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I recently received a chain email with the subject line “George Soros — This Is an Evil Man.”...After observing Soros for some years now, I have concluded he’s neither evil nor completely liberal. ......Newsmax was early in identifying Soros as a political force, featuring him on the cover of our May 2004 magazine with the headline “George Soros’ Coup.” Our cover story detailed Soros’ influence in Eastern Europe, supporting emerging democracies after the fall of the Iron Curtain through his Open Society Foundations.On the whole our feature gave a negative view of his activities there. But my own views about...

To understand what feeds former president Jimmy Carter's anti-Israeli frenzy, look at his early links to Arab business. Between 1976-1977, the Carter family peanut business received a bailout in the form of a $4.6 million, "poorly managed" and highly irregular loan from the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). According to a July 29, 1980 Jack Anderson expose in The Washington Post, the bank's biggest borrower was Mr. Carter, and its chairman at that time was Mr. Carter's confidant, and later his director of the Office of Management and Budget, Bert Lance.

It seems that the Soros network is determined to keep pushing until America pushes back. Their latest project is the defilement of one of our nation's holiest sites -- Ground Zero of the World Trade Center attack. A group of Soros-funded "human rights" organizations have hijacked the planning process for The World Trade Center Memorial which will nestle among the footprints of the fallen towers. The cabal plans to use the memorial as a pulpit for leftwing propaganda. Visitors to the memorial, "will be served up a heaping foreign policy discussion over the greater meaning of Abu Ghraib," writes Debra...

The most powerful Congressmen have, in addition to their regular offices in one of the House Office Buildings (Cannon, Longworth, or Rayburn) on the south side of Capitol Hill, a private office in the Capitol itself. It was in such an office earlier this week that I asked a member of the House leadership about the MSM (mainstream media)/Democrat vendetta against his colleague, Tom DeLay. “Hillary’s fingerprints are all over it,” came his response. “She has no intention of having to deal with an opposition party controlling the House as her husband did for six years and Ronald Reagan did...

ON THE DAY that Terri Schiavo died — victim of a court order condemning the brain-damaged woman to death by thirst and starvation — Representative Tom DeLay of Texas did what few politicians have the courage to do these days. He spoke his mind. "This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most," DeLay told Fox News on March 31. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." DeLay’s strong language worried some Republicans. They pointed to an ABC News poll of March 21 purporting to...

Andrew Breitbart – long the number two man at the Drudge Report – is rumored to be working behind the scenes with Arianna Huffington's new Webzine, the Huffington Report, according to Washington Times "Inside the Beltway" columnist John McCaslin. The Huffington Report is scheduled to launch sometime this month, and will cater to the radically chic. Its liveliest feature promises to be a group blog where movie stars, New York media mavens, Hollywood film moguls and other wealthy proponents of class struggle and proletarian solidarity can sound off on politics (see "Arianna Huffington Launches Group Blog for Celebrity Leftists"). In...

"We should consider laws that permit next of kin to decide to forgo life sustaining medical interventions even when a patient's wishes are not known," said George Soros in a speech of November 30, 1994, delivered at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. In that speech, Soros announced the launch of his Project on Death in America, a program designed to steer U.S. medicine toward a rationing system whereby only the fit received proper care, while the unfit – such as Terri Schiavo – were written off and allowed to die. In the same speech, Soros said:"Can we afford to care for...

Do you believe in coincidences? I don't. Former CIA division chief David Atlee Philips once said, "The intelligence profession does not exactly condition one to accept coincidence as an explanation for a sequence of events." The same can be said of blogging. When a bevy of public figures all begins reading from the same script at the same time, the alert blogger takes note. Consider the following. On January 19, leftwing billionaire Warren Buffett told CNBC, "Unless we have a major change in trade policies, I don't see how the dollar avoids going down." Well, we've all heard that before....

FRIDAY APRIL 23 2004 WND BOOKS Hillary's attempt to muzzle Farah, other Net journalists Book shows how New Media thwarted her efforts to shut them down Posted: April 23, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The IRS audit of WND founder Joseph Farah – instigated directly by the Clinton White House as retribution against one of its chief media critics – is only one of the incredible stories in best-selling author Richard Poe's just-released blockbuster, "Hillary's Secret War," which blows the lid off efforts by the former first lady to silence her opponents in the New Media. Subtitled "The Clinton Conspiracy to...

"All the men I know want to sleep with her [Hillary Clinton]. All the women want to scratch her eyes out." Anne Reingold Media director Democratic National Committee 1992 When Spouses Earn Paychecks As politicians' wives increasingly forge careers of their own, questions about conflicts of interest inevitably arise By MARGARET CARLSON; With reporting by Barbara Burke/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles The presidential campaign completed one full revolution when Bill Clinton found himself standing by his woman on national television. The moment came during a debate before the Illinois and Michigan primaries, when rival candidate Jerry Brown accused the...

WAS SUPER-PUNDIT Ann Coulter targeted by a journalistic hoax? On September 1, editor Bob Unger published an open letter telling Miss Coulter she was "fired" – that is, that he was dropping her syndicated column from his paper, the Centre Daily Times (CDT) of State College, Pennsylvania. Two days later, Unger told Editor & Publisher (E&P) that he was swamped with supportive e-mails. E&P reported Unger’s claim, apparently without checking its accuracy. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News likewise made no attempt to question or challenge anything Unger said in a September 18 interview. Despite the puppy-dog trust some interviewers have...

IT NEVER fails. Probe the deepest, darkest pits of corruption in America and, sooner or later, Hillary Clinton turns up. Thanks to a Big-Media news blackout, most Americans don’t know that Congressional elections in South Dakota are melting down fast amid charges of Democrat vote fraud – much of it centered on Indian reservations. How does Hillary fit in? Let me explain. Last week, the Senate passed a vote reform bill 92-2. Only two Senators opposed it: Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton. Among other things, the bill requires voters to show I.D., such as a driver’s license. This will...