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Our 44th President is a devout leftist who’s not about to let God interfere with his religion. It’s not easy to take God out of Thanksgiving. Obama has done it twice in the past three years. This year, Obama did issue a NDP proclamation only because he’s required to do so by Congress. But he couldn’t resist the temptation to stick it to the zealots on the Hill by urging us to be “thankful for the liberty that allows people of all faiths to worship or not worship according to the dictates of their conscience.” Who would have known, National...

According to Muslim activists and their leftist allies, America is in the midst of an epidemic of bigotry. The hilariously misnamed Center for American Progress recently published “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.” The 138-page report alleges that Islamophobes - funded by “a flood of cash” (the charge is ironic, coming as it does from a Soros operation) - have manufactured conspiracy theories to spread fear and hatred of, and incite violence against, American Muslims. If the allegations are true, Islamophobes are about as successful as an Obama jobs programs. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime...

This is the fourth installment in a series on liberal language-manipulation – the ways in which the left’s terminology comes loaded with hidden assumptions. If you even tacitly accept these catch phrases, you’ve lost the debate before it starts. For instance, the expression “same-sex marriage” is based on the preposterous notion that “marriage” (as shaped by biology and theology) is even remotely possible between two people of the same gender. Accept the assumption, and you are reduced to fighting on the fringes. (Example: Is it good for children?) Since the left controls most of society’s idea-generators – the mass media,...

While abortion, contraception, divorce, unmarried couples living together, children born out-of-wedlock, the culturally instilled desire for small families and the relentless drive to normalize homosexuality all have an impact, in some cases a pronounced impact, on declining birthrates, they are results not causes. However, they are connected. In the United States, the deconstruction of Judeo-Christian civilization has preceded in stages - from the introduction of oral contraceptives in 1960, to taking prayer out of our public schools in 1963, to the legalization of abortion in 1973, to no-fault divorce in the early 1970s, to the rise of cohabitation, illegitimacy and...

Where’s the outrage? Given what Barack Obama is doing to the Constitution, the economy and our future, the American people should be up in arms (metaphorically speaking, civility-hysterics take note). Citizens should be marching on Washington with pitchforks and flaming brands in hand (also a metaphor). Every city should see demonstrations to make the most raucous Tea Party rally look like Sunday night in Pierre, S.D. Instead, it’s a mental fog as usual. Hey, the unemployment rate is now (barely) below 9%! Wasn’t that a cold winter? Gee, I wonder what zany, drug-induced thing Charlie Sheen will do next?

They say you get less of what you tax and more of what you subsidize. The left feels there are still too many producers in this country. But it has a solution – tax them into extinction. Increasingly, the Democrats and their stooges sound like villains from an Ayn Rand novel – Wesley Mooch or Lee Hunsacker. Posturing at a Democratic rally in Sarasota, Florida last week, horror-writer Stephen King announced, “As a rich person (not to mention a monument to the public’s abysmal taste in 'literature’) I pay (a) 28% tax. What I want to ask you is why...

Last week, the left was saying that conservatives from Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Parties had blood on their hands – that the right created the climate of hate that somehow caused/provoked/impelled/influenced a g-string-wearing, “Communist Manifesto”-touting psychopath (whose brains are “scrambled,” according to one of his professors) to shoot a Congresswoman in the head and murder a federal judge and five others. This week, the Botticellis of bile are calling for civility and unity, asking everyone in politics (but especially conservatives, who, naturally, have the most to atone for) to dial down their rhetoric whilst a celestial...

* I am an American. After God, my highest loyalty is to this country. * I believe America cannot remain one nation unless it is under God. America is no accident. From the beginning, it was intended by the Author of Liberty to fulfill a special role. We couldn’t have gone from 13 disparate colonies clinging to the Atlantic coast to the world’s last remaining superpower in little more than 220 years without the guiding hand of Providence. * Along with the Founding Fathers, I believe religion is the foundation of liberty, morality and representative government. The First Amendment was...

* I am an American. After God, my highest loyalty is to this country. * I believe America cannot remain one nation unless it is under God. America is no accident. From the beginning, it was intended by the Author of Liberty to fulfill a special role. We couldn’t have gone from 13 disparate colonies clinging to the Atlantic coast to the world’s last remaining superpower in little more than 220 years without the guiding hand of Providence. * Along with the Founding Fathers, I believe religion is the foundation of liberty, morality and representative government. The First Amendment was...

I don’t ask Christians to accept my interpretation of the Bible - even though it's the only one that makes sense. I do ask that they think long and hard about what’s going on today – that there’s a religious/political movement aimed at global domination. For every Jewish victim, it produces a mountain of Christian corpses. As Israel goes, so goes Italy, Britain and the United States.

At the outset, two points to bear in mind: 1. Dissent infuriates liberals. 2. As far as they’re concerned, everyone’s business is their business. When my wife returned to our car in the parking lot of B.J.’s, there was a note on the windshield: “How sad that someone filled with so much hate has a child. May God bless and forgive you.” Here’s looking down at you, kid. The verdict (doubtless from someone who considers herself non-judgmental) was prompted by anti-Obama bumper stickers and a child’s car seat, which the snoop spotted. That she was looking in our car is...

At its 101st annual convention in Kansas City last week, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People directed the Tea Parties to “expel the bigots and racists in your ranks.” The resolution was offered by King Shamir Shabazz (Minister of Voter Intimidation and Gestapo Tactics of the New Black Panther Party), who told delegates: “You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some Tea Party crackers. You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies!” It was Moveon.orged and seconded by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr. (President Obama’s spiritual counselor for 19 years) who, in the spirit of...

“Kaddish” (more properly, the “Mourner’s Kaddish”) is the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead, recited for a specified period after the death of a parent, child, spouse or sibling, as well as during the Yizkor service on Yom Kippur. When my mother died in January, at age 97, I knew where to go to say Kaddish for her — to the synagogue where I’ve been praying (haphazardly) for over a decade. But where do I go to say Kaddish for my country — the nation that nurtured me like a parent, the country that defines me as a person as...

In his new book “The Grand Jihad: How Islam And The Left Sabotage America” Andrew McCarthy puts Obama’s full-waist bow to the absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia in context: “So, of all the planet’s potentates, why would an American president demean his station in homage to this one? Because Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Islam. More specifically, it is the bottomless purse and symbolic crown of a movement which aims at nothing less than supplanting Western political, economic and cultural values. The subversion of those values is Obama’s fondest wish: the work of his presidency, the Hope behind the...

Here’s the first concrete evidence of global warming: Deval Partick’s brain is melting. Speaking at Suffolk University Law School last week, the Democratic Governor of Massachusetts became the latest, and most prominent, liberal to charge that refusing to roll over for Obama was borderline treason.... ....Like, Democrats never rooted for Ronald Reagan, Bush ’41 or W. to slip and fall flat on their faces. They did handstands, cartwheels and goal-post victory dances (while waving pom-poms wildly in the air) every time a Republican president failed to achieve his policy goals.

Two things are clear: The left controls the culture and our culture is obsessed with vampires. For the record, I am not suggesting that Barack Hussein Obama sleeps in a coffin lined with his native (Kenyan) earth or that Hillary Rodham Clinton could be dispatched with a stake through her heart, if you could find it. But, the parallels between liberalism and vampirism are too obvious to ignore.

You would think that a nativist/anti-immigrant leader would have wavy blonde hair, piercing blue eyes and a square jaw – a Son of the American Revolution whose people booked passage on the Mayflower. You would not expect such a scourge of alien hordes to be a middle-aged Jewish writer and the grandson of immigrants. But, there I am on the website of People For the American Way’s RightWingWatch.org – censured as a notorious foe of what it styles “immigration reform.” Along with Michelle Malkin (another unlikely Aryan), I’m at the top of its “Previewing The Right Wing Playbook On Immigration...

The left is in crisis-overdrive. Imminent disaster is its rallying cry. The world will end, if we don’t appropriate billions, launch another massive government program, shower condoms on 6-year-olds, socialize another sector of the economy, cede more of our freedom to Washington, and venerate the polar bears. Since at least the early 1960s, the left has been in a constant state of agitation, prophesying doom at every turn. Any who question its hysteria-mongering are labeled anti-science, a tool of corporate interests, insensitive or just plain Republican. The refrain is always the same: Don’t question. Don’t examine the evidence too closely....

The left has always wanted to exercise absolute control over the lives of the American people – mind you, for our own good. It wants to control what we think, through public education, Hollywood and its trained-poodle news media. It wants to dispose of our property, through confiscatory taxation. It wants to raise our children, run our businesses, and plan our retirement. But now, with Obama-care, it’s reaching for the gold ring – the power to decide who lives and dies, the power to play God. If you’re elderly and ailing, if you’re young and disabled, if you require special...

While making an ass of himself, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates performed an invaluable public service by creating the circumstances in which the president of the United States again exposed himself as an elitist snob who can relate to the common man only as a caricature. When Obama said the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in arresting Gates – and lectured us on the epidemic of racial profiling – the mask of moderation slipped to reveal the arrogant, sneering elitist lurking behind it.