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Today we welcome Dr. Jamie Glazov. Jamie is the editor of Frontpagemag.com. He also holds a Ph.D. in history with specialties in U.S., Russian, and Canadian foreign policy. His book, United in Hate: The Left´s Romance with Tyranny and Terror was recently released by WND Books. Welcome Dr. Glazov. It is an honor to have you with us. Can you please begin by telling our readers a bit about yourself? JG: Thank you for having me. I am the child of Soviet dissidents and we were able to escape from the Soviet tyranny when I was a little boy. Because...

What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations. First, California is by nature the most richly endowed region in the world. Nowhere else is there so much fertile land, watered by gravity-fed winter runoff from the majestic Sierra. California has ample supplies of oil and natural gas. Millions of acres of timber abound in its coastal and mountain forests. Temperate climate and weather allow outdoor activity almost year round. The coastline is over 1,300 miles long — with two of the great natural ports of the world at Los Angeles and San...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In an effort to reduce the church's political influence, Argentine atheists and feminists are spearheading a drive to get people who were baptized Roman Catholic but disagree with the church's politics to formally renounce their faith.The "Not in my Name" Internet campaign, also called Collective Apostasy, encourages people who are Catholic in name only to write to the bishops where they were baptized to officially register that they have left the church.Latin America is home to about half of the world's Roman Catholics but many people who were baptized Catholic do not practice the religion. "The...

President Obama wants to pay you to support global warming regulation. What he isn’t saying, however, is that his enticement won’t come close to covering what the regulations will cost you. In his 10-year budget released last week, the President proposed a so-called “cap-and-trade” scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under the proposal, 100 percent of the permits to emit greenhouse gases would be auctioned to coal and natural gas-burning electric utilities, industrial plants and other emitters still to be designated. The proceeds from the auctions would then be distributed to individual Americans “to help the transition to a clean...

Chris Rock has a routine about African-Americans and Crime. Every time he hears of a crime in is neighborhood his first reaction is "OH PLEASE GOD, DON'T LET HIM BE BLACK !!" What makes the routine so funny is that its not just African-Americans almost every ethnic group feels that way. We are afraid that a "bad egg" in our midst will bring out the bigot in others. The one exception to that rule, seems to be the American Muslim community. It seems that every time a Muslim is a arrested, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) screams racial profiling...

Taxes imposed in the name of global warming are completely bogus. There is no global warming if, by that term, you mean a sudden, dramatic increase in the Earth’s average temperature. The Earth has been cooling for a decade, not warming. It is incumbent on all of us to email, fax, call, and write our Congress critters and tell them they must vote against any legislation regarding “greenhouse gas emissions” or “global warming.” Tell them that a vote for such legislation will be your vote for whoever runs against them in the next elections. The Obama administration and Congress is...

A very important issue.

Here is amazing video of a man in Turkey who was run over by a truck and somehow survived without serious injury! Unbelievable! . . . . . (Watch Video)

The White House on Wednesday fessed up to lowering the quality of public discourse and acknowledged that its sniping at radio show host Rush Limbaugh has been "counterproductive," even as Democratic political committees continued to use the issue in a political line of attack approved by the Obama administration itself. "It may be counterproductive. I'll give you that," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, when asked about his repeated verbal jousting with Mr. Limbaugh and other media personalities who have criticized President Obama. Mr. Obama himself has regularly employed the term "cable chatter" to dismiss criticisms of his economic...

In the first two months of 2009, the Democratic Congress and the White House have spent more money than the combined cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the response to Hurricane Katrina. After they doled out taxpayer dollars at such a blistering pace, the instinct of many inside the Beltway is to do what's most convenient: desperately try to change the subject by creating straw men -- called "the party of no" -- to rally against. And in a carefully calculated campaign, operatives and allies of the Obama administration are seeking to divert attention toward radio host Rush...

"Let us not sleep, as do others." - 1 Thessalonians 5:6 There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest, let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed towards the Celestial City, said to themselves, "To prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good discourse. " Christian enquired, "Brother, where shall we begin?" And Hopeful answered, "Where God began with us. " Then Christian sang this song- "When saints do sleepy grow, let them come hither, And hear how these two pilgrims talk together;...

*snip* Now some, including Rush Limbaugh, would say I am on another enemies list: that of the White House. Limbaugh says there are only a handful of us on it, and if I am on it for defending all of the shareholders out there, then I am in good company. Limbaugh -- whom I do not know personally, but having been in radio myself, know professionally as a genius of the medium -- says, "They're going to shut Cramer up pretty soon, too, but he'll go down with a fight."

Former First Lady Barbara Bush is recovering this morning from open-heart surgery last night in Houston, Texas. Mrs. Bush is reportedly doing well, and will be in the hospital for 7-10 days. She is 83 years old. Barbara Bush is a real lady, and our thoughts and prayers go out to her for a full recovery. . . . . . . (Watch Video)

In his campaign and inaugural address, Barack Obama cast himself as a moderate man seeking common ground with conservatives. Yet, his budget calls for the radical restructuring of the U.S. economy, a sweeping redistribution of power and wealth to government and Democratic constituencies. It is a declaration of war on the right. The real Mr. Obama has stood up, and lived up to his ranking as the most left-wing member of the United States Senate. Barack has no mandate for this. He was even behind John McCain when the decisive event that gave him the presidency occurred — the September...

As someone who often denounced the repression of the late Slobodan Milosevic, I do not minimize his responsibility for the 1999 conflict in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. Nevertheless, William Walker's heaping of every foul claim human malice can concoct on Serbs collectively, even more than on Milosevic himself, is another matter ("A separate take from Serbia," Op-Ed, Feb. 24). I live in Kosovo and know firsthand what actually happened - and did not happen - during the NATO war against my country. Mr. Walker describes the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as "a tiny band" fighting "systematic"...

Has Obama Buried Reagan? The GOP is faltering in its defense of Republican ideals. The Democratic idea bank of Robert & Robert says it's safe to unload on Ronald Reagan. Robert Reich: "It is the boldest budget we have seen since the Reagan administration, and drives a nail in the coffin of Reaganomics. We can basically say goodbye to the philosophy espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher." President Ronald Reagan compares Republican and Democratic economic policies on taxes and spending at the White House. Robert Shrum: "Obama is not only unwinding Reagan's policies, he is offering a Rooseveltian paradigm...

Perhaps you’ve seen the video of the King County, Wash., sheriff’s deputy dishing out a bit of the rough stuff on a 15-year-old girl. At 3:45 a.m. last November 29, the girl was arrested while riding as a passenger in her parents’ car, which had been reported stolen to police. The video shows Deputy Paul Schene, 31, and a second deputy escorting the girl into a holding cell. The girl, apparently at Schene’s request, takes off one of her shoes and, apparently not at Schene’s request, kicks it at him, striking him in the shin with it. It seems fair...

On Wednesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews used several different animal references to depict the battle between Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh as he likened the fight to wrestling with "a walrus," and getting into "a peeing match with a skunk," and claimed Limbaugh thinks he is Charlie Brown's dog: "He's Snoopy! He thinks he's taking on the Red Baron." Matthews devoted several segments to the Democratic strategy of attacking Limbaugh and opened the show with the following monologue/diatribe: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Leading off tonight. Pomposity on parade! Not since Snoopy challenged the Red Baron in the Peanuts cartoon have we...

It's been a win-win the past few days for Democratic and Republican loyalists, but what about the rest of us? You know. Americans who either don't think that (a) spending nonexistent trillions is quite the way to proceed in an economic crisis, or that (b) Rush Limbaugh is the messiah. Oh wait, that's right, Barack Obama is the messiah. I get confused sometimes, what with so much deification going on. Limbaugh's 85-minute speech at last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference, frequently interrupted by grateful applause from a slightly star-struck audience, was, dare we say it, Obama- esque. But where there's...