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Many in this country right now are looking to the Middle East and some believe that the fanatacism of the Muslims who wish this country harm somehow makes them unstopable. "How can we beat them?" is sometimes asked. It can easily be done. And we can look back in history for examples. In the West, typically, we look to the Battle of Tours, but the true decisive defeat of jihad came a generation earlier, before the gates of the Queen of Cities, often neglected by modern historians. When the first wave of Islamic conquest burst forth from the Arabian ...

More Dithering Democrats Introducing the Drooler of the Month award. August 8, 2001 8:20 a.m. One really shouldn't let Democrats from the Northeast walk around in the August sun; they get delusions of grandeur, and that produces an excess of drool. The chief slobberers are those Dems actively running for president, like Joe Lieberman. When his leader, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, announced that he probably wouldn't enrage the American people by trying to undo the tax cut, Lieberman said "don't be so fast." Joe can't win the nomination without the hard Left, and the hard Left's view of ...

State Rep. Miller to seek congressional seat in Panhandle Associated Press Posted June 1 2001 PENSACOLA -- State Rep. Jeff Miller has joined a growing list of candidates running for the congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough in the Florida Panhandle. Miller, R-Chumuckla, made his announcement Thursday, but he did not immediately join 10 other candidates _ two Democrats and eight Republicans _ who had pre-filed as of noon Friday. Scarborough, R-Pensacola, last week resigned effective Sept. 6, saying he wanted to spend more time with his two young sons in Pensacola. A special election to ...

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Yesterday as I walked along the road, my mind revolved around an ongoing debate I am having with the two leaders of Florida NOW by email. It is truly stimulating, let me assure you! I thought about how one of them had called me a member of the Christian Taliban, which I found amusing indeed. Then my mind turned to the most infamous thing that the Taliban had done-blowing up the Buddha staues. And then I remembered how the ACLU, which she defends to the hilt, wants to take down the Ten Commandments in Indiana. I told ...

from www.aclufl.org, Florida ACLU's website: Save this Date! Annual ACLU Conference for Lawyers and Other Civil Libertarians July 20-21 Pier House in Key West ACLU of Florida 2001 Lawyers Conference July 20-21 2001 Pier House Resort & Caribbean Spa One Duval Street, Key West, Florida $100 for members, $150 for non-members Scholarships available CLE accreditation pending Speakers Include: Steve Shapiro National ACLU Legal Director & ABA President Martha Barnett

Running America on Hot Air by William Tucker Ortega y Gasset, the great Spanish philosopher of the 1930s, described what he called the "modern barbarian." "The modern barbarian," he wrote in The Revolt of the Masses, "is a person who looks at the highly complex modern society and takes it to be a natural object." People think that apples and oranges appear in the neighborhood grocery the same way they grow on trees. They do not perceive the highly complex social network that makes these things possible. Nor do they appreciate its fragility. "Whenever there is a shortage of bread," ...

Friends, Romans Countrymen! Here are the facts. I was doing a little investigating into the nefarious activities of the ACLU. It turns out that the Panhandle Chapter of this many-headed hydra meets in a Public School in Pensacola, Booker T Washington High School, to be specific. Our tax dollars are going to pay for them to have a free meeting house! Is this right? I say it is not. I have been trying to contact the Superintendent of Schools in that area. If any of you feel the same inclination, his name is Mr Paul and his number is (850) ...

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