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Obama: the “Savior” of the Brazilian Right By Julio Severo There is no doubt that Barack Obama is destroying America as her founders intended her to be. And with his politics of imposing the homosexual agenda through his State Department, he shows that he is capable of destroying other nations too. All Christian conservative leaders I know denounce his destructive capabilities. And all of them agree that Obama is a socialist. So his destructive capabilities are basically socialist. Even so, many, even Christians, have been mesmerized into seeing him as a “savior.” Progressive Christians in America see him in...

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is desperately trying to fire up his mem bers in the hope that they turn out at the polls -- and help avert what is shaping up to be a Democratic disaster. And the best way to do that, he seems to think, is with hackneyed warnings that conservative rhetoric may incite violence. It's gotten so bad, claims the coal-miner-turned-Big-Labor-fat-cat, that it reminds him of when similar angry talk veered off "the high road." "You remember when John Kennedy got off the plane in Dallas, Texas, there were people on the airwaves talking about doing violence...

When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much of the American Left, Western Europe was nothing less than an abstract symbol of progressive utopia. This rosy view was never accurate, of course. Europe’s socialized...

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Joerg Haider's once-powerful Freedom Party - long associated with Austria's far right fringe - purged most rightists from senior positions Tuesday in an attempt to stem its descent from success to political oblivion. Haider, who is no longer the party head but remains its most influential figure, also announced that the party would be formally relaunched in an attempt to end a string of disastrous election showings. Ursula Haubner, the party head and Haider's sister, said the move to remove most rightists from positions of influence reflected the party's decision "to orient itself in new directions...

A February 25, 2004 article, archived at the website of Accuracy in Academia, an organization devoted to documenting excesses in the academic world, discusses a recent campus dispute. A group of students at the College of William and Mary held special “bake sales” in which they charged white students more money than black students for baked goods in an attempt to display the absurdities of affirmative action. Some school administrators shut down this demonstration on grounds that it was "illegal," but could point to no statute or school regulation that would say so. Thus, the administrators eventually backed down and...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is, in a sense, fighting a two-front political war - not only seeking dominance over Democrats in the Capitol with a series of flanking maneuvers but trying to remake what has been a very conservative state Republican Party in his own ideologically centrist image. Were he to succeed on both fronts, Schwarzenegger could have a dramatic impact on California politics that would last beyond his governorship. And the key to both is the millions of moderate voters who have felt alienated from both a very conservative Republican Party and a very liberal Democratic Party, but who have...