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Political junkies are witnessing a true phenomenon in presidential politics: more than two years before the next presidential election cycle there's a movement to target someone considered by the news media and pundits to be a frontrunner in 2008 -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. Even with softball interviews by the likes of Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer, and with almost a daily practice by some members of the mainstream news media of publishing her press releases as if they were news, Hillary Clinton is facing tough opposition not only from Republicans but also from members of her own party. Right after...

In a recent column, I claimed that the democrats have decided to make as their major campaign appeal concerning the November elections the desperate need for voters to return the Senate and the House to democrat control in order for the House to impeach the president and the Senate to vote him out of office. Since Dean and company have yet to establish much of an agenda on the actual issues concerning the problems the country faces, and since the nation is in a violent conflict halfway around the world (instead of in USA streets, thankfully), the democrat hierarchy has...

PORT HUENEME, CALIF. -- This sprawling U.S. Navy Construction Center, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, is "home port" for thousands of "Sea-Bees" who are deployed in the global war on terror. These "warriors who build" with a legendary "can-do" spirit are busy repairing schools and hospitals in Iraq, constructing roads and runways in Afghanistan and helping to forge a safer future in places most Americans can't even pronounce. Though most of the men and women in the Naval Mobile Construction Battalions are reservists with good private sector jobs, all I have spoken with -- here in the U.S. or...

US President George W. Bush was correct in saying there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq under the Saddam Hussein two decades-plus murder rule. Recall that numerous Democrats prior to Mr. Bush's election to the Oval Office said the same. Further, many said the same after Mr. Bush moved into the White House. Now we have proof. It comes from none other than Hussein's General Georges Sada. The nub of his data is this: Hussein flew WMD into Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were loaded onto civilian planes with seats removed to make room, so states Hussein's second...

Islamic killers international are gradually taking over the New Jersey-sized nation, Israel. They've already taken Gaza. It's turned into a Muslim-killing-Muslim bloodlet. Now Palestinian territories will vote in Hamas power today. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah will slink into the shadows. Hamas' legalistic murder spree will spread and thereby strangle hold Israel all the more. In the meantime, Abbas, who has encouraged his own to get out to vote, playing the democracy clone, will lose all around. He has already lost in the eyes of many Muslims for not being efficient in government organization, not being aggressive enough like unto Yasser Arafat,...

The over-riding quest for re-election is at the heart of the corruption of public officials who betray the public trust in order to get the money needed to pay for their political campaigns. It is hard to see how that corruption can be ended, except by ending re-elections with a limit of one term and a ban on running for another office for several years. That way, the one term can be spent taking care of the duties of the office instead of taking care of promoting a political career in that office or other offices. There are, of course,...

Oprah presented a statement by Queen of Jordan, Rania Al-Abdullah. Oprah asked the queen what was needed most to combat Muslim murderers global. Of course, Oprah did not use the "M" word but instead it was understood. The queen responded by speaking to the "hope gap." By that she meant that there are those who have and those who have not. The latter lose hope. And so they kill and maim. What then is needed, queen? She answered that education is the answer. Education. So that's it. Generic education. Earlier in the show, Oprah had New York Senator Hillary Clinton...

An Islamic man, who was detained by US agents without criminal charges being file and then was deported to Egypt, testified for a deposition in New York on Monday in a lawsuit against the US government. He claims he was unlawfully imprisoned and abused. That's the story as reported by the mainstream news media. In fact, Mr. Ebrahim did commit a crime by staying in the United States illegally. His visa expired. Yasser Ebrahim is one of several Muslim men who are being allowed to return to New York City to participate in the civil suit under strict conditions including...

To many Middle East observers, there appears to be an intense competition to see who can be the most vitriolic and threatening national leader towards Israel. First it was the Iranian President who shocked the world with statements regarding the total destruction of Israel and casting doubt on the Jewish genocide during the Holocaust. Now Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has outraged many by accusing Israel of assassinating the former Palestinian leader and terrorist Yasser Arafat at a time when the terrorist group Hamas is gaining political support in the upcoming Palestinian elections. Assad took the opportunity to denigrate Israelis during...

For Senate Democrats, Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. is a disaster. Thanks to the abortion lobby (which seems to run the Democrat plantation). Obviously, Judge Alito is eminently qualified by intellect, character, temperament, ability and experience to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice. And he is the President's nominee. But, he has pledged to keep an open mind about abortion (gasp!) instead of to close it firmly and, in words reminiscent of the ones uttered about segregation in 1963 by the late Alabama Governor George Wallace, pledge "abortion today, abortion tomorrow, abortion forever." Robert Novak, veteran syndicated columnist,...

The rising generation of Americans has been shaped profoundly by two events that have anniversaries this week. The first event was the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade 34 years ago. The second event was the inauguration of Ronald Reagan 25 years ago. Because of the first event, one fourth of our generation is no longer alive. Roe Babies, 45 million of them since 1973, are missing. But there are some positive signs on the cultural horizon. In recent years, public opinion regarding abortion has continually shifted toward the pro-life position. The number of Americans calling themselves pro-choice...

Media kingpin Rush Limbaugh, who says he pontificates with half of his brain tied behind his back -just to make it fair, and CNN anchor Daryn Kagan seemed to be a political odd couple to begin with when it was first reported that the two were an item two years ago. Wonkette reports: "Rush Limbaugh and Daryn Kagan might be "on the rocks" The NY Daily News reports that the pair may have hit the skids.

Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday accused President George W. Bush of mishandling the threat from Iran while she's been accepting money from supporters of the renegade Iranian regime. Wealthy businessmen Hassan Nemazee and Faraj Aalaei who are associated with the American Iranian Council, a pro-regime, anti-sanctions group, are vocal Clinton supporters and contributors. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Namazee has contributed $4,000 to Clinton's reelection while Aalaei contributed $1,000. Insight Magazine, published by the Washington Times, describes their lobby this way: "the American-Iranian Council [AIC], a pro-regime lobbying group [are] trying to get Congress and the Bush administration to...

After 10 years and $23 million, Independent Counsel David Barrett's report on an investigation of Henry Cisneros, a former Bill Clinton housing secretary, will reveal additional details of the particularly slimy nature of Slick Willie & Co. According to The New York Sun, citing specifics from a report set to be released Thursday, "there was a coordinated effort by Clinton administration officials to first block and then limit the probe as a way of taking pressure off an administration that was already beset by scandals." Among those said to be implicated -- then-Attorney General Janet Reno.

As usual, the mantra of tyranny in this instance is "sustainability" and "isolation". As I figured, the poor souls that have lost everything in the Katrina tragedy will now have what little remains taken away for the sake of the elites. There are plans to finagle away property at only 60% of its actual value, but even if 100 times the market value was offered, that is not the point. If one really wants to lay the foundation of a new New Orleans, why not raize Bourbon Street notorious for its debauchery and devil worship.

Perhaps it's because one of the gentlemen I'm going to comment on (Harry Belafonte) has West Indian roots, as are some of mine; growing up, Calypso and Afro-Cuban music were integral to my cultural development. Perhaps it's because the other gentleman I'm going to comment on (Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan), Belafonte and I are all members of that mysterious "lost race" of "light skinned" Black people to whom the superficially-focused frequently refer, but which has yet to be rediscovered on the Dark Continent. Once again, it's only because of our mendacious and seditious media that Belafonte's recent comments...

During a Town Hall meeting earlier this week Democrat Congressmen John Murtha (PA) and Jim Moran (VA) touted their call for a withdrawal from Iraq, an unexpected turn of events occurred. Moran and Murtha continued the anti-war diatribes which included their relating talks they've had with military officers and rank-and-file troops in Iraq. Murtha has said the military is broken, morale within the ranks is poor, we need to pullout immediately, and other defeatist rantings. Murtha had just finished his presentation during the Virginia townhall meeting, in which he added that he feared a slow withdrawal may give people the...

Would Samuel Alito even be considered for a seat on the Supreme Court if he had committed an act of plagiarism? Would he be considered for the highest court in the land if he had let a woman die in his submerged car? Welcome to the Alito Senate confirmation hearings, featuring Joseph Biden, the Delaware Senator bounced from the 1988 presidential race for plagiarism, and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a notorious womanizer responsible for the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Of course, our media don't want to talk about any of that. They would prefer to talk about Pat...

Some Democrats think they have found Judge Samuel Alito's Achilles' heel. In their opening statements and first day of questioning, Senators Patrick Leahy, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, and Dick Durbin have tried to portray Alito as a tool of the powerful. They describe him as a man always willing to side with the strong over the weak, the rich against the poor, one who favors whites over blacks and other minorities. They are hoping the theme will resonate in a way that simply attacking him as anti-abortion won't. It is becoming harder and harder to convince most Americans that an...

Wahhabism is a fundamentalist movement, named after Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703-1792). It remains the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabis believe that some Muslim groups such as Shia Islam follow novel or non-Islamic practices. Wahhabi theology advocates puritanical and legalistic stances in matters of faith and religious practice. Wahhabists see their role as a movement to restore Islam from what they perceive to be innovations, superstitions, deviances, heresies and idolatries. There are many practices that they believe are contrary to Islam. Wahhabism was a considered a small sect within Islam until the discovery of oil in...