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We’ve had another miracle on the political-media scene. And I’m not talking about the appearance of President Barack “The Messiah” Obama. I’m talking about another miracle of that magnitude: Newsweek magazine, also known as the “Obamaweek Magazine,” finally told a bit of the truth with its headline, “We Are All Socialists Now: The Perils and Promise of the New Era of Big Government” (Feb. 16). Newsweek starts off fast early in the article: “Whether we want to admit it or not — and many, especially Congressman Pence [Mike Pence, R-Ind.] and Hannity [Fox News host Sean Hannity], do not, the...

The Second Battle of Britain is over and the British have surrendered without firing a shot. The once towering symbol of freedom and liberty, the land of the Magna Carta, the home of the indomitable Winston Churchill has now turned into the land of censorship, political correctness and cowardice. The United Kingdom, the land of Churchill, who, during the early days of World War II, urged Britain to never give up, never give up, never give up. The exact quote is phrased differently but makes the same point: “Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give...

In a previous column, I said the Obama stimulus package is the greatest consumer rip-off and fraud in history. (See “Obama Attempts to Pull Off Greatest Rip-offs, Con Jobs in History” (Feb. 2) and also on The Bulletin’s Web site at www.thebulletin.us.) The President has saved Bernard Madoff, king of Ponzi schemes, from having that honor. He got away with a paltry $50 billion, nothing like the trillions we’re about to see go for pork. I should also add that the stimulus package is just the beginning of the meltdown of the Obama presidency. In fact, Martin Wolf, a columnist...

Here’s a quote that should be an obvious no-brainer, but it is one most will probably find shocking and astounding: “I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan, but our own fiscal irresponsibility.” So said David Walker, former comptroller general of the United States. And that’s one of the main themes of an incredibly important and timely book just off the presses. It is titled I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt. The authors are Addison Wiggin and Kate Incontrera with Dorianne Perrucci. The book...

As an old-time consumer reporter, I can tell you when a salesman says you have to do the deal right now, chances are he’s a rip-off artist, and a good general rule is to walk away — or better yet, run away. The old now-or-never routine is generally regarded as a red flag flying. When a president tells Congress and the nation you have to do a trillion-dollar deal immediately or catastrophe is in the wings, you should be skeptical. When he says we’ll get into a recession we’ll never get out of, you know he’s just blowing smoky hot...

I’m often reading the studies and punditry about what’s wrong with newspapers. And I find there’s one thing always missing: How can newspapers, especially the mainstream media, succeed when they seem to stand for everything that their readers are against. You probably know what I’m talking about. For some almost inexplicable and incredible reasons, the likes of the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post and most of the other major dailies take an anti-American, anti-military, anti-law-enforcement, anti-conservative, anti-family-values, anti-strong-defense and many more “anti-s” that are about 180 degrees from where many if not most of their readers...

One of the most astounding facts of modern times is that we are in a war with radical Islam, but don’t seem to know it. We’re in their gunsights; they are out to destroy us; they proclaim their intent as clearly as Hitler did in Mein Kampf and other documents. Yet we slumber on, in a relaxed mode, oblivious to the obvious, and without reaction as a noose is placed around our neck. What may seem exotic and far off, what seems an issue only for faraway lands, what seems to be virtually harmless as we relax protected by oceans...

I finally figured out why the Democratic Party is the tax and spend party, often advocating tax increases. Most politicians and most people for that matter don’t like the idea of paying taxes, especially when they think they are going for pork barrel spending and other rip-off expenditures. But here’s the answer: Of course, they don’t mind. They simply don’t pay their taxes. We can start right at the top, with the new head of the Treasury Department, the man in charge of the IRS, Tim Geithner. He is an admitted tax cheat four years running. But like other leading...

The news is no longer news. It’s propaganda. It’s cheerleading for the new administration. It’s bull-roar. It’s false, fraudulent and biased. I’m talking about the major purveyors of news, the so-called mainstream media. I’m talking about The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, MSNC, NBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek and all the rest. The mainstream media has descended to the level of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister and Pravda, best known as the propaganda organ of the Communist Party. But this development in the mainstream media has critically important implications not only for...

There’s growing evidence that America may be meeting its educational Waterloo and that our educational system is being captured by radical Islamists. As Robert Spencer put it so well in his classic book, The Stealth Jihad, radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs. The radical Islamists have scored dramatic victories in determining what students are taught in America about Islam, and we don’t even seem to know what is happening. The radical Islamists have managed a massive penetration of our educational system that teaches everyone from the youngest students all the way up to students at our colleges...

We have an influential and strong Fifth Column in America dedicated to our destruction and subjugation to Islamic law. Our most dangerous enemies are the Islamofascists, who want to destroy America and the West and substitute Sharia (Islamic law) for our Constitution and our laws. They are aided in this task by most of the Middle East studies departments and professors in other related departments established at our colleges and universities. Robert Spencer in his book Stealth Jihad, writes: “American universities have become propaganda centers not only for the anti-American Left, but for stealth jihadists and their allies — the...

The book How to Ruin the United States of America by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth is right on target and I’d only suggest one change. The title of the book should be How We Are Ruining the United States of America, as that is exactly what is happening. The authors make the case that six things would ruin the United States, as we know it: 1. Exile God from public life. 2. Teach Americans contempt for America. 3. Debase American culture. 4. Weaken the United States military. 5. Be a country without borders. 6. Practice voodoo economics. That’s exactly...

President Obama ought to change his slogan from “Change you can believe in,” to “Change, can you believe it?” For many are witnessing the changes brought about in the first few days of the Obama administration and exclaiming in pain, “Can you believe it?” His other slogan, “Change we need,” ought to be “Change we don’t need, don’t want and can’t afford.” For starters, I don’t believe in all the bull roar about giving him a chance and hoping for his success and the new mood of hope and change. The guy’s president, and we ought to start calling the...

This may be one of the most important and happy years in the history of American journalism — this may be the year when we can write the obituary of The New York Times, one of the most dangerous enemies of America and American values and one of the best friends of terrorists, genocidists and Chinese communists. Read on for the full explanation of what may lead you to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” In September 2008, Accuracy in Media (AIM), the respected media watchdog, launched its boycott of The New York Times and established a Web site to...

The United States, Britain, and much of the West is slowly surrendering its right to freedom of speech in the face of threats of violence from Islam and in the face of a systematic campaign to demonize and even criminalize any criticism of Islam, Islamofascism, Islam Jihadism and all the rest. This process is well along the way, and that’s why it has been so well described in Robert Spencer’s book Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs. Here’s one good example. You remember the violence set off by the publication of those Danish cartoons...

The corrosive hatred of America that is so commonplace in the mainstream media, the academic community and even in the federal bureaucracy can destroy America. As William Bennett put it so well in the introduction to his book, The American Patriot’s Almanac. “At the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Philadelphia lady asked Benjamin Franklin, ‘Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?’ Franklin replied, ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’ The United States, with all its might, isn’t likely to be conquered from the outside anytime soon. If American liberty loses its...

I want to introduce you to a group of faculty members at Columbia University, considered one of the great institutions of higher learning in America, and one of the elite Ivy League. I’ve written many columns on our colleges and universities and how they have become centers of anti-American values and hate-America faculty, along with centers of anti-military, anti-conservative, pro-communist, racist and bigoted approaches. They are often no longer in the business of teaching but now specialize in indoctrination of their own political views. But it occurred to me the message might best be communicated by going to one of...

I finally found a use for the Columbia Journalism Review, a publication of the Columbia University graduate school of journalism. If you want to know what’s wrong with journalism, read that publication of one of the nation’s leading journalism schools for the answer. It won’t tell you what is wrong with journalism. No, by the quality of its product, it shows you what’s wrong with journalism. But that should not surprise you, as Columbia has long been a hotbed of anti-Americanism and loony leftism. You’ll recall it was the institution that invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to give an address to the...

The combination of media bias and incompetence is so pronounced that it generates a mythology that buries the facts and the truth in a dark, deep journalistic sinkhole. This is most easily seen in the reporting coming out of the Middle East in which the media has willing allies in the United Nations and major nations across the globe in demonizing Israel and legitimizing the forces of genocide and terrorism. This column will try to cut through some of that bias, incompetence, and media mythology to get a better picture of the current Israel-Hamas conflict. But you will note that...

Europe is already lost to a Muslim takeover and America has started down that same path. That’s the proposition persuasively made by Mark Steyn in his book "America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It." Mr. Steyn notes that America and Australia “grew the institutions of their democracy with relatively homogeneous populations and then evolved into successful ‘multicultural’ societies. But the continent isn’t multicultural so much as bicultural. You have hitherto homogeneous Scandinavian societies whose cities have become 40 percent Muslim in the space of a generation. Imagine colonial New England when it was still the Mayflower...