Obama’s Revolutionary “Vision”

On the Fox News program “Hannity & Colmes” in December, analyst Dick Morris made the absolutely critical point that President Bush has taken the country so far to the left, in terms of his socialist-style Wall Street bailout program and his integration of the U.S. economy into a new emerging international financial order, that anything Barack Obama does in this area seems almost mainstream. This is because what we were expecting from Obama we are now getting from Bush. So Obama doesn’t look so radical anymore.

This point must be understood in order to have an appreciation of the “moderation” of the new Obama Administration. More

Obama escapes media scrutiny

Our media have been in awe of Barack Obama’s physique, his workouts and basketball skills. But his lies about the proposed federal “stimulus” plan are what really deserve scrutiny.

Mike Allen of Politico.com quotes Republican consultant Frank Luntz as complimenting Obama for coming up with the deceptive phrase, “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,” to describe the largest federal spending bill in history that is mainly designed to bail out state and local governments that have already spent too much taxpayer money. More

Milwaukee to form gay-friendly middle school

The Milwaukee Public School System will expand the services provided by its gay-friendly high school and apparently become the nation’s first school system to create a gay-friendly middle school. US News & World Report

Dr Samuel Huntington, 81, dies

The author of “The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order”, in which he asserted that differences between cultures throughout the world would be the cause of most post-Cold War conflicts, has died, aged 81. Boston Globe

Obama’s globalist agenda

When Candidate Barack Obama declared himself a “citizen of the world” before thousands of cheering German socialists, and later pledged to “rejoin the World Community,” those weren’t just his usual platitudes about “change.” Those words sounded the trumpet for his specific and far-reaching globalist agenda.

Obama plans to use his presidential power to get the Democratic-majority Senate to ratify a series of treaties that would take us a long way toward global rule over our money, our laws, our military, our courts, our customs, our trade, and even our use of energy. More

NYT standards take another hit

WASHINGTON — The decline of The New York Times continues, alas and egad. On Monday, the Times was duped by some scoundrel who sent the newspaper’s Web site a rude e-mail about Caroline Kennedy. It supposedly was signed by Bertrand Delanoe, the mayor of Paris. More

Conservative pioneer Weyrich dies

December 18, 2008 - Washington, DC – Paul Weyrich, one of the pioneers of the conservative movement in America, has died at the age of 66. Traditional Values Coalition

Obama’s choice of evangelical pastor draws homosexual ire

Gay rights advocates are criticizing President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of a popular evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, saying it shows disrespect for a constituency that strongly supported his campaign. The Washington Times

Fraudulent “credit crisis” paves way for economic disaster

Ben Bernanke (L) and Henry Paulson (R)
[Photos: US Govt]

WASHINGTON: Doing the kind of investigative reporting we should expect from the major media, a financial research and consulting firm has released a major analysis of the “credit crisis” that concludes that the claims made by Treasury Department Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to justify a socialist takeover of the financial industry were demonstrably false. More

Shoe throwing was never a big feature of Saddam Hussein’s media conferences

Shoe thrower on SMH online.

The Arab journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush in Iraq seems to have lost the irony of his actions.

The journalist has been identified as Muntazer al-Zaidi from the Al-Baghdadia channel which broadcasts from Cairo.

As Mr Bush was meeting the Iraqi Prime Minister in Nuri al-Maliki’s private office, the journalist, who was sitting in the third row jumped up, shouting: “It is the farewell kiss, you dog”, and threw his shoes one after the other towards Mr Bush. More

US auto giants playing chicken

Why would the Republicans let the Japanese win completely by failing to bail out the US car industry when they were willing to bail out the banking system? Because they apportion half the blame for the big three’s predicament to the United Auto Workers union. Paul Sheehan

Conservatives again fall for a foreign policy sleight-of-hand

On the Fox News program Hannity & Colmes Monday night, analyst Dick Morris made the absolutely critical point that President Bush has taken the country so far to the left, in terms of his socialist-style Wall Street bailout program and his integration of the U.S. economy into a new emerging international financial order, that anything Barack Obama does in this area seems almost mainstream. This is because what we were expecting from Obama we are now getting from Bush. So Obama doesn’t look so radical anymore. More

Doublespeak and American socialism

“Mortgage Rates Fall as U.S. Expands Rescue” was the page-one headline in the November 26 Wall Street Journal. The story concerned a promise from federal officials to “pump” another $800 billion into the economy, bringing the grand total of the cost of various bailouts to something over $8 trillion. The term “rescue” is laughable but is used for the obvious purpose of confusing people about the calamity that has befallen our nation. If we’re not bankrupt now, we will be someday because we are being “rescued” by the federal government. This is the ultimate in what William Lutz, in his 1997 book of the same name, called “doublespeak.” More

A response to Patrick Buchanan

Was the Holocaust Inevitable?

So asks Patrick Buchanan, unconsciously lending simple, eloquent expression to a theme that reoccurs through his historical articles. The theme that root causes for the holocaust are somehow elusive. More

Excommunicating Obama voters

Cranmer speculates about the same standard being applied in the UK. “Labour has done more in the past decade to erode the Christian foundations of this nation than any monarch or prime minister in centuries.” Archbishop Cranmer