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		<title>The Biggest Fraud Ever Perpetrated on the American People</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glenn Beck exposes Obama&#8217;s fraudulent history and radicalized beliefs:</p>
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		<title>How Obama Destroys His Enemies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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President Obama has always disliked free speech as a general matter, particularly for those who oppose him. He frequently suggests that those who disagree with him simply lack the power of reason; he constantly attacks those who do not bow to his opinions. In the last month alone he has directly castigated the Supreme Court (it would be “unprecedented,” he said, for them to strike down Obamacare); Rush Limbaugh (he called up Sandra Fluke to tell her how out of line Limbaugh was); and Congress (if they don’t act on whatever it is he wants, he will go it alone).</p>
<p>But he has one problem: the First Amendment does not allow him, as president, to use the power of government to fight his enemies. Obama&#8217;s solution to this dilemma lies in 501(c)3 charitable organizations working in close tandem with the federal government.</p>
<p>Here’s how it works. First, President Obama forges deep and abiding connections with like-minded charitable organizations. These are theoretically supposed to be non-partisan, but they are typically not – they have a direct line to the White House. So, for example, Media Matters for America coordinates routinely with the White House on important issues of the day. And they are experts at initiating so-called secondary boycotts.</p>
<p>Their expertise was honed in the Don Imus affair, as the Daily Caller reported. When Imus made offensive comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, Media Matters sprang into action, coordinating with other allies and pushing for a boycott of advertisers on Imus’ show. Soon, Imus was gone.</p>
<p>They quickly moved on to Lou Dobbs. They attempted to force his advertisers to stop buying time on his radio show; in particular, they looked to put pressure on Ford. And they were successful. By November 2009, Dobbs had moved on from CNN, to Media Matters’ delight.</p>
<p>All this time, Media Matters was working with the Obama Administration. Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, met regularly with Media Matters to plot strategy. Media Matters had weekly calls with the White House.</p>
<p>The stage was set. The actors were in place.</p>
<p>Their first joint target was Glenn Beck. While the White House claimed that Fox News wasn’t a “real” news channel, Media Matters worked the back channels, coordinating with Color of Change to “expose Glenn Beck’s racist rhetoric in an effort to educate advertisers about the practices on his show.”</p>
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		<title>Weiner&#8217;s Fool&#8217;s Gold Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 04:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was the Congressman's assault on Goldline really aimed at Glenn Beck?]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2463" target="_self">New York Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner</a>, a member of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, is using his public office to attack one of Glenn Beck&#8217;s key sponsors, Goldline, Inc.  It seems that Goldline has committed the heinous crime, according to Weiner, of exploiting Beck&#8217;s scaremongering about the collapsing economy to tout gold as a safe haven and to overcharge for gold coins.</p>
<p>Weiner is abusing the power of his office to intimidate Goldline into dropping its sponsorship of Beck, whom Weiner regards as a serious threat to his <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=93&amp;type=issue" target="_self">progressive agenda</a>. Weiner wrote letters to the SEC and FTC requesting that they investigate Goldline and is proposing punitive legislation against the company.  Under Rep. Weiner&#8217;s plan, Goldline would be required to show consumers (and presumably its competitors) its full business model including what he calls their &#8220;astronomical markups.&#8221;<img title="More..." src="http://www.newsrealblog.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>In launching his fools gold crusade, Weiner said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Goldline &#8230; has recently gained prominence through the use of high-profile conservative spokespeople like Glenn Beck, who use their shows to prey on the public&#8217;s fears of inflation and socialist takeovers while actively promoting the purchase of gold coins as insurance against this purported government overreach.</p></blockquote>
<p>Last night, Weiner came on the &#8220;O&#8217;Reilly Factor&#8221; to defend his charges against Beck and Goldline.  He called Beck Goldline&#8217;s &#8220;shill&#8221; for promoting its sale of the heavily marked-up gold coins.  O&#8217;Reilly pointed out that Goldline was rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau and was free to charge whatever it wanted for its coins.  O&#8217;Reilly also said that Weiner was being unfairly selective in going after Beck&#8217;s sponsor and not other gold companies with far worse Better Business Bureau ratings. Weiner&#8217;s response was to attack the credibility of the Better Business Bureau and O&#8217;Reilly himself.</p>
<p>I think that O&#8217;Reilly let Weiner off too easily. Weiner, needless to say, is a leading progressive voice in Congress.  He is also a hypocrite.  For example, he has been one of scandal-ridden <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968" target="_self">ACORN&#8217;s</a> strongest advocates with a 100% voting record in support of their positions.</p>
<p>Weiner also has a 100% voting record in support of positions favored by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6176" target="_self">Council on American-Islamic Relations  (CAIR)</a>.  CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6181" target="_self">Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development</a>, an Islamic “charity” which was convicted in 2008 by a federal jury for giving more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.</p>
<p>Weiner sure knows how to pick his friends.  Instead of going after a corrupt leach of the taxpayers &#8211; ACORN &#8211; and a radical Islamic group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood &#8211; CAIR, Weiner is attacking Beck and a perfectly legitimate business rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau.</p>
<p>Weiner says he is just trying to look out for the consumer who, apparently in Weiner&#8217;s eyes, is unable to look out for himself.  Yet the industry contributing the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00001110">most money to Weiner&#8217;s campaigns</a> has been the real estate industry, which has cost consumers and investors billions of dollars in losses.</p>
<p>Gold does not depreciate in value and is not affected by fluctuations in currency values.  Real estate values have plummeted and are affected by variables over which consumers and investors have no control such as interest rates.  In the last three years, the price of gold has increased about 70%.   Since 2003, the price of gold has tripled.  As for housing, from the beginning of the downturn in mid 2006 to June 30, 2009, the median price of an existing home nationwide fell by 30%, or 11% annualized, according to Fiserv Lending Solutions. The median home now sells about what it sold for in 2003.</p>
<p>Why isn&#8217;t Weiner going after <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Democratic%20Coverup%20for%20Fannie%20and%20Freddie.html" target="_self">Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac</a> and his buddies in the real estate industry who helped bring about the real estate collapse?  Could it be that Weiner is their bought-and-paid for shill in Congress?</p>
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		<title>Meet Anthony Weiner, the Dem Attacking Glenn Beck</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February of this year, New York Democrat Anthony Weiner said, from the House floor: “Make no mistake about it. Every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.” In March, Weiner launched an assault against “right-wing” media, accusing them of having disseminated &#8220;an enormous amount of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>In February of this year, New York Democrat Anthony Weiner said, from the House floor: “Make no mistake about it. Every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.” In March, Weiner launched an <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/03/03/congressman-calls-fox-friends-liars-odonnell-thanks-him">assault</a> against “right-wing” media, accusing them of having disseminated &#8220;an enormous amount of disinformation&#8221; about the recently passed health-care legislation. Now he is accusing talk show host Glenn Beck of misleading his viewers into buying over-priced gold coins from a sponsor. This is the same Anthony Weiner who was once fined $47,000 for election-law violations.</p>
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		<title>Bill Maher Stands Up for America</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal host and comedian utters the unthinkable for his progressive pals.]]></description>
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<p><em>Warning: HBO-level language. <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/05/some-things-about-our-culture-are-nonnegotiable.html" target="_blank">Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan</a>.</em></p>
<p>In this clip from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39d1fHRHrM4&amp;feature=player_embedded">HBO’s recent episode</a> of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the leftist host and comedian says what so many of his progressive pals cannot:</p>
<p>1. Our American culture is <em>better</em> than the Middle East’s.</p>
<p>2. American Christians who follow their holy book literally are benign.</p>
<p>3. Islamofascism’s bullying to get us to suppress the first amendment cannot be tolerated.</p>
<p>Maher embraces these three controversial political positions. (“Controversial” within the community of the Left, that is.) But he’s unwilling to take the logical next step that these ideas demand: become a conservative.</p>
<p>If you acknowledge that our culture is worth defending, if you realize that individual liberty is not negotiable, and that Christian conservatives are in no way comparable to terrorists then you have no business being part of a movement — the political Left — that is dedicated to the promoting the exact opposite.</p>
<p>I don’t expect Maher to acknowledge that — he’s far too financially dependent on his leftist identity. He’s also unwilling to sacrifice his cool level by embracing political untouchables like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin even though they share his position on the three points above. The day comes for many of us, though, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35099" target="_blank">when we’re willing to stop being coo</a>l. Some of us can realize that Freedom is more important.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats’ excesses have driven demand for constitutional government.]]></description>
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<p>If there is anything good to say about Democrat control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, it&#8217;s that their extraordinarily brazen, heavy-handed acts have aroused a level of constitutional interest among the American people that has been dormant for far too long. Part of this heightened interest is seen in the strength of the <a href="http://www.creators.com/conservative/walter-williams/constitutional-awakening.html#" target="_blank">tea</a> party movement around the nation. Another is the angry reception that many congressmen received at their district town hall meetings. Yet another is seen by the exchanges on the nation&#8217;s most popular radio talk shows such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and others. Then there&#8217;s the rising popularity of conservative/libertarian television shows such as Glenn Beck, John Stossel and Fox News.</p>
<p>While the odds-on favorite is that the Republicans will do well in the fall elections, Americans who want constitutional government should not see Republican control as a solution to what our founders would have called &#8220;a long train of abuses and usurpations.&#8221; <a href="http://www.creators.com/conservative/walter-williams/constitutional-awakening.html#" target="_blank">Solutions</a> to our nation&#8217;s problems require correct diagnostics and answers to questions like: Why did 2008 presidential and congressional candidates spend over $5 billion campaigning for office? Why did special interests pay Washington lobbyists over $3 billion that same year?</p>
<p>What are reasons why corporations, unions and other interest groups fork over these billions of dollars to lobbyists and into the campaign coffers of politicians?</p>
<p>One might say that these groups are simply extraordinarily civic-minded Americans who have a deep and abiding interest in elected officials living up to their oath of office to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. Another response is these politicians, and the people who spend billions of dollars on them, just love participating in the political process. If you believe either of these explanations, you&#8217;re probably a candidate for some medicine, a straitjacket and a padded cell.</p>
<p>A far better explanation for the billions going to the campaign coffers of Washington politicians and lobbyists lies in the awesome government <a href="http://www.creators.com/conservative/walter-williams/constitutional-awakening.html#" target="_blank">power</a> and control over business, property, employment and other areas of our lives.</p>
<p>Having such power, Washington politicians are in the position to grant favors and commit acts that if committed by a private person would land him in jail.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s one among thousands of examples: Incandescent light bulbs are far more convenient and less expensive than compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL) that General Electric now produces. So how can General Electric sell its costly CFLs? They know that Congress has the power to outlaw incandescent light bulbs. General Electric was the prominent lobbyist for outlawing incandescent light bulbs and in 2008 had a $20 million lobbying budget. Also, it should come as no surprise that General Electric is a contributor to global warmers who help convince Congress that incandescent bulbs were destroying the planet.</p>
<p>The greater Congress&#8217; ability to grant favors and take one American&#8217;s <a href="http://www.creators.com/conservative/walter-williams/constitutional-awakening.html#" target="_blank">earnings</a> to give to another American, the greater the value of influencing congressional decision-making. There&#8217;s no better influence than money. The generic favor sought is to get Congress, under one ruse or another, to grant a privilege or right to one group of Americans that will be denied another group of Americans.</p>
<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi covering up for a corrupt Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Charles Rangel, said that while his behavior &#8220;was a violation of the rules of the House. It was not something that jeopardized our country in any way.&#8221; Pelosi is right in minimizing Rangel&#8217;s corruption. It pales in comparison, in terms of harm to our nation, to the legalized corruption that&#8217;s a part of Washington&#8217;s daily dealing.</p>
<p>Hopefully, our nation&#8217;s constitutional re-awakening will begin to deliver us from the precipice. There is no constitutional authority for two-thirds to three-quarters of what Congress does. Our constitution&#8217;s father, James Madison, explained, &#8220;The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined &#8230; (to be) exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.&#8221;</p>
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<p>If there is one major news outlet that would be expected to leap to the defense of free speech when that vital linchpin of liberty is under attack, one would expect that Fox News would be the one organization to do so. After all, it wasn’t so long ago that the Obama administration tried to cut Fox out of access to the White House. To their credit, Fox’s competitors leapt to defend – not Fox, whom the rest of the mainstream networks despise – but free speech. That episode makes the way that all the networks, and Fox in particular, are ignoring the Geert Wilders trial so troubling and, in the case of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., rather mystifying, at least until one scratches the surface a bit.</p>
<p>Nobody expects CNN, ABC, NBC, etc. to cover the Wilders trial because those networks have established beyond any reasonable doubt that they are not going to cover issues related to Islam if the story in question doesn’t fit neatly within their “Islam isn’t the problem, it’s just a few explosive bad apples” narrative. Journalists who bend over backward to disconnect Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan from his jihadist inspirations aren’t likely to care about a political leader living across the pond who is <em>obviously</em> nothing more than a fringe, right-wing Islamophobe. But Fox? We’ve come to expect more from Fox. Perhaps it’s time to start expecting less, at least when issues involving Islam are involved.</p>
<p>What’s ironic about <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?&amp;q=geert%20wilders&amp;sort=docdatetime">Fox ignoring the Wilders’ story</a> is that the most important part of the attack on this Dutch politician doesn’t involve Islam at all, not really. If Fox editors and pundits honestly believe that Wilders is a fringe politician, spouting paranoid nonsense, fine. They’re wrong, but their opinion of Wilders and his ideas are irrelevant. What’s at stake here is a principle that is vital to western civilization: the basic right of free peoples to formulate and express their ideas, even when one finds those ideas abhorrent.</p>
<p>In addition to ignoring the fact that free speech is on trial in the Netherlands, some Fox commentators have recently attacked Wilders and his ideas, the implication being that even if a viewer is astute enough to realize that this Dutch politician is on trial for what he has said, Wilders is merely a nut job who’s not worth worrying about anyway. On <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/11/another-look-at-foxnews-hatchet-job-on-geert-wilders/">March 9 Glenn Beck</a> characterized Wilders as a “far right” politician, then when on to ominously observe that “the left – in Europe – is communism; the right is fascism – <em>in Europe.</em>” A first grader could connect those particular dots, as Beck intended. This is the same Glenn Beck who, a year ago, welcomed Wilders on his show and was downright sympathetic to the attacks on Wilders’ right to free speech that the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party had endured. Wilders experience, Beck declared, was a warning to America: “If you want to see what our future looks like, all you need to is look to Europe.”</p>
<p>Beck has apparently forgotten what he said, or has decided that free speech isn’t really that important a principle after all. Ironically, Wilders is hardly “far right” in his political views. Rather, his politics defy any sort of easy categorization. What Wilders understands is that an Islamic state has no use for the kind of healthy debate that makes democracy work. When Sharia Law is implemented, it’s the Quran’s way or the highway. Wilders’ political goal is to put measures in place that will ensure that the Netherlands remains a free, democratic nation. Wilders’ legal fight is about the freedom to work toward that goal.</p>
<p>Wilders criticizes Islam, not Muslims, because he believes that Islam is ultimately employed as a totalitarian system of governance, whatever it’s attributes or flaws as a religion. Otherwise sensible conservatives, like Charles Krauthammer, <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTA0YWU2NjQzZTM3YjRmNDA4ZDk2NWNjNzQyYjlmYTY=">dismissed Wilders’ concerns out of hand</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“What he (Wilders) says is extreme, radical, and wrong. He basically is arguing that Islam is the same as Islamism. Islamism is an ideology of a small minority which holds that the essence of Islam is jihad, conquest, forcing people into accepting a certain very narrow interpretation [of Islam]. The untruth of that is obvious. If you look at the United  States, the overwhelming majority of Muslims in the U.S. are not Islamists. So, it&#8217;s <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTA0YWU2NjQzZTM3YjRmNDA4ZDk2NWNjNzQyYjlmYTY=" target="_blank">simply</a> incorrect. Now, in Europe, there is probably a slightly larger minority but, nonetheless, the overwhelming majority are not.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But what Wilders is saying and what pundits like Krauthammer <em>think</em> Wilders is saying are two different things. Of course most Muslims living in the United States are not Islamists. Of course the majority of the Muslims living in Europe are not Islamists. It’s safe to wager that the majority of Muslims living in Iran are not Islamists either. That’s not the point. Wilders, and any rational thinker, can’t help but observe that Muslim nations are overwhelmingly ruled by governments that are, in effect if not in name, theocracies. Sometimes those theocracies are dangerous, hostile tyrannies, as in the case of Iran, and sometimes they are indifferent, if occasionally useful, friends of the west like Saudi Arabia. At either end of the spectrum, no Muslim-ruled nation respects western traditions and values like freedom of speech, the equality of peoples and the right of dissent. Wilders hasn’t been trying to demonize individual Muslims, he’s been trying to keep the Netherlands from turning into an Islamic state. One may disagree with his methods, but to say that he doesn’t have the right to employ those methods because the theocratic system he opposes is so violently hyper-sensitive is patently ridiculous and downright cowardly.</p>
<p>So, why is Fox following its brethren in the media by ignoring the Wilders trial, a story that is full of so many themes that might otherwise attract Fox’s attention? Could it have anything to with Saudi Arabian prince Prince Alwaleed bin Talal&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1261/Should-Fox-News-Register-as-a-Saudi-Agent.aspx">stake in News Corp</a>.? Might Murdoch’s increasingly <a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=111&amp;sid=1895261">cozy relationship</a> with Arabic media giant Rotana Group have something to do with it? Murdoch’s maverick news organization appears to playing a subtle, yet dangerous game.</p>
<p>Unlike its fellow networks, Fox is ready and willing to denounce radical jihadists who threaten not only the west, but who – if left unchecked – will upset delicate power structures in Muslim theocracies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that lean toward the west. But, for Fox, calling out the religious system of governance that empowers and enriches the princes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE seems to be out of bounds. Free speech, it would appear, has it limits – even at Fox News.</p>
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<p>An open letter to Geert Wilders:</p>
<p>Though we have not met, I feel as if I know you well. I have followed your trials—and trial—closely and, like many who are engaged in the same fight against Islamic supremacism and the various forms of jihad that confront us, I endorse your campaign on behalf of the West and its traditional liberties in every way that I can.</p>
<p>Indeed, I wonder if you are aware of the extent of your <em>de facto</em> “support network,” a majority in America who, according to a <a href="http://people-press.org/report/564/islamic-extremism">Pew Research Center survey</a>, are “very concerned” about the rise of Islamic extremism, and certainly a significant minority of the increasingly vocal. The same may now be the case in your own country and in a number of other European nations as well—Switzerland and its <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/29/switzerland.minaret.referendum/index.html">minaret affair</a> come immediately to mind—as ordinary people gradually come to realize the threat they are facing.</p>
<p>Of course, we can write off the political and intellectual elites who, through laziness, timidity, adherence to the craven doctrine of political correctness, and no doubt the profiteering impulse, are in bed with the succubus who would guzzle their blood. And this is no blood libel. In addition, you probably strike these presumably more decorous sensibilities as too blunt, aggressive or politically ambitious, which is clearly what prompts their efforts at character assassination against you. But your passionate resistance to the creeping Islamization of Europe prompts me in turn to ask: Does this in Wilders seem ambitious? In any event, pay no attention to these tergiversators. As Andrew Bostom <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/qaddafi-wilders-and-the-jihad-against-switzerland/">writes</a>, “The transparent agenda in characterizations of Wilders is to demonize Western Europe’s most informed and courageous politician resisting the actual jihadism…But the Swiss minaret referendum, and even more emphatically, burgeoning Dutch support for Wilders and his PVV, indicate that ordinary Europeans reject the capitulation to Islamic supremacism their cultural relativist media and political elites deliberately abet.”</p>
<p>In your fine <a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=20195">speech to the British House of Lords</a> on March 5, 2010, you established the principle, as you have many times before, that you and your Freedom Party do not “have a problem with Muslims as such.” You distinguish between law-abiding Muslims and the ideology of Islam based on the Koran. “There are many moderate Muslims,” you declare, “but there is no such thing as a moderate Islam.” The first part of your proposition is a socially appropriate sentiment, but the second part begets a conceptual problem which is decidedly unpleasant to address.</p>
<p>Forgive me for suggesting that you probably had no choice but to make this subtle discrimination between the faithful and the faith, which implies a certain disconnect between the wish and the reality, as you must surely realize. You tread on very delicate ground here, as you are doubtlessly constrained to do in order to avoid alienating both “moderate Muslims” and non-Muslims who regard themselves as unprejudiced.</p>
<p>When you rightly assert that “Islam is not merely a religion [but] a totalitarian ideology,” note that the Koran “commands Muslims to establish shariah law,” claim that “Islam is not compatible with our Western way of life,” and go on to compare the Koran with <em>Mein Kampf</em>, quoting Winston Churchill to reinforce your thesis, the distinction you adduce between individual Muslims and the collective institution of Islam tends to collapse. For what you are really saying is that moderate Muslims cannot be devout Muslims or, in truth, cannot be Muslims at all. What sort of Muslim remains after you have factored out shariah law, effectively compared Muhammed to Hitler, and contended that the Koran should be outlawed, or at least designated as a species of hate literature, as you proposed in your <a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3094">letter</a> to the newspaper <em>De Volkskrant</em> on August 8, 2007?</p>
<p>You now find yourself uncomfortably situated, so to speak, between the devil and the deep Red Sea. Not being a Muslim yourself, you don’t have the option of polemical emphasis that derives from rejecting the faith, becoming an apostate-on-principle or converting to another faith, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish, among others—all of whom took the second part of your logic to its inevitable terminus. They understood that one cannot honestly profess Islam without abiding by the decrees of the religion and its holy book, including the oft-repeated summons to kill or enslave the infidel, the structure of gender apartheid, the imposition of shariah, and a host of other draconian laws.</p>
<p>In other words, a “moderate Muslim” would have to live in a state of contradiction, and perhaps many do—as does, for example, freedom loving Tarek Fatah, Canadian author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Mirage-Tragic-lllusion-Islamic/dp/0470841168/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268418133&amp;sr=1-1">Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State</a></em>, who <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=2673117">calls himself</a> a “hardened secular Muslim.” What exactly is a <em>secular</em> Muslim, whether hardened or soft? Similarly, what could a “secular Christian” conceivably be other than some sort of mythical chimera? (It is different for Jews, of course; a “secular Jew” remains a Jew because the world persists in regarding him as such. But that is another matter.) Fatah is a good man and an important voice in the ongoing debate concerning Islam, but he cannot extricate himself from a legendary infatuation or acknowledge disagreeable historical and theological facts. One cannot cherry pick the Koran or romanticize Islamic history, as so-called “moderate Muslims” are obliged to do, without falling into incoherence. As a character in Hanif Kureishi’s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Album-Hanif-Kureishi/dp/0684825406/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268483288&amp;sr=1-1">The Black Album</a></em> says, “our religion isn’t something you can test out, like trying out a suit to see if it fit! You gotta buy the whole outfit!” There is, to put it another way, no such beverage as Islam Lite. One drinks in the real thing or nothing; there is no substitute.</p>
<p>Bangladeshi author and former Muslim Abul Kasem, in a <em><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29366">FrontPage Magazine interview</a></em>, defines the majority of Muslims as believers “in name only.” Kasem is shockingly direct: the existence of a “moderate Muslim” is contingent upon a moderate Koran “since the life force of Islam is the Qu’ran.” But the Koran happens to be an extreme and violent document, and even if it is selectively ignored by practitioners of the faith, its fissile core can be activated at any time. For Kasem, as for the dissidents mentioned above, the term “moderate Muslim” or “secular Muslim” is an oxymoron. The use of the term “moderate Muslim,” he argues, is “truly misplaced” and muddles Western thinking in the attempt to defeat Islamic terror. I’m presuming this is an argument you too would candidly advance if the sociopolitical context were not so precarious, and if your place in Dutch society and as leader of a respectable political party permitted you to do so.</p>
<p>Still, you were on the money when, in a <a href="../Application%20Data/Microsoft/Word/speech%20to%20the%20Dutch%20parliament">speech to the Dutch parliament</a>, you compared Islam in Europe to a Trojan Horse. Here you were being perfectly forthright. Your metaphor was both mythologically and historically accurate. In 1529, the armies of Islam were camped before the gates of Vienna. They were beaten back. Today they are camped <em>within</em> the gates of Paris, the gates of Oslo, the gates of Malmo, the gates of Berlin, the gates of London, the gates of Birmingham, the gates of Brussels, the gates of Marseille, the gates of Amsterdam, and counting. In fact, as you and many of the politically aware—Bruce Bawer, Christopher Caldwell, Walter Laqueur, Bernard Lewis, the late Samuel Huntington, Melanie Phillips, Bruce Thornton, Claire Berlinski, Denis MacShane, Bat Ye’or, to name only a few—point out, Islam is now a major demographic force within the gates of Europe <em>in its entirety</em>. Vienna was only a temporary setback, a lost battle in a long and possibly successful war. Our ostensible sophisticates seem to have forgotten that Islamic time is not Western time.</p>
<p>I began this letter by assuring you that you have a far wider community of supporters than you might at times suspect. True, several conservative <em>bien pensants</em> and generally astute observers of the ideological world, such as Bill Kristol, Glenn Beck and Charles Krauthammer, have lately <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/11/another-look-at-foxnews-hatchet-job-on-geert-wilders/">taken you to task</a> on Fox News and elsewhere for your supposed intransigence, your explicitness and your “radical” stance vis à vis Islam, that is, your refusal to differentiate between a peaceable Islam and violent Islamism. The critical perspective adopted by these otherwise excellent writers toward the leftist collaboration with, or appeasement of, militant Islam, their awareness of the demographic menace posed by unchecked immigration, and the weaponized prose they habitually flourish would indicate they should be your allies rather than detractors.</p>
<p>So unfortunate a dereliction is highly problematic and, at first blush, inexplicable—unless, as a commenter to an <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDk2ODI2OGEwMjAzOWFlMzQxMzUxNTE3NmVkOWU3M2U=">article</a> by Mark Steyn <a href="http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3016/59/">suggests</a>, “perhaps the recent purchase of a substantial portion of <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100117/D9D9GR0O0.html" target="_blank">News Corp.&#8217;s stock by a wealthy Saudi Arabian</a> might be a factor in Krauthammer&#8217;s and Beck&#8217;s negative statements about Geert Wilders.” Diana West <a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1307/Fox-News-Best-Investment-Saudi-Prince-Talal-Ever-Made.aspx">concurs</a>: “this anti-Geert pundit solidarity will only delight stakeholder Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.” We have long known that Saudi money has infiltrated the media, the universities, the Hollywood illusion factory and the book publishing industry, with all the predictable consequences. But then, we also know that Kristol, Beck and Krauthammer are honorable men.</p>
<p>Maybe there is another explanation. <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/03/10/beck-krauthammer-and-the-geert-wilders-perplex/?singlepage=true">Roger Simon hazards</a> that Beck “is not particularly versed in European affairs”, which are plainly not his forte, and that Krauthammer may be subconsciously afraid that <em>you are right</em>, a likelihood “too depressing” to contemplate. For, Simon continues, “if Wilders is correct, and the line between Islam and Islamism is as blurred as the Dutchman posits, then we in the West are in very deep trouble indeed.” And this is a conclusion all too few of our intellectuals, “peace” constituencies, opinion shapers and power wielders, addicted to the ostrich syndrome and insulated from the mean streets of the real world, are willing to absorb. They have taken another route and are speeding down the highway to dhimmitude like Toyotas with stuck gas pedals. They would rather allow the approaching immiseration of the West at the hands of a resurgent Islam than stiffen their spines and act as they must if Western civilization is to survive. Which is why they do not want you in the game.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, despite such curious defections and betrayals, I think you may rest confident that you enjoy a stalwart following among those who have come to share both your fears and your salient assumptions. We monitor the court prosecution to which you have been subjected by a camarilla of judges who, as you say, “do not want to hear the truth about Islam.” As David Rusin shows in a compendious <a href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/03/objection-your-honor-european-courts-placate">summary</a> of “the growing deference to Islam in Europe’s courtrooms,” citing evidence of a most disturbing, if ludicrous, nature, “in the Netherlands, the bar association is leading the way to mollify Islamists.”</p>
<p>But there is a redeeming irony tunneling its way through these proceedings. You are in a win-win situation. A victory in court means you have been vindicated. A negative verdict also works in your favor, for a jail cell would give you an effective podium, though I doubt you would malinger there for long. It would then become glaringly obvious that your accusers are a pack of <em>soi-disant</em> anti-Dreyfusards, Vichy-type sellouts, cowards and hypocrites, and public demonstrations against your captors would be sure to follow. They are the ones in a self-inflicted bind, not you. Moreover, it is already common knowledge that your judges have substantially curtailed the number of expert witnesses you have called and are deliberating behind closed doors. Oddly enough, a bad day in court may translate into a good day at the polls. Indeed, according to some <a href="http://countercultureconservative.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/prime-minister-geert-wilders/">electoral prognostications</a>, you may shortly find yourself the prime minister of your country.</p>
<p>The cake appears ready for the oven. If all goes well, the next election may actually install you in the seat of power or, failing that, position you as a power broker. You have only to keep on being yourself and, of course, you need to stay alive. You have the courage and outspokenness of your murdered fellow Amsterdammers, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1971462.stm">Pym Fortuyn</a> and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3974179.stm">Theo van Gogh</a>, but you also have what they did not, 24/7 protection. And, to reiterate, you are not alone. A growing company of the likeminded stand behind you. One way or another, you cannot lose, at least not in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>So in conclusion, as the current idiom enjoins: Go for it!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP’s newest rising star is a little-known, motorcycle-riding governor from Indiana. ]]></description>
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<p>He doesn’t have Sarah Palin’s star power, Glenn Beck’s ratings, or Scott Brown’s trademark pick-up truck, but Indiana&#8217;s <a href="http://www.news-banner.com/pix/sitegraphics/danielscorn.jpg">motorcycle-riding</a> Governor Mitch Daniels has become a rising star on the Right.</p>
<p>As governor, Daniels has built up a reputation as a conservative policy wonk and pragmatist who has found innovative ways to streamline government, raise revenue, and cut bureaucracy while eschewing partisan sloganeering. Now, as the Republican Party searches for its next standard bearer, it’s perhaps not surprising that some influential conservatives – most notably the <em>New York Times’</em> Ross Douthat – are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/opinion/01douthat.html">talking him up</a> as a possible presidential nominee in 2012. Daniels’ admission last month that he is now “<a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/indianas-daniels-a-reluctant-b.html">open to the idea</a>,” having previously opposed a presidential bid, has only added to the speculation.</p>
<p>While he has yet to enter the fray, Daniels has sought a larger public profile in recent months. For instance, yesterday, at an event hosted by the Hudson Institute in New   York, he delivered some remarks about the state of the nation. Daniels is known as a serious guy, with little enthusiasm for political talking points, and his mostly impromptu remarks were consistent with that image. Highly critical of the Obama administration and its fiscal profligacy – “not so darned good” is how he summed up the state of the nation – Daniels nevertheless cautioned that Republicans should not confuse the administration’s failures with their own success.</p>
<p>Daniels used a baseball analogy to explain the current political moment. The GOP was on “second base,” he said. That’s much better than many expected, but some on the Republican side seem to think that the party has hit a home run. It’s more accurate to say that the Republicans have advanced to second after a walk. In other words, the Obama administration’s mistakes, not the GOP’s policy platform, has put it in the favorable position in which it now finds itself. Like many Republican officeholders, Daniels expressed support for the Tea Party movement. But he stopped short of suggesting that such grassroots activism was the answer to GOP’s political problems. Still, he noted that that Tea Party “hell raising is a good way to get the conversation started.”</p>
<p>That conversation, according to Daniels, should be about the mounting deficits and the unsustainable growth in government expenditures. In Daniels’ view, the most immediate danger to the country came from the deficits run up by the federal government. (The second most pressing danger was the possibility that stateless terrorists could acquire a usable nuclear weapon.) If the GOP is to regain the presidency, he said, it has to show that it has a credible plan to cut those deficits while containing the cost of current entitlements.</p>
<p>In that connection, Daniels paid tribute to Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, whose “roadmap” plan to reform Medicare by providing private health care accounts for those under 55 while keeping benefits unchanged for current Medicare recipients was one of the <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/11/cut-spending-taxes-budget-medicare-paul-ryan-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html">more substantive proposals</a> to reduce the federal debt to come from the Republican side recently. (Social Security, Medicare and national defense make up half the federal budget.)</p>
<p>Daniels suggested that if the GOP was serious about spending restraint it would have to embrace similar efforts to “bifurcate” spending and reduce the government’s obligations. Daniels himself said that he would favor doing everything possible to rein in spending and contain the cost of entitlements. He made clear that he did not favor meeting budget obligations by raising taxes, but he also insisted that all options should be on the table – a boldly heretical statement before an audience made up largely of Republicans.</p>
<p>If Daniels should decide to run for president – he repeatedly downplayed such speculation yesterday – the presumptive line of attack on his deficit-cutting credibility would be that he served in the Bush administration, not exactly known for its fiscal prudence. (From 2001 to 2003, Daniels was the head of President Bush’s Office of Management and Budget.) Anticipating such criticism, one questioner cited a <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/10/26/bush-is-a-big-spender/">Cato Institute study</a> finding that discretionary spending under President Bush rose an inflation-adjusted 5.3 percent in his first six years, outpacing even the 4.6 percent under “Great Society” architect President Lyndon Johnson. Given that history, what standing did Daniels, and Republicans more broadly, have to pose as the party of spending restraint and fiscal discipline?</p>
<p>Daniels’ defense of the Bush record was halfhearted at best. There was a “defensive intellectual argument” made by President Bush to spend more on programs like education, he said, though he did not elaborate. Daniels also acknowledged that deficits soared under President Bush. But he rejected any equivalence between the administrations, and hastened to point out that those deficits are now three times higher under President Obama. “I bet you wish Bush was in charge now,” he joked. Daniels also pointed out that as head of OBM, he routinely advised Bush to slash spending – so much so that his White House nickname was “the blade.”</p>
<p>In a friendlier line of questioning, Daniels was asked to explain the success of his introduction of private <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575091600470293066.html">health savings accounts</a> (HSAs) in Indiana. After being elected governor in 2004, Daniels added HSAs to the standard plans available to state employees. Under the Indiana plan, the state puts $2,750 annually into an account controlled by the employee; the account is then used to pay all health bills, with the state covering the premium for the plan. The idea is that employees will become more cautious about their health care spending and avoid the overuse and overpayment for medical services that has driven up health care costs across the country.</p>
<p>Daniels said that the plan has been a success: Some 70 percent of Indiana state workers use HSAs, compared to just the 2 percent one finds in the public sector nationally. Indiana’s HSA plan is also set to save the state some $20 million in 2010. Daniels said that the plan has proven popular despite heated opposition from government employee unions, which have tried to serve as the middleman between the government and their members. Daniels said that he was able to overcome union opposition in part by decertifying the government employee unions as one of his acts in power.</p>
<p>While Daniels’ remarks were mostly focused on domestic politics, he did take a question on foreign policy. Asked how he saw the American relationship with Israel, Daniels said that he considered Israel an ally. He went on to say that Israel had the right to use all means at its disposal to defend itself – including, if necessary, attacking Iran.</p>
<p>On the evidence of his remarks, it’s hard to see Daniels as a very formidable presidential candidate. In charisma and telegenic appeal, he is certainly no match for President Obama. But Daniels’ command of economic issues is impressive, and his insistence that the Republican Party focus on assembling a coherent and convincing policy agenda before it begins measuring the drapes for the White House is especially notable at a time when many in the GOP are writing what may well turn out to be premature obituaries for the administration.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's haters continue their smear campaign. ]]></description>
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<p>Remember &#8220;Not Me&#8221;? He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper comic strip &#8220;The Family Circus.&#8221; Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the comic pointed their fingers at &#8220;Not Me.&#8221; Today, &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; is the juvenile left&#8217;s new &#8220;Not Me&#8221; — an all-purpose scapegoat for every crime and disaster.</p>
<p>Last Thursday, a disturbed pilot flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. Several workers in the building were injured, and Joseph Andrew Stack, the pilot, was killed in the crash. Local authorities suspect he set his house on fire — from which his wife and daughter escaped — before taking off on his deadly journey. Investigators found a Web posting, identified as Stack&#8217;s &#8220;suicide manifesto,&#8221; in which he railed against tax laws, inequity, government and crony capitalism. He also targeted &#8220;puppet&#8221; George W. Bush, murderous health care insurers and the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>The &#8220;manifesto&#8221; ended:</p>
<p><em> The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.</em></p>
<p><em>The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. </em></p>
<p>This nutball had deadly grudges that transcended partisan lines. But within minutes of the story breaking, a furious left-wing blogger at the popular Daily Kos website — where countless Democratic leaders have guest-posted — fumed: &#8220;Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building.&#8221; The article immediately cast blame on the anti-tax Tea Party movement: &#8220;After months of threats on the United States government, and government institutions, the Anti-Government forces known as the teabaggers have struck with their first 911 (sic) inspired terrorist attack.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the eponymous mega-website of Arianna Huffington, a 2,000-plus comment thread was filled with allusions to &#8220;teabaggers&#8221;:</p>
<p><em> I would bet he has a membership card to teabag nation and the Glenn Beck fan club!</em></p>
<p><em>Tea bag bomb.</em></p>
<p><em>Good to see natural selection still works! Tea party Unite!</em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds just like a teabagger.</em></p>
<p><em>Oh please. This has tea bags dripping all over it.</em></p>
<p><em>I hope teabaggers are proud!! &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Great opening day for CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) isn&#8217;t it?? </em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds like a Tea Partier first class! Maybe that movement is more DANGEROUS to our freedoms than they let on! Be afraid America, BE VERY AFRAID!</em></p>
<p><em>He was a Tea Party Terrorist. </em></p>
<p>In the early aftermath of the suicidal pilot&#8217;s attack, there was no evidence that Stack belonged to a Tea Party organization. In any case, no law-abiding Tea Party group would ever condone what he did. But it didn&#8217;t stop the haters from immediately smearing advocates of limited government. And it&#8217;s just the latest in a long line of calculated attempts to paint the vast majority of peaceful Tea Party activists as terrorist threats to civil society.</p>
<p>This week, absurd liberal pundits and bloggers also tried to connect the tragic University of Alabama-Huntsville murders to the Tea Party movement. No matter that the alleged killer, Amy Bishop, was an Obama-worshiping academic who repeatedly got a soft-on-crime pass. Or that Democratic Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts was the former prosecutor involved in dropping charges against Bishop in the deadly shooting of her teenage brother. Or that liberal-dominated campus officials apparently looked the other way in response to Bishop&#8217;s several red-flag flashes of violence leading up to the U of A shootings.</p>
<p>Tea Party-bashers claimed that the murders were a manifestation of racist conservative influence on the American landscape. Reuters Foundation Fellow Jonathan Curiel picked up the theme: &#8220;The &#8216;results&#8217; that the Tea Party movement envisions include less government — and less of Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>Curiel bemoaned the rejection of a post-racial society by tying together the Alabama massacre and the rise of the Tea Party movement more explicitly. Proof of anti-Obama bigotry, he wrote, could be found in &#8220;last week&#8217;s shooting in Alabama, where a disgruntled white professor murdered three minority professors; and the growing success of the Tea Party movement, which is overwhelmingly white and increasing (sic) vocal in its violent dislike of the nation&#8217;s first black president.&#8221;</p>
<p>The same warped worldview blamed Tea Party conservatives for Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman&#8217;s insurance-scam-inspired suicide and for Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn&#8217;s rampage (despite his published rants against Fox News).</p>
<p>The smear merchants, of course, are simply following Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s advice to exploit every crisis. Pointing fingers at the Tea Party gremlin demonizes the left&#8217;s most potent political opponents. This is the blame-gamers&#8217; ultimate agenda: criminalizing dissent.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Grey Lady won't tell you about professor Amy Bishop.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<title>David Horowitz and a Guided Tour of the “Ron Paul Revolutionary” Mind</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debra Medina's Truther exposure reignites scrutiny of anti-American libertarians.
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<p>On <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36250/" target="_blank">Thursday, February 11, </a><a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/36250/" target="_blank">Glenn Beck exposed </a>Texas Gubernatorial Candidate, Debra Medina, as a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Debunking%20911.html">9-11 Truther</a>.</p>
<p>Glenn Beck:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Do you believe the government was any way involved with the bringing down of the World Trade Centers on <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=146&amp;type=issue">9/11</a>?”</p></blockquote>
<p>Debra Medina:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I don’t, I don’t have all the evidence there, Glenn. So I don’t I’m not in a place, I have not been out publicly questioning that. I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard. There are some very good arguments, and I think the American people have not seen all of the evidence there. So I’ve not taken a position on that.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Hearing that the mental jury of the would-be Governor of Texas was still out, Beck sent Medina packing. Her supporters massed in cyber-mobdom to howl, “Single- issue foul! <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Olbermann%20US%20Provoked%20Russia%20Sees.html">Neo-con </a>Set-up!” to no avail. Post-interview polls indicate that Texans grasp that Medina’s entertaining 9-11 Myths indicates a lack of reason- a faculty required to govern the second largest state in the Union.</p>
<p>Medina’s political activities include working with Ron Paul’s 2008 Presidential Campaign. Her political convictions earned her an interview by high-priest of paranoid Libertarianism, Alex Jones. Medina’s response to Beck and her post-interview retraction were a duplicitous attempt to simultaneously please the Tea Party and the Tea Pauly.</p>
<p>Clashes between Ron Paul Revolutionaries and “we mindless pawns of our NWO masters” have echoed in the virtual halls of NewsReal. Few subjects provoke comparable passion and acrimony. Why? The answer is illustrated by Medina’s dissimulation about her true ideological orientation, the iceberg of which her “Truther Faith” is but the tip. Beneath its exhortation to “return to the Constitutional Republic the Founders intended,” the Ron Paul Revolution is animated by the ideological reflexes that drive Leftist radicals. We push-back against the creed of the Paulists because its consequences hardly differ from those of the Leftist agenda we normally confront.</p>
<p>I assert such a similarity after providentially finding a profound analysis, a veritable blueprint of the Paulist mind, provided by David Horowitz in <em><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7852">Why the Left (and Timothy Burke) Can’t Handle the Truth. </a></em> Mr. Horowitz designates the two fundamental dispositions of the Leftist mentality – utopianism and a nihilistic ambition to destroy the Capitalist West.</p>
<p>Horowitz explains:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The left’s “original sin” is utopianism… It is the left’s utopianism that has produced its “anti-Western predispositions”… the belief in an alternate world to replace the one into which he has been born.</p></blockquote>
<p>Those identifying themselves as Constitutional Republicans, as did Medina, dream of a profoundly transformed America. In this “Constitutional Utopia,” free from the “military-industrial complex,” America would no longer be controlled by greedy corporations and global bankers who plunder the world. Freedom fighters everywhere “would no longer be terrorists since America wouldn’t be an occupier.” We would withdraw to pristine isolationism, a Daniel Boone wilderness with virtually no government involvement in our lives. Of course, initial massive government regulation would be needed to bring about the country’s liberation from the Big Corporations now enslaving us. Once the people are free from the Military-Industrial neo-cons, power would be returned to the small businesses and individuals.</p>
<p>Nihilism is the second element of the Leftist mind-set, it is the bitter hatred for any manifestation of American world intervention. Withdrawal of American military influence is a common theme for the Drs. Paul and sympathizers.</p>
<p>Horowitz points out:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Today the Left is still divided over its plans for the future, but these plans pale into insignificance in the face of its real passion which is its nihilistic antagonism towards the United States the metropolis at the center of the global capitalist system, and Israel, its imperialist pawn in the Muslim world. The left’s overweening hatred of global capitalism – “globalization” – which is its energizing force, explains how it can make alliances with Islamic fundamentalists who share the same enemy.”</p>
<p>“In the section of Unholy Alliance called The Mind of the Left, I show how this psychological trope distorts and energizes the vision of leftists across the political spectrum…I explain how the left’s religious need for a social redemption overcomes such differences and forges the coalition which includes…Islamofascists as well. This coalition is most obvious and visible in the global crusade of Islamist fundamentalists and secular leftists to produce <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/The%20Biggest%20Lies%20about%20the%20Israeli2.html">a second Holocaust of the Jews in the Middle East.”</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Mr. Horowitz set out to explain why disparate Leftists put aside conflicting political agendas to unite against the War in Iraq. He could easily extend the boundaries to include those following the Ron Paul Revolution. Dr. Rand Paul spoke of forming a coalition with the Left to “defeat the Military-Industrial Complex,” a move that would eliminate America’s presence in the Middle-East, contributing as effectively as the Left to the Holocaust of which Mr. Horowitz wrote.</p>
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		<title>The New Attack on Palin? Associate Her with John Edwards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obsessive attacks on Palin take yet another morbid turn. ]]></description>
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<p>Wednesday, February 3, 2010, marked a new turn in the obsessive attacks on Sarah Palin: associating  her with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=631" target="_blank">John Edwards</a>.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/grifters-tale/" target="_blank"><em>New York Times</em></a> Timothy Egan sees them as a pair of ethically similar “grifters” using populism to con the American voter–“playing to outrage while taking care of themselves.” In Egan’s view, both ginned up and profited from fears among a broad segment of the public who increasingly resent the success and power of the elites and feel that “America is passing them by.”</p>
<p>Edwards did this an arrant fashion by tearing the labels off his Armani suits and driving someone else’s clunker to rallies where he preached his blow-dried version of class warfare.  Now Palin is doing the same thing, Egan believes, by “charging Tea Partiers $100,000 to stoke their fears.”  (Yes, she has promised to plow her take back into “the cause,” but Egan assumes that she is a cynic whose only cause is herself.)</p>
<p>The comparison between the pair is asymmetrical and tendentious.  Egan doesn’t consider Edwards’ banality of evil—notably the lying treachery committed against wife and family, and friends and supporters.  But while  Palin’s failings, notably her “incoherence” and her lack of response to Glenn Beck when he asked about her favorite founding father, are not in any way equivalent to Edwards’ evil, they are more fully explored. It’s clear by the end of his piece that Egan isn’t really comparing the two at all, but using Edwards’ nastiness to make Palin seem sleazy by association.</p>
<p>Andrew Sullivan posted a nuttier but more interesting piece on Palin   and Edwards on his blog on thursday   titled <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/my-john-edwards-failure.html" target="_blank">“My John Edwards Failure.”</a></p>
<p>He begins by acknowledging that he committed a double standard treating Palin harshly and giving a pass to Edwards.  But then he immediately reassures the reader that this doesn’t mean he is “backtracking” on Palin.  In fact, says Sullivan,</p>
<blockquote><p>“All I regret is not being  able to expose her for real yet.”</p></blockquote>
<p>A surprising admission of failure by someone who has spent the last year and a half obsessing on her private parts, producing sick innuendoes about her family, and licking his chops over the dull normal baby daddy, Levi Johnston, and the big revelation he’s supposedly getting ready to deliver. Hasn’t he run her to ground yet? What more could Sullivan have done to her after months of subjecting her to the blog equivalent of waterboarding?</p>
<p>In the rest of his post—about his deficiencies is not getting  the Edwards story—he cultivates a weepy tone while making a very big deal out of an inessential disclosure.  He ignored the Edwards story, he says, because of his “leeriness of investigating people’s sex lives” (obviously he made an exception in Palin’s case).  Then he grandiosely struts his “sensitivity” by saying that he also “felt protective toward Elizabeth” whom he didn’t want to hurt at a time when she was “faced with mortality” and that he grieved over her loss of a child.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that he made a mistake “in making an assumption of a baseline of decency in public officials” and won’t do it again. Of course this assumption never did apply to Palin whom Sullivan has been lighting up—especially on the circumstances of Trig’s birth–during all those months when he was studiously ignoring Edwards.</p>
<p>What we can take away from this jive confession is that Sullivan will feel it his duty to concentrate his fire even more fiercely on Palin now that he has “learned” from his kid glove treatment of Edwards.</p>
<p>As if he needed a justification to continue this loony quest.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glenn Beck didn&apos;t always believe in what he was doing. &#8220;When I was young, I used to hear people say, &apos;He&apos;s a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he&apos;s going to be like when he grows up?&apos; Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn&apos;t even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.&#8221;&#8221;Golden boy&#8221; was no exaggeration. &#8220;I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don&apos;t know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25,&#8221; he tells me in his midtown Manhattan office, a few blocks from the Fox News Channel studio where he now broadcasts his eponymous program every afternoon.</p>
<p>via <a href='http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703436504574641192528461858.html'>Interview with Glenn Beck: &#8216;Nobody&#8217;s Watching Charlie Rose&#8217; &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Law &amp; Order and Double Standards &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will the television series portray a Muslim “honor” killing and the Islamic theology behind it?]]></description>
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<p>Almost every time I tune in to the show <em>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU)</em>, there is some kind of grotesque and pathetically cheap leftist message being perpetuated. Recently, as most of us know, the show <a href="http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/12/glenn-beck-responds-to-attack-by-law.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">had a character</span></a> verbalize a connection between a psychotic murder and the fans of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly. The connection, naturally, is that these three individuals are “a cancer spreading ignorance and hate.”</p>
<p>The other day another episode I watched launched a ferocious attack on a religion and, surprise, surprise, it wasn’t Islam. The producers didn’t take the road less traveled. You know, the one on which you confront the real dangers facing us but risk attracting lawsuits and death threats and, well, you know, putting your job and life at stake and stuff like that. Why bother doing all that when you can just dip into the trendy liberal moral sewer and attack the Catholic Church — with no consequences to your own career and personal well-being? The Catholic Church is so evil, you see, that absolutely nothing will happen to you after you attack it.</p>
<p>In this particular episode, a Catholic priest molests boys and the Church covers it all up. The script offers a politically correct delicacy in which the seal of confession is portrayed as a vile rule created by horrid men for the purpose of institutionalizing abuse and tyranny. There are no complexities, nothing to be said about the sacredness and importance of a priest having the obligation of keeping a confessed sin a secret. It’s all just so simple and, of course, <em>evil</em>.</p>
<p>Suffice it to say that the subject of this show is a reality in terms of the abuse of young boys by certain Catholic priests and its subsequent cover-up. These crimes have been investigated, exposed, and punished. And they should continue to be investigated, exposed, and punished. So as the topic for a show on television, it’s clearly warranted and legitimate.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/law-order-and-double-standards/">click here.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Frontpage&#8217;s Man of the Year: Glenn Beck &#8211; by David Forsmark</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rising star of the Right has kept Obama in check and spearheaded the conservative revival.]]></description>
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<p>The year of Obamarific “change” quickly became the year of dissent as Americans grew disillusioned with the “trillion here and a trillion there” spending of President Barack Obama even as unemployment rose. The so-called “Stimulus Package,” which promised to cap unemployment at 8%, did nothing to generate private sector jobs. The only area that seemed to be stimulated was joblessness, which soared above 10%.</p>
<p>Despite an economic disaster, the Democrats in Congress and the White House focused on socializing American health care and an economy-busting “cap and trade” scheme to hike energy taxes.  To top it off, it seemed every day brought revelations about radicals with unconscionable views who either held high offices in the new administration or were funded with taxpayer money.</p>
<p>Suddenly, the loudmouths of the Left and the poobahs of the Lame-Stream Media &#8212; who had deemed dissent to be “the highest form of patriotism” when George W. Bush occupied the White House &#8212; whistled another tune. They began savaging of opponents of the Obama regime as Nazis, racists and ignorant rubes. Their targets weren&#8217;t just public figures who stood in the way of their agenda; rather, they viciously attacked <em>ordinary</em> Americans, the tea partiers, to whom they gave a sobriquet (tea-baggers) that no network censors would have allowed just a few years ago.</p>
<p>For our Man of the Year issue, we justifiably could have taken the cheap and easy route (such as <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html" target="_blank">Time circa 2006</a>) and said it was the year of the “ordinary citizen.” After all, the anti-Obama Tea Party movement shook the foundations of the political establishment this summer.</p>
<p>All of our nominees contributed mightily to the informed dissent that gave hope for the right kind of change in the next few election cycles. Here are the nominees:</p>
<p><strong>Dick Cheney</strong></p>
<p>Ex-Veep Cheney, the man most hated (and feared) by the Left, won every argument he picked with Obama, scoring huge in the public arena on Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s ridiculous persecution of the CIA staffers who interrogated suspected terrorists; and he has been effective in all other national security debates.  Almost as important as the vice president&#8217;s comeback is the emergence of daughter Liz Cheney as one of conservatism’s most articulate defenders.  If this award were for Family of the Year, the Cheneys would be the hands-down winners.</p>
<p><strong>Andrew Breitbart</strong></p>
<p>Orginally known as Matt Drudge&#8217;s lieutenant in compiling the still-essential Drudge Report, Breitbart became the most influential conservative figure on the Internet this year.  His smash hit site <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/" target="_blank">Big Hollywood</a> immediately became a must-read on a daily basis, and he launched <a href="http://biggovernment.com/" target="_blank">Big Government</a> with the Story of the Year — the ACORN prostitution sting videos.  With more sites on the way, Breitbart will continue to be one of the brightest lights in the conservative movement.</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Palin</strong></p>
<p>Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008, deserves a slot on this list just for the self-revealing rage she generates with the liberal establishment. The former Alaska governor also is the most beloved figure among the ordinary people who are newly minted activists in the wake of Obama&#8217;s big government excess.  Is there any other person who can change the debate and the political lexicon with a mere Facebook entry?  Death Panel is certainly the phrase of the year.</p>
<p><strong>Rush Limbaugh</strong></p>
<p>One could make the case that Limbaugh has been the conservative MVP &#8212; most valuable player or politico &#8212; every year since 1994.  It’s doubtful Obama &#8216;s approval rating would be under 50% and Obamacare would hover at about 60% disapproval without El  Rushbo. Instead of a routine annual update on Rush’s contribution to the debate, however, it’s time to just name the trophy after him and move on.</p>
<p><strong>And the winner is…</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Glenn Beck</strong></p>
<p>Whether you love him or hate him, or consider him to be a must-see TV or DVR necessity, radio and TV talker Beck is a bright new star in the conservative firmament. You might get fired up by his calls to action or wince at his emotional outbursts &#8211; you even might tune in today only to see if this is when his head finally explodes—but you have to admit, this was the Year of the Beck.</p>
<p>In the past 12 months, Beck rose from hosting an obscure TV show on CNN Headline News to a terrible time slot on Fox News&#8217; cable juggernaut.  Regardless, his show at 5 p.m. became a ratings smash hit and attracted direct angry response from the White House.</p>
<p>Beck’s show now attracts a far bigger audience than his competitors on CNN, MSNBC and Headline News <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">combined</span></em>. In fact, he doesn’t really have any competition &#8211; on any given day, Beck can attracts 20 <em>times</em> the audience of Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC.</p>
<p>This, indeed, was the Year of the Beck. In NBA terms, Limbaugh is the 30-points-per game superstar with several championship rings, who last year played for an otherwise pathetic team.  Beck is the team’s rookie draft pick who exceeded expectations and brought fresh energy that caught the other team flat-footed and changed the game.</p>
<p>Beck is such a major part of the political landscape today that it’s hard to remember he was still a minor factor just a year ago. Sure, his books sold very well, and his radio show was making a move to the top tier of the market; but during the 2008 election, the Left and the MSM were not sneering and using the term, “Limbaugh/Hannity /Beck,” and Obama was not calling him out by name.</p>
<p>In one short year, the epithet has become “Limbaugh/Beck/Palin,” and the White House is responding defensively.</p>
<p>Beck made the cover of Time magazine, was one of Barbara Walters’ &#8220;10 Most Fascinating People of 2009&#8243; and makes an almost nightly appearance as one of Keith Olbermann’s “Worst People in the World.” (A great honor, no doubt.)</p>
<p>Probably no other broadcaster in any medium is as in tune with the feisty mood of the times.  While other talk show hosts certainly connect with the Tea Partiers, and I’m sure the vast majority of them listen to Limbaugh and watch a certain amount of Hannity, no media figure has the direct connection to the Tea Party dissidents that Glenn Beck enjoys.  <em>No</em> one.</p>
<p>Only Sarah Palin gets that kind of love from the crowds that have House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shaking in fear, and making up wild accusations on the while the cameras roll.</p>
<p>In his rookie year on live television, Beck has the White House reeling. He already has two major scalps dangling from his lance—self-proclaimed communist Van Jones, the green jobs czar, and White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, a devout fan of Maso Tse-Tung.</p>
<p>Leftist Cass Sunstein, the proposed “Regulatory Czar” who puts animal rights on a par with human rights,  and  Keith Jennings, a pedophilic Activist ironically named as Obama&#8217;s “Safe Schools Czar,&#8221; are also in his sights. While Breitbart deserves the lion’s share of the credit if ACORN goes down, no one has supplied more context on the community activist/con job organization and its tentacles into the Obama a Administration than Beck.</p>
<p>So where does Beck go from here?  His meteoric rise in 2009 will be a tough act to follow.  He obviously cannot again increase his TV audience tenfold &#8212; that would put him in “Who Shot J.R.” territory.  He has gained an audience and, for now, seems to be holding it.</p>
<p>The cheap and easy analysis would be to suppose that Beck’s emotional approach will wear on the audience or he will burn out.  However, as I learned when <a href="../2009/10/12/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-glenn-beck%E2%80%99s-idiots-by-david-forsmark/">reviewing Beck’s latest bestseller, <em>Arguing with Idiots</em></a><em>,</em> (still sitting at No. 3 as of this writing), Beck’s antics may draw people in, but there is a deep well of substance behind his act.</p>
<p>Beck, to be sure, is a performer and a showman.  He takes risks, and enough of them pay off to make up for his small mistakes.  Beck is attuned to the times, perfectly situated to benefit from the Obama backlash.  However, he has the substance for the long haul.</p>
<p>Whether 2010 is another Year of the Beck, or not, it is poised to be a comeback year for conservatism.  If it is, then Glenn Beck will have been a major part of the reason — and my bet is that is what will matter most to him.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book takes us inside the secret underworld that's conspiring to Islamize America.]]></description>
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<p>The Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian based Islamic terrorist organization appears to be alive and well and cloaking itself in legitimacy in our nation&#8217;s capitol under the guise of a front group say intrepid undercover agents P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry in their new book, <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1259719070&amp;sr=1-1">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That&#8217;s Conspiring to Islamize America</a></strong> (World Net Daily Books 2009). Investigative journalism reaches new levels in doughtiness and concludes with a shocking crescendo in this tome, as Gaubatz, his son Chris and Paul Sperry infiltrate the shady Washington, DC based organization known as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); the nation&#8217;s largest and purportedly mainstream Muslim-American &#8220;civil rights&#8221; advocacy agency. The frightening facts published in this book are supported by more than 12,000 pages of confidential CAIR documents and hundreds of hours of video captured in this unprecedented undercover operation.</p>
<p>Through painstaking and nuanced research of internal memos and documents the authors establish the fact that CAIR is the ideological cousin of the notorious Muslim Brotherhood and their leadership is inextricably tied to the promulgation of an explosively violent &#8220;jihadist&#8221; agenda.  Utilizing double speak and a wide variety of cleverly devised subterfuges, CAIR manages to ostensibly present itself as a law abiding, pro-American organization, however the authors expose their unbridled mendacity in its most egregious form.</p>
<p>Mr. Gaubatz served for twelve years as a former agent with the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations and is a career military counterterrorism specialist as well as a US State Department trained Arabic linguist. Joining him on this six month long covert foray into the nefarious machinations of CAIR and it&#8217;s overt ties to Muslim terrorists of all stripes are his son Chris who worked undercover as a convert to Islam and Paul Sperry, a veteran investigative journalist and author of &#8220;Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.&#8221;</p>
<p>This book could effortlessly take it&#8217;s rightful place among classic hair raising espionage thrillers if it&#8217;s tragic geo-political realities weren&#8217;t so terrifying. The authors scrupulously document CAIR&#8217;s foreign fundraising sources including exceedingly large donations from the Wahabi dominated Saudi Arabian government that gave birth to the 9/11 hijackers. Not to be outdone, CAIR also assumes the role of benefactor, as the recipients of their financial largesse include such heinous terror organizations as Hamas.</p>
<p>Moreover, the authors offer shocking revelations about CAIR&#8217;s infiltration of key US law enforcement agencies including local police departments, the FBI, the CIA and the State Department as well as their heavy handed influence operations against members of homeland security committess on Capitol Hill and their insertion of Islamic spies in congressional offices.  According to the authors, FBI wiretaps reveal that, &#8220;During a secret Muslim Brotherhood meeting he organized last decade, CAIR founder and former chair Omar Ahmad expressed the need to strengthen &#8220;the influence with Congress.&#8221; He argued for using Muslims as an &#8220;entry point&#8221; to &#8220;pressure Congress and the decision makers in America&#8221; to change US foreign policy in the Middle East and other policies.&#8221;</p>
<p>CAIR&#8217;s far reaching tentacles have even permeated corporate America, say the authors, as they and their sister organization, the Islamic Society of North America blackmail Wall Street firms who do not comply with Islamic financing principles. The authors also spotlight CAIR&#8217;s use of intimidation tactics in silencing their political opponents as evidenced in their efforts to unleash a vitriolic campaign to blacklist such media personalities as Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage while pressuring the National Review to acquiesce to their demands.</p>
<p>While elected officials from both sides of the aisle, including former president George W. Bush, have legitimized the dubious organization with governmental recognition and ceremonial gravitas, CAIR&#8217;s underlying credo remains seditious and rabidly anti-American until this very day. The authors remind us that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, President Bush appeared alongside officials from CAIR and other outwardly benign Muslim groups that weren&#8217;t properly vetted at the Islamic Center of Washington in a display of &#8220;unity&#8221;. The unsuspecting former president announced, &#8220;It is my honor to be meeting with leaders who feel just the same way as I do. They&#8217;re outraged, they&#8217;re sad. They love America just as much as I do.&#8221;</p>
<p>These words would come back to haunt the president as facts concerning CAIR&#8217;s zealous legal representation of Muslim Americans charged with terrorist activities came to the fore and as history would record, certain members of CAIR&#8217;s own leadership would turn out to be unindicted co-conspirators in helping to finance terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>As the burgeoning and pernicious scourge of global radical Islam continues to proliferate in an unfettered manner, it is clear that within our borders the threat to our cherished democratic values and principles are all too real. The release of this book of paramount importance by authors Gaubatz and Sperry hasn&#8217;t come a moment too soon. To say that the information published in these pages is a real eye opener is an understatement of monumental proportions. It is a must read for anyone, the world over, who still clings to the hope of freedom, peace and liberty that Western civilization represents.</p>
<p><strong>To order <em>Muslim Mafia</em>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize/dp/1935071106/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1259719070&amp;sr=1-1">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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