Islamic totalitarianism is a serious threat to life and liberty, globally. In some places the battlefront is obvious — you can tell by the gunfire, bomb craters and bodies — elsewhere it is ideological. Nonetheless ideas have consequences, slower than bullets, but often far more destructive.
You will excuse my bluntness I hope, when I say that America is still recovering from the ideological butt-kicking that we took from the communists. Walk into any college or cocktail party and say “from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs“. See how many objections you get. We had better wise up.
The ideological battle against Islamo-fascism is a critical front in the fight for freedom in our time. Right here in America, there is a considerable fifth column — believers, paid agents and dupes — conducting an energetic propaganda campaign on behalf of the Islamo-fascists. Let’s consider some of the star hitters in the lineup and what they bring to the fight.
There are lots of targets on Arizona’s back these days. And no shortage of archers itching for a shot at the bullseye.
Everyone knows about SB1070 and the beating it took at the hands of judge Susan Bolton; and of course there’s the recent inclusion of the law into a human rights report from the Justice Department to the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner – evidently there is no better way to cleanse America’s many and sundry sins than to submit our evil doings directly to the august and sage diplomats of Geneva. read more…
I’ve been arguing for quite some time – along with about a million other people – that the Palestinians do not want a state in peace next to Israel, because they refuse, time and again, to accept such a state. As I’ve noted repeatedly, they turned down such offers in 1937 and 1947 and 2000 and as recently as 2008. read more…
It is hard to believe it has been only 19 months since the president’s inauguration. But in “political time” it has been much longer. When a president seeks “fundamental change”, and actually means it, political time expands as he attempts to break through decades of built up political boundaries. Remember how Obama bragged he accomplished health care reform when every president since Teddy Roosevelt failed? Putting aside the absurdity of the statement itself, it demonstrates that our president thinks in terms of centuries, not mere 4 year election cycles. read more…
Striking a powerful blow in defense of Martin Luther King’s memory, Reverend Al Sharpton accused Glenn Beck – who held his “Restoring Honor” event in DC last Saturday, on the 47th anniversary of King’s immortal “I Have a Dream” speech – of engaging in “a blatant attempt to hijack” the civil rights movement “that changed America.” As one of the leading stewards of that movement over the past quarter-century, Sharpton is of course eminently qualified to determine who should – and who should not – be permitted to enter the fraternity of those who nobly defend the cause of civil rights. read more…
Ayn Rand began writing her magnum opus, ATLAS SHRUGGED, on September 2, 1946. September 2 is the day of the year on which the story opens, and a date which is noted several times throughout the novel. This is why I chose today to commemorate Rand’s work, which has now been shown, unfortunately, to have been more prophetic than she would have liked. The reason she was so prophetic was because she understood the power of ideas to influence society for the better — or for the worse. Wrote Rand, in her essay, “Is Atlas Shrugging?” from her book, CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL:
“There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man’s rational faculty—the power of ideas. If you know a man’s convictions, you can predict his actions. If you understand the dominant philosophy of a society, you can predict its course. But convictions and philosophy are matters open to man’s choice.
There is no fatalistic, predetermined historical necessity. Atlas Shrugged is not a prophecy of our unavoidable destruction, but a manifesto of our power to avoid it, if we choose to change our course.
It is the philosophy of the mysticism-altruism-collectivism axis that has brought us to our present state and is carrying us toward a finale such as that of the society presented in Atlas Shrugged. It is only the philosophy of the reason-individualism-capitalism axis that can save us….”
When Islam is victorious it builds a mosque at the site of its conquest.
In an article which appeared in the August third edition of the Los Angeles Jewish Journal about the proposed Cordoba Mosque in New York to be built a few hundred yards from Ground Zero it was reported that Mr. Ben-Ami, the president and founder of “J Street” the left wing Jewish advocacy organization, had remarked:
“The principle at stake goes to the heart of American democracy and the value we place on the freedom of religion.”
Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. There are already more than a hundred mosques in and around New York and literally thousands more throughout the United States. Building another one so close to Ground Zero is hardly necessary in order to reaffirm “American democracy” or to guarantee “freedom of religion”. These were long ago enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and have been well demonstrated in every aspect of the American experiment for over two centuries. This is about Islamic triumphalism. The original Cordoba Mosque was built as a symbol of Islamic dominance over conquered Spain. The one now proposed, and its ground-breaking ceremony to take place on the 10th anniversary of the deadly attack of 9/11, is nothing more than a celebration of that attack’s success. read more…
The quote in the title of this post sums up, in five simple words, the difference between us and the Islamist terrorists. We affirm life and create. The Islamist terrorists affirm death and destroy.
But these words were not uttered by the President of the United States Tuesday night during his prime time speech from the Oval Office announcing the official end of the combat mission in Iraq. Nor did he utter any similar sentiments to explain what we have been fighting for. They were the words of an Israeli settler group in response to yesterday’s gruesome massacre by Hamas gunmen of four innocent Israeli civilians in the West Bank. The murder victims included a pregnant woman. read more…
Anti-Semitic racist blogger Charles P. Adkins aka Chuck Adkins aka Paleo Pat aka Patrick aka k8cpa
On Sunday we published a post here at NewsReal that was a parody of chapters cut from Meghan McCain’s new book, Dirty Sexy Politics. Anyone who knows anything about Meghan McCain knows that it actually ended up being eerily accurate and it’s conceivable that some of our satirized “cut chapters” actually were proposed chapters – or ended up in the final product. Excerpts released by the publisher seem to indicate that. Bless her heart. read more…
Much has been written of Glenn Beck’s 8/28 Restoring Honor event on the National Mall in Washington D.C., which attracted approximately 500,000 attendees. Beck himself has deemed those who traveled from all across the country the real stars of the event. The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman agrees.
One would not be able to find a more polite crowd at a political convention, certainly not at a professional sporting event, probably not even at an opera. In fact, judging by the behavior of the attendees following the event, you’d have a tough time finding churches in which people display more patience as others make their way to the exits.
Some Libertarians Believe Palin and Beck are Neocon Nightmares Conning the Tea Party
Baptist libertarian conservative Dr. Chuck Baldwin insists America does not need a movement to restore this nation; tea partiers cannot change anything wrong in America, because America needs a full-scale state revolution. But first, Baldwin wants Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin to get lost.
Most Americans want states to regain Constitutional state’s rights, Baldwin, however, wants a libertarian revolution led by Ron Paul, not Beck and Palin or the Pea Party.
Baldwin’s latest column at chuckbaldwinlive.com calls for state revolts that must combine with the Ron Paul Revolution in order to create an all-out revolution of the states. Baldwin says for this to come about, Americans must join Ron Paul’s Revolution and stop listening to Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
Baldwin’s demands are more leftist in tone–tell Americans what they must do, not do what they individually choose. In that case, let’s hurl each individual’s right to classical free-thinking (something Christians staunchly believe, because it’s Natural Law) under the bus while we’re at it.
* Sarah Palin blasted Lisa “RINO” Murkowski’s political career like it was a wolf running from her helicopter & I love it
* Some day, when I have a less demanding job, I look forward to taking as many vacations as Obama. read more…
