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Atheistocracy By Lowell Ponte FrontPageMagazine.com | March 16, 2004 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WAS BORN because King Henry VIII was religiously forbidden to marry as he wished. The United States today and much of the rest of the former British Empire is today predominantly Protestant, not Roman Catholic, because of this schism caused by one man’s divorce and re-marriage. But today the Church of England, with 70 million Anglican Communicants worldwide, may be on the verge of breaking apart over the issue of who may marry whom. If the Anglican and closely related Episcopal churches accept, perform or sanctify same-sex...

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America's annual door into summer, Memorial Day, is found at picnics and cemeteries. Spring's brief flowers dance in the same soft breezes that move the Memorial Day flags so many families have planted at the graves of those they love. Families grow stronger, nourished by sensations sweeter and more sour than hotdog relish. This sacred secular holiday, like the drinking glass ritually broken under foot at Jewish weddings, reminds us that joy and sorrow are seasons that come and go and come again in every human life. In Europe, the red poppies are in bloom once again, as they were...

Growing up on Southern California’s fault line, I learned to love the tremors that as elementary school children we felt every week. Earthquakes were terrifying and destructive, but each quake also carried an important lesson — the material possessions we traded life’s precious hours for and looked to as a security blanket could be destroyed at any instant. As I write this under a blood red rising moon, smelling acrid smoke with every breath, I’ve begun to ponder the lessons to be learned from living on this fire line that by one estimate this week turned 900,000 Californians into evacuees....

"Global Trends 2015" Terrorism-Related Excerpts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following items are terrorism-related items from the National Intelligence Council's "Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts" report (December 2000). Transnational Terrorism (page 50) States with poor governance; ethnic, cultural, or religious tensions; weak economies; and porous borders will be prime breeding grounds for terrorism. In such states, domestic groups will challenge the entrenched government, and transnational networks seeking safehavens. At the same time, the trend away from state-supported political terrorism and toward more diverse, free-wheeling, transnational networks—enabled by information technology—will continue. Some of the states that actively sponsor...

Earlier this month in a Washington Post Op-Ed article Jimmy Carter blamed the current violence in Lebanon and Gaza on Israel, which had purportedly violated “key U.N. resolutions…by occupying Arab lands and oppressing Palestinians.” He got through an entire article without ever mentioning that Lebanon had failed to comply with the 2004 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559, which called on Lebanon to disarm the terrorist group Hezbollah whose members now sit in its legislature and cabinet. Last February 20 in another Washington Post piece Mr. Carter attacked Israel for withholding tax revenues from the new Palestinian Authority government following...

Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004’s United Nations resolution 1559, which called for the disarming of Hezbollah. NRO editor Kathryn Lopez recently talked to Phares about what’s going on in the Mideast, what happened to the Cedar Revolution, and this war we’re all in. Kathryn Jean Lopez: What is “Future Jihad”? Are we seeing it in the Mideast now? Walid Phares: “Future Jihad,” which has already begun, refers to...

The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution by David Kennedy Houck First in Europe and now in the United States, Muslim groups have petitioned to establish enclaves in which they can uphold and enforce greater compliance to Islamic law. While the U.S. Constitution enshrines the right to religious freedom and the prohibition against a state religion, when it comes to the rights of religious enclaves to impose communal rules, the dividing line is more nebulous. Can U.S. enclaves, homeowner associations, and other groups enforce Islamic law? Such questions are no longer theoretical. While Muslim organizations first established enclaves in Europe,[1]...

“We’re going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno” on May Day this Monday, labor organizer Jorge Rodriquez told the British wire service Reuters. “We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here [illegally],” said Rodriquez, organizer for one of the unions of AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of the AFL-CIO. “That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1.”  Listen to the cynicism behind Rodriquez’s arrogant statement. Government workers who belong to AFSCME unions will not see their jobs taken...

Katie Couric’s politics "are apparently even further to the Left and more partisan Democratic than Dan Rather’s,” commentator Lowell Ponte writes. "For this reason, she is unlikely to restore CBS’s credibility or redeem CBS’s well-deserved reputation for left-wing bias.” If Couric’s previous work is any indication, she could bring to CBS not only her liberal bias but also her penchant for making potentially inflammatory comments. In November 1997, Couric asked a jilted bride on "Today”: "Have you considered castration as an option?” Critics noted that if any male interviewer had even jokingly proposed sexually mutilating a woman, he would have...

Europe's botched civilization, perverted by socialism and lost faith, seems to have lost the will, the passion to sustain itself. If it continues to practice today's multiculturalist leftism, Europe's demographic doom will be sealed. Some harbingers: In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name for baby boys is now Mohammad. Sustaining the population of a nation requires that on average each couple gives birth to 2.1 children. The average European couple now has fewer than 1.4 babies, compared to 3.6 babies born to the average Muslim immigrant couple in Europe. Across Western Europe 16 to 20 percent of babies are being...

www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org Date: 6/17/2005 8:50:39 PM JOHN CONYERS, JR. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Member of the radical Progressive CaucusOne of 13 founders of Congressional Black CaucusAdvocates freeing convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-JamalPlotted with radical Ramsey Clark and others about ways to impeach President George W. BushSpoke in 2003 at anti-Iraq War rally of pro-North Korean Marxist group International A.N.S.W.E.R.Voted against a resolution stating that “the United States and Israel are now engaged in a common struggle against terrorism.”His district has a higher proportion of Muslims than any other in Congress, and his official congressional web site can be read in ArabicSpoke...

JOHN CONYERS, JR. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Member of the radical Progressive CaucusOne of 13 founders of Congressional Black CaucusAdvocates freeing convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-JamalPlotted with radical Ramsey Clark and others about ways to impeach President George W. BushSpoke in 2003 at anti-Iraq War rally of pro-North Korean Marxist group International A.N.S.W.E.R.Voted against a resolution stating that "the United States and Israel are now engaged in a common struggle against terrorism."His district has a higher proportion of Muslims than any other in Congress, and his official congressional web site can be read in ArabicSpoke in 2005 at an event organized...

"Deep Throat," as we learned this week, helped the Washington Post carry out a coup d'etat against overwhelmingly-reelected President Richard M. Nixon out of motives as sordid as those of the pornographic movie that was the source of his nickname.

www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org Date: 5/12/2005 8:28:47 AM MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE 731 Market Street6th FloorSan Francisco, CA94103 Phone :415-665-6637URL :http://www.motherjones.com Magazine named for socialist labor organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones Does investigative reporting that mostly targets corporations, capitalists, private property, and Republican officeholders Features the work of writers on the left such as Todd Gitlin, Molly Ivins, Bill McKibben, Richard Rodriguez, Orville Schell, and others Edited briefly by Michael Moore, who may have been fired for being too leftwing for even this socialist-inspired magazine   Mother Jones is a bimonthly magazine and web site (motherjones.com) named for socialist “union organizer” Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (1830-1930)....

Michael Moore and his agitprop film "Fahrenheit 9/11" were nowhere to be found on the lists of Academy Awards nominees released last week. And despite his commercial success, the Writers Guild omitted Moore from consideration for its first list of documentary writing award nominees. The only award Moore received was from a gun rights group highlighting his hypocrisy after a bodyguard for this maker of the 2003 Academy Award-winning anti-gun "Bowling for Columbine" got arrested in New York City for carrying a handgun not licensed there. Hypocrisy is nothing new for Michael Moore, nor the Hollywood Left. But Hollywood makes...

CRITICS WHO ALLEGE LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS point to specific examples. During the 2004 election campaign such examples have included a report by CBS News anchor Dan Rather based on fabricated documents and a memo by ABC News Political Director Mark Halperindirecting the network’s reporters to treat misstatements by Republican President George W. Bush more harshly than misstatements by his Democrat opponent John Kerry.   But perhaps the most dramatic example cited as bias was committed by MSNBC Senior Political Analyst Lawrence O’Donnell, who during a brief news interview last Friday accused a Kerry critic an astonishing 39 times of being...

IS THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA BIASED against conservatives? Dan Rather remains in the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News despite his involvement in recent news stories based on dishonest reporting, fabricated documents and even Internet gossip falsely alleging that President George W. Bush secretly intends to begin the military conscription of students. These stories were obviously designed to damage Mr. Bush in the final weeks before a national election. And now ABC News has left in place its Political Director Mark Halperin. ABC has done this despite the network’s acknowledgement that Halperin wrote a memo that to many seems to...

<p>Leftist Web sites have worried the police in New York City whose job is to prevent radicals and terrorists from disrupting and endangering the 2004 Republican National Convention. These anti-President George W. Bush Internet sites have encouraged protestors to bring slingshots to attack police horses, and marbles that can be thrown beneath those horses’ hooves to make them slip and injure themselves and their police officer riders.</p>

John O’Neill commanded the same Swift boat during the Vietnam War that John Kerry did. One of 254 Swift boat veterans who holds a negative view of the Democratic presidential candidate, O’Neill is co-author of the current best-seller Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (Regnery Publishing). To learn more about this group of highly-decorated veterans, visit SwiftVets.com. John O’Neill is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Texas Law School. He was law clerk in 1974 for Justice William Rehnquist at the United...