or who is a passenger in
them; if, indeed, anyone will want to buy them or will be able to afford to buy them, since their cost will increase with
this new useless, senseless government mandate.
Full Story
THE FUTURE OF THE U.S.-ISRAELI ALLIANCE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 127, May 17, 2009
OBAMA & NETANYAHU MEET: WHAT'S NEXT?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
The meeting on May 18, 2009, of two newly elected leaders, Barack Hussein Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, raises
a basic question about U.S.-Israel relations: Will this long-standing alliance survive its 62nd. year?
Full Story
ILLEGAL ALIENS, NARCOTICS, & THE BORDER PC, Volume XI, Issue # 126, May 16, 2009
THE WAR ON AMERICA'S SOUTHERN BORDER
By Alan Caruba
It is an open secret in Washington, D.C., that U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama and his fellow-traveling Liberal
Leftist Democrats in Congress want to push through an amnesty in order to increase the number of voters likely to
support Democrats in coming elections. Congress has a short memory and, no doubt, has conveniently forgotten
the firestorm of protest that erupted when the Bush administration and congressional RINOS attempted the same
thing -- pushing through Congress an amnesty for illegal aliens.
Full Story
AL-QA'IDA & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD PC, Volume XI, Issue # 125, May 14, 2009
ISLAMIST TERRORISM, TERROR & IRAQ:
A BRIEFING BY SHIMSHON ISSAKI
Summary Account by Dr. David J. Rusin
According to Mr. Issaki, al-Qai'da opposes Christians, Jews, and even other Muslims who do not subscribe to Osama
bin Laden's Wahhabi ideology; it seeks to attack and "overthrow all regimes that are non-Muslim," or that adhere to an
unacceptable brand of Islam. Its preferred instrument is terrorism.
Mr. Issaki claimed that 9/11 could have been averted "if things had been done in the right way," but he sees similar
barriers hindering intelligence work seven years later. In particular, he stated that U.S. President Barack Hussein
Obama's release of documents on enhanced interrogation techniques has done "irreversible damage to security
because [terrorists] are learning how to behave" during questioning.
Mr. Issaki warned that al-Qai'da's demise in Iraq has been greatly exaggerated. Recent events show that the
organization still is capable of generating chaos there, to the undisputed benefit of Iran.
Full Story
HOW LIBERALS ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 124, May 13, 2009
ABSURD LIBERAL DEBATE ENDANGERS AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
In the days immediately following 9-11, the primary concern among American
Liberals was not how to prevent subsequent attacks, but how to avoid
becoming the objects of any recriminations. With the corruption and
malfeasance of the Bill Clinton years still fresh in the minds of Americans, few
doubted the link between Clinton administration ineptitude and the opening
it presented to America’s enemies. Liberal sensitivity on the topic was
extreme.
Full Story
ISLAMISTS IN THE U.S.A. -- MEDIA & POLITICS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 123, May 13, 2009
PRO-MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD CANDIDATE EYES PUBLIC OFFICE
By Shireen Qudosi
In 2006, the Muslim American Society made a bold statement at their regional conference in Los Angeles, California,
encouraging Muslims to redirect their traditional career paths as doctors, lawyers, and engineers to taking on key roles
in media and politics. Speakers hailed media and the political arena as the new battlegrounds where power could be
united to forge a Muslim political agenda for the United States. One such speaker was Dr. Esam Omeish, whose
charged rhetoric was distinctly Islamist.
Fast forward to 2009. Omeish is now a candidate for the 35th. district of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Full Story
U.S. ENERGY POLICY -- BIOFUEL SUBSIDIES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 122, May 11, 2009
CASE FOR BIOFUELS WEAKENS FURTHER
By Dennis T. Avery
Biofuels are a terrible answer to the fuel problem.
They force consumers to bid against themselves on food and fuel, artificially driving up the prices of both.
Biofuels take huge amounts of land to produce each gallon of fuel — and land is the planet’s scarcest
resource. Farmers know they must double food and feed production over the next 40 years to adequately feed
the expected 8 billion people and we already use most of America’s good farm land.
Full Story
THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST PC, Volume XI, Issue # 121, May 10, 2009
ISRAEL IN THE CROSSHAIRS
By Alan Caruba
There are few nations on Earth, other than Israel, with a greater claim to exist as a homeland for a specific people. Along
with China and India, Israel reaches back thousands of years, predating both Christianity and Islam.
For some 3,500 years, Jews have lived in Israel. In good times and bad, Jews have always identified themselves with
Israel even when, as a Diaspora, they spread for their survival to many other nations. The re-establishment of Israel on
May 14, 1948, led to two immediate events. Within eleven minutes after the announcement, President Harry S. Truman
recognized the new nation. Within hours, the Arab League declared war.
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A LOSING REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL "STRATEGY" PC, Volume XI, Issue # 120, May 9, 2009
WILL THE GOP FOLLOW THE "MODERATES" INTO OBLIVION?
By Christopher G. Adamo
Those Republican presidential candidates who boldly and unabashedly carried the Conservative “torch” have
done well, while any who attempt to “move to the political Center” and “find common ground” with the political
Left will be abandoned by Conservative voters. John McCain, while claiming to do
both, succeeded at neither. And his electoral results proved it.
Herein lies the picture of a losing Republican “strategy” to which its
Liberal members doggedly cling, despite results that have been consistently
disastrous over the years. Every attempt to water down the GOP platform, in
a futile quest to widen its appeal, has had exactly the opposite effect.
Seeking to portray themselves as standing for everything, such self-serving
Party insiders are rightly recognized as standing for nothing.
Full Story
SOCIAL WELFARE & THE SERVILE STATE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 119, May 8, 2009
"LIVE FREE OR DIE"
By Mark Steyn
Both the secular, "progressive" Liberal Leftists and the reactionary adherents of political Islam recoil from the concept
of the citizen, of the free individual entrusted to operate within his own societal space, assume his responsibilities, and
exploit his potential. In most of the developed world, the state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood
— health care, child care, care of the elderly — to the point where it’s effectively severed its citizens from humanity’s
primal instincts, not least the survival instinct.
Full Story
ACCURATE LANGUAGE ESSENTIAL IN THE WAR PC, Volume XI, Issue # 118, May 7, 2009
WORDS MATTER IN THE WAR ON TERROR
By Raymond Ibrahim
Knowledge is inextricably linked to language. The less accurate words are, the less accurate the knowledge they
impart; conversely, the more precise the language, the more precise the knowledge. In the war on terror, to acquire
accurate knowledge — which is pivotal to victory — we need to begin with accurate language.
Full Story
THE "POLITICAL CLASS" & GLOBAL WARMING: PC, Volume XI, Issue # 117, May 6, 2009
DIE, GLOBAL WARMING, DIE!
By Alan Caruba
In the Modern Age, has there ever been a greater than natural global warming cycle -- one that would cause harm to
the world? The world's most recent natural warming cycle began around 1850, following a lengthy little ice age of
some five hundred years duration.
In the United States during recent decades, despite all the braying about warmest years and such, the height of the
warming cycle appears to have been in the 1930s, causing havoc among farmers, particularly in the Midwest. In 1998,
meteorologists and climatologists began to take note of a cooling cycle. It has been gaining momentum since then.
Yes, the Earth is cooling, not warming.
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THE TALIBAN'S MARCH TO BUNER PC, Volume XI, Issue # 116, May 4, 2009
THE TALIBAN IN PAKISTAN: SIXTY MILES FROM THE CAPITAL
By Dr. Michael Rubin
What should the Obama administration learn from the Taliban's tactical victory in Pakistan? First, soft power and
economic development are irrelevant to the situation in Pakistan, unless they are enabled by hard power.
Second, engagement is no panacea. Not all our adversaries share Obama's good faith. The Taliban -- or, for that
matter, the Iranian leadership -- are motivated not by earthly desires, but by a religious ideology, one that brands
any government unwilling to bow to their demands as illegitimate and Satanic. To them, negotiations can be useful
only for gaining immediate advantage: The Taliban might gain safe haven; Tehran might gain time.
Unless President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton understand that soft power and accommodation are about as
effective at countering Islamism as lollipops are at curing cancer, the Taliban's march to Buner may become the
symbol of the Obama Presidency, played out repeatedly, from Baghdad to Basra to Beirut.
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THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD CONTINUES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 115, May 3, 2009
PAKISTAN IMPLODES
By Alan Caruba
The wars going on in the Middle East will soon be the entire world’s next war, as the fanatic Islamists throughout the
region threaten to take over Pakistan and Afghanistan, while continuing to wage war in Iraq. If they’re successful,
India will be dragged into the full scale battle against the Taliban and al-Qa'ida. Where it spreads from there is
anyone’s guess.
It is a battle between the Seventh Century of Islam and the Twenty-first Century of the rest of the world. It is a battle
waged by men who believe that Allah demands an Islamist jihad against the non-Muslim world, and they are prepared
to spend as much time as necessary to achieve victory.
Full Story
U.S. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 114, April 30, 2009
BACK TO THE "GOOD OLD DAYS": U.S. ENERGY & CLIMATE
PROPOSALS WOULD DRAG US BACK TO 1905 -- OR 1862
By Paul K. Driessen
Many activists, bureaucrats, politicians, and even some corporate executives present arbitrary CO2 reduction targets
and timetables almost casually – as though achieving them were simple, desirable, and necessary.
In reality, reducing America’s carbon dioxide levels to 80% below 1990 levels would return the United States to
emission levels last seen in 1905, and that’s before accounting for changes in population and energy-based
technology. The impact on our nation’s economy, employment, manufacturing, living standards, and health would be
profoundly negative.
And, yet, there has been virtually no mention of this in Capitol Hill hearings or public policy discussions.
The purpose of this commentary is to bring these facts to light, and present fresh perspectives on cap-and-tax
proposals, CO2 reductions, and wind energy “substitutes” for the hydrocarbons that make our lives possible.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S POLICY TOWARD IRAN PC, Volume XI, Issue # 113, April 30, 2009
JUST THE BEGINNING
By Dr. Michael Rubin
U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama has made outreach to the Islamic Republic of Iran a foreign policy centerpiece
of his administration. U.S. diplomats have sought out their Iranian counterparts at international forums and agreed to
meet Iranian officials without precondition.
Obama believes in born-again diplomacy -- that, whether with Iran, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, North Korea or
Russia, it is possible to forget the past and start anew. Alas, the world does not revolve around Obama nor has the
reason for the poor state of US-Iran relations been simply lack of past effort on the part of the U.S.A..
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PERSECUTION OF TRADITIONAL AMERICANS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 112, April 28, 2009
MISS USA & THE UGLY COUNTERCULTURE
By Christopher G. Adamo
It may seem odd that the profundity of Martin Niemoller could find a fitting
application in the unlikely venue of a beauty pageant. But such is the
depths to which America has descended, as prominent members of its
counterculture exercise ever-greater influence on society.
Niemoller, the German clergyman who warned of the consequences of passivity
in the face of evil, lamented that he had done nothing while Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich
attacked and oppressed one target group after another within the overall
population. Eventually, he became a target, but, by then, nobody was left to
intervene for him. So it is that every concerned citizen must take note of
the abominable proceedings of last week’s “Miss USA” pageant, and rally to
the support of Carrie Prejean, the intended victim.
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GLOBAL WARMING & MELTING ICE CAPS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 111, April 28, 2009
INCREDIBLE SEA LEVEL RISE IS NOT CREDIBLE
By Dennis T. Avery
A recent scientific paper quoted in the New York Times claimed Mexican corals that died 120,000 years ago
showed sea levels might have surged 10 feet in just 50 years! If so, such a sea-level rise must have involved a big
ice-melt in Antarctica.
Beware, however. Global warming alarmists are particularly desperate to claim that the Antarctic is “warming first”
— as the computerized climate models predicted the Polar Regions would. That’s a problem. Satellite readings show
the Antarctic ice is increasing by 45 billion tons per year and the Antarctic sea ice is at record-large extent.
Full Story
OBAMA SEEKING UNITY UNDER DICTATORSHIP PC, Volume XI, Issue # 110, April 28, 2009
THE OBAMA/NAPOLITANO DOCTRINE: CONSERVATISM VERBOTEN
By Christopher G. Adamo
President Obama has made claims of wanting to “unify” the American nation. Yet, few have
properly grasped Obama's actual intention, and thus the enormous danger posed by
his goal. Unlike great former Presidents, such as Ronald Wilson Reagan, who sought
to bring the nation together by uplifting and inspiring, Obama seeks to
ramrod his thoroughly Leftist and countercultural policy agenda, while
marginalizing and eventually silencing any opposition. Herein lies the
“unity” under a tyranny.
Full Story
ISLAMIC PIRACY & ISLAMIC JIHADISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 109, April 21, 2009
THE FALLACY OF GRIEVENCE-BOUND TERRORISM:
From Barbary Wars to Somali Piracy, the "Water Jihad" Has a Long Lineage
By Raymond Ibrahim
As regards the recent Somali pirate standoff with U.S. forces, what appeared to have been a bunch of lawless,
plunder-seeking Somalis "yo-hoing" on the high seas may well in fact be related to jihad — as attested to by both
Islamic history and doctrine.
Indeed, the first jihad a newborn U.S.A. encountered was of a pirate nature: the Barbary Wars off the coast of North
Africa, beginning 1801, exactly 200 years before the Islamist terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Full Story
THE GLOBAL COOLING TREND CONTINUES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 108, April 20, 2009
WHERE'S THE RUNAWAY WARMING?
By Dennis T. Avery
The global cooling trend that began early in 2007 continues. America’s official global reading for March, 2009, has
been issued by Goddard Space Institute. The month was the coldest of this young century and colder than March of
1990. The satellite records show an even stronger recent cooling trend.
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GREENS, OBAMA, & THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 107, April 19, 2009
"CLEAN ENERGY" IS A DIRTY LIE
By Alan Caruba
In countless ways, the Greens -- i.e., the environmentalists -- are working to destroy America’s ability to have the
energy it needs to survive and grow. Our economy, already suffering from government mandates that destroyed the
nation’s housing market, will utterly collapse when it can no longer access the energy required for the future.
Full Story
AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, & IRAN -- CONFLICT PC, Volume XI, Issue # 106, April 17, 2009
PAKISTAN & IRAN: THEIR DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP
By Dr. Harsh V. Pant
In April, 2008, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Pakistan as part of a whistle-stop tour of South Asia.
The meeting was cordial but tense. While the two neighbors were once staunch Cold War allies, the Islamic Revolution,
Afghanistan's civil war, and Pakistan's nuclear development have transformed the relationship into one of tense rivalry.
As Afghanistan's stability has become a U.S. strategic concern, preventing Pakistan-Iran tensions from again
transforming Afghanistan into a proxy battlefield should be a U.S. interest. Unfortunately, so long as the Iranian and
Pakistani governments remain concerned with the defense of Shi'i and Sunni sectarian interests respectively, U.S. and
NATO forces in Afghanistan may not be able to bring stability, but, at best, may remain referees in a struggle that
extends far beyond that country's borders.
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SHOULD WE TOLERATE THE INTOLLERANT? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 105, April 17, 2009
HOW TO DISCUSS RELIGION WITHOUT APPEASING TYRANTS
By Mary Madigan
When discussing religion, how do we know when respecting apparently faith-based beliefs leads to contempt for our
beliefs? Should we tolerate the intolerant? These questions are particularly relevant when a secular political body, the
United Nations, recently passed an anti-blasphemy measure (backed by the 57-state Organization of the Islamic
Conference) combating "defamation of religions."
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SOCIETY, LAW, & PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 104, April 16, 2009
WYOMING TAX DAY "TEA PARTY" SPEECH
By Christopher G. Adamo
Instinctively, we all understand the consequences of fiscal irresponsibility
among elected officials, as they increasingly ignore any constitutional
limits on their actions. This, combined with the cultural and social
collapse that has been unfolding for the past several decades, signify a
course on which America simply cannot continue.
The concept of a citizen being the beneficiary of his
or her own work is being systematically eradicated. In its place, we are
forced to accept the notion that some “greater good,” according to those who
want to define “good” in “politically correct" terms, requires theft from
one citizen, in order to buy the loyalty of another.
Government, the public entity that was initially established to protect the
private property and other basic rights of the citizen, has now become the
biggest threat he or she faces. Law, which in a free society is intended to provide a safe framework within
which the people can live and grow, now has degenerated into a weapon by
which an unscrupulous “ruling class” bludgeons the commoner into compliance.
Therein lies the road to servitude.
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AMERICA'S CURRENT FINANCIAL PROBLEMS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 103, April 15, 2009
TAX DAY
By Alan Caruba
The present financial crisis is based entirely on government mandates that required banks and mortgage firms to make
bad home loans to people who would, in a previous era, never have qualified to receive them and then used government
sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to purchase those bad loans.
They, in turn, “securitized” them and sold them to insurance, banking, and investment houses that fell victim to what is
arguably an insane policy based entirely on the Liberal belief that everyone has “a right” to live in their own home, even
if they could not afford it.
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OBAMA'S BOW TO THE SAUDI MONARCH PC, Volume XI, Issue # 102, April 14, 2009
OBAMA'S ABOMINABLE OBEISANCE: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
By Raymond Ibrahim
Is Barack Obama's deep bow (with slightly bent knee) to the Saudi King as bad as it seems? The Obama White House,
apparently forgetful that we live in the Internet age, where everything is swiftly documented and disseminated —
or else thinking it leads a blind nation — insists the U.S. President did not bow. He supposedly always bends in
half when shaking hands with shorter people, though he certainly seemed quite erect when saluting the British
Queen, who is much shorter than the Saudi King.
Obama bowed; this much is certainly not open to debate. All that is left now is to place his odious obeisance in
context. As such, history has much to say about the seemingly innocuous bow.
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OBAMA'S FISCAL & ENERGY POLICIES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 101, April 13, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RED SEA: IRRESPONSIBLE FEDERAL SPENDING
& ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES WILL BANKRUPT AMERICA
By Paul K. Driessen
Bailout, stimulus and other spending binges have obligated generations of Americans to $12.8 trillion in debt,
according to a recent Bloomberg study.
Congress and the Obama administration are poised to impose climate change programs that could cost $3 trillion and
regulate every aspect of our lives.
And the same politicians are snubbing their noses at trillions of dollars in government revenue that could come from
developing energy resources that they are locking up.
The irresponsibility of it all boggles the imagination.
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BARACK OBAMA & U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN PC, Volume XI, Issue # 100, April 13, 2009
WHAT IRAN REALLY THINKS ABOUT TALKS
By Dr. Michael Rubin
The behavior of President Barack Obama fulfills a pattern in which new U.S. administrations place blame for the
failure of diplomacy on predecessors, rather than on foreign adversaries. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a
passive actor, however. Quite the opposite: While President Obama plays checkers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei plays chess. The nuclear enrichment milestone is a testament both to Tehran's pro-active strategy
and to Washington's refusal to recognize it.
The U.S. government embraces dialogue without accountability, while the Iranian political regime embraces
diplomacy without sincerity. Washington's willingness to talk and negotiate is seen by the Iranian government as
U.S. capitulation to the goals of Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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OBAMA'S PANDERING TO AMERICA'S ENEMIES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 99, April 8, 2009
CONSEQUENCES OF AN "AMERICAN IDOL" PRESIDENCY
By Christopher G. Adamo
Barack Obama and his fellow Liberal Leftist ideologues believe their Ivy League
intellectualism is sufficient to build a bridge to the Seventh Century. But,
to the practitioners of Islam, a religion that only understands strength and force,
this manner of pandering only represents weakness. As such, it is essentially
entreating the world for a repeat of the September 11, 2001, Islamist attacks on America.
Full Story
DEFENDING THE U.S.A. AGAINST RADICAL ISLAM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 98, April 7, 2009
TEXTBOOK LIES ABOUT ISLAM
By Raymond Ibrahim
Until Islamic ideologies are addressed forthrightly American textbooks and intelligence analysts, the U.S.A.,
leadership and lay alike, will remain philosophically unprepared to defend itself against the threat of radical Islam.
Objective knowledge, properly taught and disseminated, is the first step to formulating any longterm strategy to
counter and defeat Islamism. When knowledge is unshackled from the bonds of political correctness and wishful
thinking, strategies will naturally present themselves as common sense.
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TURKEY'S ALLIANCE WITH THE WEST PC, Volume XI, Issue # 97, April 6, 2009
DOES TURKEY STILL BELONG IN NATO?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Smack on its 60th. anniversary, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization finds itself facing a completely novel problem
– that of radical Islam, as represented by the Republic of Turkey, within NATO's own ranks.
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THE ATTACK ON U.S. ENERGY PRODUCTION & USE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 96, April 5, 2009
A FORMULA FOR FAILURE
By Alan Caruba
Oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, along with Venezuela, will grow rich, while Americans
will be faced with high costs for gasoline, diesel fuel, motor and heating oil, and everything else that depends on oil
-- for example, plastic, house paint, asphalt, lubricants, solvents, polyolefin wax, polyester fabric, and even mineral oil
and Vaseline.
Meanwhile, oil producers in America, large and small, will take a financial beating. If you don’t like living in a modern,
advanced and industrialized society, you will favor this. If you think Americans consume too much, drive too much
and deserve to be punished for it, you will favor this.
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THE NEW ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER'S SPEECH PC, Volume XI, Issue # 95, April 2, 2009
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN'S BRILLIANT DEBUT
By Dr, Daniel Pipes
Avigdor Lieberman became Foreign Minister of Israel yesterday. He celebrated his inauguration with a maiden speech
that news reports indicate left his listeners grimacing, squirming, and aghast. Too bad for them – the speech leaves me
elated.
Full Story
UNDERDOG STATUS IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB WAR PC, Volume XI, Issue # 94, April 1, 2009
ARABS, ISRAELIS, & UNDERDOGS
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
A foremost example of the Arabs' public relations prowess lies in their ability to transform the map of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In
the early decades, maps of the Arab-Israeli conflict showed Israel in a vast Middle East, a presence so small, one
practically needed a magnifying glass to locate it. These days, however, the conflict is typically portrayed by a huge
Israel looming over the fractured West Bank and Gaza areas.
This shift in size implies a shift in underdog status; whereas Israel's weak-actor status once came through clearly, the
Palestinians have now usurped that position, with all its attendant benefits.
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REBIRTH OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM NEEDED PC, Volume XI, Issue # 93, April 1, 2009
WHO WILL RESURRECT CONSERVATISM?
By Christopher G. Adamo
With the dawn of each new day, America is affronted by yet another outrage
from the Obama administration and its lackeys on Capitol Hill. In response,
the people of the heartland are increasingly vocal in their anger and
opposition to the premeditated dismantling of our once-great country. The
simmering “backlash” is real and will continue to grow and generate
political momentum for the Right, so long as Conservatives remain focused on
the significant issues. Nothing should be allowed to dilute or distract them
from the correct priorities.
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LIBERALS &THE COLLECTIVIST NEW ORDER PC, Volume XI, Issue # 92, March 27, 2009
WILL REPUBLICANS SEIZE THE MOMENT
By Christopher G. Adamo
It daily becomes more and more difficult for any but the most stalwart
Leftists to ignore or deny the grim visage of the “change” being inflicted
on America by Liberal Democrats. Like a script from a revolutionary
handbook, the key players in Washington, all on the Left, are shredding the
Constitution, while twisting and contorting current law, or completely
ignoring it when needs be, in order to further mutate this once-great nation
into a withered collectivist caricature of its former self.
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PALESTINIANS WHO ACCEPT ISRAEL PC, Volume XI, Issue # 91, March 26, 2009
PALESTINIANS WHO HELPED CREATE ISRAEL
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Palestinians have so loudly and for so long (nearly a century) rejected Zionism that Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, Yasir
Arafat, and Hamas may appear to command unanimous Palestinian support.
But no: polling research finds that a substantial minority of Palestinians, about 20 percent, is ready to live side-by-side
with a sovereign Jewish state. Although this minority has never been in charge and its voice has always been buried
under rejectionist bluster, Hillel Cohen of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has uncovered its surprisingly crucial
role in history.
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EUROPE'S MUSLIM IMMIGRANT POPULATION PC, Volume XI, Issue # 90, March 25, 2009
EUROPE'S SHIFTING IMMIGRATION DYNAMIC
By Esther Ben-David
Beginning in the mid-Twentieth Century, European countries have changed from net sources of emigration to attractive
destinations for immigration. Today Muslims, many from rural traditional areas, comprise the bulk of non-European
immigrants to Europe. Even those who have settled in cities retain a village mentality and are seen as backward by the
business and cultural elites in their home countries. Europe and other Western liberal, constitutional democratic countries
exert a strong pull on immigrants. However, stopping immigration is not easy, if at all possible, since the same European
liberal, constitutional democratic laws that attract immigrants also prevent states from acting to stop the immigrants from
coming or, later, to deport them.
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KHATAMI'S DIALOGUE: TACTICAL & INSINCERE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 89, March 24, 2009
KHATAMI IS JUST AHMADINEJAD WITH A SILVER TONGUE
By Dr. Michael Rubin
On March 25, 2009, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will speak in Australia at La Trobe University's
Centre for Dialogue. According to Centre Director Joseph Camilleri, Khatami's legacy was significant because he
"articulated a powerful and coherent message in defence of democracy and human freedom."
It is easy to be fooled by appearances and see Khatami as a moderate, when juxtaposed with firebrand President
Ahmadinejad. Alas, the differences are only of style, not substance.
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THE FAILURE OF ORGANIC FARMING IN CUBA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 88, March 23, 2009
CUBANS STARVE ON DIET OF LIES
By Dennis T. Avery
The Cubans told the world they had heroically learned to feed themselves without fuel or farm chemicals after their
Soviet subsidies collapsed in the early 1990s. They bragged about their “peasant cooperatives,” their biopesticides
and organic fertilizers. They heralded their earthworm culture and the predator wasps they unleashed on destructive
caterpillars. They boasted about the heroic ox teams they had trained to replace tractors.
Now, a senior Ministry of Agriculture official has admitted in the Cuban press that 84 percent of Cuba’s current food
consumption is imported. The organic success was all a lie
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IS ISLAM INTRINSICALLY VIOLENT? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 87, March 23, 2009
CONFLATING HISTORY WITH THEOLOGY:
Judeo-Christian Violence Versus Islamic Violence
By Raymond Ibrahim
Especially after the Islamist terrorist strikes of 9/11, Islam has often been accused of being intrinsically violent. Many
point to the Koran and other Islamic scriptures and texts as proof that violence and intolerance vis-à-vis
non-Muslims is inherent to Islam. In response, a number of apologetics [arguments] have been offered. The
fundamental premise of almost all of these is that Islam's purported violence — as found in Islamic scriptures and
history — is no different than the violence committed by other religious groups throughout history and as recorded
in their scriptures, groups such as Jews and Christians. The premise, in short, is that it is not Islam per se, but, rather,
human nature, that is prone to violence.
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COUNTER-INSURGENCY AGAINST THE TALIBAN? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 86, March 22, 2009
OBAMA'S WAR
By Alan Caruba
Militarily, there is virtually no way the American military, even including NATO forces and the Afghan Army, can
effectively conduct a counter-insurgency in Afghanistan and the Taliban-controlled region of Pakistan. The society
and the terrain are not hospitable. Re-supply of our forces now comes through Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, as routes
through Pakistan are viable, but increasingly lethal.
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THE COMING CONSERVATIVE REVOLT PC, Volume XI, Issue # 85, March 19, 2009
REBUILDING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR 2010
By Christopher G. Adamo
It would be virtually impossible for the political Left to ignore the resentment among
the people of heartland America that is currently simmering and threatens to
soon come to a boil. The realization of the grave consequences of the
Liberal Leftist juggernaut, at the core of the “hope and change” rhetoric
of the past year, is clearly motivating real America to take a stand for the
sake of the country.
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A FRONT IN THE WAR AGAINST THE WEST PC, Volume XI, Issue # 84, March 18, 2009
MUSLIM STRATEGIES TO CONVERT WESTERN CHRISTIANS
By Uriya Shavit & Frederic Wiesenbach
The conversion of Christians in Europe and the United States to Islam has become a matter of debate in some Western
countries. Muslim scholars have called on immigrant Muslims to become involved in summoning non-Muslims to their
faith. Indeed, the call on Muslim migrants to proselytize has become central in contemporary Islamic writings, not only
in books, but also in sermons — many online on YouTube — and others on DVDs, and Islamic websites. The
strategies that the global Islamic media uses to promote conversion of Christians to Islam illustrate the perceptions of
Islamists and can expose themes to defend and promote Islamism in cultural and public diplomacy.
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OBAMA & U.S. POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST PC, Volume XI, Issue # 83, March 17, 2009
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE OBAMA MIDEAST TEAM
By Dr. Steven J. Rosen
The new Obama administration has named most of its nominees for the key Middle East positions in the White House,
as well as in the U.S. State and Defense Departments. From what is known about these people, it is thus possible to
make an initial assessment of where Obama is going.
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SUICIDE BOMBERS, OR HEROIC MARTYRS? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 82, March 17, 2009
JIHAD, MARTYRDOM, & THE TORMENTS OF THE GRAVE
By Raymond Ibrahim
Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or "martyrs"? In fact, these two near antithetic words — on the one
hand, broken, desperate suicides, on the other, heroic martyrs — intrinsically demonstrate the radically different
epistemologies the average Westerner and Muslim will articulate their answer through. In other words, that
Westerners consider them suicides, while Muslims consider them martyrs, in and of itself speaks volumes on
motivation.
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OBAMA & RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 81, March 16, 2009
WILL OBAMA LEAVE OUR CHILDREN POWERLESS?
By Dennis T. Avery & Alex Avery
President Barack Obama just killed the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada — and, with it, any
realistic chance of actually slashing U.S. carbon emissions without massive consumer costs. Instead of more
nuclear energy, he’s putting our energy future in the shaky basket with wind, solar, and biofuels. It’s a recipe for
disappointment and disaster.
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THE ENVIRONMENTALIST POLITICAL AGENDA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 80, March 15, 2009
THE GREENS HATE ENERGY, AMERICA, & YOU!
By Alan Caruba
The longer one listens to what the Greens want, the more one becomes convinced that the members of environmentalist
organizations must be utterly brain dead and that their objective is to render America a Third-World nation by opposing
the building of new power plants, along with the exploration and extraction of our natural resources of coal, natural gas,
and oil.
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FORCING LIBERAL DOGMA ON THE PUBLIC PC, Volume XI, Issue # 79, March 12, 2009
OBAMA'S STEM CELL SACRAMENT
By Christopher G. Adamo
The same Liberal interest groups that relentlessly seek to drive every vestige of traditional morality from the
public arena are among the most zealous advocates of replacing such precepts with their own twisted dogma. The
decision by the Obama administration to reverse the ban on federal funding of fetal stem cell research is a prime
example.
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WILL NETANYAHU KEEP HIS PROMISES? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 78, March 10, 2009
NETANYAHU AS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: DEJA VU?
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
With Binyamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, about to become Israel's next Prime Minister, one wonders
whether he will stick to his more controversial campaign promises – not that of confronting the Iranian threat,
which is widely backed, but such promises as ending Hamas control of Gaza or keeping the Golan Heights.
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QUASI-NATIONALIZATION OF THE AUTOMAKERS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 77, March 9, 2009
HOW DETROIT'S AUTOMAKERS WENT FROM
KINGS OF THE ROAD TO ROADKILL
By Joseph B. White
Congratulations! You are all now in the auto business, the Sport of Kings -- or in our case,
the Sport of Presidents and members of Congress. Without your support -- and I assume that most of you are
fortunate enough to pay taxes -- General Motors and Chrysler would very likely be getting measured by the
undertakers of the bankruptcy courts. But make no mistake. What has happened to GM is essentially bankruptcy by
other means, and that is an extraordinary event in the political and economic history of our country.
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THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS -- ARE THEY CRAZY? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 76, March 8, 2009
SAVING THE EARTH?
By Alan Caruba
The Earth is some 4.5 billion years old. How did it ever manage to exist without us human beings? How did it survive
ice ages, meteor impacts, and all the other stuff that went on before homo sapiens decided to climb down out of the
trees and walk upright?
If human beings are responsible for “global warming,” how did the Earth manage to get through various earlier stages,
such as the Permian, the Triassic, the Jurassic, the Paleocene, the Eocene, the Oligocene, the Miocene, the Pleistocene
and our era, the Holocene, which reaches back a mere 10,000 years; a period that matches up with the ending of the
last major Ice Age.
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THE EARTH'S WARMING & COOLING TRENDS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 75, March 7, 2009
NATURAL GLOBAL WARMINGS HAVE BECOME MORE MODERATE
By Dennis T. Avery
Next week, at the second International Conference on Climate Change, a gathering of man-made global warming
skeptics sponsored by the Heartland Institute in New York, I’ll predict the Earth’s warming/cooling trends for the
Twenty-first Century.
Full Story
BAN ON FRANK TALK ABOUT THE ISLAMISTS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 74, March 6, 2009
THE VOICE OF AMERICA, SILENCED ON RADICAL ISLAM
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
For the past year, there's been a concerted push within the U.S. government to ban frank talk about the nature of the
Islamist enemy. It began with the Department of Homeland Security, then moved to the National Counter Terrorism
Center and the Departments of State and Defense. Already, in May, 2008, I heard an excellent analysis of the enemy
by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Thomas Mahnken, in which he bizarrely never once mentioned Islam or
jihad.
I've been wondering how this change in vocabulary actually occurs: is it a spontaneous mood shift, a group decision,
or a directive from on high?
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GLOBAL WARMING PROPAGANDA TACTICS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 73, March 5, 2009
GLOBAL WARMING "BAIT & SWITCH": SCIENTIFIC "CONSENSUS" & OTHER
SHADY SALES TACTICS USED TO PROMOTE ALARMIST THEORIES
By Paul K. Driessen
Having followed and participated in the global warming debate for nearly 15 years now, I’ve become convinced that the
conduct of climate alarmists closely resembles consumer fraud, in the form of classic bait-and-switch tactics. There are
important facts that American voters should keep in the forefront, as Congress and the Environmental Protection
Agency attempt to implement punitive and expensive carbon dioxide reduction schemes. Also of importance to the
voters and warranting their attention is the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change that will be held in New
York from March 8 to March 10.
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SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL DISSENT IN SYRIA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 72, March 5, 2009
DISSIDENT WATCH: TARIQ BIASI
By Gideon Spitzer
On June 7, 2007, Syrian military intelligence arrested blogger Tariq Biasi on charges of "undermining national sentiment"
and "publishing false information." Biasi, a 23-year-old computer technician from Banyas, Syria, who suffers from
liver disease, is just the most recent in a slew of arrests targeting Syrian bloggers.
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HOW RELIABLE ARE THE SOCALLED "EXPERTS"? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 71, March 5, 2009
CLIMATE CHANGE FORECASTS ARE USELESS FOR POLICYMAKING!
WHY RUSH TO RUIN THE ECONOMY OVER SOME DODGY FORECASTS?
By Dr. Kesten C. Green, Dr. J. Scott Armstrong, & Dr. Willie Soon
Almost every day, media outlets quote “experts” who predict that soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, increasing
storms, prolonged droughts, and other disasters will result from human activity. Many of these “forecasts” and
“predictions” are the product of climate change computer models that produce a variety of “worst-case scenarios.”
Others are simply speculations, expectations, scenarios, probabilities, or supposed certainties.
However they might be described by their creators, the question is: Are these projections valid? Are they a sound
basis for policy decisions that will have incalculable, far-reaching impacts on our energy security, economy, living
standards, and lives?
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OBAMA'S "DIVIDE & CONQUER STRATEGY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 70, March 5, 2009
OBAMA ATTEMPTS TO REWRITE CONSERVATISM
By Christopher G. Adamo
The “divide and conquer” strategy employed by Democrats worked well against the
Republicans on far too many occasions in the past, particularly when the GOP
was under the sway of “moderates.” All too often, these crowd pleasers took
the Democrats' bait, attempting to ingratiate themselves with the voting
public by offering a second-rate imitation of the Democratic Party agenda. The
events of the past few weeks, when considered in their entirety, reveal that
Republicans are being set up to take another fall.
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BARACK OBAMA -- A SECOND NEW DEAL? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 40, Feb. 1, 2009
THE NEW BAD DEAL
By Alan Caruba
Politics, the pursuit of power, and the Liberal’s distrust of capitalism will likely force a new generation of Americans to
repeat what those in the 1930s experienced for no good reason.
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WHY WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER NEW DEAL PC, Volume XI, Issue # 39, Jan. 31, 2009
DO WE NEED A NEW NEW DEAL?
By Dr. Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
The New Deal has probably been the greatest political force in America during the last 100 years, and Franklin Delano
Roosevelt has probably been the most influential President during this time. In our current economic crisis — which
some have compared with the Great Depression — many critics are calling for more federal programs and a “New New
Deal.” There are three reasons we do not need a New New Deal from President Barack Hussein Obama in 2009.
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ABANDON OUR CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 38, Jan. 31, 2009
DO CONSERVATIVES NEED TO GET BEYOND REAGAN?
By Rush Limbaugh
There is no such thing, at least in America, as “big-government Conservatism.” A government that abides by the
Constitution and protects our God-given freedoms is, by definition, limited. Rather than carving out blocs of voters by
surrendering their principles, Conservatives need to continue to tell the American people as a whole that the ideas of
individual liberty and limited government are right and that the policies that come from those ideas work best to
produce prosperity. Conservatives don’t need to reinvent themselves. They need the courage to be once again who
they were.
Full Story
RENEWABLE FUELS BURNED BY ASIANS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 37, Jan. 30, 2009
ASIA'S BROWN POLLUTION CLOUD:
CAUSED BY RENEWABLE FUELS!
By Dennis T. Avery
That vast cloud of brown pollution hanging over Asia comes from wood and cattle dung being burned in millions of
Third World home-fires, according to Orjan Gustafsson, a bio-geochemist from Stockholm University. Gustaffsson
recently tested the smoke of the Asian brown cloud with a newly developed radiocarbon technique, and found that
two-thirds of the brown cloud’s particles are organic matter, mostly wood, straw, and dung.
These are the “renewable fuels” that Greenpeace and the Sierra Club do not want publicized.
Full Story
ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC INCOMPETENCE IN GAZA PC, Volume XI, Issue #36, Jan. 28, 2009
EXPLAINING ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC MISTAKES
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
In an article earlier this month, "Israel's Strategic Incompetence in Gaza," I made three points: that the Israeli leadership
unilaterally created its current problems in Gaza, that the war against Hamas meant ignoring the much larger threat of
Iranian nuclear weapons, and that the goal of empowering Al-Fatah makes no sense.
These arguments prompted an earful from readers, who made interesting points that deserve answers.
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THE ECONOMY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 35, Jan. 28, 2009
HEY KIDS, IT'S A DEPRESSION
By Alan Caruba
Current economic conditions indicate that it would be a good idea for Congress and the Obama Presidency to (1) pay
attention to the history and lessons of the Great Depression, (2) avoid repeating the same mistakes, and (3) not take
their eyes off the ball here at home with talk of achieving peace in the Middle East, a region where peace has not
existed since the days of President Harry S. Truman and, for that matter, those of all previous Presidents.
Full Story
RESCUING AMERICA FROM COLLECTIVISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 34, Jan. 28, 2009
ARE CONSERVATIVE LEADERS ARISING FROM GOP MIRE
By Christopher G. Adamo
The events of the past week should thoroughly scare anyone with an understanding of historical causes and effects.
Fortunately for the underwriters of the “new order,” most Americans remain blissfully ignorant of the plotting and
maneuvering going on inside the Beltway. As long as the network anchors keep force-feeding the people a steady
diet of euphoric anecdotes regarding everything Obama, along with the predictable public opinion polls showing that
the ruse has gained near universal acceptance, America can continue inexorably on its descent into collectivism, or
socialism.
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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST PC, Volume XI, Issue # 33, Jan. 26, 2009
A SAUDI PRINCE'S THREAT TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
His Royal Highness Prince Turki al-Faisal, a leading Saudi powerbroker, is threatening the U.S. government.
Restating his threat more directly, Turki says: "If the U.S. wants to continue playing a leadership role in the Middle
East and keep its strategic alliances intact -- especially its ‘special relationship' with Saudi Arabia -- it will have to
revise drastically its policies vis-à-vis Israel and Palestine."
Turki goes on to instruct in detail the Obama administration on what to do.
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STAMPEDING US OFF A FINANCIAL CLIFF PC, Volume XI, Issue # 32, Jan. 25, 2009
PASSAGE OF THE RECOVERY ACT: WHAT'S THE HURRY?
By Alan Caruba
I think that there are people in the White House and in Congress who think that the best way to serve themselves —
not the American people — is to panic us into accepting an extremely bad piece of legislation that is not going to
“solve” anything with regard to the current economic crisis.
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COAL RESERVES & AMERICA'S ENERGY NEEDS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 31, Jan. 25, 2009
COAL, GLORIOUS COAL
By Alan Caruba
I began 2009 praising carbon dioxide as the gas, along with oxygen, upon which all life on Earth depends.
Now I praise coal, and for reasons the mainstream press and other media will studiously avoid telling you. Coal, as you
may recall, is on the Obama hit list because its use, according to the environmentalist loonies, will doom the Earth to a
global warming that is not happening.
Full Story
APPEASING A MIDDLE EASTERN BULLY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 30, Jan. 24, 2009
THE EUROPEAN LEFT: MARCHING FOR HAMAS
By Denis MacEoin
Hamas is a bully aided by a bigger bully, Iran. And, just as strident and threatening human bullies get away with their
aggression so long as no one calls their bluff, so Hamas has been getting away with murder and torture because the
United Nations and many sovereign states won't call its two-faced self-portrayal as the victim in the piece. In the
struggle to take over Gaza from Fatah, it went on a rampage that killed hundreds of Palestinians.
Like all bullies, Hamas likes to taunt its victims. It did just that for years after Israel left Gaza, firing rockets every day
into Israeli towns like Sderot or Netivot.
Full Story
WHAT DRIVES THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT PC, Volume XI, Issue # 29, Jan. 24, 2009
THE MIND OF JIHAD -- A BOOK REVIEW
By Raymond Ibrahim
For some time now, there has been a raging debate regarding what fuels Islamic terrorism -- whether grievances
against the West have caused frustrated Muslims to articulate their rage through an Islamist paradigm, or whether (all
grievances aside) Islam itself leads to aggression toward non-Muslims, or "infidels."
Full Story
HEZBOLLAH'S STANDING & MORALE LOWERED PC, Volume XI, Issue # 28, Jan. 23, 2009
NASRALLAH'S DEFEAT IN THE 2006 WAR:
ASSESSING HEZBOLLAH'S INFLUENCE
By Eyal Zisser
On the night of February 12, 2008, a car bomb in Damascus killed Imad Mughniyeh, the head of Hezbollah's military
wing. The assassination shattered the legend of Hezbollah's invincibility. Intelligence services of at least forty
countries had pursued Mughniyeh for decades, and he had succeeded in evading them all. His elusiveness
substantiated Hezbollah's claim that its enemies had no hope of finding cracks in the group's network or in the ranks
of its faithful. Mughniyeh's death destroyed that myth. Since that fateful Tuesday, every child in Lebanon knows
that whoever got Mughniyeh will be able to get to Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's Secretary-General, as well.
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LEGAL ACTION AGAINST CRITICS OF ISLAMISM PC, Volume XI, Issue # 27, Jan. 22, 2009
DEATH TO FREE SPEECH IN THE NETHERLANDS
By Brooke M. Goldstein & Aaron Meyer
On Wednesday, January 21, 2009, freedom of speech in Europe took a new and devastating turn, as a Dutch appellate
court ordered the prosecution of Geert Wilders, parliamentarian and filmmaker, charging him with "inciting hatred and
discrimination" against Muslims for his film exposing the threat of radical Islam.
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LIBERALS' MINDLESS ADULATION OF OBAMA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 26, Jan. 22, 2009
OBAMA MANIA WILL EVENTUALITY COLLIDE WITH REALITY
By Christopher G. Adamo
Conservatives, real Conservatives, are, by now, thoroughly nauseated from all of the inaugural gushing and fawning
over Obama. But, if they think that this slobber-fest was going to end, now that he has assumed the Presidency, they
are going to be sorely disappointed. The Leftist cheerleaders will continue trumpeting the supposed grandeur and
majesty of this day, long after its fabricated luster has thoroughly dulled in the eyes of the thinking public.
Full Story
ENEMY PROPAGANDA IS SPREAD IN THE U.S.A. PC, Volume XI, Issue # 25, Jan. 21, 2009
RESISTING STEALTH JIHAD -- A BRIEFING:
ROBERT SPENCER ON STEALTH JIHAD
By Pam Meister
Those of us who get the bulk of our news from the Internet are probably aware of pro-Hamas rallies that have taken
place across the U.S.A. over the last couple of weeks. To name just a couple: in Los Angeles, the Islamists chanted
"Heil Hitler," "death to the Jews," "death to Israel" and "down, down, USA!" In Fort Lauderdale, Jews were exhorted
to "go back to the ovens." As Spencer noted, "Never before in American history, have we seen people openly, on
American soil, and in full light of video cameras, saying that they want to see a renewal of a genocidal ambition, and
they want to see a whole people exterminated."
So where was the mainstream media? Aside from a story on the Fort Lauderdale event on FOX News, they were
nowhere to be seen.
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CAN WORDS ALONE SOLVE U.S. PROBLEMS? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 24, Jan. 20, 2009
ORATORY VERSUS REALITY: THE OBAMA YEARS BEGIN
By Alan Caruba
Not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy has this nation had a President so blessed with the
gift of oratory.
There is no doubt that, if words alone could lift this nation out of its current financial crisis, its wars and other problems,
President Barack Hussein Obama could make that happen.
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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST PC, Volume XI, Issue # 23, Jan. 20, 2009
THE DEMOCRATS & ISRAEL
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
With Democrats now in charge of both the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. national government, what
changes might one expect in U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Full Story
AMERICA IS LITERALLY FALLING APART PC, Volume XI, Issue # 22, Jan. 19, 2009
INFRASTRUCTURE: LET'S SPEND MONEY ON IT
By Alan Caruba
There is one aspect of President-elect Obama’s proposed agenda that I like very much, and it has to do with investing in
the nation’s infrastructure of highways, bridges, ports, and airfields.
Full Story
PEDDLING ISLAMIST PROPAGANDA IN THE U.S.A. PC, Volume XI, Issue # 21, Jan. 18, 2009
THE NATIONAL PRAYER SERVICE & THE WAHHABI LOBBY
By Winfield Myers
Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), will deliver a prayer at the National Cathedral
during the National Prayer Service on January 21, 2009. The event is part of the festivities for the inauguration of Barack
Obama, which occurs January 20. A convert to Islam, Mattson directs the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and
Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary.
ISNA has close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist group, and was named an un-indicted
co-conspirator in United States v. Holy Land Foundation (2006), a case that uncovered covert financing of the
terrorist group Hamas. Since her election as ISNA President in 2006, Mattson's apologias for the radical Wahhabi sect of
Islam have gained a much wider audience.
Full Story
ENVIRONMENTALISM & U.S. ENERGY POLICY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 20, Jan. 17, 2009
"JUST SAY NO" TO OIL & NATURAL GAS REVENUES?
By Paul K. Driessen
We can help keep energy prices at tolerable levels, by developing the domestic oil and natural gas that we have in
abundance, but politicians, courts and Greens, for too long, have told us we can’t touch.
We need the energy, jobs, and revenues that offshore (and onshore) oil and natural gas development can provide. We
can no longer afford to “just say no” to domestic petroleum, during the long transition to future energy technologies
that we cannot begin to envision – any more than even Jules Verne could have foreseen the wondrous energy and
other technologies that creative minds have made a reality today.
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IGNORING ISLAMIC WAR-FIGHTING DOCTRINE PC, Volume XI, Issue # 19, Jan. 15, 2009
STUDYING THE ISLAMIC WAY OF WAR
By Raymond Ibraham
Though Military Studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine — such as Karl
von Clausewitz's On War, Wu Sun Tsu's The Art of War, even the exploits of Alexander the Great, as
recorded in Arrian and Plutarch — Islamic war doctrine, which is just as, if not more, textually grounded, is totally
ignored.
The senior Service colleges of the U.S. Department of Defense have not incorporated into their curriculum a
systematic study of Muhammad as a military or political leader. As a consequence, we still do not have an in-depth
understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing
number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered." Today, seven full years after September 11, 2001, our
understanding of the Islamic way of war is little better.
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OBAMA -- REBUILDING THE U.S. ECONOMY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 18, Jan. 15, 2009
MORE THAN AN EMPTY SUIT?
By Dennis T, Avery
Not even the U.S. government has enough money to bail out its whole economy. Fortunately, the Obama “stimulus
package” has morphed partly away from handouts to mayors and governors, and somewhat more into shortterm tax
cuts. That’s progress. But the real key to longterm investment will be permanently lower taxes, and tighter federal
spending.
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CONSERVATISM VS. "MODERATE" REPUBLICANS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 17, Jan. 14, 2009
WHY PRESIDENT BUSH IS SO REVILED
By Christopher G. Adamo
Ronald Reagan polarized the nation by virtue of his stridently held and courageously professed Conservative
beliefs. The result was an eight-year media firestorm of criticism. But, in the end, their relentless condemnation of
him could not prevail against a committed and loyal base of support from the Conservative grassroots.
In sorry contrast, George Bush’s wretched unpopularity stands as proof of what awaits a socalled “moderate”
who disparages his base, while seeking the good will of the Liberal opposition. Nobody on either side of the aisle
will remain to defend him, even for his occasional worthwhile actions. This is hardly the route back to political
viability for Republicans.
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BARACK OBAMA AS THE NEXT ABE LINCOLN? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 16, Jan. 14, 2009
BARACK LINCOLN
By Alan Caruba
Obama is all about imagery. The problem with that is that, after a while, people begin to demand results that will
improve their lives. He won’t have to wait long to hear that. By then, the campaign promises will be long forgotten,
along with “hope” and “change.” Real solutions to real problems are not created by imagery.
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THE ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR -- NO HUDNA! PC, Volume XI, Issue # 15, January 15, 2009
A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA?
By Dr. Denis MacEoin
Today, everyone's talking about a ceasefire in Gaza. With the UN proposing one and Israel demurring, the public,
unaware of anything much about Gaza, Hamas or Israel, blithely puts Israel in the dock. Yet, during the last "ceasefire,"
when rockets continued to land in Israeli civilian centers, there was a noticeable silence on the part of the international
community. It seems it's okay to drag Israel back from an attack on a massively financed and armed terrorist entity (and,
if Hamas isn't a terrorist entity, it's hard to know what it is), but just not right to demand the same sort of action on
the part of the terrorists. Don't forget, Israel isn't the only one refusing a ceasefire at this point: Hamas is rejecting one
too, and for dishonest reasons.
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THE GROWING ISLAMIST THREAT IN TURKEY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 14, Jan. 14, 2009
ISLAMISTS' APPROACH TO EUROPE: TURKEY'S ISLAMIST DANGER
By Dr. Bassam Tibi
Since their electoral landslide victory in November, 2002, Islamists within Turkey's Justice and Development Party
(AKP) have camouflaged themselves as "democratic Islamic conservatives." The AKP claims to be the Muslim
equivalent of the Christian Democratic Parties of Western Europe. Such an analogy is false, however. What the
AKP seeks is not "Islam without fear," but, rather, a strategy for a creeping Islamization that culminates in a Shari‘a
(Islamic law) state not compatible with a secular, constitutional democratic order. The AKP does not advertise this
agenda, and often denies it.
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WEAK-KNEED DEFINITION OF OUR ENEMY PC, Volume XI, Issue # 13, Jan. 12, 2009
GOVERNMENT POLICIES STIFLE TALK OF ISLAM
By Dr. David J. Rusin
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Congress after Pearl Harbor, he cited Japan fifteen times in a
speech of five hundred words. When President George Walker Bush did the same after 9-11, he uttered "Islam" or
"Muslim" more sparingly — just eleven times in a speech of three thousand words. And, when U.S. Senators Barack
Hussein Obama and John Sidney McCain III spoke at the respective party conventions and the debates, asking to be
entrusted with America's security, not a single reference to Islam could be found.
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TURKEY' FUNDAMENTAL IDENTITY CHANGED PC, Volume XI, Issue # 12, Jan. 12, 2009
FETHULLAH GULEN'S AMBITION: TURKEY'S ISLAMIST DANGER
By Rachel Sharon-Krespin
As Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) begins its seventh year in leadership, Turkey is no longer
the secular and democratic country that it was when the party took over. The AKP has changed Turkey's fundamental
identity. Prior to the AKP's rise, Ankara oriented itself toward the United States and Europe. Today, despite the
rhetoric of European Union accession, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned Turkey away from Europe
and toward Russia and Iran and reoriented Turkish policy in the Middle East away from sympathy toward Israel and
much more toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria. Anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic
sentiments have increased. Behind Turkey's transformation has been not only the impressive AKP political machine,
but also a shadowy Islamist sect led by Fethullah Gülen
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STUPIDITY & CUPIDITY OF AMERICA'S LEADERS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 11, Jan 11, 2009
PUT YOUR BET ON STUPIDITY
By Alan Caruba
We are well into a major recession, and I think most people are betting on the stupidity and cupidity of our nation’s
leaders, elected and appointed, to ensure that it happens. One need only look at previous efforts to effect some control
over the economy, while, at the same time, running it into the ground.
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ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR -- WHICH SIDE IS WINNING? PC, Volume XI, Issue # 10, Jan. 11, 2009
ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC INCOMPETENCE IN GAZA
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Commentary on the Israel-Hamas war has tended toward partisan pleading, making the moral case for or against Israel.
That's a crucial debate, but not the only one; there's also a need for a cool strategic assessment; who is winning, who
is losing?
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THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA PC, Volume XI, Issue # 9, Jan. 8, 2009
JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH ADOPTS THE HEZBOLLAH MODEL
By Zachary Aburza
Islamist terrorism may have its roots in the Middle East, but it has long since expanded globally. Indonesia, the most
populous Muslim country, is no exception. Jemaah Islamiyah (aka: Jemaah Islamiya, Jemaah Islamiah, and JI) has, for
more than fifteen years, fought to transform Indonesia into an Islamist state. In recent years, its terrorist campaign has
suffered setbacks. As Jemaah Islamiyah regroups, it builds upon the experience of Middle East terrorist groups. From
Al-Qa'ida, it adopts philosophical underpinnings that guide its dual strategy. From Hamas and Hezbollah, it borrows
an "inverse triangle model" in which a broad network of social services supports a smaller jihadist core, and, from
Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf emirates, it adopts a model of charities and NGOs that help Jemaah Islamiyah
advance its jihadist goals.
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GLOBAL WARMING PROPHESIES RING HOLLOW PC, Volume XI, Issue # 8, Jan. 7, 2009
THE GLOBAL WARMING CRESCENDO HAS PASSED
By Christopher G. Adamo
As the cold of Winter settles in on the northern hemisphere, all of the hysteria of “global warming,” or its less specific
alternative “climate change,” rings increasingly hollow to the general public. Weather patterns of the past decade
indicate that the planet has been in an undeniable cooling trend since prior to the new millennium. So the panicked
prophesies of cataclysmic upturns in the earth’s average temperature simply do not carry the emotional impact that
they once held.
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WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 7, Jan. 7, 2009
SOLVING THE "PALESTINIAN PROBLEM"
By Dr. Daniel Pipes
Israel's war against Hamas brings up the old quandary: What to do about the Palestinians? Western states, including
Israel, need to set goals to figure out their policy toward the West Bank and Gaza.
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WHERE WILL AMERICANS INVEST THEIR CAPITAL PC, Volume XI, Issue # 6, Jan. 6, 2009
AN ORDINARY INVESTOR LOOKS AT THE COMING DECADE
By Dennis T, Avery
It’s a new year, and we must look beyond the mess of sub-prime mortgages and unfunded auto pensions — toward the
markets where American citizens have to invest their private capital for the next decade.
Will most of the growth investments now be made in Third World countries? Who will buy stock in GM or Boeing? Will
cement for Obama’s public works projects triple with emission fees? Will air travel be penalized for burning fossil fuels?
Will Fannie and Freddie be reined in? Must we hazard the Chinese stock market?
President-elect Obama offers no guidance yet.
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ISLAMISM --MANY DISPARITIES BEHIND ITS WORDS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 5, Jan. 6, 2009
AN ANALYSIS OF AL-QA'IDA'S WORLDVIEW:
RECIPROCAL TREATMENT OR RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION
By Raymond Ibrahim
Is al-Qa'ida waging war on the United States, issuing a fatwa to "kill the Americans and seize their money" in retaliation
for U.S. oppression, or is this animosity founded on something else? Is it mere reciprocity or is it a religion-based
ideology? Talking to the West, al-Qa'ida insists it is reciprocal treatment; talking to fellow Muslims, it insists that Islam
demands this animosity.
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ENERGY, ECONOMIC, & ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 4, Jan 5, 2009
SAVING LIVES WITH COAL: THE BENEFITS OF COAL-GENERATED
ELECTRICITY ARE TOO OFTEN IGNORED IN PUBLIC POLICY DEBATES
By Paul K. Driessen
Environmentalists, journalists, and politicians often cite the health and ecological effects of using coal to generate electricity.
Indeed, we should always consider the risks of using any technology. However, it is critical that we also focus attention on
the benefits of using that technology, and on the risks of not using it.
Coal-fired power plants help keep American homes, businesses, factories, airports, schools, and hospitals humming. They
provide myriad benefits that improve and save lives every day, but almost never get mentioned by anti-coal factions.
Presented here, is the missing information that should help guide our nation’s (and world’s) policy decisions on these crucial
energy, economic, and environmental issues.
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GAZA -- KNEE-JERK DIPLOMACY WILL NOT WORK PC, Volume XI, Issue # 3, Jan. 5, 2009
DIPLOMACY CANNOT QUELL GAZA VIOLENCE
By Dr. Michael Rubin
As the crisis in Gaza enters its second week, international diplomats are seeking a cease-fire. UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon has called the situation "unacceptable" and demanded that "regional and international partners [do more] to
end the violence and encourage a political dialogue." Amnesty International has demanded that the United States
pressure Israel to stop its aerial bombardment. European and Arab diplomats hope that other states -- perhaps Syria
and Iran -- will pressure Hamas to agree to a cease-fire.
It won't work. Knee-jerk diplomacy -- demanding a truce regardless of the cause of the fighting -- does more to
accelerate conflict than to resolve it.
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THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION & ITS BIAS PC, Volume XI, Issue # 2, Jan. 5, 2009
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ON THE MEND?
By Jonathan Schanzer
In recent years, Campus Watch (CW) analysts have leveled a barrage of criticism against the Middle East Studies
Association (MESA) as a bastion of groupthink for scholar-activists peddling a politicized agenda. CW's current
Director, Winfield Myers, noted that MESA's "reputation has been shattered by years of politicized scholarship,
one-sided teaching, and bullying students." Jonathan Calt Harris, formerly with CW, called MESA a "hive of academic
opposition to America, Israel, and, in the larger sense, rationalism itself." After years of responding to such criticism
with cries of "McCarthyism," MESA just might be owning up to a few of its failures.
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THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX & CARBON TAXES PC, Volume XI, Issue # 1, Jan. 4, 2009
THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT GLORIOUS CARBON DIOXIDE
By Alan Caruba
Okay, children, let’s all sit up straight at our desks. We are going to begin 2009 with a lesson about carbon dioxide (CO2).
Why do we need to know about CO2? Because the President-elect, several of his choices for environmental and energy
agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court, and much of the U.S. Congress has no idea what they are talking about and, worse,
want to pass legislation and regulations that will further bankrupt the United States of America.
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