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ENVIRONMENTALISM: THE NEW RELIGION

Bob McCarty has uncovered "the existence of a once-super-secretive religious cult" known as The Warmin’ Church™ under the leadership of Rev. Al Gore, former vice president, and one time former next President. Read about it here.

Follow up stories here:

1. ‘New World Order’ in the News Again
   
2. Gore Leads ‘Church of Hotter Days Saints’
3. Gore’s “Book of Warmin’” Theology Revealed

Global warming discussions in schools

Some parents question how global warming is taught in schools

In Montpelier earlier this year, Bill Burrell's sixth-grade students testified before legislative committees about global warming and what Vermont can do about it.

Mayor Ray "this will be a chocolate city" Nagin Suspects a Plot To Keep Blacks Away

New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has suggested that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- which has prevented many black former residents from returning -- is part of a plan to change the racial makeup and political leadership of his and other cities.

Read on.

Iraqis: life is getting better

MOST Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a British opinion poll published today.

The survey of more than 5,000 Iraqis found the majority optimistic despite their suffering in sectarian violence since the American-led invasion four years ago this week.

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Lights, Camera . . . Candidacy?

"Fred Thompson is shaking up the GOP presidential field. And he's not even running yet." - By John Fund.

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350 Iraqis poisoned in chlorine bomb attacks

"BAGHDAD (AFP) — At least 350 Iraqi civilians needed hospital treatment after insurgents detonated three trucks filled with toxic chlorine gas, killing two policemen, the US military said on Saturday."

Peanuts' for Petraeus

Everybody's a General in the Army called Congress.

"To understand why the Founders put Presidents in charge of war fighting, look no further than the supplemental war spending bill now moving through the House. Everybody's a four-star in Congress's Army, and every general wants his own command, especially if it includes cash for the troops, er, campaign contributors. Too bad none of this bears any relation to what real General David Petraeus is trying to accomplish in Iraq." Keep reading Peanuts' for Petraeus.

Is Newt Gingrich Back?

By Thomas Sowell: "The enthusiastic reception given to a speech by Newt Gingrich at a recent meeting of the Conservative Political Action Committee has revived speculation that he may enter the presidential nomination race, after all." Read more...

Illegal Aliens More Likely to Commit Crimes: Study

"People who violate immigration laws are more likely to violate other laws, according to an immigration reform group that said the findings differ from previous studies showing that immigrants to the United States commit fewer crimes."

“John Edwards vowed to raise taxes for universal health care and tried to shame Republicans for passing tax breaks for the rich. He’s a wealthy trial lawyer. Democrats think it’s okay to be rich as long as you just feel awful about it.”
—Argus Hamilton

“America needs a people who do not merely talk about public virtues, but embrace them with passion and humility.” —Brent Bozell

“Every conservative I know is depressed these days, and they are right to be. Under President Bush, conservatism has won only in the sense of not losing as quickly as it would have under a President Gore or a President Kerry.”

—Joseph Bottum

“Today, some politicians crave nothing more than the honor, prestige, and power of the presidency; they’ll do anything they can to get it. How different American presidential campaigns would be if the candidates were running out of a sense of duty, service, and self-sacrifice.”
—Ken Connor

“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.”
—Arnold Toynbee

5 Things Republicans Can Learn From The Democrats

By John Hawkins
We might as well change the Republican Party symbol from an elephant to a punching bag because the Republican wimps in DC just refuse to fight back. The base may have no qualms about going after liberals, but when we look for Republican pols on the Hill to show some leadership in this area, we're almost always sadly disappointed.

Shooting itself in the foot again

By Linda Chavez: "The Bush administration has a knack for shooting itself in the foot, or in the most recent example, the head. The latest self-inflicted wound, the botched firing of eight U.S. attorneys, may not prove fatal, but it has dealt a crippling blow to the White House at a time when the president can least afford it.

As in previous cases, most famously the response to Hurricane Katrina, basic competence seems to be a problem here. Congressional Democrats, no doubt, will go overboard and end up claiming the firings were illegal, which is nonsense, but the administration has basically handed them the issue.


Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. A Senate Republican is calling for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' dismissal as Democrats weigh subpoenaing President Bush's top aides in the escalating political furor over the firing of eight federal prosecutors.

There is nothing wrong with removing political appointees from office at any time, even...." More.

Journalists should be held to account for deceptive reporting of U.S. Attorney firings

By Lorie Byrd

"Last week watching the coverage of the Libby verdict I wondered how it was possible for so many in the media to completely ignore Joe Wilson’s credibility problems in their reporting. This week, I was even more perplexed watching the media cover the story of the Bush Justice Department firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. How is it so many in the mainstream media think they can get away with deceiving their audience by ignoring the 1993 firings of 93 U.S. Attorneys by Bill Clinton?"

Serves at the Pleasure of ...
By Rich Galen

As part of the "New Era of Cooperation in Washington" which was promised by the Democrats in the run-up to the elections last November, we are now embroiled in one of the sillier offenses against Democracy. The Los Angeles Times' "Primer on US Attorneys" quotes the US Code as saying: "Each United States attorney is subject to removal by the President." Really? Hmmm. Someone should tell Senators Patrick Leahy (Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee), Chuck Schumer (Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) and Barbara Boxer (Deputy Chair of the DSCC)...

Commentary

Hurry Up and 'Redeploy' So the Killing Can Start Again

"The debate over the US military's engagement on the Iraqi battlefield is raging on Capitol Hill with congressional Democrats attempting to defund the campaign through back-channel means.

Simultaneously, reports are coming from a multitude of sources -- both inside and outside of Iraq -- that testify to the overwhelming success, to date, of President Bush's 'surge' initiative. Why are our elected officials wasting taxpayer dollars, allocated in the form of their salaries, to debate turning a victory into a defeat?

Anti-war activists, the mainstream media and liberal Democrats like Harry Reid, David Obey and Ted 'Hope Floats' Kennedy are no strangers to ripping defeat from the jaws of victory. A perfect example of this can be found in the Vietnam War where politicians interfered with the generals to literally hand the Communist North Vietnamese a victory." Read on.

Immigrant Rights Activists Plan May Day Boycott -- 03/16/2007

"Immigrant and worker rights groups called Thursday for an end to raids and deportations of illegal aliens and are planning a May Day boycott to press home their demands.

In recent months, federal authorities have arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants in raids on businesses that employ them.

Critics of the crackdown say lawmakers must 'approve fair and pro-immigrant, pro-workers immigration reform and end the terror launched by the Bush administration on immigrant communities nationwide.' "

God Clinton, Obama Have Spoken: Homosexuality 'Not Immoral'

"Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) responded on Thursday to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace's comments that homosexual behavior is 'immoral,' but only after they were criticized for failing to do so by a homosexual advocacy group." Read on.

"It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."
-- Patrick Henry

KSM's World War

OpinionJournal
What his confession says about our enemy--and us.

"In Cairo last year, Deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Habib told us that the 9/11 attacks were 'great crimes,' but that he doubted Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were responsible. It's probably too much to expect that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession that he 'was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z' will sway minds like Mr. Habib's. But for the rest of us, the testimony by bin Laden's top operational lieutenant is a jolting re-education in the enemy we face.

'I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew,' he boasted to a U.S. military tribunal on March 10, referring to our colleague Daniel Pearl. 'For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.' " Read on.

Potomac Watch

OpinionJournal
The Art of Opposition
Will the White House now stop underestimating the Democratic Congress?

BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

If President Bush is looking for an early Christmas present for his top Justice appointees, he could do worse than Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War.' Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's edition might even be unabridged.

Call the administration's handling of the eight fired U.S. attorneys what you will (and many adjectives come to mind), at bottom this is a story of a White House and Justice Department that have yet to understand how rocked is their world. Their GOP brethren are no longer running Congress, and the Democrats who took over want blood. The administration made its first, costly, mistake by underestimating the opposition.

Democrats can't be accused of the same naivete. They understood on Nov. 8 that their real majority power would rest in investigations and the almighty subpoena." Read on.

The Never-Ending Energy Conspiracy

Let’s Be Policy Driven, Not Politically Driven, in Energy and Climate Change

Prescription for Bias

Medical breakthroughs don’t grow on trees, but network news rarely admits it. In a new BMI study, nearly 80 percent of the stories on prescription drugs left out the drug companies entirely. Journalists emphasized consumers’ costs and company profits, largely ignoring companies’ investment to create life-saving medicines. Read more at The Balance Sheet.

McCain's Mistake

"When John McCain announced his candidacy on TV, critics focused on his statement that America had "wasted" the lives of our fallen heroes in Iraq. The senator has already apologized for these remarks, but a bigger mistake involved his decision to launch his campaign on the David Letterman Show.

The upcoming election involves fateful choices--the most significant race since 1980. McCain is a serious statesman who has courageously and consistently stood up against Islamo-Nazi terror, Congressional corruption, run-away entitlements and wasteful federal spending. Why, then, choose to begin a campaign about values and national survival with an appearance on a silly, late-night comedy show?

McCain's decision looks especially misguided when combined with his refusal to address the Conservative Political Action Conference. All other Republican candidates spoke to CPAC, but McCain didn't want to "pander" to conservatives. Instead, he pandered to David Letterman and his audience, who don't count as likely backers of McCain--or any other Republican." -- Michael Medved

File under 'Responsibility & Self-Sufficiency'

'Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them." -- Benjamin Franklin

Gay Sheep Gaining Their Rights

By Albert Mohler
Townhall.com

"Have you heard about the research into gay sheep? The U.S. Sheep Experiment Station has been studying the sexual preferences of sheep. It turns out that a certain percentage of male sheep prefer other male sheep--and do not breed with female sheep.

The scientists have been looking for a biological cause for this pattern and they discovered that the brains of 'gay' sheep are more like the brains of female sheep in some respects. Furthermore, they believe that the sexual preference of sheep might be reversed by treatments.

This has both animal rights activists and gay rights activists in an uproar. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals--or 'PETA'--has called for the experiments to be halted, and tennis star Martina Navratilova argued that sheep have a 'right' to be gay. No kidding. Who knew that controversy would erupt over the sexual preferences of sheep? What is next? The rights of transsexual chipmunks?" (Emphasis mine - HH)

EDITORIAL

OPINION JOURNAL
Hillary Clinton knows all about sacking U.S. attorneys.

"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
-- James Wilson

Obama Snagged in Stock Controversy
By Tom Fitton
For the second time in the last few months, Barack Obama -- touted as a politician who floats above the culture of corruption -- has found himself at the center of an ethics controversy. Obama has tried to distance himself from Hillary Clinton, his main competition for the Democratic nomination. But as far as ethics is concerned, developments suggest he may be more like Hillary than he, or his backers, would care to admit…

Polls and Politics
By Paul M. Weyrich
The Democrats must pay off their left-wing, which helped them become a majority party for the first time in a dozen years. Leaders in both the House and Senate have come up with bills that would impose timetables on the president’s request for another $100 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The question is, is this good politics? Clearly the effort is to micro-manage the wars via the Congress...

Funding the Forces
By Ed Feulner
Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan wouldn’t have agreed on much. But both men understood one thing: Military weakness invites trouble. Politicians, of course, are quick to say they’re for a strong defense. But not all of them are willing to pay for it…

Environmentalism Is A Religion, Czech Leader Says
Centralized planners seeking to “rule from above” are operating under the guise of environmentalism and other fashionable “isms” in a bid to attack freedom and liberty, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said here...

The Latest Poll Numbers and What They Mean

Rudy Is Currently the Unchallenged Front-Runner

"Any lingering doubts that Rudy Giuliani's surge last week was just a flash in the pan were resoundingly extinguished by the results of the latest polls.

For the third month in a row, Rudy is in first place in the Republican match-up and the size of his lead is growing."

Hillary Clinton: 'Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy' Is Back

"The 'vast, right-wing conspiracy' is back, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan plotting.

Once derided for her use of the phrase, Clinton is now trying to turn the imagery to her advantage."

Bill Frist Backs Fred Thompson 2008 Bid: "Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist added his voice to those urging Fred Thompson to run for president.

Frist, a Tennessee Republican who abandoned his own presidential ambitions in November, wrote on his blog Monday that Thompson is 'a genuine leader.'

'Fred understands real people and they understand him,' Frist said. 'He understands the legislative process and has a strong bipartisan appeal, though he is a real conservative.' " Read on.

Cold Chills Global Warming Expedition: "An expedition designed to show how global warming is heating the Arctic had to be called off after one of the explorers got frostbite, thanks to incredibly frigid temperatures that got as low as 100 degrees below zero.

Explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen planned to make a 530-mile journey on foot across the Arctic Ocean, but they had to call off the trek after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment." Read on.

John Kerry Starts 'Global Warming' Book Tour: "Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts kicked off a 10-city global warming book tour on Monday, promoting a cause whose most high-profile advocate, Democrat Al Gore, also lost a presidential race to George. W. Bush.

'This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future' by Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, will be released on March 26." Read on.

Analysis: Terrorism fears grow in Europe

A series of Islamist terrorist killings, kidnappings and video threats have shocked several Western European nations in recent weeks. A German aid ...
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Israeli Arabs want to stay Israeli

Almost two-thirds of Israeli Arabs are afraid that some of their communities would be transferred to a future Palestinian state.
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Analysis: Israel nods to Saudi peace idea

Israel seems to be warming up to a Saudi peace initiative that Arab leaders are due to discuss at their summit meeting in Riyadh at the end of this ...
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Meltdown at Justice

Incompetence is compromising presidential power.
OpinionJournal

"Just when President Bush seemed to have beaten back the Congressional defeatists on Iraq, along comes his own Justice Department to undermine some hard-won antiterror policy gains. The incompetence at Justice is getting to be expensive for Presidential power." Read on.

"Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be encouraged by the Government. For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." -- Samuel Adams

From Nifong to Murtha, sacrificing others’ lives for political gain a hallmark of the Left

By Jeff Emanuel

Conservatives Should Produce Candidates, Not Choose Them

"When it comes the Republican presidential primary, one thing is clear: conservatives are restless. There seems to be a consensus (well founded or not) among many conservatives that the 'big three'—McCain, Romney, and Giuliani—have either questionable conservative credentials, or are blatantly hostile to conservative positions on key policy questions. Social conservatives seem to be having an especially difficult time finding an acceptable candidate to support.

In the midst of all the whining and complaining, Representative Tom Tancredo has rightly...." Read more of Ken Connor.

What we know won't work

"Adults have been educating children for thousands of years. Yet, in this 21st century, somehow, I feel a need to remind myself of this fact.

In modern times, education seems mysterious and illusive, leaving us with a schooling system that costs ever more while never quite making the grade." By Paul Jacob.

Hating Rick

"Liberals, even secular ones, welcome the application of the Christian Gospel to issues like the environment and minimum wage, but when a conservative Republican like Rick Santorum applies those teachings to things like unborn babies … well, that’s a bit overly pious." By Dr. Paul Kengor
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The Numbers on Moral Decline

"Most American parents display an optimism about their children living in a richer, more technologically advanced world and as they grow, that they'll be healthier with a longer life expectancy. All that said, there's also a remarkable pessimism about the moral decline they are bequeathing to the next generation." By Brent Bozell III. Read more.

Burnt offerings on the altar of multiculturalism

"Only one faith on Earth may be more messianic than Islam: multiculturalism. Without it -- without its fanatics who believe all civilizations are the same -- the engine that projects Islam into the unprotected heart of Western civilization would stall and fail. It's as simple as that. To live among the believers -- the multiculturalists -- is to watch the assault, the jihad, take place un-repulsed by our suicidal societies. These societies are not doomed to submit; rather, they are eager to do so in the name of a masochistic brand of tolerance that, short of drastic measures, is surely terminal." By Diana West. Read more.