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The Social Gospel Has Found its Savior

December 28, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

The Baby Boomers, who performed a frontal lobotomy on their spiritual life, find the meaning of life in secular environmentalism.

Read Lawrence Auster’s Deification of Gore in View From the Right.

Regrettably, well meaning Christian ministers like Rick Warren are supporting Mr. Gore’s junk scientism and the power of man over the earth, rather than sticking to faith in the one True God as Creator and Regulator of the cosmos.

In so doing they are verging perilously close to the social gospel, a phenomenon of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The social gospel reflected the rising popularity of the secular political state and its presumed capacity, when properly structured on the socialistic model, to produce earthly salvation without need for God and the Holy Spirit.
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The Huckabee Hustle

December 26, 2007 by

-By Selwyn Duke

When evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign, they didn’t know he would repudiate the Southern Baptist Convention a generation later. Today the very same constituency has glommed onto Mike Huckabee, and I can’t help but lament how history truly does repeat itself.

One can see why the man I dubbed “Huck the Huckster” would appeal to evangelicals. He’s a pro-life Southern Baptist minister with charm, wit and a good-ol’-boy, yuck-it-up style. Yet this resplendent exterior only serves to obscure the stain of liberal sin.

Huck would be a disaster – a disaster – on immigration. In fact, in 2006 he compared those who would crack down on illegals to antebellum slave masters, saying,

One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We’re still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that.

Outrageously, it seems Huck can’t distinguish between denying citizens the protection of the law and requiring non-citizens to follow it.
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Media Fans Flames of GOP Religious Divide

December 20, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In an article that is ostensibly supposed to be about the many Iowa homeschoolers that are supporting Mike Huckabee, the Washington Post pins the reason to the fact that homeschooling parents must hate Mormons! This has easily become the MSM’s favorite theme as they try to divide and anger portions of the GOP primary voting base against each other. In this MSM meme, anyone who votes against Romney or questions the relative Christian merits of the Mormon faith is a bigot who hates Mormons and won’t vote for Romney merely because he is one. They are also unanimous in pinning support for Huckabee to an anti-Mormon sentiment. The MSM is doing their level best to start a religious war on the right.

In the Post’s article, religion is the central theme of pro-Huckabee homeschool advocates. Here the Post reveals the efforts of a homeschooling Mother named Julie Roe (bet they chose her for her familiar name: Roe) who has stumped for Huckabee by making homemade buttons and making numerous phone calls.

Julie Roe, an early believer in Mike Huckabee, worked with what she had… With no buttons, no yard signs and no glossy literature from his nearly invisible Iowa campaign, she took a pair of scissors and cut out a photograph of the former Arkansas governor. She pasted it on a piece of paper, scribbled down some of his positions, made copies and launched the Huckabee for President campaign in rural Hardin County.

So, why Huckabee? (My emphasis added throughout).

Huckabee’s name is no longer a mystery to Iowa’s Republican voters, in large part because of an extensive network of home-schoolers like Roe who have helped lift his underfunded campaign from obscurity to the front of a crowded field. Opinion polls show that his haphazard approach is trumping the studied strategy of Mitt Romney, who invested millions only to be shunned by many religious conservatives such as Roe, who see the former Baptist preacher from Hope, Ark., as their champion.

But, even the Post contradicts this religious basis only a few paragraphs later.

While early attention focused on Romney and other better-known and better-funded opponents, home-schoolers rallied to Huckabee’s cause, attracted by his faith, his politics and his decision to appoint a home-school proponent to the Arkansas board of education. They tapped a web of community and church groups that share common conservative interests, blasting them with e-mails and passing along the word about Huckabee in social settings.

It was the endorsement by prominent national home-school advocate Michael Farris that helped propel Huckabee to a surprising second-place finish in the Iowa straw poll in August. And it was the twin sons of a home-school advocate in Oregon who helped put Huckabee in touch with television tough guy Chuck Norris, who appeared alongside him in an attention-getting TV spot and on the campaign trail.

Sorry, Washington Post. It isn’t really Huckabee’s religion that the homeschoolers are excited over. It is the fact that he handed homeschoolers a big plum when he was Gov. of Arkansas. It isn’t the religion of the matter as the Post tries to make it seem, but just good old fashioned politics.

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00Publius Contributor - Elections - GOP - News - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Mitt Romney Lies About Father ‘Marching With Martin Luther King, Jr.’

December 20, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Mitt Romney has been caught in yet another lie. Only yesterday Romney’s claim of not supporting Planned Parenthood abortion mills was abruptly smashed by a photograph surfacing of him at one of their fundraisers in 1994. Today, it’s Romney’s claim that his father “marched with” famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

During his “I’m a Mormona but it doesn’t matter” speech, Mitt Romney claimed he saw his father, George Romney, marching with MLK during a 1968 civil rights march through Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It was a stirring account of the efforts of his father to show that the Romney family have always reached across ecumenical lines.

Only one little problem… it never happened.

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The GOP Candidates on Education

December 18, 2007 by

-By Israel Teitelbaum

Today’s mid-day Republican Presidential Debate, finally addressed the one issue that will ultimately determine most issues – education. Obviously, those who control the educational system determine the future direction of our nation and its leadership. If we focus our attention on this one issue, we have the key to resolving most other issues.

Following is a transcript of the portion relating to education.

We have only one comment and plea to all candidates who recognize that school choice is the right way to go. Please use your considerable influence to sponsor The Civil Rights Act for Equal Educational Opportunity. This will require equitable funding for every child, including those attending private and religious schools, while respecting these schools’ rights in hiring and provision of services. The candidate who will accomplish this will have my vote!

All the best.

Israel

The full transcript of the debate is available at The New York Times

MS. WASHBURN: A new topic that some Iowans say hasn’t had enough debate during this campaign, and that’s education. American 15-year-olds ranked behind 16 other countries in a recent assessment of science literacy. What educational standards does the U.S. need to adopt or improve to compete in the global economy, and what will you do to move us toward those standards, and what’s your timetable?

SEN. MCCAIN: The answer to the problem in education in America is simple: We need more choice and more competition. Entrance by a good student into a college today, they have a number of choices and people are seeking them to be part of those educational institutions.
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ABC: Thompson’s Debate ‘Tantrum’ — There’s Fair and Balanced Reporting!

December 13, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

ABC proved once again that they will use language to flavor reporting to promulgate their ideological position instead of just reporting the facts. After Wednesday’s GOP debate in Iowa, ABC news posted a Political Radar blog entry calling attention to Fred Thompson’s efforts to improve the depth of debate held that day. Calling Thompson’s efforts a “Tantrum,” ABC seeks to cast Thompson’s sensible and adult desire to engage in real debate as a child’s temper tantrum. Does ABC want real debate or do they want dumbed down, name calling or simple minded sound byte replies? I think you can easily decide which!

If you didn’t see the debate and missed what it is that Thompson did, there is a video available that I’ll post at the end of this piece so you can see for yourself. But, in essence, Thompson refused to do a “show of hands” answer to the question of whether or not the candidates agree with the theory of man-made global warming. He felt that this important issue needed an actual reply. The gall of him, eh?

So, since Thompson felt that important issues need in depth discussion and not silly, childish “show of hands” answers and because he refused to participate, ABC terms his serious concern a “tantrum.”

But, once you find out what Thompson really said about his actions on the debate stage, there is a great ring of truth and seriousness about it.

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00Publius Contributor - Education - GOP - History - News - Patriotism - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Has Conservatism Lost its Soul?

December 11, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

For those of you who feel that the conservative movement has lost its soul, the New Centurion Program has begun.

I quote from their webpage:

Typically, programs focus on either intellectual cultivation or communication skills. Our program seeks to synthesize both the wisdom of our conservative heritage as well as the most up to date practical experience from local experts in public policy and communication.

There are specific reasons The New Centurion Program is different from existing programs. First, it is locally based with a local concentration of students and lecturers. While there is certainly an over-arching theoretical basis to the coursework, that theoretical knowledge will be focused on local issues. Our Centurions do not have to travel to Auburn University or Washington D.C. – we bring the course to them. We plant roots in a community. Our students ages range from 18 – 70.

When a movement is lacking vision or a mission – as many conclude is the current state of the conservative movement; one must believe that by going back to the beginning and teaching the foundations of conservatism, providing individuals with a wealth of resources and reference materials and supportive relationships to facilitate that intellectual journey; it provides the analytical and practical tools necessary for individuals to grow and lead.

This is not a class for a grade. This is a course for an “experience;” a journey. This is not a campaign school. There are many other institutions that are great at providing these type of tactics and strategies – that is not our purpose.

So, what are we? In a nutshell – we provide the environment where “book smarts meet street smarts.”

I, for one, have always harped on education for conservatives being the bedrock upon which we can build. And that, without that knowledge, we are doomed to failure as well as doomed to be short lived. If we do not teach our young people the true values and underlying principles of the conservative movement, along with the logic and history to those principles, we simply cannot continue to create new conservatives into the future.

Conservatives have been the only ones with ideas since Barry Goldwater strode the national stage. Liberals have failed to keep up with scholarship and intellectual pursuits where conservatives have excelled, undermining the leftist movements world wide.

Check out this new group. It is sure to be worth your time.
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So, What’s The Big Deal About Religion in ’08?

December 11, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

We have come to a point in the 2008 presidential election cycle where both political parties’ candidates are fielding questions about religion. While religion is a personal issue for an overwhelming majority of Americans, religion in government has been frowned upon ever since the ACLU took an active roll in purging it from the “public square.” So, it would seem at odds with the dogma of the Secular Progressive Left that religion should be an election issue at all. Yet each candidate has had to answer questions about their faith, with Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney being literally scrutinized on the issue.

If we are to believe there actually exists a “separation of church and state,” a notion that exists nowhere in the Charters of Freedom (The Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and The Bill of Rights, our Founding Documents) then the issue of religion should be out of bounds when Americans publicly debate the strengths and weaknesses of candidates for elected office. If we are to believe this incorrect interpretation of the Constitution, then religion should be a private matter, exclusive to the individual.

Why then is the issue of the candidates’ religions receiving so much attention from the secular mainstream news media? What does it matter if Mitt Romney is a Mormon or that Mike Huckabee is Evangelical?

The logical answer to these questions is that the Secular Progressive Left – and especially the agenda-driven, “in-the-pocket,” secular mainstream media – is trying to scare the American people into believing that if a man of faith is elected to office he will defer to the tenets of his religion over his constitutionally mandated duty to administer and follow the laws of the land. They are trying to frighten the American people into adhering to the politically correct secular ideology of purging all religion from the “public square.”
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Philly Inquirer: Pistol Packing GOP Candidates at Debates

December 10, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, the Philly Inquirer wants us to know that the GOP candidates for president are drooling, half sentient, Bible thumping, gun toting, racists. Oh, and Fred Thompson is stupid and lazy. Just as apparently, the Philadelphia Inquirer is having trouble finding writers for their rag. I mean, what else could explain their giving a teenager a shot at filling space in the Sunday issue? Of course, I could be wrong. It could be that Dick Polman only writes like a 15-year-old. Worse, Polman seems to have sold himself to the Inquirer as some sort of comedian with “The American Debate, For the love of guns, God and Reagan,” too. But, if he IS an adult and really does think his Sunday piece is funny, well, there’s no accounting for taste — or sense — on the far left, I suppose. I guess the joke is on the readers of the Inquirer.

Billed as “what the GOP candidates might say in the next Iowa debate to woo conservatives,” Polman has decided the only thing that will do so is to appear as a gun crazed, racist that mindlessly echos Ronald Reaganisms. Like I said, it was supposed to be funny… I guess.

All the Republican presidential candidates will debate, again, on Wednesday in Iowa. Here’s an exclusive look at the advance transcript.

And here is what Polman imagines is the first question:

All these candidates have said they support guns. But talk is cheap. I want to know if they’re all proudly carrying their own guns, right now, right here on this stage.

Gentlemen, a show of hands . . . oh, my . . . that’s quite an arsenal up there. Somebody nudge Fred Thompson, wake him up. Sen. Thompson? Hello? What do you have?

So, what does Polman imagine the candidates will say?

Fred Thompson: Uhhh, got me a AP4 carbine rifle with a 16-inch barrel. This little ole honey would have surely impressed Ronald Reagan.

Rudy Giuliani: So what? Mine’s a bolt-action Remington. With a 24-inch barrel. Mine’s bigger than yours. And that’s not all I got. Say hello to my Charter Arms .44. It’s ideal for home defense against Islamofascists, because 9/11 changed everything. By the way, fuggedaboutit, I can see that there’s one wuss on this stage.

Mitt Romney: Yes, it’s true: I am not armed at this time. But I did just buy a gun cabinet for Christmas, and I have the receipt right here, with copies for everyone, see? From Dick’s Sporting Goods, and, my gosh, it’s a beauty. Wood veneer, tempered glass, holds six long guns

(Candidates scrutinize the receipt. Civil cross talk.)

You can just feel that Leno’s bookers are getting on the phone to book this funny man on the Tonight Show, eh? On second thought, he shouldn’t give up his job at McDonald’s just in case. There’s an old joke about comedy that comedians like to throw out: “Don’t try this at home, kids.” It’s a bit of advice that neither Dick Polman nor the Philly Inquirer seem to have followed.

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Henry Hyde: A True Statesman and a Constitutional Steward

November 29, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” – Congressional Oath of Office

One of the greatest responsibilities bestowed upon elected officials is that of constitutional stewardship. While each elected official has a duty to represent his constituents in a faithful manner, each swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution. We, the citizens of this Republic, through democratic elections, entrust this responsibility to those we elect and expect them to abide by the tenets mandated by the Constitution and to honor their oath to preserve it for future generations. Few have executed that oath more fully than Congressman Henry J. Hyde of Illinois.

Politics in the United States circa 2000 has evolved into what can be legitimately described as a cauldron of special interest narcissism. More often than not, those elected to office are more committed to their political parties and personal political well-being than they are to faithfully representing their constituencies. Because of this manipulation, the massaging of the truth – political spinning – has become acceptable; it has become status quo. While every elected official condemns the manipulation of truth in the political arena very few actually disassociate themselves from the practice. Where, it is said, there is honor among thieves, it would seem that there is little, if any, among America’s political class.

It was for his refusal to compromise neither his oath of office nor the trust of his constituents that Henry Hyde stood out amongst his counterparts in Congress. I can say this because Mr. Hyde served as my congressman for many years and I am proud to have voted for him.

Professionally, his door was always open to his constituents, his attention toward their concerns genuine in nature. Where most politicians view their constituents as entities to “handle,” Mr. Hyde served his constituents as a realist, helping when he could and explaining the intricacies of tough situations and providing guidance and assistance when he couldn’t effect the desired outcome regarding their concerns.
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CNN’s GOP Debate Becomes Democrat Showcase

November 29, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The CNN YouTube debate was a sham with planted Democrat operatives posing as “spontaneous” YouTube questioners — one of them being an official Hillary Campaign operative — and a post debate coverage full of apologies and further spin against the candidates all of which ended up being a showcase for CNN’s leftism placed on full display. It isn’t called the Clinton News Network for nuthin’ it appears.

In one instance with the post debate coverage, not only does CNN try their best to muddy Fred Thompson’s stance on the Confederate flag but to accompany the piece they use a picture that makes the candidate look ashamed of himself or pensive, cementing the fact that CNN is trying their best to flavor Thompson’s flag stance as a “bad” thing for him. This is one of the most manipulative articles I’ve seen this election cycle thus far, shameful for its slant and subtle enough that many won’t recognize it for the anti-Thompson spin that it truly is. But, in many ways, this CNN presentation is a perfect example of the sort of spin that CNN specializes in making the lie to their claims of being purveyors of “news.” They are, instead, purveyors of spin designed to harm GOP candidates — in this case Thompson.

In the entry titled, “Romney, Thompson criticize Confederate flag,” this particular piece on the Political Ticker section of CNN’s website fashions itself as a claim that both Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson “criticized” the Confederate flag during the YouTube, BoobTube debate on Tuesday evening. However, Romney is barely mentioned in the body of the piece with the focus being mostly on Fred Thompson. And, in that focus, CNN distorts Thompson’s position badly.

They begin with Thompson’s initial reply to the YouTuber who asked the question about where the candidates stood on the flag issue.

But Thompson added that, “as far as a public place is concerned, I am glad that people have made the decision not to display it as a prominent flag, symbolic of something, at a state capitol.”

But the Confederate flag in South Carolina’s state capital is in a very public place — located on the Statehouse grounds along Gervais Street in Columbia, next to the Confederate Soldier Monument.

CNN then goes on to remind us that, “On Nov. 6, Thompson held a campaign event on the Statehouse grounds, just yards from the flag.”

CNN is clearly trying to make it seem as if Thompson didn’t know that the Confederate flag does fly in a “public” place at the South Carolina state capitol. Thompson clarified to CNN that the memorial over which the CS flag flutters there is acceptable as far as he is concerned.

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CNN ‘Apologizes’ for Allowing Hill Shill in GOP Debate

November 29, 2007 by 1 Comment

Remember the scene in “The Blues Brothers” where Jake Blues (John Belushi) was on his knees in front of Carrie Fischer pleading with her that all the things he did to her wasn’t his fault. His ending line was something like, “I swear to GOD, it wasn’t my fault!” Keep that in mind when watching this gee-we-didn’t-know apology from CNN for having a Hillary Campaign shill in the GOP debate last night!

Well, do you believe that the Clinton News Network didn’t know they had a Hill shill in the GOP debate??

Do, ya, huh?

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BREAKING NEWS: Trent Lott to Retire

November 26, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

To keep my integrity, I must say when it is good to see one of our own go. Actually, I use “one of our own” guardedly for Trent Lott, who was a life long Democrat until he changed parties in the early 1970s, was never really one of our own. He changed parties not because he was a real Republican, but because he thought it might afford him a win to office. In that he was right… and that was the last time there was much “right” about him.

Ever since he entered Congress he acted like a center left Democrat. His tenure as Senate Majority leader in the early part of the 2000’s was a disaster for the Republican agenda as he constantly allowed the Dems to win issue after issue while he stymied the GOP agenda.

It should be noted, he is also a supporter of the wretched and misnamed “Fairness Doctrine.”

Fox News is reporting this one:

Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, will announce his resignation effective this year, FOX News has learned.

Lott, 66, was re-elected in 2006 amid speculation that he would retire. Instead, against his wife Tricia’s wishes, he ran again, regaining a Senate leadership position after being forced from the top Republican seat in 2002, following remarks he made that were seen as racially insensitive.

He won’t be missed as far as any conservative feels!
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Because She’s a Woman

November 24, 2007 by

By Selwyn Duke

It’s very easy to fall behind the times. It is for this reason that you find parents who never seem to really know what the younger generation is involved in, older folks who still act as if a hot dog should be 10 cents, and people who fight yesterday’s social battles. As to the last thing, there are those who ask if a woman can be elected president.

The real question is, can a man running against a woman be elected president?

With androgyny being the order of the day, it has often been lamented that men no longer know what is expected of them. Is being chivalrous courteous or condescending? Do I hold the door or let her roar? A similar quandary is apparent when watching the men who must run against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

When Clinton stumbled in the second to last Democrat debate, her opponents’ immediate political instincts were to attack the front-runner’s now exposed weak flank. This is what office-seekers do; it’s why the military term “campaign” is applied to political contests.

Yet almost as soon as the post-debate analysis began we heard the inevitable accusation that all and sundry were conspiring against the lone girl. The moderator, the other candidates, the butcher, baker, candlestick-maker and probably even male chauvinists beyond the grave were experiencing testosterone boil-over.
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Mitt Romeny’s Many Flip flops on Abortion

November 19, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

I am going to say it straight out. I cannot support Mitt Romney for President. He is not a conservative in any way whatsoever. In fact, he’s not really a Republican. He’s not a Democrat. He’s not an independent or Green. He isn’t anything. He’s a businessman. And that is the beginning and end of his “ideology.”

Mitt Romney is certainly a get-it-done type of fellow, that is beyond dispute. It is also beyond dispute that he is generally a center right kid of guy. But he has no principle that he won’t subordinate for the task at hand. He has no ideals that he won’t bend, ignore or “change his mind” on to win.

Sadly, Mitt Romney has no principles at all.

This abortion issue is the perfect example of his unprincipled desire to win. Watch this video and see how he flips and flops on the abortion issue all depending upon what he has to say to win and depending upon who he is talking to at the moment.

Like I said, Romney is certainly a guy who can get things done. No one can deny that fact. His record shows an able executive. But his is a record of building consensus on whatever is the prevailing opinion on the issue of the day, not one of leading from his own internal principles.

If this were an era in the US when we didn’t face some of the most dangerous times our country ever faced, Romney would be a fine caretaker president. If Romney should have presided over the era that Clinton did, for instance, he might have been just fine. But we are not in such a carefree era. We face some of the toughest decisions that a president will ever have to make and if we have a flip flopper like Romney, if we have a president who will preside by sticking his finger in the air for every major issue and then deciding that he, too, feels that way (just like Clinton did, by the way), well we will be in a world of hurt.

Romney is not the man for the White House in 2008. He will endanger this country just as bad as any Democrat would.

I urge any reader of this site NOT to vote for Mitt Romney. Thompson is good, Hunter is good… even Giuliani would be better than Romney (though I don’t support Rudy, either). But Romney would be a disaster for this country as well as the GOP itself.

Romney cannot be believed in anything he says as his many abortion stances prove and it isn’t just his abortion flip flops at issue. He has floated back and forth on most of the key Republican principles all his life never coming firmly and finally down on any one side. Our ideal president has been a man of strong character and leadership, not one who is led by everyone else. Romney has no character nor is he a leader, a man with strong ideas.

Vote against Mitt Romney in the GOP primary in your state.

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A Nation Ignorant of Being at War

November 14, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

There can be little doubt that terrorist organizations have arrived on the shores of the United States of America. The thousands of lives lost on September 11, 2001 stand as testimony to this undeniable fact. The attacks signaled to the world that radical Islamofascists were serious in their declaration of war against the United States and her Western allies. An examination of Osama bin Laden’s 1996 fatwa – his declaration of war – indicates that this conflict is a generational conflict and a confrontation as we have never experienced before.

The truth of the matter is that terrorists have been migrating to the United States, establishing their organizational cells, infiltrating and fading into our communities for decades; laying in wait for the correct moments to strike. These are precisely the events that preceded the flights that delivered the nineteen 9/11 hijackers and thousands of innocent people to their destinies.

Today, dozens of terrorist organizations with thousands of operatives exist and operate within the borders of the United States. These organizations include, Hezbollah, Hamas, Abu Sayyaf, Islamic Jihad, Jamaat al Fuqra, the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda, to name but a few. These organizations have cells in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Washington DC, as well as Tucson, Denver, Tulsa, Detroit, Cleveland, Orlando, Kansas City, Boston and many more cities in the United States.

Radical Islamist front groups and sympathetic “philanthropic” organizations such as the Holy Land Foundation and the Council on American-Islamist Relations – both named in evidence offered in a recent federal court case involving the funding of terrorism – have set up regional branches around the country. They are not only raising, laundering and funneling money back to the Middle East to support their terrorist organizations, they are setting up jihadi training camps right here in the United States.
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Thompson Proposes Plan to Save Social Security and Protect Seniors

November 11, 2007 by

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Thompson, the First candidate to speak the truth and offer real solutions about Social Security

McLean, VA — Senator Fred Thompson today held an honest and straightforward discussion about his proposal to save Social Security for today’s generation of workers and protect America’s seniors by fully preserving their benefits. Sen. Thompson is the only presidential candidate to offer a comprehensive proposal on one of the nation’s most critical domestic issues.

“There’s no reason to run for President of the United States if you can’t tell the American people the truth about complex issues like Social Security,” Thompson said. “As we speak, Congress is raiding the Social Security Trust Fund. If we don’t act soon, the politicians in Washington will either repay those ‘IOUs’ through tax hikes or benefit cuts.

“My plan keeps our promise to America’s seniors by fully protecting their benefits and leaving them unchanged. Younger workers will be given the option of growing their personal wealth for the future and participating in a successful investment program similar to the one enjoyed by Members of Congress,” Thompson added.

Fact: The first Baby Boomer applied for Social Security benefits in October. She is the first of 80 million Boomers to seek the entitlement. The ratio of workers per recipient will fall from 3.3 to 2.1 over the next 24 years, when all Baby Boomers are past of the age of 65. Currently, Americans aged 65 and older account for approximately 12% of the population, but in 2030 they are expected to comprise 20% of the total population.

Goals for Saving Social Security and Protecting America’s Seniors:
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Evangelicals Split on POTUS Nominee

November 7, 2007 by

This is awfully interesting. The Evangelical leadership is split on who to support for the GOP nomination for president. Just last week, Paul Weyrich came out in support of Mitt Romney (despite that Romney is no Christian) and today Pat Robertson has come to the banner of Rudy Giuliani.

Neither candidate supports a whole heck of a lot that Evangelicals really support, so these two endorsements are amazing. But, it also shows that these leaders in the Christian community don’t have an “obvious” candidate that they can all rally behind as far as they are concerned.

This campaign is quite interesting, I have to say. This nomination is all over the map and up in the air still. And it really shows that it is still anyone’s guess on the GOP side.

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Thompson’s Ooops Moment: the Philip Martin Case

November 5, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

First of all, I am a Thompson supporter and obviously so is this blog. But, there must be a comment made on this Martin story. I am sure by now everyone has seen the Washington ComPost story about the campaign fundraiser in Fred Thompson’s inner circle, a man that has a criminal past. I’ve waited a day or so to get all the facts and reactions.

I do have to dispute one thing with the Post’s coverage, first off. It seems (and I am no campaign insider mind you) that this guy is less an “adviser,” as the Post’s headline proclaims, and more of a high level fund raiser. Philip Martin has also legally lent his private jet to the Thompson campaign. Again, I stress, LEGALLY. But it seems he has been more of a fund raising source and long time associate for Thompson than a true adviser.

In fact, the thing that I take away from the Post’s report is that Martin has kept his nose clean for the last 20 years, which comprises the entire time that Thompson has known the man. This could easily mean that Martin successfully hid his past from all his current associates.

For their part, the Thompson campaign told the MSM that they cannot be expected to check every single member of the campaign for up to 20 years into their past. And, of course they can’t. As we have seen with the Clinton campaign, she doesn’t check the CURRENT criminal record of her donors!

But, let’s contrast this story with that of Hillary Clinton’s criminal associates many of whom are CURRENT criminals! Seems like Thompson’s errant pal is far from the same crop of criminals that the Clinton campaign employs.

… and lest we mention that her husband has a criminal past?
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Fred Gives it to Hillary

November 2, 2007 by

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Battle the Enemy On Their Own Turf!

October 29, 2007 by

-By Israel Teitelbaum

Conservatives can win big in if they were willing to fight the Libs on their own turf. But they refuse to do so. Why?

Even optimistic Republicans have already conceded the Congress in the coming election and are merely “hopeful” about the presidency. This is the result of facts now on the ground, in accordance with the present polling. Although conservatives are engaged in numerous battles, ranging from family issues to national defense, they will only do battle from a position of defense – on their own turf – and refuse to go on the offensive. You can’t win a football game without going on the offensive. How can you win in politics with such a strategy?

The source of power – the engine – of the left is obviously the $500 billion-a-year educational monopoly, which they control – where 89 percent of our nation’s children are indoctrinated. This is a system that has been failing the American people for many decades, contributed to the destruction of countless lives and communities, and is directly responsible for the decline of our culture. Yet, our political leaders are afraid to stand up the $2 billion per-year unions which amply grease the wheels of government and the mainstream media.
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NYTimes: There’s Not Enough Taxes Out There

October 26, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

John F Kennedy once defended his stance on lower taxes with the phrase “a rising tide lifts all boats.” But, if the New York Times has its way they would change that to a “a rising tax tide swamps all boats.” Or at least one would be excused for thinking that upon reading an unsigned editorial that laments “A Dearth of Taxes” in the U.S. today. Stating that a “zeal” to cut taxes is “misguided,” the Times whines that the U.S. government doesn’t bring in the kind of tall cash in taxes that European countries do. But, this confiscatory policy that the Times pines for assumes one thing and one thing only: that government will spend that money well. And THAT is the main reason that Americans are against high taxes in the first place, government does NOT spend our money well and everyone but the Times seems to know it.

This is just one more example of how far out of the mainstream of American thought the folks at the New York Times are. In fact, it shows how downright unAmerican the Times truly is. After all, didn’t we start this country over a matter of disagreement on a 2 pence tax on tea? But, let’s not let any unAmerican attitude dissuade the New York Times from their desires to remake the country in their ideal socialist image, shall we?

The Times begins their paean to European anti-capitalism with a jab at the current field of GOP contenders for the White House.
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Did the Resolution Condemning Turkey Create a Constitutional Crisis?

October 24, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

Recently, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by US Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), passed a resolution that recognized the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide. While the circumstances surrounding the slaughter are disputed, the killings did occur. The larger questions this action presents could very well be as disturbing as the killings themselves. What was there to gain by issuing this non-binding resolution at this moment in time? And, did the issuance of the non-binding resolution usurp the Executive Branch’s authority to establish foreign policy?

Article II of the United States Constitution addresses the Executive Branch and in specific the powers of the presidency. Section 3 of Article II reads:

“He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.”

It is the part of Article II, Section 3 that states, “…he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers;…” that applies to the issue set forth here.

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CLC Podcast #2- Interview With J. D. Hayworth

October 22, 2007 by 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

I had an opportunity to interview former Congressman J.D. Hayworth as I attended the Conservative Leadership Conference on October 13th, 2007.

Congressman Hayworth had been involved in a bit of a row in the pages of the Wall Street Journal with a Mr. Richard Nadler over the question of just why Hayworth lost his House seat during the 2006 midterm elections.

I asked both Nadler and Hayworth similar questions, and it is interesting to hear their take on the issues. They seem closer together than either must realize.

The audio of the Hayworth interview can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE

The audio of the Nadler interview can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE

The transcript of the Nadler interview can be seen HERE.

To download a PDF document of the Wall Street Journal articles by both Nadler and Hayworth provided by Mr. Nadler, CLICK HERE

And, here is the transcript of my interview with J.D. Hayworth:

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CLC Interview with Warner Todd Huston interviewing J. D. Hayworth recorded by Avalon Podcasting at the Conservative Leadership Conference on October 13th, 2007.

WTH: Today we have visiting with us here at the Conservative Leadership Conference, J.D. Hayworth most recently an Arizona Congressman and current talk show host. Mr. Hayworth, I’d like to thank you for the many years of outspoken support for conservative values, your voice has always been reliable for Reagan Conservatism and I’d like to thank you for your years in service.

JD: Well, Warner Todd thank you, it was a tremendous opportunity and being part of this podcast is icing on the cake.

WTH: I’d like to start, if you would… wanted to have anything that you wanted to say to start with, this mic is open for you.

JD: Well, I was ah, in the speech that we just completed here at the Conservative Leadership Conference I was saying if you think that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, think again. For a guy out of office, supposedly bereft of ideas to be featured in the Wall Street Journal not once, not twice, but thrice in the last two weeks shows that our message of national security and border security, ah, the American people get it and sadly the malefactors of great wealth — or as we might say with the Fred Travalena game show of the 1980’s, the anything for money crowd — is desperately trying to change people’s minds. But the American people are having none of it.
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CLC Podcast #1- Interview With Richard Nadler

October 22, 2007 by 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Richard Nadler is someone I was not aware of until Saturday morning on October 13th, 2007. While attending the Conservative Leadership Conference, I was scheduled to interview former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and it just so happened that Mr. Nadler had just that morning gotten printed a response to J.D. Hayworth’s criticism of Nadler in the October 9th edition of the Wall Street Journal, which was in itself, a response to an October 2nd Journal piece by Nadler criticizing Hayworth. It was only by coincidence that both Nadler and Hayworth were attending the CLC. At length, I was asked by the CLC folks to interview both men to get their responses to each other over their current tet a tet, as well as get their take on the issues of the dy.

As to the men’s conflict, at issue was J.D.’s loss of his House seat, Nadler pinning it to Hayworth’s too harsh position over the immigration issue. Hayworth took great exception to Mr. Nadler’s claims of why he lost his House seat and a war of Journal articles had ensued.

As I said, I was not aware of Mr. Nadler, so after I was asked to interview him, I boned up on him via the Internet. I discovered Nadler to be concerned with minority voting and the attempt to drag that voting block over to the GOP. He is president of America’s Majority Foundation.

Nadler’s Foundation webpage describes themselves this way:

Americas Majority was founded to increase the constituency for conservative causes: free market economics, international anti-totalitarianism, and morals based on Jewish and Christian scriptures.

Now, since I had the opportunity to interview both Nadler and Hayworth, I asked both of them quite similar questions and, to me, they seem closer together in opinion than I think either of them even realize.

The audio of the Nadler interview can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE

The audio of the Hayworth interview can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE

To download a PDF document of the Wall Street Journal articles by both Nadler and Hayworth provided by Mr. Nadler, CLICK HERE

The transcript of my Hayworth interview can be seen HERE.

And, here is the transcript of my interview with Mr. Richard Nadler:

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CLC Interview with Warner Todd Huston interviewing Richard Nadler recorded by Avalon Podcasting at the Conservative Leadership Conference on October 13th, 2007.

WTH- Hi, my name is Warner Todd Huston with the Conservative Leadership Conference. Today we’re talking to Mr. Richard Nadler who is the president of America’s Majority Foundation, am I correct?

RN: Yes

WTH: Very good. Mr. Nadler, do you have any opening statements you’d like to make?

RN: Yes, basically the stance that the conservative movement has taken towards immigration is rather like a man who would slit his wrists and then run a victory lap as he bleeds out on the pavement. Unless we pay some attention to the moral and economic claims of illegal aliens we are going to lose the Hispanic vote which is the fastest growing vote in the United States and with it the presidency and any possibility of governing for the next 25 years.
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Pork report – Hippie Museum Gets $1 Mil From Taxpayers

October 21, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Alan Gerry is far out, baby. He just got a cool $1 million for his Woodstock Concert hippie museum in Bethel Woods, New York. That’s hip, man.

Well, it might be cool except that the $1 mil came from our taxes courtesy of Senator Chuckie Schumer of New York.

So, what did Chuckie get out of it? A free pass to the exhibits of joints, flowers and torn blue jeans? Maybe some free parking? Perhaps just the warm knowledge that he helped memorialize for posterity the dirty kids who attended the Woodstock Concert?

Nope.

He got nearly $30,000 in campaign donations from the hippie museum’s foundation head.

Imagine that, eh?
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Patriotism?

October 21, 2007 by

-By Marie Jon’

The strategy of “slow-bleeding” the heroic men and women serving in Iraq was one of the most disgraceful moments in the history of Congress and should never be forgotten…….

Before President Bush was sworn into office, Democrat politicians were beginning to exhibit some questionably odd behavior, almost across the board. They took to mirroring Socialism, or in some cases Communism in word and deed. It is not unusual that people are asking whether they are patriotic. Politically-speaking, those Americans who are not completely asleep feel that we are living in dire and serious times. At holiday gatherings, families are afraid to discuss political matters for fear of starting arguments.

There seems to be little to no patience amongst we who are living in a deliberately divided country. If Americans are wise — or miraculously “see the light,” they will not listen to those who promise anything to win the White House. Their only goals are to gain power, while creating their own view of America, a worldview, like that of Europe.
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