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[Editor’s Note: The following is a speech delivered by Dr. Jamie Glazov, author of "United in Hate: The Left's Romance With Tyranny and Terror," at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s book club event on May 14 in Los Angeles.]I would like to thank everyone for coming out tonight. I feel very privileged and honored this evening just to have made it here. This book has been on my mind almost my entire life. I’m going to begin on a personal angle because it’s my story, my family’s story, that serves as the foundation of why I wrote this book. Because...

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My column today contrasts the White House and media responses to the Tiller murder with their silence on the deadly military recruiter attack. In the latest developments on the recruiter case, more targets were reportedly found on Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad’s computer. Yesterday, investigators said he told them “he would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot.”

MUMBAI -- India's Communists lost so many seats Saturday in their stronghold states of West Bengal and Kerala that their leaders are going to have to change their policies. The so-called Left Front comprising of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other leftist parties were leading in the races for only 25 seats in India's lower house of Parliament. That is 34 fewer seats than the Left Front won in the last elections in 2004. "The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Left have suffered a major loss," Prakash Karat, general secretary of the CPI(M) told reporters in New...

A national debate has raged among those on the Right, the former Right, and the never Right over how to approach the future. Even though the Republican Party just nominated a moderate who was thrashed by the most liberal-left Democrat nominee in history, who should have been eminently beatable for that reason, there are some who insist that future success lies in dumping conservatism and following the moderates ever more extremely. The Winning Strategy: Dump the Christians, Raise Taxes Colin Powell recently took the lead in making this case. He says the party has become too conservative, and Republicans should...

Lefties Upset Because Openly Gay Officer Was DischargedI would have analyzed this event, but I couldn't top this analysis by the Jawa Report Assorted lefties and the Gay Mafia are all up in arms about this story: In spite of President Obama's declared stance against the "don't-ask-don't-tell" policy that keeps openly gay individuals out of the military, the U.S. Army on Thursday told Lt. Dan Choi he is being dismissed for publicly revealing his homosexuality. The standard line seems to be that we can't afford to lose people like Lt. Choi, who speaks Arabic, just because they're gay. Let's assume...

We’re still in the first 100 days of the joyous observances of Barack Obama’s first 100 days, and many weeks of celebration lie ahead, so here are my thoughts: President Obama’s strongest talent is not his speechifying, which is frankly a bit of a snoozeroo. In Europe, he left ‘em wanting less pretty much every time (headline from Britain’s Daily Telegraph: “Barack Obama really does go on a bit”). That uptilted chin combined with the left-right teleprompter neck swivel you can set your watch by makes him look like an emaciated Mussolini umpiring an endless rally of high lobs on...

In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan's popularity and policies moved American politics firmly to the right. In only 100 days, Barack Obama's politics and policies have shifted America way to the left. The president is seeking to change the whole relationship between the government and the free-enterprise private sector. He is steering the country away from democratic capitalism and toward his big-government command-and-control vision. We are witnessing a triumph of government bureaucrats over entrepreneurs, investors, and small businesses. And with Sen. Arlen Specter switching from Republican to Democrat, Obama can now move the nation even further to the left. A...

For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList. Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy? Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.” But some of the journalists who participate in the online discussion say — off the record, of course — that it has been a great help in their...

Lieberman is no racist By Yehuda Ben-Meir Last update - 11:01 26/04/2009 I did not vote for Avigdor Lieberman and never will. I do not agree with some of his political positions and do not accept his framing of certain issues. But I am appalled by the left's delegitimizing of Lieberman and anyone connected with him. I do not believe that Israel's Arab citizens must be required to declare their loyalty to the Jewish state. What must be demanded of them and of all Israeli citizens, whether Jewish, Druze or other, is unflinching loyalty to the State of Israel and...

I don't understand the liberal hatred and derision of the tea parties. Aren't they the ones who insisted that dissent is patriotic?Aren't they the ones who, after an eight year diaper rash temper tantrum, finally got their way at the polls? Why is the left so angry?Dana Milbank at WaPo, no conservative, concludes that "But now, even under Obama, the anger on the left is, if anything, more personal and vitriolic than on the right." He cites some reader comments: But many focused on a frustration on the left caused by Obama's centrism -- his opposition to prosecuting those involved...

By Sher Zieve In order for global (AKA "one world") government (AKA "rule") to come into being, the United States of America must be destroyed. The USA and its Constitution are far too dangerous to the totalitarian Left for it to allow the country to continue its existence. For many years now, I have included in my Bio "if Leftists ran the country (and left to their own inane devices), it would be the end of the United States as a sovereign nation." Unfortunately and tragically, I was — and still am — correct.

It’s taking less and less time for President Obama to abandon his promises. It took only two days for him to break his word to the intelligence community about not prosecuting officials who fought to keep our country safe by interrogating men captured as they plotted to kill Americans. Now, with the revelation that many members of both parties, from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on down, were well aware of the enhanced interrogation techniques used in the dark days following 9-11, the question becomes: If Obama decides to prosecute, how many in his own party will need legal counsel? That...

Every once in a while something happens so shocking, so inconceivable, that it threatens to remove the last bastions of confidence I have in the federal government. The appointment of Rosa Brooks, the radical left-wing Los Angeles Times columnist, as an advisor to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Fluornoy is one of those moments. And by advisor, I don’t mean someone who talks on an informal basis — I mean a full-time advisor so committed to helping formulate policy that she had to leave her position as a fire-breathing partisan columnist. It’s frighteningly unclear what caused Brooks to receive...

Good catch for Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the league's Internet division: It's hired MSNBC star (and former ESPN anchor) Keith Olbermann as a columnist. He'll write a blog post three times a week. MLB says Keith is the first national journalist it's hired as part of its "digital newspaper initiative," which will launch in May. Olbermann will donate his salary to three charities.

Okay: I couldn’t find anything on urban-legend-busting Snopes.com about the letter below. And I can’t seem to track down its origins, whether it was, as purported, written by an American law student named John J. Wall…or not. No matter where it came from, though, it’s funny. First read the letter, then let’s have some fun with it. Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950’s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each...

If you are as sick and tired of the slobbering, liberal leftist media as I am, and at times wished you could do something about it, here's an idea: tell it to the Federal Communications Commission! But, tell it with the twist: in addition to listing your grievances against specific media outlets, be sure to mention their commercial sponsors by name. Then, contact the commercial sponsors and tell them that you and thousands of others like you, not only will boycott their products, but have lodged complaints against them with the FCC. THAT will get their attention. There's a specific...

Ask those on the left what values they champion and they will say equality, tolerance, women’s rights, gay rights, workers rights and human rights. Militant Islamists oppose all that, not infrequently through the application of lethal force. So how does one explain the burgeoning left-Islamist alliance? I know: There are principled individuals on the left who do not condone terrorism or minimize the Islamist threat. The author Paul Berman, a man of the left, has been more incisive on these issues than just about anyone else. Left-of-center publications such as The New Republic have not been apologists for Jihadism. But...

"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage—the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors."- Ayn Rand The Department of Homeland Security has, as been the case time and time again, chosen to lump the 'Right' with radical racist groups such as the...

An ongoing debate is taking place throughout state and local municipalities and in Washington D.C. There is a great battle of ideologies raging for the heart and soul of America. With their liberal morality and socialistic, big-government/ nanny-state ideology, the Left says, "We are right!" With their compromise of core values and lack of rooted principles, the Moderates say, “We are right!" With their morally conservative principles and small-government philosophy, the Right says, "We are right!"

Tea parties reveal Left’s quick descent to hubrisBy Chris Stirewalt Political Editor 4/13/09 It hasn’t taken long for Democrats to succumb to the same arrogance that helped tank Republicans last year. Just as conservatives once mocked the online wave that helped Barack Obama surf into the White House, liberals are now heaping scorn on the tea party movement. This Web phenomenon may bring tens of thousands of small-government conservatives to tax day rallies across the country Wednesday. They Twitter. They Facebook. They blog. They mail tea bags to Congress. It’s an outgrowth of the tax-revolt movement that has been simmering...

"Shortly before Markos Moulitsas blamed Glenn Beck for instigating the senseless shooting of three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers on Saturday, the proprietor of the far-left website Daily Kos said that conservatives would rather shoot cops than organize to win the next election. He also wrote during the same Twitter discussion, "With no Veep to shoot people, folks are taking things into their own hands." Such was revealed Sunday by a self-proclaimed Daily Kos diarist named Tommy Christopher who was so disgusted by these comments he has actually resigned his membership (h/t Hot Air via ConservaThink)".That was written by Noel Sheppard...

Here is video of Sen. Judd Gregg talking with Greta Van Susteren last night, where he said President Obama is taking America "sharply to the Left." Gregg rightly points out that Obama is seeking to expand the government in unprecedented ways. He says "irresponsible" is a good word for what Obama is doing. . . . . . . (Watch Video)

In last weekÂ’s press conference, President Obama committed whatÂ’s often thought to be the cardinal sin in politics: He neglected his base. He called on the Washington Times, not the Washington Post; Stars and Stripes, not the New York Times; Fox, not MSNBC. The message was that, in the midst of the political cacophony, Obama was going to talk to everyone. This month, it so happens that Cass R. Sunstein, the Harvard law professor and ObamaÂ’s recently appointed regulatory czar, has a book coming out that sheds light on the virtues of open-mindedness. In Going to Extremes: How Like Minds...

Legal bills have mounted fighting complaints that she called partisan, false and frivolous, starting with "the politically motivated Troopergate probe," Palin said in a written response to questions. "I must defend against these baseless ethics accusations out of my own pocket as the use of public monies to do so could itself violate state law," Palin wrote. "On August 29, it seems the political landscape changed in Alaska. Now, it seems in order to do this job as Governor, with the political blood sport some are playing today, only the independently wealthy or those willing to spend their income on...

While the erudite, urbane left demonstrates its sophistication and collegiality by personally attacking Rush Limbaugh, the nation is going down in financial flames, largely because of the unchecked policy insanity being unleashed by our new president. Yet his flacks in the media continue to shield him from even rudimentary questions that any other president would receive. That's why you don't have to wait in suspense to see whether the president will accept Rush's offer to debate the issues. It would not be in Obama's personal interests to shift the public's attention from childish insults about Rush to substantive policy. Do...

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SNIPPET: "Like Hoffer’s Western pro-communists, when the truth emerges about what life is like under fundamentalist Islam, many leftists publicly deny the reports -- as much of the Left did when it first learned about the horrors Pol Pot inflicted on Cambodia. Privately, Glazov argues, the Leftist approves of what has taken place. Indeed, Glazov emphasizes, the violence and horror is what “attracts him in the first place.” They know that without it, the eventual earthly paradise will never be born. After all, as the Bolsheviks used to argue, “you can’t cook an omelet without breaking eggs.” Glazov mentions the...

California's stem-cell agency will stick to its plan of incurring debt by selling bonds to private investors despite an agreement hashed out by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislative leaders aimed at plugging a $42 billion shortfall over 17 months in the state's budget, an official for the agency said last week. "It will actually improve, we think, the ease with which we'll be able to do the private placements. It won't eliminate the need for them," California Institute for Regenerative Medicine spokesman Don Gibbons told BioRegion News last week. CIRM announced earlier this month it plans to privately sell...

Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California.

The title of this article is most assuredly not what one would think it to mean. It is a title intended to get people interested that would not normally frequent a “conservative” news outlet or a “conservative” source of political thought. Be that as it may, the article is a repost of my article from another location originally written in November of 2007. So, without further ado and after reading Tony Magana’s article here at American Daily Review (“Strong Evidence President Obama Moving Towards Socialism”) which, inspired the reposting of this coming piece, read on. The article is as appropriate...

From Gavin Kanowitz Alternative Press - An alternative but very often only to sanity. Anarchist - The foot fungus of the political world. Anti-Globalization Protest - A chance to wreak havoc at the taxpayer’s expense. Anti-Zionism - The politically correct form of Anti-Semitism. Capitalism - All that which is evil. Even if it pays the bills. Fidel Castro - A Great leader. Suppression of Free Speech and Democracy aside. Noam Chomsky - Leading scholar of the school of ‘Progressive’ Political Hypocrisy. Collective - A group structure implemented to water down individuality with mediocrity. Colonialism Blame Theory - Excuse for Third...

The events of the past week are evidence that the Country is going through substantial changes at break neck speeds. I have never seen the very foundations of the United States be impacted and changed with such efficient yet devastating speed. One day we are the center piece for free market capitalism and in 3 short weeks we have seen a socialist revolution take place without a shot being fired. The Obama political machine and the radical Left have so exaggerated the state of the economy that the populace truly believes that we are in a state akin to the...

HBO Programming information for RIGHT AMERICA: FEELING WRONGED - SOME VOICES FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=680932   YouTube - Alexandra Pelosi on "Right America: Feeling Wronged"Alexandra Pelosi talks to WNYC's Leonard Lopate about her new documentary Right America: Feeling Wronged. She speaks with some of the 58 million Americans ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78defYvTHE   Right America: Feeling Wronged TV Show, TV.com is your reference guide to Right America: Feeling Wronged Show. Episode guide, photos, videos, cast and crew ...http://www.tv.com/right-america-feeling-wronged/show/76592/summary.html

Rush Limbaugh Talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh is blasting the so-called economic stimulus plan of President Obama and the Democrat-led Congress, calling it an assault on capitalism intentionally designed to harm the private sector and lead to bigger government. "This is a full-fledged attack on capitalism, and the leftists Democrats have been seeking this for the longest time," Limbaugh said on his program this afternoon. "That's why they can't stop themselves. It is Christmas morning every day for these people. There's nobody that can stop them." A question e-mailed to the host asked if the Democrats really understood that they're "destroying...

The left is trying their utmost, of late, to make Limbaugh they symbol of all Republicans, and then tear down Limbaugh to tear us all down. They are trying their hardest, with Obama fecklessly “leading” the charge, to paint a picture of Republican members of Congress groveling and scraping before Limbaugh (if only!) because they apparently, and absurdly, think that this is some strategy for getting (R) votes on (D) legislation. The trickle-down of this so-called strategy has left propaganda organs nearly daily touting new evidence of how irrelevant Rush is becoming in the age of Obama. See how clever...

( worth a re-read) September 28, 2008 Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis By James Simpson America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster. But many of those same politicians caused the crisis, and if left to their own devices will do so again. Despite the mass media news blackout, a series of books, talk radio and the blogosphere have managed to expose Barack Obama's connections to his radical mentors -- Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis and others....

Follow me into the Wayback Machine, Sherman, to a time when schools had the youngsters make things out of clay to show their parents. In my time, the most common thing made was a vaguely dish-shaped thing that was usually called an ashtray. In these enlightened times, I’m sure they are not called ashtrays any more. (Are little kids still allowed to make things out of clay today?) They were taken home, ooohed and aaahed over by doting parents and put away, to be taken out on infrequent occasions to show the kids as they were growing up what their...

Why don’t we see demonstrations against Islamic dictatorships in London, Paris, Barcelona? Or demonstrations against the Burmese dictatorship? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the enslavement of millions of women who live without any legal protection? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the use of children as human bombs where there is conflict with Islam? Why has there been no leadership in support of the victims of Islamic dictatorship in Sudan? Why is there never any outrage against the acts of terrorism committed against Israel? Why is there no outcry by the European left against Islamic fanaticism? Why don’t they defend Israel’s...

I heard a disturbing thing today that irked me. I would like your opinion on what should be the next move. My daughter in the 6th grade came home on the 20th and described an assignment she was given. The assignment was to write about how January 20th 2008 was the greatest day in American history. She questioned why that day was the greatest in our history and the teacher responded by saying, "If you don't think today is the greatest day then you must be racist.". WTF. The left can not just be content with the day being the...

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told CNSNews.com that Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner is qualified to serve despite his failure to properly pay at least $34,000 in taxes. Other members of Congress, including Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) agreed, but some Republicans questioned the nomination. As Treasury Secretary, Geithner would oversee the federal treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to documents released by the Senate Finance Committee, Geithner failed to make several tax payments as required when he worked at the International Monetary Fund and, in total with penalties,...

On Monday, January 19th on President Bush’s last day in office, people will gather at 11:00am at a site near the White House (TBA) for what will be a cathartic action of hurling shoes at the White House. We will be acting in the spirit of Mutadhar Al-Zaidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at Bush during a press conference on behalf of the widows, orphans and all those killed in Iraq, and in solidarity with the Iraqi people as well as all of those who have suffered under the Bush regime....

From the socialist center of our society come the assassins of truth. In ideology, the agnostics from the folds of the extreme Left assassinate the truth … the truth that our belief in God is a reality in one’s life. Liberal atheists, whether from the ghetto or the academe, think that religion is unreal … it is just hypocrisy. That the existence of God is doubtful is their mantra of public attraction. Attracted like how magnet draws metallic objects from the swirling dust of ignorance, in the name of freedom and civil liberties, Justices of the high courts who are...

Obama's Preferred Future Spy Chief Leon Panetta Supported Communist-Linked Anti-CIA Think Tank By EMERSON VERMAAT January 8, 2009 - San Francicsco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Leon Panetta, president-elect Barack Obama's choice for future chief of the CIA, previously strongy sympathized with the "Institute for Policy Studies" (IPS), a Washington based leftist think tank known for its bitter opposition to the intelligence community, notably the CIA. As a member of Congress Panetta supported the IPS's "Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy Line" in 1983. He was also one of the congressmen who bienially commissioned IPS to produce an "alternative"...

Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is that rare individual who is both a highly respected academic and well known to the general population. But in another regard he is even rarer. He regards himself as a man of the Left, yet on one of the defining moral issues of our time, attitudes toward Israel, he has nothing in common with the Left. He is not only one of Israel’s staunchest supporters, he spends much of his time defending Israel. He has written innumerable articles and four books defending Israel: “The Case against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others...

For pacifists who believe that all wars are immoral, Israel's self-defense operation against Hamas in Gaza is necessarily wrong. To such people we invoke the 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Confronted by a movement that amalgamates fascism with religious extremism and a genocidal platform, our moral imperative demands Jewish self-defense. Few of the voices slamming Israel for conducting an "immoral" war in Gaza are those of pacifists. Take Riyad Mansour, Mahmoud Abbas's man at the UN. He claimed on CNN that "3,000 Palestinians had been killed...

Listening to some of those on the Left you’d think that Barack Obama had suddenly announced he had changed parties and enrolled as a pro-life Republican, while over on the Right some malcontents worry that megachurch pastor Rick Warren has abandoned genuine Christianity and become a member of a heretical sect. All of this hubbub because Obama invited Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his coming inauguration ceremonies.

Lee set to get tough with leftist forces: Cheong Wa Dae By Yoo Cheong-mo SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak is determined to crack down on intensifying ideological provocation by domestic left-leaning forces, viewing it as a threat to South Korea's national identity, presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan told reporters Tuesday. "President Lee is concerned that the constitutional values of the Republic of Korea are increasingly challenged by leftist forces seeking to promote anti-U.S., pro-North Korea and anti-market viewpoints across society," said the spokesman, referring to President Lee's statement on Tuesday that the national identity has been under attack....

The actions of Illinois Governor Blagojevich provide anyone willing to take an objective look all the evidence one needs to indict, and convict, not just this irrational perpetrator but the entire leftist movement, of crimes against the republic. For so long they have held our institutions in contempt, and through the process of working against it, they have sought to enrich themselves through nefarious means. Their lust, both monetary and political, reflects their distain for the voter and serves to highlight the absence of any ethical and moral compass to set true their course through life. Where as a capitalist...

The Oakland Tribune reports the story of a hipster granny from Berkeley that has decided to sue the U.S. military over a reporter embed she arranged in Iraq that was abruptly canceled by the government. While the Oakland Trib and the hippie granny try their hardest to make the U.S. military the villain, it's a bit hard to feel too sorry for her when the facts are considered. On top of that, the Trib absurdly calls her situation an "ordeal" which, when comparing her situation to what the soldiers have to go through, seems a bit over-the-top and silly, really....