Great American Journal

12/27/08

A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money
by Vincent Gioia
It used to be that a billion dollars was a lot of money. Senator Everett Dirksen, a senator back in the age of reason once said “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” I wonder what the good senator would say now. We have gone well beyond the idea that a billion dollars is “real money.” Today as we approach the age of socialism real money is measured in trillions of dollars. Of course socialists don’t talk about trillions of dollars; like in everything else they practice, success is achieved by “incrementalism”.

12/23/08

SOMETHING OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS IS HAPPENING
by Tim Wood
I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

I'm from the government and I'm here to help you
by Vincent Gioia
So now that the Federal Reserve Bank cut its interest rate to virtually zero what does it mean to the rest of us? Nada! Zip! Nothing! Oh it does mean something; fat cats bankers already awash in “bailout money” will get even richer because with free money from the Fed they can profit from even low interest loans they make, and they will make very few of those to you and me types; it’s the big borrowers that will benefit along with the fat cat bankers. With all the money at banks disposal just try to get a zero-plus loan like the banks get from the Fed – you wont even get a loan unless you don’t need one.

Risking our Nation’s Sovereignty
by Nancy Salvato
Anyone who is successful at forging relationships has mastered the art of diplomacy. There are a few simple rules. There is a time and a place for everything. You cannot change another person, only yourself. You have to give to receive. Maintaining a balance of power is probably the most difficult. If one person denies another a relationship, there can be no balance of power because that person has taken all the control. Both parties have to want the relationship for one to occur. Any parent soon realizes that a dictatorial style will not foster loyalty or the intrinsic motivation to behave within a child. At the same time, giving in to a child’s demands grants the child all the power. A well-timed tantrum can put an end to a parent’s agenda.

12/21/08

The Anti Prop 8 movement: Agree with us, or we will hurt you
by Armand Christopher Hale
“The facade has finally dropped off. This is the real face of the Homosexual movement. Something new and very ugly has entered American politics”. This week the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) launched a new website: BusttheBlacklist.com, along with an accompanying radio ad campaign. Join the fight! As the ad says, "Your voice will be heard." Bust the Blacklist is part of NOM's ongoing "Above the Hate" campaign to find a way to fight back against the outpouring of threats, intimidation and aggression, but to fight back in a way that is, as Bishop Harry Jackson told Family News in Focus recently, consistent with Christian principles, no matter how our opponents have behaved. Listen to the Family News in Focus account here.

Global warming – don’t confuse me with facts, my mind is made up
by Vincent Gioia
Many people have not bought into the notion that what living creatures do will change the climate on Earth; indeed their numbers far exceed the number of Al Gore acolytes. But you would never know this if you get your information solely from the traditional news media and politicians. It has been proven time and again that the news given to the public is filtered through ideological screens. We see this in political elections, reports of who is for and against particular themes, endless sap stories decrying any attempt to defend our country at home and abroad, selective reporting to suit the media message and the message of those sharing the media version of the truth (or at least what they know is "best" for Americans), and selective and misreporting to gather the wagons around their ideological colleagues while taking every opportunity to castigate those who disagree.

Time for a Real World Look at the Incoming Obama Cabinet
by JB Williams
According to the Obama-mania press, Obama is surrounding himself with a bi-partisan cabinet full of intellectual giants with a hundred years in collective expertise unlike any other in human history. What cabinet selections are they looking at? The selections I’m looking at seem more like a third Clinton administration full of the same old Clinton cronies from the 1990s, plus a few token political hacks that made the election of the most unlikely leader in U.S. history possible. Political debts are often repaid by way of political appointments and Democrats have clearly mastered the art. But what does this mean for the average American?

The Necessity of 'Outing' Colin Powell
by Christopher G. Adamo
These are painful times for most conservatives. Since Election Day, hopes of a pro-constitution Supreme Court, at least for the foreseeable future, have vanished. The prospect of an energy program that puts American workers and American industry as its first priority no longer exists. And with it goes the nation’s ability to maintain and determine its own future standard of living. Socialism and “political correctness” are making giant advances forward, while any ability to stop them is elusive at best. To make matters worse, prominent “Republicans” are now regularly coming forward to castigate the party, or at least its conservative base, as the root cause of its problems and defeats in recent years. The latest and loudest contender is the once immensely popular General Colin Powell.

The Fed’s two trillion dollar scam makes Madoff look like a piker
by Vincent Gioia
As American taxpayers bear the burden of bankrolling multiple financial scams now and into the foreseeable future, the Federal Reserve has refused to disclose the names of recipients or details of assets put up as collateral on two trillion dollars of "emergency" loans given to address the “financial emergency” rushed through congress. The Federal Reserve Bank responded to Bloomberg by saying it’s allowed to withhold internal memos as well as other information requested by Bloomberg. This display of arrogance of power is unprecedented. The government wants taxpayers to take its word for how it's spending an enormous amount of money. How gullible does the Federal Reserve think the American people are; the answer, very gullible or they wouldn’t have gotten away with the scam.

Illinois Politics, Chicago Corruption...I Told You So
by Frank Salvato
Prior to the November General Election I wrote an article called This Is What a Vote for Obama Gets You. It highlighted the state of affairs here in Democrat controlled Illinois. Beyond that it introduced the reality that most Democrat politicians (and some Republicans for that matter) who emanate from Illinois – and especially Chicago – have a problem with ethics, demonstrating, almost on a daily basis, an inherent penchant for corruption. The recent influence peddling and profiteering scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich demonstrates the Chicago/Illinois Democrat Machine in action.

12/16/08

Why Washington Should Stay OUT of the Auto Business
by JB Williams
When will Americans face the reality that Washington DC has never run anything successfully? The same people who forced lenders to make bad loans, then allowed bad mortgage based securities to be sold to unsuspecting investors who leveraged the portfolio 30 to 1, ending in the biggest financial crisis in world history, now want control of the U.S. auto industry. Before they raised a single penny in play money to bailout yet another disgraced American industry, liberals at the epicenter of the problem like Democrat Chris Dodd, were calling for the beheading of motor company CEOs, proving only that even the promise of taxpayer funds is being used to grab federal grasp and control of once private industries at a record pace.

A Constitutional Convention – be careful what you wish for (Part One)
by Vincent Gioia
The only occasion in our nation's history for a Constitutional Convention was the one held in 1787 for the purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation. Despite the requirement in the Articles of Confederation that all state legislatures consent to amendments, the delegates emerged with an entirely new system of government and declared that per the new Constitution's Article VII only 9 of the 13 states were needed to ratify it. The Constitution has provided for a Constitutional Convention to amend the Constitution, or indeed rewrite it, in Article V:

A Constitutional Convention – there are no limitations – be careful what you wish for (Part Two)
by Vincent Gioia
The only time there was a Constitutional Convention was in 1787 for the purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation. There was a requirement in the Articles of Confederation that all state legislatures had to consent to amendments but in the Convention the rules were ignored and the delegates wrote an entirely new system of government and declared that per the new Constitution's Article VII only 9 of the 13 states were needed to ratify it. The point is that at a Constitutional Convention anything can happen and any prior agreements agreed upon by states or limitations imposed by states as a condition for approval have no meaning.

Who Really Runs Washington And Why Americans Lose on Every Issue
by JB Williams
After decades of leftist efforts to convert America’s representative republic into a pure democracy, where 51% can take away the rights of the other 49% for the greater common good, we find our nation on the verge of political and economic collapse. It was the dream of men like Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, not Thomas Jefferson or John Adams, that one day the proletariat would control the nation’s productivity in the United States, replacing evil capitalism with secular socialism and individual rights with a greater good of communal interests. In 2008, the left gained full control of all three branches of the federal government and America may never again live in freedom.

12/12/08

If Blag Blabs
by Joan Swirsky
Beside figuring out how he’ll weasel out of his recent arrest – and probable conviction – for trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s senate seat to the highest bidder, I wonder if the disgraced governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is contemplating the fates of Lee Harvey Oswald, Alexander Litvinenko, Vince Foster, Jim McDougal and Ron Brown – all of whom were summarily disposed of to keep them from talking. Oswald, we know, was shot by Jack Ruby, a smalltime Dallas nightclub owner with suspected ties to the Mafia. The death effectively cemented the government’s case against the odd loner, and precluded any of the theories that tied Fidel Castro or the New Orleans mob or other numbers of people to being implicated in JFK’s assassination.

Barack Obama: Neither Oblivious Nor Deceptive
by Frank Salvato
Death by a thousand cuts. That is exactly what is happening to President-Elect Barack Obama’s credibility as he and his campaign continue to abuse the “plausible deniability” political tactic. As the list of radicals, political opportunists and ethically challenged elected officials that Mr. Obama portends not to know continues to grow, the voters who believed they voted for “hope” and “change” are starting to realize that the promise of an Obama presidency, well, it isn’t so much... Admittedly, I did not vote for Barack Obama to be President of the United States. I didn’t support him not because of the color of his skin (in fact I would have voted for Michael Steele or even Ward Connerly should they have decided to run and made it to the ballot). I didn’t support Mr. Obama because of tangible reasons that included three significant facts:

12/10/08

Blagojevich, Fitzgerald, And Real Political Corruption
by Christopher G. Adamo
For the moment, the abhorrent actions of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich are admittedly making almost as many waves among the media elite as Idaho Senator Larry Craig playing “footsie” with an undercover agent in a Minneapolis Airport restroom. But while Craig’s behavior was reprehensible and reflective of serious personal moral flaws, Blagojevich is accused of attempting to offer governance of the American people to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, if the reactions of voters to the avalanche of similar such dealings throughout the past year’s campaign cycle are any indication, not many people will be alarmed by this toxic encroachment on the nation’s authority structure.

Why Can’t Blagojevich Sell a Senate Seat? Obama Bought the White House
by JB Williams
What are corrupt Chicago buddies and political offices for if you can’t profit by them? Mayor Daley established this rule of Chicago politics long ago, didn’t he? Unfettered leftist control of the United States cost Obama a mere $700 million in highly suspect campaign contribution from undisclosed foreign donors. Obama’s old senate seat won’t bring in that kind of cash, but it’s worth something. Right? The AP reports, Ill. Gov. arrested in Obama successor probe. For what? Just trying to cash in on appointing Obama’s senate replacement? Since when is private profiteering from political corruption a crime in Democratic politics, especially in Chicago? FBI investigators allege that Chicago is “the most corrupt system in American politics.” No – duh!

Unrecognized by Americans majorities - domestic and international threats will change our country forever (blame the media) – Part One
by Vincent Gioia
Our public education system is in shambles because the government and teacher unions have been able to dictate how and what school children are taught and through politically correct laws and coercive union membership practices have developed huge treasuries to buy legislative, executive and judicial power. Higher levels of education are swarming with academics who consider their main function is to instill political ides of their own in young people not sophisticated enough to understand truth and distinguish un-American propaganda from ideals that made our country great.

Unrecognized by Americans majorities - domestic and international threats will change our country forever (blame the media) – Part Two - Islam
by Vincent Gioia
The people in any country are only able to protect themselves and assure their freedom if they are aware of what is going on that affects them. Knowledge of current events was difficult to obtain two hundred years ago when the United States was created but nonetheless early Americans realized the importance of keeping everyone informed so they built into the Constitution a safeguard for freedom of expression which is acknowledged in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. So important was this idea that the founders made it the first basic right to be preserved.

FactCheck.org Good Enough for the Supreme Court and MSM - Why Not You?
by JB Williams
Once again, the United States Supreme Court has decided that Article II – Section I of the Constitution, which establishes very specific eligibility requirements for anyone seeking the office of President, has no meaning in 2008. As reported by the Washington Post, the Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obama Nationality Case. They forgot to say, again... Despite numerous cases filed in numerous courts across the country, some of which include sworn affidavits from Obama family members who swear he was born in Kenya, the fact that numerous well respected forgery experts have claimed that the COLB posted on Obama’s web-site is a fraud, the fact that Obama by his own accounts, was a citizen of Indonesia...

12/07/08

Supreme Court to Uphold or Ignore the Constitution? Obama’s Eligibility in Doubt
by JB Williams
The Supreme Court of the United States of America has but one primary obligation to the American people, and that obligation is to use the power afforded it under Article III – Section I of the Constitution, to uphold, protect and preserve the U.S. Constitution, the Charters of Freedom, and provide equal justice for all, without regard to personal political leanings or ambitions. If the Supreme Court refuses to take up the issue of Obama’s eligibility, which is indeed in reasonable doubt as evidenced by numerous legal challenges filed across the country, the court will be demonstrating that when push comes to shove, they are not willing to execute their primary function of upholding the people’s charters of freedom. They will have rendered themselves irrelevant.

12/6/08

Is There Not a Single Capitalist Left in Washington DC?
by JB Williams
Every passing day brings more news of more financial bailout requests and more congressional promises for more taxpayer funded bailouts. It’s as if the concepts of freedom and capitalism have gone completely missing in Washington DC today. What started a few weeks ago as a $70 billion dollar mortgage crisis (caused by congressional Democrats) has fast become a multi-trillion dollar international disaster that crosses all industry boundaries. According to the same illustrious leaders in Washington DC who caused all of it to begin with, only printing more play money and putting American taxpayers even deeper in multi-generational debt, is the solution.

12/4/08

The Federal Reserve Bank – it’s not what you think (Part One – a bit of history)
By Vincent Gioia
To begin with, the Federal Reserve is a private company of bankers with twelve branch banks that confiscate our money and they have been doing this for almost a hundred years. They are not part of the United States government but they collect hundreds of billions of dollars, sometimes trillions, from the American taxpayers every year. In Part Two of this series I will tell you who owns the Federal Bank – you will be surprised. As we examine the Federal Reserve System, we should recall what banker Meyer Rothschild said: “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes its laws.”

The Federal Reserve Bank - it's not what you think (Part Two - who owns the bank?)
by Vincent Gioia
Representative Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency for 12 years is quoted in the Congressional Record as saying: “The Federal Reserve Board, ..., has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt...Our people's money to the extent of $1,200,000,000 has within the last few months been shipped abroad to redeem Federal Reserve Notes and to pay other gambling debts of the traitorous Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks …"

Obama The Trojan Horse
by Joan Swirsky
In Virgil’s epic poem, the Aeneid, the story is told of Odysseus’s plot to conquer Troy, thus ending 10 years of defeat for the Greeks. The colossal ruse of the Trojan Horse – which resulted in the downfall of the great and mighty city of Troy – is similar to the ruse that increasing numbers of Americans believe Barack Obama has effected with his election to the presidency, specifically that the “warriors” of his campaign – including his longtime radical associates, a leftist media and a now-silenced conservative media, as well as far-left organizations like ACORN, et al. – have fooled a largely-gullible electorate into believing that the man who offered “hope” and “change” meant something quite different than they were led to believe.

Chambliss Victory Refutes Public Break With Conservatism
by Christopher G. Adamo
Georgia voters validated the Reaganite template for victory once again on December 2. In a runoff election for Senate, incumbent Saxby Chambliss won handily over Democrat challenger Jim Martin, with an advantage of nearly fifteen percent. How could this be? Republicans, and particularly conservatives, we are incessantly told, have been politically exiled since 2006 and are in complete disrepute these days. More often than not, Chambliss is considered a reliable conservative. Worse yet, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whom the media characterizes as a political pariah, vigorously and visibly supported him, especially in the last few days of his runoff campaign.

Why the POTUS Needs to Be a Natural-Born Citizen
by Frank Salvato
The Founders and Framers were incredibly intelligent people. In fact, they operated, intellectually, at a grade 24 level, grade 12 equating to the senior year in high school. Therefore, it shouldn't come as any surprise that each Article and Amendment – each tenet – in The Charters of Freedom was painstakingly examined, debated, reviewed and, finally, included. Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution – the Article that clearly states the qualifications for holding the office of President of the United States – is no different.

Socialism has been tried here before, and failed
by Vincent Gioia
The memoirs of Plymouth governor William Bradford describe the first attempt of socialism in North America; unfortunately if President Obama follows through with his campaign slogans we will experience this again, and with the same result. Bradford's historical accounts describe failed economic practices that are similar to the “spread the wealth” idea expressed by Obama. The members of the Plymouth colony arrived in the New World with a plan for collective property ownership which reflected the views of the aristocratic class in the 1620s, similar to today’s elitists.

11/29/08

The Blood of Patriots and Tyrants
by JB Williams
On October 31, 2006, I released a column titled When 51-49 becomes 49-51 in which I stated, “Nearly every American senses a horrific problem on the horizon. But due to massive amounts of disinformation, few know the cause or can see what, if anything, to do about it.” Four days later, American voters tossed Republicans from congressional power and handed both houses of congress back over to Democrats, who had previously controlled them for forty years. Americans overlooked the reality that most of what has gone wrong in America over the last one hundred years went wrong while Democrats controlled congress.

President-elect Barack Obama will hasten America’s decline
by Vincent Gioia
American voters were faced with Hobson’s choice in this election as far as global warming was concerned. McCain the loser was on board for many years with the false notion that humans can affect climate change. The country elected as the next president someone who harbors the same or more extreme views on the subject. Since Democrats envision an all powerful government with greater control, it is not surprising that President Barack Obama will carry the torch for this phony ideology to new heights. So there is no doubt where the incoming president will lead us, this is what Obama has said: "Few challenges facing America -- and the world -- are more urgent than combating climate change." Apparently Obama fears global warming more than other conditions facing the United States.

It’s Not the Cold War
By Mark Steyn
When terrorists attack, media analysts go into Sherlock Holmes mode, metaphorically prowling the crime scene for footprints, as if the way to solve the mystery is to add up all the clues. The Bombay gunmen seized British and American tourists. Therefore, it must be an attack on Westerners! Not so, said Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria. If they’d wanted to do that, they’d have hit the Hilton or the Marriott or some other target-rich chain hotel. The Taj and the Oberoi are both Indian owned, and popular watering holes with wealthy Indians.

America Will Suffer Under The Obama Administration
by Christopher G. Adamo
The rude awakening is already beginning among those Obama supporters who expected any real “change” from this candidate. Other than his ability to fool some with smooth talk, the political renewal into which they were inspired to invest so much “hope” has thus far manifested itself as a reemergence of a bunch of Clinton era retreads who are already laying out plans to bring back the good ol’ days of liberal cronyism and chaos.

When a hockey stick not a hockey stick
by Vincent Gioia
To many of us a hockey stick is just a hockey stick; not so to the religious fanatics of global warming. So good has been the global warming propaganda invented by Al Gore and dutifully repeated by the environmental lobby and leftist press that it is heresy to challenge the accepted dogma that human activity is warming the planet and will cause the planet’s destruction if left uncontrolled.

A Cornucopia of Gratitude
by Frank Salvato
As we enter the holiday season we will begin to hear a lot about kindness and appreciation. Sure, there will be the mental midgets who need to take issue with holiday displays and transmitted sentiments (we should really pity their stunted intellect as they celebrate their generic event) but for the most part we will begin to hear quite a bit about giving thanks, peace on earth, goodwill, brotherhood, sharing and sacrifice. This is the season of hope and while certain political opportunists incessantly try to franchise that word, for all their efforts, they are included in this joyous season as well.

2008 The Age of Arrogant Ignorance
by JB Williams
In the months leading up to the 2008 election, as it became painfully clear that America was preparing to elect the most unqualified Commander-in-Chief ever to seek the Oval Office, I jokingly pondered how many current members of congress could pass a basic civics test. Then 52% of Americans cast their ballot for a man who has done absolutely nothing to qualify himself for the highest office in the land and America’s mass ignorance was coming into focus. Two weeks after the election, we now have more valuable insight into the intelligence of the average American and it seems to confirm the world wide notion that Americans are the dumbest people on the planet.

Another United Nations intrusion on our sovereignty if Barack Obama has his way
by Vincent Gioia
Recently I pointed out the danger looming ahead for the United States as the White House and congress are controlled by Democrats that will result from reconsideration of previously rejected treaties. It is startling how little attention is paid by the public to what will happen to our freedom if these treaties are signed by President Obama and ratified by the Senate. Even the few responsible media ignore this danger and fail to inform Americans... Although each of the international treaties avoided until now are important, few will have the far reaching affect on Americans as the “U.N. Treaty on Children’s Rights.” Behind this fine-sounding treaty lurks the most intrusive penetration of American ideals and lives and recasting the relationships between parents and their children. This is no exaggeration.

Obamessiah to Usher in New Era Of Global Equality
by JB Williams
For 232 years, free market America has been the undisputed leader of the free world, the shining beacon of individual liberty known for the most productive, prosperous, powerful, yet the most caring and generous people on earth. In 2008, 52% of American voters decided that America’s global dominance in all areas must end in the name of “fairness” and “equality.” What Just Happened? First, it didn’t “just happen.” It has been slowly happening for almost one hundred years now. Barack Hussein Obama is not the main problem. He is only a glaring symptom of a much greater problem in 21st century America. From the moment we started defining Americans in socio-economic classes, voting blocs instead of individuals, we were already on the path to self-destruction.

Please, look at the facts before it’s too late – we are not causing the planet to warm
by Vincent Gioia
In a recent issue of my local newspaper there was an article coauthored by a “field organizer” for Greenpeace entitled “Reduce warming while kick-starting the U. S. economy.” One author was an unimpressive councilman who now shows he is an unimpressive critic of the laws of physics. The coauthor is a Greenpeace field organizer, what more need be said; Greenpeace would have the world shut down for the good of humanity and for the planet. Alarmist articles of this type are long on “concern” about planet warming and inevitably short on reason why we should believe global destruction is just round the corner unless we all accept draconian changes to our life style and put our faith and future in government’s hands.

A Surge to Wipe Out Pirates of the Horn
By Everett Pyatt
Last night the Indian Navy Ship Tabar struck a long overdue blow for freedom of the seas by sinking a pirate mother ship in the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden. At last, the pirates will know that the hijacking party has been crashed. Some are questioning whether the Tabar acted in self-defense. Ridiculous, they acted in the cause of law and order in support of freedom - a much higher calling. Perhaps this event will shake other nations out of their unwillingness to address the threat and put together a meaningful military force to eliminate these nautical terrorists who prefer to call themselves businessmen. They make the Mafia look like kindergarteners.

Tearing down crosses and making threats does not change minds
by Vincent Gioia
Every generation or so complains about how the next generation is changing our lives, the country, etc. We are experiencing such an era of change now. I’m not referring to the political changes we may expect under President Obama and the elected Democrat majorities in Congress, I believe we need to also focus on the changes in personal behavior and hate as we witnessed in Palm Springs when a mob of homosexuals and their supporters overcame an old woman carrying a cross because in their view religion, especially Christianity, cannot be tolerated if it interferes with their agenda.

The Great Birth Certificate Scandal-Cover-Up of the 2008 Election
by Joan Swirsky
This week, newscasters reported that al Qaeda’s #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. “The report has not been confirmed by the State Department,” they all said, but they reported it anyway. Last week, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron told viewers that three “anonymous” insiders of Sen. McCain’s campaign said that Sarah Palin was, in essence, a diva and a dunce. Contrast these shabby examples of “journalism” with the legions of identifiable, verifiable and credible sources who for months have been investigating the disturbing allegation that Barack Obama is ineligible for the presidency... What follows is a partial list of people and organizations that have challenged Obama’s eligibility. Further on I will comment on how egregious the media’s failure to cover this story has been. And last, I will speculate on the reason for the cover-up of this full-blown scandal.

Buying Soiled Underwear
by Paul R. Hollrah
For more than a year the American people have been tortured, ad nauseum, with the Obama campaign theme, “Change We Can Believe In.” Republicans… and a few curious Democrats… have asked to be enlightened on the exact meaning of that theme, but to no avail. Their inquiries have been met either with stony silence or meaningless platitudes… most equating to whatever is the anti-Bush theme of the day in Democratic circles. But now that Obama is the presumptive president-elect we’ll very soon get to see exactly what he meant.

Tennis Shoes and Stolen Toilets - Russia's military 'renaissance.'
by Reuben F. Johnson
In 1976, when Soviet fighter pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West in his MiG-25, his U.S. debriefers discovered (along with a trove of Soviet secrets) a military man with a life's accumulation of grievances against the Soviet system. Even at the height of Moscow's power, Belenko told them, the political leadership could not properly provide for its soldiers, sailors, and airmen, who often lived in squalid conditions with almost no means of entertainment or diversion. But the main source of Belenko's alienation was what he described as the Communist party's penchant for "trying to repeal the laws of nature by decree." In the case of his MiG‑25, this translated into the impossible task of being ready to take on the latest U.S. military aircraft in an airplane that still used vacuum-tube technology.

Giving Marriage Back to the Church
by Frank Salvato
Across the country the issue of “gay marriage” is being debated, examined, voted on and legislated. Groups, both pro and con, have taken to the streets from Massachusetts and Connecticut to both ends of California to express their support and opposition to legislating finality to this issue. While the answer to this ideological impasse may indeed come from legislation, it may come in an unexpected form and require those on both sides of the issue to dial back on their own self-importance.

The Narrow Path To Reviving Conservatism
by Christopher G. Adamo
In their typically duplicitous fashion, Republican “moderates” who orchestrated this latest electoral catastrophe are once again blaming the lingering vestige of conservatism in the McCain campaign as the factor that ultimately doomed its prospects. This forked-tongue political ploy is certainly nothing new, but instead represents the standard tactics of the Republican moderates whenever they assert their presence within the Party. Move to the left, attempt to be as much like the Democrats as possible (ostensibly at a lower cost), and then blame conservatism when voters reject the scam.

Al Qaeda Already Baiting Obama!
by JB Williams
Unlike previous election cycles in which Osama Bin Laden made pre-election miscalculations and tried to sway American voters into tossing arch-enemy George W. Bush from office, Al Qaeda leadership remained largely silent as the world awaited the media promoted election of Barack Hussein Obama. However, once it became clear that their wishes for a new American regime would be granted, Al Qaeda wasted no time setting their sites on the new American president-election, refering to him as a “murtad,” anyone who leaves Islam and becomes a "traitor" to it through their new beliefs or actions, the penalty for which is death.

Who Killed the Automobile Industry?
by Paul R. Hollrah
If we look outside our windows we can see very quickly that almost every aspect of our daily lives is somehow dependent on trucks and automobiles. So how could such a large and vital industry die, and who would want to kill it? The death of the American automobile industry began in 1954 with the Phillips Petroleum v. Wisconsin (347 U.S. 672) decision of the United States Supreme Court. In that momentous decision, the Court ruled that natural gas producers that sold natural gas into interstate pipelines fell within the definition of “natural gas companies” in the 1938 Natural Gas Act and, as such, were subject to price regulation by the Federal Power Commission.

Not Conservative Enough?
by JB Williams
Under the myopic mantra of “not conservative enough,” the nation just rejected its best known American hero and real Washington watch-dog and elected the most inexperienced far left freshman member of the U.S. Senate, aka the elitist good ole boy network, as Commander-in-Chief. Despite the fact that John McCain has a history of being “conservative” on 16 of 20 national issues (80%), according to too many “conservatives,” he was not conservative enough to gain their support in the 2008 general election, even after bringing conservative Washington outsider Sarah Palin aboard.

Will we continue to be able to say 'being born an American is to win first prize in the lottery of life?'
by Vincent Gioia
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, when “the sun never set on the British Empire”, Rudyard Kipling noted that "to be born an Englishman is to win first prize in the lottery of life." Americans could say the same thing for centuries but will that continue to be true in the future? Everyone can decide for themselves what will be the cause of Americans inability to consider having won the first prize in the lottery of life but for me it will be the growing demand for social justice.

Heads to Roll at RNC, Who will Lead Party Reform?
by JB Williams
Unlike their united active counter-parts across the aisle, Republicans have not been known for their political activism since they tossed tea into the Boston harbor. That will have to change! Now that it’s clear to everyone in the free world that the Republican Party national leadership is indeed out of touch with rank and file Republicans across the country and unable to defeat even the most unqualified and inexperienced Democrat candidates on the national stage, heads must roll and they will.

The Grim Significance of the 2008 Elections
by Christopher G. Adamo
Perhaps the most disheartening reaction to the November 4 election of Barack Obama has been the attempt by conservatives to laud his victory as some sort of worthy racial milestone in American history. This lame effort to find conciliatory ground with the far left will ultimately prove futile. Worse yet, it lends an air of credibility to a malignant and corrupt political machine that threatens the very future of America and thus deserves no such tribute.

Understanding the Concept of Reform
by Frank Salvato
Country first. It’s a great concept and one that has been – for all practical purposes – lacking inside the beltway since before the advent of the spin doctor. Truthfully, both major political parties and their elected and appointed leadership have been delinquent in executing the spirit of “country first.” Both have placed the health of their respective political parties before good government and their quest for political power above the needs and demands of their constituents and the good of the nation. Both should be admonished for violating their oaths and betraying the American people.

NO Auto Industry 'Bailout!' - Decisions Have Consequences
by JB Williams
American auto makers have not been competitive with foreign car makers for decades. All three major U.S. auto makers have been on the ropes for more than 40 years now and all three have received tax-payer funded government bailouts in the past. From the moment that corrupt labor unions took over control of the U.S. auto industry, the end of that industry was certain. Like all other manufacturing industries that have already left America for “free-market” havens, the auto industry must leave now too. Unless that is, it is prepared to reform itself to a “free-market” industry capable of competing with the world on the basis of “value.”

Martin Luther King’s Nightmare
by Paul R. Hollrah
All over America, in city after city, African Americans stood in line for hours, anxious to cast their votes for a man based on little more than the color of his skin. They would tell us, I’m sure, that they voted for him because of the “hope” he offered and the “change” he promised. But ask them what hopes he inspired and what positive change he might bring and they would be unable to answer. Apparently unable to figure out for themselves that an Obama presidency promised only more of the “soft bigotry of lowered expectations” that American leftists have offered for generations, their long lines took on a carnival atmosphere… much as if they were awaiting the reading of a rich uncle’s last will and testament.

The worse is yet to come under President Barack Obama
by Vincent Gioia
Until now most attention to a Barack Obama presidency has focused, rightfully, on the likely socialist policies to be enacted during the next four years. Opponents have unsuccessfully tried to inform Americans about changes in the tax law to “spread the wealth” from the so-called “wealthy” to lower income voters. Though under the current “progressive” tax system this already occurs; President Obama will enshrine and expand the tax policy toward the Marxist ideal. Other government policy and laws that will diminish our rights and increase government control have also been discussed by many but have fallen on deaf ears as the public focused more on rhetoric and style rather than substance.

True Patriots Put Country First
by Nancy Salvato
Sometimes, I find it hard to stomach reading the headlines in my preferred publication of choice, the New Media Journal. I just finished an article reporting that Osama Bin Laden is planning on attacking the U.S. again --real soon. It’s hard to believe 7 years have passed since our hijacked planes were flown into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. It almost seems surreal. However, we must remember that the terrorists who would do us harm do not adhere to commonly accepted timetables, do not fight a conventional war, do not distinguish between military or civilians, and are not affiliated with any one country. And any westerner or infidel is considered fair game for their next atrocity.

Obama to re-instate the Draft
by JB Williams
Obama is touting an armed “national civilian security force” to rival the U.S. military and mandatory community service” for all children. Obama’s paid “digital brown-shirts” dominated the internet throughout the 2008 election cycle silencing or countering all anti-Obama news stories, often before they even came out, resulting in the election of a man people know literally nothing about. A sense of civic duty and voluntary civil service has always been a good American idea. Involuntary service forced at gun-point, is something quite different.

I am proud to be a conservative
by Vincent Gioia
When Barak Obama and his people take over the White House all the “B”, “H” and “O” s will still remain on the key boards; this is both a strength and weakness of conservatives. Unlike the Clinton team, those in the Bush Administration will not trash the White house before leaving nor will they take everything not nailed down. With few exceptions conservatives are people who play by the rules, respect property and rights of others and do not resort to tricks and fraud to succeed.

We’re ALL Democrats Now! With New Rules of Engagement
by JB Williams
The 2008 election is over and a new American era is on the way. The representative republic is on life support and we are operating, as Thomas Jefferson put it, as a democracy, “nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” The 63 million Americans, who voted for Barack Hussein Obama, believe it is “their time” to “make history” and “change America” from the land of the free and home of the brave it has been for 232 years, to something that has failed repeatedly all over the globe.

America The Beautiful
by Joan Swirsky
For nearly two years, our electorate has watched and listened as the candidates presented their versions of the American Dream, explained or rationalized their past and current associations, and defended their stupefying verbal gaffes. Like other conservatives, the American Dream I prefer is about small government, low taxes, a free-market economy, domestic-energy independence, a judiciary that strictly interprets the Constitution, and value for the life of the unborn. But the American electorate strangely opted for a candidate who touts big government, high-taxes, strict curbs on domestic drilling (and the destruction of the coal industry), leftwing Supreme Court justices in the mold of Ginsburg and Stewart, and a remarkable distain for the value of in-utero infants.

2008 Election Aftermath: Rethinking The ‘Big Tent’
by Christopher G. Adamo
As a result of this week’s elections, the Republican minority caucus in the United States Senate currently represents the sole remnant of a “firewall” against an uncontrolled implementation of the liberal agenda. With less than a sixty-vote Democrat majority needed to force a vote on any issue, a Republican filibuster is the only means by which the left can be stalled from its overarching and despotic expansion of government intrusion into the lives of the citizenry. So if the filibuster is the only manner in which Republicans can exercise opposition to the left, it should be enthusiastically touted and employed as such.

Will Republicans Have the Courage to Hit the Reset Button
by Frank Salvato
So, the voters of the United States have spoken. They have chosen – or we have chosen because it is important to treat the presidency with respect, something the Progressive-Left wouldn’t have understood until now – a 47-year old multiracial man, who had a decidedly “Progressive” upbringing, who taught community activist organizations to pressure financial institutions into embracing bad business practices, whose records when in the Illinois Senate were destroyed and who started campaigning for the presidency almost from the beginning of his US Senate career. Congratulations, President-Elect Obama. You pulled off.

The Oath of a Citizen
by Nancy Salvato
The United States of America has in one fell swoop rejected the status quo and elected the first black president. Now that the minorities in this country have seen one of their own elected to the highest office in the land, hopefully we can finally put the race issue to bed and discontinue the Balkanizing of America. Although we have our differences, these differences should not be what identify us. There should not be a hyphen in front of or behind the word American. Profiling should be left to those who investigate crime.

2008 Election Tests American People more than Candidates
by JB Williams
As with every election, all of the emphasis is placed upon the candidates and the campaign promises they will soon break. But in America, where the people are the government, either the problem or the solution to every challenge, the outcome of an election tells us much more about the people than about the candidates. Politicians are pander-bears. To win elections and gain power, they must assess what it is the people want to hear and pander to that will. Whichever candidate best assesses and panders to the will of the majority wins power. It’s little more than a beauty contest at the end of the day.

I am sorry for what has happened to Americans
by Vincent Gioia
This is a very sad election; not only because the most liberal senator ever elected to office may become president, but because of what this says about Americans. Those victimized by Nazi rule in Germany and others appalled by the horror may wonder how someone like Adolph Hitler could come to power and receive the support of so many average Germans. Documentaries frequently feature film of the Hitler days showing huge crowds yelling and waiving support for the most fiendish world leader in thousands of years; an amazing sight.

The End of the Culture War
by Paul R. Hollrah
In a September 8, 2008 article in The American Thinker, titled, “The Culture War’s Decisive Battle has Begun,” Herbert E. Meyer describes, clearly and succinctly, the opposing sides in the culture war that has dominated American politics for decades. He begins with the observation that, in every war, there is a decisive battle… a battle that does not end the war but which, from the perspective of history, is the moment at which one side’s ultimate victory – and the other side’s defeat – is sealed.

The Constitution, Two Candidates & An Election
by Nancy Salvato
We are presently witnessing an historic event during this 2008 presidential election. On the one hand, we could see the first female vice president resulting from the vote. On the other hand, we may find that we have elected our first black president. Either way, a glass ceiling will have been broken, heralding in a new era in our history. Many challenges had to be met before a moment like this could take place, beginning with the creation of a written constitution which reflected an entirely new understanding about government. I’m not talking about federalism or the idea that democracy could be scalable. What I’m referring to is the idea that there can be “conflict in consensus.”

Former Ron Paul Senior Aide & Bob Barr backer, makes plea to Libertarians to back McCain/Palin
by Eric Dondero
I have been a lifetime Libertarian Party activist, for over 25 years. I've served in numerous capacities, including on the Libertarian National Committee, as a Libertarian State Rep. candidate, and as Ron Paul's Personal Travel Aide in his 1988 Libertarian Presidential campaign. I've also served as Ron Paul's Congressional Campaign Coordinator and as his Senior Congressional Aide for 7 years, 1997-2004.

Gun Sales Are Up . . . Americans Are Starting To Get It
by John Longenecker
Americans are getting that it’s not about Guns, it never was. No, It's about Independence, citizen authority, and the realization that we are actually on our own. More than ever before, Americans feel their Independence is threatened like never before. 2008 was (is) a memorable year for experiencing Big Government, and for the first time, tens of millions of Americans are experiencing the very kind of forecast 80 million gun owners have warned about. Buying guns is a powerful sign that non-gun owner Americans now see this finally as it all relates to their homes and loved ones.

Just Too Much Obama Didn’t Know!
by JB Williams
How many ill-fated stories do we have to hear about Obama’s numerous character flaws or how he conveniently overlooks the most obvious evils in his laundry list of dirty life-long associations before we conclude that this guy is in no way suited for a leadership role even at the lowest levels of society? His selective memory is frightening at best.

Propaganda... The Marketing Of Politics
by Tom Smisek
I am reading an interesting book; Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War by Aristotle A. Kallis. As a student of both marketing and the Second World War, this subject greatly interests me. Why are we addressing WWII Propaganda? Because we are experiencing the greatest example of modern day propaganda of our time. There are uncanny parallels with 1930 - 40's Germany and the political process in our country today! Like the "sheep" in Germany, Americans have been force-fed the party line and they follow. Of course you must now know I am talking about left-wing dominated media elite who has inundated the airwaves and print media with pro Obama rhetoric.

Obama’s Contempt for the U.S. Constitution
by Joan Swirsky
On February 10, 2007, Senator Barack Obama stood outside the Old State Capitol building in Illinois and announced his intention to run for the presidency. In responding to disparagement from his opponents about the three years he spent as a community organizer in Chicago, Obama explained – with startlingly unselfconscious narcissism – that it was a good preparation for the top job in the world because it helped in “understanding where I'm coming from, who I believe in, who I'm fighting for and why I'm in this race.”

The 'Social Justice' of the Marxist Messiah
by Alexander LaBrecque
Just seven years after the 9/11 attacks, half the nation’s voters and myriads of registrants who do not exist will vote in the presidential election for a Marxist whose political career was created by domestic terrorists and financed by Islam. Days before the election, the stealth candidate boasts that his campaign is on the verge of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” In defiance of the US Constitution, the change he seeks to impose would forever change America from being the nation of liberty the Founders intended it to be.

YOU could be Funding the Obama Campaign?
by JB Williams
Among the many unasked and, thus, unanswered questions swirling around the most secretive presidential campaign in history, is the question of where that mountain of Obamessiah money is coming from? Barack Obama has raised more than $600 million thus far in his campaign! That explains why he reneged on his campaign pledge to use public funding like John McCain. He raised a reported $150 million just last month, mostly in small donations from undisclosed online donors.

This Is What a Vote for Obama Gets You
by Frank Salvato
I live in Illinois, just outside of Chicago. I live in the state that incubated the political career of Barack Obama and for that, as a resident of the State of Illinois and a conservative, I apologize. But this puts me in a unique position to afford you a glimpse of things to come for our nation should Barack Obama attain the Oval Office, and especially if Democrats maintain or increase their control in Congress. I present to the citizens of the United States the State of Illinois; a working model that illustrates the consequences of a government run by the Progressive-Left.

Could Obama be a Fabian Socialist? Part Two
by Sandra Carney
The early Fabians like most self proclaimed intellectuals, loved symbolism. They chose the tortoise as their emblem, signifying the slow but persistent progression towards their eventual goal. The stained glass door of the Fabian Society was designed by George Bernard Shaw . On the right pane the world is on an anvil and George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb are hitting it with hammers so as to change it! CHANGE does that remind us of somebody?

Will Fabian Obama Compromise America’s Independence? Part Three
by Sandra Carney
In the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx argued for the abolition of the nation state: “The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.” Do Fabians support these ideas of abolishing countries and nationality? At the behest of the Fabian Sydney Webb, Leonard Woolf (husband of Virginia Woolf) published his book “International Government” which is one of the foundational documents of the twentieth century’s elitist push towards Global Governance. Are we going to be subservient to the United Nations? Does Barack Obama believe in an independent USA? Do we want non elected bureaucrats such as the European Union Commissioners dictating to U.S. citizens?

Pork Bomb
by Aaron Velasquez
I read a few years ago that the Israeli Army was considering using pigs instead of dogs as guard animals for settlements and borders (The Independent, 29 October 2003). Sadly, the brass decided against the idea. Imagine guarding your border with an animal that the enemy not only regards as unclean, but is also afraid to touch. The First Indian War for Independence was precipitated in 1857 by the refusal of Muslim Indian conscripts to handle ammunition which was lubricated with pork fat. The men were unable to handle pork, literally and figuratively. I propose that we in the West change our tactics. Let's quit trying to blow these guys up. Let's stop trying to reason with them. Instead, let's defile them with something we have lots and lots of.

THE GREAT OBAMA SWINDLE OF 2008
by Raymond S Kraft
I have become 100% convinced, to a moral certainty, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Barack Obama is not only not a "natural born citizen" as required by the US Constitution to be president, but that he was not even born in the USA, not born in Hawaii, probably in Kenya, never naturalized. If he is elected, he will be the UnConstitutional President from the moment he takes the oath of office, the first president who is not a citizen of the United States. He may even be an illegal alien, if he was born in Kenya and has never become a naturalized citizen.

Not Your Grandfather’s Democrats!
by JB Williams
There are only three types of Obama – Biden supporters and the evidence is now conclusive that none of them are your grandfather’s Democrats! 1. The hate-filled anti-American Democratic Socialist base of today’s DNC. 2. Folks that still vote Democrat because their grandfather did. 3. Folks who watch too much left-wing television. In the last couple weeks, Obama has let the cat out of the bag. His life-long mentoring from communist community organizers like Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, Williams Ayers and Rev. Wright is out in the open.

Joe, The Water Well Driller - An Open Letter To Obama
by Cory Miller, owner of C. Miller Drilling Co.
Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already have started not one, but 4 businesses. But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me "Cory the well driller". I am a 54 year old high school graduate. I didn't go to college like you, I was too ready to go "conquer the world" when I finished high school. 25 years ago at age 29, I started my own water well drilling business at a time when the economy here in East Texas was in a tailspin from the crash of the early 80's oil boom.

Joe The Plumber’s Audacity To Hope
by Christopher G. Adamo
It is a safe bet that Barack Obama will never again engage “Joe the Plumber” or anyone like him in a discussion of policy without “preconditions.” Some things are just too dangerous to the future of liberal America to be left to chance. On October 12 Joe, a real American with legitimate concerns for his future and his country, questioned Obama as to why the Democrat Presidential wannabe would see fit to punish Joe for establishing a successful business. Since then Democrat political attack dogs and their media minions have not stopped delving into any and every aspect of Joe’s life, in a desperate effort to cloud and eventually erase the real significance of Joe’s encounter with Obama from the minds of the American people, hopefully before it influences their voting decisions.

Obama Supporters Never Heard of Socialism?
by JB Williams
In response to increasing efforts by local market journalists to ask the questions the national media refuse to ask, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are growing furious at news reporters who have the audacity to label Obama’s socialist “wealth redistribution” campaign as “socialism”... Obama and Biden’s entire campaign is based upon government confiscation and re-distribution of private earned wealth, -“over-taxing those according to their ability; and redistributing confiscated wealth according to politically motivated deceptions of need...”

Campaign (or) Coup d'état - The Obamessiah Movement
by JB Williams
Americans inherently sense that something is horrifically wrong in this election... The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama is a case of truth being stranger than fiction and conspiracy being more than just theory. Hollywood couldn’t write a more intriguing script of crime, corruption, deceit, cover-ups and international intrigue. Obama’s cultish grip on his young ill-educated minions makes Jim Jones and David Koresh look like beginners. A sudden and decisive action in politics, especially one resulting in a drastic change of government illegally, or by force, is a Coup d'état. It’s important to recognize the difference between a “legal” honest, open Democratic campaign for “change” and a corrupt coup d'état.

Did The “Chicago Way” Work for Obama in Hawaii?
by Joan Swirsky
As I speculated in a recent article, Obama had a dual purpose in leaving his campaign for Hawaii. And whaddaya know? His plane had barely touched down from his trip to Honolulu – ostensibly to visit his ailing granny – when the Republican governor of the Aloha State, Linda Lingle, placed his birth certificate under seal, directed the state's Department of Health to bar access of the document to the press, and declared that the only people eligible to obtain it were the person born or someone acting on his behalf, a relative, or a legal guardian.

Obama’s Birth Certificate – Still Missing
by Joan Swirsky
Currently, lawsuits are being filed in nine states – California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington – that are seeking to require Barack Obama to provide Certification of his Birth in the United States, or to be removed or to remove himself from state ballots. Hawaii, the state in which Obama was supposedly born, is seeking judicial authority to force the certifying or decertifying of Obama’s qualification to run as a candidate for President as a natural born U.S. citizen. Previously, two lawsuits have failed to force the certifying documents from Obama.

Article 2, Section 1: Just Words
by Nancy Salvato
In a 1995 Press Release is a statement by the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Deval Patrick (yes, that Deval Patrick -“just words”), on the Appellate Court Ruling upholding the Constitutionality of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (otherwise known as “Motor-Voter” Law), a bill signed into law by then President Clinton. “Today's favorable decision by the Court of Appeals follows similar victories in federal district courts in California and Pennsylvania. The decision sends a clear message that Congress was well within its authority to pass a law making it easier for all Americans to register to vote.

Israel Dodges a Bullet
by Paul R. Hollrah
As the U.S. presidential election grinds slowly toward conclusion, the most significant foreign policy issue of our time… nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue states… rates barely a mention. The Democratic nominee, Barack Hussein Obama, has said that he would meet with friend and foe alike, anywhere, any time, and without preconditions… It represents a recklessness and a naivete that is unparalleled in the post-World War II era and sends shivers up the spine of those who believe that idealists, children, and madmen should not be allowed to play with nuclear weapons.

Sen. Obama, Stand and Deliver!
by Frank Salvato
The recent ruling by the Hon. R. Barclay Surrick dismissing the lawsuit challenging Barack Obama’s citizenship, brought by former Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Democratic county chair Phillip Berg, presents the genesis of a Constitutional Crisis. While Barack Obama’s refusal to satisfy the citizens’ request to validate his citizenship illustrates his unbridled arrogance and that of his campaign and supporters, it also exposes the fact that politics, at the hands of political opportunists and ideologues, has usurped the legitimate execution of the supreme law of the land; the United States Constitution.

America At The Tipping Point In 2008
by Christopher G. Adamo
It is by no means severe to point out that if leftists were wise and rational, they would not be leftists. Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union’s first dictator and an icon of the left, aptly described its devotees as “useful idiots,” owing to their enthusiastic and mindless devotion to causes that invariably would lead to their own destruction. Furthermore, it must be constantly reiterated that such minions only remain “useful” to the leadership as long as they remain, well, idiots.

My Mother’s Birth Certificate – And Obama’s
by Joan Swirsky
Four years ago, when I had just about completed the lengthy legal and financial vetting process required by the U.S. government to place my then-92-year-old-mother in a nursing home, I was asked to produce her birth certificate as “proof” of her citizenship. While she was born in America, had voted in every election for untold decades, and paid her taxes religiously, that wasn’t good enough to qualify my elderly mother –deaf, legally blind, and confined to a wheelchair – to be admitted to the facility I had chosen for her near my home.

Obama Torpedoed, Biden Suspected
by Paul R. Hollrah
In a speech before a Democratic fundraiser in Seattle on Sunday, October 19, vice presidential nominee, Joe Biden, lived up to his well-deserved reputation as a loose cannon.Biden is aware, as are most Americans, that Barack Hussein Obama, is totally unqualified to be President of the United States… and even less qualified to be commander in chief. Those of us who’ve served in the military and who understand military customs and courtesies cannot help but wonder what terrible emotional conflict our active duty military personnel will suffer if, by some stretch of the imagination, Barack Obama becomes their commander in chief.

Another Elephant in the Living Room
by Paul R. Hollrah
In spite of the best efforts of social science teachers over many decades, few Americans understand the purpose or function of the Electoral College. The Founding Fathers had some very specific reasons for creating the Electoral College. Aside from their insistence that the president and vice president be elected by the states… not by the people and not by the state legislatures… their primary concern was that a foreign power might one day attempt to achieve through corruption and political intrigue, that which they could not achieve on the battlefield.

Dear Undecided - Are you Kidding Me?
by JB Williams
The 2008 presidential election will likely go down in history as the most important election of our generation. The two remaining choices have never been more obvious or opposite. Yet many Americans still seem confused about the choice they will make on November 4th. There has never been more at stake than all that is at stake in this particular election. Yet somehow, almost 50% of legal American voters won’t even bother to vote on November 4th, millions of illegal voters will try to vote, and the balance appear evenly divided down the line that separates “Traditional Americanism” from “Socialized Globalism.”

Obama’s Religious Ruse: 'I’ve Always Been a Christian' Part 1 of 3
by Alexander LaBrecque
Barack Hussein Obama insists that he is a “devout Christian” of “deep faith,” and Big Media echoes his claim without question. Even some critics hesitate to challenge the validity of that claim. The ruse that he is a Christian must be exposed for what it really is: Obama’s cloak to conceal that he is a Marxist from a Muslim background, for which he holds widespread support in the Islamic world. This series of three articles will analyze his exploitation of Christian rhetoric to serve the subterfuge.

Obama’s Religious Ruse: His 'Conversion' Part 2 of 3
by Alexander LaBrecque

During his presidential campaign, Obama the skeptic has touted his Christian identity as defining who he is. After Christians continued to question his faith’s authenticity and evidence of his Muslim background had come to light, the champion of change changed his conversion account and his pandering became uncharacteristically evangelical.

Obama’s Religious Ruse: The Cult of the Marxist Messiah Part 3 of 3
by Alexander LaBrecque
Barack Obama has identified himself with Christianity as a cloak for his political agenda. The founder of community organizing, Saul Alinsky, regarded churches as an ideal vehicle for advancing the Marxist cause. But to have credibility in organizing churches, young Obama needed to join a church. So Bill Ayers’ recruit was sent to Chicago’s Trinity UCC. There he found in Jeremiah Wright a mentor of kindred spirit, obsessed with race and loathing America.

The Hidden Costs of Voting Early
by Nancy Salvato
Voting early in the presidential election? Seems like a great idea to many Americans. For folks who have done their homework and believe themselves absolutely certain that their mind is made up about who they want to win an election, there is probably nothing to lose. For the person who reads all the information available regarding each of the candidates, even an October surprise will likely not come as a surprise. Rather, it will probably validate his or her existing beliefs about who should be our next president.

Obama is Bought, But Who owns Him?
by Paul R. Hollrah
In July, Obama boasted that, as of May 31, his contributor base numbered some 1.5 million people, with one-fourth, or $66.25 million of his $265 million, coming from those contributing $2,000, or more… some 33,200 people. Thus, the remainder, or $198.75 million, came from some 1.47 million people, each contributing $5, $10, $20… or, as Obama assured us, “whatever they could afford.” While it is true that Obama is the kind of guy who could read Bill Clinton’s golf scorecard and make it sound convincing, simple arithmetic should have told him that $198.75 million dollars cannot be contributed by 1.47 million people in “$5, $10, or $20” amounts.

Active Troops Disagree with Powell - Support McCain 3-to-1 Over Obama
by JB Williams
Every American claims to “support the troops,” even those who have actively worked around the clock for years to “undermine the troops.” Over the weekend, the man who recently traveled to the United Nations to lay out a very convincing case against the Hussein regime in Iraq put his race and his personal legacy ahead of his country and our troops by endorsing another Hussein for President of the United States. Colin Powell has never been an honest Republican. He has only been an honest opportunist.

Obama, Alinsky and the Marxist Left
by Vincent Gioia
The importance of this election to all Americans and the future of our country cannot be over stated. The United States has never had the possibility of a virtual Marxist in the oval office before. The Democrat Party has been taken over by the extreme left wing to the extent that earlier Democrats like Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey would not recognize it. The Wall Street Journal ran an article that should scare everyone about what will happen if Obama is elected and Democrats achieve a veto-proof majority in the Senate; it being a foregone conclusion that Democrats will have a majority in the House.

Assassination of Joe the Plumber - Obama’s Thugocracy on Display
by JB Williams
Within hours of Joe the Plumber confronting Barack Obama on his open promise of socialism, Joe the Plumber was viciously thrust onto the international scene, becoming an example of just what happens to any average red blooded American who dares to question the making of the socialist “messiah” Obama. Twenty four hours after Joe made his way through the crowd of Obamabots in front of his home to ask the most relevant question of the 2008 election, he found himself the target of brutal Obama campaign war room character assassins.

From Little ACORNS
by Paul R. Hollrah
Yes, from little ACORNS… Democrats grow. But it remains to be seen whether or not the American people are sufficiently outraged at efforts by the Obama campaign to steal the 2008 presidential election through outright fraud and vote-buying. The far left organization, ACORN, a former Obama client and a favorite Obama “charity,” is now under federal investigation in at least 13 states. After a recent raid on an ACORN office in Nevada, FBI agents found voter registration forms containing the names of the entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.

If the Reagan Era is Dead, Who Killed it?
by Michael Reagan
If you believe Newsweek magazine -- something that usually requires a serious suspension of disbelief -- the Reagan Era is dead. Politico also chimed in, proclaiming the death of the Reagan revolution. Newsweek doesn’t go on to tell you who killed the Reagan Era, so I will. It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan Revolution.

It’s Americanism vs. Socialism on November 4th
by Frank Salvato
At a recent campaign rally, along what is called “the rope line,” Senator Barack Obama was asked a question by a young prospective business owner about taxes and how Obama’s economic plan would affect him, his family and his business. Obama’s response – his unscripted, from the heart, authentic, no-spin, off-the-teleprompter response – was something that would have made Karl Marx proud. Make no mistake, “my friends,” this election is about Americanism vs. Socialism, and little else.

Senator Government? Investors Prepare for 'Change'
by JB Williams
The best line of the night was McCain’s appropriate Freudian slip, referring to Barack Obama as “Senator Government.” That slip put a fine point on what this election is really all about. America’s Founding Fathers were “rich white men.” As such, they designed a nation where intelligent self-reliant individuals would be free to “self-govern.” They designed a nation based upon Judeo-Christian principles of “free will,” in which every individual had the “unalienable right” to Life, Liberty and Economic Freedom, recorded as the “pursuit of happiness.” The land of the free was only for the brave.

Exploding The Myths of 'Predatory Lending'
by Christopher G. Adamo
In a blatant example of political grandstanding rooted in sheer audacity, leaders of the Democrat Party are seeking to gain as much mileage as possible from the nation’s economic woes. Worst of all is that they are doing so by incessantly blaming the situation on such easily refutable bogeymen as “greed on Wall Street” and “predatory lending.” Yet by their nearly hysterical repetitions of these straw dogs, they inadvertently reveal their inherent vulnerabilities on the issue. Sadly, Republicans are still not rising to the challenge of exposing the whole debacle for what it is.

Another step toward socialism and the public doesn’t blink an eye
by Vincent Gioia
Recently I posed the question to economic experts - why the government had to take an equity position in the banks instead of merely lending them the money; none of the experts gave me an answer, nor has anyone else. Now I ask anyone to answer and explain if they can whether there is any reason to do this other than to begin the socializing of America? In true socialist fashion the government with tax payer’s money now nationalizes a huge segment of our economy.

It’s the Voter Fraud Stupid - The Key to Defeating the Liar in 2008
by JB Williams
Obama is leading in every national poll. But in part, that is due to the “weighted average” system used by all pollsters to balance hard survey results with a “weighted” mathematical equation based upon respective DNC and RNC voter rolls. Simply stated, there are more registered Democrats than there are registered Republicans at present. So the poll results are “weighted” by mathematical equation to reflect this reality. However, many of the DNC voter registrants are fraudulent.

Money, Influence and Motive
by Nancy Salvato
I found it absolutely remarkable that George Soros was lampooned in the Saturday Night Live skit, Washington Approves the Bailout. (1) This is because I had previously wondered aloud to my husband my suspicion that there might be more at work than what was being reported around the tanking of the stock market. While I concurred that Fannie May and Freddie Mac contributed to the crisis we currently find ourselves in, I couldn’t help but wonder if the stock market was being manipulated in some other way.

Bridge to Somewhere: My Wish List for a President
by Ercille I. Christmas
We have been on a looooong journey of electing a president of this Republic. The politicians have spoken. They have given us lessons in elocution. They have pontificated. They have sometimes put me to sleep! I feel like a kid on a long drive, asking: “Are we there yet?” We are almost there. It is now my turn to sound off. I have no constituency, but I do know that I speak for a helluva lot of folks. Listen up candidates. Let’s start at the beginning, with the letter “B” – with the word “bridge.”

Just Because He’s Black
by Paul R. Hollrah
In 1938, after receiving a majority vote in the House of Representatives, a bill to outlaw lynching was filibustered by Senate Democrats. One Democrat, Senator Claude Pepper, of Florida, said in the course of a six-hour filibuster, “Mr. President, the crime of lynching… is not of sufficient importance to justify this legislation.” In a 1946 letter to the Grand Wizard of the West Virginia Ku Klux Klan, Democrat Robert C. Byrd, the current President Pro Tem of the United States Senate, wrote, “I am a former Kleagle (recruiter) of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County… The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.

Obama, Acorn & Their Starring Role in the Mortgage Crisis
by Frank Salvato
Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and Progressive-Left operatives – with the help of the mainstream media – have done a great job of spinning culpability for the mortgage crisis onto the Bush Administration, congressional Republicans and, in particular, John McCain. This is a notable moment in the history of political spin because as the facts present, Democrats and Progressive-Leftists – not Republicans –are the ones directly responsible for the current financial crisis in which our country is embroiled. At the center of this culpability are Barack Obama and ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The Sarah Palin Paradigm: Real Change
by Christopher G. Adamo
It is altogether appropriate that last April, when Barack Obama delivered his disparaging commentary in San Francisco about Americans who, in his opinion, “get bitter” and “cling to guns and religion” as a result of hardship, he specifically mentioned the good people of Pennsylvania. It was after all, a past generation of “bitter clingers” in Philadelphia two centuries ago who, looking around them and concluding that “change” was clearly in order, crafted the Declaration of Independence, committing everything they owned to the cause, and asserting a “firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.”

Let the Records Speak for Themselves
by Nancy Salvato
It’s been about two years now that the mainstream media has been reporting on the campaigns to win the 2008 presidential election. Sen. John McCain formed his exploratory committee in November 2006 and Sen. Obama announced his plans for an exploratory committee in January 2007. Both senators announced their candidacies for president in February 2007. The US Senate, where both candidates work, is in session every month of the year except for August. Sen. John McCain has served as a member of the senate since 1993 and Sen. Barack Obama since 2005. Some people might find it relevant that during his entire senate career—which began Jan 6, 2005-- Obama has missed 24% of his votes.

Three of Four Debates in the Books - What Have We Learned?
by JB Williams
Record numbers of American voters tuned in to the three debates, proving only two things. Americans are very concerned about the future of their nation and they want to know more about the two tickets running for the highest office in the land. Despite all of the left-wing efforts to keep American voters in the dark about this election and the truth behind the two people seeking the office of Commander-in-Chief, we have learned a few more important things watching these debates...

Who Did You Know, Sen. Obama, and When Did You Know Them?
by Frank Salvato
There has been much talk, both pro and con, about whether Sen. Barack Obama’s “associations” matter with regard to his qualifications to hold the office of President of the United States. This argument, this avenue of political discourse, misses the point. Whether or not Sen. Obama has associations with criminals, terrorists and other nefarious and infamous individuals pales in comparison as to whether he has been influenced by them.

Palin Hits Obama - Obama Cries Foul
by JB Williams
“McCain would rather tear my campaign down than lift America up! That’s what you do when you are out of ideas, running behind and running out of time!” Barack Obama from the campaign trail Sunday. According to the Obama campaign, Sarah Palin’s first round jabs regarding Obama community organizing pal, political mentor and convicted terrorist William Ayers, are an “unfair attempt” at eleventh hour “character assassination” by a “desperate campaign” running behind late in the game.

When Liberals Care
by Paul R. Hollrah
On Tuesday evening, October 11, 1978, I attended a reception at the International Club in Washington, DC, a reception welcoming Prime Minister Ian Smith, longtime leader of the white minority government in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, described by one Washington newspaper as “the most radical and dangerous of Rhodesia's black nationalist leaders,” who had joined the Smith regime in designing a peaceful transition to majority rule.

Barack Obama's Cop-Killer Supporters
by Jim Kouri
While Barack Obama’s friends and supporters in the news media downplay his friendship and business relationship with former terrorist and Marxist university professor Willam Ayers, one aspect of the Ayers terrorism saga that’s totally ignored is his reputation as a cop-killer. For instance, in Nyack, New York, Ayers’ terrorist group the Weather Underground launched an armored-car robbery that left two Nyack, NY police officers mortally wounded. In addition, the Brinks armored-car driver, Peter Paige was also shot to death by the Weathermen.

Message to McCain: Strap up – You’re at War!
by JB Williams
Those of us who follow American politics closely, knew some time ago that the 2008 election cycle was going to be an all out culture war between Americans who have been trained to see the elitist central power in Washington DC as the socialist solution to every problem, and those who know that the secular socialists running Washington DC today, are the problem.

The Reid-McConnell Bailout Bribe
by Frank Salvato
Let me see if I have this right. We the People express our overwhelming disdain for a government manufactured, taxpayer-funded bailout of semi-coerced greed merchants on Wall Street and the Senate’s answer is to leave the offending legislation intact and entice weak politicians into voting for the package by adding sweetheart tax legislation to it. Can this possibly – in the most incredible of circumstances – be correct?

The bailout for our country is not what it seems
by Vincent Gioia
"Inaction is not an option," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said a few hours before the Senate was to vote. "This is not a bailout for Wall Street. It's a bailout for our country." When someone is unsure about which side to be on concerning controversial issues, it is usually important to see who are the supporters and opponents. This is especially valid when you find those with whom you most always disagree are trying to convince you their side is the right one.

Israel’s October Surprise?
by Paul R. Hollrah
On September 17, Tzipora "Tzipi" Livni was elected to head Israel’s ruling Kadima Party, succeeding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert resigned as party leader after an official investigative ccommission accused him of "serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence" during Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006.

Loose Lips
by Paul R. Hollrah
At a March 3, 2002 Presidential Gala at Ford’s Theater, in Washington, President George W. Bush was seated in the front row. When emcee Kelsey Grammer introduced blind musician Stevie Wonder, the president smiled and raised his right hand in a perfunctory wave. It was clear to those seated nearby that his gesture was intended for Grammer, one of Hollywood’s few unabashed Republicans. Nevertheless, the Washington Post published a story the following day implying that Bush had waved at Stevie Wonder, saying, “The Prez is such a dolt, he waves at blind folks,” and Democrats all across the country repeated the fiction.

Obama advisors received millions of dollars instead of jail terms they deserved
by Vincent Gioia
It used to be when someone stole or embezzled money the amount was usually measured in thousands of dollars but that was before the Clinton years. Since then emboldened thieves protected by the Democrat Party measure their booty in millions and tens of millions. Want some examples, how about the managers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Say NO to Any Bailout
by Rene Guerra
Although 133 Republicans and 95 Democrats listened to us ---We The People--- and voted "NO" on the socialist-monarchical Frankenstein of a $700 billion bailout, 65 spineless Republicans joined 140 Democrats in voting "YES”. Some of the Republicans who voted “YES” are notorious RINOs, however there were also some good ones who, unfortunately, cowered, and rolled over on the dictatorial beck and call from Nancy Pelosi.

Feminists Love Abortion-on-Demand, Hate Sarah Palin
by Joan Swirsky
Why are the retro-feminists in the leftwing media, the National Organization of Women, and the abortion lobby, among other hysterics, militating so violently against Sarah Palin? It’s because they value abortion-on-demand over every other subject on earth.

Democrat Socialist Jujitsu on American Capitalism
by Rene Guerra
The Democrats and the rest of the Left have craftily turned around the blame for something disastrous they caused, via insidiously cunning ways. They, of course, couldn’t have done anything of that without the help of the "mainstream" media, who don't expose the true genesis of the monster that the current financial crisis is.

Guilt by Association? - Or Scumbags of a Feather Sink Together?
by JB Williams
The long list of evil Obama associates seems to grow daily and although Obama has spent the last few years dodging questions, ignoring demands for full open disclosure of his past and making excuses about a plethora of bad associations, one fact seems glaringly obvious... Obama has far more to hide than to share!

Do we really want to socialize our financial system? [Part 1]
by Vincent Gioia
Do we really want to socialize our financial system; because that’s what we will be doing if tax payers bail out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, the auto industry and who knows what else? No one can name one thing government has done that has been successful; and even those things government should handle, like the military, they don’t do as well as they should because of anti-Americans in congress. Why then should we trust the government to spend $750 billion to supposedly “prevent financial collapse?”

Obama’s “Community Organizer” Experience In Perspective
by Christopher G. Adamo
A notion frequently advanced by conservatives during this year’s presidential race is that if elected, Barack Obama would not bring any useful experience to the White House as a result of his sparse political background, including among other dubious roles, that of being a “community organizer.” This idea is wrong in the extreme. As a direct result of his “community organizing” work, Obama garnered a huge store of expertise that promises to be extremely useful in implementing his agenda should he become president. But it is the nature of that agenda, and the means by which he intends to implement it, that should have Americans gravely concerned.

Let’s Blame Barney Frank, Chris Dodd & Bill Clinton
by Frank Salvato
Now I know how Elvis Presley felt when he shot his television! Watching Barney Frank (D-MA) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) pontificate about how they are going to save the country in it’s time of financial crisis made me nauseous. How is it that these two charlatans can fain concern when they are among the principles responsible for getting the taxpayers into this mess?

Time for REAL Change - A Congressional Rich White Guy Caucus?
by JB Williams
All this recent talk about “change” got me thinking.... Maybe the time has come to establish a Congressional Rich White Guy Caucus for the purpose of defending America’s real minority group, taxpayers, currently under constant attack. Rich white guys - that top 5% of American producers that Obama’s leftists want to put out of business, just because they hate freedom, liberty and capitalism, - just because with your help, they can.

Socialism in America is Killing Us
by Dick McDonald
Forget about the increase in socialist policies Barack and the Democrats will usher in if they win in November, America and its economy is running on one cylinder now because of the America public’s lunacy in believing that the Democrats are doing the public good. Those people are socialists and they do no good. Generally, socialists have two problems; they level the playing field by making everyone poor and secondly their leadership is always so corrupt the poor never have a fighting chance to achieve the American Dream.

Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone
by Nancy Salvato
My mother used to say that it’s better to go from being poor to being rich than from having been rich and become poor because you don’t yearn for what you’ve lost. However, my experience has been that if you’ve always been free from want, you might not ever gain an appreciation for what was taken for granted. In any event, it wasn’t until I reached middle age that I began to understand what for me truly constitutes being rich and it wasn’t until 9/11 that I really gave much thought to how quickly it could be taken away.

How did we get in this financial mess?
by Vincent Gioia
What is one of the effects of low interest rates? Putting on my rocket scientist hat I came up with the answer; more people borrow money. So why is it a surprise that banks, who make money by lending, issue more loans and lend money more easily and willingly, including to those who will not be able to pay the loan back? Couple that with a Clinton era policy to make housing more affordable to low income people under his diversity program and you have the financial fiasco we have today.

Palin Phenomenon Accelerates Downfall of Old Media
by Christopher G. Adamo
The 2004 contest between President Bush and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry marked the beginning of the end for the old media monopoly. On the one hand, clumsy media attempts to fabricate a story, complete with phony documents hastily fabricated using modern word-processing software, clearly indicated that CBS bigwig Dan Rather and his minions were stumping for Kerry. Meanwhile, the old media failed miserably in their shameless attempts to discredit the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth.

Obama’s Role in the Economic Crisis The FACTS about More Damn Obama Lies!
by JB Williams
It’s not an easy task to find any Obama accomplishments. But the current banking crisis, driven by bad home mortgage lending policies over the last decade, provides a close up look at Obama’s past economic decision making, which happens to have played a major role in the current collapse of the mortgage and housing industries. In short, though Obama is on the campaign trail blaming the current economic crisis on President Bush and John McCain, it is actually Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus and Democrats who are at the root of today’s financial woes. Facts don’t lie... Politicians do!

McCain or Obama? How About This Referendum...
by Frank Salvato
To say the least, there is quite an ideological and political gulf between John McCain and Barack Obama. So too, is there a great deal of difference between their running mates, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. On just about every issue examined during this interminably long presidential election cycle the two tickets stand miles apart. From taxes to the struggle with radical Islam, energy independence to American sovereignty, McCain and Obama, Palin and Biden, stand diametrically opposed in their approaches to the issues. But one subject seems to be championed by both sides and by all the players, honesty.

Why not use food as leverage for oil?
by Vincent Gioia
Did you know that over the summer Iran bought one million tons of wheat from the United States? It’s been 27 years since Iran bought grain from us. Iran has suffered a very bad drought which reduced their wheat harvest by a third and forced them to look elsewhere to make up the shortfall. The fact that Iran is coming to the U.S. to buy wheat shows they have no where else to go for this commodity. They're searching the world for wheat. They're buying it from the U.S. because it's the only place they can get it right now.

The Mother of all October Surprises . . . by Obama
by Rene Guerra
Never, ever, discount the shrewdness and ruthless of the Left in general, and of Obama and the Clintons in particular. Yes, it may be factually true that the Clintons ---while feigning support for Obama, and even campaigning for him--- might in reality be, at this very moment, sabotaging his campaign to make him lose soundly and have Hillary run in 2012 as the Democrat presidential candidate. However, it may be possible also that they, the Clintons and Obama, could be cooking something shrewder.

Who tried to prevent the collapse of Fannie and Freddie
by Vincent Gioia
When President Bill Clinton took office, Fannie and Freddie were viewed as “key” to Clinton’s plans to expand home ownership. The Washington Post reports: “The result was a period of unrestrained growth for the companies. … The companies increasingly were seen as the engine of the housing boom.” As Fannie and Freddie grew, conservatives repeatedly warned that their size posed a systemic risk to the financial system. As Sarah Palin put it, thanks to the implicit federal guarantee of their debt, Fannie and Freddie had become too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.

What Happened to Hillary?
by JB Williams
I was never a supporter of Hillary Clinton for President. I’m a conservative and aside from her being too far left for my political tastes; the Clintons have far too much corruption on their résumé for me to ever feel good about allowing them ultimate power again. However, I am quite troubled by the fact that a man far less qualified than Hillary was able to upset her juggernaut campaign and become the DNC nominee by less than democratic tactics.

A last look at the Gibson ambush of Sarah Palin
by Vincent Gioia
One way to judge Charlie Gibson’s “interview” with Sarah Palin is to compare how Charlie quizzed Barack Obama and how he used his time with Sarah to try to embarrass her or at least make liberals in his audience understand that McCain’s running mate does not share their leftist’s views. The only similarity in Gibson's approach to Obama and Palin is that Gibson sat face-to-face with both of them.

The World According to Barack – No. 8
by Paul R. Hollrah
September 12, 2008 – In a new attack ad against John McCain, Barack Obama attempts to paint John McCain as being old and out of touch with modern technology. The ad makes the point that McCain first went to Congress in 1982, but then goes on to say, “Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t. He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail…” Of course, the reason that John McCain has never learned how to use a computer is because of his war wounds.

Democrats seek new voter base
by Vincent Gioia
A community organizer (where have we heard that term?), Monica Bell, in Orlando, Florida is signing up new voters but her quarry are not your usual prospective voters. Ms. Bell is looking for former convicts to add to the state’s voter list. Bell has good news for former convicts; Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed into law a bill passed by the Florida legislature restoring voting rights to former convicts, estimated at about 112,000.

Obama Has Issues, And He’s Dead Wrong on All of them!
by JB Williams
This is the problem with blindly entrusting your future to an individual who has accomplished nothing of any consequence in his past. It’s not hope you’re feeling, its euphoric blind faith. As is always the case with career rabble rousers (aka community organizers), the fact that they have never been in the game does not hamper their ability to talk a good game. Obama says that words mean something and without any deeds to talk about, he’s right. However, compared to action and real experience, or in his case a complete lack thereof, empty words mean damn little.

In Palin-Gibson Throwdown, Gov Gets A, Media F
by Joan Swirsky
Charlie Gibson’s interview with Gov. Sarah Palin should be put in a time capsule and saved for future generations to understand why Democrats – in veering far-left during the first eight years of the 21st century – became the extinct dinosaurs of American politics by once again losing their bid for the presidency. There was ABC-TV’s Gibson, looking clinically depressed and speaking in that faux-soft voice people use when trying to suppress their rage, questioning the vice-presidential candidate in all of her youthful, can-do American optimism. What a picture!

The Jihad Candidate
by Rich Carroll
How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as 'chaplains'? Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a 'freedom fighter' when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya's history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa, a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile.

Barry Goldwater is Back in Town
by Paul R. Hollrah
In the wake of the 2006 congressional elections, in which Republicans received a well-deserved drubbing at the polls, Republican members of Congress spent a weekend together at an east coast resort. Either as testament to their mind-numbing political insensitivity, or as a cruel joke on their constituents, they even had the temerity to call their weekend meeting a “retreat.” With the political “earthquake” of 1994, Republicans were given the opportunity for leadership that millions of activists had worked toward since the close of World War II… the opportunity to lead the nation according to time-honored conservative principles.

Obamanomics 101 For Useful Idiots
by JB Williams
Like many other definitions that have been rewritten by left-wingnuts over time, the term “general welfare” no longer means what it did when it was written in our Constitution and ratified by the colonies in 1789. Today’s limousine liberals insist that the term “general welfare” implies a Marxist view that the federal government has the duty and the power to “take from each according to his ability, and give to each according to his need,” - to define and measure out individual well-being against the will of some on behalf of others. This is not only very dangerous to the basic concepts of liberty and freedom; it is diametrically at odds with everything the founders formed.

Palin Attackers Really Aiming At McCain
by Christopher G. Adamo
It is high time that the mask comes off the ugly face of liberalism. Whenever it collides with reality, all those lofty sounding ideals from the left are revealed to be nothing more than empty rhetoric intended to manipulate their “useful idiots” who fulfill the role of expendable foot soldiers. If the mountains of evidence over the past half-century are not sufficient to make this case, the atrocious assaults on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin during the past two weeks ought to be.

Who is اوباما حسين باراك? And Why Won’t the Press Ask?

by JB Williams

A bright young student recently asked me this question in defense of her Messiah, Barack Hussein Obama... “Mr. Williams, my family name is Irish. Does that make me a terrorist member of the IRA?” After pointing out that she had made no effort to hide her ancestry, I answered, “No, but it does make you Irish.” Just because most Americans have never seen his name printed in native Arabic characters, اوباما حسين باراك does not mean that he is not Arab. In fact, his Arab name is at the very least, a strong indication that he may be of Arab descent. Though Obama has built his campaign upon being the first “black” candidate (entirely ignoring the white half of his family tree as if it doesn’t even exist), the questions over whether or not he is African or Arab, Christian or Muslim, seems to have a very simple answer... Yes - all the above!

Hollywood adds its clout to the bash Sarah juggernaut
by Vincent Gioia
To paraphrase Cal Thomas; "What is it about Sarah Palin that has gotten Hollywood’s knickers in a twist?" Annette Benning believes that the selection of Sarah Palin represents "bizarre" politics. She also said "I think it's exciting to see a woman chosen to be on a major ticket. But the idea that people, who voted for Hillary, who tend to be Democrats, would change and vote for McCain because of Sarah Palin seems to me bizarre." Why did Annette Benning find it "bizarre"? Because "Sarah Palin's politics are to the right of McCain's," she explained.

Freddie and Fannie and Are You Mad Too?
by Dick McDonald
A wonderfully colorful conservative website has posted an article that blames the "socialist" monster for creating Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae which were incorporated during America's "communist era" during the reign of FDR. They alert us to the fact that 50% of the mortgages on homes in America are held by these two semi-governmental institutions ($6 Trillion) and that since our annual national budget is only $3.1 trillion we are in big do-do having to bail them out. They rightly report that Americans are mad as hell and our "Knight McCain" has promised to split these two government-backed institutions into little privatized entities and make them survive or fail under the rules of the free market.

By dumb luck or not, Republicans have come up with the right combination
by Vincent Gioia
John “Hannibal” Smith, played by George Peppard of “A-Team” fame, used to say, “I love it when a plan comes together." In similar fashion, I love it when a Republican presidential campaign comes together. Cal Thomas asks “What is it about Sarah Palin that has gotten the liberal media’s knickers in a twist?” The answer is not a simple one.

McCain and 'Sarah' have it all over Obama and Biden
by Vincent Gioia
I think things have gotten to the point where Governor Sarah Palin has achieved sufficient favorable public recognition we can now simply refer to her as "Sarah" and those of us who admire her can use her name alone as a term of endearment and respect. Few accolades of a person are as significant as comments made by arch enemies. For example, Democrat strategist and CNN commentator Paul Begala claimed that John McCain's choice of Vice President is "shockingly irresponsible" and suggested that McCain is "out of his mind."

Universal Healthcare – A Backdoor Approach
by Paul R. Hollrah
After living in our city home for two years, where my healthcare needs were provided by a Tulsa-based HMO, we decided in May of 2007 to sell our home in the city and live full time at our lake home, situated in a remote 720-acre gated community of beautiful lakes, rolling hills, and crystal clear streams… Who would begrudge me the chance to live in a place like this? No one I can think of… except, of course, the Medicare bureaucrats in Washington who instructed my HMO that, since I’ve relocated across county lines, they are no longer permitted to manage my healthcare needs.

Finally, We are back to Conservatism vs. Liberalism
by Vincent Gioia
With the selection of Sarah Palin as Vice President Candidate on the Republican ticket, the presidential race is less about Democrat vs. Republican, than it is about Liberal vs. Conservative. Democrats and Republicans both agree that Washington is "broken" and both sides want "change." Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that government is the answer while John McCain and Sarah Palin believe that government is the problem. Clearly, change can be for good or for bad.

Gustav, God, and Michael Moore: Validations of a Criminal Profile
by Paul A. Ibbetson
In the summer of 2007, I constructed a profile and analysis on Michael Moore that illuminated the sociopathic tendencies that encompass the actions of one of the most infamous documentary creators of modern times. On Aug 29, 2008, on MSNBC with Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore would make one of his most inflammatory statements to date; that is, he would thank God that Hurricane Gustav might hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. Moore’s joy was centered on the notion that the life threatening hurricane would be politically damaging to the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Obamedia Still Scrambling For Angle to Bury Palin
by JB Williams
The 24/7 Obama press was sent into frenzy last Friday when John McCain named the one VP running mate that they had not performed preemptive personal sludge searches upon in preparation for the announcement. They thought that they were ready to bury whomever McCain announced, but nobody had Sarah Palin on the war room radar… Lacking any sludge prep on Palin, the Obama press immediately turned to left-wingnut blogs like Daily Kos for anti-Palin material.

Palin and the Power of Real American Women
by Frank Salvato
It is the consensus among conservative new media pundits – and the Conservative mainstream for that matter – that the speech Governor Sarah Palin gave in accepting the Republican Party’s vice presidential nomination effectively put the Progressive-Left and the Democrat Party on notice. The double-standard hypocrisy demonstrated by the Leftist mainstream media on behalf of Barack Obama’s campaign will not stand. If the cowards of the Progressive-Left want a fight, they’ve got one...and it’s with someone who plays hockey. Oops!

Palin Properly Frames the Debate - Elitism vs. Americanism
by JB Williams
As a small town hockey mom turned political ethics crusader in the biggest state of the union, Sarah Palin stepped to the RNC Convention podium last night an hit it out of the park. Even the left-wing press was punched back on its heels by the home run début performance of the “pit bull in lipstick” they knew little about, but had already written off as in way over her head.

Gustav’s 'Cat Five' Political Spin
by Christopher G. Adamo
Despite dire warnings that Hurricane Gustav might exceed the 2005 Hurricane Katrina nightmare in terms of damage, lives lost, and overall intensity, this latest storm to strike the Gulf Coast was barely a Category Two by the time it made landfall. Perhaps more significantly, it missed New Orleans by seventy miles which resulted in far less damage to that city.

Sarah Palin is the right choice
by Vincent Gioia
Judging from the ludicrous attempts by Democrats and their liberal house organs that pass themselves off as the news media, the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain’s Vice President was a good choice; a very, very, good choice.

Two Very Different Tickets
JB Williams
With a multiracial candidate on one ticket and a female on the other, no matter what happens this November, history will be made in this election cycle. But these two tickets could not be any more different than they are - and as a result, the two campaign strategies are equally different. The only similarity found between the McCain-Palin ticket and the Obama-Biden ticket is the fact that both offer something old and something new, someone with experience and someone fresh. That’s where the similarities end…

Two Truly Great Americans or Two Forked Tongue Senate Hacks
by JB Williams
You want change? McCain decided to offer you REAL change we can believe in!
McCain is nothing if not unpredictable! Only hours after the Hollywood made for TV DNC pander fest ended, confirming Barack Hussein Obama as the first multiracial candidate for the executive branch, Republican John McCain upstaged lefties by announcing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate.

My Two Cents In A Multi-Million Dollar Campaign, Part II
by John Longenecker
What the Democrats really fear.... Not being needed anymore. Anything new there? With the naming of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as running mate of John McCain, there's a lot to appreciate in how America may change and for the better. Will America become more mature and less adolescent in the next four years? Will this become a greater dependability on self and insisting on it, instead of dependency on government?

Bread and Butter in a Bare Cupboard
by Dick McDonald
With the nomination of Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain has stolen the “change” and “reform” in the Washington establishment crusade from the rhetoric of the Obama Express. Sarah Palin IS an accomplished reformer with a sterling track record that took on her own party and won. She took on big oil and won. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have never taken on anything or anybody. They have never reformed anything especially the immoral tragedy of union monopolies that are paralyzing our schools, our government and business.

The Moose Hunting 'Barracuda'
by Dick McDonald
Sarah Palin was the point Guard on the state’s winning basketball team. The team members nicknamed her “Barracuda”. She and her father are big “moose hunters”. Her son will be fighting in Iraq soon. She opted to keep her new baby son with “Down Syndrome” at the same time the woman was the Governor of Alaska. Her first act as Governor was to sell the Governor’s private jet. She won the race promising to clean up the corruption including destroying Republican Senator Ted Stevens and his “Bridge to Nowhere”. Today John McCain has chosen her to be the nominee for Vice-President of the United States.

Nepotism, Obama Style
by Paul R. Hollrah
With the possible exception of the mainstream media… who apparently believe that Barack Obama’s wealth is not newsworthy, but the number of homes owned by Cindy McCain is… there is much written these days about the dire economic circumstances of Obama’s 25-year-old half brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama. According to press reports, George Obama has been located by Italian Vanity Fair living in a 6 ft. by 9 ft. makeshift hut on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, subsisting on less than $1 a month. He told reporters, “If anyone says anything about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed… no one knows who I am. I have had to learn to live and take what I need.”

Michelle Obama on the Man that Would Be President
by Nancy Salvato
Michelle Obama: “His family was so much like mine.” Fact: Barack Obama's father, a Harvard trained economist, fathered eight children by four different women. Michelle Obama: “He was raised by grandparents who were working-class folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills just like we did.” Fact: One of the first two female vice presidents at Bank of Hawaii, Madelyn Dunham, his grandmother, raised Barry Obama. She paid the tuition to the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii. Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham Obama Sutoro, described as a fellow traveler, spent Barack’s formative years studying anthropology in Indonesia and helping thousands of poor women. She is credited with creating a microfinance program there.

Accepting Obama’s ‘Change’ Premise
by Frank Salvato
Having established that “change” can be both good and bad, both productive and destructive; I have come to the conclusion that Barack Obama is right: our country is in great need of “change.” Now before you God and gun clinging, fly-over state inhabiting political infidels lock and load and take aim at the space between my eyes, I would ask that you hear me out. There’s a good chance you will either like what I have to say or find merit in my line of thinking. Having dedicated myself to consuming the experience that was the 2008 Democrat National Convention, I did indeed come to the conclusion that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the contingent that descended upon the city of Denver had one thing correct, our nation is in desperate need of change.

Good Morning Cold War
by Rene Guerra
For those gullible ones who believe in Barack Hussein Obama's empty slogans such as "Change We Can Believe In", "Hope", "Citizen of the World", take the ominous news Putin's Russia is making now, as sensing that an accommodating appeaser may become the next President of the United States of America. America is the only nation on Earth that possesses the material means (Mutual Assured Destruction, MAD, unfortunately triggering also the destruction of most life on the globe), and the inherent will to stand up to Putin's czarist-atavist ambitions.

Good Morning Cold War (the sequel, #2)
by Rene Guerra
To those who, in sheer denial, don’t want to accept the fact that -- thanks to 1- the Democrats and the rest of the Left, along with the notorious RINOs, 2- our dependency on foreign petroleum and natural gas, and 3- Our dependency on petroleum-derived transportation fuels -- the Cold War has resuscitated, read the ominous news about it from abroad. For a token, consider the following 5 recent news reports:... That’s all what Bush has gotten from having assured us “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. And I appreciated so very much the frank dialogue.” Putin, “straightforward and trustworthy”? What a joke!

The Census Clears Up Everything
by Dick McDonald
The Census Report page 15 issued this Tuesday stated that 43.5% of the people in poverty did not work and that represented 25.2% of all people. Now don’t get confused that 43.5% does not include the millions of children 15 and younger. Let’s take a breathe and restate that: 43.5% of adult Americans deemed to be in poverty don’t work at all. 25.2% of all adult Americans don’t work at all. Now anyone that can draw a breathe must realize that America must be one fantastic country when it thrives in spite of the fact a quarter of the population doesn’t work at all.

A New 'Cold War' Looms
by Christopher G. Adamo
Russian President Dimitri Medvedev has floated a not-so-subtle warning of Russia and the West descending into a new "Cold War," the blame for which he places, in traditional Russian fashion, squarely on America. As a follow up, Vladimir Putin has since hinted at the possibility of a direct conflict between Russian and American naval forces in the Black Sea. If these events of the past few weeks are a reliable indication, the world may indeed see a replay of the harrowing years of Soviet aggression.

Will Obama Ever Face the Press?
by JB Williams
Serious Questions that the Press Refuse to Ask!
It is very troubling that a man is seeking the office of Commander-in-Chief of the United States at a time when he will confront lethal threats against the nation from the most brutal tyrants around the globe, yet he is openly afraid to face the unfriendly news reporters at FOX News Network… He thinks he can handle Al Qaeda, Hamas, Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Kim Jon Il and Russian aggression, but admittedly can’t handle Bill O’Reilly?

Is Senator Joe Biden the answer to candidate Obama’s faltering campaign?
by Vincent Gioia
Every hockey team has what's known in the game as an "enforcer." Barack Obama evidently believes he needs someone to protect him like a hockey team's star so he chose Senator Joe Biden. So Obama has his enforcer but with the pugilistic ability of Biden, the messiah also has someone who doesn't think much of him as a possible president. In one commentary sure to be exploited by the McCain campaign, Biden inadvertently spoke the truth in August, 2007:

What is Right with America
by Dick McDonald
On the eve of two political conventions the free people of America are about to enjoy their ability to bash each other about the head rhetorically. Considering the physical violence present in other cultures the conventions will be two quite civil events. Unfortunately the bashing will hide the overwhelming evidence that America is thriving and growing exponentially compared to most of the civilized world. That is because the people are free to demand of themselves the best society can do to better itself.

Liberalism is a Psychology
by Eric Alan Beltt
Many conservatives are absolutely perplexed by the question of what motivates liberals to take the patently wrong political positions they do. It’s difficult to explain it without believing such obviously wrong ideas like “liberals are just stupid”, or “they want to destroy our country”, but sometimes we resort to those explanations out of pure frustration. But what is the explanation? Liberalism isn’t a political ideology; it’s a psychology - the psychology of self-satisfaction to be precise.

Voting Conscience, Not Color
by Nancy Salvato
When Chuck Wilder on CRN’s George Putnam show asked me what I was going to write about next, I said to give me a minute and I would think of something. What I didn’t say was that I wanted to write about the election, write something meaningful and from the heart. Because I didn’t want to parrot what everyone else had already written about, I didn’t have a story...until now. Thanks to James Taranto and the “Puffington Host.”

The Artificially Inflated Self-Esteem of Barack Obama
by Frank Salvato
As we wind our way ever further down the agonizingly long road to the 2008 presidential elections one thing has become glaringly clear: Barack Obama has a pretty healthy ego. It goes without saying that most people who become politicians have a penchant for self-aggrandizing. It does take a certain amount of self-confidence to engage in the American political process and that process requires one to effectively market oneself. But there is a considerable difference between self-confidence and narcissism. Barack Obama has crossed that line.

Exactly How Biased is the American Media?
by JB Williams
The average American voter is starting to come to grips with the fact that those who control the flow of their information, “the media,” are neither independent nor unbiased. In a September 2007 Gallup survey of American voters, 45% said the media is too liberal, compared to only 18% who said the media is too conservative and 35% who said the media is about right. The results of that survey demonstrate how far left 18% of Americans are today, and how uninformed another 35% are. Only 45% have a good sense of just how biased the media really is, before they follow the money and confirm their suspicions.

Black Expectations and Democratic Realities
by Paul R. Hollrah
The next seven days will no doubt be the most critical in Barack Obama’s life… so critical, in fact, that he may want to bind and gag his wife; the Rev. Jeremiah Wright; Father Pfleger; his former terrorist friends, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn; and everyone else who has damaged him by speaking on his behalf, endorsing him, or standing at his side.

Defining Good and Evil In 2008 America
by Christopher G. Adamo
When asked by Rick Warren at the Saddleback forum about his beliefs on when human life begins, Democrat Presidential wannabe Barack Obama obfuscated, finally responding that the answer is “above my pay grade.” Obama apparently hoped to at once avoid criticism from any who would disagree with him if he got specific, while attempting to claim the moral “high ground” on the basis that he would leave such decisions to a higher authority. In truth, Obama accomplished neither.

Not only is freedom of speech threatened by Muslims, so is freedom of religion
by By Vincent Gioia
Persecution of Christians and Jews is not new in this world. Although such condemnation for religious beliefs goes back thousands of years, Nazi Germany developed it into an art form with the wholesale murder of Jewish people. Of course, the Nazis didn't limit atrocities to Jews, they spread their horror around but Nazis were mainly interested in eliminating the Jewish population. In their hatred of Jews, they were not alone; Muslims aided and abetted the Nazis since they shared a belief system that relegated Jews to the category of "dogs and apes", as the Koran teaches Islamic adherents.

No It's the Stupid Politicians
by Dick McDonald
Old "friend" Paul Krugman, he of the NYT editorial propaganda team, has written an article entitled "It's the Economy Stupid". Paul chides the Democrats and Obama in particular for not hitting the Republicans harder on the economy. He whines that he and his MSM minions have been successfully selling the American people on the "failure" of the Bush economy so why haven't the Democrats been playing his tune louder?. By all standards of modern measurement, except for one, the Bush economy has been a blazing success. It has not been a failure.

I Smell a Clinton Coup Brewing
by JB Williams
After Barockstar’s near fatal empty suit performance at Saddleback Saturday, the Obama spin machine is in damage control overdrive. I wonder if they‘ve had time to realize that they have been triangulated by the Clinton war room and set up to take a fall at the DNC convention? That old Clinton war room stench is in the air again… It seems the empty suit and his empty headed staff is not quite up to speed on Clintonian strategeries. Consider the latest Clinton maneuvers

Bad Day at Black Rock
by Paul R. Hollrah
Bad Day at Black Rock was a 1955 movie starring Spencer Tracy. In the movie, Robert Macreedy (Tracy) steps off a train in Black Rock, a bleak backwater town in the Arizona desert, where he had gone to deliver a posthumous award to the family of a Japanese-American who died heroically in World War II. What Macreedy didn’t know was that the townspeople shared a terrible secret, and from the moment he arrived he suffered a series of unpleasant experiences. Everything went downhill from there. This is essentially where Democrats find themselves today.

The Silence of the Lambs
by Vincent Gioia
What would the world say if the United States invaded a country, like for example Iraq? Indeed, what would domestic socialists, i.e. Democrats, and the news media say about this transgression of sovereign national rights? Oops, we did invade Iraq and we do know what the Democrats and their news media allies said; they said it was dastardly, or words to that effect. For virtually the entire administration of President Bush the Iraq war has been front and center in the battle for political advantage.

'New' Energy Reform: Same Old Politics
by Christopher G. Adamo
Once again, the “greater good” has been served inside the Beltway, “bipartisanship” has broken a stalemate, the rancor over energy policy has ended and, as is always the case when such milestones are achieved, conservative America has been sold out. Somehow, Republicans never seem to figure out that when right and wrong attempt to find common ground with eachother, “right,” by design, will inevitably be the first casualty.

Ignoring ‘The Perfect Storm’ at Our Own Peril
by Frank Salvato
The mainstream media and the presumptive nominee from the Democrat Party have done a pretty good job of steering the electorate’s attention to issues of a domestic nature. It wasn’t hard to do. With gasoline prices hovering around four dollars a gallon, combined with the self-induced but limited financial crisis created by proprietary lenders and a healthcare system that’s being raped by grifting lawyers and robber-baron insurance companies, it is easy to understand why voters would fall prey to diversionary tactics of the political power seekers. But we do so at the expense of the well being of our nation. We do so ignoring “the perfect storm.”

The mislabeled "United Nations Human Rights Council"
By Vincent Gioia
A recent report that the United Nations Human Rights Council has banned criticism of Islam and Shariah law prompted me to look into this nefarious group a bit more. Refusing to allow Islam to be criticized is to condone the stoning to death of women, beheading of men, and all the 6th century demands of Muslims in the name of Allah which remain tenets of Shariah law and Islamic tradition. By the recent resolution preventing criticism of Islam, the United Nations is endorsing a worldview in which free and democratic countries are guilty of abusing human rights whereas its member countries, and other similar dictatorships, are not.

The Second 9/11 - If Democrats Were Right
by JB Williams
It was mid December 2006, days before the biggest Holiday in America, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ; only weeks after Americans angrily removed Republicans from control of congress in the mid-term election and replaced them with Democrats who promised to end the unpopular Bush war on terror. While America slept, the second 9/11 came. This time, there were no planes, no nineteen hijackers, no box cutters, and no missed targets. Washington DC, which had escaped earlier efforts by a plane downed in a Pennsylvania field, was not the forth target but the first, followed by New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. All five targets were hit at peak rush hour, all within a ten minute span of time on the same day.

Censorship May Open Our Eyes to China
by Nancy Salvato
Reporters charged with covering the Olympics are now whining about "not knowing what they will be able to cover and not knowing how much the Chinese government will censor their online coverage." The fact that the mainstream media is even remotely surprised at a Communist Government not allowing complete freedom of the press is laughable, irrespective of the fact that China promised them complete freedom to report on the events after this one party state was awarded the honor of hosting the Olympics.

The Russian bear is alive and well
following a brief period of hibernation
by Vincent Gioia
Georgia is a small country bordering the Black Sea and sandwiched between Russia and Turkey. Two regions of Georgia bordering Russia - Abkhazia and South Ossetia - declared independence in the 1990s. After bloody battles both regions did manage to achieve de facto independence. But there's an important difference between the two struggles. Abkhazian separatists engaged in large-scale ethnic cleansing to make their state, which previously had a plurality of Georgians, more ethnically pure whereas South Ossetia remains a diverse region with some villages aligned with the separatists and others with Georgia.

A word to the unwise about the Democrat platform
by Vincent Gioia
A word to the unwise about the Democrat 2008 platform – the wise already know it. We all know the purpose of a party platform is to inspire party members but careful reading reveals the truth about what the party stands for and what can be expected if their candidate becomes president. The draft platform the Democrat Party’s platform committee produced now awaits approval at the Democrat National Convention. Although the platform is for party members, party leaders assume, and hope, nobody else reads it.

China - Tin Horn Totalitarians
by Dick McDonald
Most everyone I know thinks China is breathing down America’s neck economically and militarily. Many have been impressed by the opening day of the Olympics, the tremendous growth experienced in the last ten years, the cautionary military tales told by our pundits that China is closing ground on the USA and we better get cracking if we don’t want to be second fiddle. Wait a minute. From what I have seen the communists in charge of their society are selling the world a bunch of populist propaganda. They are claiming they have a worker’s paradise yet 700 million people live on $2 a day – some paradise.

Dear Ms. Nancy Pelosi
by Raymond S. Kraft
Ray has sent a letter to House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, questioning her innaction on an energy bill to bring down gasoline prices. Ray follows the letter with quotes of what the people are saying about this problem. Dear Ms. Nancy Pelosi T. Boone Pickens says we're spending $700 billion a year to import oil, about the same as the entire cost of the Iraq war, every year. But the Nancy Pelosi Congress obstructs drilling for American oil. And goes on vacation, doing nothing about it for another five weeks. As Nancy Pelosi goes on a book tour.

Wind power is just a lot of hot air
by Vincent Gioia
At first glance, the energy proposals of Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens for wind power and increased gas usage sound good. "We can't drill our way out of this crises"; I happen to disagree with this statement. We still need to drill to make ourselves "independent from foreign oil.” But the real issue is what is behind the clamor to expand wind power in lieu of increasing oil drilling. To understand this you have to read between the lines. The federal government subsidizes wind farm operators with a tax credit worth 1.9 cents per kilowatt hour — potentially making for a tidy annual taxpayer gift to Pickens based on his anticipated capacity.

Oil is NOT A Fossil Fuel And Global Warming is Non-Science
by Peter J. Morgan
A team consisting of Russian scientists and Dr J. F. Kenney, of Gas Resources Corporation, Houston, USA, have actually built a reactor vessel and proven that oil is produced from calcium carbonate and iron oxide. Oil comes from the Earth, not from dead dinosaurs. This article was posted on GAJ 2 weeks ago, but did not connect to the Canada Free Press article due to a link error behind the title. GAJ has received permission to reprint the article from Canada Free Press and has been requested to post an updated version by the author, Peter J. Morgan, who exposes the truth about the origins of petroleum and why oil resources will never be exhausted.

Moqtada al Sadr’s Penchant for ‘Community Organizing’
by Frank Salvato
Radical Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr is planning to disarm his Mahdi Army and oversee its transformation from Islamist fighting force into a civic and social service organization. Al Sadr wants us to believe that this cadre of anti-American jihadists is going to voluntarily lay down their weapons and all become “community organizers.” The truth is that al Sadr has been an attentive student, having studied the transformations of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza from violent jihadi organizations into armed factions validated by the electoral and political processes.

Democrats Winter Soldier Returns
by JB Williams
That which is old, is new again… They’re Back! The modern Winter Soldier movement now operates as the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Similar to the Vietnam era Winter Soldier anti-war movement, the modern effort uses the alleged testimony of carefully cherry-picked soldiers who claim to have witnessed systemic American atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan to make their ten point case against the war. The organization lists the following ten primary reasons why they oppose today’s war on terror, specifically taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama Is Europe’s “Vision” For America
by Christopher G. Adamo
Fawning over Barack Obama as they did during his recent overseas campaign swing, those cheering multitudes of Europeans said much more about themselves than they did about either Illinois Senator and Democrat presidential candidate or the best course to chart for the future of the United States. Somewhat surprisingly, and despite all of the dutiful and harmonious consensus of Obama’s lackeys in the American media, his campaign gained little credibility from the venture.

Republican Defeat in November - Is It a Sure Thing?
by Dick McDonald
Last night I went to a meeting of one of Los Angeles's most active and successful Republican clubs and was informed by a national pollster that over 5.3 million more Democrats voted in the primaries than Republicans. To add to that bad news the NY Times had run an article that suggested voting patterns throughout the states were changing. They indicated that Americans were signing up for the Democrat Party in droves and that the shift was so dramatic that Republicans may be non-competitive for several election cycles.

Obama Sets Sights on Trillion Dollar Cash Cow!
The TRUTH behind the Democrat manufactured Energy Crisis
by JB Williams
After forty years of Democrat led legislative blockades on domestic oil exploration and production, why are Americans shocked to find their country 70% dependent upon foreign oil and why are they still listening to Democrats who promise to make matters even worse? The self-proclaimed Messiah of Hope and Change, Barack Obama, is scrambling to come up with a marketable energy policy that will calm the nerves of American voters, while providing cover for fellow Democrats responsible for creating the crisis over the last forty years.

A Kinder, Gentler KKK
by Paul R. Hollrah
In her July 25, 2008 column in the London Daily Mail, titled, “Princess Obama,” columnist Melanie Phillips speculates that, on Barack Obama’s first foreign trip as the presumptive Democratic nominee, “he achieved the feat of upsetting one of his country’s key allies, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.” Apparently Chancellor Merkel took a dim view of Obama’s plan to hold a political rally at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, where JFK made his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech and where Ronald Reagan threw down the gauntlet to the Soviet Union, saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

The World According to Barack, No. 7
by Paul R. Hollrah
July 24, 2008 – In an “Oreo” performance at the site of the Victory Memorial on the Grosser Stern in Berlin, Obama proclaimed, “People of the World!! This is our time!!” His speech was preceded by a performance by the popular Reggae artist Patrice, and followed by a performance by the popular German rock band Reamonn. They were the cookies, the warm-up and the closer… who, together, attracted the crowd of 200,000… while Obama was the “special treat” in between. Since the rockers had gathered such a large crowd, Obama couldn’t pass up the opportunity to say a few words, could he?

“The Employee (not so) Free Choice Act”
by Vincent Gioia
Isn’t it just like liberals to mislabel legislation to make it seem harmless? What else can you think about the phony "The Employee Free Choice Act?" This sounds like an effort to impart fairness to unionizing elections but of course it is the opposite. Although free secret elections are the foundation of our democratic society, Democrats see it as an obstacle to expanding their power and that of the labor unions supporting their agenda. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is Democrat-sponsored legislation which would change federal law with regards to the rights of workers to unionize.

Breaking the Mold: Why there is only one Sheriff Joe Arpaio
by Paul A. Ibbetson
Recently, I had the unique opportunity to interview the man the media calls the “Toughest Sheriff in America,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio, on my radio show the Conscience of Kansas. It was an extremely dynamic interview, and I invite people to listen to both part one and part two of the show in its entirety. My goal going into the interview was to acquire some insights into one of the nation’s most interesting law enforcement officers to pin on the badge. I also had a secondary question of my own to satisfy, and that was, can the Arpaio system of law enforcement be duplicated across this country?

The Obama Voter – Not This Jew
by Joan Swirsky
For the most part, American Jews are politically liberal. For decades they have supported leftwing politicians who are antagonists if not outright enemies of Israel. Why does this matter? It matters to me because the Holocaust in which the Nazis wantonly murdered six million Jews in the 1930s and ‘40s has been the defining event of my life – the event against which I measure the political philosophies and actions of both individuals and nations.

The Impending American Tragedy
by Dick McDonald
If there ever was a time in American history where there was a greater disconnect between the American people and the leaders they elect to govern them it is the Summer of 2008. The American people want to be independent of Middle-Eastern oil and want to drill in America to solve this problem. Yet the ruling party in Congress adamantly says no to this idea and blocks legislation by never scheduling it for a vote. The American people have such a low opinion of Congress its approval rating is only 9%. There is no mystery here the people have been promised the American Dream of financial independence for over 70 years and are farther away today than their parents were two generations ago.

Tired of Obama’s Chicken Little Campaign Yet?
by JB Williams
Before Americans will vote for more socialism in a nation almost bankrupt from social conscience already, they must believe that capitalism has failed the vast majority of Americans who now need the government to be their keeper. Nobody understands this better than community organizer Barack Obama and his entire campaign is based on Chicken Little rhetoric as a result. Obama and his socialist companions define the “general welfare” mentioned in the Constitution not as the common interests of all Americans, but rather as a “general welfare state.

Hey, Barack, Hillary Only Suspended Her Campaign
by Frank Salvato
In the turbulent wake left by Barack Obama’s world tour – his campaign to be loved by all, less a significant percentage of the American people – it seems something has slipped the minds of David Axelrod and David Plouffe; Hillary Clinton didn’t quit her campaign, she suspended it. This becomes increasingly significant as more Americans – more Democrats, Progressive-Leftists and especially Democrat superdelegates – realize that Barack Obama is less about substance and more about marketing; more about “flash.”

Party of What People? - The New DNC – DSAUSA
by JB Williams
The increasingly overt madness of America’s so-called progressive left makes one wonder what people on earth the DNC might be the party of…? It certainly isn’t the average American… When average Democrats across the country rejected Howard Dean as a left-wing nut in his White House bid, progressive party elites decided he was the perfect nut to become chairman of the entire Democrat Party.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government
by Vincent Gioia
For some time congress has conducted an investigation into the firing of seven U.S. Attorneys by the Bush administration. Headlines have been made, subpoenas issued and criticism of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as well as President Bush is rampant by Democrats and their house organs in print. But what is this all about? Will Rogers had it right when he said: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." The investigation into these firings would be comical if it wasn’t so insincere and serious.

The World According to Barack, No. 6
by Paul R. Hollrah
In a news conference in Fargo, North Dakota, Obama told reporters, “Let me be as clear as I can be. I intend to end this war. My first day in office I will bring the Joint Chiefs in and I will give them a new mission and that is to end this war.” Then, ten days later, in criticizing the Bush Administration strategy in Iraq, he reiterated that on his first day in office he would order the Joint Chiefs to “end this war.” He said, “In carrying out this strategy, we would inevitably need to make tactical adjustments. As I have often said, I would consult with commanders on the ground and the Iraqi government to ensure that our troops were redeployed safely, and our interests protected.” If I have counted correctly, those two sentences contain no less than five waffles.

America Can Not Afford the Obama “Adventure”
by Rene Guerra
The Democrat Party and the rest of the Left, along with their proxies, stooges, surrogates and "useful-idiots" ingrained in the "mainstream" media, academia and the intelligentsia don't stop bleating with feigned concern, and poorly dissimulated joy, "America is in tailspin decline!" (They all have come to believe that the “prophesy” of Lenin is finally materializing that, in its throes of death, capitalism would reach "the final, stagnant, parasitic, revolutionary stage”; and that is where the leftist intelligentsia thinks capitalist-America is now.)

Do you think a Republican who said this could be elected president?
by Vincent Gioia
In his speech July 2 in Colorado Springs, Denver, media darling Barack Obama said: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." What Obama meant: "…we need a ‘civilian national security force’ that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force …"

Who is Funding Barack Obama?
by Paul R. Hollrah
In a July 10 installment of “The World According to Barack,” we discussed Obama’s phenomenal fundraising juggernaut. Obama boasts of having built a contributor base of 1.5 million people, each contributing $5, $10, $20… or, as Obama assures us, “whatever they could afford.” But the numbers don’t add up. $198.75 million dollars cannot be contributed by 1.47 million people in “$5, $10, or $20” amounts. Each of those 1.47 million people would have had to contribute, on average, $135 to create a pool of $198.75 million… and that simply does not happen. It has never happened before and, I assure you, it is not happening now.

The Issue of Dual Citizenship in the US
by Nancy Salvato
There is an issue, rarely discussed in the news, which has critical implications for our national security and political sovereignty. The United States is one of the most permissive countries in the world with regard to dual citizenship. Our government recognizes dual citizenship and tolerates multiple citizenships. How did it come to this? According to the U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8, it is the job of the legislative branch to establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.

Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism
By Investors Business Daily
Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code. And as president, "we'll ensure that economic justice is served," he asserted. "That's what this election is about." Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn't have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval. "Economic justice" simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It's a euphemism for socialism.

Tale Of Two (Sanctuary) Cities:
Don't Re-Elect Their Mayors, Indict Them
by Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles
Mayors Villaraigosa of Los Angeles and Newsome of San Francisco both want to become California's next governor. Both men, moreover, have granted "sanctuary" to all illegal aliens -- even gang members like those who shattered the lives of the Shaw Family, the Bologna Family, and Heaven only knows how many other families. Should these two Mayors be elected governor, or should they instead be indicted for aiding and abetting illegal immigration? Let's look at the law:

Vetting the First Ladies
by Paul R. Hollrah
Michelle Robinson Obama was born in Chicago in January 1964. Following graduation from high school she attended Princeton University where she majored in Sociology and African American Studies. In her senior thesis, titled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community,”' she asserted that America was a nation founded on “crime and hatred” and that white Americans were “ineradicably racist.” Moving on to Harvard Law School, she received her Juris Doctorate in 1988 and returned to Chicago. She joined the Sidley Austin law firm where, as part of her responsibilities, she was assigned to mentor a summer intern named Barack Hussein Obama, then a student at Harvard Law School.

Obama’s tax plans will be “lethal” to the economy
by Vincent Gioia
If you believe as I do that the tax hikes proposed by Barack Obama and Democrats are bad for the country, then we are in good company. No less an authority than Nobel Prize winner and Columbia University economist Robert Mundell, a principal contributor to the creation of the euro, says that ending the Bush tax cuts — as proposed by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama — would cause "a big recession, a nosedive."

New Democrat Thoroughbred, Or Just Another Jackass?
by JB Williams
As I watched last week’s campaign spectacle, our illustrious American press corps fawning like a bunch of eight year old girls at a Miley Cyrus concert, over the DNC’s empty suit international Messiah on tour, I found myself pondering… I don’t know which I find more disturbing? a) The fact that Obama is so popular with international socialists who hope to see America knocked off its perch as the last remaining super-power, b) The fact that he had to rely on beer, brats and a free rock concert in order to create that impression, c) Or that the crowds were full of the same foul mouthed 19 year old children he draws in the states… I had to settle on (d), all of the above…

Why Democrats Love High Gas Prices!
by JB Williams
The average American voter understands no more about the contributing factors of the current price of gasoline, than they do the falling value of their national currency. That makes them easy targets for political manipulation in a very important election year. Simple Supply and Demand Economics: Most Americans kind of get this one, though they are often misled about the ups and downs of natural free market cycles and how much impact government has, or should have, on the matter.

The 180lbs. “Guerilla”: China’s Military Aspirations
by Nancy Salvato
As the mainstream media is dominated by its attention to the preparations for Beijing Olympics being held August 8-24 this year, an obvious truth is being ignored or going unaddressed. The more important story is that China is on a mission to dominate the United States and the rest of the world militarily by building nuclear weaponry meant to defeat the United States on the world stage.

Lecturing Europe While Accepting the Social Structure of Brutality
by Frank Salvato
New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote, “The reason we have a democracy is that no one side is right all the time. The only people who are dangerous are those who can’t admit, even to themselves, that obvious fact.” While Barack Obama was lecturing tens of thousands of Germans during his “fact-finding tour” – interesting that he declared he was going to the Middle East and Europe to “listen” and ends up pontificating – his campaign created the position of “Muslim Liaison;” a position meant to serve as a conduit between his campaign and the Muslim community.

Obama’s Pompous Circumstance
International Pandering Bound to Backfire
by JB Williams
Presidential candidate Barack Obama has taken his pander machine on the road around the world in an effort to demonstrate two points vital to the success of his campaign for the office of Commander-in-Chief. That he is willing to step into the hot zone and confront facts on the ground as defined by military and security experts before setting his official international security policy in stone. That despite a nearly blank résumé, void of any military or security experience whatsoever, executive or otherwise, he has what it takes to become the next Commander-in-Chief of the last remaining super-power during a time of war, great international turmoil and continued threat of death and destruction on U.S. soil.

With Obama acting presidential in Mid East
Time to take another look at Islam and Shariah Banking
by Vincent Gioia
With false prophet Barack Obama in the Middle East acting presidential, it’s time to consider again what we, the free people of the world, can expect if through Obama’s appeasement approach to solving Middle East problems, Islam extends its reach around the globe.

The “Fairness” Doctrine: America In The Balance
by Christopher G. Adamo
Lurking in the gloom of the Democrat agenda is a resuscitation of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” which would allow the federal government, at the behest of liberal special interests, to selectively harass and intimidate radio stations whose broadcasting format it finds objectionable. Thus, the proliferation of conservative talk-radio and virtually all of the alternative media would be threatened with eventual extinction.

EARTH TO NANCY PELOSI
by Raymond S Kraft
Responding to the President's call on Congress to lift the bans on drilling for oil off both coasts, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded by calling Bush's move a "hoax," claiming, "It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence." The reason given for this is that there was a big oil spill from a ruptured well-head off Santa Barbara in 1969 that killed hundreds, maybe thousands, of birds, and covered the shoreline with oily goo for miles.

The Cold Hard Facts About Lobbying Washington DC
by JB Williams
The very first fact every American must reconcile with is the fact that “lobbying” elected representatives, like other forms of prostitution, is as old as the constitutional republic itself. The second fact is that all of those mechanisms are varying forms of “lobbying.” When one seeks to lobby elected representatives, he/she has several choices as to how to go about that task.

Is anyone listening to what Obama says?
by Vincent Gioia
It is incredible and disgustingly sad at the same time that the American people are not completely turned off by this guy even though some of Obama’s comments are actually reported in the main stream press. While his trip to Europe is viewed as the second coming, Obama’s stance on foreign policy issues of importance go largely unabsorbed by infertile minds.

Energy Politics vs. Energy Policy
by Paul R. Hollrah
In a Saturday, July 12, 2008 story, the Associated Press tells us that President Bush has “tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices,” urging that Congress needs to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in ANWR and in the U.S. offshore, areas that are believed to contain huge reserves of oil and gas. President Bush is quoted as saying, “It’s time for members of Congress to address the pain that high gas (sic) prices are causing our citizens…

Are Americans Smarter than they Look?
by JB Williams
Understanding American voter sentiments heading into the 2008 Election cycle is no easy task. Voters seem to be all over the board on how they feel about the issues, the candidates, and what they think we should do about each issue is even stranger.In studying current Rasmussen Report detailed numbers, Americans seem to struggle with remaining on task all the way through their thought processes. Many voter positions appear quite counter-indicated, contradictory and even downright confusing, or should I say, confused.

It's Official Now
by Peter W. Wright
Plenty of evidence has existed before, but now the conclusion is inescapable: the Democrats cannot understand the most basic law of economics, the law of supply and demand. Faced with spiraling fuel costs and a demand to act, the Democrat-controlled Congress cannot or will not act. Nancy Pelosi claims the idea to drill in protected coastal areas is a “hoax” and is “echoing the demands of big oil.” Ms. Pelosi states a plan to release the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to consumers, and encourages oil companies to drill where there is no oil. Ms. Pelosi wants to leave on her month long vacation without having a vote on plans to increase supply and decrease price. And she claims to be for us.

The World According to Barack, No. 5
by Paul R. Hollrah
July 10, 2008 – Watching Barack Obama sprint full speed from the far left to the center has my head spinning! But I suspect that I’m a bit more supple, physically, than John McCain because I didn’t spend five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war hotel where the room service guys broke bones for sport. So how does McCain keep up with Obama’s policy shifts? He doesn’t. In the time that McCain pauses in the middle of a response to a reporters question to take a couple of swigs of his Latte, Obama has reversed himself on at least two more major policy positions…

Apollo 11: American Excellence Remembered
by Christopher G. Adamo
Sunday July 20, 2008 will likely be a fairly typical summer day in America. Thirty nine years ago on that date (also a Sunday), the nation was anything but normal. Americans huddled around their TV sets and radios, listening to the almost unintelligible exchange of technical jargon, watching crude network animations, trying desperately to comprehend the unfolding events a quarter of a million miles away. Few realized just how close the mission was to total failure, with only seconds of fuel remaining in the spacecraft.

Is it time to mourn for Israel?
by Vincent Gioia
Once upon a time there was an Israel that was a power in the Middle East feared by its uncivilized neighbors; an Israel with leadership and countrymen who fought bravely to maintain an oasis of freedom in a desert of hostility and human debris. Now it appears the oasis is running dry and the people have lost their desire to remain staunch in the face of an increasing threat to their existence. The latest outrage, among many under the present leadership, is the release from prison of a heinous murderer in exchange for two boxes of bones of Israeli soldiers whose deaths remain un-avenged.

The Obamessiah Of Pickpocket Politics
by JB Williams
Let’s get real with each other for a few minutes. Only one thing really divides America down the center line of politics known as “left” vs. “right,” the almighty dollar, now worth approximately .35 cents, thanks to more than seventy years of deficit spending. Every national election is about the same thing really. Half of Americans use every national election cycle as nothing more than an opportunity to pick the pockets of the other half. The other half is running for cover.

The Wind Cries 'Bailout!'
by Steven Milloy
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens launched a media blitz this week to announce his plan for us "to escape the grip of foreign oil." Now he’s got himself stuck between a crock and a wind farm. Announced via TV commercials, media interviews, a July 9 Wall Street Journal op-ed and a Web site, Pickens wants to substitute wind power for the natural gas used to produce about 22 percent of our electricity and then to substitute natural gas for the conventional gasoline used to power vehicles.

Obama’s “Flexible” Value System
by Paul R. Hollrah
In his book, Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (University Press of Kansas, 2002) , author Bryan Mark Rigg, tells us that as many as 150,000 Jews and “partial-Jews” served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Rigg tells us that “exemptions” were made in order to allow a soldier to stay in the military or to spare a soldier’s parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration and the gas chambers. But as the war dragged on, politics soon trumped military necessity and it became all but impossible for a soldier to escape the fate of millions of other Jews.

Democrats playing (bad) politics with oil
by Vincent Gioia
Despite gasoline priced at well over $4.00 a gallon over most of the country, and the public calling for "drill now", Democrats continue to display a degree of obstinacy unparalleled in modern politics. This may be very bad for the country but it is good for their political opponents. President Bush has finally cancelled the Executive ban on oil drilling while calling for congress to rescind the congressional ban. Until he took this action any criticism of congress’ failure to act sounded a bit hollow. Now however it is only congress that stands in the way of efforts to extract oil from the continental shelf.

Academic Freedom
by Nancy Salvato
An article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education reflects the notion that academic freedom means being allowed to advocate a personal point of view in the classroom. Others would define the above examples of academic freedom as proselytizing in the classroom or using the classroom as a “Bully Pulpit.” Our liberty is placed at risk when academic freedom is abused in academia. In order to address the misuse of academic freedom, one must first understand the exact meaning of the words academic freedom in order to understand how it is abused. Herein lies the heart of the problem, there is no consensus definition of the words academic freedom.

Don’t Talk to Me!
I’ll Invent my own Facts, Thank You…
by JB Williams
The biggest problem with political correctness is its net effect on society. People don’t talk to each other anymore because someone told them that they have a right to not be offended, ever, over anything, even if offending them is the right thing to do. We’re not supposed to use terms like “winner” anymore, because “losers” find the term offensive. We’re not supposed to talk about such antiquated terms as “right” or “wrong” because in a politically correct open society, there is no such thing, and to suggest that there is might offend someone, namely the wrong.

The World According to Barack, No. 4
by Paul R. Hollrah
June 29, 2008 – An op-ed column circulating on the Internet, purports to be written by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Titled “Obama’s Troubling Internet Fund Raising,” the article describes how members of Obama’s Internet fundraising staff have been puzzled by the number of contributions apparently originating from overseas Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The article goes on to say that Obama’s people were unable to track most of the sources of the contributions because of firewalls and other blocking devices. However, the ISPs they were able to identify were located in China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries.

The time for appeasement of Islam is over
by Vincent Gioia
Islamists have it all over everyone else in the art of intimidation using freedom in western civilization as a weapon in the battle to rule the world. One reason this practice has been successful is that civilized societies cannot comprehend a doctrine so pervasive in its goal to take over the world that so many non Muslims are unwilling to accept that we are in a war of different worlds. The threat is not extra terrestrial; it is a real threat by real people. To followers of Islam there is but one goal; replace all other religions and governments with Islam and Sharia law. In this there is no compromise, there are no rules, and everything is allowed to achieve success.

It’s Official...James Baker Has Lost His Mind
by Frank Salvato
Anyone familiar with the threat posed by the advancing American Fifth Column understands all too clearly that our Constitution is under attack. Whether it is the insistence that the Constitution is a living document meant to conform to the will of the times or the institution of political correctness – a shadow set of laws effectively usurping the laws of our Constitutional Republic – the American Fifth Column is slowly, incrementally, systematically, chipping away at the wisdom as set forth by our Founders and Framers. With news that a non-governmentally charged commission is introducing a measure that would impose “group think” on the Commander-in-Chief, it is evidenced that the American Fifth Column is on the march.

Oh Great! Dumb, Dumber and Spineless on Tour
by JB Williams
When I first heard former Senator Phil Gramm refer to our economic condition as a “mental crisis” and suggest that too many Americans had become “whiners,” my immediate reaction was, too bad too few Americans would comprehend the hard truth he just set before them… Despite leftist efforts to run capitalism out of town on a rail, by talking the economy into the toilet 24/7 since the day Bush assumed office in 2001, America’s economic indicators have been the strongest in a quarter century, up until second quarter 2008.

President Bush Is an Idiot. Right?
by John W. Lillpop
It has become fashionable "blood sport" among intellectual elitists in the media, and among goofy iberals, to ridicule President Bush by calling him stupid, either directly or by inference. The delicious irony is that those who denigrate the president's intelligence the loudest are often the same fools who will swear that Bush tricked 110 Democrats into voting for the 2002 Joint Resolution which authorized the president to use force in Iraq. For a man with the supposed IQ of a burned out fluorescent light bulb, George W. Bush seems to be an overachiever when it comes to bamboozling, and defeating, Democrats!

More About That 550 Metric Tons of Yellow Cake and Lying Democrats
by John W. Lillpop
My column titled, "Bush Lied? What About That 550 Metric Tons of Yellow Cake, Lefty?" has been widely distributed and commented on over the past several days. Comments received have been predictably ideological: Conservatives generally agree with the points made, while liberals almost universally reject the notion that George W. Bush acted in good faith and to the benefit of humanity by choosing to invade Iraq.

The “Group of Eight” met and all they brought back was this lousy tee shirt
by Vincent Gioia
When the "G-8" meets you expect that momentous decisions will be made and the results will be posted on the front page of newspapers and be lead stories on the evening news. That this does not happen is a tribute to the uselessness of such events. Leaders of the group of eight countries; the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Russia; met recently in Tokyo, Japan, to discuss world problems but any expectation that some degree of success at solving problems might result would be a mistake.

Holding Liberals Accountable For Energy Woes
by Christopher G. Adamo
How long can Congressional Democrats hope to continue their anti-capitalist, anti-American agenda without facing accountability from the voting public? Current indicators are that they intend to hold firm on their signature issues, believing that the public will simply not recognize the correlation between their actions of recent years, and the horrendous economic fallout that ensued as a direct result. And nowhere can this relationship be seen more clearly than in the skyrocketing energy prices currently threatening to squeeze the vitality from the American middle class.

D.C. v. Heller: It's not about Guns,
It's About Self-Governance, Safer Streets
by John Longenecker
There is no such thing as a sensible gun law, and gun bans are a fake-out fraud and abuse of power. Unwind Gun Bans and you begin to unwind other abuses so adverse to Family and Liberty. The Second Amendment to our Constitution was made absolute for several reasons. In fact, the Second Amendment wasn't even written for citizens. I get a predictable reaction when I say this, but follow-up clears it all up. Gun control is a European concept totally inappropriate for the Founders who escaped that kind of thinking at the nation's inception.

GREENOLOGY IS A BANKRUPT PHILOSOPHY
By Attorney Jack Swift
The great green movement driven by the Sierra Club, the Audobon Society, and other more nefarious forces appears about to run out of gas. A half century of a reckless orgy of economic extravagance driven by environmental values is finally coming home to roost. We are about to discover that you cannot protect anything if you are broke.

Guns of August spiked?
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI
Is the United States heading into a deadly confrontation with Iran? Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, the unsuccessful maverick Republican presidential candidate, warned millions of radio listeners this is now inevitable. He cited House Congressional Resolution 362, lobbied hard by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, as a "Virtual Iran War Resolution."

Making the Best Of a Bad Election Cycle
by JB Williams
This day has been a long time coming. We’ve arrived at a time in American history when we have reached the bottom of the barrel in terms of political talent and no decent American truly qualified to lead the free world would ever even consider entering the cesspool of national politics. Americans have never been so disgusted with their federal government - and rightfully so. No matter which party the people have put in power, once in Washington DC, all politicians find a way to sell out the American people for a career ride on America’s best get-rich-quick scheme of national politics.

Who will appoint judges during the next four years will be a matter of our survival as a free people
by Vincent Gioia
If anyone needed more convincing about the importance of the next presidential election, one need go no further than the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller where a Washington, D.C. ban on hand guns was declared unconstitutional because a majority of justices properly interpreted the Second Amendment. The 5-4 decision in this case required the assent by one man, Justice Anthony Kennedy, to join with four other justices, which is bad enough inasmuch the court's opinion should have been unanimous; but worse still is the thinking process about the constitution as expressed by some justices in the minority opinions.

President Bush exonerated of “misleading statements” leading to Iraq war
by Vincent Gioia
In 2003 newspaper columnist Robert Novak wrote his now infamous "Mission to Niger" (published on July 14, 2003) in which he mentioned an allegedly failed attempt by Saddam Hussein to purchase uranium reported by the husband of a (not so) secret CIA agent, Valerie Plame, and mentioned her by name. Today we know that Iraq did possess 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” – the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment.

OIL IS EVIL, GET A HORSE
by Raymond S Kraft
Nevada Senator Harry Reid gave a June 30 interview, now famous on YouTube, in which he somberly intones, " . . . Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. And this global warming is ruining our country. It's ruining the world." Oil and coal, of course, are all natural and organic, created deep in the womb of Mother Earth by Gaia herself, a point largely lost on the Enviromentalists and other Democrats infatuated with all things natural and organic. Then there is another inconvenient truth Harry Read hasn't noticed. In the last hundred years, while we have been getting sicker and sicker from oil and coal, life expectancy in the world and in the US has doubled.

It is our duty to inform everyone about the real Barack Hussein Obama
by Vincent Gioia
Not long ago liberal columnist Maureen Dowd learned not to criticize Barack Hussein Obama’s ears. This was just an early warning to news reporters, the entire news media and ultimately to politically correct opponents of Obama’s election as president, not to say anything negative about BHO. Sadly, the caution was observed so it is difficult to find any criticism of BHO anywhere other than on radio’s answer to the biased reporting by all three national TV networks and the tax-payer funded Public Broadcasting System. Worst of all, BHO’s opponent John McCain has also eschewed all comments by his campaign that call attention to the negative aspects of BHO himself, his judgment and his socialist political policies.

Meet Obama’s Useful Idiots
by JB Williams
At the risk of being accused of “racism” for not falling in line behind the first half-black but wholly unqualified man ever to run for president, allow me to introduce the useful idiots at the core of Obamamania. Barack Hussein Obama, the Jim (Farrakhan) Jones of the 2008 race for the White House, and chosen Messiah of America’s loony leftist dingbats, is leading the race for the most powerful office on earth. The “How?” is the interesting part of the story…

Rush Limbaugh is Wrong
by Paul R. Hollrah
In his June 27 open-line-Friday rant, our friend Rush Limbaugh unburdened himself at length on the subject of high energy prices. Most of what he said was true. It was then that Rush, applying basic but faulty conservative logic, got it all wrong. First he attempted to explain the workings of the commodities futures market in simple layman’s terms… Rush must have had all of his brains tied behind his back. And as for the speculators? Off with their heads.

The World According to Barack – No. 3
(A Primer for Knuckle-Dragging Liberals)
by Paul R. Hollrah
July 20, 2007 – The Obama campaign launched a campaign to capture the conservative Christian vote. The campaign is called the “Joshua Generation Project,” named after Moses’ successor who led the Israelites into Canaan after they had wandered in the Sinai for forty years. CBN’s David Brody has resurrected the substance of a 2004 You Tube speech by Obama in which he said, “Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation.

OBAMA FAILS THE JOHN KERRY TEST
by Raymond S Kraft
Just four years ago, Senator John Kerry strode onstage at the Democrat National Convention and declared, "I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty." In the course of the contest between Kerry and Bush, John Kerry and the Democrats set up the John Kerry Test for Presidential Qualification, one which George W. Bush could only fail, one which only John Kerry could pass. There are three points to the test:

ENDING OUR OIL ADDICTION: REALITY CHECK
by Raymond S Kraft
I have before me a nice letter from California Senator Barbara Boxer, in which she extols her sponsorship of S.3044, a bill to impose "windfall profits taxes" on Big Oil, in which she writes, "At a time when so many Americans are struggling to make ends meet and having to make the impossible choice between buying food for their families and filling up their gas tank, I am deeply disturbed that some of my colleagues [Republicans] prevented this important bill from moving forward."

Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama?
by JB Williams
Obama’s useful idiot minions [1] on college campuses across America may have no clue what types of change Obama has in store for America. But every Marxist, Socialist and Communist around the globe, knows all too well… “We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!”This is a very common statement among the many anti-American Americans currently marching in the Obamamania Revolution to force change in America. But I took this quote from a group on Obama’s official campaign web site, calling themselves, Marxists, Socialists and Communists for Obama”

Manifold Dangers Of A Liberal Supreme Court
by Christopher G. Adamo
As far back as Sun Tzu, military strategists have well understood the concept that victory in war does not require the destruction of one’s enemy, but merely convincing that enemy that destruction is inevitable if the fight continues. Similarly, in a dictatorship, absolute control is neither necessary nor, in most cases, even possible. All that is needed for the dictator to endure is the presumption among the underlings that the leader does indeed hold a monopoly of power. It is a point that Americans ought to seriously ponder, as the future of their nation appears to increasingly rise and fall on the basis of a single vote in the United States Supreme Court.

Once Again, It’s About Associations and Judgment
by Frank Salvato
There has been much ado about Barack Obama’s associations and the judgment used in maintaining and entering into those associations. Obama’s associations with Jeremiah Wright, Williams Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, the Progressive-Left activist group ACORN and his ideological association with Saul Alinsky are all perfect examples of his judgment, his willingness to associate with radical and troubled individuals and organizations. Is it fair to judge Barack Obama by his associations and the judgment used in acquiring and maintaining those associations? Sorry Mr. Colmes, all is fair in love and war...and politics.

Perseverance: Reflections from a Conversation with Duane “Dog” Chapman
by Paul A. Ibbetson
On June 24, 2008, I had a lengthy interview with Duane “Dog” Chapman. Chapman is the star of A&E’s returning hit show Bounty Hunter, where he will once again track felons on the run before a nation of thrilled television viewers. Chapman was gracious enough to take a break from what will be season number five of the Bounty Hunter program to talk with me on my radio show the “Conscience of Kansas.” I think the interview had many exciting facets, and I invite readers to watch both part one and part two of the YouTube version of our conversation. What I would like to focus my discussion on today is my own reflections on the controversy surrounding the man known as “Dog” Chapman.

Radical Environmentalism: The "Imperfect Storm"
by Christopher G. Adamo
Liberals inadvertently delivered a telling message in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In essence, it is the same message they have sent on the heels of every major calamity, whether natural or man-made, to befall the nation during the past several decades. Let a heat wave hit or a bridge collapse, and their first impulse is to assign guilt, invariably among their political opposition. But by their immediate and hysterical finger-pointing, they telegraph their desperation to avoid any culpability for the real problems at hand.

Global warming deniers; get ready for the coming inquisition
by Vincent Gioia
I wondered how long it would take to come to this. We have had calls for the firing of scientists and other disbelievers of the religion of the day; can the inquisition and McCarthy-style hearings be far behind? I can hear it now - "Are you now or ever have been a denier of global warming caused by mankind?" The first shot across the bow, so to speak, has been fired in England. Here is a report appearing in the British paper, The Guardian:

Heller: Gun Bans Found To Be Unconstitutional (Again)
by John Longenecker
The Supreme Court of The United States announced that it was overturning the Washington, D.C. Gun Ban and affirming lower court’s ruling against D.C. But does this affect gun laws around the country? It should, as 80 Million gun owners invoke the law while handfuls of officials were found to break it. The Supreme Court's ruling that the D.C. Gun Ban is unconstitutional is another victory for all of America, and it furnishes a new and updated roadmap of guidance for more Liberty in America for all. For All.

The World According to Barack, No. 2
by Paul R. Hollrah
June 20, 2008 – Obama spoke at a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. In his speech, he said, “It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy.” Was he speaking of the economy that has kept inflation at low single digits for nearly eight years, while maintaining essentially full employment? Was he speaking of the economy that has experienced steady growth while recovering from the economic fallout of 9/11? Was he speaking of the economy that experienced steady growth while the country fought expensive wars on two fronts?

Is American law now determined by one man as in a science fiction drama?
by Vincent Gioia
Thanks to the flappable Justice Anthony Kennedy the Second Amendment remains in the constitution but it is outrageous that four members of the court wanted to throw it out. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a precisely clear opinion upholding the right of the people to keep and bear arms on an individual basis. But the ink wasn’t dry before leftists of all stripe "found" language in the opinion that will allow other judges to confirm all manner of restrictions on gun owners’ rights. Unfortunately Scalia probably had to include some of these loop holes in the opinion to placate Justice Kennedy so he would join the majority of five.

New Orleans and Cedar Rapids
by Paul R. Hollrah
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the pipsqueak radical environmentalist who has chosen rabble-rousing as his life’s work, wrote an op-ed column placing the blame for Hurricane Katrina squarely on the shoulders of George W. Bush. His reasoning? Bush opposed ratification of the Kyoto Accords on “global warming.”

When Losing Isn’t Affordable: November and The War on Islamofascism
by Rene Guerra
Unambiguous success in Iraq and unequivocal victory in the rest of the global war on Islamofascism is not a choice; we don’t have any other alternative, for it is a matter of our very survival. It is not a matter of “prestige” or any other hubristic notion; it is about our own hide, particularly when America faces the grim prospect of Barack Hussein Obama becoming the next president of the United States of America.

To “Suspend” Is Not “To End” – It Still Ain’t Over For Hillary
by Joan Swirsky
In one of the more bizarre, tasteless, and utterly revealing statements of this presidential campaign season, Hillary explained before the June primaries why she was not dropping out of the race, in spite of the fact that her opponent was so far ahead in the delegate count. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” she said. She might as well have said: “If Obama dies, I win!”

Democracy Hijacked, Movement for Democratic Change
by JB Williams
In the good ole days, when liberals were actually “liberal,” focused upon individual liberty above all else, and Democrats were actually “democratic” instead of dictatorial elitists focused more on not counting votes than on letting every voice be heard, the words “democratic change” had a very different meaning. The concept of democracy has since been hijacked. In the 2008 race for the White House, the Democrat candidate with the most popular support is Hillary Clinton. But somehow, the DNC nominee is Barack Hussein Obama.

Democrats Continue to Make Fools of Themselves
by JB Williams
Allow me to begin by stating for the record that I realize how politically incorrect it is to single out a specific group of people and acknowledge their overtly foolish behaviors. But it seems we have reached a moment of insanity, when enough really should be enough! It seems I need to give a speech to Democrats, which I have given to my children on several similar occasions. As Forest Gump learned from his Momma, “stupid is as stupid does.”

Healing, Hope, and Restoration For Our Courageous Troops
by Marie Jon'
Physicians and nurses are a part of the surgical teams that bring our troops hope and healing. They are proud to serve awesomely brave men and women of America's armed services who fight the war against terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. With skilled, trained hands they help our wounded warriors heal both physically and emotionally. Dedicated medical teams with heart and soul provide our troops a faster return to a well and productive life. They help improve the quality of life of our injured service men and women.

Unshackle American enterprise to increase oil supplies
by Vincent Gioia
Try as I might, I can’t come up with one thing the government has done that couldn’t have been done better, less expensively and more successfully by a non government business. Sure, the government has succeeded with special projects that required a lot of money like the atomic bomb, going to the moon and tax collecting, but does anyone want to entrust the government with more mundane things like nuclear power plants, telecommunication, oil production and oil refining, and health care?

Obama Would Be A Clinton Third Term
by Christopher G. Adamo
Forget about the rancor of the Democrat Primary season. That is all history now. In truth, the heated rivalry between the two candidates was hardly an indicator of any philosophical or moral differences between them, but only a strident argument about which liberal "messiah" deserved to be president. Even the fierceness of their efforts was itself a reflection of comparable components of raw ambition that each possesses.

Polar Bears More Important Than Western Civilization
by Randall H. Nunn
On Sunday, an article from the Associated Press stated that, less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species, “the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in pursuit of oil and natural gas.” As far as the Associated Press (and indeed, all of the mainstream media) is concerned, the survival of Western Civilization in the face of confiscatory pricing by the world’s dictatorships is of small concern compared to the very real threat of annoyance to polar bears. Is it any wonder that readership of the mainstream press is falling?

The sooner we accept who are enemy is,
the sooner and better we will be able to defend ourselves
by Vincent Gioia
Three Ohio men were convicted very recently of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq. The case was put together with help from a former soldier who posed as someone who wanted to help. It’s very likely you did not know about the plot to kill American soldiers, let alone the conviction of three men in Cleveland, Ohio, because our news media doesn’t want to expose the mission of Muslims to kill Americans.

Direct Election v. Electoral College
by Nancy Salvato
The constitutional amendment process is a complicated and lengthy affair. This is because we cannot be certain what consequences might arise from a seemingly minor alteration of the Constitution. To be sure, exchanging the electoral-vote system for direct election would adversely impact the entire constitutional and political structure of the United States. To begin, our Constitution is dedicated to securing everybody’s rights. This requires that we be concerned not only with size, but with the character of the majorities voting our president to office.

BAND-AIDS ON CANCER & THE PROGRESSIVE FLAT TAX
by Raymond S. Kraft
Barack Obama and John McCain both propose a grab bag of tinkerings with the Tax Code, raising taxes on the rich, cutting taxes on corporations, cutting taxes on the middle class, this and that, tweaks and twiddles here and there in an enormously complex accretion of legislation and IRS Regulations called The Tax Code, that leaves me wondering if they aren't Tweedledum and Tweedledee, or Tweedledeedler and Tweedledumber.

The Five Follies of Keith Olbermann
by Paul A. Ibbetson
For some time now a struggling MSNBC has employed a Bush hating mad hatter by the name of Keith Olbermann. Olbermann appears to be on an endless mission to disparage the president as well as the war on terror, and in doing so has created a very interesting example of the inner workings of the far left liberal. First, in highlighting the five follies of Olbermann it is only fair to give the disclaimer that these failings are not Olbermann’s alone but are general characteristics of the far left.

U.S. Supreme Court Offers Terrorists O.J. Treatment
by JB Williams
Five members of the U.S. Supreme Court just sided with known terrorists currently detained at Gitmo in Cuba. In doing so, they not only provided “aid and comfort” to enemies of our state, but offered Constitutional Rights written solely to protect the rights of innocent legal U.S. citizens to known terrorists, and placed every American life in mortal danger in that process.

The Cynical Politics of Global Warming and Its Hobgoblins
By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
In “The Cynical Politics of Global Warming and Its Hobgoblins” (831 words), faculty member, economist, and contributing scholar with the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College—Dr. Hendrickson—notes, “Apocalyptic GW became Al Gore’s hobgoblin of choice.” “Indeed, recent estimates are that $50 billion has been spent promoting the GW theory (mostly governments and international organizations using tax money) and less that $1 billion to question it.” Yet, as Dr. Hendrickson points out, “There are signs that Gore’s movement is losing credibility,” as British government officials have now “ruled that Gore’s award-winning film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ … is a work of political propaganda, and not scientifically sound.”

Will political correctness destroy America?
by Vincent Gioia
Many nations have been destroyed by foreign invaders ands some empires have self destructed from within. Rome is an example of both and the Soviet Union and Russia are examples of the latter. But no nation in history has yet self destructed because its citizens invited enemies to do the destruction; no nation that is until now when "political correctness" has planted the seeds of self annihilation.

Energy Independence and the Two Presidential Candidates
by Rene Guerra
McCain Tells Oil Companies to Share Their Profits," reads the title of the CNS News report. Share their profits? What’s new here? Is it not that, anyway, what most companies do with legitimate company owners -- shareholders, that is -- who, by the way, in the case of oil companies, include most workers with 401K plans? Alas, McCain talks about “sharing” (codeword for “confiscating”) those profits by way of distributing them amongst everyone in America -- ticks, fleas and bedbugs included -- as if someone else’s profits were a piñata for all.

Sunset On The Clinton Era
by Christopher G. Adamo
Momentarily setting aside the tragic impact on America, should Barack Obama be elected president, it is nonetheless worthwhile to ponder the significance of Hillary Clinton’s announcement last Saturday that she is dropping out of the presidential race. To be precise, she is “suspending” her campaign which, considering the history of the Clinton dynasty, could indicate that in her mind, this contest is not yet settled.

A Disapproving Nation
by JB Williams
Americans don’t seem to like anything about their country today. Disapproving nation is the best way to describe the current sentiment of the American electorate as we head into a very important election cycle. According to Real Clear Politics most recent averaged poll results, only 29% of Americans approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as President. 66.8% say they disapprove. At first blush, that sounds awful, until you see how the country feels about the Democrats who control congress and the press who props them up.

THE END OF GREENISM
by Raymond S Kraft
It hasn't quite hit the radar of the Liberal Democrats, but as the price of gasoline soars above $4 a gallon, and here in California it's closing in on $5, they're going to be facing a hard choice with no good options. They will be forced to (a) throw the Greens under the bus, and embrace the idea of drilling for oil in America, in ANWR, off the coasts, wherever it may be found, or (b) throw the US economy under the bus, and lose the November election to a Republican landslide, no matter who their candidate is.

Democrats and Their Democracy
The End of a Free Republic
by JB Williams
Karl Marx was right. “Democracy is the road to socialism” - in a nation hell-bent upon voting itself gifts from the public trough. Once an electorate is hooked on government solutions to personal self-induced problems, like a junkie on crack, the democratic process once used to guarantee individual freedom is perverted into a tool used to extinguish individual freedom. Democrats call it a greater good. The rest of the world calls it socialism.

Dear John
by Paul R. Hollrah
I think most people would agree that you made a pretty good speech in Kenner, Louisiana. The problem is… and I’m sure others have told you this… it reads far better than it sounded. It makes one wonder if you actually rehearse your speeches before you deliver them. Having been in public life for as long as you have, one wonders why you sometimes appear surprised by the words and phrases that suddenly appear on your teleprompter. However, that idiosyncrasy is not nearly as disconcerting as the quirky smiles that you inject into your delivery… often in totally inappropriate places.

Principles vs. Politics - Conservatives in the Crossfire
by JB Williams
At a time when American voters have been sold the bill of goods known as “Democratic Socialism,” the nanny states promise to solve personal problems at the expense of freedom and liberty for the 50% of Americans who pay taxes, conservatives find themselves caught in the crossfire of a centrist campaign season. What happens next may decide the foreseeable future of a nation on the brink of the worst possible kind of “change.”

How Many Rights Are Democrats Willing to Forfeit?
by Frank Salvato
With the announcement that Hillary Clinton is abandoning her quest for the Oval Office the Democrat National Committee (DNC) – and specifically the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee – has effectively selected the candidate for their party. I say selected because, by construct, the decision making process was taken away from the party faithful and placed in the hands of an elitist class of party insiders.

From Biofuels to Barack Hussein Obama
by Rene Guerra
Biofuels are creating a garden variety of problems worldwide. Unintended consequences? Or...intended? Who is being blamed for the mess, which the leftist environmentalists started? The good old USA...of course! And who is blaming the USA? The Left...of course! First of all, it must be understood that BHO and his acolytes can wreck America irreversibly, to the degree that pointing fingers in the aftermath would mean nothing.

Where Is Obama’s Testicular Fortitude?
by Joan Swirsky
I wish that Obama – with his natural-born gifts of intelligence, soaring oratory, and political passion – were a conservative. We conservatives would cherish such a gifted politician. But, alas, he remains a hard-core Marxist who only recently – and solely for calculated political reasons – distanced himself from fellow radicals and Chicago “machine” operatives Rev. Jeremiah Wright, domestic terrorist William Ayers, Rev. Michael Pfleger, convicted fixer Tony Rezko and the Windy City's favorite extortionist, Jesse Jackson.

Was the Iraq War Worth It?
by Jeff Lukens
They say if it bleeds, it leads on the nightly news. The recent silence from the mainstream news media on Iraq, however, is speaking volumes. While the war remains unpopular, our success there has been unmistakable. The Iraqi people, with the help of the U.S. led coalition, have succeeded in establishing the world’s first Arab democracy. Their achievement is a milestone in the war on terror and for the cause of liberty.

10 MILLION JOBS: THE HIGH COST OF SAVING ANWR
by Raymond S. Kraft
At $130 a barrel, the real cost, the hidden cost, of Democrats' refusal to open up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the oil resources off our coasts is 10 million jobs. Ten million jobs for middle-class, working-class Americans that are being "outsourced" to OPEC daily, even as the Senate debates bizarrely complex "carbon cap and trade" legislation.

Once again congress ignores the will of the people
to further a deceptive global warming agenda
by Vincent Gioia
Even though no one expects it to become law this year, a desperate effort is underway to enact the so-called "Climate Security Act", the brainchild of Senators Lieberman and Warner. As I have written before, among other horrors it would impose "cap-and-trade" mandates on anything that generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and that pretty much includes everything in our daily lives from electricity to cars.

Scott McClellan – A Mouse Under Foot
by Paul R. Hollrah
Scott McClellan, George W. Bush’s former press secretary, seems like a nice enough guy… a little fat, a little short, and a little bald… but all in all a nice guy. It’s just a shame that no one in the Bush White House warned him of the dangers of being under foot when elephants fight. He could have saved himself a lot of grief, a lot of self-inflicted pain, and a whole lot of public humiliation… which is yet to come.

The greatest threat to freedom since communism
by Vincent Gioia
"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity," warns Czech President Vaclav Klaus, "is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism." Why does it take someone from Czechoslovakia to express the obvious; are there no sensible people left in congress? Rush Limbaugh calls them "environmental communists"; no wonder Vaclav Klaus recognizes these people for what they are after having lived under the yoke of communism for so long.

The Network Behind the Bush-bashing Book
By Cliff Kincaid
Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist “journalist” named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don’t end there. Boudin’s son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin’s comrades in the communist terrorist group... Obama stands to benefit from the McClellan book because it was obviously crafted, under the guidance of Osnos,to inflict maximum damage on President Bush and...

The President Has Kept Us Safe
By THANE ROSENBAUM
With President Bush-bashing still a national pastime, it's notable how much international terrorism has been forgotten, and how little credit the president has received for keeping Americans safe. This is a difficult issue for me. I didn't vote for President Bush – twice. And as a human-rights law professor, the events at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, along with various elements of the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency's wiretapping of Americans, are all greatly troubling to me.

Loyalty to Self Over Country
by Frank Salvato
Like it or not, the reality is that we live in an extremely self-centered society. If you take issue with this statement just watch how pedestrians enter into crosswalks during rush hour. Ignoring that pedestrians only have the right of way when they are within the crosswalk, today’s bipeds don’t hesitate at all to walk directly in front of moving vehicles, expecting to be protected from trauma by their imagined “right” to occupy a space versus a 4,000lbs vehicle. Former Presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan is engaging the talk show circuit to promote his new “tell all” book about his disillusionment with his White House years.

American workers will pay for climate change redistribution of wealth laws
by Vincent Gioia
Despite 31,000 scientists debunking the idea that you and I are responsible for climate change on the planet, congress is going forward with enactment of laws that will have disastrous effects on our economy and way of life. Members of Congress are considering several bills designed to combat climate change. Chief among them is Senate bill 2191--America's Climate Security Act of 2007--introduced by Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). This bill would set a limit on the emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide from the combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas.

Czech President’s “Inconvenient Challenge” to Al Gore
by Christopher G. Adamo
Since leaving office, former Vice-President Al Gore has gained enormous stature within certain circles on the world scene, acquiring it per the standard liberal formula. Taking up his “Earth in the Balance” cause, he produced the feature length movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” which is replete with fantastic prophesies of doom for the planet unless America immediately regresses to third-world squalor.

Sunday Fare At Trinity United: Father Michael Pfleger
by Marie Jon'
Contrary to popular belief (and that of the secular left wing press), it is relevant that Sen. Barack Obama has chosen spiritual mentors who are bigots and hostile to the United States. Plainly put, Obama has too many close relationships with people who are morally bankrupt. Obama engenders no confidence that he would uphold the entirety of The Bill of Rights or show respect for civic tolerance if he became president.

Carbon credit markets open for business,
and there is big money to be made
by Vincent Gioia
The carbon credit scam is in full advance around the world and that means there are trillions of dollars to be made. Finally the real reason for the new religion founded by Al Gore is becoming apparent even to those who have refused to see the truth and follow blindly into the man-made global warming abyss.

When Winning Isn’t an Option!
Flirting with the War on Terror
by JB Williams
The most advanced military power on earth has not been allowed to win a war since WWII. Winning offends people, namely the losers. Therefore, in a politically correct world, winning is not an option. Instead of defeating enemies, we now seek to appease them first, and contain them when they refuse to be appeased. Winning is not an option… It hurts people’s feelings. Many Americans have put the events of 9/11 in their past and moved on to pretend that it was an isolated event that can never happen again. Though they are distantly aware that international terror organizations still plot and plan against the west, time without incident has driven public concern over national security to the bottom of the list of things to worry about.

Big government is the problem, not the solution
by Vincent Gioia
One of the candidates seeking the presidential nomination of his party said that high gasoline prices will affect how Americans drive - gee, do really think? This is just one of the many profundities spoken by Barack Obama from behind his teleprompter. We have seen gasoline prices go up strikingly before; sometimes we even had to wait in line for the privilege of paying more money so we could use our cars. The excuse then was we had a shortage of oil; which turned out not to be true.

WITH FRIENDS LIKE DEMOCRATS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
by Raymond S Kraft
A few weeks ago I saw $4 gasoline for the first time, at Chevron in the little town of Mt. Shasta, just off Interstate 5 between Redding, California, and Ashland, Oregon. Three days later, on (appropriately) April 1st, the lead headline in the San Francisco Chronicle was "House Moves To Protect Coast From Oil Drilling," explaining how the US House of Representatives "approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along 76 miles of Sonoma County's coastline . . . the newly protected zone would stretch from Bodega Bay to Point Arena and would extend about 50 miles off the coast -2, 093 square nautical miles, an area roughly the size of Delaware." This illustrates perfectly, in a microcosm, why so many of America's problems are Democrats' fault. When confronted with big challenges, they usually do the wrong thing.

Why have Democrats forgotten about Iraq?
by Vincent Gioia
You can always tell when things are going well in Iraq – critics are generally silent and the Democrats move on to other bogus issues. However the best indication is newspapers don’t report the unfortunate death of each of our brave American fighting men and women.

Whistles, Bells, and Red Lights Flashing
by By Marie Jon'
Americans who know the values and benefits of living a spiritual life are familiar with claims that Barack Obama is a kind of a Messianic transfiguring leader who wants to unite all Americans. Many however, wonder why he would gravitate to a religious theology which, unfortunately, is centered upon the color of a person's skin.

Liberals and Libertarians - DEAD Wrong on National Security
by JB Williams
Hillary Clinton was for the war on terror including in Iraq, before she had to become against it to attract her Code Pink feminazi core for a White House bid. Barack Obama says he would have been against it from the start, had he been out of his political diapers at the time those tough decisions had to be made. Both are running on ideological hindsight and campaign rhetoric.

Obama As National Unifier
by Paul R. Hollrah
The March 25 edition of the New York Times carried a political memo by Robin Toner, titled, “Obama’s Test: Can a Liberal Be a Unifier?” Toner begins by reminding us that, “At the core of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is a promise that he can transcend the starkly red-and-blue politics of the last 15 years, end the partisan and ideological wars, and build a new governing majority.”

A Nation in Crisis
by Frank Salvato
People, the news media and pundits like to throw around the word “crisis.” The mainstream media and their ilk tell us that we are currently experiencing a crisis in the sub-prime mortgage market, an economic crisis, a crisis with the environment, a crisis in race relations and with oil prices. There is a crisis with the polar bears, the environmentalists tell us, as they taut their questionable consensus on the global warming crisis, this even as 31,000 scientists rebuke their “consensus.”

‘Dear American Voter’ – George Soros Says The World Should Pick Our President
by Warner Todd Huston
We’ve seen it over and over, people in Europe who imagine that they should be allowed to vote U.S. presidential elections. Some of these people imagine that they should have a voice in our elections because, they say, America is so supremely powerful that the man who becomes our president makes decisions that will impact the entire world.

GOP Congressional Disasters: The "McCain Effect"
by Christopher G. Adamo
For nearly the last four decades, a consistent pattern has been established in the Republican political arena, whereby both good and bad fortunes can be directly correlated to the overt conservatism, or the lack thereof, in the party. The more conservative the party and its candidates are, the better they do on election day. Conversely, as GOP members seek "common ground" with liberal Democrat rivals, their prospects at the ballot box diminish.

Democrats Still Playing Politics While Troops Await “Support”
by JB Williams
According to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, the emergency war funding bill currently stalled in the Senate must be passed by Memorial Day or the Defense Department would have to delay paychecks beginning June 15, 2008. But this was no last minute budget request from the Commander-in-Chief that congress has not had time to approve. The passage of the war funding bill was not an “emergency” when it was first requested by Bush or introduced in the House.

The Real Link Between Solar Energy, Ocean Cycles And Global Temperature
by Stephen Wilde
This article expands and updates my previous articles and should be read with them, which explain that according to real world observations the matter of solar cycle length is very significant. Variations in solar energy as a driver for global climate change have been wholly discounted by the IPCC and climate modellers on the basis that something they call Total Solar Irradiance has not changed enough between 1975 and 1998 to make a significant contribution to the climate warming observed during that period.

We could be energy-independent if it weren't for political asses and greenies
by Vincent Gioia
Before I got my first driver license I envied my young friends with cars. They ruled the neighborhood and had first choice of girls; I could only stand by and wonder what it would be like to be able to cruise down Main Street in my own "wheels" and eat at drive-in restaurants served by pretty car hops. Little did I know then that all this was made possible because gasoline was a bargain and fill-ups were affordable by most everyone.

If the Republican Party has lost its way, how can voters be expected to follow them?
by Vincent Gioia
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is the latest politician masquerading as a Republican to call for the party to change its ways and adopt Democrat policies to win elections. Some years ago Arnold said the Republican Party was in danger of "dying at the box office" if it failed to appeal to a wider group of voters. After successfully toppling former Democrat governor Gray Davis in a rare recall election, Arnold showed the way by becoming indistinguishable from the opposition party.

Mr. Obama, Don’t Try to Deceive Us With Your “Christian” Message
by Rev. Lainie Dowell
In a plea for the evangelical vote on May 20, Sen. Barack Obama is sending out campaign flyers that show him standing before a pulpit with the backdrop of a gigantic cross and church organ. And radio stations in Kentucky are blaring what “a strong Christian” he is. As Bobby Eberle writes: “Obama is blatantly campaigning not on issues, but rather on religion, and he is getting a pass from the media. Huckabee was criticized for a Christmas ad and Obama's blatant pandering to Evangelicals is not being covered.”

These are the times that try men’s souls
by Vincent Gioia
To use an old manner of description, the American elite are "to smart by half". It is absolutely incredible how much damage to an otherwise thriving society can be accomplished by a small group of elitists who consider themselves smarter than everyone else and therefore able to dictate to others what is best for them.

For real change, it's time to test voters
by Noel S. Williams
The Voting Rights act of 1965, which effectively did away with literacy tests, served its purpose. Our body politic has since bloated, even as its mind withers. Polls show that many Americans can’t name all the branches of government, or they believe that Karl Marx helped author our constitution. Surveys by Pew Research indicate that politicians get elected by people who don’t know their platforms.

Obama’s Psyche
by Joan Swirsky
We all know of people who make strange choices, but what about those who make self-defeating choices over and over and over again, so magnetized are they by spouses (and others) who are bad for them? The woman who marries a drunk, then a gambler, then a philanderer – the man who marries a gold digger, then a nag, then an iceberg. Time after time, this type ends up with a variation on an off-note theme, while friends and colleagues shake their heads and remark, “But he’s so smart…she’s so experienced.” That seems to be the universal reaction to last week’s near-implosion of Sen. Barack Obama presidential campaign, which left him the daunting challenge of explaining to a mystified electorate why his soft-spoken, non-combative, let’s-get-beyond-race-and-anger agenda has been threatened-cum-sabotaged by the people he is most attracted to.

Meet the Anti-Candidates - Nobody’s FOR Them!
by JB Williams
No matter which candidates campaign speech you attend, you will hear only how they oppose the positions of the other two candidates. You will hear very little about why you should support them, only why you should not support the others. That’s because there is little reason to vote for any of them. The fact is - most Americans would love to pull the lever for none-of-the-above! 50% of American voters have been pulling that lever for years now, having already thrown in the towel on elective self-governance by not voting at all. The other 50%, who still vote, cast their votes against the other candidates, not for any of the clearly under qualified misfits that now run for the highest office in the land.

Only Love Can Drive Out Hate: Just Words?
by Marie Jon’
Barack Obama first appeared on the national political scene as a uniter with hope and promise in his words. In 2004 when he gave his now-famous keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, Americans saw Obama emerge as someone special and unique. He was young and oozed poise and charisma. Without a doubt, the Democrat Party had their future presidential candidate in its sights. Today, the Democrat National Party is stuck with nothing more than a leftist ideologue politician who uses empty words to astound those who sought after him.

When Gasoline Reaches $5.00 per Gallon, Thank Liberals!
Written by JB Williams
Financial Times reports “OPEC says oil could hit $200,” up from the record $120 a barrel today. If and when that happens, predicted to be this summer, the $3.50 to $4.00 prices you see at the pumps today will top $5.00 per gallon and you can thank liberal environmentalists for that! When Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, the average retail price of gasoline was $1.06 per gallon. By the time Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, that average per gallon price had become $1.25 per gallon, a 17.9% increase in less than four years. By the time George W. Bush took office in January 2001, the price of a gallon of gas had become $1.45 – a 36.8% increase in gasoline prices during the first Clinton era. Yet Hillary Clinton says she can solve this problem… and I hope she can, but let’s consider the facts.

Liberal "Social Justice" Portends New Dark Age
by Christopher G. Adamo
The American public, and Christians in particular, are being deluged once again with talk of the thoroughly ambiguous concept of "social justice." It is, after all, election time. Thus the pseudo religious among us must make their pitch for the Christian vote, on whatever spurious terms they can concoct. In its raw form, "social justice" merely references the prevailing societal attitudes of the day, relegating any defining standards of right or wrong, good or evil, and moral or immoral to a snapshot of the existing consensus. Biblical principles notwithstanding, "social justice" has throughout time been equally applicable to those crowds shouting "crucify him," the burning of "heretics" at the stake during the inquisition, and even the holocaust.

Hussein,” They Have Managed to Hide; “Barack,” They Can’t
by Rene Guerra
The “mainstream” media may attempt “sanitizing” Barack Hussein Obama’s relationship with America-hater and racist-bigot Jeremiah Wright, and they may achieve some Pyrrhic “success” among naives and idiots, but other big issues about BHO remain raw and latent, and to which all batteries should be aimed at, one at a time, at the proper time and in the proper fashion: The Democrats and the rest of the Left along with their main propaganda stooges--i.e., the “mainstream” media--with the RINOs at their tail, including of course John Sidney McCain III, have all intimidated America into not pronouncing the middle name of Barack Hussein Obama.

Bio-fuels - A Multi-trillion Dollar Mistake
Dick McDonald
It was only yesterday when the mass of humanity believed the world was flat. They reasoned that it looked flat so it must be so. That was a huge social and economic mistake. Recently another huge visual mistake has been made by humanity. They saw some pictures of a naturally occurring phenomenon and again incorrectly concluded that there was a serious problem – global warming. Rather than spending their time analyzing this potential “global warming” phenomenon the present day Flat Earth types, generously called “environmentalists”, sought to correct what has turned out to be no problem whatsoever.

Ceasefires in Islam: Not Always What They Seem to Be
BY Frank Salvato
It seems as though every other day we hear there is another “ceasefire” in the Middle East. This is chiefly because there is so much violent Islamofascist aggression throughout the Middle East but it is also because of something more. Just as there is no exact translation between the Arabic and English languages, we in the West would be wise to realize that this “inexactness” exists as a constant in the relationship between the cultures of Islam and Western Civilization. This convolution of conceptual understanding is aptly illustrated where the subject of military ceasefires is concerned.

The silent jihad against the west

by Vincent Gioia
Anyone that cares to learn about what is going on in the world is familiar with active jihad, the "holy war", conducted with terrorism and directed at the modern world in general and western civilization more specifically. But there is also another form of jihad that is part of the deliberate effort to have Islam replace all concepts of morality and the values held dear by the rest of us. The name of this silent "fifth column" effort is "Sharia Banking". Unfortunately, Sharia Banking is increasingly accepted by western banking institutions without any real understanding of what the Muslim goal is and what is at stake in the efforts by these institutions to attract more business, profits and money to bail them out of financial messes they brought upon themselves.

Democrats Offer Electorate Horrific Hobson’s Choice
Joan Swirsky
Thomas Hobson, an English stable owner in the 15th century, offered his customers two unappealing choices: either to take the least desirable horse or none at all. Six centuries later, we still refer to no-win (i.e., lose-lose) options as Hobson’s Choice. Welcome to the Hillary-Obama race! It simply boggles the mind that out of over-300-million American citizens, the best that the Democrat Party can offer its leftist followers is the choice between a pathologically lying socialist and a Marxist in liberal clothing. But looking at this near-empty glass in a rosier light, people who love America can be grateful that the longest presidential campaign in history has allowed them to see and hear the real Hillary Clinton and the real Barack Obama, and not the fabricated “packages” that their spinmeisters – including the leftwing media – have so relentlessly tried to conceal.

Egomaniac Rev. Wright
Drives Stake in Heart of Obama Campaign
by JB Williams
Just when it looked like Obama might actually survive the firestorm surrounding his connection to the racist pastor Wright, the good Reverend comes out of hiding to pour more fuel on the fire. The good Reverend is becoming about as helpful to Obama as Bill is to Hillary… With friends like this, who needs enemies? Well-known leftist ABC news commentator Bill Moyers set the stage for Wright’s National Press Club début by tossing Wright softballs to hit out of the park unchallenged. For a man who isn’t running for office, Wright sure has his campaign strategy down pat. Like an old Democrat pro, Wright even limited press club questions to previously cleared cue cards, his answers dripping from his lips before each question was even asked.

The Confluence of Religion & Freedom
By Nancy Salvato
“Textbooks today are trapped in an ideological straitjacket that, in contrast to the surrounding popular culture, restricts content and sterilizes social realities.” – The Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoption. I’ve always enjoyed learning about history. When I look back on my history classes, it wasn’t because I was interested in reading the textbooks, it was the teacher who made history come alive, by inserting anecdotes that made it “real,” showing footage of actual events, or by connecting what happened in the past to the present. As a matter of fact, most of the textbooks I used put me to sleep. I loved to read and often wondered why we couldn’t just read books instead of textbooks to learn about people, places, and events.

Muslims and non Muslims don’t speak the same language

By Vincent Gioia
When two people speak together a useful exchange of views requires that both adopt the same language and recognize similar meanings of words; otherwise discourse is meaningless and neither will understand the other. This requirement unfortunately is the reason Muslims and non Muslims cannot achieve a rational common understanding of issues critical to their existence together. Of all social concepts perhaps freedom, liberty and democracy are the most important. Freedom and liberty go together but democracy is in the eye of the beholder; which is to say to some democracy is a prelude to freedom and liberty and to others it is a way to impose, solidify and entrench their philosophy on a "democratic" population for all time.

GLOBAL WARMING? - AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN McCAIN
Raymond S. Kraft
Dear Mr. McCain,
It seems that some leading Republicans such as yourself and Newt Gingrich, and even President Bush, have accepted the premise of Anthropogenic Global Warming - that man is spewing millions of tons of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere each year, and that this is causing an unprecedented rise in earth's temperature that threatens us all. And, that if we spend enough money to reduce CO2 emissions, we can change it. I urge you to reconsider. More than 19,000 scientists have signed the Global Warming Petition to protest the Kyoto accord, and declare their opposition to the theory that man's CO2 emissions are causing Global Warming. Editor's Note: Ray includes well researched analysis and graphics to make his point in this article.

The Natural Inequality of Individual Freedom
by JB Williams
America is politically divided down the center line between individual freedom and a so-called greater common good. Half of the country is trying desperately to protect and preserve a maximum level of individual freedom and liberty for themselves and future generations, while the other half is desperate to take from those according to their means in order to fill the perceived needs that they have failed to fill on their own. Many American voters are struggling to escape the reality that freedom isn’t free and never was. They try to hide from the fact that freedom to excel bears with it the freedom to fail, and run from the truth that although freedom is quite “fair,” - equal freedom will never result in equal outcomes.

In The Name Of Rationality And Reason
By Marie Jon'
We can reason and rationalize just about anything, including our lack of exercise and bad eating habits. We rationalize insensitivity to others' feelings because we live in a world that has become coarse and crude. Are we reasonable? Are we rational? How often does an alcoholic rationalize: "I can have one drink?" Marriages and homes are destroyed by acts of infidelity. Some men rationalize that watching pornography has no detrimental effect on their libido. Nothing could be further from the truth. God created us to enjoy sex, and within the bond of Holy Matrimony it is among the greatest of blessings. However, lives are destroyed by addictions that often begin as "innocuous" glances at pornography over the Internet.

Obama’s Descent Into Racism
by Paul R. Hollrah
In the past year, numerous writers and commentators have given us an occasional “pearl of wisdom” from Barack Obama’s best selling memoir, Dreams from My Father. Unfortunately, those snippets of information have not told us much about this naïve and overly ambitious young man who desires to become the president of our country. As Obama explains, the book was written as a direct result of the notoriety he gained from being elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He tells us that, after some modest newspaper publicity, he received an advance from a publisher and he began to write, believing that the story of his family, and his efforts to understand that story, “might speak in some way to the fissures of race that have characterized the American experience…”

The federal government has overruled the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution

By Vincent Gioia
In the Bill of Rights, the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." The wording describing the distribution of powers between the federal and state governments is very clear but 200 years after the amendment was adopted federal law makers have succeeded in subverting the language and intent of the amendment. Perhaps it was inevitable that those making our laws would succumb to the enormous power of office despite the clarity of vision demonstrated by the creators of the Constitution. This occurred when federal lawmakers discovered the tool to expand government control was the power of the purse.

Barack Obama: It’s More About His Choices
By Frank Salvato
Many of the more conservative talking heads – and even some on the Left side of the aisle who support Hillary Clinton – are espousing their concern about Barack Obama’s “associations.” They point to Obama’s spiritual advisor, Jeremiah Write, and note his “friendly” relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorists William Ayers and his partner Bernadine Dorhn and wax alarmingly about his willingness to associate with such people. Certainly, Wright, Ayers and Dorhn are interesting if not contemptible people but a person’s associations concern me less than a person’s choice to defend those associations. The moment the Jeremiah Wright issue was brought into the public eye the taboo of aggressively examining the background of the first Black man with a real chance to capture the presidency was lifted. Begrudgingly, the star-struck mainstream media – so in awe of Barack Obama’s “rockstar” political presentation – has begun, ever so apathetically, to cover the issues of his candidacy that the new media has exposed.

Hillary Versus Obama: Whose Lies Will Prevail?
By Chris Adamo
Perhaps the most striking conclusion to be drawn from this week's Pennsylvania Primary is that, despite its results, nothing in the Democrat Party's currently tangled state will change. And this would have been so, no matter how the election had unfolded. A mere win by Hillary, even with her ten-point margin over Barack Obama, was not sufficient to alter the course of this bitter race between the two liberal Democrats. Both sides assert reasons to still claim the political, as well as "moral" high ground. And neither would consider, under any circumstances, conceding the end game to the other, whether for the good of their party or the country.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement continues to develop in secrecy
By Vincent Gioia
What do you do when the name of your pet program elicits loud criticism; you change its name of course. That’s what the leaders of Mexico, Canada and the United States did when the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement ran into unexpected opposition after details of SPP became known, notwithstanding efforts to keep it secret and away from public attention. The problem is that regardless what you call it, SPP is still bad news. When Bush, Harper and Calderon met in New Orleans to continue their march toward a North American Union, the meeting was recast as a "North American Leaders Summit", the name was changed but the cast of characters and the plot remained the same.

The future you save, might be your own
By Vincent Gioia
Would you be as concerned about the price of gasoline for your car if the government paid half of the cost? Not likely, because escalating gasoline costs would not be a big deal if the net effect does not impact your budget. If you think this could not be done, remember the government owns the money tree; it can print as many dollars as it wishes. What about those selling gasoline? They would be thrilled with government assistance to their customers. Market forces of competition would not stand in the way of keeping prices high because the market would not be price sensitive. Eliminate competition for larger market share or greater sales volume and it is not necessary to lower prices to attract more business in order to make more profit.

Promoting Alternative Energy for the Right Reasons
Nancy Salvato
Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich are featured together in a television commercial which focuses on how conservatives and liberals can come together to find solutions for problems caused by climate change. Mr. Gingrich’s explanation for joining this $300 million dollar advertising campaign is to force conservatives into debating liberals about the ways our country should best promote alternative energy sources. This in itself is a fine idea because I don’t know any person who wants our country to continue relying on oil for fuel. Most would agree that cleaner sources of energy are preferable. While there should be robust debate about how best to pursue alternative energy, I believe this ad is misleading because it presents these two political adversaries as working together to find solutions to the problem of climate change in and of itself, as if there is a scientific consensus that climate change truly poses the problems outlined in Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

Barack Obama’s Snake Oil
By Joan Swirsky
Handsome, intelligent, charismatic, blessed with a golden tongue, and irresistible to his besotted followers, Elmer Gantry – the title character of Sinclair Lewis’s 1927 novel – inspired his supporters to swoon, indeed faint, at his seductive oratory. He told them they were “sinners,” then gave them “hope” that they could “change” if they would only follow his path to redemption. As it turned out, Gantry was a fraud – a sinner himself – ultimately exposed and discredited. “That’s not fair!” liberals protest. “Gantry was fictional.” True, but a character that resonated with the reading public because he was instantly recognizable as so many of the frauds in their lives.

The American Tragic Comedy that is Barack Obama
Dick McDonald
I find it a tragic human comedy that all Republican and Democrat talking heads let Obama’s enormous lie at the last debate go unchallenged and unreported. He says he “wants to change the way business is done in Washington.” Yet he states that “the tax code has been written by the well connected”. In no uncertain terms he declares the lobbyists, big business and the rich are the ones who have kept the poor poor and the middle-class from achieving the American Dream by manipulating the tax code. Now take a moment to realize how common that perception is. Then question yourself. Is that your perception?

It's not about saving the planet; it's about control
By Vincent Gioia
“Global warming”, now called “climate change”, is not about saving the planet, it’s about increasing government control of your life. Former communists and their socialists’ cousins have sought control of the proletariat for decades. In the past they succeeded in their own names but an enlightened populace has required them to change their names and their tactics. So today we have “environmentalists” and “man-made global warming” advocates pressing forward with the same objective. There is simply no other way to explain the zeal and near-religious fervor with which these people have urged their will on others despite the overwhelming evidence that their cause is unjust and the premise is just plain wrong.

The Real Obama Story Exposed! (Part I)
by JB Williams
Other than the honor of holding the most far left voting record in the U.S. Senate as a freshman law maker and former black activist from Chicago who has spent the last twenty years supporting the anti-American, anti-white hate sermons of Rev. Wright, we know very little about Barrack Hussein Obama… until now! The Obama campaign is centered on the simple notion of change. But what kind of change are we talking about here? The Obama campaign has remained vague about the specific kinds of change in their agenda, barking platitudes from the stump without offering any real information.

The Real Obama Story Exposed! (Part II)
by JB Williams
Part I of this series focused on the connections between Barack Obama, his heavy handed socialist cousin in Kenya and Obama’s roll in helping him come to power by way of violence. It covers information posed by an American missionary working in Africa and the African version of who Barack Obama really is… In closing, I raised the question, where is all that Obama money coming from, since it can’t be coming from the “poor” Americans he claims to represent, and his campaign web site asks what country his donors are from, indicating that they may not be from America. In Part II, I want to take a closer look at Obama’s international support, their idea of “change” and what roll the international community expects Obama to play in serving their agendas in the world.

This is not a time for childish games with China
By Vincent Gioia
It has been a long time since we had a popular craze similar to "pet rocks" but the time has arrived when it has become popular to buy into another childish game. The world is unhappy with the "human rights" record of China; and well it should. Except for the freedom to make money, capitalist style, China deprives its citizens of human rights possessed by at about 20% of the rest of the world. China is not unique in having a controlling government, but other countries are not hosting the Olympics for a while yet so attention is focused on the mammoth of the east who, incidentally, owns a big chunk of the United States debt.

Obama’s Pennsylvania Two-Step
by Paul R. Hollrah
Barack Hussein Obama appears to be a nice enough fellow, although, having leaped onto the national political stage, courtesy of the most corrupt big city political machine in America, one wonders what illegal and unethical shenanigans he’s had to either ignore or wink at that would make the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons sound like children’s fairy tales. Obama travels about the country, inspiring crowds of tweed-jacket-and-tennis-shoe liberals, nanny-state blacks, self-described campus “intellectuals,” starry-eyed political “groupies,” and Code Pink radicals with his message of “hope” and “change.”

"We have met the enemy and they is us"
By Vincent Gioia
Recently Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner said: "In just the past year, this (Democratic) majority voted to cut funding for the border fence, opened the door to illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded services without showing proof of citizenship and overturned a successful GOP proposal to prevent taxpayer-funded federal benefits from being awarded to illegal immigrants." To quote the long gone sage cartoon figure "Pogo", "we have met the enemy and they is us."

Obama’s Marxist Historical-Materialistic Perceptional Grasp of Small-Town America
Rene Guerra
A conservative friend of mine, whom I correspond with, wrote me in sarcastic terms that--regarding Barack Husssein Obama’s recent infamous aspersions on small-town America--"...Obama is correct if you change the wording slightly"; yes, BHO is almost correct...from the point of view of Marxist historical-materialism. That said, the two monumentally-revealing issues at the core of BHO's disparagements on small-town people for their "clinging to religion" are that, first, he inadvertently lowered the guard in a meeting that he thought was private and confidential and, second, and more impacting, he premeditatedly let his Marxism spew out of his big mouth, and in full force:

Jimmy Carter's Alternate Universe
By Christopher G. Adamo
If America must be reminded of just how bad things could get under the leadership of a wholly incompetent president, it needs only to recall the disgraceful and humiliating four years of the Carter Administration, beginning in January of 1977. Within the span of a single presidential term, Carter managed to thoroughly decimate the U.S. military, while simultaneously telegraphing the nation's vulnerability along with his absolute reluctance to exercise American power to defend American interests.

Which is a more serious threat, Islam or liberalism?
By Vincent Gioia
Like many people, not liberals of course, I have believed the greatest threat facing the United States is from Islam; more particularly, the Islamic Nazis. However after listening to Rush Limbaugh recently, I am now convinced the greatest threat we face is from liberalism. Of course the Islamic thing is a very real external threat but liberalism will cause destructive fundamental changes in our country and our way of life if we let it and our freedom will not be far behind. In Limbaugh’s own words: “"I have to tell you guys something. Without question the biggest threat facing this country is liberalism.”

“We Support our Troops!” Do You Really?
by JB Williams
For too many years now, socialist whiners masquerading as your granddaddy’s Democrats have been maligning our troops in battle in what I will call a traitorous fashion, all the while screaming at the top of their lungs, “but, we support our troops!” From Senator Jay Rockefeller’s private trip to the Middle East weeks after 9/11 to warn our enemies that Bush was going to attack Iraq, to Baghdad Jim McDermott’s “Bush is a Liar” tour, paid for by known terror sponsor groups, to John Murtha’s many slanderous remarks from the floor of congress, they have gotten away with far too much for far too long.

Change Doesn’t Come by Electing a President
By Frank Salvato
We have heard during this presidential election cycle – ad naseum – how our country is in dire need of “change.” We are promised by each of the candidates that they are the ones – the only ones – who can bring about this much needed change. Of course, this is all disingenuous politicking. The fact of the matter is this: the office of the presidency is quite limited in its power to affect any change at all. The real entity capable of affecting immediate and dramatic change in government, the governmental branch with the real power, is the Legislative Branch.

The Hypocrisy Of Rev. Jeremiah Wright
By Marie Jon'
Add the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to the list of race-hustling, misleading double-speaking con men who just so happens to wear a pastor's collar. Certainly, we are all too familiar with their names. Their demagoguery is infamous. They are often deemed by the media as the leaders and spokespeople of the black community. In his lust for power, Wright, a haughty man, did irrefutable harm to every parishioner at Trinity United Church of Christ. Whether they know it or not, their minds have been deliberately poisoned by a man who demeans their human worth.

My Fellow Conservatives,
By JB Williams
The conservative movement in American politics has never been more fractured by in-fighting than it is today and we must find a way to fix it, fast. In the good ole days, all of my hate mail came from sniveling liberals angry with my ultra-conservative message about the founding principles and values that made America the greatest nation in earth's history. But today, most of my hate mail comes from self-styled conservatives and angry Republicans who can't seem to agree on what it means to be Republican, much less conservative. I believe that we are headed for a disastrous loss this November and that such a loss can forever change the direction of this nation in an irreversible leap into pure Democratic Socialism that will soon after, be the ruin of my beloved country. If I'm right, it will be "conservatives" who cause it, not liberals.
Please also see comments on JB's article by Rene Guerra

Don’t You Dare Follow The Money!
Joan Swirsky
It’s been 34 years since “Deep Throat” advised Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (as documented in their book, “All the Presidents Men”) to “follow the money” in the Watergate case that resulted in President Nixon’s ignominious resignation. In rooting out political corruption, that advice still holds, one of the latest examples being the payment schedule that Democrat New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught on tape trying to negotiate with his prostitute of choice. But Spitzer’s self-destructive, career-destroying behavior, like Nixon’s, is small potatoes compared to the filthy-lucre trail of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In reviewing only a small number of the shady deals both Bill and Hillary have made over the years, it should be clear to any sane American that entrusting Hillary with the U.S. presidency will...

The Pentagon… Whose Side Are They On?
By Paul R. Hollrah
The American people now find themselves under attack by the most numerous and the most brutal enemy that any civilized nation has ever faced – the only enemy ever to seriously threaten the lives of every man, woman, and child in America. In a conflict such as this the most critical weapons we can have are not nuclear weapons, high performance aircraft, great warships, or massive numbers of tanks, artillery, and infantry. The most important weapon we can have in this war is information… solid, actionable intelligence. In a September 2006 column we reported that a critical new technology called Computerized Voice Stress Analysis (CVSA), the most significant new development in the science of truth verification, was being purposely denied to our military intelligence units in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo by policy directive from the Pentagon.

American Salvation
Dick McDonald
The American salvation I speak of is not economic or social as America has no economic peer on the planet nor societal structure that delivers greater freedom to the individual. No America is doing fine irrespective of its nay Sayers and internal enemies. What I speak of is the fact that social and economic policies exist in the way we run the country that must be changed to elevate the status of individuals over that of the state. For too long policies rooted in socialist dogma have dominated the operation of our government and in turn created a bureaucracy that has sapped self-reliance from many of its citizen and made too many dependent on the state for their very existence.

Obama’s Empty Formula For 2008
By: Christopher G. Adamo
Wyoming cattleman J. Randall “Randy” Stevenson, a vocal advocate of American agriculture and American enterprise, warns that this nation is “Increasingly outsourcing its sovereignty while importing its dependency.” In these few words, he encapsulates the real challenges facing America, which ultimately eclipse any threat from abroad, whether that of militant Islam or the Chinese efforts to establish hegemony over the world economy. Stevenson has amassed plenty of knowledge on the subject, having witnessed first hand the orchestrated efforts of multinational beef packagers and distributors to manipulate and restructure the market in their own favor, often with the collaboration of sympathizers at the highest levels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Swinging Like Monkeys from the Branches of the Liberty Tree
By Frank Salvato
Recently, in a Chicago suburb, a village trustee was issued a citation for disorderly conduct when she informed two less than discerning parents that the trees of the village were to be respected as elements of nature, not utilized like playground equipment. The citation was issued after the parents mistook verbiage used as that of being racist. It should be disturbing to all of us that a citation was issued because of words used in a non-aggressive fashion. Even more disturbing is that our society is willing to disregard free speech rights in pursuit of political correctness.

The Unavoidable Need of Effective Democracy in Iraq
Rene Guerra
Last week Bill O’Reilly interviewed entertainment-investor Wayne Rogers about, among other directly related matters, Roger’s vocal and activist opposition to America’s efforts in Iraq. Although the two disagreed antithetically on almost everything about the subject, they agreed on the baseless contention that imposing effective democracy in Iraq is worthless, and a great waste of precious blood and lots of money. To debunk such allegation, all one needs is to ask the following one-line elementary, but very powerful, question: Which effective-democracy has ever inflicted physical aggression on America?

Is the RNC Getting the Message Yet?
by JB Williams
The RNC is not the GOP. It’s only a collective national action committee for the state Republican parties, a fund raising and steering committee. Yet for far too long, the RNC has assumed increasing power over the political process to the detriment of the party. Voter complacency and apathy towards the political process has left control of the party in the hands of a few centrist party elites and conservative voters have lost faith in their own party as a result.

"... from each according to his means"
By Vincent Gioia
If congress has a bill that needs to be disguised from the public, they are masters of coining titles so that the public is confused into thinking the legislation is worthwhile. Actually, this ploy may be useful to finagle the law passed other legislators who generally don’t take the time to read what they are inflicting on an unwary public. Some examples that come to mind are the Energy Security and Independence Act which provides neither security nor energy independence, and the Campaign Finance Law which may have been better titled the Incumbent Protection Act.

We can win in Iraq, but will Democrats let us?
By Vincent Gioia
The appearance of General Petraeus at various Senate Committees and the testimony he gave about the situation is Iraq was in stark contrast to the questions and comments by Democrat presidential aspirants. The General set the example of what is good about the United States and represented the spirit of thousands of men and women of our military in Iraq fighting for the safety of their country. The Democrats in contrast could only think about political advantage and what they could do to cause our country’s defeat at the hand of terrorists who want to destroy us; for them the question is not what we can do to beat back terrorism, it’s what can be done to surrender to it.

America’s Fifth Column
by JB Williams
America has a growing enemy within. This enemy is referred to by experts as America’s Fifth Column. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the term Fifth Column refers to “A clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity [unity] by any means at their disposal.” Does such a group of subversive agents’ intent upon undermining American unity actually exist today? If they do, who are they, what are their methods and what is their goal?

The truth about carbon credits
By Vincent Gioia
Achieving a global carbon credit mechanism continues to be at the top of the agenda of the three contenders for their party’s presidential nomination despite numerous scientific studies concluding that warming of the entire solar system is part of a natural cycle. Non-stop propaganda from the news media and politicians continue to blame man made carbon emissions for warming the planet.

Our National Security Demands that We Learn All About Obama
Rene Guerra
“Did you know that for the first year of every Deputy Sheriff's career in California, he/she is required to work that year in a jail. Why? It is so that they will know about sociopaths, who can lie to you while looking you in the eye. It is so that they will learn that people can commit horrible crimes, and then rapidly construct totally believable stories exonerating them.” That’s what wrote to me a few days ago Dave Hollenbeck, an insightful retired California Highway Patrol officer, in a simile regarding Barack Hussein Obama’s “charm” and “eloquence”, as related to Obama’s articulate lying, rapidly diminishing credibility, and ulterior motives.

Risky Misreading of Democrat Turmoil
By: Christopher G. Adamo
Rush Limbaugh is enjoying the ensuing success of his "Operation Chaos," his ongoing effort to weaken the political prospects of the Democrats by prolonging party infighting between the Hillary and Obama camps. But despite Limbaugh's exuberance, the Democrat Party is alive and well, and could under the right circumstances, resuscitate itself very quickly. Sadly, many of the conditions necessary for such a scenario result from the collaboration of inexcusably gullible Republican "moderates." Willfully ignorant of past experience, they are again buying into the inane notion that partial concession to fundamentally flawed liberal principle is a worthwhile tactic by which to improve the political climate.

Women in Islam: Suffering the Barbary of an Ideology
By Frank Salvato
News spread quickly that anti-Islamofascism activist Dr. Wafa Sultan has gone into hiding, along with her family. They are in hiding because of her participation in a recent debate on Al-Jazeera in which she challenged Egyptian Islamist Talat Rheim over Dutch cartoons of Mohammed and the ideology of Islam in general. For her truthful criticisms of Islam Dr. Sultan earned a fatwa, a “religiously” decried death sentence, from an Islamic scholar. That she criticizes Islam is enough justification in the eyes of the radical Islamist to kill her. That she is a woman infuses into the fatwa an unbridled viciousness and a need for expediency.

Will ethanol enthusiasts have to give up reading?
By Vincent Gioia
As more and more is written about ethanol, global warming fanatics who think humans are warming the planet may, like the smoker who read so much about the bad effects of smoking he gave up reading, will do as their tobacco-addicted counterparts want to do.Corn prices have soared to $6.00 a bushel, an increase of over 30% in just the first four months of this year. The usual reason for high prices apply, demand exceeds the supply.

In Spite of His Words: Rev. Jeremiah Wright
By Marie Jon’
It seems that the image of Reverend Jeremiah Wright (former pastor of presidential candidate Barack Obama) is being expiated after offending Americans with his inflammatory, bigoted and anti-American words. The divinity wagons have been circled to protect the bombastic preacher in spite of his words. Brite Divinity School honored and recognized Rev.Wright at their fourth annual State of the Black Church Awards Banquet for his 40-year ministry linking divine justice with social justice.

The cure is worse than the disease
By Vincent Gioia
Years ago during the phony oil shortage motorists waited in line to buy gasoline, sometimes for hours. All sorts of schemes were proposed including buying gasoline only in alternate days depending on your license plate number. With gasoline shortages and high prices, one not so funny joke circulated ridiculing the plight of those needing to use their cars for work and other necessary travel.

"Have you noticed Democrat solutions to anything always involve spending more money and giving the government more control?"
By Vincent Gioia
Democrat presidential contenders both want change for the country; and this campaign mantra seems to be appealing to many Americans, at least during the primary season. However on those few occasions when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make even small attempts to explain their disingenuous claims to make the country better through the vague concept of change, it looks like anything they succeed in doing will be paid for by those among us that work for a living.

Agents of Division Bring Devastating Change
by JB Williams
For more than 200 years, a nation of immigrants from all parts of the world, all races, all cultures, all religions and all languages, have stood together as one people united only by a simple single set of principles and values that made them the most free, prosperous and powerful people on earth. No matter their backgrounds, their past, they chose a brighter future united in the common purpose of individual rights and rejected the chains of division.

Is Hillary Mentally Ill?
By Joan Swirsky
Newspaper articles and TV specials have made most people familiar with the psychiatric disorder called Munchausen-By-Proxy, in which a person (usually a woman) or a parent (usually the mother) makes herself or her child sick – by poison, overmedication, smothering, etc. – and then reports the dire symptoms to authorities, thereby garnering the attention and sympathy she craves, as well as heroine status for “saving” herself or her child.

Racial Memories
By Alan Burkhart
It hasn't been that many years ago that America was still too backwards for a black man to have any chance at our highest office. But in spite of the incoherent rantings and ravings of so-called “black leaders” ranging from Obama's own Jeremiah Wright to the quirky Louis Farrakhan, America has indeed rounded the corner. Politics aside, I am proud of the fact that an African American can actually run for high office with a legitimate chance of victory. Mind you, I'd prefer Alan Keyes, but we're not debating Left versus Right here.

After Four Thousand Fallen Braves, We Must Go to the Jugular
Rene Guerra
Four thousand lives of the bravest Americans in Iraq after, unconscionably, the strategists directing the global war on Islamofascism---a war that we must fight and unequivocally win--- persist on limiting the war to mainly putting down flare-up manifestations of Islamofascism here and there.

Red, White, and Black?
by Paul R. Hollrah
The major pundits, Democrats included, tell us that Barack Obama has been severely damaged by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright debacle. As they explain, Obama is so new to the political world that no one knew much about him. He was a clean slate. Well, that slate is no longer clean and it's about to get worse. Now it seems that, while Obama's mentor of the last twenty years has been a virulent anti-American racist, his mentor during his prep school years in Hawaii was a well-known communist, Frank Marshall Davis.

Second Amendment Under Fire - District of Columbia v. Heller
by JB Williams
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the matter of “gun control” in the District of Columbia, many Americans understand that the issue is about “control” not “guns.” It’s no secret that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens threaten only those seeking control over those citizens, be they criminal or over-reaching government. It’s also no secret that no law will keep guns out of the hands of criminals, who by definition don’t care what any law says.

Religious Freedom or Murder?
By Alan Burkhart
In the USA, our Constitution guarantees our right to worship as we choose. We do not however, have the right to force harm upon others in the practice of those beliefs. Eleven year-old Madeline Neumann is dead because her parents refused to get her the medical care she needed, deciding instead to stay home and pray for her.

Stop the Presses! Hillary Lied!
By: Christopher G. Adamo
So Hillary was caught in a brazen lie about her 1996 trip to Bosnia, in which she lately claims to have landed in the midst of a sniper attack, even having to duck and run for cover at the airfield. Is anyone surprised? Certainly nobody who has dispassionately observed the Clintons on the national scene over the past sixteen years, nor the forthright citizens of Arkansas who witnessed such behavior for much longer than that.

About that Ignominious Speech . . . McCain’s
Rene Guerra
In his March 28, 2008 column, "McCain's Incoherent New World Order," Accuracy in Media's Editor Cliff Kincaid tells it like it is, and, in the process, John Sidney McCain III unavoidably results demolishingly-exposed naked . . . as the liberaloid he in reality is. John Sidney McCain III showed, for all to see, that he is about half as dangerous to America as Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton are.

The Magic Transition
Dick McDonald
When I tell people that the Rise Up America plan has a way to simultaneously 1. place $1.3 trillion in payroll taxes annually collected by the government into personal accounts owned by the tax payer and immediately invested in the stock market to ignite the creation of new businesses and jobs, 2. pay $1.1 trillion in Social Security and Medicare benefits to participants, and 3. magically increase the value of the US Dollar heretofore crippled by the overuse of the printing press
I get looks that can best be described as “Are You Nuts?” So I best explain.

The Insolent Arrogance of the Progressive-Left
By Frank Salvato
A recent event in Chicago illustrates the arrogance and narcissism of the Progressive-Left – and in particular the anti-war Progressive-Left. During Easter services at Holy Name Cathedral Catholic Church in Chicago, six anti-war protesters staged a political demonstration disrupting religious services. They shouted generic anti-war slogans and squirted fake blood on themselves and the parishioners in attendance. Their goal was to attract attention to themselves and – therefore – their cause. It worked.

A Tale of a No-Spin-Zone Heartburn
By Rene Guerra
I went to bed past midnight, my stomach spinning like a top, with a horrible heartburn as if having gulped a cocktail of sulfuric and hydrochloric acid. I made the terrible mistake of turning the TV set on. There he was, Bill O’Reilly, in one of his Factor taped-repeats, interviewing Karl Rove about America’s ongoing stabilization efforts in Iraq. There he was, spurting mouthfuls echoing unqualifiedly the sentiments of our ignorant masses about America's efforts in Iraq: “not worthy either blood or treasury,” they think, he pompously said. O’Reilly and our empty-headed masses should go to the library and then borrow, read and digest a book on world history; then they all would realize the pivotal importance in history of Mesopotamia, which is where Iraq is.

Obama’s Unforgivable Sin
A Religion of Division
by JB Williams
The freshman never-done-nothing nobody Senator from Chicago who has been leading the 2008 race for the White House for months could do no wrong in the eyes of his many minions until his true personal belief system became public through the YouTube outing of his life-long spiritual leader, Jeremiah Wright. Desperate to distance himself from his Muslim heritage, Barack Hussein Obama made the critical error of using his alleged “Christian” faith as a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. His charismatic stump speeches about faith, unity, hope and change drew thousands of unsuspecting young followers hungry for all the above. But then they asked about the specifics…

Obama Lies, Deceives and Omits
Dick McDonald
The NYT trumpets that Obama's speech on race was the most important speech since Kennedy defended Catholicism. Hell they dubbed it a symphony. The NYT knows no shame for lying, deceptions and omissions - they believe they are immune from telling the truth. They are painfully committed to socialism and the tax and spend agenda Barack Obama is selling. Therefore, they will commit any sin to excuse Obama.

Irreverent Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Just words?
By Marie Jon'
The church of Black Liberation Theology has finally been exposed. The curtain of omission woven by the agenda-driven media has been rent in two. The unholy altar of unacceptable racism and anti-Americanism has finally been seen for what it is — an unabashedly black militant church in Chicago. America was given a small snippet of what was obviously an ongoing theme within the sanctuary of Obama's church. We can see clearly how Rev. Jeremiah Wright brought out the worst in human nature.

The Damaging Political Legacy of Addressing the Race Issue
By Frank Salvato
Barack Obama recently issued another of his linguistic masterpieces in addressing the issues of racism, hate-speech and his spiritual mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. His speech was pretty. It was eloquent. It was impassioned. It attempted to approach the true issue in danger of being overshadowed by a sensationalistic mainstream news media; racism in the total of American society, including the Black community. It even included a condemnation of specific statements by Wright, a man Obama says, “...has been like family to me.”

"... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
By Vincent Gioia
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments recently in a case concerning a law in the District of Columbia that essentially bans ownership of guns. Dozens of briefs were filed for consideration by the court, including one by the Bush administration that seemed to say "yes, people can own guns, but we (the government) have a right to put restrictions on gun ownership". Well, that's not what the constitution says.

Democrat Turmoil Reflects Liberal Dysfunction
By: Christopher G. Adamo
Rush Limbaugh has been having a great time lately, fanning the flames of discord and confusion among the Democrats. But the ability to destabilize their party is hardly a dangerous manifestation of omnipotence on the part of the talk radio giant. Such turmoil could not be foisted on the Democrat Party from without, were it not already morally and philosophically rotting from within.

The NAFTA Superhighway - a link in the chain
By Vincent Gioia
Without public notice the Bush administration is proceeding with construction of a vast superhighway through the United States from Mexico to Canada. The “highway” is four football fields wide and will have multi-lane roadways, room for a pipeline and a railroad. The main beneficiaries of this project will be the mega-businesses that will move merchandise of all sorts across the continent at lower costs than presently and add to profits at the expense of our private property, security and landscape.

The Obama Speech
By Paul R. Hollrah
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has said such obscenely hateful things about Jews that much of it is difficult to repeat. For example, in a speech at Chicago’s Mosque Maryam in 1995, he said, “German Jews financed Hitler right here in America… and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of the Holocaust... Jews (were) playing music, while other Jews (were) marching into the gas chambers...”

Shackling the Individual by Imposing Racist Pride
By Nancy Salvato
An avid reader, I’ve learned much about individualism and freedom by reading about what life is like when these are taken away from groups of people. I recently finished The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini, which tells the story about being a Hazara minority in Afghanistan, and provides insight into the nature of racism and a glimpse of how it might feel as the recipient of that type of evil. For those interested, there are many non fiction writings available which document the iniquity of racism in this world, for example, Marci Nafziger’s research paper which discusses the extreme injustice that took place during the regime of Pol Pot in, “Khmer Rouge in Cambodia”.

Change Requires Going Beyond the Name on the Ballot
By Frank Salvato
There has been a tremendous amount of talk about “change” this presidential election cycle. Many have pointed out that change for the sake of change is seldom – if ever – a good thing. Unless explicit details of what is to be changed, why it needs changing and just how it is to be changed for the better are given in no uncertain terms, there exists too much chance for political and ideological malfeasance. To that extent, “change” is simply a Pavlovian buzz-word that sets the politically naïve to salivating. If real change is to be instituted in federal government we must look beyond the names that adorn the ballots.

Geraldine Is Right
by Paul R. Hollrah
In a recent telephone interview with the Daily Breeze, a Southern California newspaper, 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro, was questioned about the battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She said, “I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama’s campaign – to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against. For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media…” Then, in a rare moment of candor for a liberal Democrat, she said...

Break Socialism’s Back
Start A Capitalist Revolution
www.riseupamerica.us
One way to destroy socialism is to take away the perception that socialism can deliver the “common good”. Academics may embrace it theoretically but in practice socialism has never has nor will it ever deliver the “common good.” Therefore why don’t practical people attack it at its weakest point – the entitlement fallacy. Entitlements have never made the poor rich. They have just put a band aid on socialism’s perpetuation of poverty. Man needs to replace entitlements with a plan that makes the poor rich – rich enough to make their own way in this world - and there is a way capitalism can do just that. If so, America’s youth needs to start a capitalist revolution to reverse the creeping socialism that plagues the free world.

Spitzer’s Psyche
By Joan Swirsky
"How could he be so stupid?" people ask of Eliot Spitzer, the NY State Governor who resigned on March 12th after being caught in a prostitution ring being investigated by the government. On the day before Valentine’s Day – so he could give his wife roses on February 14th? – he sneaked into the posh Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., under an assumed name, spending $4,300 for a two-hour tryst with a hooker named "Kristen." As details poured out, it became known that the governor was a longtime customer who had spent as much as $80,000 with the pricey prostitution enterprise over a period of at least 10 years. Stupidity is not the issue. This graduate of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs had a perfect score on his Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and then attended Harvard Law School, where he was elected chairman of the student government and was editor of the Law Review.

McCain’s Salvation List
Rene Guerra
Both, Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton constitute a grave danger to the nation if any of the two is elected President. You can get a slight taste of the danger they pose to America from an article---whose title may misleadingly look like a lame capitulation to RINO John Sidney McCain III from a solid (i.e., across-the-board) conservative, "Obama Changed My Mind" written by JR Dieckmann, editor of The Great American Journal. There is no doubt that either Obama or the Clintons must be defeated next November, but, unfortunately, the task ended up in the hands of John Sidney McCain. The problem is that McCain, given his track-record, is walking into November with a badly splintered GOP and an alienated conservative base.

Death by Democracy - Unwanted Freedom
JB Williams
Clearly, based upon the voting habits of the average American ever since FDR introduced Big Brother’s "New (Nanny State) Deal," freedom is just too tough for the average American. That’s the only way to explain why Americans are voting themselves back into bondage in an effort to trade their freedom for free-stuff. Freedom is worth less than free-stuff. Who knew, besides Marx and Lenin? It turns out that the father of Socialism Karl Marx was right, "Democracy is the road to socialism," - at least in any nation where the people are ill-informed of history and apathetic towards their future.

Obama wants to end world poverty on your nickel
and surrender the United States to the United Nations
By Vincent Gioia
Overlooked in the fervor to select a Democrat nominee is what Obama really stands for; we can only hope this will not be the case in the national election if Obama is chosen. There are many ideas proposed by Obama to criticize him about but one that stands out and has great implications is the Global Poverty Act Obama supports. The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) would require the United States to spend $845 billion ($845,000,000,000.00) on welfare to third-world countries. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 on each man, woman and child in the United States.

Redistribution is Moronic and Regressive
Dick McDonald
The movement to reduce the tax load of the American people has been hugely successful. We have the richest poor people in the world and the richest rich people. Allowed to build their wealth and avoid punitive taxation and suffocating regulations, Americans have thrived economically. Unfortunately there has been an unequal distribution of that wealth. Those in the economy that saved and invested their money thrived while those that spent their money and never invested stayed at a lower economic level. And today, in 2008, we are faced with many in the population unhappy that they have not participated in this great era of wealth creation and accumulation.

Ho hum; so Governor Spitzer is another Democrat male skank – what else is new?
By Vincent Gioia
It comes as no surprise to most people keeping up with current events that the news media displays a bias for Democrats and against Republicans. However, the latest media behavior regarding New York Governor Spitzer's dalliance with $5,000 hookers and comments by "pundits" (if you can call Alan Jerkowitz a pundit), needs some comment. First of all, Spitzer's transgressions are more than just thinking with the wrong head. According to the New York Times:

The History of U.S. Taxation
Taxed into Bankruptcy and Bondage
Comments by JB Williams
Few Americans understand how America is being taxed and spent into bankruptcy in the name of a "greater common good." They kind of sense that we are, but have never studied how, why or how long it has been going on, much less what to do about it. Below I have included the official FACT history of American taxation as posted by the U.S. Treasury Department on their education web site. It's a real eye opener to learn exactly how America is being spent and taxed into bankruptcy while the people are being taxed and spent into political bondage, or just how long it has been happening. The average American has no idea about this side of history and the direct impact it has on the financial health of our people and the loss of freedoms that always accompany a runaway central power.

McCain’s List
Rene Guerra
Although a hero on his own right, this isn’t about an epic John McCain making a list to save some among thousands of innocents doomed to inevitable death. This actually is about John McCain dealing with a peculiar kind of a list to avert his own inescapable death---his political death at the ballot box, that is---in the hands of the Democrats next November. This is, as well, about the undeniable fact that John McCain is walking into the presidential race proper with a splintered Republican Party that, furthermore, lacks the fire in the belly that only conservatives can ignite and sustain.

The Southern Baptist March Towards Irrelevance
By: Christopher G. Adamo
Some of life’s concepts are so defining that, by their very nature, they preclude any alternatives. An individual who is honest ninety-nine percent of the time is a "liar." Someone who is almost always sober is properly deemed a "drunk." No common ground exists between the absolutes of right and wrong. And any attempts at finding or establishing such domain will be in vain. Jesus elucidated this perfectly when He warned against the futility of attempting to serve "two masters." Sadly, the modern Church increasingly ignores His simple counsel and seeks to bridge that gap on a host of issues.

What's all That Stir About the Democrat Super-Delegates?

Rene Guerra

What’s all that fuss about the Democrat "super-delegates"? Isn’t, anyway, the Democrat Party of nowadays, for all practical purposes, but just a flagrant and blatant front of the Left? Purportedly the 1982 brainchild---a stillbirth actually---of Democrat strategist (stratagemist?) and FOX News contributor Robert "Bob" Beckel, the super-delegates are nothing else than a flagrant, watered-down version of the abominable contraption common among the "progressive" regimes in communist countries. Beckel created the cave-age abomination purportedly to help Walter Mondale---whose campaign he managed---secure two years late the Democrat Nomination.

Global Warming: An Inconvenient Fallacy
Raymond S. Kraft
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report on Climate Change 2007, since 1900, human activities, specifically the burning of coal, natural gas, and oil, fossil fuels, have caused Carbon Dioxide (CO2) to increase from 0.028% of the atmosphere to 0.038% of the atmosphere, an increase of CO2 by 100 parts per million (ppm), more than a third, which sounds pretty dramatic, and this has caused an allegedly unprecedented sudden increase in global temperature of (hang on to your hats, folks), one degree!

Freedom’s Eleventh Hour

From Apathy back into Bondage

Written by JB Williams

In two recent columns, I spelled out the two primary opposing agendas prevalent in modern American politics, The American Pursuit of Democratic Socialism and To Be Conservative in America. If I could get every American to read just three columns, it would be these two and the one you are reading now. Armed with the reality displayed in these three columns, the only people who can effect real worthwhile change in America would be more likely to do so. Without knowledge of at least these fundamental facts, the American electorate is on a path to self-destruction via democratic process, American freedom and individual liberty is at its eleventh hour and the pace into a socialist abyss is quickening.

Barack Hussein Obama Refused: "I Did Not Want To Concede"

By Marie Jon
How does one who claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ help to legislate killing the unborn? It is a complete contradiction to the teachings of the Bible ("You shall not murder" [Exodus 20:13]. As an Illinois state senator, Barack Hussein Obama refused to support legislation to protect babies that survived late-term abortions, claiming "I did not want to concede." To what was Obama referring? His statement was in reference to babies that were fully outside their mothers' wombs. Thus, Obama did not want to concede the fact that babies who survived a late term abortion were in fact "persons."

The Buck Stops Here, with You and Me
by Rene Guerra
Lawrence Kudlow came out recently with a Chicken Little article about the weakness of the U.S. dollar, assigning a Land-of-Oz president McCain the task of restoring its power. The dollar is falling, America is irrecoverably in decline, and our "prestige" is on the floor, Kudlow says. Let’s see whether all this can be sorted out with some Economics 101 basics . . . and, hopefully, without making a complete Rube Goldberg contraption of it.

The Rise Up Theory of Economics

By Dick McDonald

Our Founding Fathers conceived our republic as one without taxes on income or wealth operated by a small central government. They believed that government was always the problem, never the solution. They believed that the citizen, able to earn and invest their own money free of government interference, would always, through free market competition, achieve greater prosperity than any government-directed policy could ever do. Unfortunately Americans have been on a holiday from those philosophical roots for almost a century. It all started going in the wrong direction with the passage of the 16^th amendment and the imposition laws to tax incomes in 1913. Then came a serious flirtation with communism/socialism/New Deal policies in the 1930’s.

Why Your Groceries Are Costing More

By Alan Burkhart

Everywhere you look, people are wringing their hands over the economy. I'm not immune to this. We appear to be teetering on the edge of a long fall, and I'm not looking forward to it. The media has a habit of quoting numbers and then citing the same tired old sources as the main cause of our current economic decline. Corporate greed, the declining dollar, weather-related issues, or “just blame Bush“ get tossed out on the airwaves every day. Allow me to give you something different to worry over: The cost of commercial transportation. Having been in the trucking industry for three decades, this is something I'm qualified to talk about.

U.S. insanity in the Mid East

Vincent Gioia

Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Few things can illustrate a failed foreign policy better than attempting to have a different result with the same fact situation that resulted in prior policy failures. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has traveled to the Middle East to speak with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and to twist the arm of Israeli President Ehud Olmert in order to conclude a "peace" agreement before the end of the George Bush presidency. Each time the Secretary goes to the Mid East with this objective, the facts against which peace is to be obtained remain the same and the repeated result is no peace in sight.

Salvaging the "Stimulus" Package
By: Christopher G. Adamo

Nobody should be surprised to see side-by-side headlines proclaiming that oil is hitting record prices while the dollar is dropping to new lows against foreign currencies. The pieces fit. As America is forced to expend ever more of its monetary supply in order to procure basic commodities from other countries, foreign powers gain greater and greater control of our wealth and our destiny. Consequently, our bargaining position on the international economic scene grows weaker. So, what does all of this have to do with the recently passed "Stimulus Package," ostensibly implemented by Congress to improve the economy? For starters, it must be understood that this measure bears only a minuscule resemblance to the federal tax reductions which spurred the lagging economy during the early part of the current Bush administration.

To Be Conservative In America

Written by JB Williams

America’s conservative party, the Grand Ole Republican Party, is so fractured down ideological lines that it has not been able to advance a real conservative candidate in a quarter century, since Reagan won re-election twenty four years ago in 1984. After years of reader mail and surfing dozens of high traffic conservative blogs reading thousands of "conservative" comments concerning who or what is or isn’t "conservative," it is clear that Republicans no longer agree on what the word "conservative" means. Unless conservatives can agree on what it is to be "conservative," the conservative movement in America will remain fractured and powerless.

Pity Poor Adrian Bushnell

by Paul R. Hollrah

Late in the morning of Friday, February 29, Miami (Florida) Edison High School was besieged by dozens of police cars and vans. Officers in riot gear were seen rushing into the building and within minutes live TV film from a WFOR-TV helicopter showed dozens of students being led away in handcuffs. Police officials described the situation as a "large scale disturbance." This was not an uprising in a Baghdad market or an attack on a funeral procession in Islamabad. This was an insurrection in an American high school, led by teenage thugs with rap sheets longer than their arms. But what makes this sad event so meaningful is that Miami Edison is typical of thousands of failing secondary schools in cities across the nation.

We Need To Take A Closer Look At Liberal Barack Hussein Obama
By Marie Jon'
Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has given Senator Barack Hussein Obama a dishonorable mention. Obama was placed on their ten most wanted list in 2007. Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with a political fundraiser by the name of Tony Rezko. "There is so much more to learn about Obama in the coming months." — Judicial Watch

Bill Buckley’s Unfinished Business
Dick McDonald

Bill Buckley died last week and his death will trigger a torrent of tributes. He is rightly called the "Father of Modern Conservatism." But lost among those accolades will be the stark reality that William F. Buckley graduated into a world gone mad with socialism and communism where Americans were taxed at 91% of their income over $50,000 and the liberal press turned the public against Joe McCarthy because - as the Venona Papers were to prove four decades later - he fingered paid communist spies in the Roosevelt administration. America was ripe for a return to conservatism – he couldn’t have written a better script for his moment in time.

Have you ever considered the importance of corn?
By Vincent Gioia
Our food supply depends to a large extent on corn. We feed corn to cattle and cows to provide meat on the table and milk in our glass. It is fed to chickens to provide a staple in our diet and eggs for our morning breakfast. Corn is used to make fructose which is a basic ingredient used to satisfy our "sweet tooth". And, unfortunately, it is now used as a tool by global warming zealots who want to change our way of life. The growing craze to adapt ethanol to a transportation fuel has such far reaching consequences that our and the entire world's economy, and all our food sources, are disastrously affected.

The American Pursuit of Democratic Socialism

No Longer Suited for Self-Governance?

Written by JB Williams

People have been predicting the demise of democracy, individual freedom and liberty, as well as resulting American supremacy, since the day American democracy was born. The implication being that a rich complacent free self-governed people will sooner or later, democratically vote themselves out of individual freedom and back into government dependency, self-invoked tyranny and political bondage. While years of research have failed to fully confirm the true author or point of reference for the above prediction, a study of failing democratic societies and twentieth century American voting patterns, tend to confirm the validity of the concept itself. No matter whom the original author was; his concept was right…

Will Obama – Literally – Survive?

Joan Swirsky

According to a recent article in the Associated Press, "Many Blacks Worry About Obama's Safety," because for "many black Americans, it's a conversation they find hard to avoid, revisiting old fears in the light of bright new hopes. Is he at risk? Will he be safe?" The AP article said that Obama received Secret Service protection last May – the earliest ever for any presidential candidate. Democrat Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin was among those recommending this service because he had received "information, some with racial overtones," that made him concerned for Obama's safety.

Barack Obama’s Word Games
By Frank Salvato

Much is being made of Barack Obama’s oratory skills. True, he is quite good when it comes to captivating a crowd of sycophants and this includes the lemmings in the mainstream media. But if words matter, as Obama (and surreptitiously Duval Patrick) claims they do, then we must acknowledge that in this case words do make the man, in this case Mr. Obama must be judged in his words and in the deeds that back-up those words. Ironically, I agree with Mr. Obama when he says that words matter.

The mislabeled "Energy Independence and Security Act" is even worse than we thought

By Vincent Gioia

When I wrote about the "Energy Independence and Security Act" (EISA), now the law of the land, I pointed out the mislabeled law provided neither independence nor security. What I didn’t know then was that not only does the law not provide independence from mid east oil, it also deprives us of a secure oil source. A little-noticed provision of the ironically named "Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007" that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush last December bars the federal government from purchasing fuels whose life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions are greater than those from fuels produced from conventional petroleum sources. The obscurity of the provision and the fact that the media doesn’t understand its importance has made it virtually unknown to the public.

Two Faces of Barack Hussein Obama

The Real Obama Record

by JB Williams

Young voters swoon at his feet like prepubescent girls at a Beatles concert. Black religious charlatans like Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan are pimping for him from the pulpit. Old guards of the American Socialist movement like Teddy Kennedy, have latched on to his Elvis-like charisma and even mass media moguls like Oprah Winfrey and the liberal lame stream press have strapped on a harness to pull the Obama campaign wagon to historic Black Power victory. But who is Barack Hussein Obama? What is his real record? What does he really believe in? What are his past accomplishments and his qualifications for the most powerful elected office in the world? What does he mean by this enigmatic thing called "change?"

The "Unpatriotic" Mr. Obama
Dick McDonald | www.riseupamerica.us
Under the disguise of patriotism, Barack Obama proposes to "protect" American jobs by a system of rewards and punishment imposed on corporations and businesses who are competitively engaged in the global marketplace. He and his Democrat sponsors figure to pander to those Americans too confused or otherwise occupied to understand interference in the free market is a devastatingly ignorant and counter-productive political philosophy.

Barack Obama is Black

by Paul R. Hollrah

In a February 25 article, NewsMax reports that Nation of Islam Minister, Louis Farrakhan, has publicly praised Barack Obama as the "hope of the entire world," and that, because of Obama, "the U.S. will change for the better." He went on to say that, "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed." It must have been a "senior moment" that caused Minister Farrakhan to not remember all of his colors. He mentioned black, brown, red, and yellow people but he totally ignored the millions of giddy white liberals, young and old, who are most responsible for Obama’s margin of victory over a (pardon the expression) white woman.

We have a real chance at starting to solve the illegal immigration problem

By Vincent Gioia

Although illegal immigration continues to plague the United States, few Americans are aware that some patriots in congress have introduced legislation to address the problem, "The Secure America through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act" [The act was introduced in 2007 by Representative Heath Shuler, Democrat from North Carolina] . The legislative effort has languished in the House under the leadership of speaker Nancy Pelosi and many in the Democrat Party who choose to take no action to stem the flow into the United States of what they see as potential Democrat voters.

Lawrence Eagleburger's Faux Conservatism Will Backfire

By: Christopher G. Adamo

Coming as absolutely no surprise to real conservatives, the breaking New York times story on Republican candidate John McCain's questionable relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman in 2000 is a telling harbinger of the nature of the upcoming election cycle. Perhaps McCain is surprised to find himself in the crosshairs of his fickle former media allies. But if so, he is virtually alone in such a reaction.

Conservatives Have Stepped In It Again!

The Politically Principled Suicide Trap

by JB Williams

When searching for answers as to how we got here in America - here being a steadily accelerating march into Democratic Socialism - there is plenty of blame to go around. Personally, I don’t see an innocent individual in the lot. Those who consider themselves to be the most politically astute people in America, conservatives, have once again been out-foxed by those they call ignorant. Forest Gump’s momma was right; stupid is as stupid does! Steeped in worthy principles, yes. Politically astute? You must be kidding… America has exactly the mess of a government it deserves because it always has the government it elected. No matter which partisan group we claim our own, there is no escaping responsibility for where we are as a nation today. In reality, our messy government is a precise reflection of our very messy electorate.

It's all in a day's work

By Vincent Gioia

Many of us get up in the morning and get ready to go to work; another day just like many others, just a routine to be followed day after day. It’s not only Americans that follow this practice; workers around the world do this also. So you can imagine Palestinians in the Gaza strip doing the same thing. Mohammad wakes up in the morning, gets ready to go to work, kisses his wife (wives?), pats his 18 children on the head, jumps on his bicycle and off he goes. The only difference from the rest of us is that his ‘job’ is to go to a mortar or rocket launcher and begin the days shelling into Israel.

A Superhero Without Special Powers
By Nancy Salvato

I missed the train today...again. The nitwit in front of our car let out her husband at the stop sign instead of making her way through the three-way stop and across the tracks. By the time they finished their goodbye, the brief window of opportunity to pass through the intersection had passed and the gates were down. This happens for a combination of reasons. One reason this happens is because the train I ride is so long that the crossing gates are triggered well before it arrives. The second reason is that another train, heading in the opposite direction, always arrives 5 to 7 minutes before my train and triggers the gates.

Guns On Campus: Northern Illinois U: Rule #1: Sue Everybody
by John Longenecker

It's time to forget about writing more gun bans, time to quit profiling (it's a stalling tactic for political reasons) and time to litigate. The first order of business for any damaged plaintiff is to sue everybody. This would be all colleges who ban weapons, including those who have seen their students murdered and those who have yet to see students killed thanks to the gun bans which are now ringing the dinner bell for campus shooters in increasing numbers. This would include suing for administration interference with self-defense by way of policy in cases of both gun and non-gun killings such as knifings, beatings and missing persons.

The Israelis Should Be Very, Very Nervous

by Paul R. Hollrah

As the political pundits busy themselves with rehashing the results of Super Tuesday and beyond, trying to decipher what happened and what it all means, the fact is it matters little whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama captures the remainder of the delegates up for grabs. What is important is that we are now assured that no relatively sane Democrat… Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, or Bill Richardson… will win the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. The Israelis should be very, very nervous about the outcome of the U.S. elections. In the meantime, they’d be wise to start acquiring some very large boats. They might also begin reminding American Jews, most of whom are supporting either Clinton or Obama, of what is at stake.

Mike Huckabee – The "Hail Mary" Candidate

by Paul R. Hollrah

It was November 23, 1984. The Boston College Eagles were locked in a titanic struggle against the University of Miami Hurricanes at the Orange Bowl in Miami. With just over thirty seconds left in the game, Miami scored a touchdown to take a 45-41 lead. Wide receiver Gerard Phelan was standing at the center of the group, surrounded by his fellow Eagles receivers and at least four Hurricane defenders. He looked up, saw the ball, and it fell, untouched, into his hands. Boston College won the game 47-45 and Flutie’s "Hail Mary" touchdown pass went into the books as one of the greatest moments in sports history. Mike Huckabee is the "Hail Mary" candidate of 2008.

Obama Offers Wild Revision of His Own History
by Paul R. Hollrah

Tuning in to C-SPAN recently, I found myself listening to a speech by Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Hussein Obama. He was standing at the pulpit of a black church in Selma, Ala., and as I studied the body language of the dozen or so black ministers standing behind the senator, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the little head-bobbing dolls that people used to place in the rear windows of their 1957 Chevrolets. If their reactions are any indication, the new Schlickmeister of the Democratic Party is actually a pretty accomplished public speaker. However, as he spoke, I found my B.S. alarm going off repeatedly. But I couldn’t quite figure out why until I actually read excerpts of his speech several days later. Here’s part of what he said:

"Forget the ‘carrot and the stick’ approach; just eliminate the carrot"

By Vincent Gioia

Arizona and Oklahoma have shown us how to reduce the number of illegal aliens in our country. Since the federal government does not have the will power to take effective action, both states have taken it upon themselves to deal with the problem and results indicate their approach is effective. What they do is simple; instead of the carrot and stick approach, they just eliminate the carrot.

Why Conservatives MUST Vote in 2008

by JB Williams

Republicans MUST forget about John McCain and move on to far BIGGER issues! American conservatives are fed up beyond the level of 2006, when they allowed Democrats to take back control of congress in protest to liberal and moderate Republican policies coming from the Bush Administration and the Republican National Committee controlled congress. I know, because I’m one of them. They are threatening to guarantee a Democrat White House in 2008 by way of these three equally ill-advised strategies… and Democrats appreciate all three. Staying home on Election Day in protest; Supporting a non-viable Third Party alternative; Writing in a Real Republican candidate who can’t win. These three options, while they might feel good, will have the same result as 1992, 1996 and 2006, a Clinton or Obama White House for at least four years and a giant, maybe irreversible lurch to the left on a scale never before experienced in the United States.

Hillary’s Man Problem

Joan Swirsky

Hillary’s top strategist, Mark Penn, recently told reporters that the New York senator would be a better Commander-in-Chief than either Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain. This preposterous delusion explains Penn’s equally incredible misreading of public sentiment and why Hillary has lost 10 primaries in a row and will soon lose Texas and Ohio. Apparently Penn has caught the Clintons’ legendary amnesia problem.

Global warming dupes on both sides of the aisle want to change how we live and bring down our country in the process
By Vincent Gioia
In January , 2007, a global warming bill was introduced by Senators Bernie Sanders and Barbara Boxer (good socialist/liberals) along with nine other senators which would set targets to cut the alleged "heat-trapping pollution that causes global warming" (‘The Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act’). Its intention was to freeze global warming emissions in 2010 and then gradually cut emissions each year, reaching about 83 percent below current levels in the year 2050 (80 percent below 1990 levels). The ‘cost’ in impact on Americans’ lives would be devastating.

Don’t Waterboard Me Bro!
by JB Williams
Remember the little college dimwit who wrongly thought he had a right to speak freely at a John Kerry event last year, screaming "don’t taze me bro! – don’t taze me bro!" as police officers proceeded to taze him to the ground and remove him from the Kerry event? Apparently, Democrats are more offended by a voice of opposition at their campaign stops than by known Islamic terrorists whom they would never allow to be "tazed" or even "waterboarded." The Democrat controlled congress left and went home for an extended holiday weekend after allowing the Protect America Act, part of FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to expire, leaving the intelligence community operating without protection of the law in their continued efforts to know what we must know.

Capitalism Kills Clinton - Socialism Wins Out
Dick McDonald
Barack won Wisconsin and went "Berserk". His victory speech after his win was straight out of the "Communist Manifesto". Barack is not dumb, just drunk with his new found power and the realization that catering to the whims of our liberally-indoctrinated anti-capitalist young Americans was as intoxicating to him as it was to them - they screeched and yelled at every "taking" of the property of the rich as if Jesus Christ had returned and was leveling the playing field with loaves of money. And boy did he play that crowd for every emotional populist trick man has ever used - he won the day and the election because Hillary incorrectly calculated that Democrats were somewhat rational and would embrace some vestiges of capitalism - she failed - she's as dead as two-week old salmon.

The Race Card May Have Been Dealt, But Who’s Playing It?
By Frank Salvato

Just before the South Carolina Democrat primary there was a great deal of talk about the Clinton campaign having played the “race card.” Not too many people flinched at the thought and rightfully so; the Clinton’s have a vicious and relentless political attack machine. But looking at the voter demographics from the states that compiled data based on “race,” it would seem that even though the Clinton’s may have dealt the “race card,” it is the black community that is playing it...all across the country.

It looks like its global cooling we need to worry about, not warming

By Vincent Gioia

It is easy to understand why so many people have bought into the idea that you and I, along with most everyone else living on the planet, are the cause of global warming. The news media, governments and ‘respected’ leaders have been relentless in preaching this message which has taken on religious fervor. Since changing their tune of the 1970s that an Ice Age was coming to the complete fiction of dramatic global warming due to greenhouse gases, global warming fanatics have been able to influence policy at the international and national level. The problem for them should be that science does not support their extreme message but they and their sycophants ignore real scientific information. They have an unreasonable sense of moral superiority, contempt for anyone who disagrees and resistance to all forms of energy replacement except those not relying upon use of fossil fuels.

From Elections to Shootings: America Is Broken
By: Christopher G. Adamo

It is noteworthy that the stalled Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) renewal effort became a huge controversy, prominently headlined during this past week, as the Northern Illinois University shootings wreaked indescribable horror and tragedy on yet another progressive and enlightened college campus. Both situations are symptomatic of a twisted modern culture, based on the perverted premise of "political correctness." Both portend more harm to be visited on innocent Americans. And, instead of real solutions, both will virtually ensure the hasty implementation of "fixes" that invariably offers more of the liberal disease to cure its symptoms.

Michelle Obama – New Wine In An Old Bottle

Joan Swirsky

What is it about leftwing female Ivy League-educated lawyers whose husbands attain prominence in the political arena that makes them, well, so alienating? Is it that they secretly think they’re the real powers-that-be and resent all the hoopla about their husbands? After all, it takes a fairly intense degree of competitiveness to slosh through either Yale or Harvard Law School, as Hillary and Michelle Obama did respectively, and then juggle the demands of childrearing with careers. Does that competitiveness mysteriously evaporate or just as strangely make them morph into adoring second-banana wives when the men they consider either their equals or inferiors are showered with public adulation?

Obama on Abortion

by Paul R. Hollrah

With only three years in the United States Senate, and with stunning victories and endorsements to his credit in the presidential primaries and caucuses, it is not too early to begin evaluating Barack Obama’s voting record in the Illinois State Senate. Three votes on abortion-related bills from the 2001-02 sessions are of particular interest. For example, on March 27, 2001, in the early days of Obama’s second term, the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he was a member, considered Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 1093. And so that my readers won’t get lost in the cumbersome legislative language of the amendment, I will paraphrase in 69 words what the lawyers who drafted the amendment said in 143 words.

Michele Obama and Rise Up
Dick McDonald
Republicans like me will have a feeding frenzy feasting until November on Michele Obama's carcass for not being proud of America for her entire adult life. Of course, I will have to soft-pedal it because our potential First Lady in clarifying what she meant by what she said said the following - "Life for regular folks has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn't gotten much better." As a tax man and a professed macro-economist, I must admit that her opinion coincides with mine - the economic fortunes of the poor and middle-class haven't gotten a whole lot better in the last 40 years. Yes their wages have gone up during that time frame, but not as far up as prices have.

Creeping Socialism Can Be Stopped Now
Dick McDonald www.riseupamerica.us
The article below tells us that socialism is growing in America - growing under the cover of "liberalism" but socialism just the same. If there is a core disease that could be cured to stop the spread of socialism - it would be dismantling the entitlement bureaucracy -60% of our national budget. As the Rise Up America plan calls for repealing Social Security and Medicare while increasing retirement benefits and generating the biggest tax cut in human history it would appear that 2008 is a moment in history to bury socialism in the dustbin of history and it would be a shame to miss this opportunity for real CHANGE.

Commercial Nuclear Fusion Reactors May Be Around the Corner

Rene Guerra

Are you aware of General Fusion, Inc. (www.GeneralFusion.com), a Canadian pre-IPO startup engaged in the development and manufacture of commercial nuclear FUSION reactors for the massive generation of electrical power in a safe, reliable, economical, environmentally compatible, and non nuclear-weapons proliferation fashion? General Fusion, Inc. employs Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) technology. "General Fusion has patented this technology and believes that a reactor working on this principle could be built at a much lower cost than using the old magnetic and laser fusion approaches. Such a power plant would make fusion a commercially viable clean power source." says the GF website.

Immigration policy should not betray our legal immigrant ancestors
By Vincent Gioia
The first thing immigrants saw as they sailed in the early 1900's to Ellis Island was The Statue of Liberty and etched into her base is the poem "The New Colossus": "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" The nostalgic days of immigration based on the same notion as when my parents disembarked in New York in 1907 and 1922 from their homes in Italy are long past. Those coming here illegally simply do not have the same spirit of wanting to be Americans as those who came here legally during the earlier immigration boom. We need to change the etching on Lady Liberty’s base to "Send us your people who believe America is great and want to become one of us".

McCain Works Well Across the Aisle
But Can He Work With Republicans?
by JB Williams
Being best buds with the likes of Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Hussein Obama might buy you a few Independent votes, but it won’t do much for your core conservative constituents. McCain’s buds think Joe Lieberman is a right-wing extremist and worked to defeat his re-election… Now, with only 37.6% of the Republican vote, some of which isn’t actually Republican, coming instead from liberal Democrats and Independents in open primary states, it seems McCain will have an up hill battle to the Oval Office. Instead of reminding voters how well he has worked with liberals in the past, he might consider coming up with a few reasons why Republicans should vote for him.

What would happen if Obama is elected president?
By Vincent Gioia
As it becomes a serious possibility that Barack Hussein Obama ('BHB') may become the Democrat candidate for president in November, it becomes prudent to take a closer look at what he would do if elected to become president.
Sometimes there is a concern that a potential nominee does not have a sufficient understanding of domestic or international matters; with BHB we can worry about what he would do as president on both the domestic and foreign fronts. Although BHB has carefully avoided actually publicly presenting his programs and policies if elected president, he has from time-to-time commented on various issues and these remarks show the direction in which he would lead the country and what could be expected from his leadership.

If Republicans Really Want Their Party Back…
Here’s How They Can Take It Back!
by JB Williams & Frank Salvato
Like most conservative writers and talk show hosts, we have been inundated with Republican reader mail describing a depth of anger and frustration we have never before witnessed, all of it directed at the RNC-MSM anointing of John McCain against the will of the Republican majority. Before most rank and file Republicans ever got a chance to vote in the Republican primaries, all conservative candidates had already been run out of the race by open primaries held in early primary states that have a notable liberal slant. By the time most real Republicans got a chance to vote in their party primary, there was already nobody left to vote for. Republicans CAN Take Their Party Back, Even Now and Here’s How!

Is the RNC Trying to Destroy the GOP?
by JB Williams
Whether the RNC is trying to destroy the GOP or not, it’s clear that they couldn’t do a better job of destroying it, no matter how hard they try. Making John McCain the RNC nominee is the most certain way to lose the 2008 election. But even if McCain could actually win in November, almost a numerical impossibility by the way, many conservatives have already predicted that even a McCain victory would be the end of the GOP as we know it. What’s the RNC thinking? While MSM polling data aims to make McCain look like the best the RNC can do, the real numbers say something quite different.

We Need to Be Careful for What We Wish
By Frank Salvato
As the primary cycle rolls on, those who understand the danger of a Hillary Clinton administration are gleefully watching her tumble in the polls. Barack Obama’s campaign “performances” have played to the basest emotions of America’s left-leaning community and, ironically, doing so with a recycled version of Bill Clinton’s 1992 messages of “change” and “hope.” But as much as Ms. Clinton’s demise may fill Conservative hearts with a sense of satisfaction we really should be careful for what we wish. Of course, there are many reasons to oppose a Clinton II administration, especially in these internationally conflicted times.

McCain Supporters Undermine His Candidacy
By: Christopher G. Adamo
With the brazen assistance of establishment Republicans, the McCain juggernaut advances, with his lock on the party's nomination now all but certain. However, navigating the general election will be an entirely different matter. Ironically, aside from the candidate himself and his past record (whenever the media gets around to talking about it), the greatest threat to a McCain Victory is none other than McCain's staunchest and loudest supporters.

Mr. Obama, You’re No Jack Kennedy
by Paul R. Hollrah
In his biography of JFK, Kennedy senior advisor Ted Sorenson said, "… (Kennedy) was the truest and oldest kind of liberal: the free man with a free mind… The aggressive attitudes of many ‘professional liberals’ made him ‘uncomfortable.’ " In 1960, and before, John F. Kennedy was thought of as a mainstream liberal. However, as a measure of how much the definitions of the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have changed, and as a measure of how far to the left the Democrat Party has drifted, an argument can be made that if Kennedy were alive to speak those words today he would be seen as a mainstream conservative.

How to Make Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress Seriously Sick
by Rene Guerra
Consider: "1. Immediate revision of taxes on capital gains and undistributed profits in order to free investment funds. 2. Reduced expenditures to achieve a balanced budget, and thus, to still fears deterring business expansion. 3. An end to coercion and violence in relations between capital and labor. 4. Opposition to "unnecessary" government competition with private enterprise. 5. Recognition that private investment and enterprise require a reasonable profit. 6. Safeguarding the collateral upon which credit rests. 7. Reduction of taxes, or if this proved impossible at the moment, firm assurance of no further increases. 8. Maintenance of state rights, home rule, and local self-government, except where proved definitely inadequate. 9. Economical and non-political relief to unemployed with maximum local responsibility. 10. Reliance upon the American form of government and the American system of enterprise"

An essay on discontent
By Vincent Gioia
Much has been written about discontent in the Republican Party. Conservatives are disappointed no one having conservative views on all issues of importance has been in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. The presumptive nominee, John McCain, has been on the ‘wrong’ side of many matters before the Senate and has joined with Democrats to sponsor undesirable legislation, thereby causing conservatives to be unenthusiastic about his success. Newt Gingrich, who conservatives had placed some hope in carrying their banner did not enter the race and a substitute, Mitt Romney, did poorly in the primaries, ultimately backing out for ‘the good of the party’ in an eloquent speech.

Socialized Medicine is not the cure for what ails us
By Vincent Gioia
Star Parker recently wrote a fine article telling us that "Hillarycare is Not the Answer"; she might have said ‘socialized medicine is not the answer’. Hillary and her friends are not the first to propose the government knows what is best for us. In modern times the concept was the brainchild of the former Soviet Union and then perfected by the Peoples Republic of China. In the case of health care, Hillary and others have proposed that government decide what we should have and then mandate it for us to buy. If we think we can’t afford it, that’s not a problem because the government will provide tax payers’ money to pay for medical care.

The Sleaze Machine Rolls On
by Paul R. Hollrah
Patti Solis Doyle is the daughter of Santiago and Alejandrina Solis, of Chicago. Santiago Solis, of Monterrey, entered the United States illegally in the late 40s, returned to Mexico, returned legally with his family, and later became a citizen. Upon entering Chicago politics, Patti Solis went to work on the mayoral campaign of Richard M. Daley and later moved on to Arkansas with Bill Clinton’s campaign manager, David Wilhelm. She was assigned to Hillary Clinton as the First Lady’s scheduler, and when the Clintons moved from Little Rock to the White House in 1993, Patti Solis went with them, continuing to serve as the First Lady’s scheduler. The Clinton campaign announced on Monday, February 11, that Mrs. Solis Doyle had been named a senior advisor and that the First Lady’s former Chief of Staff, Maggie Williams, a black woman (surprise, surprise) would assume overall management of the campaign.

The Audacity of Deceit – Part Two
by Paul R. Hollrah
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not get a job in my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president." — Barack Obama, Des Moines, IA, November 10, 2007 Of course, the truth of the matter is quite different. In an August 21, 2007 story in the St. Petersburg Times, titled "Obama won’t accept money from lobbyists… or will he?" reporter Lissa August unmasks the hypocrisy of Obama’s stance on lobbyists and the campaign funds they provide.

Westboro Baptist Church: The Scourge of the Flatlands
by Paul A. Ibbetson
When I think of my home state of Kansas, I think of a place where people are friendly, work hard, and moreover believe in the Christian values that this great nation was founded upon. I have always thought that the Kansas designation as part of the Bible belt was a badge of honor that many of the blue states just don’t often understand. However, there has been for some time a pestilence walking the flatlands of Kansas, a scourge that brings only pain and sorrow to all that find themselves within its path. I am talking about the members of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Are we our own worst enemies?
By Vincent Gioia
Gasoline costs $3.00 or more a gallon, we are being required to replace incandescent light bulbs with those expensive curly things, environmentalists have made us shut down any program that would increase our oil supplies and decrease dependence on foreign countries that want us dead or worse; and what does our government want to do now, increase our federal gasoline tax and put polar bears on the endangered list? Why are our leaders doing this to us, because of global warming of course? And guess what; all the remaining candidates for their Party’s nomination today are caught in the global warming trap, hook, line and sinker (to coin a phrase) so we don’t stand a chance to avoid what is in store for us.

While the world ignores the threat, Islam is taking over
By Vincent Gioia
The inroads Muslims are making in the western world are achieved inch-by-inch so the changes become difficult for westerners to fully comprehend and to recognize the slow marginalization of all we hold dear in a free society. Muslims practice the clever use of political correctness to classify any mocking or criticism of Islam as ‘racist’ (remember the Danish cartoons), including the obvious need to critically examine people from Muslim countries entering the United States as well as those in the category of highest potential threat who enter the transportation system.

And then there were none:
A free market assessment on the race for the presidency
by Paul A. Ibbetson
The withdrawal of Fred Thompson from the presidential primary will have far more of an impact to the Republican primary than to dampen the spirits of Thompson supporters. To say it plainly, the exit of Thompson marks the end of the potential of a conservative entering the White House in 2008. A person might believe that I will be starting a long winded defense of Thompson but that is not the case. My goal today is to bring readers to a sense of the cold realities of the political state of affairs from the perspective of a cold handed dealer; that is, the free market.

The Audacity of Deceit – Part One
by Paul R. Hollrah
Watching Barack Hussein Obama work the crowds at public appearances might lead the non-thinking and the uninformed to believe that he is actually serious about limiting the power and influence of special interests and their lobbyists. And the crowds go crazy. They spring to their feet, screaming and shouting, waving their placards in the air… placards that read "Public Employees for Obama" and "Classroom Teachers for Obama." These are the toadies of AFSCME, AFT, and the NEA, three of the ten most powerful special interest lobbies in Washington, who, along with the trial lawyers and the anti-American billionaire George Soros, own the Democratic Party.

Conservatives have already lost the White House - What’s their next move?
by JB Williams
In his speech to CPAC moments ago, Republican nominee John McCain called himself a life-long conservative. But that’s not what life-long conservatives call him. His speech writers included all the right conservative buzz words. But most of them are at odds with his past performance. So, what now? As the last remaining conservative in the GOP race, Mitt Romney suspends his bid for the White House today, leaving the White House in the hands of quasi-liberals, John McCain, Hillary Clinton or Barrack Hussein Obama for the coming four years, what’s our next move to protect and defend our nation from the enemy within and the enemies abroad?

Stepping Back from the Conservative Abyss
By Frank Salvato
If Conservatives and Republicans don't squelch their anger toward the apparent party nominee we will be falling into the trap the Liberal Left has set for us; the trap that splinters the Conservatives within the Republican Party so that another Clinton (or Democrat) can get into the White House with less than a majority of the national vote. We will be acting emotionally instead of intellectually; exactly as the Liberal Left wants us to. I support Conservative principles and ideals. I would have enjoyed having a true Conservative on the ballot in November because I believe, given the choice, the nation would have voted “right.” But the reality of the situation, as it stands, is that dedicated Conservatives don’t have a horse in the November presidential contest.

Debunking the Myth of McCain's "Inevitability"
By: Christopher G. Adamo
As the "Super Tuesday" votes are counted, the latest word from the media punditry is that John McCain will take the lion's share of delegates, and perhaps be well on his way to the Republican nomination. Much of his current momentum has resulted from the misbegotten perception that he would do the best of any Republican against Hillary Clinton. Yet such a notion is not only irrelevant to the actualities of this November 's election, it is frankly unsupportable. The facts, when all are considered, dictate otherwise.

The XIIth Commandment
by James Atticus Bowden
Ronald Reagan gave Republicans the eleventh Commandment, "Republicans shall not criticize Republicans." It’s a commandment of convenience used when it serves a politician’s purposes. Now, today, in the Year of Our Lord, 2008, a new twelfth Commandment is revealed. "Conservatives shall NOT lie to Conservatives." This Commandment means one can not make a false Conservative candidate. Nor, worship the false Conservatives as god-like, or even Reagan-like, Conservatives. Furthermore, it means Conservatives must call candidates what they are. Like, "Republican." "Moderate Republican." "Flip-flopping Conservative" or "Situational Conservative." "Partially Conservative" or "Politician Conservative." Or, use the appropriate label for most elected officials, "Establishment Republican."

"We the people of the United States … "
By Vincent Gioia
The Constitution of the country begins with the preamble: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for a common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." - and then continues to prescribe a country with a government having only limited powers in order to maximize liberty and freedom of its citizens. Yet you would not believe that today if you take time to consider all of the things in our lives that are controlled by the federal government, despite the original intention of those writing our Constitution to actually limit the power and authority of the government.

Wearing Blinders
by Paul R. Hollrah
Before the Clinton-Obama California debate went on the air last week I jotted down five names and phrases on a ruled pad. I wrote: Usama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic jihad, and Muslim extremists... intending to count how many times those names and phrases were used during the two hour debate. The Democrat candidates and their CNN questioners did not disappoint me. Not a single one of those names and phrases were used, either by questioners or by candidates, in the entire two hours. Is it possible that, during World War II, Clement Atlee or FDR could have gotten away with failing to mention Adolph Hitler or Emperor Hirohito during the course of a two hour debate? Not likely. I suppose this is just one more indicator of how far the Democratic Party has fallen.

What is to be done? Part II
Activating American conservatives to reclaim decisive weight in the Republican Party
Rene Guerra
"From my vantage point, however, it looks like both major political parties are moving to the Left" wrote recently a well respected conservative columnist of worldwide readership about the Republican and Democrat Parties. That remark of amazement reminds of that fellow in the Campbell Soup TV commercial who suddenly realizes that there is salt in seawater. Hello? The Democrat Party fell in the hands of the Left since George McGovern’s run for the Presidency in 1972. The Carter and Clinton presidencies wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. Since long ago, the Democrat Party is a member of the Socialist International (www.SocialistInternational.org) through a taxpayer funded front, the National Democratic Institute (www.NDI.org), whose chairwoman is none else than Madeleine Albright.

Clinton, McCain, Obama & the MSM

by JB Williams

Not long ago, the idea that any of these three candidates could ever be President of the United States would have seemed insane to most Americans. Even now, most American’s are scratching their heads in disbelief and asking all of their friends, "Did you vote for them? – No, did you? – No, how about you? – No… Then who in the hell is voting for these people?"

If McCain wins the nomination, Democrats will have 1½ candidates running for president
By Vincent Gioia
There is a good reason why leftist newspapers and pundits are promoting Senator John McCain for the Republican nomination; if McCain wins Democrats will have an acceptable alternative to their party’s candidate in the November election. What could be better than having your opposition agree with you most of the time? Couple that with a Democrat majority in congress and you have the best of all possible liberal worlds.

The Good Fight Against Liberal McCain

Joan Swirsky

My first choice for president was Rudy Giuliani. I know, I know, he’s a liberal on social issues. But because my first priority was – and is – national security, I was confident that no one was better equipped to do to our terrorist enemies what Giuliani did to the mob in New York City, i.e., annihilate them! It was not Rudy’s national campaign strategy that failed, as so many mindless pundits and talking heads have speculated. Rather, it was the liberal media’s purposeful and relentless marginalizing of this genuine leader because it was Rudy they feared most and considered the one Republican who could wipe out either Hillary or Obama next November.

What is to be done? Part I
by Rene Guerra
The title may look suspicious, like snatched from the famous, or infamous, booklet that Vladimir Ilich Ulianov (aka Lenin) wrote to provide guidance to his hordes of Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia. It is used here, however, as the title of this article, which proposes a course of action for conservatives to follow to get out of the horrible nightmare we are in now, with two leading candidates to the GOP presidential nomination that make us very uncomfortable the one, Mitt Romney, an very worried, the other, John McCain.

Duty. Honor. Country. Civic Responsibility
By Frank Salvato

A good friend of mine, a retired firefighter and Korean War Era Marine – a fine and good American if there ever was one, recently sent me an email on the realization that John McCain was the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. In it he espoused the exact sentiment that I fear most going into the November elections. In essence, he said that if McCain wins the nomination he will not be voting...period. I have heard this pronouncement coming from the talk radio elite as well. While it is appropriate to thrash out intra-party ideological differences in the primary elections it is thoroughly irresponsible to abdicate civic responsibility by narcissistically refusing to protect the country from the lesser of the two candidates offered in November.

Reading the Democrats’ Tea Leaves

by Paul R. Hollrah

Remember… you heard it here first. Democrats will lose the presidential race in November because, in spite of themselves, they will manage to play the race card against themselves. The "race card" that Democrats always play so cynically and so dishonestly against Republicans will fall heavily against them and ruin their chances for returning to the White House in January 2009.

How the Republican Party Committed National Suicide
by JB Williams
Republicans no longer control the Republican Party and as a result, they can not advance a truly Republican candidate though the current liberal leaning primary process. By the time 99 percent of Republicans get a chance to vote in the primaries, all real Republicans have already been eliminated from the race. Lesser evil choices are all that remain by Super Tuesday…? It happened by two important factors. First, Republicans refused to unite behind any of the conservatives originally in the race. They were divided, and all of their candidates failed as a result.

McCain, Clintons Reveal Political Parties' Ugly Undersides

By: Christopher G. Adamo

Irrespective of all the in-depth political analysis that deals far too specifically with each candidate's professed policies and appeal to voters, the bulk of this campaign season is primarily being driven on both sides by pragmatism born of fear. The base of each party is currently motivated not by any inspired support for one or more of its own candidates, but always and only out of a dread of how the country might suffer at the hands of the candidate from the opposing party. And the situation has remained in this dismal mode since the onset of the '08 campaign.

Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction

Vincent Gioia

Ronald Reagan warned "Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction." Reagan’s warning is especially apt today – enemies of liberty never give up, whether abroad or in the United States. As past generations, pro-freedom Americans still have to battle against liberal control, America-bashers, left-wing defeatists, and their accomplices in the press. We don’t have Reagan to help us now so it’s up to us to stand up for America and freedom. We can begin doing that by our vote in the primaries this spring and in the national election in November; it is imperative to choose a nominee that has not already demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice conservative principles for popular liberal news media acclaim.

John McCain is an Outright Liar!
by JB Williams
Republicans had better rush to come to grips with the reality that all of our smart options for the 2008 election cycle are already off the table. Unlike past elections, Republicans actually had two very strong conservatives to unite behind in the 2008 primaries, Thompson and Hunter, and they failed to unite behind either of them. The time to stand up for a true traditional conservative Republican has passed. The chance to do something smart no longer exists. Now we have one last shot and less than one week to do something that is at least half-smart.

McCain’s Achilles Heel
by Paul R. Hollrah

But for the last minute endorsements by Governor Charlie Crist and George W. Bush's hand-picked, pro-amnesty, anti-offshore drilling RNC chairman, Senator Mel Martinez, we might now be well on our way to choosing our candidate for the November elections. But we're not. So on to Super Tuesday and let's hope that voters in those twenty-one states have a more clear-headed view of John McCain. How McCain could possibly set things right with conservatives, I can't begin to imagine. The sad part is, he doesn't seem to think he has any fences to mend. If he thinks that he was right and conservatives were wrong about McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform, about McCain-Kennedy illegal immigration reform, about McCain Lieberman patients bill of rights, about the Bush tax cuts, and about the "gang of 14," then we are in for a very difficult time. So let's get to it.

While The Cat’s Away, The Terrorists Will Play
By Nancy Salvato
Now that the present administration’s 150 billion dollar economic stimulus package has caused a substantial portion of the population worry about the economy taking a nosedive and an ensuing recession, there is less incentive to discuss the more immediate threat of securing our borders from those who mean to cause our country substantial harm. While growing the economy is extremely important to maintaining the many comforts to which we’ve become accustomed, an incredibly large amount of damage can come to our economic well being from one well planned terrorist attack aimed at harming our infrastructure.

RECESSION, MADE SIMPLE

Raymond S. Kraft

Every newspaper I open, and every news broadcast I see, the last few days, more or less morbidly or hysterically predicts "a recession," the end of the world, a terrible disaster for America, and all that. The economy is a shambles, of course, since unless it is a shambles the news anchors have nothing to hyperventilate about. If it bleeds, it leads, whether it's a human body or a vast abstraction we call "the economy," which is really nothing but the sum total of every economic transaction everybody in the country does every day. What they foregt to say is that in a $14 trillion economy like ours, even a $140 billion write-down for bad loans only writes down 1% of the value of the current-year economy, and a far smaller fraction of the hundreds of trillions of dollars of total asset value in America.

Changing terminology does not change reality
By Vincent Gioia
Ministers in England have adopted a new lexicon when referring to Muslim activities and to Islam. Will the political correct police in America do the same? For example, in the future, Islamic fanatics in England will be referred to as pursuing "anti-Islamic activity". Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said that extremists were behaving "contrary to their faith, rather than acting in the name of Islam". Government officials believe that directly linking terrorism to Islam is inflammatory, and risks alienating mainstream Muslim opinion. Her words were chosen to reflect the new government strategy on labeling the terrorists and their recruiting agents.

Seeing is Believing
By Alan Burkhart
Can't help but wonder about all the fuss in Stephenville, Texas. It seems that a number of residents witnessed a large, brightly lit floating object in the night sky back on January Eighth. A few people also claim to have seen military jets in pursuit. Witnesses claim the object was in excess of a mile long. Predictably, the military concocted a fish story in an attempt to quell speculation on what people might have seen. Of all the many things our military does well, insulting the intelligence of Americans may be what it does best:

Timing is Everything
by Paul R. Hollrah
Without question, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s least favorite mayor today is Democrat Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the flamboyant mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Before becoming Mayor of Detroit, the nation’s 11th largest city, Kilpatrick was a member of the Michigan legislature and the first African-American ever to lead the Democratic Caucus in the Michigan House of Representatives. And while Kilpatrick was tending to legislative affairs and Democratic Party politics in Lansing, his Detroit district office was capably administered by his district director, Christine Beatty.

Examining Republican Self-Destruction and the Term ‘RINO’
by Frank Salvato
I have been avoiding the discussion of who I am supporting for the Republican presidential nomination in deference to urging others to thoroughly examine the platforms, agendas and records of all those in contention. Only by taking the time to circumvent the agenda-driven propaganda of the mainstream media (and in some cases its non-coverage of certain candidates) can we truly understand who each candidate is and what he – or she – stands for. With both my first and second choices now out of the race I believe it is time to examine the Conservative communities troubling propensity to self-destruct and the accurate definition of the term “RINO.”

How Do You Elect an Unpopular Nominee?
by JB Williams
Republicans are headed for BIG trouble as all of the unpopular party “front-runners” head into Super Tuesday with their campaigns on life support. The DNC primary race is already a two man race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, each of whom have raised over $100 million in campaign funds and head into Super Tuesday flush with cash and plenty more where that came from. But four of the five remaining Republican candidates are running on empty heading into Super Tuesday and overall, Republican fund raising trails Democrats by the widest margin in modern history. Democrat voters are divided almost 50-50, half like Hillary and the other half like Obama. But none of the Republican candidates has the support of even 30 percent of their party faithful and the fact that nobody is betting money on any of the Republican campaigns, should be of great concern to all Republicans.

Fifty Million Lives After Roe
by Christopher G. Adamo
This week marks thirty five years since the Supreme Court's monstrous "Roe v. Wade" decision gave a blanket legalization to abortion, and by which the feminists claim that women have been greatly elevated in society. At this milestone, it is worthwhile to ponder the horrendous consequences they have paid.

Examining Pakistan - a commentary
by Vincent Gioia
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has supported the war on terror so far (notwithstanding we would like him to do more); but he rules an impoverished and increasingly radical population. Musharraf also faces a powerful enemy next door; the Taliban in Afghanistan. If the economic crisis in Pakistan continues, the Pakistan government could fall and Islamists would come to power and control nuclear weapons in Pakistan. The survival of Pakistan in its existing form is a vital U.S. security interest, one that should trump a desire for ‘democracy’.

At last, a minor setback for Muslim appeasement
by Vincent Gioia
The politically correct catering to Muslims has reached ridiculous proportions so it is good to finally see even a minor road block in the headlong rush to appease Muslims. The Supreme Court said Tuesday that a Muslim inmate cannot sue the government over the disappearance of the prisoner's copies of the Quran and a prayer rug.

A Primary Caucus Primer
By Nancy Salvato
While a great number of people do not see the value in the Electoral College (And "W" Takes the Series), it is possible an even greater number of people don’t fully comprehend how each political party selects their candidate for president. During the Iowa Caucus, after I heard several people draw a blank when asked to explain how a Caucus works, I decided it might be time to put together a primer on the nominating process.

Democratic Socialism vs. Republican Socialism
Is that our choice in 2008?
by JB Williams
The Democrat Party is owned and operated by the Democratic Socialists of America. All modern Democrat candidates propose growing the federal government to a social services giant involved in every aspect of individual life and paid for by "the rich." Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives.

Jay Rockefeller – Liberal Fascist
by Paul R. Hollrah
Rockefeller currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a position he held from 2002-03, and one he reclaimed when Democrats regained Senate control in 2006. In January 2002, Rockefeller met with Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria, during which time he discussed the threat posed by their neighbor, Iraq. In October of that year, as the Senate debated whether to authorize military action against Iraq, he said, “I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. It is in the nature of these weapons, and the way they are targeted against civilian populations, that documented capability and demonstrated intent may be the only warning we get. To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? We cannot!”

Time For A Little Payback
by Paul R. Hollrah
In recent years, Democrats have displayed immense self-serving interest (hypocrisy?) in the public comments and private indiscretions of congressional Republicans, and have used the power of their friends in the mainstream media to discredit them, to destroy their careers and reputations, and to drive them from office. Democrats drove Sen. Bob Packwood (R-OR) out of office after it was disclosed that he had planted uninvited kisses on several of his female aides. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was publicly scourged and discredited because of a $4 million book advance received prior to his retirement from public office (unlike Hillary Clinton who received an $8 million book advance less than a week before she became a member of the U.S. Senate). Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA), Gingrich’s anointed successor, was forced out of office shortly after being elected Speaker because of alleged extramarital affairs.

Is there no end to government control of our lives?
Now is the time to worry

By Vincent Gioia

Recently the state of California came up with a proposal to mandate use of radio-controlled thermostats as a means of controlling the temperature in homes. As outrageous as this sounds, it had the approval of many in the legislature and in the state administration. Fortunately, a public outcry of disapproval caused the proposal to be dropped. However the shear control-freak lunacy of the proposal brings to mind many, many other government controls of our daily lives that remain in effect with virtually no opposition or thought about how we have allowed government, directly and indirectly through the courts, to dictate to us what the government in itself or through the courts; what is ‘best’ for us.

Clinton, Obama, and Racial Politics
by Paul R. Hollrah
Watching Democrats commit politics is an intriguing pastime. In recent days they’ve engaged in some especially outrageous behavior as the Clinton and Obama campaigns sparred over the issue of race and the Nevada caucuses. In his speech, Obama said, "… in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't (Obama failed to mention that it was white Democrats who were saying those things to minorities in order to keep them from wandering off the Democratic plantation)...

A Focus on Ignorance in Nevada
By Frank Salvato
During the recent primary debate between Democrat presidential hopefuls in Nevada, one of the more credible pollsters, Frank Luntz, convened a focus group of undecided Democrats. As the debate progressed each focus group member’s approval or disapproval – their “feelings” – on each of the candidate’s statements was noted. What Mr. Luntz’s focus group actually recorded was proof positive of the Left’s constitutional illiteracy. In all the years that I have been politically aware, I have never witnessed a group of people so completely ignorant of not only the issues and our nation’s geopolitical situation, but of how our government works.

The Electoral College versus the popular vote
By Vincent Gioia
Since the 2000 presidential election, there have been calls for changing the way the president is elected because though George Bush received the majority of Electoral College votes, Al Gore received a larger number of votes nationwide. Democrats in particular have been very vocal about this and many on the left still harbor feelings that the George Bush ‘stole’ the election despite the fact his win was entirely in accordance with the Constitution.

Reflections on America's Past and Future
By: Christopher G. Adamo
Perhaps it is overly limiting to discuss the present state of our nation, and thus its prospects for the future, without broadening the topic to include all of Western civilization. Nevertheless, for at least the past century as well as a goodly portion of the century before that, America provided the primary defining force of Western culture. So it is no overstatement to assert that life in the free world will live or die based on the direction America takes in the upcoming years.

Meet Hillary Clinton
A Career Doormat in Search of Equality
by JB Williams
It would be impossible to understand how anyone could possibly consider Hillary Clinton qualified to be Commander-in-Chief if it weren’t for the fact that she is effectively running for the Democrat nomination unopposed. Face it, if you’re a Democrat, next to the empty résumé of a freshman nobody named Barack Hussein Obama and that of boy Edwards, the dashing ambulance chaser who has done nothing besides file a few suits against deep pockets with his life, Hillary Clinton looks pretty good. How could she not be leading the DNC race? What race?

Propositions, initiatives and referenda - how to decide?
By Vincent Gioia
The initiative process, employed in many states, is the power of the people to place measures on the ballot. These measures can create or change statutes (including general obligation bonds) and amend the state constitution. All states have requirements regarding how many signatures of registered voters must be obtained to place an initiative on the ballot.

Barrack Obama – Just a Passing Fad?
by Paul R. Hollrah
Holy bumper stickers, Batman! We’ve had yo-yos, hula hoops, pet rocks, frizbees, cabbage patch kids, and now we have… Barak Hussein Obama? The leftwing nutcases of Iowa and New Hampshire… who apparently see the American presidency as just another "fun thing" to do… have come close to giving a totally inexperienced politician, armed with nothing more than an abundance of personal charm and boundless ambition, a one-way ticket to the White House. Of course, Iowa voters are known for a strong touch of insanity. They have, after all, elected Tom "Dung Heap" Harkin to the United States Senate for four consecutives terms. What could be more insane than that? Either they’ve been sniffing too much undiluted hog manure or they’ve learned long ago that cooking and fermenting corn produces a clear distilled liquid that can be used for something other than gasoline additives.

Prime Time Primaries
By Nancy Salvato
I’m enjoying the prime time primaries, carefully considering what each politician brings to the table as they all campaign to participate in what policy wonks might consider the political equivalent of the National League and American League playoffs in baseball. After the Democrats choose their candidate and the Republicans choose their candidate, each will compete to win the electoral votes in the 50 states. They do not win based on the popular vote; they win based on which states electoral votes they’ve earned.

Are You Sure You Are a Reagan Republican?
by JB Williams
The fact that almost every Republican candidate wants to invoke the Reagan name as the centerpiece of their own presidential campaign demonstrates more about the lack of their own identity and selective memory than anything else. When claiming to be an individual leader with your own qualities and personal merits, why would you seek to convince voters that you are someone else, in this case, Ronald Reagan?

Taking a look at the Republican candidates
By Vincent Gioia
It’s time to take a look at the candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president. For many conservatives, a candidate’s position on such issues as immigration, border control, taxes, economic and foreign policies (not necessarily in that order), are very important in deciding which candidate to support in the primaries.

Hillary in New Hampshire: Legitimate Win or Dirty Tricks?
Revised with new important updates
Joan Swirsky
It was no surprise to Hillary watchers like me that the NY senator managed to squeak by her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, in the New Hampshire primary last night. With a behemoth machine behind her – and who knows how many dead people casting votes – the most astounding thing was that the junior senator from Illinois did so creditably, not only winning the Iowa caucus but also nearly eclipsing Ms. Self-Proclaimed Experience in the Granite State – two of the most lily-white states in the union.

New Hampshire Primary Assures Continued GOP Bungling
By Christopher G. Adamo
Perhaps it is time to pass a federal law stipulating that any winner of the New Hampshire primary is henceforth disqualified from running for President. Constitutional considerations aside, it might just be the only manner in which America could neutralize the circus that increasingly results from the Granite State's belief in its inherent right to identify the latest presidential "non starter" when it holds the nation's first primary.

Can an American President Be a Muslim Apostate?
By Frank Salvato
As the primary season finally gets started the issue of Barack Obama’s religion takes the stage once again. While there are some aspects of his religious affiliations that cause legitimate concern, the contention that he is a danger because he practiced Islam as a child, under the guidance of his father and then his step-father, is being overblown for what it is not and ignored for what it is. This is pretty bad news for Barack Obama. Not only does he have Hillary Clinton “gunning” for him – which can be dangerous in and of itself – he has the entire radical Islamist world looking to kill him – by fatwa, by religious edict, not because of his politics, but because he is a Muslim apostate.

Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of an Education System
By Nancy Salvato
As an education reformer, I read about education every day. I read about ways to hold institutions of higher learning accountable for their education curriculum, I read about how important it is to have highly qualified teachers, and I read how students not receiving an equitable education should be afforded the right to attend private schools or charter schools with the tax dollars set aside for public education. While all of these are noble ideas, none of them address the real problem with education.

Hillary’s Crown Tarnished In Iowa
by Joan Swirsky
It is not as if the earnest Iowa caucus ballot-casters are unerring in predicting our next president. In fact, their track record is more remarkable for surprising the national electorate than in prognosticating the ultimate choice. But in Thursday night’s polling, they showed they simply have no stomach for the prospect of another Clinton in the White House. They placed Hillary in a paltry third place, and also gave a resounding thumbs-down to her most formidable "weapon" – the former president. To be sure, Sir Bubba spun his way through the Hawkeye State, biting his lip in "deep" sincerity, talking incessantly about none other than himself, and lying through his teeth that Hillary was the best "thing" that could happen to our country.

It’s Fred Thompson Time
by JB Williams
As far back as the 2006 mid-term elections, I started studying potential Republican candidates for the 2008 Presidential election. Concerned about party seemingly void of any up and coming conservative talent, I started polling my regular readers in a nationwide search for the next Republican leader. I asked open ended questions, naming nobody, but instead asking readers to come up with their own names and immediately, from the very first internal poll, my readers came up with Fred Thompson. It wasn’t until months later, and several columns regarding poll results later, that a buzz about a potential Thompson run started. Just before Thompson announced last September, I asked readers to choose from a field of announced and unannounced candidates and again, the overwhelming support, more than 50% went to Thompson.

Time for Republicans to Take a Stand!
by JB Williams
Days after the first 2008 primary contest in Iowa, only two things are clear. One of the following five men will be the Republican nominee for 2008 and nobody knows which one. No matter how we feel about any of these five men, one of them will be the Republican nominee for 2008. Each represents a very different idea of what it is to be "republican" or "conservative." The time to make excuses or nuanced explanations for past policy positions has passed. The time to choose the next leader of America’s conservative movement, the Republican Party, has come. Which of these men we choose through the primary process will determine how well the Republican Party can unite next November to defeat the Democrat nominee, be it Obama, Edwards or Clinton.

Democracy Without Liberty Is Just Authority
By Frank Salvato
Foreign policy experts and politicians from the West are making one of the biggest mistakes in the history of man by not recognizing that we are in error for promoting democracy to cultures where it is foreign. Democracy has delivered to us Hezbollah as a legitimately elected entity in Lebanon and Hamas as a democratically elected and legitimate force in Gaza. Democracy made it possible for Vladimir Putin to bring a KGB mentality to a newly freed Russian people. Democracy has enabled the quasi-socialism of Hugo Chavez to erupt in South America. Democracy is not the first step toward a free people, it is the last step. The first step toward a free society is the incremental establishment of basic liberty.

What Does the Progressive Left Stand For?
By Nancy Salvato
I’ve come to the conclusion that the United States is having a midlife crisis, an identity crisis. And this is a huge problem because if we don’t know who we are, what we stand for, or how we arrived here, how can we know how to navigate the 21st century while maintaining the freedom and standard of living we’ve come to take for granted? US detractors (and there are many living within the boundaries of this country), it would seem, do not possess a very thorough understanding of our founding documents, the thinking from which they’re derived, or the importance of these ideas in maintaining the system of government which has served us so well over the past 200+ years.

The Democrat Frontrunners

by Paul R. Hollrah

So that the rest of us can better understand the Democrats’ process of selecting their 2008 presidential candidate, it might be useful to take a closer look at what Democrats and the Democrat Party are all about. There are, basically, five identifiable kinds of Democrats, divided into two major categories: "conscious" Democrats and "unconscious" Democrats. "Unconscious" Democrats are the obedient, sheep-like, non-thinking, core of the party. Without their unquestioning obeisance to the dictates of party elites the party simply could not exist. "Unconscious" Democrats come in two basic types: "Hereditary" and "Gullible."

Will The 2008 Elections Deliver More "Non-Solutions"?

By: Christopher G. Adamo

As the 2008 Campaign Season shifts from jockeying and publicity stunts to actual voting, it is all important to consider what America is likely to actually reap by electing any particular candidate. Honesty being a commodity of ever dwindling supply, it is dangerous to rely solely on the words of many candidates. All is not as it seems once the cameras and spotlights are turned off, or once the primary season is concluded. A couple of glaring recent examples, when considered in comparison to each other, tell the grim story. Washington is not about the business of the American people or, as the Declaration so eloquently puts it, securing the God-given rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Rather, it seeks to put a public face of mock concern and "compassion" on its increasingly self-serving endeavors.

Beware of ~~Greeks~~ Chinese Bearing Gifts
By Nancy Salvato
China makes the little voice inside my head nervous. China has surpassed India in having the largest population in the world with no other country coming remotely close to a billion in number. As a matter of fact, the United States claims less than ¼ the number of China’s population. If forced into a war with China, we would be battling the largest military in the world. It’s possible they are not as well trained as our forces and do not have as sophisticated weaponry, however there is no disputing they are currently “engaged in the most significant military buildup in the world.”

Amazing Grace – The American Sequel
by Paul R. Hollrah
One of the finest film productions of recent years has been the British film, Amazing Grace, the story of how William Wilberforce, a young idealist in the British Parliament during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, waged a decades-long struggle to bring an end to the slave trade in the British Empire. It was not until the presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson, in the 1960s, when Democrats began to see African Americans as a potentially valuable voting bloc, that the party embraced equality and economic security for black citizens.

Assassinating the Democratic Process
By Frank Salvato
The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto presents a cadre of possibilities for the future of Pakistan, the South Asian and Middle Eastern regions and the world. One positive result from this barbaric event would be that her supporters in the Pakistan People’s Party would press forward in a more concerted and immediate effort to bring the democratic process to fruition in the wake of her murder, thus advancing the very principles for which she was killed. But, with iniquitous forces holding considerable influence – both inside Pakistan’s government and out – the prospects for any positive outcome to this tragedy are minuscule. With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan has become the epicenter in the global war against Islamofascist aggression.

Why Bill Really Wants Hillary To Lose
Joan Swirsky
"Is it possible that Bill Clinton secretly or unconsciously is sabotaging Hillary's campaign?" asks Thomas Lifson in The American Thinker, adding that after all, nobody "has access to the private thoughts of the man…" This is true, but private thoughts are not the criteria by which people are, or should be, judged. The only empirical evidence we have of the interior life of any person lies solely in his or her behavior. And when it comes to behavior, Bill Clinton has told us for decades, and is telling us now, everything we need to know about him and his motives.

The Ron Paul Revolution
A New Low in Foolhardy Fear-Mongering
by JB Williams
Champion of prostitutes, drug dealers, white supremacists and anti-war activists like MoveOn.org, Code Pink, libertarian Lew Rockwell and girl friend Cindy Sheehan, Ron Paul is raising money from outside of the Republican Party and counting on one day party-jumpers to secure the Republican nomination. In terms of fund-raising, Paul really is setting campaign records. He has also set new records for working outside of a political party to upset the party he claims his rightful home and is well on his way to setting a new low standard for foolhardy fear-mongering.

Liberalism Will Lose This "Cold War"
Christopher G. Adamo
On June 24, 1948, after having isolated West Berlin inside of the boundaries of Communist East Germany, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin suddenly cut off all road shipments into the city, essentially laying siege to it with the expectations that it could be starved into subjection and thus added to his expansionist regime. In a daring and decisive response President Harry Truman ordered every available military cargo plane to the area thereby providing a lifeline of food and supplies to the beleaguered West Berliners. In many respects, the famous operation that became known as the Berlin Airlift represented the initial indirect "volley" of the Cold War.

Are children born of illegal immigrants citizens?
Vincent Gioia
A common misconception is that the Constitution through the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship upon everyone born in the United States whether or not they were born to an illegal alien. Actually, the Constitution itself does not provide citizenship to those born of illegal parents; the Supreme Court only said it did in an 1898 decision known as ‘U.S. v. Wong Ark Can’, and it is politically correct to accept this Supreme Court decision while ignoring others. The problem is that the court majority in the Wong Ark Can case, as is so often today, ‘made law’ according to their personal beliefs and not what those that wrote the Constitution (or in this case, the 14th Amendment) actually intended at the time it was written.

A Funeral in Port Arthur
Paul R. Hollrah
There was a funeral in Port Arthur, Texas on Thursday, December 13, 2007… a cloudy, dreary, rainy day in south Texas. According to the December 14 edition of the Houston Chronicle, the crowd of mourners who came to pay their last respects was so large that the funeral services were held at the Robert A. Bowers Civic Center, a 20,000 sq. ft. facility with seating for 2,800 mourners. As the Chronicle described the scene, crowds of mourners began gathering outside the civic auditorium hours before the 11:00 AM services. Crowd control measures were put into effect as police separated the waiting mourners into two lines, and, mindful of safety concerns for the many celebrities, dignitaries, and important personages who were expected to attend, snipers were stationed on rooftops of nearby buildings.

A Standing Army for the United Nations
Frank Salvato
There are many disturbing issues to contemplate in the world. From the dangers of aggressive Islamofascism to the pomposity and arrogance of the American elected class (and those vying to be included) the world stands witness to myriad threats and power grabs. But two power grabs opens the door for the United Nations to both amass sovereign rights and to fund and assemble a military force under its own banner. That the United Nations is a corrupt and ineffective institution is an understatement.

The Impending Thompson Surge
JB Williams
Seven major pollsters issued new national numbers for mid-December, after the last Republican debate in Iowa, which was hosted by the hostile Des Moines Register which is for the record, endorsing the Hillary Clinton and John McCain campaigns. Running 5th with only 11.3% support nationally, can Thompson really win the RNC nomination and if so, how?

Conservative Elites to Christians: Remember Your Place
Christopher G. Adamo
Thus far in the 2008 presidential campaign cycle, "religion" has played a far bigger role than in any recent elections. This does not necessarily translate to actual issues of importance to one religious constituency or another, but rather that the religion of individual candidates themselves is a major topic. And as this pattern continues, a glaring hypocrisy is emerging. In short, all religions are to be beyond criticism or question, with the sole exception of Biblical Christianity.

Slow Down and Savor the Moments
Nancy Salvato
Food is everywhere. Advertised between mind numbing sitcom television shows and radio programs; interspersed between articles about diet and fitness to fight flab; or posted on billboards along our nation’s streets and highways, it is hard not to be reminded about what to consider eating next. For me, this epicurean parade for the palate takes place every work day as I step off the train and am forced to walk through the fast food emporium before I can exit the station and embark into the fresh air of the city.

We Can’t Win By Focusing on Not Losing
JB Williams
I have but one message for my fellow conservatives. If we focus all of our attention on "not losing" the 2008 election, there is no way we can win the 2008 election. With academia, the press, the electronic and print media industries, the judicial branch and congress under the full control of American Marxists, is there any New Year’s resolution more vital to America’s future than keeping leftists out of the White House in ’08? Yet if we focus only on "not losing," we can’t possibly win…

Is Mike Huckabee Running for President or Pastor?
JB Williams
Republican candidate Mike Huckabee’s special Christmas campaign message is a brilliant attempt at reminding voters which candidate would make the best Pastor-in-Chief. But is it likely to make him Commander-in-Chief? As a life long devoted Christian conservative myself, I’m hardly offended by Huckabee’s recent Christian campaign ad, other than it is an obvious attempt to use the Birth of Christ in a commercial effort to win over voters, which I do find troublesome.

Barbarians in the Oval Office
Paul R. Hollrah
Most conservatives were disappointed when former Speaker Newt Gingrich teased us for more than a year… all but convincing us that he would enter the Republican presidential primaries… before offering the lame excuse that he is the only native-born American, over the age of thirty-five, who is ineligible to seek the presidency. Hogwash! Gingrich’s announcement left conservatives without a trustworthy voice in the Republican primaries. John McCain was once a conservative, but then he joined hands with the most liberal Democrat in the U.S. Senate to co-sponsor the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill… an outright attack on First Amendment rights.

Hillary’s Slapped-Around-By-Men Problem Bodes Ill For The Presidency
Joan Swirsky
We’ve all seen the pattern – the woman who gets rid of a drunken husband, only to marry a gambler, or the abused woman who finally extricates herself from years of torture, only to find another rat. There are a million theories about why a woman is fatally attracted to bad guys – over and over and over again. In the end, all psychological theory boils down to speculation and doesn’t matter. What matters is behavior, how someone acts when pushed around, embarrassed, undermined, sabotaged – well, slapped! Which is what Hillary has endured for years on end as the governor’s wife in Arkansas, in her eight years as First Lady in the White House, and during the current and very public presidential campaign.

A Different Analysis of the 2008 Campaign
by JB Williams
Modern political analysts are a breed all their own, a mixed cross between statistician, newshound, political junky and covert campaign operative. There is no such thing as an "unbiased' political analyst or political reporter. They all have personal views and personal preferences and none of them can separate those personal thoughts from how they perceive or report political events. In recent years, the news room has become more about shaping public perceptions than about reporting current events in a forthright effort to keep the public openly informed. When it comes to politics, this practice becomes a Hulk-like, steroid drenched, overbearing monster focused entirely upon driving public perception and shaping the outcome of an election.

Is Chicago Going to the Birds?
By Alan Burkhart
While it hardly seems newsworthy in a time of strife and chaos both at home and abroad, I believe recent events in the Windy City merit further thought. According to a recent AP article, the Chicago City Council is considering a ban on pet chickens. This little tidbit of news is indicative (to me, at least) of just how shallow we've become as a nation. Too many of us expect the world to adjust to our every whim and desire. “Grin and bear it” is forever gone from the national lexicon. As a nation, we complain over just about everything.

Why Is There No Honest Discourse About Terrorism’s Roots?
By Frank Salvato
We hear a lot about the subject of terrorism today. This has been the case for mainstream America – and the world – since the horrific attacks of September 11th, 2001. Each night on the news, as if by the networks’ design, there are the obligatory stories about a car bombing or a suicide attack, perhaps a fifteen second shot of the aftermath, a condescending, concerned look from the anchor and then a commercial. “We’ll be right back with another story about Britney Spears’ crotch, right after this!” That the single biggest threat to our nation has become B-Roll news program filler should disgust each and every one of us. Then, each and every one of us is to blame that it has come to this.

Hopelessly Clouded Issues: The “Clinton Effect”
By: Christopher G. Adamo
It is disturbing to realize just how far the country has been dragged away from relevant campaign issues in recent weeks. Though on the run, militant Islamists have clearly not abandoned their plans for further attacks against our homeland. Ominous alliances are emerging among nations such as Russia and China, who share a common goal of achieving hegemony over the United States. As environmental extremists curtail domestic oil production, the increasing competition for foreign supplies drives U.S. energy costs through the roof. Yet on what topics are the candidates flailing away at each other? In the cases of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton it is all about past relationships, and whose celebrity endorsement is more compelling than whose?

What If the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Was Relative?
By Nancy Salvato
For thousands of years, people have pondered the age old question, why I am here and what happens when I die. Depending on the answers a person hears during this time on earth, there can be a variety of different explanations. For many of us, there is the notion that we are here to serve a higher purpose. For others, life is simply what we make of it and it’s over when our bodies cease to function. Which answer is correct and how do we know?

FOR THE COMFORT OF TERRORISTS
Raymond S. Kraft
At the top of the news this week is the story that the CIA destroyed some videotapes of its interrogations of terrorists, in 2005, conveniently breaking just before the January primaries, the timing calculated, I must presume, to inflict maximum political embarassment on the President and the Republican presidential candidates. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) asks for a probe of whether CIA officials "violated the law . . . this is an issue that cannot be ignored." Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) accuses the CIA of a coverup: "The agency was desperate to cover up damning evidence of their practices." None of them, of course, asked for an inquiry into whether the terrorists being interrogated violated the law.

An Intelligent Assessment of the National Intelligence Estimate
by JB Williams
Upon watching the politically motivated reaction to the recent so-called “intelligence” update concerning Iran’s nuclear ambitions, I couldn’t sit idle as one more report becomes just another campaign tool used to mislead American voters as well as friends and foes around the world. News agencies around the globe are gushing over the latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) issued on Iran and its nuclear proliferation program. TIME reports Europe Relieved by Iran Finding, the Chicago Tribune say’s Twice now, Bush has confronted faulty intelligence and the Telegraph UK announces Iran president hails nuclear report as 'victory'. Unfortunately, it appears that none of these reporters bothered to actually read the NIE before rushing to their politically motivated headlines which do nothing less than mislead the public on the subject. Those who really want to know what the report actually says must read the report themselves, because the press is once again reporting less than the truth on the matter.

L.A. TIMES DISTORTS ITS OWN POLL ON ILLEGAL ALIENS

By Walter Moore

Today the L.A. Times reported the results of a poll it conducted on illegal immigration. The newspaper's bias -- political and financial -- shows when you compare the article to the poll itself, and when you look at the wording of the poll. THEIR HEADLINE LIES. Let's start with the headline: "1 in 3 would deny illegal immigrants social services." The headline makes it sound like only 33% would deny illegal aliens welfare, "free" education, etc. Hidden message: if you want to deny them benefits, you're in some kook minority. But the actual poll results are quite the opposite. Here are the percentages of people who said they would DENY the following specific benefits to illegal aliens: In-state college tuition 82% Food stamps 76% Driver's licenses 72% Public schools 56% Emergency medical 48%

Immigration Issue Reveals Arrogance of the "Ruling Class"
By Christopher G. Adamo
Intermixed with Hillary Clinton's many disparate stances on illegal immigration are the occasional, very revealing statements that say far more about her character in general than about her transient and flexible beliefs. In one recent statement, she expressed her surprise at the vehemence of real America in its opposition to the massive invasion of illegals. According to Hillary, such fiery opposition was nonexistent only seven or eight years ago which, incidentally was when she and her husband occupied the White House.

So, What’s The Big Deal About Religion in ’08?
By Frank Salvato
We have come to a point in the 2008 presidential election cycle where in both political parties’ candidates are fielding questions about religion. While religion is a personal issue for an overwhelming majority of Americans, religi